As part of the ConnectONE initiatives, a summit named “Empowering Incubators – Training The Trainers Initiative”, was held at TiE Auditorium by the The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Santa Clara on Nov 24, 2009.
Some of the most senior members of the entrepreneurship community from the Silicon Valley Bay Area in the USA held seminars and interactive discussions. This was attended by several TBI managers and the ConnectONE directors, who were visiting the USA. Also, using video conferencing, the session was attended live by TBIs from India.
The objective of the conference was to train the trainers (TBI managers) and expose them to Silicon Valley Ecosystem. The TBI managers who were attending represented an Incubator Leadership and Scientific Community with an outreach of over 150 technology startups in India.
Sujit Banerjee (Director, ConnectONE), Kanwal Rekhi (Co-Founder & MD, Inventus Capital Partners), Somnath Chatterjee (Director Global Initiatives, TiE Global), Rafiq Dossani (Director, Center for South Asia, Stanford University), Naren Gupta (Co-Founder, Nexus Venture Partners), Kamal Bijlani (Director, ConnectONE) and many other eminent personalities also participated in the conference.
In India the conference took place from 03:00am to 07:15am (IST) on 25th Nov ’09 and was broadcast to Coimbatore and Amritapuri. The video conferencing system A-VIEW was used to provide the seminars and discussions from Silicon Valley to the TBIs at Coimbatore, TN and Kollam, Kerala. From Coimbatore, Mr. Chandrasekharan of PSG attended the conference. He is the CEO of a Minveli, a start-up firm registered under PSG-STEP. Some members of the Connect ONE team and TBI from Amrita as well as some MBA students of Coimbatore Campus attended the session.
The TiE Auditorium, Santa Clara
Mr.Sujit Banerjee with Heads of various TBIs in India
Kanwal Rekhi, Co-Founder &MD, Inventus Capital Partners and Naren Gupta, Co-Founder, Nexus Venture Partners
Mr.Somnath Chatterjee giving an introductory speech at the Conference
Mr.Sujit Banerjee, Director of ConnectONE giving a speech
TBIs in India partcipating and interacting
Prof.Kamal Bijlani, Director of ConnectONE giving a speech
Session by Panel One
ConnectONE Directors, Mr. Sujit Banerjee and Prof. Kamal Bijlani with Kanwal Rekhi
