Silicon Valley talks to TBIs in India
As part of the ConnectONE initiatives, a summit named "Empowering Incubators – Training the Trainers Initiative" was held at TiE Auditorium by the The Indus Entrepreneurs(TiE), Santa Clara on Nov 24, 2009.
Some of the most senior members of the entrepreneurship community from the Silicon Valley Bay Area in the USA held seminars and interactive discussions. This was attended by several TBI managers and the ConnectONE directors, who were visiting the USA. Also, using video conferencing, the live session was attended by TBIs from India
The objective of the conference was to train the trainers (TBI managers) and expose them to Silicon Valley Ecosystem. The TBI managers who were attending represented an Incubator Leadership and Scientific Community with an outreach of over 150 technology startups in India.
Mr.Sujit Banerjee (Director, ConnectONE), Mr.Kanwal Rekhi (Co-Founder & MD, Inventus Capital Partners), Mr.Somnath Chatterjee (Director Global Initiatives,
TiE Global), Mr.Rafiq Dossani (Director, Center for South Asia, Stanford University), Mr.Naren Gupta (Co-Founder, Nexus Venture Partners), Mr.Kamal Bijlani (Director, ConnectONE) and many other eminent personalities also participated in the conference.
In India the conference took place from 03:00am to 07:15am (IST) on 25th Nov '09 and was broadcasted to Coimbatore and Amritapuri. The video conferencing system A-VIEW was used to provide the seminars and discussions from Silicon Valley to the TBIs at Coimbatore, TamilNadu, Kollam and Kerala. From Coimbatore, Mr. Chandrasekharan of PSG attended the conference. He is the CEO of a Minveli, a start-up firm registered under PSG-STEP. Some members of the ConnectONE team ,Amrita TBI and some MBA students of Coimbatore Campus attended the session.
