BITSAA Silicon Valley Plan 2006

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BITSAA Silicon Valley Plan 2006
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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

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Plan 2006

• BITSAA Silicon Valleys 2006 Objectives
• Facilitate and Create an environment to help
  BITSians in Silicon Valley to become successful
  entrepreneurs or corporate executives
• Connect alumni with BITS Pilani to leverage each
  others strengths

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Mentorship Program

• A program coordinated by BITSAA SVC to be
  extended to other chapters after initial success
• Bring mentors and mentees together
• Advice 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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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)

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Organization Structure (2006)
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To participate in BITSAA SVC events, email

• Entrepreneurship Ashish Shah (ashishbshah_at_gmail.
  com)
• Mentorship Aanand Krishnan (aanandk_at_gmail.com)
• Embryo Shashikant Khandelwal (fd97093_at_yahoo.com)
  
• Technology Badhri Varanasi (badhri_034_at_yahoo.com
  )
• Media Nishikanth Gaddam (nishi_gaddam_at_yahoo.com
  )
• Golf Events Atul Ahuja (ahuja_atul_at_yahoo.com)
• Secretary Ashish Garg (gargyboy_at_yahoo.com)
• Finance Amit Khetan (arkhetan_at_yahoo.com)
• President Chandra Bhople (cbhople_at_osellus.com)

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Photos from past BITSAA events