CAP-IIT Alumni Association for Greater Washington DC Area

President – San Sengupta

The goals of CAP-IIT, a 501c3 organization, are:

Create Capital IIT Portal to offer multiple touches with the Alumni and use it as the platform to create two-way communication with all alumni.
Plan and execute monthly events around local and domestic issues to socialize as well as initiate professional networking.
Execute a wide range events or campaigns to cater to a diverse Alumni base.
Maintain regular connections with influential entities in the area to advance the Capital IIT charter.
Help create Lecture Series around powerful speakers and topics to bring in sponsors and close funding issues.

Planned Event Types for 2007:

Are you thinking of Retirement? Now what?
Wealth Management, are you in a steady state?
How to select the right college for your High School graduate
Entrepreneurship 101
The steps in selecting the right Franchise
A Second Career - how to embark on economic self-sufficiency
How to start a business to achieve Mid-life Goals
How to network and whom to network with

Lecture Series

WEALTH (Water, Energy, Agriculture, Lifestyle, Training, Health)
Innovation - How the 21st century will pick winners
USA - “The Gateway to India?”
India - “The gateway to Asia?”

Good local programming is an excellent way to promote participation and best way to spread the word about chapter activities. CAP-IIT organized a “show-and-tell” series starting with a company called Archtech that has developed technologies for water purification and disposal of ammunition etc. Their technology is most relevant for India as it is here and we had a great turnout, many of whom had not attended prior events! They heard about the program from friends and expressed interest in continued involvement. Another idea is to have a “Meet-a-Distinguished-Alumnus” series, for example in Nov 2006, with Arjun Malhotra, Founder of HCL, and prior to that one with Ramani Iyer, Chairman of the Hartford. Those programs attracted 50 to 100 people! Such programming takes the meetings beyond social networking to mentoring and entrepreneurship. Planned events for 2007 include:

How other chapters can leverage Capital IIT for PR or Advocacy:

Capital IIT has a powerful connection with US Government (Congress and White House)
We are a partner with USIBC and other Indo-US Collaboration group
We have a good working relationship with CII and other organizations promoting “Branding India”
We were deeply involved in the “Outreach” program during the IIT2005 conference.

Santanu ‘San’ Sengupta

Graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1969.

San (Santanu) Sengupta – Working for Microsoft Corporation as the East Regional Marketing Manager. Prior to this worked at IBM for 20+ years in various leadership positions in Marketing, Business Development, Operations and Program Management. Spent about 6 years in Japan to manage the growth of the Asia Pacific Group of IBM.

One of the key members of planning, management and execution of IIT2005 conference in Washington DC.

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