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GITPRO Holds Forum on Entrepreneurship Opportunities
PALO ALTO
The Global Indian Technology Professionals Association will host the “GITPRO World 2012” conference on “Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for Professionals and Entrepreneurs” Feb. 18 in Palo Alto, Calif.
The forum will feature three parallel tracks focused on technology, career and leadership, and start-ups.
Stanford University entrepreneur coach Steve Blank and Persistent Systems chief executive officer Anand Deshpande will give the keynote addresses.
Topics to be covered include big data, and cloud, mobile and social computing. Sessions will focus on career and leadership skills and current job opportunities.
GITPRO, a global networking of Indian technology professionals, was launched in 2009. The organization has chapters in Silicon Valley; Contra Costa County; Seattle, Wash.; Washington, D.C; Denver, Colo.; and Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune.
GITPRO Appeals US Senators to support to HR3012, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act
On behalf of Indian Technology Professionals, the Global Indian Technology Professionals Association (GITPRO) appeals US Senators to support to HR3012, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. GITPRO considers this as an important step in the effort to reform immigration policy in response to the changing global situation. Since Indian Professionals are key contributors in the technology world in US, the passage of this bill would help US economy and innovation.
Today some highly-skilled immigrants from countries like India and China wait significantly longer than others in receiving employment-based green cards. This is not due to differences in skills, but due to a “per country cap,” in the current law which limits to seven percent the total number of green cards issued to people from any one particular country. H.R. 3012 would eliminate this counter-productive per nation cap on employment-based visas in favor of a more fair, “first come, first serve” system, where all green-card applicants meeting the requirements will have the same wait time.
The bill will also reduce the uncertainty faced by organizations in retaining experienced resources critical to support the business. The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, contains a technical fix to eliminate per-country limits on allotment of high-skilled green cards without adding a single additional green card to the system. The bill also increases per-country limits from 7% to 15% in the family-based immigration system, which will help reduce the huge backlogs in the family based system as well, without adding any new visa numbers.
GITPRO is a global networking platform for Indian Technology Professionals for their professional and self-development and their contribution back to the profession, society, and people of US and India. GITPRO, started in 2009, has chapters in Silicon Valley, Contra Costa Valley, Seattle, DC, Denver in US and Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune in India.
Brain Drain to Brain Chain: Journey of Indian Techies: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar at GITPRO Pune Event
From Brain Drain to Brain Chain, Time for India to Move
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Pune, Nov. 10: With the growing expectations of the world from Indian Technology Professionals , there is a need of creating a “Brain-Chain” of Indian Talent; observed Vijay Bhatkar, eminent best known as the architect of supercomputer PARAM.
Speaking at an event organized by GITPRO (Global Indian Technology Professionals Association), Pune chapter Bhatkar said, “Indian economy was dominant till 16th, 17th century. But later due to aggressions and the disintegrated approach, India lost its position. The 18th and 19th century was dominated by Europeans, 20th century by Americans, and the 21st century belongs to the Asians.”
The event was held at Symbiosis Atur Centre in Model Colony, Pune and was well attended by many IT professionals and students.
Outlining the shift in dominating economies of the world Bhatkar said, “There is growing expectation about Indian economy again dominating the world. One of the CIA report has predicted that India will lead the world within next 4 to 5 decades.”
Speaking on the Brain Drain to Brain Chain Bhatkar said that IITs and IIMs have produced enough talents in 1960s and 1970s, and the was the era of brain drain, but with the development of technology MNCs started opening their offices in India to take advantage of cost factor in post 1980s phase.
“This phase can be called as ‘Brain-Gain’. Now the time has come to create the synergy out of the ‘Brain-chain’ of Indian professionals all over the world.” he said.
Speaking on the shift in the philosophy and metaphysical concepts across the world Bhatkar said, “The world is again showing interest in the, the “shakti” beyond the five senses, the concept of power “chakras” of human being. The world has realized that while in the west, the thinking pattern is compartmentalised or individualized; the Indian society teaches about Integrated Thinking and having a holistic view.”
“So, Indian culture preaches to conserve the eco-system than to conquer it. If the concept of “Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam-the whole earth is a family” is not adopted; there is a danger to very existence of mankind,” he further said.
Applauding the effort of organizations like GITPRO, he said, it can help start this process so that innovative contributions to overall progress of the nation can be achieved. He also proposed to create a Network of networks such as network of GITPRO (Global Indian Technology Professionals) & GIST (Global Indian Scientists & Technocrats Foundation).
Video coverage of Dr. Kaipa and Khanderao Kand's interviews at Hyderabad, India
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B.V. Jagdeesh on “Startup Leadership Lessons Learned”
http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/06/18/b-v-jagdeesh-on-startup-leadership-lessons-learned/
June 18th, 2011 Sean Murphy
Mr. B.V. Jagadeesh gave a great talk on “Lessons Learned Starting, Leading, and Succeeding at Multiple Startups” tonight at the GITPRO meeting. Mr. Jagadeesh co-founded Fouress which was a bootstrap consulting vehicle that allowed him to co-founded Exodus Communications, was CEO at NetScalar (and stayed on after its acquisition by Citrix as a VP/GM), was president and CEO of 3Leaf Systems, and is today president and CEO of Virtela. He is an accomplished entrepreneur (more details on LinkedIn and CrunchBase) and he gave a very candid talk on his entrepreneurial journey starting with his arrival in the United States in the early 1980’s to work at Novell.
I have had the privilege of hearing experienced entrepreneurs talk about lessons learned but it’s normally been a small group, a half dozen or dozen folks in a conference room or 15 or 20 around a Bootstrappers Breakfast table. This had that same sense of practical candor but there were perhaps a hundred to a hundred and twenty folks in the Oak Room.
It was a candid an insightful talk punctuated by frequent questions from the audience. What follows are a few stories that I thought had a particular emotional resonance with the early stages of a startup.
He came from a family of teachers and professors of modest means. They were delighted when he graduated with bachelors degree in engineering and went to Bombay to earn a Masters degree. When he was able to get a job in America it was unprecedented success. His new job allowed him to buy a used car which was one of the first owned by his family.
This made for a difficult phone call when he called his father to tell him he was going to quit his job to start a company. He had tried to work on it on the side with his future co-founder but came to understand if it was going to move forward he would have to focus on it.
“How much will this new job pay?” his father asked.
“It’s a startup, once we get clients I will be able to make some money” was Mr. Jagadeesh’s answer.
Needless to say his family thought he was making a mistake, but his calculation was that he had enough money saved to live simply for a year, he would pursue his dream of his own company and if it didn’t work out he would go back to being an engineer for a while.
Exodus went on to spearhead the concept of offsite co-location datacenters, changing the model from on-site data center served by an ISP. It enabled a number of companies large and small to establish a significant presence on the Internet.
His tenure at NetScalar saw the company narrowly avoid shutdown and go on to establish a new paradigm for Internet connectivity management. He had to prepare two speeches for the employees, one where he announced that the company was getting shut down, and one where they announced new round of funding (from Sequoia as it turns out). He was able to give the second speech and returned 8x to Sequoia when Citrix acquired NetScalar two and half years later.
He had to give the other speech a few years later as CEO of 3Leaf Systems when a key ASIC needed another spin and he was not able to convince investors to help. His point was that in both cases you had to prepare for the likely outcomes and take responsibility as CEO for what happens, doing the best that you can for your employees and investors.
One theme he stressed repeatedly was the need to impose the discipline on yourself and your team to prepare and act with the professionalism that your competitors are going to bring to the market. He talked about one team that he is advising that has met with some initial success. They realized that treating their offices as dorm rooms had been OK when there were a few founders, but now that they were growing and had two dozen employees they needed to establish a more professional tone–without spending a lot of money. So they spent a few thousand dollars at IKEA and held furniture assembly parties. The new look changed both internal attitudes toward the workplace and those of customers and potential investors who visited their offices.
He talked about volunteering to help the IEEE Silicon Valley put on events and conferences while he was still working at Novell. They met more than two decades ago in the Oak Room where he was speaking tonight . By volunteering to find speakers he was able to have conversations with managers and executives at many companies that allowed him to develop a network that helped out as he was growing Exodus and NetScalar. He felt a sense a coming full circle: he was now the invited speaker in the same room where he first started out as a volunteer.
It was a candid and reflective talk, Mr. Jagadeesh not only offered a wealth of practical advice, answering a number of very good questions, but he also communicated a fundamental sense of what it means to be a CEO: you need to take action and take responsibility for outcome of your actions.
India and China can collaborate in many areas, said Dr. Subramnian Swami at
GITPRO Event in the Silicon Valley
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India, China can collaborate in many areas: Swamy 30 Jun 2010, 1449 hrs IST,PTI
WASHINGTON: Observing that India and China share a very unique set of characteristics, former Union Law Minister Subramanian Swamy has said that the two Asian giants can collaborate in many areas, including IT sector.
"India and China can collaborate in various areas including IT, alternate fuel development, thorium based nuclear energy research etc. A collaborative attitude will be a winning game for both India and China," Swamy said in his keynote address to the Global Indian IT Professional Association (itpio).
Addressing Indian professionals at a function organised by
itpio, at Cupertino in California, Swamy said, "India and China share a very unique set of characteristics, both of them are billion population countries."
In his speech on "Competing Or Collaborating Economies" Swamy said together the two countries were 50 per cent of world's GDP till about year 1750 AD, lost their position, and now growing at about 8.5 per cent growth rate.
They are regaining their positions and are only next to the US in the GDP, and US, China and India would form a triangle of leading economies in the next 50 years, he added.
"They (India and China) are the only large neighboring countries that have not been involved in any kind of conflict in the last known 2700 years except in 1962" he said.
"We in India need to evolve a policy to preserve the ancient relationship between both the countries without sacrificing their national interests," the Janata Party president said.
While infrastructure was China's key strength, India enjoyed advantage in skilled labour, he said.
"There are lot of areas in which both the economies can collaborate. Indian infrastructure and education systems needs improvement, and the only country which has a potential to match US innovation is India and the key ingredient for innovation is Democracy, this is where India has an edge over China."
"India's population would not only surpass the Chinese population but it would be younger and that would also be an advantage to India. While working on collaboration, India also has to compete with China in exports," he said.
IT pros celebrate Republic Day in Silicon Valley
http://business.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/29/it-pros-celebrate-republic...
Under the banner of newly renamed Global Indian IT Professionals Association, Indian IT professionals celebrated the 60th anniversary of India's Republic Day in Silicon Valley.
This event attended by a large number of Indian IT professionals in the Silicon valley was inaugurated by Ash Kalra, San Jose City Council Member.
"Indians have been contributing so much to the country not just US but to the world, helping families and the future of theirs," she said.
"I am attending many events of Indian Republic Day but this is the only community organised event that is happening on the same day that of India's Republic Day," Kalra said.
Professionals from organisations like Cisco, eBay, PayPal, Oracle, Sun, Intel, NetApp, as well as early start-ups, and independent consultants attended the event.
Sanjay Goyal, CEO of Droisys, Shishu Bedi, COO of AdMaxim and Sucheta Kapuria, founder member - TiE and past president of Indian Chamber of Commerce were also present on the occasion.
In his keynote address Bhaskar Enaganti, a well-known serial entrepreneur and currently the CEO of GloMantra Inc, a consumer Internet start-up, said that IT industry is the only industry, which is democratic and truly centered around a common person.
"This is the industry where established players can get challenged by one IT professional - such is the democratic nature of the IT industry," Enaganti said.
Six months old, itpio, earlier known as IT Professionals of Indian Origin, primarily focuses on fostering the leadership and personal development for IT professionals of the Indian Origin. It has its chapters in the Silicon Valley, Contra Costa County, Denver, Washington DC, Seattle, Singapore, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
"The main objective of GITTPRO is to bring together IT professionals from India to educate them on the latest trends in the industry, foster the leadership, advocate the issues related to IT profession, interacting with education policy makers and continuously improve the IT related education," said Khanderao Kand of
itpio.
Indian IT professionals celebrate R-Day
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Washington, Jan 29: Indian software professionals have celebrated the 61st anniversary of India's Republic Day in the Silicon Valley.
The event organised under the banner of Global Indian IT Professionals Association (itpio) was attended by a large number of Indian IT professionals in the Silicon valley was inaugurated by Ash Kalra, San Jose City Council Member.
"Indians have been contributing so much to the country not just US but to the world, helping families and the future of theirs," she said.
"I am attending many events of Indian Republic Day but this is the only community organised event that is happening on the same day that of India's Republic Day," Kalra said.
Professionals from organisations like Cisco, eBay, PayPal, Oracle, Sun, Intel, NetApp, as well as early start-ups, and independent consultants attended the event.
Sanjay Goyal, CEO of Droisys, Shishu Bedi, COO of AdMaxim and Sucheta Kapuria, Founder Member TIE and past president of Indian Chamber of Commerce were also present on the occasion.
In his keynote address Bhaskar Enaganti, a well-known Serial Entrepreneur and currently the CEO of GloMantra Inc., a consumer Internet start-up, said that IT industry is the only industry, which is democratic and truly centred around a common person.
"This is the industry where established players can get challenged by one IT Professional - such is the democratic nature of IT industry," Enaganti said.
Six months old,
itpio, earlier known as IT Professionals of Indian Origin, primarily focuses on fostering the leadership and personal development for IT professionals of the Indian Origin.
It has its chapters in the Silicon Valley, Contra Costa County, Denver, Washington DC, Seattle, Singapore, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
""The main objective of GITTPRO is to bring together IT professionals from India to educate them on the latest trends in the industry, foster the leadership, advocate the issues related to IT profession, interacting with education policy makers and continuously improve the IT related education," said Khanderao Kand of
itpio.
Times Of India, Pune Times, Report: IT's Here
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Indian IT Professionals Chapter now in Pune: Techgoss Portal
http://www.techgoss.com/Story/73S13-itpio-Chapter-now-in-Pune.aspx
Pune
By Pulkit Sharma
The International Association of Indian IT (Information Technology) Professionals (ITPIO) launched its Pune Chapter on Oct 3 at the Symantec Offices in Baner.
itpio is a non-profit organization that primarily focuses on fostering the leadership and personal development for IT professionals of Indian Origin.
itpio was originally launched in the Silicon Valley, USA.
In addition to the newly launched Pune Chapter, ITPIO has chapters in Denver, Washington DC, Seattle, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Singapore.
Founded in 2009, the main objective of ITPIO is to bring together the Indian IT professionals from all over the world, to educate them on the latest trends in the industry, foster the leadership, incubate product innovation, advocate the issues related to IT profession, interacting with education policy makers and continuously improve the IT related education.
The Pune Chapter was inaugurated by Mr Ravi Gogte, industry consultant in high-end embedded systems and a community leader in Pune. “Two decades back, IT was limited to embedded systems and main-frames; now, we see IT companies sprawling all over India in general and in Pune as well.
ITPIO would provide a great platform for IT professionals in Pune” said Mr Gogte.
“IT professionals from India are well known and regarded for their skills, professionalism and success – yet they do not have an organization representing their professional interest.
itpio is a great platform for everyone from entry level to the senior most level professional” said Khanderao Kand, founder of
itpio. “The main objective of ITPIO is to promote the professional leadership to make an Indian imprint on the progress of world”. Mr. Khanderao Kand is based in San Francisco California, and is Principal Architect and Director at Oracle Corp, USA.
Mr. Khanderao further addressed various challenges in front of the Indian IT profession. “The US Dollar rate differentiation and skilled English speaking engineers can no longer be the only driving factors for Indian IT industry in future. It needs to be supported by a quality and a reliable delivery. That’s where we need to foster Indian values like a sense of responsibility, commitment to a given word, and integrity. Additionally, Indian IT industry needs to foster innovation and move into products and open-source software areas”.
Mr. Khanderao also announced that Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & MD of Persistent Systems, had agreed to be on the international Advisory Board of
itpio.
The program was coordinated by Mr. Ajit Deshpande from TCS. Mr. Ajit Deshpande noted the unique contributions and developments in Pune IT. The event was attended by many prominent people of the Pune IT industry and included professionals from several firms including TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Persistent, Tech Mahindra and Symantec. Mr. Nihar Mehta thanked Symantec Corp for hosting the event. He further announced that there would be monthly public meetings of
itpio in Pune.
Indian IT Professional's Washington DC Chapter Launched
Washington DC - Virginia
Washington DC, October 4th 2009 — International Association of Indian IT (Information
Technology) Professionals, IT Professionals Of Indian Origin (itpio) - today launched its DC - Virginia chapter.
itpio is a non-profit organization that primarily focusing on fostering the leadership and personal development for IT professionals of Indian Origin. This association originally launched in the Silicon Valley, CA. In addition to the newly launched DC Chapter,
itpio has chapters in Denver, Seattle, Singapore, Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
The main objective of
itpio is to bring together the Indian IT professionals from all over the world for their professional as well as personal development.
itpio aims to educate them on the latest trends in the industry, foster the leadership, and incubate product innovation as well as important personal aspects like work-life balance, stress, time management and wealth management.
itpio advocates the issues related to IT profession by interacting with policy makers.
The DC Chapter was inaugurated by Mr Ramanujam Sesharathnam, MD and COO of Zylog System and by Mr Ramesh Kumble, Sr. Director, IBM. “IT professionals from India are well known and perceived for their skills, professionalism and success,
itpio provides a platform for them to come together and represent their professional interest. ” said Ramanujam, director of
itpio. “The main objective of itpio is to promote the professional leadership Indian IT Professionals”.
The key note of the event was “Opportunities and Challenges emerging from the Global Meltdown for Indian IT Professionals”. Mr Ramanujam and Ramesh shared their thoughts on how Indian IT Professional can leverage the opportunities emerging from the global meltdown.
Mr. Ramanujam also talked about how Indian IT professionals are some of most talented professionals but they become complacent once they come to US and settle in a job. They should think about giving back to community in form of giving time, participating in influencing activities such as social network, conferences, knowledge dissemination, donation, lobbying government for issues facing India and Indians in US and time investment in overall development facilitation of where they came from.
Mr. Ramesh talked about eliminating fear and focusing more on moving up the value chain and trying to move toward managerial and other customer facing occupations. He noted that Indians are typically good technically but lack in managerial skills. Indian IT professionals should try to bridge that gap like Indian doctors or other Indian professionals are striving for.
Mr Raj K Bhagat, Sr. Attorney from Bhagat Associates updated the guests with the latest immigration policies and issues faced by Indian IT Professionals due to the meltdown. Mr. Ashwin Reddy, Srinivas Bhaskar, Mahendra Reddy, Prem Rangwani, Yash Sowale, Nitin Kanade worked together to make this event successful.
A common forum for Indian IT professionals initiated in Denver
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Indian IT Professionals in Denver have come together with an objective to have a common voice and a common body to address specific issues related to them. IT Professionals of Indian Origin (itpio) made this into reality with its initiation meeting in Denver, where several professionals attended to get a know-how.
itpio is a combined forum for IT pros from Indian origin with a mission to voice for professional advancement, policy making, be an active networking forum to share their specific interests and to be an active resource for the Indian communities across globe. An industry leader Mr.Khanderao Kand is the founder of this noble idea and
itpio's Silicon Valley chapter was publicly launched on August 15th.
While addressing the initiation meeting in Denver, Mr.Khanderao explained the organization's objectives, "the Indian IT professionals are in all levels from entry to executives, and
itpio helps promote the professional networking among us, that will ignite the opportunities for professional growth". "There are specific issues that are unique for Indian IT pros in health, culture, leadership, immigration etc, that this forum should address these", added Mr.Sridhar Talanki, President of Pandit View Software in Denver.
Several professionals have attended the meeting, which ended on a positive note with the start of Denver chapter of
itpio. For more information on itpio, visit http://www.itpio.org.
Association for Indian origin IT professionals launched in US
Association for Indian origin IT professionals launched in US
SILICON VALLEY
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4907390.cms
With an objective to bring Indian origin IT professionals at one platform and give them a common voice, an association of IT professionals has been launched here.
"itpio gives an opportunity to all IT professionals and other professionals as well to communicate with each other," Sri Chawla, CEO of US Microtech and a philanthropist in the Silicon Valley said in his inaugural address.
The first chapter of the Association of IT Professionals of Indian Origin (ITPO) was launched in the Silicon Valley on August 15 - India's Independence Day.
"IT professionals from India are well known and perceived for their skills, professionalism and success - yet they do not have an organisation representing their professional interest," Khanderao Kand, founder of
itpio said.
"itpio is a great platform for everyone from entry level to C level with an objective to promote the professional leadership to make an Indian Imprint on the progress of world," Kand added.
Speaking on the difficult times being faced by IT industry, well known CEO and Entrepreneur Coach Dr Prasad Kaipa in his key note address said, "Turbulent times are the appropriate times for positive deviance, for stretching, risk taking and this will show up us as leaders."
Primarily focusing on fostering the leadership and personal development of IT professionals of Indian Origin,
itpio has also initiated chapters in Denver,Washington, Seattle Hyderabad and Bangalore.
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