Asha’s coordinator, Mr. Rajaraman Krishnan, an IIT Madras alumnus, was a featured panelist at Sangam 2024, the annual IIT Madras Alumni Association event.

Sangam 2024 is the fifth edition of the annual flagship event of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras Alumni Association (IITMAA). The event took place on September 14, 2024 at The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace. The theme for this year’s event was “Sankalp for Viksit Bharat”. Several panel discussions were organised on topics ranging from startups and technology to sustainable development and student wellbeing.

Asha’s co-ordinator, Mr.Rajaraman Krishnan, an alumni of IITM, was invited as a panelist in insightful panel discussion on the topic ‘Societal Impact or How to make an Impact?’. Balaji Sampath the founder of AID India, A. Ravishankar the founder of Chudar and Ravi Gundlapalli the founder of Mentor Cloud were the other panelists in this session that was moderated by Malati Raghunath, a guest faculty at IITM. The panel talked about how IITM alumni may do more to impact the society and help make Viksit Bharat.