My Story with Sanjit Biswas - MIT Research to a Cloud Leader

About the Event

How do you take your graduate research and turn it into a leading company in cloud networking? Come listen to Sanjit Biswas share his story on April 8th. Learn how Biswas and his team used their research at MIT to found Meraki, a leader in cloud networking offering midmarket customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking solutions that can be centrally managed from the cloud. Biswas sold the company to Cisco in November 2012 for approximately $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. Meraki brings the benefits of the cloud to edge and branch networks, delivering easy-to-manage wireless, switching, and security solutions that enable customers to seize new business opportunities and reduce operational cost. Whether securing iPads in an enterprise or blanketing a campus with WiFi, Meraki networks simply work. Meraki was built from the ground up for cloud networking. Meraki offers a complete cloud managed product family including wireless LAN, Ethernet switches, security appliances, and mobile device management, all built to simplify the challenges of modern, device and application-centric networks. Meraki is trusted by over 10,000 customers worldwide. Join us and hear this inspiring talk from an amazingly successful entrepreneur. Ask all your questions, learn from his successful experiences and connect with other aspiring entrepreneurs at the TiE Conference Center on Tuesday April 8, 2014. About Sanjit Biswas Sanjit is the former CEO and a co-founder of Meraki, where he managed day-to-day operations from inception through the $1.2 billion acquisition by Cisco in 2012. He now serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cisco Cloud Networking Group, headquartered in San Francisco. Sanjit has been recognized as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review, Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has received awards for academic research in computer networking. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT where he is on leave from the Ph.D. program. TiE Host Naveen Bisht, Chair, My Story and Chair, Programs/Board Member, TiE Silicon Valley Schedule 6:00 PM - Registration, Dinner & Networking 7:00 PM - Program 8:15 PM - Q & A 9:00 PM- Adjourn