“IIT = Harvard + MIT + Princeton” says
• IIT is an incredible institution - Bill Gates the keynote speech at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the founding of IIT at the Flint Center, Cupertino, CA • US was shutting the door on the best and the brightest at a time when the country needed it the most • "Scientists like Albert Einstein were born abroad but did great work here because we welcomed them"
India: Pharmaceuticals •
4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, and is expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008
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Its exports are over $2 billion (Claritin D)
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There are 170 biotechnology companies in India, involved in the development and manufacture of genomic drugs, whose business is growing exponentially
India: Foreign Multi-National Companies Top 5 American employers in India: General Electric: Hewlett-Packard IBM American Express Dell
: 17,800 employees : 11,000 employees : 6,000 employees : 4,000 employees : 3,800 employees
India: R&D Labs R&D Centre
Highlights Established in 1984. The centre started with just 20 people, now has 900 people working on VLSI and embedded software, which goes along with a chip or into the chip.
R&D Centre, Bangalore
India Development Centre, Bangalore, Hyderabad.
The Bangalore centre was established in 1994; the Hyderabad one in 1999. Oracle’s largest development centre outside the US currently has 6,000 staff. Does work on Oracle's database products, applications, business intelligence products and application development tools, besides other activities.
India Engineering Centre, Bangalore
Established in mid-1999 with 20 people, has scaled up to 500 people today. Does work mainly on Sun's software which includes Solaris and Sun One.
R&D Centre, Bangalore and Mumbai.
Established in 1988 with 20 people, has scaled up to 1,000 today. Drives nearly 60 percent of the company’s global development delivery.
Software Lab, Bangalore, Pune.
Labs India, Bangalore.
Innovation Campus, Bangalore.
Bangalore.
Established in 2001. Works on all IBM software like WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and Rational. The centre has added many new areas of activities such as middleware and business intelligence.
Established in November 1998 with 100 people, the Lab swill be scaled up to 1500 by the end of 2004. That will double 3000 staff by middle of 2006. It is the largest single-location R&D lab for SAP outside Walldorf, Germany. Nearly 10 percent of SAP's total R&D work is carried out from the Indian lab. Established in 1996 with 10 people, has scaled up to 895 people today, and will be further scaled up to 1,000 before the end of 2003. Works on developing software for Philips products. Almost all Philips products that use software have some contribution from this centre. It is the largest software centre for Philips outside Holland. Established in 2002 with just two people, has scaled up to 20 specialists today. Plans exist to double its headcount by the beginning of 2004. Is totally dedicated to high-level research on futuristic technologies, with special focus on emerging markets.
Booming India expects 9.2% growth - BBC
Bombay-Stock-Exchange = NASDAQ
Dinesh Keskar Vice President of Sales Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Nagpur as "Site of Regional Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Facility in India"
Kalpana Chawla NASA • An Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist • She was one of seven crewmembers lost aboard Space Shuttle Columbia disaster • A recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams NASA • Second woman of Indian heritage to have been selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla • She holds the records for number of space walks and total time spent on spacewalks by a woman
Indra K. Nooyi Chief Executive Officer
• The American By Choice award • recognizes outstanding achievements of naturalized US citizens
List of Indian Americans • Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail • Amar Bose, physicist and founder of Bose Corporation • Vinod Dham, former microprocessor boss for Intel and creator of the Pentium processor • Rajiv Gupta, a General Manager of Hewlett Packard • Vinod Khosla, general partner, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; co-founder, Sun Microsystems • Ajit Jain, head of National Indemnity, possible successor to Warren Buffett
List of Indian Americans • Rono Dutta, former President, United Airlines • Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo • Suhas Patil, founder, Cirrus Logic • Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone Inc. Headed the Vodafone takeover of Hutch-Esser Communications Inc. • Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO and Chairman, US Airways Group • Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
List of Indian Americans • Sanjay Jejurikar, a Director of Windows division, Microsoft • Rana Talwar, banker, former Group CEO of Standard Chartered Bank • Padmasree Warrior, named one of the four "Women to Watch 2006" by FORTUNE Magazine, Executive Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer of Motorola • Victor Menezes, Chairman of the Clearing House Association, earlier been Chairman and CEO of Citibank and headed Citigroup’s Emerging Markets
List of Indian Americans • 20 Indians bag MIT innovators’ award • Kamala Harris, an Indian-American wins US DA elections became the first Indian origin woman prosecutor in US • US President George W Bush has conferred the science and technology national medal to Indian American Gandhi is responsible for the "platinum-free automotive catalyst" used in Ford cars • Over the years, it notes, Gandhi has been awarded more than 30 patents and has won five Henry Ford technological awards
Aishwarya Rai Miss World (1994)
Sushmita Sen Miss Universe (1994)
Miss World
Diana Hayden (1997)
Yukta Mookhey (1999)
Priyanka Chopra (2000)
Rolex award for rural women's craft enterprise
Chanda Shroff
“Women Together Award” May 15, 2007 UNO
for efforts to assist women in self-empowerment
Vasundhara Raje Chief Minister Rajasthan State