San Francisco Bay Area IIT Kharagpur Alumni Presents

E-Speak

a talk by Dr. Rajiv Gupta,
General Manager of the E-Speak Operation, Internet Business Unit
at Hewlett Packard

Date:	Saturday, November 18th, 2000, 2pm-5pm
Venue:	The Westin Santa Clara -- "Ballroom E" [Map] 5101 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Phone: 408-986-0700
Cost:	$10.00 per person (CASH only, at the door)
	Questions? Send email to baypicnic@kgpnet.org

[ For those who missed the July 2000 event, We had Dr Sridhar Jaganathan as the speaker]

The Bay Area IIT Kharagpur alumni is proud to present yet another Professional Networking Meeting -- this time featuring a keynote speech on "E-Speak" by Dr. Rajiv Gupta, General Manager of the E-Speak Operation, Internet Business Unit at Hewlett-Packard and "Meet the Leaders and Innovators" platform.

"Meet the Leaders and Innovators" platform is new to this event. A few businesses started or lead by IIT Kgp alumni will be presented, each for a few minutes, with the opportunity for meeting the folks later. The first company featured in this platform is Maple Optical Systems (formerly Maple Networks), co-founded by IIT Kgp alums.

Meet and learn from the people behind these exciting new ideas and companies, build business partnerships, explore high growth career opportunities or simply add to your knowledge. And of course, not to forget the fun of meeting old friends and making new ones. For those who are hearing about this IIT Kharagpur Alumni event for the first time, we have organized two such events this year featuring Arjun Malhotra (TechSpan Inc) and Dr Sridhar Jagannathan (Adatom Inc) as Keynote Speakers.

Agenda:

2:00 - 2:15: Registration and Networking
2:15 - 2:30: Introduction and IIT Foundation Update
2:30 - 2:45: Meet the Leaders and Innovators
2:45 - 3:45: Key Note Speech - "E-Speak" -- Dr. Rajiv Gupta
3:45 - 5:00: Networking

About the speaker:

Dr. Rajiv Gupta is General Manager of the E-Speak Operation at Hewlett-Packard where he is responsible for product-izing HP's e-speak technology - an open platform designed specifically for the development, deployment and intelligent interaction of e-services.

Rajiv has held various positions at HP over the past 10 years ranging from managing Future Systems Dept to Advanced Architectures Group. He has more than 20 patents in processor, algorithm, and systems design.

Rajiv holds a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kharagpur and an MS and Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology.

If you have any questions about this event, please send an e-mail to baypicnic@kgpnet.org .

About Maple Optical Systems :

Maple Optical Systems (formerly Maple Networks), a Silicon Valley start-up, is developing optical networking platforms for Next generation Optical Internet infrastructure. Maple products will enable carriers to create network of networks to deliver value-added services such as VPN services in layer 3, layer 2 or optical layer 1 (Lambda VPNTM) configurations. With its focus on MPLS/MPLambdaS core technology, Maple solutions will enable carriers to provide massive bandwidth at any time anywhere using any protocol, with desired quality of service parameters contracted by its customer - all at the click of a mouse at its network control room.