Here is a recent presentation I've given to the Institute For The Future in Palo Alto and the Alliance of CEOs. The focus was to share learnings from the White House delegation in September that helped prepare for President Obama's visit this week.

1. INDIA/US COLLABORATIONS
OBAMA NOVEMBER VISIT
Institute of Future
20 October 2010
Naren Bakshi

2. AGENDA
 My Journey in US
 Background US/India
 Historical context, since independence, SV, and
Presidential visits
 Preparation for Obama Visit: White House delegation
to India in September
 What was the focus: Renewable Energy, IT infrastructure,
Education
 What did we see: Some examples
 Continued impact of SV
 Roadmap for future: Next decade

3. MY PERSONAL JOURNEY
 BS in India
 Came to Berkeley in 1966 with $ 8: MS,
MBA
 Seventies: Proved as professional
 Eighties as Managers, Executives, CIO
 Nineties as Entrepreneurs; Created Versata
as public company which reached $ 1 Billion
Valuation
 Now; very actively involved citizen making a
difference in adopted country as well as in
the Country of birth
 2010: Great honor and privilege to be asked
by White House to represent US interests in
India

4. BACKGROUND US/INDIA: HISTORICAL
 Columbus Voyage
 British heritage, US independence
 India Independence: Parliamentary, Secular
democracy
 Questionable start: Would democracy survive?
 Illiterate population, was not a united country for 2 millennium
 Diverse in every dimensions: Languages, religions, races,
income, education, culture, etc., etc.,
 Has only survived due to democracy! Deep rooted now
 Sikh prime minister, Women president, Muslim vice
president, Roman catholic women from Italy is heading
the ruling congress party

5. BACKGROUND US/INDIA: SINCE
INDEPENDENCE
 Bad start with India’s division: Blamed UK for this.
 Nehru wanted non-alignment and socialism
 Cold war and Kashmir drove India to USSR
 But, Kennedy was very inspiring and opening
happened for immigration in 1960’s
 From few Indians in 60’s to now 3 Million Indo-
Americans in US
 Major contributions to US and opened the channel
of communications and collaborations

6. BACKGROUND US/INDIA: SILICON VALLEY
AND ITS IMPACT
 Silicon Valley has had deep impact around the world to
promote innovation and merit based, inclusive culture:
Inspires people around the world
 TiE: Created in SV in 1992 to Foster Entrepreneurship
around the World: now in 13 countries with 55 chapters.
In India TiE
 help create Bangalore as SV of India
 Helped in Opening Telecom, VC, and Economic Freedom (
Free trade)
 Tremendous continued opportunities to impact the
world:
 Two way flow of capital, trade, human capital
 Bottom of Pyramid innovation

7. BACKGROUND US/INDIA: PRESIDENTIAL
VISITS
 Eisenhower 59, Nixon 69, Carter 78
 Clinton was a big hit: Big PR impact
 Bush made a big impact:
 Decouple relations equality between
Pakistan and India: Pushed Pakistan to
fight terrorism
 Pushed for Nuclear treaty
 Deeper trade : Trade Policy Forum
 Was highly accepted in India
 Obama continues the push for synergy
 Separate AF/Pak team from India team
 Visiting India and not Pakistan
 Looking for deepening synergistic
relations within the democratic framework

8. WHITE HOUSE DELEGATION: SEPT., 2010
 US/India view bilateral relations to be
highest importance: What can be done
besides Defense, Terrorism/Foreign Policy
to boost synergy?
1. Identify highest leverage opportunities that
are going to be perceived good for both
countries
2. Narrowed down Focus to Education,
Renewable Energy, and IT during this visit
3. Selected team of six US business leaders
along with White House CTO, Hillary
Clinton Senior Advisor, and Embassy
leaders
4. Visited many projects and had discussions
with the highest levels of Indian leaders (
Government, Political and Business)
5. Identify specific projects: Some examples,
and work in progress
Aneesh Chopra
First CTO of US
Promoting technology,
Innovation,
Connectivity to SV

9. RENEWABLE ENERGY IN VILLAGES: TILONIYA
BAREFOOT COLLEGE
 The entire village is solar powered
 All work is being done by village
people
 Educate rural children
 Preservation and accessibility for
water
 Run their own Radio network to teach
in local languages
 Producing solar lanterns in the village
all by women with no college
education
 Training women from 6 countries in
Africa

10. AADHAR, UNIQUE ID PROJECT: IT/E-
GOVERNANCE
 Unique ID Project ($ 6-30 Billion Project) :
Far reaching implications on use of IT
 Impact 1.2 Billion people database, unique in
the world
 Bio-metric state of the arts, cloud computing,
easy to use, multi language, highly secure
 Impact on broadest set of services for all
citizens, social, political impact
 Provides for large scale business and
technological opportunities
 Entrepreneurial volunteer lead the work
 Success will have role model effect around the
world!
Nandan Nilekani, co-
Founder of Infosys
and lots of volunteers
from SV

11. E-PANCHAYAT: IT/ E-GOVERNANCE
 Connecting 230,000 villages
 Technologies: Most modern mostly from
US: Fiber, Wi-Max, SAN, Large scale
data bases, open architecture, Linux,
Oracle, IBM servers
 Large opportunities for Entrepreneurs in
US and India
 Multi-layer: Village, District, State, and
Central
 Services: Administration, Taxes, Welfare,
Civic, Disaster support, education,
entertainment and communications
 Tremendous social, and political impact:
Transparent and open government
Delegation Visit:
Kanpura Village

12. IT INFRASTRUCTURE : AFFORDABLE
INNOVATION FOR NEXT 2 BILLION
 Many attempts to reach the bottom 2 Billion with
affordable computing and communication
 In India Cell Phone has reached masses bypassing
land lines: 670 million phones
 lower cost and higher quality
 core technology is US, manufacturing China but
application innovation in India with global
 Many attempts to bring the cost of computing
device to below US 100 essential to reach masses
 Novatium as one example
 US VC Funded company
 Using Cloud computing thin client, SaaS concept
 Much easier to use
 Proven and now funded by Ericsson for global expansion

13. EDUCATION REVOLUTION IN BOTH
COUNTRIES NEEDED
 Paradigm shift from teacher centric rigid learning
paradigm to Learner centric flexible 24x7 paradigm with
life long learning
 Web 2.0 applications in learning: YouTube,
collaborative, peer to peer,
 Open content initiative : eg., Khan Academy, MIT,
Curriwiki
 Major Structural issues in both countries
 Accountability, Unions, rigidity, teacher training, standards?,
employability, decentralized decision making ( 15000 school
districts)
 US; motivation for STEM
 Not reaching bottom of the pyramid
 Technology must play a more important role for quality,
accessibility and costs

14. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR MASSES:
EXAMPLE: RKCL
 Trained 150,000 people at the Bottom of
Pyramid in 2 years through 1200 centers
through entrepreneurial model at $ 70 per
student with no subsidy or brick and
mortar infrastructure
 Using MKCL, Cambridge and other
partners
 E-learning, video on demand, testing,
certification, administration all on line
 Employability skills: Computer literacy,
retail, financial, accounting, English, and
even soft skills
 Local languages

15. EXAMPLE OF A NEW START UP : EDUBRITE
 Started in SV by highly qualified IT
team
 Focus: Next generation of Social
collaborative learning platform
 Have audacity to challenge likes of
Kaplan, Princeton review, Blackboard
 Creating Universally accessible
assessment platform for teachers and
students
 Experimenting in both in India and US
with early customers: Where would be
early success first?
 Running a community site
Tenplustwo.com for test preparation in
India being experimented
 Who would be investors: US based
VC’s in SV or US based VC’s in India
or Indian angels?

16. TIE RAJASTHAN: IMPACT OF
ENTREPRENEURS ON ECOSYSTEM
 Started in 2002 with inspiration from SV
 From 7 IT companies to 250 with
presence of many large companies like
Infosys, Genpect, Wipro, Deutsche Bank
with large impact on professional jobs
 Impact of IT on all traditional industries
including jewelry, carpets, handicrafts,
mining, tourism, healthcare
 Big increase in IT sales with US
companies like Cisco, Intel, Microsoft as
beneficiaries
 Connectivity of Entrepreneurs with Valley
White House Delegation
Town Hall meeting
with Entrepreneurs

17. OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEXT DECADE
 Much stronger collaboration would have taken place
 Many US Universities and companies will be in India
 Many more joint ventures between US/India companies will be serving in
the emerging and underdeveloped World
 Many more US people and businesses will be in India
 India would become much larger trade partner with many more
reforms in India: Five fold increase in 10 years to $ 45 Billion
 Technology: US will remain leader in core technologies with India
focused on affordable innovations
 Mobile computing and Tablets would be everywhere
 Serious breakthroughs in Renewable energy
 Biotech, and healthcare breakthroughs with Eastern medicine
 Further flattening of the world with crowd-sourcing, telemedicine,
health and wellness initiatives
 India would have more clearly emerge as the South Asian
regional power with new UN and IMF structures in place helping
ease situation for US