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WOMEN IN STEM

Navigating

to Success

About        Speakers        Schedule 

WOMEN IN STEM

Navigating to Success

April 16, 2022

8-9:30 PM IST | 7:30-9 AM PDT 

April 16, 2022

8-9:30 PM IST | 7:30-9 AM PDT

Joy Thomas Foundation (JTF) and PanIIT Alumni India invite you to our first "Women in STEM" event.


The event is designed to connect STEM students with mentors, expose them to role models, and celebrate the journeys of fellow women in their pursuit of excellence in STEM careers.

JTF will present the inaugural Joy Thomas Prize for STEM excellence to the best incoming engineering woman student, as ranked in the annual IIT Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced) 2021.


Our diverse and distinguished panel of speakers and their stories will inspire you. Learn actionable insights and what it takes to pursue a STEM career and navigate your way to success.

WOMEN IN STEM

Navigating to Success

REGISTER

April 16, 2022

8-9:30 PM IST | 7:30-9 AM PDT

Joy Thomas Foundation (JTF) and the Pan IIT Alumni India are partnering to co-host our inaugural “Women in STEM” event. This first of a series of annual events is designed to connect STEM students with mentors, expose them to STEM role models, and celebrate journeys of fellow women in their pursuit of excellence in STEM careers.

JTF will present the inaugural Joy Thomas Prize for STEM excellence to the best incoming engineering woman student, as ranked in the annual IIT Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced) 2021.


Our diverse and distinguished panel of speakers and their stories will inspire you. You will learn actionable insights for what it takes to pursue a STEM career and navigate your way to success.

Our Speakers

Our Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Nivruti Rai

Country Head of Intel India and

VP of Intel Foundry Services

FACILITATOR, MODERATOR

Lakshmi Pratury

CEO, INKtalks

Kavya Chopra

Inaugural Joy Thomas prize winner, IIT JEE (Advanced) 2021 Women Topper

Kavitha Gopal

1st woman winner of President’s Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

PRESENTING THE JOY THOMAS PRIZE

Priya Pattathil

Board Member, Joy Thomas Foundation

Anant Agarwal

Professor, MIT, CEO of EdX

Our Panelist

Chitra Nayak

Board Member, Infosys, Former COO, Salesforce

Panelist

Pooja Goyal

COO of Avishkaar

M.S. Archana

IIT, Kanpur, 2019

Anjana Susarla

Professor, Michigan State University

Event Co-Hosts and Emcee

Event Co-Hosts and Emcee

Event Co-Hosts and Emcee

EVENT CO-HOST

Poornima

Balasubramanyam

IP Specialist

EVENT EMCEE

Vipasha Devi Tilak

Curator, INKtalks

EVENT CO-HOST

Preeti Verghese

Senior Scientist

SCHEDULE

Event

Agenda

  • Opening Keynote

    Nivruti Rai in conversation with Lakshmi Pratury

  • Panel Session 2: Life-long Learning

    Speakers: Anant Agarwal, Chitra Nayak

  • Panel Session 1: STEM Journeys

    Moderator: Vipasha Devi Tilak

    Speakers: Pooja Goyal, MS Archana, Anjana Susarla


    Pooja Goyal is the co-founder and COO of Avishkaar which is a platform to support children learn next-gen tech skills like Robotics, AI, IoT, and Coding. Avishkaar is her 3rd start-up and has been named in the top 100 disruptive start-ups to watch out for worldwide by Analytics India.  Her last start-up, Intellitots was in the early years education space and was acquired by Founding Years. She worked at Adobe in the Bay Area for many years where she managed the Acrobat product marketing team. Pooja graduated from IIT Delhi in 1996 and later did her MBA from INSEAD, France. 


    M. S. Archana graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2019 with a B.Tech. major in Electrical Engineering, and minors in Machine Learning and Computer Systems. She is an alumna of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and a Dakshana Scholar.  She received the Ashok Jain award for being the Female topper from the Dakshana batch of 2015.  Archana presently works as a software engineer.


    Anjana Susarla is the Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. She has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. She studies algorithmic bias and responsible AI.

  • Joy Thomas Prize presentation

    Priya Pattathil presenting to Kavya Chopra  

    Kavitha Gopal in conversation with Kavya Chopra

SCHEDULE

Event Agenda

  • Opening Keynote

    Nivruti Rai in conversation with Lakshmi Pratury

  • Panel Session 1: Life-long Learning

    Speakers: Anant Agarwal, Chitra Nayak

  • Panel Session 2: STEM Journeys

    Moderator: Vipasha Devi Tilak

    Speakers: Pooja Goyal, MS Archana, Anjana Susarla


    Pooja Goyal is the co-founder and COO of Avishkaar which is a platform to support children learn next-gen tech skills like Robotics, AI, IoT, and Coding. Avishkaar is her 3rd start-up and has been named in the top 100 disruptive start-ups to watch out for worldwide by Analytics India.  Her last start-up, Intellitots was in the early years education space and was acquired by Founding Years. She worked at Adobe in the Bay Area for many years where she managed the Acrobat product marketing team. Pooja graduated from IIT Delhi in 1996 and later did her MBA from INSEAD, France. 


    M. S. Archana graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2019 with a B.Tech. major in Electrical Engineering, and minors in Machine Learning and Computer Systems. She is an alumna of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and a Dakshana Scholar.  She received the Ashok Jain award for being the Female topper from the Dakshana batch of 2015.  Archana presently works as a software engineer.


    Anjana Susarla is the Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. She has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. She studies algorithmic bias and responsible AI.

  • Joy Thomas Prize presentation

    Priya Pattathil presenting to Kavya Chopra  

    Kavitha Gopal in conversation with Kavya Chopra

SCHEDULE

Event

Agenda

  • Opening Keynote

    Nivruti Rai in conversation with Lakshmi Pratury

  • Panel Session 1: Life-long Learning

    Speakers: Anant Agarwal, Chitra Nayak

  • Panel Session 2: STEM Journeys

    Moderator: Vipasha Devi Tilak

    Speakers: Pooja Goyal, MS Archana, Anjana Susarla


    Pooja Goyal is the co-founder and COO of Avishkaar which is a platform to support children learn next-gen tech skills like Robotics, AI, IoT, and Coding. Avishkaar is her 3rd start-up and has been named in the top 100 disruptive start-ups to watch out for worldwide by Analytics India.  Her last start-up, Intellitots was in the early years education space and was acquired by Founding Years. She worked at Adobe in the Bay Area for many years where she managed the Acrobat product marketing team. Pooja graduated from IIT Delhi in 1996 and later did her MBA from INSEAD, France. 


    M. S. Archana graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2019 with a B.Tech. major in Electrical Engineering, and minors in Machine Learning and Computer Systems. She is an alumna of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and a Dakshana Scholar.  She received the Ashok Jain award for being the Female topper from the Dakshana batch of 2015.  Archana presently works as a software engineer.


    Anjana Susarla is the Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. She has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. She studies algorithmic bias and responsible AI.

  • Joy Thomas Prize presentation

    Priya Pattathil presenting to Kavya Chopra  

    Kavitha Gopal in conversation with Kavya Chopra

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About Joy Thomas Foundation

The Joy Thomas Foundation brings together a global network of STEM mentors, who are dedicated to inspiring the next generation of STEM students, researchers and entrepreneurs. The Foundation was created in 2020 to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Joy Thomas, an Indian-American STEM genius, and IIT Madras Alumnus. At Stanford University, IBM, and as a Silicon Valley Tech entrepreneur, he was a world-renowned researcher and thought leader with seminal contributions in Information Theory. He was passionate about enabling and encouraging young minds in STEM related disciplines. 


The Foundation awards annual scholarships to promote STEM excellence, offers mentoring, career guidance and employment assistance services to college STEM students. Our High School STEM programs seek to inspire and increase student awareness of the broad range of STEM related careers and job opportunities. The Foundation’s core mission is to positively impact STEM education, careers, and research world-wide.

For more information, visit http://www.joythomasfoundation.org write to: info@joythomasfoundation.org

About Pan IIT

PanIIT Alumni India is a Society registered in 2006 to promote networking among alumni of all the IITs and to give expression to the desire of IIT alumni to give back to their alma mater, to society and to the nation. The Alumni Associations of the IITs are its Institutional Members. PanIIT undertakes projects and programs which promote an understanding of new technologies, their likely impact on society and the emerging opportunities for India. PanIIT also works with the IITs to provide alumni support in matters of concern to them, and provide networking support needed by students and young alumni. The PanIIT alumni movement exists in many countries all round the world, wherever there are IIT alumni.