Google CEO Sundar Pichai is in India currently and is visiting his alma mater, IIT Kharagpur, today on January 5. Pichai had passed out from the elite institute in 1993 with a BTech in metallurgical and materials engineering. Pichai hosted a technology event in New Delhi, yesterday and the focus was primarily on SMEs in India. The event was also be attended by IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad along with many senior executives from Google. It is expected that Pichai will be addressing the students of one of the best engineering institutes in India. Pichai talked about his time at IIT KGP, and then at Google and answered some live questions. He talked about success and motivation as well. In technology, Pichai stressed on the importance of digitisation and the future of the tech market in the country.
3,000 IITians gather to meet alumnus @sundarpichai. Nothing like being #BackOnCampus. Tune in now https://t.co/n90BSEAzme pic.twitter.com/BOvZ6b9kTw
— Google India (@GoogleIndia) January 5, 2017
Sundar Pichai, LIVE now from IIT Kharagpur. He’s #BackOnCampus and answering questions. Are you watching? https://t.co/0ZvB1SBbLS pic.twitter.com/bZMEPpToL5
— Google India (@GoogleIndia) January 5, 2017
After IIT Kharagpur, Pichai went on to pursue an MS in Engineering and Materials Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School. Later on, he joined Google in 2004 as its vice president of product management, where he led the team working on Google’s Chrome browser and operating system, before being elevated as its CEO last year.
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