Dialog with students at VIT

Sandhiprakash (Sandhi) Bhide

Intel Corporation
Senior Strategist and Technologist

Build Bridges, not Erect Walls!

Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

Grand Challenges for Engineering in 21st Century

Make Solar Energy

Economical

Provide Nuclear
Fusion Energy

Develop Carbon
Sequestration Method

Manage the
Nitrogen Cycle

Provide access to
Clean Water

Secure
Cyberspace/Internet

Restore/Improve
Urban Infrastructure

Advance Health
Informatics

Engineer better
Medicines

Reverse Engineer
the Brain

Invest in Biotech/
Stem Cell Research

Advance Virtual
Reality

Advance Personalized
Learning

Prevent Nuclear
Terror

Engineer the Tools of

Scientific Discovery

Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

Ten-headed Evil Environment

Fundamentalism
Economic
Disparity

Conflicts
Materialism

7B+
Population

Resource
Depletion

Poverty

Exploitation

Diseases
Greed

Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

Darkness to Light

(
1.3.28)

From ignorance, lead me to truth;

From darkness, lead me to light;
From death, lead me to immortality
Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

We are all the Change Agents

Transient
and mortal

Eternal

Ignorance and
misunderstandings

Knowledge

Sorrow and
Misery

Joy and
Happiness

Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

What does this mean to you?

Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

Business

Usages

Technology

Thing in terms of BUT (Business,

Users/Usages, Technology)
Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

Question Everything!
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros,
even in their own backyard. Keep
looking below surface appearances. "
Sandhi Bhide Intel Corporation, Presentation to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

Environment

f(X)

Outcome

You are the transformation function

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Be Aware of Experts and Elites

Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Data

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Pay attention to Details."

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What you learn in the College is just

the foundation. It is just preparing you
in the process of Analysis and
Synthesis."
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Be true to your profession. Separate

Ego from the Truth"

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Be perpetually Optimistic"

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Find beauty in everything. Everywhere

there is natural order. Exceptions are
where very new grounds are broken"
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Have fun. Nothing in this world is

worth risking that"

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Questions?

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