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Our Esteemed Panel of Judges
Venkatarangan TNC
Venkatarangan TNC is the Chairman and Managing Director of Vishwak Solutions which provides Application Development and Maintenance Services globally. Venkat is an engineering graduate from University of Madras.
Venkat believes in giving back to the community what he has received. Helping him to achieve is his position as Microsoft Regional Director, Chennai continuously from the year 1999. In his capacity as RD he speaks in various Microsoft Premium events across the country. He is a member in the board of studies for Computer Science Department, Govt. of Pondicherry - Bharathidasan Government College for Women.
Venkat is also Passionate about Tamil language development using Unicode & providing Indian language support. He formalizes the activity by being in the Executive Council of International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) and by being the architect of Microsoft's Bhashaindia.com Portal.
Praveen Srivatsa has over 8 years of experience delivering solutions on Microsoft platforms. A graduate from REC Surathkal, Praveen has worked with clients in Europe, North America and East Asia. He has been working in the fields of Investment Banking and in the Retail segment. He is currently developing a framework solution for software systems. He is also the Regional Director, MSDN, Bangalore.
Sanjay Shetty
Sanjay Shetty is currently the founder, CEO of Wireless Strategist and also one of the founding directors of Idea Lake Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He has earlier been the Chief Executive officer and one of the founding directors of DBS Internet Services. He also had the added responsibility of heading the technical operations of the company.
Mr. Shetty has been a regular speaker at various industry forums across India on topics ranging from Internet enabling of business, to wireless strategies etc. He has been speaking at conferences ranging from India Internet World, at the IIT and various educational institutes, to Microsoft Developer Days, which he incidentally has been hosting for the past 4 years. He is the Microsoft Regional Director (West Zone) since 1997, for his contribution in implementing breakthrough solutions using Microsoft Technologies. He has also been awarded the Regional Director of the month for October 1999 worldwide by Microsoft.
Prior to this Mr. Shetty was Director of Web Solutions in partnership with other professionals of the industry, the company that later merged with the DBS Group to form DBS Internet Services. For two years preceding this Mr. Shetty was proprietor of Nirvana that specialized in database applications. Mr. Shetty is 29 years old. He pursued a degree in Computer engineering at Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Mumbai and later lectured at the same institution on RDBMS technologies.
