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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 ([email protected])Mentorship – Aanand Krishnan ([email protected])Embryo – Shashikant Khandelwal ([email protected])Technology – Badhri Varanasi ([email protected]) Media – Nishikanth Gaddam ([email protected])Golf Events – Atul Ahuja ([email protected])Secretary – Ashish Garg ([email protected])Finance – Amit Khetan ([email protected])President – Chandra Bhople ([email protected])
Photos from past BITSAA events