The IIT Alumni 2006 Global Conference is scheduled to be held in Mumbai from December 23-25, 2006. The conference was held in Washington last year. | |
| Addressing mediapersons, Ashank Desai, co-chairman of PanIIT-2006, said, "The theme of the conference is 'Inspire IITians to involve and transform India'. We expect to have participation from 4,000-5,000 people for this event." |
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| PanIIT is a global association of alumni from all the seven IITs. |
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| Some of the segments for the conference this year include how to make India a knowledge economy, global branding of India, how to improve the standard of living index and what you can learn from successful entrepreneurs. |
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| An interactive session with Sri Sri Ravishankar of the 'Art of Living' fame will also be organised. |
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| A few key speakers at the previous events have been President APJ Abdul Kalam, Sunit Mittal, chairman of Bharti group, and Rajat Gupta, senior partner of McKinsey and Co. |
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| "We expect participation from the president of India this year as well," Desai said. |
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