AKKA Committees – ೧೨ ನೇ ವಿಶ್ವ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನ ೨೦೨೪

Name

Roles and Responsibilities

Naveen Krishna

Team up with fellow conveners, understand the overall plan, risks and run a successful, zero deficit convention.

Recruit talented individuals who have expertise with no bias or favoring any particular individual.

Take a neutral approach to benefit all attendees.

Ensures all budgets and guidelines are properly followed by all committee chairs.

The primary goal is to make a one of a kind convention.

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Lavanya Rudrapatna	Chair	Manages the task of reaching out to all Kannada Kootas and Kannadigas around the United States to promote AKKA membership and to gain Kannada charter support for the convention through monetary help.
Mani Srinivas	Co-chair
Roopa Melukote
Chandrashekar Rayannavar
Nataraj Halebeedu
Shanmugam Iyer

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Nagaraj Nagathihalli	Chair	Produces a monthly newsletter about convention proceedings, AKKA highlights, Kannada Koota highlights. Focus on providing content that is Kannadigas in US oriented, and public information, and not much personnel related. Works closely with publicity chair to leverage content about registration
Meera Rajagopal
Srinath Bhallie
Taranath Kantharajpura

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Raghu Shivaram	Chair	Manages and owns AKKA2024 website content. Works closely with the publicity committee to stay consistent with convention information. Works with registration, Kannada Koota coordination committee to show interesting data about road to convention.
Prakash Krishnamurthy	Co-chair
Ramesh Gowda
Sharath Bhandari
Dhanajaya Kengaiah

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Suresh Babu	Chair	Handles all outward facing publicity content (website, media) information. Works with AKKA convener to gather requirements and creates content for publicity. Also arranges and co-ordinates media interviews and promotes AKKA core values. Owns providing press related communication to AKKA President and Secretary who are responsible to release any press information. All communications shall be reviewed by the President and Secretary and/or a delegate. Parallel to the publicity team, Social Media team, leverages all content from website and publicity team, to push on FaceBook, Instagram, What’s app groups and Twitter. Focus on reaching out to young Kannadigas.
Vinod Kumar	Co-Chair
Yamuna Nagaraj	Co-Chair
Roopa Melkote	Co-Chair
Dhanajaya Kengaiah
Raghu Shivaram
Lavanya Rudrapatna
Mani Srinivas
Rohini Kumar

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Raghu Shivaram	Chair	Handles all outward facing publicity content (website, media) information. Works with AKKA convener to gather requirements and creates content for publicity. Also arranges and coordinates media interviews and promotes AKKA core values.Owns providing press related communication to AKKA President and Secretary who are responsible to release any press information. All communications shall be reviewed by the President and Secretary and/or a delegate. Parallel to the publicity team, Social Media team, leverages all content from website and publicity team, to push on FaceBook, Instagram, What’s app groups and Twitter. Focus on reaching out to young Kannadigas.
Lavanya Rudrapatna	Co-Chair
Naveen Krishna
Madhu Rangaiah
Manu Gorur
Dayanand Tumkur
Suresh Babu
Babu Keelara
Narendra Kumar
Dayashankar Adapa
Ravi Dankanikote
Raj Patil
Anuradha Tavarekere
Amarnath Gowda
Halekote Vishwamitra

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Vatsa Ramanathan	Chair	Raises funds, identifies charity organizations and proposes to BOD, to continue AKKA charity efforts as previous years. Plans to launch a certain charitable activity at the convention. Host fundraising programs
Kavitha Ramanna	Co-Chair
Chandru Mariyappa	Co-Chair
Amarnath Gowda
Halekote Vishwamitra
Girish Vasudeva
Sanjay Gowda
Soumya Bandalli
Manu Gorur
Babu Keelara
Rayannavar Chandrashekar

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Yamuna Nagaraj	Chair	Manages and leads Kannada Kali programs coordinating a AKKA eschool in association with other kannada kootas who are active in this effort. Plans to launch any new initiative at the convention.
Vatsa Ramanathan	Co-Chair
Chaitra Badigar
Smitha Murthy
Keshav Prasad
Nagaraj Nagathihalli

Name	Role	Roles and Responsibilities
Dayashankar Adapa	Chair	Handles any amendment to constitution and by-law content. Follows the process outlined in the constitution to seek, deliberate, change and review before putting into effect.
Madhu Rangaiah	Co-Chair
Ravi Dankanikote
Nagashankar Chandrashekar
Amarnath Gowda
Halekote Vishamitra
Raj Patil
Shantharaj Kempaiah