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Wednesday, August 14 2002, 5:30-9:30pm, Westin, Santa Clara.

Over 280 attendees joined 15 distinguished panelists from industry, academia, equity sources and over 25 Distinguished IIT alumni in the Bay area, to kickoff a series of vibrant and ongoing networking events serving all professionals and over 5000 IIT alumni in the Bay Area.

Ypanels provided:

Deeper insights into selected topics in the form of a moderated panel debate and audience Q&A

A vibrant networking forum for alumni of all IITs and leading-edge universities around the world.

Ypanels Event Itinerary:

5:30 - 6:30: Registration and Networking

6:30 - 7:30: Dinner with panelists and distinguished alumni from all IITs

7:30 - 8:00 PM: Keynote address

8:00 - 9:30: Panel Discussions and audience Q&A

Ypanels Keynote Speaker: Arjun Gupta, founder TeleSoft Partners. Arjun Gupta founded TeleSoft Partners and manages a family of communications-focused venture capital funds of $705 million, investing in next generation systems, software and services companies. Arjun serves on the boards of CreekPath, empowerTel, Iwitness, and Jungo. ... more		*Arjun Gupta*

*Glenn Cornett* Arthur Mlodozeniec	Ypanels: Life Sciences BioConvergence: Confluence of IT and Life Sciences. "Biotech is at the stage where computing was when Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft" - Nathan Myhrvold, founder, Intellectual Ventures. We'll debate and gather insights on: New opportunities in BioTechnology Legal implications and marketing impact Is there a revenue in personalized medicine? Our current list of confirmed panelists include: Glenn Cornett, M.D., Ph.D., CEO, Metastrat Anthony Hunt, Ph.D., Professor, University of California, San Francisco Arthur Mlodozeniec, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, PharmQuest Roy Whitfield, MBA, Chairman of Incyte Genomics For more details click here	*Anthony Hunt* *Roy Whitfield*

Dushyant Desai Umesh Padval Vijay Parikh	Ypanels: Semiconductors New opportunities in Semiconductors in traditional processors, networking and communication will be explored, with emphasis on architecture-level innovation to meet business opportunities. Topics to be discussed include: Performance v/s Integration of features to address new opportunities How is the current economy going to affect innovation and designs at chip levels? Our current list of confirmed panelists includes: Dushyant Desai,Research Analyst at Piper Jaffray. Umesh Padval, ex CEO of C-Cube and currently SVP at LSI Logic. Vijay Parikh, Managing Principal at Global Catalyst Partners, previously VP-GM within the Public Carrier IP group at Cisco. Bill Tai, General Partner with Charles River Ventures, previously with Institutional Venture Partners. Jim Turley, Industry Analyst - previously with Microprocessor Report. For more details click here	Bill Tai Jim Turley

Sushil Kumar Dan'l Lewin Arjun Malhotra	Ypanels: Software Web-Services have moved from hype to acceptance. But what does 'acceptance' mean? Is it: Standards like SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Security? Move to a services-oriented architecture, or New software that lives as services? Our current list of confirmed panelists include: Sushil Kumar, Enterprise Architect, BEA. Dan'l Lewin, VP .NET business for Microsoft. Arjun Malhotra, founder of HCL and now CEO-Techspan (EAI Consulting). Fred Meyer, Chief Strategy Officer, TIBCO. Madhu Tadikonda, Senior Associate, Battery Ventures. For more details click here	Fred Meyer Madhu Tadikonda

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