Pan IIT 2006 Update!
Have you visited PanIIT 2006 web site lately? A lot of changes have taken place.
To start with, our web site now also gives details of various sessions that have been lined up for the event. It also gives the details of the speakers confirmed/invited. Those interested more in the networking with buddies and other IIT alumni can make use of the segment which has been dedicated to this aspect alone. A grand entertainment programme has been planned – you will have the opportunity to see some of the leading Bollywood personalities live in action. Full details of the programmes planned have been given on our web site. While you are at the web site, don’t forget to read the newsletters section at http://www.paniit2006.org/news/newsletters.htm.
The web site has section that allows on-line registration. Registration fees have been kept at a very low rate to permit maximum participation by alumni of all IIT’s. Moreover, a whopping discount is being offered if you book early. Details can be seen on the web site.
In co-ordination with leading travel agents, Cox & Kings, a number of rooms in the hotels close to the venue of the conference (Bandra Kurla Complex), in various price ranges, have been booked. Similarly, a special package deal has been worked out with Cidade de Goa Beach Resort in Goa so that the delegates can have a short holiday on the Goa beach before arriving in Mumbai for the conference. Full details of both these arrangements are covered on our web site.
You can register on the spot by paying through your credit card using a secure payment gateway. Alumni residing in India have additional choices of paying registration fees by cheque or demand draft or giving authority to debit the amount applicable to their credit card. Please see instructions on the web site.
Regards,
Prakash Khemani
Chairman – Marketing Committee
PanIIT 2006 Action Group
http://www.paniit2006.org
IIT, Bay Area! 
October 19, 2006 at 8:37 am
A brief overview of the event:
It is the first of it’s kind in Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, where some 5,000 IIT alumni would be collectively looking at the opportunities available to actually get closely involved with building the Indian economy.
Highlights of this conference that makes it unique
The agenda for this event has come directly from a survey that has taken the views of hundreds of IIT alumni. The findings have been distilled into a pragmatic platform that engages the IITs, alumni and the leading lights of the Indian economy in a first-of-a-kind event.
This conference has a unique focus on the nitty-gritty of strategy and action needed to create and sustain an agenda for national development in a practical way that every IIT alumnus can engage in immediately. It is a clear initiative for inspired actions in the next few years.
The core of the event is in the six specific segments that deliver on the vision of inspire, involve and transform:
1 How to make India a knowledge economy
2 How to lift 260 million people out of poverty in one generation
3 Sustainable development through decentralised services
4 You can you get the Governance you want
5 Use of technology for nation building
6 What you can learn from successful entrepreneurs
Expected concrete initiatives that may result from this conference
With interactivity between alumni, speakers and panellists, as well as focus discussions geared to action, I expect that we will be able to come up with specific, time-bound action plans for each of the segments. The conference will also brief the Prime Minister on the key areas requiring attention and support at a national level.
What would Alumni from the US and other countries gain from attending this event?
Alumni from abroad would be able to find specific areas of engagement with the urgent development goals of the Indian economy, locate exciting projects that they can be involved in, and, of course, get a golden opportunity to network with thousands of IIT alumni whom they never would otherwise have met.
For more info: http://www.paniit2006.org