Subject: Silicon India Newsletter - Aug 1999

http://www.siliconindia.com/events

Dear Dr. Ramachandra, T.V.,

Continuing the tremendous sell-out success of siliconindia's events,
we are proud to present the siliconindia Technology & Entrepreneurship
Conference and Leadership Awards 1999 - the most powerful gathering ever
of leading technology professionals, entrepreneurs, senior executives,
venture capitalists and visionaries of Asian Indian origin.
        This conference will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center
in Santa Clara, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, October 2 & 3,
1999. These two action-packed days will present top speakers, panelists
& moderators who will provide in-depth insights on venture capital,
semiconductors, telecommunications, software, investment banking,
networking, and the Internet.
At a banquet ceremony on the evening of October 2, ten dynamic
individuals will be presented with the first-ever annual siliconindia
Leadership Awards for excellence and promise in business and technology.
The 1999 awardees, who will be present to receive the awards personally,
are:

Vinod Khosla, co-founder, Sun Microsystems & General Partner, Kleiner
Perkins Caufield Byers
Piyush Patel, Chairman & CEO, Cabletron Systems
Anshoo S. Gupta, President, Production Systems, Xerox
Jayshree Ullal, VP, Workgroup Business, Cisco
Naveen Jain, Chairman & CEO, InfoSpace.com
Pavan Nigam, SVP & CTO, Healtheon
N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman & CEO, Infosys Technologies
Raj Jain, Professor, Ohio State University
Suresh Nihalani, Chairman & CEO, Accelerated Networks
Jai Rawat, CEO & CTO, Chabi.com

Other executives who will speak at the conference include: John Dean,
CEO, Silicon Valley Bank; Sam Pitroda, Chairman & CEO, WorldTel; Tim
Draper, Founder & Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Romesh
Wadhwani, founder & CEO, Aspect Development; Chris Rust, Partner,
Sequoia Capital; B V Jagadeesh, founder & CTO, Exodus Communications;
Bill Reichert, President, Garage.com; Ajit Pendse, Founder & CEO,
Efusion; Vani Kola, CEO, Rightworks; Arjun Gupta, Founder & CEO,
TeleSoft Partners.

This one-of-a-kind, high-powered event presents tremendous opportunity
for networking with industry leaders, executives, investors, and
friends. SPACE IS LIMITED, AND IT IS SELLING OUT FAST! Visit our Web
site (http://www.siliconindia.com/events/CONFREG.HTML) to register now
and take advantage of the special discounted ticket prices that will end
September 7.

For a detailed agenda, speaker bios, travel and hotel information, visit
www.siliconindia.com/events.

We hope to you see you there!

Melissa Hutcheson
Conference Manager
212.271.9691 Ext. 16
melissa@siliconindia.com
http://www.siliconindia.com/events

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