Expanding Horizons:
Harnessing Innovation from India

	Live AudioSession featuring Gunjan Bagla [BIO] Managing Director Amritt Ventures, Inc.
	Atul Goel [BIO] Senior Advisor Amritt Ventures, Inc.

"The biggest American companies are now setting up R&D centres in India. They are not coming for cheap labour in sweatshops. They are coming for India’s brains."
—Times of India

R&D executives today are squeezed by conflicting demands to boost productivity while at the same time shortening product lifecycles. In this pressure-cooker environment many companies turn to distributed development that includes emerging economies such as India. To date, much of this activity has been to access non-core services.

In corporate America, the new byword is Open Innovation. Do the rapidly expanding middle-class driven markets and pools of well-educated professional workforces in India provide good reason to change the dynamics of product development? Is it possible to source complete designs or "whole products" from India? What are the opportunities for collaboration with Indian universities and companies? Does an India team help or hinder innovation?

Top India expert and veteran Roundtable presenter Gunjan Bagla is joined by R&D executive Dr. Atul Goel in a pragmatic and far-reaching discussion of the trials, tribulations and rewards of using an India-based development team.

Topics Include:

1. Can an Indian services company be trusted with product design?

2. How can contract research be sent to universities and labs in India in a productive manner?

3. Can Indians really innovate?

4. How do I convince my lead engineer to spend three weeks in Hyderabad or Gurgaon?

5. Managing technical talent at an India facility.

6. Our legal department is concerned about our IP and our CIO is equally protective of the VPN. Yet our India team wants access to the drawing vault.

To find out the answers to these questions and many others, plan on joining this 90 minute audio session on Wednesday, October 1, from 1 – 2:30 pm ET.

Invite your whole team to join you - the fee is the same as long as you are on one line, just put it on speakerphone!

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Gunjan Bagla
Managing Director
Amritt Ventures, Inc.

Gunjan Bagla is Managing Director of Amritt, a company that facilitates global innovation and global research and development. He is also an international program instructor at Caltech, a research university in Pasadena, CA. His articles have appeared in Business Week, Purchasing, CIO, Quality Magazine, and MSU's Global Edge. His acclaimed book Doing Business in 21st Century India was published by Hachette in July 2008. Gunjan has a mechanical engineering degree from the Indian Insitute of Technology Kanpur and an MBA with honors from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Atul Goel
Senior Advisor
Amritt Ventures, Inc.

Dr. Atul Goel has served as a senior director at Hewlett Packard, Agilent and Avago Technologies in R&D, marketing, sales and manufacturing. He was also the founder and President of Colorado Superconductor, Inc. Dr. Goel holds degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Yale University, and currently serves on Yale's AYA. Over the last 25 years Atul Goel has received over 20 patents in the US and abroad.