MNNIT Alumni Sangam

Mentorship Program Gaining Traction

Mentoring program, which was launched a couple of years ago, has gained lot of traction in last six months. Gaurav Kumar (CS 2000) is administering the program and is matching students or alumni with a mentor from available pool of mentors. The mentors are providing guidance in next career move, application to graduate program, or just effective communication. The students and alumni interested in receiving guidance should send email to mentoring@mnnit.org. Learn more about mentorship program by clicking here.

Spring Get-Together
Northern California Chapter

Basant Bahaar 04 was the most successful event we had in the history of our association We had a record participation of 175 by alums (including families and kids). We saw a lot of old faces and a whole lot of new ones. Whole alumni community of bay area came together to make this event the most exciting one. Cultural program by Arindam Chakraborty, MC by Nidhi Mathur and Debu Roy, Games by Sandip Gupta and the registration team of Rahul Gaur and younger alums made it a great success. The evening was like a homecoming for most of the alums. Everybody enjoyed the cultural program, mouth watering food and drinks, and the music and dance that continued until midnight.

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Golden Anniversary - Alumni Meet

MNNIT is celebrating it's golden anniversary this year. As part of the celebrations, an alumni event is being organized on Saturday, March 20, at the India Community Center in Silicon Valley, California. All the alumni and their family are invited to join the festivities.

Please click here to register for the event.

Event Agenda

The Director of the Institute (Prof. Arun Baran Samaddar) and Dean of Alumni Relations (Prof. Satish Chandra) will attend the event.

BV Jagadeesh - CEO - 3 Leaf Technologies, CEO NetScaler (Now Citrix), and Founder Exodus communication will be the keynote speaker for the event.

11:00 am - Check-In, followed by Lunch

1:00 pm - Key note - BV Jagadeesh (Founder/CEO - Netscaler) on entrepreneurship and education

2:00 pm - Speech by Director - Prof. Arun Baran Samaddar

2:30 pm - Speech by Head of Alumni Affairs - Prof. Satish Chand

3:00 pm - Panel discussion on Starting and Growing a company

4:30 pm - Tea/Coffee break

5:00 pm - Stories from Alumni - from then to now

6:00 pm - Bar & Networking (families to join)

8:00 pm - Dinner (families to join)

9:00-11:00 pm - Entertainment

Visit the Facebook page for this event for more information.

Felicitation of silver jubilee batch (1983) at MNNIT ALLAHABAD on 8 November 2008

21 June 2008 Summer Individual Get Together for NCR Region

Summer Individual get together was organized at New Party Room, Civil Services Officers Institute, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi. The event was a great success with 80 plus alumni going nostalgic over drinks and dinner..

2008 Alumni meet in Bangalore

The next annual get-together of the assoication's Bangalore chapter is scheduled for January 19th, 2008 (6PM onwards) at The Chancery in Bangalore. Please contact the organizers by email (bangalore at mnnit.org) for further details of this event.

Culrav '08 Cultural Festival at MNNIT, Allahabad

Network General to Acquire Alumni Founded Company, Fidelia
Network General announced on February 6, 2006 in a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Fidelia Technology, Inc. of Princeton, N.J. With this acquisition, Network General, the undisputed leader in packet flow based application and network performance management will expand its product portfolio to cover the entire realm of enterprise application performance management. Fidelia's flagship product, NetVigil, is a comprehensive business service monitoring application. It combines fault and performance monitoring capabilities, allowing IT managers to truly integrate their businesses with the IT infrastructure on which they depend.

Fidelia was founded in December 2000 by a MNNIT alumnus, Vikas Agrawal. He raised about $4 millions in venture funds for Fidelia. The company doubled its revenue and customer base for several consecutive years under the leadership of Vikas. The company had 70 customers at the time of this acquisition. Customers benefiting from NetVigil's business containers include: Sony Online Entertainment, Verizon Wireless, Spirit Airlines and Yale University.

Before starting Fidelia, Vikas was VP of Engineering at Verio Internet, where he was responsible for the consolidation of all Internet systems & services for the 40 ISP acquisitions prior to a successful acquisition of Verio by NTT Japan for $6B. Vikas was also the GM (Asia) for GES/JvNCnet (one of the first NSFnet ISPs during the ARPAnet transition), which was later acquired by Verio.

Please visit following links for additional information about the acquisition:

Fidelia Press Release

Alumni Association Incorporated
"MNNIT Alumni Sangam" was registered with the county of Santa Clara last year. Now, the association has also been incorporated in the state of California. With the completion of this milestone, we will now be looking into registering our alumni association as a tax-exempt non-profit charity organization. It will provide many benefits to the association and its members.

New Chapter(s)
Sudhakar K (CS '92) initiated an alumni chapter in Bangalore. The chapter had their first meet in June 2005 and was attended by about 30 alumni. The event was a great success and the photographs of the event can be found here.
The next get-together is scheduled for May 20th, 2006 at The Chancery in Bangalore.

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