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BITSAA Silicon Valley Plan 2006

What is BITSAA Silicon Valley

BITSAA Silicon Valley is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the BITS Pilani Alumni Association– Membership to BITSAA Silicon Valley is open to all BITS

Pilani Alumni, Students and Faculty residing in the San Francisco Bay Area

– Membership to the BITSAA Silicon Valley mailing list is open to all BITS Pilani Alumni, Students and Faculty worldwide

* “BITS Pilani” includes the BITS Pilani, Goa and Dubai campuses as well as Distance Learning Program graduates

Plan 2006

BITSAA Silicon Valley’s 2006 Objectives

1. Facilitate and Create an environment to help BITSians in Silicon Valley to become successful entrepreneurs or corporate executives

2. Connect alumni with BITS Pilani to leverage each others’ strengths

Mentorship Program

A program coordinated by BITSAA SVC to be extended to other chapters after initial successBring mentors and mentees togetherAdvice from more experienced “seniors”Timeline– Launch Mentorship program by February 2006– Three month, six month checkpoint meetings from there on

2006 Goal– Sign-up one hundred (100) mentees interested in entrepreneurship or

executive positions– Sign-up fifty (50) mentors

Entrepreneurship Program

For BITSians who want to be Entrepreneurs but have no idea– Educational Talks by experienced Alumni on what it takes to start your own

company– 2006 Goal

• Enable three such educational events in 2006

For BITSians who have an idea and are ready to start their company– Provide a forum to find suitable business partners– Facilitate business plan evaluation – Connect such BITSians to BITS Pilani so that they can leverage the latest

Technology Incubation Facility at BITS– Meetings with Venture Capitalists– 2006 Goal

• Enable one such BITSian startup in the valley

Giving Back to BITS

Alumni Visiting Faculty at BITS Pilani– Augment current faculty

• Augment education• Bring in exposure for students

– Format• Duration: from 2 days up to 4 weeks• Guest lectures, workshops and extensions of existing courses • BITS will pay for transport from Delhi, accommodation and food

– 2006 Goal• Sign up twelve (12) alumni to visit Pilani during their India visit

Giving Back to BITS (Contd.)

Emerging Ph.D. topics for BITS students– Educate BITS students and faculty about leading-edge

research topics – Use videos, web conference and other technologies for

delivery lectures and content– Guidance by alumni in research in addition to BITS research

guide– 2006 Goal:

• Identify twelve (12) potential topics and make videos of six (6)

Giving Back to BITS (Contd.)

BITS Practice School– First PS-II in Bay Area: Courtesy Vijay Pathak, CTO

Kawasaki Microelectronics• Kaushik Narayanan, a final year student of BITS is currently doing a

double-sem PS at Kawasaki Electronics in San Jose, CA– BITSAA Silicon Valley would coordinate opening of more

Practice School stations in the Bay Area– 2006 Goal:

• Identify six (6) companies as potential PS-II stations• Facilitate two BITS Practice School stations in the Silicon Valley by

the end of 2006

Event Calendar 2006

Q1 2006– Launch Entrepreneurship Program– Launch Mentorship Program– Quarterly Golf Event (March 12th)

Q2 2006– BITSAA SVC Annual Reunion (April)– Quarterly Golf Event (May)– Mentorship Program 3-month checkpoint meeting

Q3 2006– Quarterly Golf Event (August)– Mentorship Program 6-month checkpoint meeting– Entrepreneurship Program: Meet the VCs event

Q4 2006– Quarterly Golf Event (November)

Organization Structure (2006)

Board of DirectorsSatish Gupta (’61 EE) Prem Jain (’68)Roop Jain (’68) Vinod Agarwal (’68)Jayan Ramankutty (’75) Deepu Rathi (’70)

Chandra Bhople (’74 EEE & MMS)

President

Amit Khetan (’94 Eco & CS)

Chief Financial Officer

Ashish Garg (’97 Instru)

Secretary

Active MembersShashikant Khandelwal

Nishikanth GaddamBadhri Varanasi

Abhijit PetheGurpreet Singh

Krishna Y PNachiket Deshpande

Ashish SabadraAshish Shah

Satyam

Active MembersGopal Garg

ShyamBharat PrabhakaranAanand Krishnan

Mayur ShahVikram Pamarthi

Sharvari DeoDivya PaudvalMansoor Khan

And many more…

To participate in BITSAA SVC events, email:

Entrepreneurship – Ashish Shah (ashishbshah@gmail.com)Mentorship – Aanand Krishnan (aanandk@gmail.com)Embryo – Shashikant Khandelwal (fd97093@yahoo.com)Technology – Badhri Varanasi (badhri_034@yahoo.com) Media – Nishikanth Gaddam (nishi_gaddam@yahoo.com)Golf Events – Atul Ahuja (ahuja_atul@yahoo.com)Secretary – Ashish Garg (gargyboy@yahoo.com)Finance – Amit Khetan (arkhetan@yahoo.com)President – Chandra Bhople (cbhople@osellus.com)

Photos from past BITSAA events