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    Dominique Trempont Mr. Trempont is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of Finisar Corporation, a position he has held since September 2005. Finisar is a public company that develops and markets optical components and modules for network equipment vendors, instruments and software for communications designers and products and services for large enterprise storage networks. Mr. Trempont also serves on the Board of Directors, and Chairs the Audit Committee, of Energy Recovery, Inc., a public company that helps water desalination plants recycle energy used in the desalination process. Mr. Trempont was CEO-in-Residence at Battery Ventures, a venture capital firm, from September 2003 to September 2005. Prior to Battery Ventures, Mr. Trempont was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kanisa, Inc., a software company focused on customer self-service, contact center and peer support applications, from May 1999 to November 2002. Mr. Trempont has served as Chief Executive Officer of Gemplus Corporation, a smart card application company, and Chief Financial Officer at NeXT Software. Mr. Trempont began his career at Raychem Corporation, a high-tech material science company focused on the telecommunication, electronics and automotive industries, including holding the position of Chief Audit Officer. Mr. Trempont received an undergraduate degree in Economics from College St. Louis (Belgium), a bachelor's in Business Administration and Computer Sciences from IAG at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and a master's in Business Administration from INSEAD.

    Sramana Mitra Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. Her current focus, however, is primarily in the realms of Web 3.0 and Enterprise 3.0, and related infrastructure. She has a particular interest in Media and Retail companies and their transition to a Web-centric world.

    Sanjeev Bhikchandani An inspiration for all young entrepreneurs in India, Sanjeev Bhikchandani is the Co-founder and CEO of Naukri.com, India’s largest web based employment site. An alumnus of India’s Hravard, IIM-A,Sanjeev worked in reputed organizations like Lintas India Ltd and Smithkline Beecham before he went on to launch Naukri.com in 1997. Today, his company Infoedge ( India) limited of which Naukri.com is a division, is the biggest web player in India , wildly profitable, with incremental revenues adding 90% to the bottomline and cash reserves exceeding 350 crores INR. Naukri.com when Sanjeev started out with just ten people has now go on to become a job portal that receives 8-10 thousand resumes in a day and places 7-10 lakh people cutting across all disciplines in a year. Infoedge India has now diversified into real estate with the site 99acres.com and has launched a Middle east specific matrimonial site as well. Sanjeev has been featured in the widely acclaimed book “ Stay hungry and Stay foolish” by Rashmi Bansal about 25 IIM-A alumni who by treading into the once unchartered territory of entrepreneurship have go on to become hugely successful. Sanjeev, today apart from looking after the the affairs of his company is actively involved in promoting the entrepreneurial spirit among the country’s youth at various public forums, seminars, lectures and interactive sessions at the IIT’S and premier B schools in our country. Be there to listen to one of india’s most celebrated entrepreneur sharing with the students his success mantras . Be there to be motivated and enlightened.

1.Workshop by Intel
Topic: More Moore: Bridging the design productivity gap
Speaker: Dr. Vivek De

With some of the big players in the Electronic Design Automation(EDA) being less than 10 years old, and the start-up cost being low, the only recipe for your success is your expertise! Get an insight into this industry during the workshop from Intel.

Vivek De is an Intel Fellow and Director of Circuit Technology Research in Intel's Circuits Research Lab (CRL). He provides strategic direction for future circuit technologies and is responsible for aligning CRL's circuit research with technology scaling challenges. He has published 151 technical papers in refered conferences and journals, and 6 book chapters in the areas of low power and high performance circuits. He holds 129 patents, with 64 more patents filed (pending). Vivek received his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India in 1985 and his Master's degree in electrical engineering from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1986. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York in 1992.

2.Workshop by Fractal Analytics
Topic:The role of analytics in Banking and Credit Risk Management
Speakers:Abhijit Kanjilal(Associate Director), Mr. Samim Akhtar (Risk Analyst), Mr. Jahan Ali Biswas (Risk Analyst)

Proper portfolio risk assessment, sub-prime lending, risk driven customer profitability: These are the issues that banks and financial institutions are grappling with today. Banks who do not address these issues risk affecting their bottom line drastically. Analytics help issuers manage these and more issues in a scientific manner. An understanding of analytics thus becomes imperative for all.

The workshop will run you through global best risk practices, help identify issues faced by financial industry today from a risk as well as marketing perspective and familiarize you with the way analytics can deal with these issues.

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3.Workshop by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry)
Topic: Entrepreneurship:Emerging Opportunities.
Speaker: Mr. Saugat Mukharjee, Eastern Regional Head, CII.
If you ask a startup to list the mah]jor the difficulties or challenges it faces when it embarks on it's buisness, restrictive government policies and lack of proper co-ordination between the government and the industriy are sure to figure in everyone's list.It is there that the CII or the Confederation of Indian Industry steps in.It is India's premier buisness association with a direct membership of over 7500 organizations from th private as well as public sectors, including SME's and MNC's and an indirect membership of over 83,000 companies from around 380 national and regional sectoral associations, working to create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industries in India.

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    BarCamp is a hugely participative freeform conference (or unconference) where people talk about what they're working on. BarCamps are a lot of fun as participants get to meet a lot of like-minded people. The topic of discussion is usually related to upcoming technologies.

    Find out more on the official BarCamp Kolkata website here.

    EBRF CONFERENCE The week includes EBRF 2009 Kharagpur Conference Scheduled on 8th January, 2009. EBRF Conference has been held in Finland for the last 7 years to understand business in knowledge society. For the first time this conference is being held outside Finland. This conference is an occasion for the Industry, Academia and the students to come together to bring about the facts of business and get into the current trends in all the sectors all around the world. It will create a synergy between the start ups and the corporate. The themes of the conference are Growth Venturing through Entrepreneurship and Technology Entrepreneurship and Growth Venturing The conference will showcase the launch of Global Ventures Lab. It is a collaborative effort of IIT Kharagpur, University of California Berkley, USA and University of Jyvaskyla, Finland to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. The conference will include participation from India, USA, U.K and Finland.

    Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur is organizing its first ever Start-up camp, with start-ups from IITs and other major institutions coming over to showcase themselves. We are inviting companies to join us at this exciting, highly publicized, startup-focused career event.The fair target students interested in learning about potential job opportunities at startups around campus.Do take advantage of this opportunity to hire key talent from the university!

    The start-up camp will give you insights into the world of start-ups and answer questions like:

    1. Compensations available in start-ups
    2. Sustenance of start-ups
    3. Funding: The advantages of getting an angel fund or venture capitalists on board
    4. What to look for in a start-up before joining them as interns or employees?
    5. Avenues that open up for students employed in start-ups
    6. Dealing with peer pressure.
    7. What are start-ups looking for?
    8. And above all, why start off on your own.

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