Indo American Community Services

The Indo-American Community Services (IACS) hosted the Annual Executive Leadership Conference this year on May 16th-17th at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago. Many Diverse Corporate high-profile Executives attended and spoke at the Conference.  We want to thank all our speakers for each of the topics below. The Topics/sessions included the following. 1. Shaping the Future - CEO perspective Left to right:  Shyam Kambeyanda, President and CEO of ESAB Corporation    Soma Somasundaram President & CEO of ChampionX 2. Digital - Gen AI and Future of work, Security & Fraud prevention   Left to right:   Moderator: Anou Manavalan, VP of Software Engineering, Broadridge Financial Solutions Speakers: Rahul Naroola, Chief Information Security Officer, Dover Corporation Srinivas Ramadath, Partner, McKinsey Emily McReynolds, Head of Global AI Strategy, Digital Strategy Group, Adobe Ramesh Haldorai, VP of Strategic Consulting, Dassault Systemes 3. Energy Transition - Challenges & Opportunities From left to Right Moderator: Kumar Ramurthy, CTO, Bayswater Exploration & Production Speakers: Selma Kivran, President, Reworld Waste Bappa Banerjee, COO, Hyzon Neena Hemmady - VP of Support Services, ComEd Ron Gusek, President, Liberty Energy 4. Economic Ambiguity and Adaptation From Left to Right: Moderator: Kanlaya Barr, Director of Corporate Economics, John Deere Speakers: Ryan Flanagan, SVP & CFO, USG Corporation Steve Betts, EVP & Head of Fidelity Health at Fidelity Investments Bill Geary, EVP & GM, Wesco 5. People - Talent for Future, Talent Development, Workplace Leadership From left to Right: Moderator: Anuradha Hebbar, Managing Principal, Momentum Advisory LLC Speakers: Jill Wrobel, EVP & CHRO, Brunswick Corporation Valerie McGuire, Group Human Resources Director Automotive, ITW Karl Alleman, Partner, Egon Zehnder Thank you to our Sponsors & Partners: ITW, USG, Dover Corporation, Nordson Corporation, ChampionX, Liberty Energy, McKinsey & Company, Exelon, Egon Zehnder, Brunswick Corporation, Reworld Waste, Hyzon, Wesco, ESAB #Executive Leadership, #Indo American Community Services

Indo-American Community Services Hosted a very successful Entrepreneurs Conference this weekend. Congratulations to this year's startup finalists, They have done a wonderful presentation and we look forward to their success and will be supporting them. 1. PhoenixAI: https://phoenixai.tech/ : Rajesh Rasalkar, Vignesh Manohar, Raj Sengupta - Co-Founders 2. IndieTech: https://www.indietech.ai/ : Sophia G. Contreras Stone, Co-Founder & CEO 3. LithionPower: https://lithionpower.com/ : Chandrashekhar Bhide🔵, Co-Founder 4. ConeLabs: https://www.conelabs.ai/ : Albert Mansour P.Eng., MBA, PMP Mansour, Co-Founder & CEO 5. BarnOwl: https://barnowlag.com/ : Sarah Hinkley, Co-Founder & CEO 6. AssertAI: https://www.assertai.com/ : Shalabh Shalabh, Co-Founder & Head of North America 7. Wellin5: https://wellin5.ca/ : William Masih, Founder & CEO These 7 startup winners presented their pitches to our esteemed panelists. Hem Suri, James Holland, Katherine Bahamonde Monasebian, Manash Bhattacharjee The startups are in the areas of Health Tech, Agri Tech, AI-based warehouse/industrial applications. Smart EV components,  AI-based Structural Inspection, Drone Technology, and other emerging fields. The selected startups are from the US, India, and Canada. Big thank you to the host Committee members: AJ R., Abhishek Chopra, Devesh Modi, Jon Gagan Shende, Manash Bhattacharjee, Vishal Khushalani, Jude Soundar, Sreenivas R., Sumit Dangi, Anand Chari, Indo American Community Services, and Sreenivas Katragadda #Startup #pitchcompetition #entrepreneurship #IndoAmericanCommunityServices #

For the past 13 years, Indo-American Community Services (IACS) has been hosting the Entrepreneur Conference and connecting startups to Global Corporate Executives and the Investor echo system. This year's Entrepreneur Conference is on Dec 9th. It is virtual. Startups can submit their pitch for the opportunity to present it to the VC and the Executives. Nov. 27th is the last date for startups to submit their pitch, We encourage startups to submit their pitch as soon as possible. Manash Bhattacharjee, Vishal Khushalani, Sreenivas R., AJ R., Jude Soundar, Abhishek Chopra, Devesh Modi, Jon G Shende, Sreenivas Katragadda, Bicheng Chen, Harshad Eklahare, Ilya Preston, Giulio Gaioni, Sudhakar Sundaresan

The Indo-American Community Services (IACS) successfully launched the Denver, Colorado Chapter. Hosted Executive Connect event at the Ritz Carlton on Oct 11th. We are honored that Chris Wright, Chairman & CEO of Liberty Energy, Padma Bhushan Prof.Ved Nanda, Vijay Khatri, Dean of the Leeds School of Business, and many distinguished Indian American Executives in the Denver area participated. Chris Wright was the keynote speaker, he spoke on the topics of Leadership and Energy. We had a panel discussion on Leadership and Technology panelists were Anou Manavalan, Dan Cherian and Rajesh Babu. Big thank you to the Host Committee Muthukumarappan "Kumar" Ramurthy, Ashish Kothari and Sreenivas Katragadda Some of the Indian American Executives who attended include Raj Srinivasagam (MS, MBA), Kartik Srinivasan, Sundaresh S., Pawan Gupta, Sudhakar Sundaresan, Anjali Voria, CFA, Srini Surapaneni, Dr. Purnima Voria, Anjali N., Sanjai Bhagat, Jon G Shende, Kalpana Mohanraj Thank you to our corporate Sponsors #ITW, #DoverCorporation, #USGCorporation, #Nordson, #ChampionX, #Sonoco, and #DuckCreek

We are excited to host the Executive Connect event in Denver on Wednesday, October 11th at the Ritz Carlton at 5:30 pm. We are honored to have the keynote by Chris Wright, Chairman & CEO of Liberty Energy. Many Indian American Executives from the Rocky Mountain area are attending the event. We have limited availability, if you are interested in joining please message Ashish Kothari or Muthukumarappan "Kumar" Ramurthy or Sreenivas Katragadda

The Indo-American Community Services (IACS) successfully launched the D.C., Maryland, Virginia Chapter. Hosted Executive Connect event at The Willard on Sep 14th, where Hon. Lt. Governor Aruna Katragadda Miller, and Hon. Congressman Shri Thanedar spoke on the topics of Leadership, Technology, Energy, and Environment. Lt. Governor of Maryland presented the Governor's Citation to Indo-American Community Services in appreciation of the service that we do. #Indo-American Community Services. Jude Soundar,Ajay Gohil, Sreenivas R., Sreenivas Katragadda Many Indian Professional organizations supported the event including, #SABA-DC, #Capital IIT and #ASEI. Thank you to our corporate Sponsors #ITW, #DoverCorporation, #USGCorporation, #Nordson, #ChampionX, #Sonoco, and #DuckCreek Some of the pictures were taken from the Executive Office of the Governor.