Infosys 25th Year Celebration Inauguration Slide Show

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The 25th year celebrations was kicked off @ Mysore DC, July 30 & 31, 2006

Infosys began its 25th Anniversary Celebrations on July 30 with a spectacular event at Mysore DC. Inspiring speeches by P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister of India, and our very own N.R. Narayana Murthy, made this a truly memorable occasion.

Nandan Nilekani delivered the welcome address to kick of the celebrations, in front of a packed audience.

After the welcome address, NRN delivered a message from the heart.

Friends, by celebrating this 25th year of Infosys, we are celebrating the success of these architects of economic reforms of India, and the courage, aspiration, enthusiasm, energy and hard work of every Infoscion and ex-Infoscion. We are all celebrating the success of the wives and children of Infoscions whose sacrifices just render our own sacrifices into little, insignificant ones.

In his speech, P. Chidambaram said,

Standing here, it is difficult to believe that we are in India, that we are not in the capital city of a state, but in a city with a great history and an even greater future.

He told Infoscions, "Today, I find a gleam in your eyes, the gleam that Shri Narayana Murthy had 25 years ago. Some of you must go out and build, replicate. Build new institutions that are within your power. What seven young men could do 25 years ago, with limited resources, limited opportunities, with constraints imposed by laws, the state, with shackles imposed by the government, certainly some of you with that spirit of enterprise and leadership can do much better. I do not say that all the shackles have been removed, I do not say that all the constraints have been removed, but surely the India today is a freer place for enterprise than the India of 25 years ago"

The Guest of Honour for the evening, H. D. Kumaraswamy, Chief Minister of Karnataka said the state government would like to benefit from Narayana Murthy’s vision and enormous experience.

S. Gopalakrishnan delivered the vote of thanks.

The MCs for the function were Infoscions Reshma Pai and Nathan Linkon.

Infoscion, Farah Iqbal, also presented an essay on the "future of Infosys", compiled from various inputs.
Infosys turns 25!
The evening ended with dinner and a concert by KK (Krishna Kumar Menon), popular Bollywood singer.

The world is flat. For those who still need convincing, on Monday, July 31, Infosys became the first company to remotely ring the NASDAQ Opening Bell from Asia, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. The event was held at Infosys’ Mysore campus.

Amidst loud cheers from thousands of Infoscions present, at 7 pm IST, NRN pressed the orange button on the podium to mark the opening of the day’s trading session on NASDAQ. He, along with Nandan Nilekani, also signed on an electronic sign-in screen that was installed specially for the event.

The screen on the seven-storey tall NASDAQ MarketSite Tower in New York displayed "NASDAQ welcomes Infosys Technologies." The ceremony was telecast live on the NASDAQ Tower. The cheers grew louder when Infoscions saw live pictures of Infy’s founders and senior management on the Tower.

Greeting Infoscions with "Good evening, namaste," Bob Greifeld, President and CEO, the NASDAQ Stock Market, said, "It is physically our largest opening with 3,000 people, we’ve set a record The real story of Infosys is not in numbers, but how it has changed the world. Infosys is the global transformation partner of choice and is truly the epitome and definition of an innovative NASDAQ company."
Infosys turns 25: NASDAQ Opening Bell Ceremony

NRN spoke of Infosys’ humble beginnings and said, "We knew that if we raised our aspirations and did right in the eyes of customers, employees, vendor partners, the government of the land in which we operate, then revenues, profit and market capitalization will automatically come. This is the story of Infosys."
He added, "When we got listed in NASDAQ in March 1999, I borrowed the words of Neil Armstrong and said, ‘our listing was a small step for NASDAQ, but a giant leap for Infosys and the Indian software industry. Thank you NASDAQ! You have indeed helped us take a giant leap."

The Chief Guest for the event, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, said, "Infosys has competed, not within a protected domestic market, but in an unprotected global market. It has competed with the best in the world in great style, giving its shareholders extraordinary share value."

While NASDAQ has held remote openings in Davos and London, for the first time, a single company Infosys has done this outside the US. In 2005, NASDAQ held its first Remote Opening and Closing Bell in August, from Cisco Systems’ headquarters in San Jose, CA, to celebrate Cisco’s 20th anniversary. In December of that year, it held its first Remote Opening Bell outside the US in London to kick off NASDAQ’s 16th Investor Conference.