Business Forum Objectives

In this NABC2010 business seminar, you will have these to acquire :

  • Understand Optimal Thinking and its vital role in optimizing your business success
  • Understand how to optimize sub-optimal opportunities available from both countries’ resources
  • Define and commit to the ultimate mission of your business considering the use of both countries’ best potentials
  • Evaluate each country’s (USA & India) individual domain strengths, processes, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats to your business and industry
  • Analyze business decisions using trends and risk assessment based on available data.
  • Develop a plan of action to optimize your technological productivity, profits, and communications
  • Determine your ultimate plan to optimize the cash flow
  • Gain essential information on how to establish trust and optimize team building
  • Learn the most constructive techniques for resolving business conflicts
  • Pinpoint strategies that can give you the best chance for unbeatable achievement
  • Optimize your business strategy to experience peak performance

Assessment of Technology and other Business characteristics those are partially responsible for World wide recession, and how to combat?

  • How I or my Organization will Benefit?
  • NABC2010 Executive Seminar programs are a significant investment for both you and your organization. Going far beyond the basic transmission of skills and theories, each slot of the seminar reveals applicable advantages and disadvantages from case studies of four related industries that can be successfully introduced in your organization.
  • You will acquire a fresh perspective on global business from our panel of groundbreaking speakers and advisors actively participating, and the distributed handouts later on. This seminar would be crowned with a faculty of world-renowned experts and a group of elite industry leaders from around the world.
  • US-India Business Ties:
  • Special attention will be given by way of discussions to help the businessmen, who are intently pursuing to do business between India and USA, in all aspects relating to business terms, conditions, financial issues, and banking formalities.
  • Ready to optimize your business success?  It is – “The essential step above positive thinking." Optimal Thinking empowers you to maximize technological and physical resources, opportunities, productivity and profits – regardless of the circumstances.
  • In this business seminar, the starting entrepreneurs will learn how to use this elevated form of thoughts consistently to define their ultimate business mission, make the most profitable decisions in every business situation, and lead others to achieve optimum results. You will discover how to ask the best questions to yourself and the others in order to obtain the best possible solutions.
  • You will define what "the best" means to your business in everyday situations, gain the mental tool necessary to take the most constructive actions to achieve what is most important, and learn from the Gurus how to catapult your business success to unprecedented heights.

The following dignitaries will grace the conference and will join the Friday Business Networking Night.

  1. Prabhu Dayal, NY Consulate General.
  2. Meera Shankar, India’s Ambassador to the United States.
  3. Sam Pitroda, Advisor in Science & Technology to the Prime Minister of India.
  4. Ron Sommers, Director of United States India Biz Council.
  5. Frank Pallone Jr., Congressman,  United States House of Representative.
  6. Gregory Weldon Meeks, Congressman,  United States House of Representative.
  7. Upendra J. Chivukula, Assemblyman of NJ Congress.
Prabhu Dayal

Mr. Prabhu Dayal joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976 and has served in the following capacities -

  • Third Secretary in Cairo, Egypt from July 1978 to Dec1981
  • Consul /First Secretary in Karachi, Pakistan from Dec1981 to May 1985
  • Deputy Secretary in the Min. of Ext. Affairs, New Delhi from May 1985 to Apr 1988
  • First Secretary in Geneva, Switzerland from April 1988 to September 1991 Counsellor in Tehran, Iran from October 1991 to August 1994
  • Consul General in Dubai, UAE from August 1994 to August 1998
  • Ambassador in Kuwait from September 1998 to December 2001
  • Joint Secretary in the Min. of Ext. Affairs, New Delhi from Dec 2001 to Jul 2004
  • Ambassador, Rabat, Morocco from July 2004 – August 2008

Ambassador Dayal’s linguistic abilities include English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, and French.

Ambassador Dayal has taken over as Consul General in New York in September 2008.
Meera Shankar
Meera Shankar (9 October 1950) is India's Ambassador (2009-) to the United States of America. Shankar, an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1973 batch was posted in Washington from 1991 to 1995. She succeeds Ambassador Ronen Sen. She studied at the reputed St.Mary's Convent in Nainital.

Shankar served as Director in the Prime Minister’s Office from 1985 to 1991; She served in the Ministry of Commerce from 1991 to 1995. She served in the Ministry of External Affairs, she headed two important divisions dealing with the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and relations with Nepal and Bhutan.
Meera Shankar is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1973 batch who was posted in Washington from 1991 to 1995. Shankar will be the first serving diplomat to be posted in Washington in more than two decades after K. Shankar Bajpai. After Vijayalaxmi Pandit, who served as envoy between 1949 and 1951, she will be India’s second lady ambassador to the United States of America.

In 2003, she achieved the rank of Additional Secretary, she held the responsibility for the United Nations and International Security.
Sam Pitroda

The name, Sam Pitroda can better be explained by the yellow phone booths all across India. Yes, it was mainly because of the efforts of this inventor, technocrat, and social thinker that telecom revolution started in India. It is interesting to know that Sam Pitroda first used a telephone only after moving to the US! The biggest virtue of Sam Pitroda is that he has a definite vision to use technology for the benefit and betterment of society. Along with being a pioneer in telecom, Sam Pitroda has made strong case for food, clean water, and adequate shelter for the unprivileged section. Through his efforts, Sam Pitroda has brought telephones to some of the world's previously isolated regions. In the field of telecom, Sam's emphasis was on accessibility rather than density.

By providing public access to telephones, Mr. Sam Pitroda revolutionized the state of telecommunications in India. Currently, Mr. Pitroda is the Chairman and CEO of World-Tel Limited, an International Telecom Union (ITU) initiative. He is also the Chairman and Founder of Sevend high-technology. Sam Pitroda is also the founding Chairman of a non-profit Foundation for' Revitalization of Local Health Traditions in India. As a result of his pioneering works, Sam Pitroda holds more than 50 patents and has lectured extensively on Telecom, Technology and Development, in almost all parts of the world. Sam Pitroda has also featured in several newspapers, magazines, radio and TV programs.
Ron Sommers
Somers has over 30 years of experience in major infrastructure development in the United States and Asia – starting in the oil and gas industry on the drilling rigs of West Texas, transitioning to hydroelectric and IPP development, and then onwards to senior management for international companies of upstream, midstream and downstream energy and power assets.

Somers was recruited by the U.S. Agency for International Development to live in India as Resident Adviser from 1992 onwards to supervise the India Private Power Initiative, supporting India's Union Ministry of Power to attract private investment into India's power

sector. During this period, Ron traveled extensively to most Indian states, becoming an expert on India's emerging energy sector. As current President of the U.S.-India Business Council, Ron serves as the Council's CEO, establishing strategy, leading policy initiatives and advocacy efforts. Somers played a lead role in securing passage of the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement.
Frank Pallone Jr.
On January 6, Frank Pallone, Jr. was officially sworn in for his 11th full term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Pallone represents New Jersey’s Sixth Congressional District, which covers most of Middlesex County, as well as the Bayshore and oceanfront areas of Monmouth County, the township of Plainfield in Union County and Franklin in Somerset County.

In the 111th Congress, Pallone continues to serve as a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over issues pertaining to energy, environment, health care, commerce and telecommunications.

As Health Subcommittee Chairman during the 110th Congress, Pallone was the lead author of a new law that dramatically improves drug safety by strengthening FDA's ability to monitor the safety of drugs after they are on the market. Pallone also serves on the Committee's Energy & Environment Subcommittee and the Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee. Pallone holds an important leadership position within the House Democratic Caucus. As the Communications Chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, the New Jersey congressman plays an active role in developing and implementing the Democratic Party’s message. In this capacity, Pallone coordinates the party’s message on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Throughout his tenure in Congress, Pallone’s legislative accomplishments have been geared to the protection and restoration of environmental resources and the expansion of health care to the uninsured.
Gregory Weldon Meeks (born September 25, 1953 to Brian Carpenter), American politician, has been a liberal Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing New York's 6th congressional district, which includes most of Southeastern Queens including Jamaica, Laurelton, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and Far Rockaway, as well as John F. Kennedy International Airport. His district is made up mainly of middle-class and upper middle-class African-American communities, but also includes a small part of Ozone Park and part of Howard Beach known as Old Howard Beach, both of which are mainly made up of middle-class Italian-Americans. He also represents much of Kew Gardens and northern Richmond Hill, middle-class white and South Asian neighborhoods.
 Gregory Weldon Meeks
He was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1992. He was elected to Congress in a special election to replace right-wing Democrat Floyd Flake, a congressman, reverend, and real estate developer who was retiring to focus on his church's real estate holdings. Meeks currently serves on the House Financial Services Committee and the House International Relations Committee. He is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and of the New Democrat Coalition and supports the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping programs.
Upendra J. Chivukula

Upendra J. Chivukula (born October 8, 1950) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where he represents the 17th legislative district.

In 2001, Chivukula became the first Indian-American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly and just the fourth Indian-American in the United States to be elected to state office.
Chivukula has been the Assembly's Deputy Speaker since 2007. He serves in the Assembly on the Telecommunications and Utilities Committee (as Chair) and the Appropriations Committee.
Assemblyman Chivukula previously served on the Franklin Township Council, joining in 1997, and serving as its Mayor in 2000 and its Deputy Mayor in 1998.[2] In Franklin Township, he has also served on the Franklin Township Community Foundation, Finance Oversight Committee, Traffic Management Committee, Fire Prevention Board, Emergency Life Support Delivery, Integrated Communications Committee, Emergency Management, Franklin Township Planning Board, Economic Development Committee, Community / Senior Center Steering Committee and the Bicentennial Celebration Committee. Chivukula has served on the Somerset County Affordable Housing Board of Trustees and the Middlesex County Cultural and Historic Commission. He was appointed by then Governor of New Jersey James Florio to be a Public Member of the New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners, where he served from 1994 to 1997.

He was a Member of Delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1996, 2000, and 2008, and was an alternate delegate in 2004.  
Chivukula was one of New Jersey's presidential electors casting the state's Electoral College votes after the 2004 presidential election.[5] New Jersey's electors cast their ballots on December 13, 2004 in the State House Annex, in Trenton, where all 15 votes were cast for the Democratic Party candidate John Kerry.

Chivukula received a B.E.E. from Guindy Engineering College (now part of Anna University) in Electrical Engineering and was awarded an M.E.E. degree from City College of New York in Electrical Engineering.[2] He was born in Nellore, India, and currently resides in Somerset.

Chivukula has proposed a bill to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition rates.

 
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