[sustran] Invite for a talk by Mark Gorton (Ahmedabad) on Feb 9, 2012 at 5:30pm

[Pooja Sanghani]

Greetings!

PanIIT Gujarat Alumni Association & Institute for Transportation and
Development Policy (ITDP) cordially invite you for a talk by Mr. Mark
Gorton, a New York based IT & Finance entrepreneur, philanthropist and
leading advocate for alternative transportation & liveable streets.

*About Mark Gorton *
Acclaimed by CNBC and regarded as one of the " *50 Visionaries Who Are
Changing the World"*. Mark Gorton (45) is the founder of several innovative
financial and technology Companies like Tower Research Capital LLC, a money
management firm specializing in quantitative trading and investment
strategies, as well as the founder of Lime Brokerage LLC , Lime Medical LLC
and Lime Labs LLC and OpenPlans. Tower Research Capital is a regular
recruiter at IITDelhi, IITBombay.

Mark founded OpenPlans in 1999 after realizing the incredible potential of
the open source movement to create tools that catalyse civic engagement.
Mark holds degrees from Yale, Stanford, and Harvard Business School. In
2005 Mark founded the *New York City Streets Renaissance campaign *in
partnership with the Project for Public Spaces and Transportation
Alternatives.

Event Details:
On      Thursday, February 9, 2012
At        5:30 pm
Venue: HT Parekh Auditorium, 1st floor, Ahmedabad Management Association
(AMA)

*Programme Schedule:*
5:30 pm- Registration and tea
6:00pm- Welcome and Introduction by Nalin Sinha, ITDP
6:05pm- Opening Remarks by Sunil Parekh, Founder and Chairman PanIIT
Gujarat Alumni Association
6:15pm- Talk by Mark Gorton on *“Transforming cities through technology and
smart transport choice- A New York Case study”*
6:45pm- Observation & Remarks by G. Mohapatra, Municipal Commissioner,
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
6:55pm- Questions and Answers
7:15pm- Special session on “Reflections on Current Global Development in
field of IT, New* *Media, Global Economy and Philanthropy.
7:30pm- Concluding Remarks

*For more information, please write to india at itdp.org
*
-- 
Pooja Sanghani (Ms.) | Technical Officer
Institute for Transportation & Development Policy
301, Paritosh, near Darpana Academy, Usmanpura, Ahmedabad, India
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