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 TEL: 212-271-9691 FAX: 212-271-9855 EMAIL: sievents@siliconindia.com URL: http://siliconindia.com/events/CONFREG.HTML MAIL: Attn: Events siliconindia, Inc. 50 Broad Street, Suite 430 New York, NY 10004