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Carnegie India, a public policy think tank is organizing its first Global Technology Summit in India on the 6th and 7th of December in Bengaluru. The summit is supported by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs apart from a host of Indian and foreign technology companies.

The two-day summit will see industry leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, academics and policy makers from across the world getting together to discuss global technology trends, their impact on job creation, and finding the right balance between promoting innovation and effective regulation.

Speaking about the summit, Dr C Raja Mohan, Director of Carnegie India said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an instinctive sense for the unfolding technological transformation. But to turn his multiple initiatives-from demonetization to digital India-into effective national strategy, he needs a more intensive and sustained conversation with technology hubs like Bengaluru that are generating new possibilities for India’s transformation. Carnegie India’s Global Technology Summit is a step in that direction which will help to diffuse knowledge and develop new ideas by facilitating meaningful conversation between innovators, academia, regulatory bodies and governments.

Shivnath Thukral, MD, Carnegie India said

Carnegie India visualizes the Summit as an initial effort to kick start its technology and policy initiative – one that explores perspectives from various stakeholders and provides research guidance on technology and regulation.  We also aim to build conversation around the revolutionary impact of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, internet-of-things, block-chain, and other evolving technologies, so that governments and policy makers can plan ahead rather than play catch up. It is critical for the government to structure policies that will accelerate the pace of economic development through technological adoption. The Global Technology Summit is a first step in this direction.

The Summit will see technologists and technology regulators from all around the globe, including Bibop Gresta of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Ruslan Yunusov of the Russian Quantum Centre, Mark Skidmore who spearheaded drone regulations during his stint at the Australian Civil Aviation Authority, and Sopnendu Mohanty who drives fintech regulation in Singapore’s Monetary Authority. Providing perspective on India’s tryst with technology will be RS Sharma, TRAI Chairperson; S Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary; KT Rama Rao, IT Minister, State of Telangana; RV Deshpande, Minister for Industries, State of Karnataka; and Bibek Debroy, Member, NITI Aayog. The Minister of Science & Technology of Israel Mr. Ofir Akunis will be giving a special address while industry partners such as Intel, Ola, Volvo, Flipkart, Target and Dell EMC will share their perspectives through some of their senior leadership.

About Carnegie India

Carnegie India is a public policy think tank organization which was launched in April of 2016. It is the sixth international center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. The center’s research and programmatic focus includes the political & economic reforms in India, public policy, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations.

Carnegie India aims to work with various stakeholders in the private and public sector and undertake research to come up with new policy ideas and recommendations. The aim is to add to the pool of research and thinking in order to aid better policy decisions aligned to make India a compelling force in the world economic and political sphere. For more information, please visit Carnegie India

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How many of us out there in the crowd have the following feeling:

  • “Sigh, I am in the wrong profession”
  • “After engineering, I wanted to go into Web-Development but I am currently working as an Embedded Engineer”
  • “I should have been an Entrepreneur instead of working in an organization”

When I completed my engineering [and that too not from a well-known college & I only played Cricket :)], the only aim each one of us had is ” To have a STABLE JOB in TCS/Wipro/Infosys irrespective of the kind of work that might be assigned” without knowing what we wanted from life after Engineering !! And as you might have guessed, I was not selected on any of these companies from Campus !!!

On a lighter note this post is not about my “Life History” [and surely readers would be least interested in it 🙂 ] but to stress the point that “What if as STUDENTS, we would have received proper GUIDANCE from industry insiders i.e. If you need Entrepreneurial guidance, you would turn to an Entrepreneur/ If you want to work in a startup, you would be turn to a startup employee”;  Mantra being “Turn for an advice/guidance to someone who has been there, done that !!“

“Become An Engineer not just an Engineering Graduate” by Mr. Sivakumar Palaniappan is a book that acts as a “Holy Grail” for engineering students/fresh engineers.

About the author

Sivakumar Palaniappan is an Author, Motivational Trainer, Key Note speaker, Career Coach & Happiness Consultant, a hands-on engineer who has worked in companies like NXP, Qualcomm etc.

Detailed Review

“Become An Engineer not just an Engineering Graduate” is written with the aim of encouraging engineering graduates to be passionate engineers, help them enhance their employability potential & enable them to sculpt their career as an engineer. Please note, it is not a placement guide but it is a culmination of research done by the author through analysis of engineering education, discussion with placement officers, HR managers, parents etc. & trying to solve a pain-point – “Don’t be an Engineer for the heck of it but be a PASSIONATE engineer“.. doesn’t this sound like the 3-Idiots dialogue “Beta kabil bano kabil, Kamyabi to sali zak mar ke tumhare piche ayegi..” [Source – Galmsham]

Combined

Is this book for “YOU” ?

The book [Around 150 pages] is a breezy read with the message that “the reader i.e. engineer/student” should act on the tips. The book is structured in a nice manner where every chapter starts with a “Student Tale” i.e. a real-life incident that triggered the need for that particular chapter.

The book acts as a guide for “would be engineering students” to select the right stream of engineering so that when they are done with engineering, their interest/hobby also becomes their “profession”. Every chapter ends with a “Mantra” so that the reader can bring the “words” in each chapter into “formidable action”.

Key Chapters

As mentioned above, right from basic things like “Why choose an Engineering Degree” to “Why be a Student Entrepreneur”; the book tries to answer those tricky questions. Some of the notable chapters from the book are:

Chapter (5): Why should I develop a Useful Hobby – Having a USEFUL hobby [not sleeping, watching TV etc.] is very much important and you never know when your hobby becomes fulltime profession when you are bored of your day job.

Chapter (8): How to do What I Love to Do –

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life – Confucius

10 steps approach to do what you love to do:

  1. Find your passion
  2. Find your finances
  3. Find your core strengths
  4. Find your weaknesses
  5. Focus on your strengths & improve upon your weaknesses
  6. Have the commitment
  7. Don’t ignore the present
  8. Get ready to give up
  9. Have a strong belief in yourself
  10. Have a big dream

Chapter (10): How to Use the Power of Social Media in Career Crafting

We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, question is how well we do it – Erik Qualman

5 ways to use Social Media for Career Crafting

  1. Use the power of top three social sites i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
  2. Build a positive online identity
  3. Learn through social media
  4. Demonstrate your expertise & credibility
  5. Use your online presence effectively

(more…)

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Had a very busy and Entrepreneurial Friday as well as weekend !!!.There was an interesting Entrepreneurship event at ‘Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore‘ namely HeadStart.

Though the dates of HeadStart and Proto overlapped with each other, there was quite a decent crowd and a great Panel [which included Entrepreneurs as well as VCs].Hats of to the organizers of the event !!!

Though, I could not blog the event live, there were certain very interesting topics , some of which I have recorded on my PMP smile and are given below:

Ram Shriram , Founder of Sherpalo Ventures:
Ram Shriram expressed his views on Internet and the changing scene of Internet. He also touched upon Mobile v/s internet and why the mobile market is so hot in India smile

He was on a webcast from his Menlo Park office and it was a great privilege to listen to this initial investor in Google…

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Srini Vudayagiri , MD of LightSpeed Ventures:
Srini Vudayagiri gave a very interesting presentation on Identifying and validating business opportunities. His presentation covered on all aspects of Opportunity, right from Ideation to Delivery. It also gave a lot of insight into how VC’s fund, how they are smile and some of the other aspects of VC funding !!!

The most interesting question that he asked the audience was “Which is the largest VC firm in the world”…..and guess what, the answer is Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

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Ganapathy Subramanium, Ex VC & founder of MyDuniya:
Ganapathy Subramanium, founder of startup MyDuniya and an ex VC with ICICI ventures and JumpStartup, gave an interesting session on Startup Funding.The most interesting statement which he made during his entire session was : “There are 3 kinds of people who would fund your business at a very early stage namely 3F’s [Friends , Family, Fools]” …. So, is he referring Angel Investors/Seed Investors as Fools wink Enjoy the complete session below…

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Note:
a. There might be some disturbance in certain , part of the audio so please bear for the same.But definitely these sessions are worth listening !!!
b. Harinath Pudipeddi has blogged the event live and is an excellent reference of the entire event.You can refer to Day 2 sessions here & here and Day 3 sessions here & here.

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There are a couple of events that are scheduled in Bangalore as well as Chennai.Some of them are seasonal events – Open Coffee Club and Blogger’s meet , happening on the 1st & 2nd September,2007 respectively.Some of the other unconferences & conferences are listed below:

a. SearchCamp , Chennai:

After a series of unconferences – BlogCamp , BarCamp , Podworks , WiKi Camp , Proto ; the Knowledge Foundation has another feather in their cap – SearchCamp. As the name suggests, the crux behind the two day unconference is a single word – SEARCH.

What is SearchCamp:
SearchCamp is a two day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Search Engine Marketing(SEM) space to talk about search engine advertising, including optimization and marketing issues. This event is the first of its kind in India and will feature workshops, debates and keynotes on the present state and evolution of Search Engine Marketing.

When & where is it held ?
6th and 7th October,2007 in Tidel Park, Chennai. The charges for the event is Rs 500/- sad

It would also be good learning for people like me who are not so much versed with the SEO fundamentals …..

Interested in SearchCamp ?
If you feel interested than follow the link to register for SearchCamp

b. Oota 2.0 (Let’s talk Technology over lunch) :

If you feel there is a typing mistake than think again biggrin Oota means food in Kannada language.Oota is an unconference loosely based on Lunch 2.0 in the Silicon Valley.

What exactly is Oota 2.0?
Oota 2.0 in simple terms is discussing technology over Oota(aka Lunch).So,along with the tasty lunch you also get to meet new and interesting set of people.In a nutshell, Oota 2.0 can be termed as Lunch 2.0 LAN(Lunch Area Network) smile

When & where is it held?
Friday, September 7th, 12:00PM – 2:00PM in Indiranagar (Venue yet to be finalized) … No charges apart from the your Oota bill wink

Interested in Oota 2.0 ?
If you feel interested than follow the link or send a mail to oota 2.0 to register for this Grand & Technological Oota

c. Silicon India leadership Summit (Conference) :

As the name suggests Leader Summit would showcase some of the industry leaders speaking on topics ranging from leadership to outsourcing.

The agenda of the summit can be found here

When & where is it held ?
August 31, 2007 at Taj Residency,Bangalore

Interested in the Leadership Summit?
If you feel interested than follow the link to register for the summit. Registration charges is Rs 1000, for more details refer the following

This ends a short round up of some of the Unconferences & conferences happening in Chennai & Bangalore.