Pan-IIT 2008 Global Conference
The Pan-IIT 2008 Global Conference is to be held between December 19 and 21 this year, and around 3,000 IIT alumni, 2000 students and 200 delegates are expected to attend the event at IIT Madras. You can register at http://www.paniit2008.org.
They aim to kick off with an inaugual address by the PM via a live feed. Some other speakers are Dr.Raghuram Rajan, Dr. Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institute, Bob McDonald, COO of P & G, three Tata CEOs - B. Muthuraman (Tata Steel), S. Ramadorai (TCS) and Ravi Kant (Tata Motors), in dialog with Prof. C.K. Prahlad.
Orkut Buyukkokten (Product Manager, Google), the creator of the social networking site Orkut will also interact with students via live feed, and the valedictory keynote will be delivered by Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.
Among other items on the agenda, they plan to release The IIT Alumni Impact Study 2008 (pdf), a joint exercise by Pan-IIT, India Brand Equity Fund (IBEF), Zinnov Management Consulting, and sponsored by Vodafone. Some of the findings are probably debatable, and I’m not entirely convinced, but I’ll share my thoughts on that later. 
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