Events
April 2002



Building a career with improved Soft skills

SIPA April 2002 Event
Co-sponsored by NetIP
Announcement | Speakers | Agenda | Location | Speaker Bio's
Announcement
    As someone once said, no man is an island and this is truer now than ever before. In todays complex world, the ability to interact and work well with others, the capacity to clearly communicate ideas, the skill to sell an idea or concept and the talent to negotiate a desired outcome are all as important as pure technical ability. These factors are critical when dealing up, down and sideways in a organizations involved with complex technologies or bodies of knowledge, where one person can not possibly know or do everything. Being a successful leader, manager or entrepreneur is predicated on a competency in these areas.

    It is thus no surprise that companies are placing a high emphasis on the so called soft skills when looking for prospective employees. With the prevalence of standardized technical education and enabling technologies like the Internet, technical competency is a given. The differentiator thus becomes the personality traits or soft skills.

    This discussion will spell out some of these new-millennium skills that are vital for finding a new job, retaining an existing job and enhancing a career or business venture. Suggestions, drawn for real-life experiences by the speaker, will be offered on how to improve these skills.


Speakers

Agenda

  • Date: Saturday, April 27, 2002
  • Time: 3.00 PM to 6.30 P.M
Registration and Networking 3.00 - 4.00
SIPA Introduction 4.00 - 4.10
Speaker Presentation 4.10 - 5.15
Q&A 5.15 - 6.00

Location HP, Oak Room Auditorium, 19447, Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA.

  • Limited Seats
  • Snacks included
  • Free for SIPA and NetIP members
  • Non Member Price: $10
  • Become a SIPA member by paying additional $10 on non member prices.

Kailash Joshi
President, TiE Silicon Valley

Kailash is the President of TiE Silicon Valley and a co-founder of TiE. He started his career on the Cornell University faculty and had an accomplished career at IBM that spanned 23 years. He was the General Manager of IBM Lexington, Ky (now Lexmark, NYSE: LXK). He was also responsible for IBM's reentry in to India in 1991, with the formation of TISL.
After taking early retirement from IBM, Kailash moved to Silicon Valley in 1992, where he has been engaged with small technology companies in different capacities. In 1996, he co-founded Rainbow Displays, Inc., a private New York company with subsequent Philips collaboration, and served as its CEO until 1999. Kailash currently devotes his time to TiE, mentoring of young entrepreneurs, and investing. He is also a trustee and former Chief Executive of American India Foundation (AIF).
Kailash holds a B.E. degree with distinction from Indian institute of Science, Bangalore, a M.S. degree from Washington State University, and a Ph. D. degree from Cornell university. He has served or continues to serve on the Boards of over 15 businesses, educational, civic, and charitable institutions.

Jay Doraiswami
TMP Worldwide

Jay is currently a Senior Vice President at TMP Worldwide, a $2B organization and the parent of Monster.com. TMP Worldwides stock (TMPW) is listed as a part of the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 (QQQ). Jay has held multiple roles at TMP and his current responsibilities include IT Strategy and global resourcing.
Prior to joining TMP, Jay was founder and CEO of Indam, an IT services company that specialized in CRM and eBusiness implementations. Indam was acquired by TMP in May 2000 and is now a part of the TMP organization. Before founding Indam, Jay was the Director of Sales at Consilium (now part of Applied Materials). While at Consilium, he had a very successful sales career, consistently being the #1 in worldwide sales for many years. His career also includes software engineering, project management and marketing.
Jay is a strong believer in the importance of being well rounded. He has demonstrated that soft skills are as important as technical skills in both career advancement and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Prasad Kaipa
SelfCorp

Prasad Kaipa is the founder and CEO of SelfCorp. At SelfCorp, Prasad is developing approaches and tools that allows executives to map the genetic code of organizations so that they can re-wire their organizations for superior performance. These tools can also be used for mapping future scenarios, assess success factors in mergers and acquisitions as well as for developing personal strategies. Cisco and HP have worked recently with Prasad in developing knowledge business models for creating a new business and in coming up with unique, brandable product design that is consistent with their culture.

Prasad has a doctorate in Physics and helped build an international radiation research laboratory in the University of Utah with Dr. Ed Haskell. Prasad also worked as an educator/researcher (Saybrook Institute, as an international product marketing manager and a technology advisor at Apple and received several awards for his contributions. Prasad is currently on the board of directors/advisors for Aankhen inc., Intertec Communications, Spirit of India.com, Partnerships for Change, Athena Interactive, Communities for the Future, DannemillerTyson Associates, Chinmaya Institute of Higher Learning and Gatherings for Ecoculture.