DEVCON 2012

Devcon 2012

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Keynote Speakers

Amod Deshpande
Amod Deshpande is CTO of Avanade in India Delivery Center of Accenture. He is Microsoft alumni and has spent many years in the US working on server platform products development. He has played various roles in system integration space and provided technology consultation to various clients. Some of his current focus areas include digital marketing, cloud computing and mobility.

Harish Vaidyanathan
Harish Vaidyanathan leads the Evangelism efforts for Microsoft India, with specific focus on Web technologies. Prior to this, Harish was with Microsoft Consulting Services in a variety of roles ranging from consulting, sales and practice management, to managing corporate strategy. Harish has a graduate degree in Statistics and an MBA in Computer Systems. His current interests include photography and preparing to run a full marathon.

Session Speakers

Aditee Rele
Aditee loves focusing on addressing architectural challenges in the enterprise and Web space and has first-hand exposure to large implementations on various platforms across the Microsoft Technology Suite.

Aviraj Ajgekar
Aviraj is a Computer Engineer from Mumbai and currently working with Microsoft Corporation India as a Technical Evangelist. In his present role he is working with IT Professionals across India evangelizing Microsoft Technologies. Primarily he focuses on Microsoft Core IO Technologies such as Windows Client Platform, Windows Server System, Virtualization, System Center, Private Cloud & Public Cloud. A real blogger, he is very compulsive on adding his thoughts to online blogs, forums, community and media. He blogs regularly at http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj He a regular speaker at various Microsoft Events such Microsoft TechEd, MS TechDays, Virtual TechDays, Microsoft India Webcasts and many more technology events. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, hang around with friends & listening to the rock music. He’s also passionate about Photography & Long Drives. You can follow him on twitter @aviraj111

Abhishek Kant
Abhishek Kant is passionate about solving real world problems with technology. In his earlier role at Microsoft, he had the opportunity to relish the rise of web applications (ASP to ASP.NET), mobile technologies, cloud computing and followed them from infancy. He has been privileged to work with diverse technology communities in India including developers, IT Professionals, information workers and consumers. In 2012, he joined Telerik Corp to help bring up their business in India as Country Manager.

Abhishek Narain
Abhishek works as Technical Evangelist at Infragistics. He has worked as a Consultant with Microsoft for several years and has worked on Visual Studio IDE, ASP.Net, HTML5, Azure, IE, Windows Phone 7 and XNA. As a Technical Evangelist, he evangelizes the latest technologies and works with Infragistics’ customers providing them with technical solutions. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft TechEd and Virtual Tech Days. Abhishek believes in the mobile platform and sees it playing a vital role in the future.

Daniel McPherson
Daniel McPherson (@danmc) has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project "Tahoe" at the Microsoft Technical Briefing, January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 40 different countries. He's worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas (www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before.

Dhaval Faria
Dhaval Faria is from Mumbai and he is Managing Director for Hirdhav Software Pvt. Ltd., He has been Microsoft MVP for 7 years. He gives architecture guidance to many companies and also he is into corporate training. He is very passionate about technology. He is very interested in game development and designing. He has given architecture guidance, technology guidance and performance tuning guidance to many companies like Bombay Stock Exchange, MTNL, FINO, 3i InfoTech, ICICI Bank, SBI Life, etc...

Gouri Sohoni
Gouri is Trainer and consultant. She has experience of over two decades in software training and consulting. She is a graduate from Pune University and PGDCA from Pune University. She is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on VS - ALM since 2011 and has conducted more than 125 corporate trainings on various Microsoft technologies. She is a speaker with Pune User Group and has conducted a session on SQL Server Business Intelligence and sessions on Visual Studio 2010 - ALM. Gouri has written more than 40 articles on SQL Server Business Intelligence and SQL Azure which are published on http://www.sqlservercurry.com and also articles on Visual Studio 2010 - Application Lifecycle Management which are published on http://www.dotnetcurry.com.

Kedar Ghanekar
Mr. Kedar Ghanekar [Strategic Services Unit- SSU] Kedar is an Innovative, Seasoned Software Consultant with over 17 years of IT Development & Training in India as well as International market. He has worked as a Developer, Team Lead, Consultant, and Technical Evangelist in Microsoft Enterprise. He is a Subject Matter Expert on SQL Server, Database Concepts, VSTS 2010 ALM and SharePoint Server. Solution Specialist – SQL Server

Laxmikant Bhole
Laxmikant works @Accenture as Azure Senior Architect. He has rich 15 years of industry experience on variety of Microsoft technologies with his primary skill set being architecting solutions on .NET and Windows Azure. He has been actively working on Windows Azure since its first CTP. In his role he is helping customers in adopting Windows Azure technology and implementing complex solutions on Windows Azure. He is also responsible for capability enhancements on Windows Azure within his organization and leads the Windows Azure technical team. He is also an active member on Windows Azure community.

Nauzad Kapadia
Nauzad Kapadia is an independent professional and founder of Quartz Systems, and provides training and consulting services for the entire Microsoft .NET and SQL Server stack. Nauzad has over 17 years of industry experience and has been a regular speaker at events like TechED, DevCon, DevDays and user group events. Nauzad has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for 6 years on technologies ranging from C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server. Whenever he is not working on his computer, he enjoys rock music, photography and reading.

Nishant Anil
Nishanth works as a Technical Evangelist for Infragistics. He has several years of experience in software development using Microsoft Technologies and has worked mainly on Silverlight, and WPF (including frameworks like Prism, MVVM Light, and Caliburn). As a Technical Evangelist, he works on latest technologies, blogs on it, involves in community events and contributes to various forums. He provides technical assistance to developers for building rich user experience and helps them adopt new technologies.

Parag Paithankar
Parag Paithankar has close to 13 years of IT experience spanning across the software ecosystem from product development to partner management. Before joining Intel, he was working with Microsoft for the past 6.5 years. Being a developer since the early days of ZX Spectrum, Parag was introduced to ZX Basic, assembly and C since the age of 16. He has been a Systems Programmer for a very significant time of his IT career and is still very passionate about writing system utilities to improve user productivity. In his early days, Parag has also been a writer for various online communities like www.vb-helper.com, www.developersdex.com and www.codeproject.com. On the personal side, Parag loves playing Snooker and Billiards and has been participating in state and national ranking tournaments. He also loves playing chess.

Pooja Singh
Pooja works @Accenture as Windows Azure Architect. She has rich 9 years of experience with variety of Microsoft Technologies with primary skill set in .NET and Azure architecture. In her role she is responsible to help customers in architecting and implementing Azure solutions. She has great passion towards general Cloud technologies particularly with Windows Azure.

Rajagopal A
Raj has significant contributions in innovating for humanity by creatively taping the power of technology. During last 3 years, he contributed in applying technology for transformation of poverty by leading Intel’s Rural initiatives. Currently, he works on touch & sensor on Windows 8. He contributes to helps app developers & industries by giving breakthrough ideas. Raj’s did his B.Tech at IIT, and researched at IISC, and believes in achieving our country’s Millennium development goals using ICTs. He speeds his personal time developing ICT solutions for humanity

Raj Chaudhuri
Raj is an experienced senior-level IT trainer and consultant with an extensive and in-depth background in Microsoft developer-oriented topics, including .NET Framework technology, SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies such as SQL Server Analysis Services. He has been an independent consultant since 2004, prior to which he worked with Microsoft in various roles. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and a VB.NET enthusiast.

Sanjay Shetty
For 19 years, Sanjay has been involved with the Microsoft technology stack. He’s been a top rated speaker at conferences both locally and internationally. He’s been consulting and deploying solutions across a variety of domains: standard transactional data systems, business intelligence, web solutions, social media and mobile application integration across a variety of industries. He is recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director since 1998, for his expertise in the understanding of technology and its business. Sanjay currently leads Communities R Us which helps organizations convert customers into Brand Advocates. You can reach him on Twitter. He blogs at http://blogs.communitiesrus.in/communityconnect

Saranya S
Saranya works as a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft India focusing on Microsoft’s latest cloud services technology. Inherently interested in Microsoft technologies and developer tools, she has spent considerable time in other Microsoft business units in India and Redmond. She is a graduate from BITS Pilani in Computer Science and Masters in Physics. She is passionate about technology, community meet-ups, presentations, demos and 2 way dialogues.

Sarang Kulkarni
Sarang Kulkarni (@sarangbk) has been coding for food, fun and everything else since the last 13 years. He has been involved with Azure since the Red Dog days. In love with the moving target that Azure has been he’s built solutions covering mundane to the wackier. Media transcoding, a social advertising software-as-a-service, and insurance claims to name a few. He’s currently enjoying the role of being “dumbest guy in the coolest team in town” and having more fun than ever at Zevenseas (www.zevenseas.com).

Sarang Datye
Sarang works as an Architect with Microsoft Global Services. He’s been designing and developing line of business applications that leverage Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Office!

Subodh Sohoni
Subodh is Trainer and consultant on Visual Studio (Application Lifecycle Management) and Team Foundation Server. He has experience of over a decade in team management, training, consulting, software development and deployment. He is an engineer from Pune University and has done post-graduation in IIT, Madras. He is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - VS ALM since 2009, is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has conducted more than 150 corporate trainings on Microsoft technologies in India, Malyasia, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. He has written more than 50 articles on Team System and VS ALM which are published on http://www.dotnetcurry.com. Subodh is regular speaker at Microsoft events and roadshows including TechEd.