NEW DELHI: It's a potent power statement, in the power capital of the world. On May 20, over 3000 IIT-ians from all over will gather in Washington DC for a pow-wow with their best and brightest.
The event, brainchild of one of IIT's best known alumnuses, Rajat Gupta of McKinsey, will showcase the biggest concentration of Indian professional talent.
From pharma to finance to technology and even woman power, the conference promises face time for all. And kicking off the events will be keynote speeches by Jack Welch, former CEO of GE and Arun Shourie, former minister for disinvestment in the NDA government.
The power of the IIT will be on display, and how. Capitol Hill will fete the IIT-ians with receptions by Congressmen. The participants themselves read like a who's who of global corporate elite, quite apart from the panelists, who include Thomas Friedman, the latest literary convert to globalisation, CK Prahalad of the University of Michigan, Lord Kumar Bhattacharya, Victor Menezes of Citicorp, Stephen Schultz of Lockheed Martin, Purnendu Chatterjee, R Chidambaram, scientific adviser to the prime minister, Larry Summers, president of Harvard University and Jerry Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University among others.
The theme for the conference, predictably is, technology without borders: global transformation and India's role. While the profusion of Indian talent will be for all to see, the presence of top educators from America's prized universities promises to be equally interesting in the light of the current heartburn within the US that the country stands in danger of losing its technological and scientific edge, by keeping out foreign students due to security considerations.
May 16, 2005
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