ASHA 32 CONFERENCE
Saturday, September 28 – Sunday, September 29, 2024, Campbell, CA
Asha for Education has been supporting the education of under privileged children in India for over 30 years now. This is a time for all of us at Asha to celebrate all the work that Asha volunteers and our project partners have done over the years. This year’s conference will be hosted by Asha Silicon Valley, Asha Stanford, Asha San Francisco, and Asha Berkeley. We invite all the volunteers to join us for the 32nd edition of the Asha Conference to be held at Campbell Community Center, Campbell on Sep 28-Sep 29 2024.
Team Asha Celebrates 25 years
*Photo from Team Asha
ACCOMMODATION – Comfort Inn Sunnyvale – Silicon Valley, 940 W Weddell Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Conference attendees need to call (408) 734-3742 and book room for Team Asha. Rooms with two queen beds or double occupancy are available at discounted rate of $100 per night.
Speakers
AGENDA
| Day 1: September 28, 2024 | ||
| Time | Topic | Details |
| 7:30 AM | Setup | By volunteers |
| 9:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration | Vegetarian with Vegan options |
| 10-10:05 AM | Conference organizers welcome (5 min) | Conference Organizers |
| 10:05-11:30 AM | State of Asha | Board of Directors |
| 11:40 AM-12:20 PM | Keynote-How Technology is Impacting Change- Founders for Mantra for Change | Santosh & Khushboo |
| 12:20-1:00PM | Speaker- Team Asha celebrates 25 years | Bharathi & Team |
| 1:00-2:00PM | Lunch | |
| 2-2:50PM | Projects management and monitoring- Impact metrics | Ranga Srinivasan & other speakers |
| 3-3:50PM | Fundraising (grants, company matches, SAC, fundraiser dinners, reaching out to high networth individuals) | Sudhi Gulur & bring Experts in corporate grants, corporate matches, Support a Child program, high net worth events |
| 4-4:50PM | Volunteer Engagement and Retention | Payal Shah Asha Central Volunteer Experience Team Director |
| 4:50-5:30PM | Public Relations Management | Agniva, incoming BOD lead |
| 5:30-7PM | Dinner and Mingling | Caterer |
| 7:00PM-8:00PM | Post dinner speaker Innovations/Ideas that work | Rajaram- Telecast from India |
| 8:00PM – 9:00PM | Asha Volunteers Cleanup | |
| Day 2: September 29, 2024 | ||
| Time | Topic | Details |
| 7:30 AM | Setup | By volunteers |
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Breakfast and Registration | Vegetarian with Vegan options |
| 9:30 AM – 9:35 AM | Day 2 Welcome | |
| 09:35 AM – 09:55 AM | State of Asha Europe | Europe Chapters |
| 09:55 AM – 10:15 AM | Transformational Leadership | Dr Sanjeev Ranganathan |
| 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Fireside Chat – From Circularity to Climate – with Dignity at the Center | Anshu & Meenakshi Gupta (founders of Goonj), Chitra moderator |
| 11:10 AM – 12 PM | Panel – AI to bridge gaps in India’s Education | Jyotika Gupta, Vince Kohli, Shoba moderator |
| 12:00PM – 1:00 PM | Maintaining Chapter Health | Board of Directors |
| 1:00PM – 2:00PM | Lunch | Vegetarian meal with Vegan options |
| 2:00PM – 2:50PM | Systems thinking | Sekar Srinivasan & Subra Nathan |
| 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM | Asha Kiran (Shortcomings in education in India) | Amrish Garg |
| 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM | From school to self-sufficiency, how we built scalable and sustainable change | Gita and Madan Gopal |
| 04:30 PM – 05:00 PM | Success Stories | India Project Partners |
| 05:00 PM – 06:00 PM | Snacks, mingling, Awards to speakers | |
| 06:00PM – 07:00PM | Asha Volunteers Cleanup | |
There will be breakout sessions discussing Team Asha, Improving Chapter Health, Graduating Chapters to Corporate Funding, Building University Chapters, Asha Wiki, Treasury, Webteam, and Increasing meeting attendance.
If you have any questions, please write to conference@ashanet.org