Past Chapter Events

Speaker Series - June, 18th, 2006 (Photos) (Movie)

The second speaker series was also a big success with about 50 alumni from various IITs and other engineering colleges showing up. This speaker series was organized thanks to a sponsorship by TIBCO. The topic of the panel discussion was "Perspectives on Internet and Enterprise Security". Ameet Zaveri moderated the panel consisting of Rajeev Khanolkar (President of NetCom), Sanjay Uppal (CEO of Caymas) and Ambarish Malpani (CTO of Cenzic). Each speaker presented an interesting talk followed by almost an hour of Q&A. 

Check out the photos and a movie of the event. We plan to have the next speaker series in August. See you all there.

Speaker Series - May, 18th, 2006 (Photos)

The first speaker series of this year was organized at the TiE office in Santa Clara on May 18th. The topic of the talk was "A New Direction in High Performance Computing" by Narendra Karmarkar, the Science and Technology Advisor to the Chairman, Tata Group. Google sponsored this event and it was a great success, with more than 45 people showing up on a Thursday evening. We even had alumni of RECs, and other IITs attending the talk. 

Check out the photos of the event. We plan to have the next speaker series in July. See you all there.

IITB Happy Hour - Apr, 27rd, 2006 (Photos)

The second happy hour turned out to be a much more lively one with alumni from areas as far as Los Angeles turning up. That just goes to show how popular the bay area chapter is. About 30 people showed up for the event ranging from early 80s to early 2000s.  We stuck around till about 9:30 when we decided thats all the fun we could take for one evening.
Here are the photos of the event. We plan to have the next happy hour in June.  See you all there.

IITB Happy Hour - Feb, 23rd, 2006 (Photos)

The first IITB Happy Hour for 2006 was held on Feb 23rd, at The Duke of Edinburgh. Since such an event had not been organized for almost a year, we had some concern that not enough people would show up. Here are the photos of the event. We were pleasantly surprised. Over 25 IITB Alums showed up ranging from the Batch of 1970 to the Batch of 2002. We plan to have a Happy Hour every other month. So the next one will be in April. Hope to see you there.

Pan IIT Happy Hour - Sept. 16, 2004

Pan IIT Happy Hour for all IITians to network, back slap and sozzle at Fanny & Alexander, Palo Alto.

An Inter IIT Beer Drinking Contest is also planned in the evening. Each IIT will have one top guzzler represent them in the contest. The contest will be the number of glasses of Beer that you can down in one minute without any spillage.

Annual Picnic Aug 1, 2004

This year the picnic was held at Lake Elizabeth, Central Park in Fremont

Day Hike May 22, 2004

We had the most interesting hike to Mission Peak in Fremont on Saturday, May 22, 2004. We had taken on this trip with some trepidation: The weather forecast was not exactly perfect. That area can have strong winds, plus you don't know if everyone in the group will have a good time. We were wrong on all counts. The hike was simply amazing! ...more

Freshies Welcome

Tibco Cafeteria, Palo Alto @ April 3rd , 2.30PM to 4.30PM.
This event was held to welcome all students of Berkeley and Stanford from IITB - to meet them, talk to them and ensure they have a family around in this entire tech wilderness. All alumni who have moved to the Bay Area in the last one year also were also welcomed. Some Bay Area veterans welcomed them and related their experiences in character building in the Bay Area

Happy Hour March 25, 2004

The March Happy Hour was at Blue Chalk Café, Palo Alto

Ski Trip March 6, 2004

A dozen enthu folks heeded the call of the great outdoors. We packed into minivans and headed out to Boreal. ...more

Happy Hour, February 19 2004

The Happy Hour on February 19th at Fanny and Alexander, was Happier than expected. We had a lot of alumni join in. We shall have a Happy Hour every third Thursday of the month. Watch out for the Venue announcements.

Networking Luncheon. September 17, 2003

Faculty Academic Network - Inaugural Meeting

The theme of this meeting was "Realizing the Dream - the Role of Alums in Making IIT Bombay a World Class Academic Institution." This meeting was held in Palo Alto, California, June 7-8, 2003. Read the report and see the photos.

Diwali Night , November 9, 2002

(Organized by the IIT Spouses Association)
The Diwali Night was SOLD OUT.

The Director of IIT Bombay, with the executive faculty were present. We got updates on all the exciting happenings on campus.

We also had a panel of eminent Alumni from Industry for a discussion on - From Technology to Revenue and Beyond

The Panelists were

• Dushyant Desai - Piper Jaffrey

• Prem Kumar T - Telera

• Mahesh Krishnamurthy - Ventures

• Dushyant Pandya - TIBCO (Moderator)

This meeting provided an opportunity for the usual Networking over Chai and Samosas.