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per Networks, built on it and The next keynote session high-profile clients, Saraf’s talk nential technologies and life
shared from her own experi- Career Management in a Dis- on career management was sciences.
ence of building and launching rupted Economy was delivered about strategies available to Dr Neeraj Bindal, son of
products over two decades at by Dilip Saraf who is an IIT all of us to better manage our ASEI Founder the Late Dr.
Netflix, Cisco, YouTube, Goo- Alumnus and has reinvented career and to develop resilient Hari Bindal gave a moving trib-
gle and Juniper Networks cov- himself 5 times to be a Career options for us to deal with this ute to his father as he presented
ering why UXD is critical to and Life Coach besides being uncertainty and to stay in con- the Founder’s award to Vatsala.
a product’s success and high- an Author and speaker. Dilip trol of our own destinies. The convention was put
lighted design systems using ex- very succinctly brought out the The next session was an in- together by ASEI President
amples of AIML products she problem and solution pertinent spiring fireside chat conducted Jwalant Lakhia along with
has helped launch. to those facing career challeng- by Piyush Malik, SVP Spring- Convention Co-chairs Rakesh
It was a tight race to pick es during this Covid-19 pan- ML, with Naveen Jain, CEO Patel and Bhavesh Joshi. The
winners based on combining demic which has jolted us into Viome & Founder/Chairman - Program chair was ASEI Mich-
scores from responses to judg- action with a career wake-up Moon Express on Exponential igan Chapter President Vatsala
es’ questions, audience poll call with uncertainty about how Technologies for Humanity’s Upadhyay. ASEI Silicon Valley
and quality and depth of engi- future jobs will emerge. Using Grand Challenges. The session Chapter President Piyush Ma-
neering and research in their examples from his own career saw both engaged in a high lik served as Convention Con-
submissions from prior rounds. shifts as well as couple of his energy conversation on expo- tent Chair.
Finally, the top 3 winners de-
clared were: (1) Nidhi Mathih-
ali (2) Jyoti Rani and (3) Isha aND tHe aWarDees are…
Jagadish. • ASEI Lifetime Achievement: Naveen Jain
The second day started with
ASEI President Jwalant Lakhia • ASEI Entrepreneur of The Year: Jyoti Bansal
welcoming the audience back • ASEI Engineer of The Year (Mech/Solar): Dr Yogi goswami
and laying out the plan for the
day. At the outset it became • ASEI Engineer pf The Year (Ind. Ops. & Prod. Management): Deval Desai
pretty clear to the audience • ASEI Service Excellence Award: rakesh Patel
that they would hear some
high-powered content led by • Hari Bindal ASEI Founders Award: vatsala upadhyay
industry leaders lined up for • Leadership and Contribution to ASEI: rakesh guliani and sunita Dublish
the day.

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