Best practices council (Silicon Valley)

• Best practices council will be exclusively for the engineering, top management, finance and HR professionals at the headquarter in US. The council discussions will be focused on challenges, best practices and the opportunities from the offshore center
• Best practices council will be structured based on defined topics in areas such as process improvement, project models, productivity, innovation, organization design, talent acquisition, retention, compensation, infrastructure, operations etc.

Best practices council (India)

• Best practices council will be exclusively for the engineering, top management, finance and HR professionals at the India center. The council discussions will be focused on challenges, best practices and the opportunities from the India center

R&D conference (Silicon Valley)

• Council members will receive complimentary delegate passes to the R&D offshoring conference to be held in California in April 2009. The conference will focus on the global stakeholders with R&D presence in India.
• The conference will focus on educating stakeholders on the offshoring capability, and the key success criteria that will allow value maximization from their offshore operations.

R&D conference (Bangalore)

• Council members will receive delegate passes to the yearly R&D offshoring conference to be held in Bangalore in March 2009. The conference will have three separate tracks on Engineering, Human Resources and Finance.
• 'Offshoring R&D 2008' was attended by over 220 companies and over 400 senior management delegates from these organizations

Product innovation workshop

• Product innovation workshops will be focused on the middle management at the R&D center. The innovation workshop will focus on helping management teams build a culture of innovation, and help them define and implement internal frameworks and procedures that will allow free flow of new ideas and innovations from the India center.
• The workshops will be 1 or 2 day long, and will be conducted as joint sessions between the council members to help share innovation-process best practices.