Page Loading... Please wait...
Wait

Education, Careers & Professional News

IIT Alumni conference

Filed under:

Source
Deccan Herald

Date
2006-08-08

Information
South East Asias first Regional Conference of Alumni of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) will be hosted in Singapore on August 26.

The event will be supported by Pan IIT-the global forum for IIT Alumni, besides a few Singapore-based associations like SITF and SICCI, according to a Pan-IIT release. A number of top luminaries, including ministers from the Singapore and Indian governments and top industrialists and educationists will be taking part in the conference.

Indian High Commissioner in Singapore Alok Prasad will inaugurate the event.

Singapore Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam will also be participating, the release said.

Related pages

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Announces Speaker Line Up for Upcoming 2007 Global Alumni Conference

Adding to its roster of high caliber keynote speakers including Senator Hillary Clinton, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, PanIIT, the global IIT alumni association, announced today its panelists for this years 2007 IIT Global Alumni conference. Speakers will include Nobel Laureate prize winner Arno Penzias, .....

IIT-B alumni oppose Dow sponsorship of NY event

Some Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) alumni have floated an online petition urging organizers of the Golden Jubilee Conference 2008, to be held in New York from July 18 to 20, to refuse sponsorship from Dow Chemical. Dow Chemical is one the ‘gold’ sponsors of the Golden Jubilee event for which .....

Alumni meet at GGSIP

Alumni meet at GGSIP The annual alumni meet of Guru Gobind Singh In-draprastha Universitys School of Management Studies, Smriti-2006, was held in Delhi. Students from the first batch of 2001 till the recent pass outs attended the meet. A cultural programme was organised by the current batch for .....

Homecoming for another batch of IIT-K alumni

Homecoming for another batch of IIT-K alumni MORE THAN 200 alumni of the 1982 batch reached the Indian Institute of Technology (II-K) here today to participate in the silver jubilee celebrations at their alma mater. Most of the alumni, settled in the USA and other countries, came with their family, and .....

IIT-D returns sponsorship of Dow for GLS-8 conference

In a strong message to the owner of Union Carbide, involved in the Bhopal Gas tragedy, the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi has joined ranks with other IITs in opposing Dow Chemical Company. Following an urgent meeting on Saturday, IIT-D has decided to reject the sponsorship offered by Dow for an .....

IIMs trying to create an eco-system

A few weeks ago, the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad organised a conference where alumni entrepreneurs were invited to share their experiences with the centre and with students interested in becoming entrepreneurs. Most of us would assume that very few people showed up on either .....

IIT Delhi Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to National Development for 2007-2008

Alumni Award Darlie O Koshy, director, National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, has been selected to receive the IIT Delhi Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to National Development for 2007-2008, The award will be conferred on April 26 at the Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. The award was instituted in .....

USEFI is hosting the U.S. University Alumni Fair at the American Center

United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) is hosting the U.S. University Alumni Fair at the American Center from 12:30-5:30 pm and live digital video conference with Carnegie Mellon University at USEFI at 6 pm on the 22nd of June. Details on venue and programme can be obtained from USEFI .....

Stay away from IITs, alumni tells govt

Stay away from IITs, alumni tells govt The government should stop interfering with the administration of IITs. That is the only way to enhance the quality of IIT-like institutions. Thus feel ex-IIT students who flocked at the PAN-IIT-2006 Global Conference at the Bandra-Kurla Complex on Sunday. They said the government .....

Alumni re-union at Amity Business School

The alumni meet for the Amity Business School was conducted at the Amity Campus, Noida on February 6, 2005. The meet started with a football and basketball match between the ABS alumni and the current batch of students from the business school .....

Recently Visited Pages