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Saturday, October 13, 2012
9.30 a.m. to
10.30 a.m. -
Opening Plenary Session: Indian Americans Making an
Impact in America
Session chair - Dr. Thomas Abraham,
Founder President, FIA Metro New York, NFIA and GOPIO, Stamford, CT
Welcome - Radha Krishnan, NFIA
Past President and Chairman, NFIA Convention 2012 Advisory Committee, Detroit,
MI
Greeting - Sohan Joshi, Convener,
NFIA Convention 2012, Chicago, IL
Greetings - Lal K. Motwani,
President, NFIA, New York, NY
Keynote Address - Hon. Dr. Ann Lata Kalayil,
US GSA Administrator, Great Lakes Region, Chicago, IL
Speaker - Anju Bhargava, White
House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnership and Member, Inaugural
Advisory Council, New Jersey
10.45 a.m. to
11.45 a.m.
Conf. Room A
Session 1 -
Honoring the Pioneers - Celebrating 100th Anniversary Gadar Movement
(organized by GOPIO International)
Session Chair- Ashok Madan, Vice President, NFIA, Los Angeles,
CA
Panelists: Jodha Singh
Raawat, Founder, Forum for
Gandhi Awareness
Worldwide (FORGANA)
Samip Mallick, Exec. Director, South Asian
American Digital Archives
Philadelphia, PA, "Preserving the
history of the Gadar Party and its martyrs"
10.45 a.m. to
11.45 a.m.
Conf. Room B
Session 2 - New
Tax Rules in the US and India affecting the Community - Foreign Income
Reporting, FBAR, OVDI, Avoid Double Taxation and New NRI Taxes in India
(The session will be joined by a tax
attorney from the US and two accountants from India through video conferencing)
Session Chair - Ajit Gandhi, MBA, Chicago,
IL
Session Co-chair - Dr. Sushila
Gidwani-Buschi, President,
TOUCH, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Panelists:
Michael T. Sawier, Attorney, Chicago, IL,
"New US Tax Reporting, FBAR, OVDI and Tax Issues"
Anil Kumar Jain,
Advocate and Tax Law Consultant, ACEINDIA Legal Consultants
LLP, New Delhi, India, "India Tax ReportingRequirements, Real Estate Gains,
Inheritance
Rajesh Dhruva, CA, NRI Tax and Investment
Consultant and CEO, nribanks.com, Rajkot, Gujarat,
India , "New Rules Affecting NRI taxes"
Deepender Kumar, CA, Lakshmi Nagar, Delhi,
India,
"Avoiding Double Taxation"
12 Noon to 1.00
p.m.
Conf. Room A
Session 3 - Indian
Americans Making Impact in America
Session Chair - Subash Razdan, Chairman,
Gandhi Foundation USA and
Past President,
NFIA, Atlanta, GA
Session Co-chair - Dr. Parthasarathi Pillai, Past
President of NFIA and
Co-Chair, Convention Advisory
Committee, College Park, MD
Panelists: Chandra Kant
Patel, Former President of
AAHOA
Iftekar Shareef, Chairman, FIA Chicago and President & CEO,
National Bankcard Corp., President &
CEO
Babu Patel, Trustee, FIA Chicago; President of Patel Realty and
Co-Convener, NFIA Convention,
Chicago, IL
Sriram Sonty MD FACS,
Trustee, Gandhi Memorial Trust and
Founder, Sri Annamacharya
Project of North America (SAPNA)
12 Noon to 1.00
p.m.
Conf. Room B
Session 4 - Taking
Care of Our Own - Services to the Community Including Women and Family
Session Chair - Sudha Acharya, Executive
Director, South Council for Social Services (SACSS), Flushing, NY
Session Co-chair - Angela Anand,
NFIA Women's Committee, Washington,
DC
Panelists:
Tanvi Shah,
Workforce Development Coordinator,
Indo American Center, Chicago, IL
Neha Gill, Director, Legal
Services and Client Data Systems, Apna Ghar, Chicago, IL
Shrikumar Poddar,
Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment,
Intl. Service Society and Seva Intl., Lansing, MI
1.00 p.m. to 2.00
p.m. LUNCH
2.00 p.m. to 2.30
p.m.
Conf. Room A
Plenary
Session - Innovative DNA of Indian Diaspora
Speaker -
Dr. Sid Gautam,
Professorof Financial Economics; Director, Center for Entrepreneurship,
Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC
2.30 p.m. to 3.30
p.m.
Conf. Room A
Session 5 - Indian
American Senior Citizens - Mobilizing Services
Session Chair - Rajeshwar Prasad,
President, National Indian American Association for Senior Citizens (NIAASC),
Farmingville, NY
Session Co-chair - Santosh Kumar,
Executive Director, Metropolitan Asian Family Services in Greater Chicago (MAFS)
Panelists:
Neelam Desai, Community Care Program
Supervisor
Universal Metro Asian
Services, Lombard/Naperville, IL
Shree Gurusamy,
Senior Benefits Specialist and Health Promotion
Coordinator, Metropolitan,Asian
Family Services, Niles, IL.
Harikrishna Majmundar,
President, South Asian Senior Association,
California
2.30 p.m. to 3.30
p.m.
Conf. Room B
Session 6 -
Community's Success in Political Involvement
Session Chair - Dr. Rajen Anand, NFIA past
President, Washington, DC
Panelists: Harendra
Mangrola, President, Indo-American Democratic
Organization, Chicago, IL
Raja Krishnamurti, Former
Democratic Party Congressional Candidate, Chicago
Toby Chaudhuri, Strategic
Communications Consultant, White House Initiatives and Co-founder, SocialXDesign
Nitin Shah, Founding Member
and Past Chairman, AAHOA and President & CEO, Embassy National Bank, Atlanta, GA
Neil Patel, Former
President/Chairman, FIA Columbus and Delegate to Democratic National
Convention, Columbus, OH
3.45 p.m. to 4.45
p.m.
Conf. Room A
Session 7 -
Indian American Youth and Young Professionals Achieving Success
Session Chair - Mala Sharma, Kellogg School of
Business,
Northwestern University
Session
Co-chair - Amarnath Gowda, Immigration Attorney and
Past President of AKKA
Panelists - Tanya Prabhakar,
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL
Teena Purohit, Governors State University,
University Park, IL
Tejas Shah,
Immigration Attorney,
Kriezelman Burton and Associates and
Board Member, Indian American bar Association
3.45 p.m. to 4.45
p.m.
Conf. Room B
Session 8 -
Indian Americans Making Impact in India's Development
Session Chair
- Dr.
Haranath Policherla, MD, President of India League of America, Detroit,
MI
Panelists
Shrikumar Poddar,
Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment, Intl. Service Society and Seva Intl.,
Lansing, MI
Dr. George Abraham, MD,
Director, Emergency Dept., Lock Haven Hospital, Lock Haven, PA. and President,
Indian Institute of Emergency Medical Services, "Development of Emergency
Medicine and Emergency Medical Services in India"
Dr. Raj Lal, MD,
Cardio Vascular Thoracic Surgeon, Oak Brook, IL, "Developing Training Centers
for Emergency Preparedness and Response for Disasters in India"
4.45 to 5.15 p.m.
Concluding
Plenary Session - Reports from each sessions and conference resolutions Conf.
Room A
Session Chairs - Dr. Thomas Abraham and Radha
Krishnan
Resolutions
- Presented by Subash Razdan &
Dr. Parthasarathi Pillai, Co-Chairs, Convention Advisory Committee and
and Dr. Rajen Anand,
NFIA past President, Washington, DC
Conference Sessions Over
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7.00 p.m. to 11.00
p.m. -
Grand Finale Awards Banquet and Entertainment
7.00 p.m. to 8.00
p.m. -
Networking Cocktails Reception
8.00 p.m. to 9.00
p.m. - Dignitaries and Award Ceremony
Finale Session
- Convention Convener - Sohan Joshi,
Chicago
NFIA President - Lal Motwani, New
York, NY
Hon Mukta Dutta Tomar,
Consul General of India
Hon. Dr. Neil Parson,
Permanent Representative
of Trinidad and Tobago to the UN
Hon. Jesse White, Illinois Secretary
of State
Hon.
George Van Dusen,
Mayor of Skokie
Award Ceremony
- Haresh Panchal, Past President, NFIA and
Chairman, Awards committee
9.00 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. -
Dinner, Entertainment and Dance to the Night
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