Bill Gates to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at TiE Global Summit today

A jury chaired by N R Narayana Murthy chose Gates for this award for his distinguished service of high order in the field of technology and entrepreneurship

Hyderabad: Bill Gates, founder, Microsoft Corporation will be attending TiE Global Summit today to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at 8pm virtually at the TiE Global Summit—2020 awards function. He will be addressing a gathering of over 20,000 entrepreneurs.

Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, is a world leader in Information Technology. Microsoft is a household name across the globe. His name is synonymous with the world of computing and a role model for every entrepreneur.

A distinguished jury consisting of personalities from around the world, chaired by N R Narayana Murthy, founder, Infosys Technologies. The other jury members include professor Jagdish Sheth, Charles H Kellstadt, professor-Business, Emory University, and Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, president and chairman, Sparta Group, Ping Fu, co-founder Geomagic, Board Director, Entrepreneur, Author chose Bill Gates for this award for his distinguished service of high order in the field of technology and entrepreneurship.

Some of his major contributions to the information technology domain include home computer, introduction of DOS. Microsoft Windows and other user-friendly software and applications including Microsoft Azure. Bill Gates built the world’s largest software business entity, Microsoft through technological innovation, keen business strategy, and aggressive competitive tactics.

As a successful entrepreneur, he later gave back his good fortune to improve humanity and nature and through his charitable organisation he has been working on key international causes. Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund global health and development programmes.

Bill and Melinda Gates received one of India’s highest civilian awards Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for their work to promote global health and development in the year 2015.

Recognising Gates

As part of the ongoing marathon online TiE Global Summit 2020, the organisers have announced that they are going to honour Bill Gates with a Lifetime Achievement Award. TiE is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. It has 61 chapters in 14 countries with more than 15,000 members worldwide.

“Bill Gates contributions are ginormous and invaluable, to list them out will be impossible. But the greatest, we at TiE feel is, that his work in computing has empowered anyone who uses a PC or any devices. His dream of the era of home computing when they were just used by big corporates, governments led to this day. Today, we have a mini-computer in the form of smartphones in our pockets. His work has impacted the way the world works,” said Mahavir Sharma, TiE Global Chair.

“Bill Gates has won many awards before but at TiE and the entrepreneurs around the world, it is our privilege and honour and to show our love and respect through this award to a man who has fuelled millions of dreams for entrepreneurs across the world”, said Sridhar Pinnapureddy, TGS 2020 Chair.

Along with the Lifetime Achievement Award, TiE is going to present various awards today evening as part of the TiE Global Summit 2020. The awards programme will also recognise entrepreneurs who are shaping the world and also the key ecosystem players who are enabling entrepreneurship to flourish. Six outstanding entrepreneurs and six ecosystem players will be recognised.

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