UPDATE: Listen to this panel discussion here:
Please tell your friends - this is a worldwide event with two leading business experts,
Vinod Dham & Vivek Wadhwa (bios below)
Join us Tuesday for this discussion - live on your computer (or by dialing into 347-324-5991, a NYC number) and ask questions via the chatroom, or listen to an archived recording. You can send questions inadvance to saja[at]columbia.edu. As always, you are welcome to quote from anything said during these webcasts.
Speakers: VINOD DHAM, founder of NEA-IndoUS Ventures and former exec at Intel, where he was "the father of the Pentium processor"; and VIVEK WADHWA, a technology entrepreneur who is presently a fellow at Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University, where he's researching these issues. Moderator: Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism professor and SAJA co-founder
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
11 am-noon in NY; 8-9 am in San Francisco; 8:30-9:30 pm in Mumbai; 11 pm-midnight in Shanghai
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Bios and more below.
ABOUT VINOD DHAM:
Acclaimed worldwide as the "Father of the Pentium Processor", Vinod K. Dham is
the Founder and Executive Managing Director of NEA-IndoUS Ventures, a
cross-border India-US venture fund that leverages India's cost effective talent
and high growth emerging market. Vinod (Vin) is also Co-Founder and Managing
Director at NewPath Ventures, LLC, the first Indo-US venture capital fund
focused on cross-border investments. Prior to NEA-IndoUS and NewPath, Vin was
the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Spice Inc., a
start-up involved in developing innovative "Voice over Internet" technologies
for the emerging VOIP market. Silicon Spice was acquired by Broadcom
Corporation.
Vin spent the early years of his career at Intel Corporation where he rose to
be the Vice President and General Manager of the Microprocessor Products group,
managing the Pentium, 486 and 386 Microprocessors businesses. After 16 years at
Intel Corporation, Vin joined a Microprocessor start-up, "NexGen", as Chief
Operating Officer. Vin was instrumental in redefining Nexgen's processor
direction and engineering the merger with Advanced Micro Devices. At AMD, Vin
became the Group Vice President responsible for all of the Microprocessor
businesses, laid the foundation for Microprocessor product development, and
oversaw the launch of K6, then the world's fastest windows processor.
In 1993, Vin was named one of the top 25 executives in the US computer
industry. In 1999, he was named one of the top 100 most influential Asian
Americans of the decade. In 2000, Vin was appointed to serve on the US
President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Vin
is a trustee and Board member of the American Indian Foundation, and chairs
AIF's Digital Equalizer program. Vin has served as a Board member for TIE, a
not-for-profit organization for Entrepreneurs. Vin serves on the Boards of
Satyam, Sasken, InSilica, Nevis, Telsima and Montalvo.
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ABOUT VIVEK WADHWA:
Vivek Wadhwa is an Executive in Residence/Adjunct Professor for the
Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and a Wertheim Fellow at
the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is also a
technology entrepreneur and a columnist for BusinessWeek.com. Wadhwa
was named a "Leader of Tomorrow" by Forbes.com,
and his company Relativity Technologies was named as one of the 25
"coolest" companies in the world by Fortune Magazine. Mr. Wadhwa holds
a B.A. in Computing Studies from Canberra University in Australia and
an MBA from New York University.
He has researched engineering education in India, China and the US, and the new
trends in R&D offshoring. His research revealed that despite the problems with
the education system of India and the massive investments China is making in
education and R&D, India is racing ahead as a global hub for innovation.
His research into immigration revealed that immigrants were increasingly
fueling the US economy and tech entrepreneurship. But because of flawed
immigration policies, the US is setting itself up for a massive reverse brain
drain of highly educated and skilled workers who are presently working for
American companies.
See Wadhwa's research and articles at http://www.GlobalizationResear
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* SAJA BRIEFING: South Asians and the 2008 Democratic Race.
A conversation about the 2008 Democratic race, featuring PREETA BANSAL, former
Solicitor General of New York State; a past lawyer in the Clinton White House
and Justice Department; and a member of several Obama national policy
committees & outreach teams... NEERA TANDEN, policy director for the Clinton
campaign; former legislative director for Senator Clinton. Also joining the
conversation: TOBY CHAUDHURI, former press secretary for the 2000 Al Gore
campaign. [See notes and audio here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008
* AUTHOR CHAT: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of "The Palace of Illusions"
- a re-imagining of the Indian epic, "the Mahabharata," from the point of view
of Princess Draupadi.
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Sociologist Takes to the Streets" [See notes and audio here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008
* SAJA BRIEFING: South Asians & Hollywood - where things stand for South Asians
looking to work in American entertainment. Speakers: Aasif Mandvi, Manu
Narayan, Kavi Ladnier, Aseem Chhabra [See notes from the panel here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008
* SAJA BRIEFING: Pakistan Elections - what they mean for Pakistan and U.S.-Pak
relations. Speakers: Asif Alam, Todd Baer, Kiran Khalid, Anil Kalhan
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The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East"
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* AUTHOR CHAT: Sandeep Jauhar, M.D., "Intern: A Doctor's Initiation" and New
York Times contributor
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* SAJA LEADER CHAT: Sandeep Junnarkar, new SAJA president and CUNY Journalism
School professor
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* SAJA LEADER CHAT: V.V. Ganeshananthan, new SAJA vice president and author,
"Love Marriage: A Novel" (chair, SAJA Convention & Job Fair: June 20-21)
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* SAJA LEADER CHAT: Anusha Shrivastava, secretary and reporter, Dow Jones
Newsire (and coordinator of SAJA mentor program)
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