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Pandit began his career in 1996 as an engineer in the infrastructure division of Qualcomm , responsible for CDMA optimization of networks . In 1999 , Qualcomm ’ s infrastructure division was sold to Ericson where Pandit began heading the Asia — Pacific CDMA infrastructure sales and was named salesman of the year in 2005 . In January 2007 , Pandit returned to Qualcomm heading the carrier relations for international markets and continued in this role for 12 years . Last year , Pandit took over as Head of the Smart City Division establishing
in one year , with its ecosystem partners robust practices . “ When I entered this program , I realized that the smart cities space was extremely fragmented ,” said Pandit . “ When I wanted to go and see what was happening in a given city , there was no single point of contact covering everything it was implementing .” Additionally , Pandit realized “ there was no single database which showed all the players that were working on Smart City deployments .” In response , Pandit set out to develop the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program : “ the glue between all
NOVEMBER 2019