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Bill Gates spoke at IIT's 50th anniversary, saying that IIT is equivalent to Harvard, MIT and Princeton combined. He noted that in the past, the US shut out talented immigrants like Einstein when they were most needed. India's pharmaceutical industry is the 4th largest and expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008, with exports over $2 billion. Many large American companies like GE, HP and IBM have thousands of employees in India. Several top tech companies have large R&D centers in India, conducting significant work. Many prominent Indian Americans have founded or led major tech companies. Several Indian astronauts and space scientists have worked for NASA.

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Bill Gates spoke at IIT's 50th anniversary, saying that IIT is equivalent to Harvard, MIT and Princeton combined. He noted that in the past, the US shut out talented immigrants like Einstein when they were most needed. India's pharmaceutical industry is the 4th largest and expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008, with exports over $2 billion. Many large American companies like GE, HP and IBM have thousands of employees in India. Several top tech companies have large R&D centers in India, conducting significant work. Many prominent Indian Americans have founded or led major tech companies. Several Indian astronauts and space scientists have worked for NASA.

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“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

• Its exports are over $2 billion (Claritin D)

• 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: : 17,800 employees


Hewlett-Packard : 11,000 employees
IBM : 6,000 employees
American Express : 4,000 employees
Dell : 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


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
India Development Centre, Bangalore, activities.
Hyderabad.
India Engineering Centre, Established in mid-1999 with 20 people, has scaled up to 500 people today. Does work mainly on Sun's
Bangalore software which includes Solaris and Sun One.

R&D Centre, Established in 1988 with 20 people, has scaled up to 1,000 today. Drives nearly 60 percent of the
Bangalore and Mumbai. company’s global development delivery.

Software Lab, Established in 2001. Works on all IBM software like WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and Rational. The
Bangalore, Pune. 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.
Labs India, Bangalore.
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
Innovation Campus, Bangalore. 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.
Bangalore.
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
Sushmita Sen
Aishwarya Rai Miss Universe (1994)
Miss World (1994)
Miss World

Diana Hayden Yukta Mookhey Priyanka Chopra


(1997) (1999) (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

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