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Come and enjoy the Saturday evening networking with your NIT Warangal alumni in Bay Area. Listen to inspiring speeches from entrepreneurs, business and government leaders while enjoying snacks and a sumptuous dinner.
This year’s chief guest is Padma Kuppa (Michigan State Representative), an NITW Alumni and the first Indian immigrant elected to the Michigan State Legislature.
RSVP: http://evite.me/dr3CfG6BUf
A nominal dinner fee of $15 will be charged.
Organized by NITW Americas Alumni Chapter (a 501(c)(3) organization).
Website: https://nitwamericas.org/
Event Schedule
- 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM → Registration, Networking, Tea/Snacks
- 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM → Speeches on different topics
- 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM → Dinner, Songs, Networking
Speakers
Padma Kuppa – Keynote Address
State Rep. Padma Kuppa (NIT Warangal Alumni) is serving her first term representing Michigan’s 41st House District, which encompasses the cities of Troy and Clawson. She is the first Indian immigrant in the State Legislature.
For more details, see https://housedems.com/kuppa
Sanjit Dang – Venture Capital
Dr Sanjit Dang has been a successful Venture Capitalist, Corporate Executive, Board Member, Speaker and Writer in Silicon Valley for almost two decades. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chairman of U First Capital. Sanjit has been on Hillary Clinton's Tech/Innovation Policy Advisory team. He is on Advisory Council of UN’s World Artificial Intelligence Organization. He’s a mentor at Stanford and Berkeley’s Entrepreneurship programs.
For more details, see https://www.ufirstcapital.com/management
Krishna Guda (GK) – Building High Value Companies
GK (NIT Warangal alumni) has over 20+ years of experience and worked in variety of executive management roles. He served in both early startup environment and large branded companies such as Sierra Atlantic/Hitachi Consulting, FEC/HCL, and DEC/HP. He has a track record of building growth strategies with successful execution models and turning around companies for profitability.
For more details, see https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisguda/
Murali Krishnamurthy – Challenges Faced in Scaling NPO
Murali co-founded the Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) in 1998. SEF is now one of the largest free eye care providers with over 1.875 Million free eye surgeries completed at their nine Sankara Eye Hospitals. The next three new hospitals are coming up in Indore, Mumbai and Hyderabad and will be ready in 2020. Murali quit the Software Industry and took up a full time CEO position at SEF in 2009.
Shailesh Basani – Stress Management
Shailesh (NIT Warangal alumni) is a Director at Citrix Systems. He holds a Post Graduate degree in yoga instruction and yoga therapy from Vivekananda Yoga University and Yoga Bharati. Over the years, he has taught a number of stress management seminars and yoga therapy/teacher training classes.
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