Bala Balasubramanian, outgoing Executive Vice President of the previous board provided an overview of the accomplishments of IIT AGNE over the past year, including a number of very highly successful events in Robotics & AI, Blockchain and hosting delegations from a number of different IITs. Neeta Agarwal, the outgoing Treasurer gave an overview of the current finances.

This was followed by the Elections to the Executive Committee for the next two year term. The election committee consisting of Anil Saigal, Ravi Rastogi and Raj Laad conducted the elections. While most of the positions were uncontested, there were three candidates who were nominated for VP, IIT Bombay. On the other hand, there were no candidates to represent IIT Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and one of 2 VP positions from the newer IITs did not have any nomination. Floor nominations of one candidate from Madras and one from Guwahati were made and accepted by all present. There was a motion to add the other two candidates from IIT, Bombay as Members-at-Large to complete the number of members needed on the committee. This motion was accepted unanimously.

We are very pleased to announce the new board for IIT AGNE for a two year term (2019-2020)

President : Bala Balasubramanian, IIT Kharagpur
Executive Vice President : Roopesh Mathur, IIT Madras
Treasurer : Praful Thakkar, IIT Kharagpur
Secretary : Mayuresh Rajwadkar, IIT Bombay
Vice President from IIT Delhi : Kartik M. Varadarajan, IIT Delhi
Vice President from IIT Bombay : Alkesh Shah, IIT Bombay
Vice President from IIT Madras : I. P. Singh, IIT Madras
Vice President from Newer IITs : Nishant Gandhi, IIT Patna
Vice President from Newer IITs : Rakesh Roshan, IIT Guwahati
Member-at-large : Duriya Doctor, IIT Bombay
Member-at-large : Ranjani Saigal. IIT Bombay

This was followed by a spirited discussion on the events to be held next year resulting in an exciting potential calendar for next year consisting of seminars in topics such as consumer data, health-care, assistive technology for care giving for disabled elders and children with special needs, design of high end vehicles, vehicle automation and sports analytics. To add to this we are also considering a science fair for the public at large. We also want to create a mentoring program and host a job/intern fair. On the topic of social events while concurring that the summer picnic was a great hit, everyone was looking for a change to the format and timing of the second annual social event.