Prof. Krishna Vedula and Dr. Kiran Karnik, President of NASSCOM, were the speakers for the CEO forum. Prof. Vedula discussed about challenges in engineering education and about collaboration between Indian and US institutions. Dr. Karnik addressed the challenges faced by SMEs.

We successfully concluded the fourth Leadership workshop series, held at Deccan Park of Tata Consultancy Services. All the attendees appreciated the opportunity given to them to learn many best practices including issues related to global leadership and the team based projects assigned to them, two new features added this time. We will be launching the next program in June.

We are in the process of finalizing the action plans based on the SME Survey.

We had a tête-à-tête with our new IT&C Secretary Mr.S K Joshi, IAS. One of the action items for us is to give feedback on trade shows so that all the stake holders get value for the money. Please do send us your inputs at the earliest.

I look forward to more active participation in the forums and in all HYSEA activities. Please send your inputs, suggestions, feedback, and constructive criticism to make HYSEA a dynamic and vibrant organization.

Yours,

Dr. Anil K. Jampala
President