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Part 3: Making the most of your time @TiEcon 2014 in Silicon Valley - Bare Necessities

Here’s another one we put together to keep handy for our trip to TiEcon, and it might be helpful for out-of-towners.

Eateries: Like going to London, what’s a visit to Silicon Valley without experiencing eateries serving Indian food based on local recommendations?  Here are a few that might make for good eating places while you break the naan with participants, after the event is over.

Thali Vegetarian

3064 EL CAMINO REAL SANTA CLARA, CA 95035

Mon- Fri Lunch 11:30AM-2:30PM

Mon-Fri Dinner 5:30PM - 9:30PM

Sat-Sun Lunch 11:30AM-3:00PM

Sat-Sun Dinner 6:00PM-10:00PM

Phone [phone]

Dosai Place

2665 El Camino Real, Santa Clara , CA 95051 . Ph : (408) 243 DOSA

Milan Sweet Center, Milpitas

296 S. Abel St, Milpitas, CA.  Phone: [phone]

In case you exhaust yourselves, we found this with a google search but do not know anyone who has used the place:

Health Clinic: Santa Clara Urgent Care

Tours: If you go to York, Pennsylvania you can simply sign up for factory tours.  After TiEcon, for a selfie tour, here are a couple of maps of the tech scene we found online:

Silicon Valley Technology Companies on google maps

A Visitors’ Map to Silicon Valley - Geekman Style

Silicon Valley Interactive Map from SIliconMaps

14 sights you must see in Silicon Valley, from Business Insider

and of course, we want to see how we can get Bucks to open a branch in Tampa, Florida, close to the Bucs:

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Part 1: Making the most of your time @TiEcon 2014 in Silicon Valley

This is the first in a series of posts to help us (and our readers) make the most of the trip to TiEcon 2014 in Silicon Valley.  Based on lessons learned in preparing for the FICCI-IIFA Business Conference that was supported by TiE Tampa Bay (Lesson: It is hard to research every speaker, especially when Bollywood clouds one’s mind, and easier to use twitter instead), 

[Seen in the picture above, among others, Bollywood actor Anupam Kher flanked by Director Ramesh Sippy and Sharad Devarajan of LiquidComics]

and after talking to friends in Silicon Valley whose persuasive powers resulted in this upcoming trip from Tampa Bay Area to The Bay Area, here’s a series of blog posts that we hope you will find useful.

We hope you find this (publicly shared) twitter list of @TiEcon 2014 speakers, panelists and moderators useful.  Here’s the URL again if the one above does not render correctly for you: https://twitter.com/SiliconGlades/tiecon-2014-siliconvalley/members.

We hope (nay, plead) that this shouldn't result in a completely heads-down experience, and bear no responsibility for such behavior by fellow participants, even if the twitter list is the cause.

[Image used with permission from the publishers of the book ‘Almost Everything about Virtual Events’].

We hope you will pause to make eye-contact with us and others when you are at TiEcon 2014!  Stay tuned for more on how to make the most of your trip to @TiEcon 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, May 2014.  Follow us: www.twitter.com/siliconglades.

P.S.: Special thanks to Sean Murphy of Bootstrappers Breakfast for inspiring this dedicated series of articles!

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Part 4: Preparing for IIFA Global Business Forum of April 24-25, Tampa Bay: Researching The Speakers - Raj Biyani, Managing Director, Microsoft-IT India

In this fourth installment of our series sharing our web-based research of some of the world-renowned leaders who impact global businesses that are going to be speaking in Tampa Bay as part of the IIFA events, we feature links about Mr. Raj Biyani of Microsoft India.

Mr. Raj Biyani, is described in the official bio from Microsoft as "the head of India operations for Microsoft IT and the CIO/Product Group Strategic Initiatives organization. Microsoft IT-India is Microsoft's largest IT operation outside of corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington - an eight year old organization with talented IT professionals who consider it a great place to build their career dreams and aspirations."

Click here for viewing Mr. Biyani's LinkedIn profile.

The videos we found are given below (one of them has a bit of Hindi but the content is understandable because he switches languages in mid-sentence)

The same content, in English alone:

If you missed previous parts of this series, please see part 3 here.

There’s more about the speaker line-up at the event’s website http://www.usf.edu/business/iifa/.  TiE Tampa Bay, which is supporting USF Business in this event is offering limited edition tickets to its members

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Part 3: Preparing for IIFA Global Business Forum of April 24-25, Tampa Bay: Researching The Speakers - Nikhil Arora, VP, Managing Director, India for Intuit

Here's the third piece in our series sharing our web-based research of some of the world-renowned leaders who impact global businesses that are going to be speaking in Tampa Bay as part of the IIFA events.

This installment features links on the web about Mr. Nikhil Arora, VP and Managing Director - India, for Intuit.

From Intuit's official bio: "Nikhil Arora is responsible for charting Intuit’s strategy in India"

Further in his bio: "A MBA graduate from Thunderbird, the Global School of International Management in Arizona, Nikhil also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting and Finance from Hofstra University, New York and a Diploma in Russian language. Nikhil is based out of New Delhi"

Mr. Arora's picture embedded from his corporate bio.

Here's Mr. Nikhil Arora's LinkedIn profile 

Here's a short video of Mr.Arora speaking at Super Angels 2012:

And if you are hungry for more, here is a lengthy and insightful interview with Mr. Nikhil Arora posted on Inc42

And another feature on Mr. Nikhil Arora on MyStory.com.

Stay tuned for more blurbs on speakers from the speaker-lineup for the IIFA Global Business Forum.  If you missed the 2nd in this series, this is the link.

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Part 2: Preparing for IIFA Global Business Forum of April 24-25, Tampa Bay: Researching The Speakers - Manpreet Anand, Sr. Advisor, USAID

The second in our series sharing our web-based research of prominent  leaders who impact world business that are going to be speaking in Tampa Bay as part of the IIFA events.

Today we provide some links about Manpreet Anand, Senior Advisor, USAID.  He currently serves as a Senior Advisor in the Asia Bureau of USAID.

According to the USAID.gov website: "USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential."

Mr. Manpreet Anand's LinkedIn profile shows that since the past 2 months, he is the Deputy Assistant Administrator (Acting), based in Washington D.C.

Picture embedded from Mr. Manpreet Anand's LinkedIn bio.

You can see Mr. Manpreet Anand talking about USAID's mission in Myanmar at a conference in a video (move the slider to 18 minutes into the video, or select from the list of speakers right below the video screen).

You may follow USAID on twitter at https://twitter.com/usaid. 

Please stay tuned for similar links to quick insights into the other speakers that we will be able to hear at the Global Business Forum.  Here's a link to part 1 of this series, in case you missed it.

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Part 1: Preparing for IIFA Global Business Forum of April 24-25, Tampa Bay: Researching The Speakers - Mukesh Aghi, Chief Executive, L&T Infotech Limited

We've been researching the speaker line-up of the upcoming IIFA Global Business Forum of April 24-25, 2014 to be held at Tampa Convention Center, and thought our readers will benefit from our findings and need not duplicate the effort.  Here are a few links and extracts with attribution where possible, for your reading or viewing pleasure and knowledge.

Here's an extract from the official bio of Dr. Mukesh Aghi from L&T Infotech

"L&T Infotech: Member of the Board & Chief Executive, Services Cluster

As Chief Executive of L&T Infotech’s Services Cluster, Dr. Mukesh Aghi is responsible for the following business areas: Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Travel & Logistics, Media & Entertainment, Testing, Mobility, Infrastructure Management System and Analytics & Information Management."

Corporate website of L&T Infotech

The following is from http://survey.nasscom.in/mukesh-aghi-member-board-ceo-larsen-toubro-infotech-ltd

Picture of Dr. Mukesh Aghi (source: lntinfotech official bio)

Mukesh Aghi leads Larsen & Toubro Infotech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the USD 13.5 billion Larsen & Toubro Group which has a presence in the construction, engineering, manufacturing and financial services markets.

Dr. Mukesh Aghi has over 25 years of experience across diverse industries and geographies. Dr. Aghi has a proven track record of leading various international business organizations. Earlier he was Chairman and CEO of Steria Asia Pacific and Global Executive Sales Director. In his previous role he was founding CEO of Universitas 21 Global a venture of Thomson Corporation. He spent many years with IBM, operating in multiple geographies including India as its President. He was heading Ariba Inc. international operations from California and was instrumental in growing and building JD Edwards & Co. globally. Dr. Aghi received his BA from Middle East College, Beirut, Lebanon. MBA from St. Andrews University and Ph.D. in International Relations from Claremont University in California. Dr. Aghi has competed in over 20 global marathons.

Dr. Mukesh Aghi on LinkedIn

This is from when he was with Steria:

This is Dr. Mukesh Aghi with Joint CEO Vivek Chopra

We gathered from the LiveMint interview above, that L&T Infotech are about $1Billion in revenue, aiming to grow to $3Bn in the next 3 to 5 years, but we are not sure how recent this information is.

Stay tuned for our web findings about more speakers.  There's more about the speaker line-up at the event's website http://www.usf.edu/business/iifa/.  TiE Tampa Bay, which is supporting USF Business in this event is offering limited edition tickets to its members.