PAN IIT 2006
As promised, I am going to write a little about the PAN IIT conference in Mumbai from Dec 23-25.
It was a grand event, over 5000 attendees with well known personalities from all over India and US. The event was inaugurated by the President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. I missed this piece ... remember my flight had got delayed !!!
The first day was more general I'd say, wherein we had people from the Indian govt, UN ... speak about India, the IITs and the challenges that lie in way of progress of the IITs and the nation. Personally speaking I had a tough time networking because the attendees, although all IITians, were from from varied industries, e.g, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals etc. It was hard to find the people relevant to what we do at Wirkle. The second day was good, really good, with 7 parallel segments each with a different focus. The one that I went to was the 6th one ... entrepreneurship - from starting up, to scaling it and making it big. This time networking was great !!! The 3rd day was mostly wrapping up wherein there was a discussion around how IITians could play a role in nation building and a set of action items.
I was one of the volunteers in the first Pan IIT event that had happened in the bay area in 2003. This one was better ... the theme of this conference was more clear, the media coverage was much more and besides the objective was to kick start the effort of nation building which I think is a great cause. Hats off to the Pan IIT team !!!
It was a grand event, over 5000 attendees with well known personalities from all over India and US. The event was inaugurated by the President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. I missed this piece ... remember my flight had got delayed !!!
The first day was more general I'd say, wherein we had people from the Indian govt, UN ... speak about India, the IITs and the challenges that lie in way of progress of the IITs and the nation. Personally speaking I had a tough time networking because the attendees, although all IITians, were from from varied industries, e.g, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals etc. It was hard to find the people relevant to what we do at Wirkle. The second day was good, really good, with 7 parallel segments each with a different focus. The one that I went to was the 6th one ... entrepreneurship - from starting up, to scaling it and making it big. This time networking was great !!! The 3rd day was mostly wrapping up wherein there was a discussion around how IITians could play a role in nation building and a set of action items.
I was one of the volunteers in the first Pan IIT event that had happened in the bay area in 2003. This one was better ... the theme of this conference was more clear, the media coverage was much more and besides the objective was to kick start the effort of nation building which I think is a great cause. Hats off to the Pan IIT team !!!
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