This document proposes the creation of the Global Alumni Business Forum (GABF) to facilitate business and collaboration opportunities between IIT Bombay alumni, faculty, students, staff, and businesses. It argues that GABF could fill an important gap by connecting the IIT Bombay community for their mutual benefit. The forum would give all parties - faculty, students, alumni, and IIT Bombay itself - a place to pursue opportunities in areas like funding, partnerships, jobs, and promoting their work. It positions GABF as a trusted event run by alumni that could become the preferred place for IIT Bombay constituents to do business with each other.

1. An essential
ingredient for
making
IIT BOMBAY a WORLD LEADER
IN TECHNOGY LEARNING is
MISSING!

2. 40,000+ IITB alumni. They are incredibly influential in the world today. They want to work with their alma
mater transform the society and thus help themselves. But there is no forum that can help them unleash
this transformative potential of the community of IITB faculty, students, staff, and alumni!
A forum focused on getting the IITB community together for
THE GAP
A forum focused on getting the IITB community together for
the benefit of businesses, government, investors, and
themselves. Focused on the business of technology.
To fill this gap, IITB alumni bring you the
Global Alumni Business Forum!

3. TRUST
WHY IITBAA GABF IS A WINNER
When two IITB alumni meet anywhere on this planet, there is instant trust
and the conversation becomes meaningful right away. The shared bond
makes every transaction a force multiplier. Since business is built on trust,
IITB GABF promises to become the most preferred forum for doing
business with the IITB community. Who else, but the alumni, can run such
a forum better?

4. What’s in it for me?What’s in it for me?
All GABF participants must find direct and
significant value for their own advancement.

5. W-i-i-f-Faculty
A place to collaborate with the industry and alumni

6. WHAT FACULTY WANT
A place to discoverA place to discoverA place to discoverA place to discover opportunities for IITB-produced technologies,
sources of funding and investments, alumni interest, elements of
curricula that industry cares about, problems worth solving, course-
correction in research direction, …
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2 A place to promoteA place to promoteA place to promoteA place to promote their upcoming industry-relevant R&D, research
agenda, past work, collaboration opportunities with their groups,
initiatives they run to attract investment and sponsorship, …
3 A place to seekA place to seekA place to seekA place to seek mentoring from and involvement of accomplished
industry leaders, self-development opportunities, …

7. W-i-i-f-Students
Find, join, seek … jobs/mentors/ideas/funds

8. WHAT STUDENTS WANT
A place to findA place to findA place to findA place to find novel careers with people in the trenches, role models,
supporters for ideas, investors with early stage funds, entrepreneurs
who can tell them about what to expect when, initiatives of interest by
other like-minded alumni, and new perspectives …
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2 A place to broadenA place to broadenA place to broadenA place to broaden markets for their fledgling enterprises, their reach
into other global geographies, the impact of their ideas, …

9. W-i-i-f-Alumni
A place to find, join, or fund businesses and
IITB initiatives

10. WHAT ALUMNI WANT
A place to learn aboutA place to learn aboutA place to learn aboutA place to learn about IITB-produced technologies, investment
opportunities created by IITB and its faculty/students, their initiatives,
collaboration opportunities, opportunities with businesses owned or
operated by alumni, the Institute roadmap, leaders’ crystal ball …
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2 A place to showA place to showA place to showA place to show their enterprisetheir enterprisetheir enterprisetheir enterprise to potential buyers, partners,
consultants, investors, and prospective colleagues who share a bond
with IITB …

11. W-i-i-f-IITB?
Alumni-run extravaganza focused on IITB’s core business

12. WHAT IITB WANTS
A place to displayA place to displayA place to displayA place to display technology achievements to funding agencies, its
profile as the premier institute of higher technical education and
research, the unparalleled collaboration between all constituents of
the IITB community …
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2 A place to establishA place to establishA place to establishA place to establish interdisciplinary research and teaching on
campus by providing a high-profile external event, entrepreneurial
spirit among faculty and students by providing a launch-pad
accessible only at IITB, its premier position to attract the brightest
students and faculty, and itself as the only place in India that offers a
complete ecosystem for technological innovation …

13. An IITBAA extravaganza
A business event par excellence conceived by the alumni

14. GABF is a must have!GABF is a must have!GABF is a must have!GABF is a must have!
Focused on themes most important to IITB
Organized and funded by global alumniOrganized and funded by global alumni
Backed by IITB as its flagship business event
August 2014, near IITB

15. We are in
planning stages!
Write to us today to get
involved in the making of thisinvolved in the making of this
landmark initiative!
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