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NEW DELHI, NOV. 9. Together, they happen to be the country's unofficial brand ambassadors of innovation. And this Christmas-eve, the brainy family members of the Indian Institute of Technology are hoping to share a few points on how to make India more empowered. An attempt to highlight the role played by IIT graduates in building up the country as well as a platform for discussing technology as a growth engine for global competitiveness, a two-day conference and exhibition is being organised by the global IIT alumni board -- PanIIT -- here on December 24 and 25. At a conference held here today to release the logo for the event and to announce its details, IIT alumni such as senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Pradeep Baijal, NIIT CEO, Vijay Thadani, and the group chairman of Eicher, Subodh Bhargava, shared their experiences of being an IITian. While pointing out that the IIT had always stood for values, the speakers added that it was the way students created and delivered that made the difference. "I think those who went to the classroom did not learn as much as those who spent more time outside it... While in the classroom they taught us technology, outside it we learnt management. Which is probably why we liked to spend more time outside the class,'' Vijay Thadani said jokingly. For J.K. Chandra, who was part of the IIT's first batch and the first person to receive a degree from the prestigious institute from the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the fact that the IITs have done so well is not surprising. "Even then I knew that I had joined a great place. Although we did not even have the joint entrance examination, the selection was such that only the top students made it to the institute. The faculty was top class even then and one had to work consistently to do well here,'' he said. Founded under the chairmanship of Infosys Chairman Narayan Murthy, PanIIT is an umbrella organisation designed to evolve a brand that could provide a strong fraternity among the IIT alumni. The two-day event at Pragati Maidan here is expected to witness the presence of nearly 5,000 IITians from around the world. While the conference will have five sessions on various issues such as global competitiveness, the focus on Day Two will be on the more basic issues of "bijli, sadak and paani'', with the cultural events pepping up the evening.
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