Experts in their Fields - The EITF project

This season, we dive into the world of trailblazers - in art, medicine, philosophy, audience engagement. A very exciting trailer for season 2 part 2! Follow us: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2324fbd2-1004-43f3-83fb-32b205317ad5

Introducing this incredible season of trailblazers in multiple fields, and the amazing guests we will be having on for our interviews! Follow us: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2324fbd2-1004-43f3-83fb-32b205317ad5

A sneak peek into our upcoming interview with Prerna Bhutani, the founder of ZemeFresh - an incredible hair and skin care brand that uses ingredients made in the kitchen! Follow us: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2324fbd2-1004-43f3-83fb-32b205317ad5

In this short episode, we look back on the last one year of EITF, and all the experts we have spoken to. We also talk about the future of EITF, and the exciting new avenues we are going to explore with it. Follow us: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2324fbd2-1004-43f3-83fb-32b205317ad5

We are back everyone. We hope you enjoyed the interviews so far on season 2 of the EITF project. This is our final episode for season 2 part 1, and we have a very special guest on the show. We have Guharajan Sivakumar, the founder and CTO of Aprecomm, an exciting start up based out of India, doing incredible work with building intelligence solutions into routers, to make WiFi better! Before we dive deeper into Aprecomm, we will introduce Guhan to you.Guhan started his career as a junior developer at Ecosmos technology Mysore in November of 2002. Beyond that though, he talks about how he joined Mysore university in order to learn about drivers and driver code, but since it was such a new topic at the time, he had to hit the books. Eventually, what he learned was knowledge that he could share with his professor from the university. Guhan joined Altosys software technologies in 2003 as the team lead for real time embedded solutions.Guhan says in his interview, that he has always been passionate about Knowledge transfer, and so while he pursued his career in the corporate world, he was always looking for small challenges to solve on his own. To this end, he started a company, that sold science kits to kids in school, so they could learn the subject in a demonstrative way, rather than in a theoretical manner. An amazing and creative idea, which helped a lot of kids learn the subject in an easy way.Guhan eventually joined Atheros (now Qualcomm) as the lead engineer working on the earliest versions of Wi-Fi technology, before he founded Aprecomm.We noticed in Guhans interview, that throughout his career, he has always been curious, to look beyond his everyday job, and experiment with new ideas. He talks about some of the ideas he has had, and still has! Excellent ones! He also talks about what it takes to eventually build a company from ground up, the realities of business, valuation, funding, startups, etc. Selfishly speaking, We learned a lot about entrepreneurship from this interview, and Guhan gave us a lot of ideas for EITF!An inspiring one, that will give every budding entrepreneur a sudden surge of energy.With this last one for part 1 of season 2, Karthik, Charu and Nandini sign off. To get more updates, follow us on our social media platforms, and read our latest blogs at www.eitf project.blogspot.com.Follow us on our social media platforms: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d33c3044-d6c1-415b-9696-28d1eb5fa554

A sneak peek into our conversation with Guhan, where we learnt so many positive things about entrepreneurship, and how to go about starting a business.Follow us on our social media platforms: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d33c3044-d6c1-415b-9696-28d1eb5fa554

Hi everyone, this is episode 5 on season 2 of the EITF project, and for this episode, we have a very interesting guest. Charu and I talk to Gracey Wilson from Microsoft in this episode. Why Gracey? Well, I was in the audience, when Gracey gave a speech at the women in tech conference at Boston, and it got me thinking. She had some very interesting things to say. But before we get into that, Charu and I will now introduce her.

Gracey started her career, in a very unconventional way. She started a company right off the bat, called Critter sitters, a pet sitting company which showed increasing revenue with 30 consecutive months! What a fun way to start a career!

Gracey says in the interview that the next phase of her career, which included a lot of internships in companies like GE, Pinch, women without borders, and eventually Microsoft were very interesting and promises that internships teach you a lot about an eventual full time career. She is a big advocate of internships.

She is now a full time software engineer at Microsoft.

One of the common trends in her career journey is that she is always looking to solve the issues that she sees around her, whether or not the issue falls within her field of study. It’s an admirable trait that she has been able to take her ventures towards this end, to great heights. Speaking of ventures, Gracey coins the term “entrepreneurship can begin at home” in her interview, and a testament to that is the early in career group that she helped create in Microsoft. Having been one of the employees who started out her career in Microsoft during the pandemic, she found a way to help individuals connect, get to know each other, and create group events for them as well.

The early in career group was recognized and funded by Microsoft for the great initiative that it was. At EITF, we were lucky to talk to the group last year. You will notice in Gracey's EITF interview, that a lot of her answers encourage our audience to take initiative without having the fear of the environment that they are in. In todays world where every employee is trying to do their best to stay on top of their game given the economic condition, this can help set you apart.

A very encouraging interview and a lot to learn, especially for folks who are early in their careers. We hope you enjoy, and don’t forget to leave us your comments! Follow us on our social media platforms: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d33c3044-d6c1-415b-9696-28d1eb5fa554

EITF episode 5 trailer - we talk to Gracey C. Wilson, a software engineer from Microsoft. Gracey also started the Early in Career group at Microsoft, which was recognized widely and funded by Microsoft. Follow us on our social media platforms: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d33c3044-d6c1-415b-9696-28d1eb5fa554

Hi everyone, we are back with episode 4 of the EITF project, and this is an exciting one. For this episode, Karthik, Charu and I spoke to Katrien Pagnaer.

Katrien started her career at Microsoft. She started out as an opportunity manager, working closely with customers in Belgium and Luxembourg. She spent 5 years at Microsoft, holding multiple roles, her latest one being an Enterprise account executive for higher education.

She believes in teaching and giving back, with what she has learnt, and is also on the board of advisors for the Auckland ICT graduate school.

After Microsoft, she started her career at AWS, and has held multiple roles so far. She started out as a National sales manager for New Zealand, before transitioning to a role as Senior sales manager for mid enterprise in Australia and is currently the head of enterprise Greenfield based out of Amsterdam.

All right everyone, notice anything here? Katrien has traveled the world in the pursuit of building a multi dimensional career. In her interview with us, we talk about this - Katrien says that most of us think of Geography restrictions before picking out a role, but by simply removing that restriction from her mind, she found a way to travel the world, experience different cultures, all the while working on the latest technology.

When we spoke about the pandemic and how it changed the way we worked, Katrien inspired the 3 of us by talking about the boundaries that the pandemic has helped remove, rather than talking about the restrictions that it set.

We noticed that She has a very different approach to her work - she builds her job round the way she wants to live her life. We all know how difficult it is to do this, but the balance and the way that she prioritizes her day and her annual year, is very impressive and helps her achieve this.

We talk a lot about what the future holds for a career in tech, and what one should prioritize, to build a career successfully. This is a must watch, everyone. Enjoy, and as usual, let us know what you think!

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Here's a sneak peak of our interview with Katrien Pagnaer, the head of enterprise - Greenfield at AWS. A very interesting one, we talk about quiet quitting, working without context, shaadi.com, and a lot more!

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