New York, Aug 4 - Former American President Bill Clinton will be among many top leaders to address the seventh Pan-IIT Global Conference being held in Chicago in October.

Kapil Sibal, Indian minister for human resource development; Sam Pitroda, Indian Knowledge Commission chairman; Aneesh Chopra, America's chief technology officer; and Meera Shankar, Indian ambassador in the US, will be among other keynote speakers at the Pan-IIT Global Conference to be held in Chicago from Oct 9-11.

According to conference chairman Ray Mehra, 'Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Global Economy' is the theme of this year's techie summit. Over 3,000 IITians from around the world will attend the annual gathering to be opened by Sibal. Chopra will deliver the keynote address.

'We have invited President Clinton since the goals of his William J. Clinton Foundation and the Pan-IIT conference are the same. We have common areas like energy, climate change, health care and education to work on,'' Mehra told IANS.

'The president and other global leaders in their fields will discuss how we can transform ideas into action on both sides of the ocean (in the US and India),'' he said.

Mehra said the Pan-IIT summit will take a holistic approach to problems in areas like health and energy in India.

'We will discuss how the public health system (PHS) in India can be steered with inputs from the PHS in the US which is under massive changes now,'' he said.