Freshers Day at Sahyadri
17-Aug-2016
The Freshers Day was celebrated at the campus with Mr. Chetan
Krishnaswamy, Country Head- Public Policy of Google India as the chief
guest. Mr. Karan Rao, Founder and Director, Giznu Tech and Mr. Sagar
Modi , co-founder and CEO, QUIPH were also present during the occasion.
Principal, Dr. U. M. Bhushi welcomed the gathering and Chairman, Mr.
Manjunath Bhandary in his opening remarks stated that this is the day
where we should take up goals; achieve them by doing our best and attain
success in the coming years. He advised the students to take the guests
as role models. He said that ‘engineers are visionaries; they create
jobs for others’. He also added that one needs to be enrolled in project
based learning along with academics.
Mr. Chetan Krishnaswamy delivered his address and stated as to how
Google looks at product development and also said that User privacy is
of utmost importance to Google. It focuses more on light weight offline
version of product. He advised the new entrants to be extremely open,
transparent as information flows from all the directions and also
emphasized on being result oriented/outcome driven. He mentioned that
having good writing and verbal skills is essential along with building
one’s own strength. He concluded saying that one should be dynamically
collaborative and have key attributes with essential abilities to face
the challenges in the World outside.
Mr. Krishnaswamy also had an interactive session with the faculty
members’, where he discussed regarding the perspectives of development
of Google and its focus areas; he also explained regarding the policy
decisions. He emphasized on the role of companies in building
technologically advanced futures.
Mr. Chetan Krishnaswamy engaged with policy makers, industry
associations and members of civil society. He was earlier Director
-Corporate Affairs at Dell India, and steered the company's efforts in
the public policy space. Chetan won the prestigious Intel Achievement
Award – the company's highest award for driving an industry wide
initiative to influence the Central government in reducing tariffs on
PCs in 2004. Chetan was also the recipient of Intel's Finance
Achievement Award in 2005. That year, he also won the Intel Inspire
Award when his abstract "Enabling Growth Influencing through Strategic
Partnerships,'' was selected among 400 other entries which he presented
at the Intel Inspire Conference at Oregon.
Ms. Michal Queeni D’Costa, Achiever in UPSC Examinations was felicitated
by Mr. Chetan Krishnaswamy. Ms. Michal Queeni thanked the college
management for honouring her during the occasion and shared few of her
thoughts and experiences. She also congratulated all the new entrants on
the occasion of Freshers Day and advised the students to understand the
concepts in engineering in the process of shaping their career.
