Goksin Bakir is the founder of Yage Ltd., a software company based in Istanbul, mainly dedicated to vertical manufacturing markets and consultancy. He acts as the Chief Software Architect and Engineer for Yage. He also works as a part time faculty for Bogazici University, MIS department. Besides his experience of over 15 years in IT Industry, Goksin’s main areas of interest are Microsoft technologies and software architecture. He has a lot of experience in Multi-tier Application Development, internet / intranet application design, and B2B application Integration. His recent projects include Enterprise solutions on .Net technologies. Goksin is the Microsoft MSDN Regional Director for Istanbul, Turkey. MSDN Regional Directors are independent 3rd party advocates of Microsoft technologies whose mission it is to inform, educate and congregate the Windows development community. Goksin is a frequent speaker at various Conferences and Seminars like MDC, PDC, etc. He also contributes to IT publications like PC Week, IT Weekly. He also has many excellence awards from leading software and IT companies.

Hammad Rajjoub

Hammad Rajjoub is working is a Solutions Architect / Technical Product Manager with Sharesoft Solutions, a financial services company based in Dubai, UAE. He is a three times Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Server Systems: XML Web Services/Connected Systems. He has worked on number of successful enterprise applications. a member speaker’s bureau for INETA MEA. He has hosted a number of technical sessions at Microsoft conferences.

Maintains his blog http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com and community web site http://www.dotnetpalm.net

Naveed Bajwa is an experienced Solution Architect and Technology Consultant. He has worked on several technologies including Microsoft .NET, .NET Remoting and other Microsoft Technologies. He has extensive experience in the areas of Enterprise application, Database Application, Web based solutions, Business process improvement. He has experience on Next Generation Windows APIs (WinFX), Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) and Microsoft Communication Foundation (Indigo). Currently he is working as Solution Architect in Kalsoft Pvt Ltd and also heads the Department of Research and Development. He has worked as development consultant on number of on site foreign projects in Middle East and Europe. He has considerable background of Microsoft BizTalk Implementation and Adapter development. He has conducted professional training of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 as Microsoft Technology consultant. He also spoke at Microsoft Developers Days 2006 on Windows Communication Foundation and its security. He has also delivered series of Seminar on VS2005 and .Net 2.0 in various universities as a part of VS2005 Launch.

In his role as Strategic Consultant and Director at Project Botticelli Ltd Rafal is responsible for analysing, planning and forecasting the changes in the field of Information Technology. Through direct association with his clients, Rafal is working closely with teams of up to 150 software developers, as well as with investors and their boards of directors. This work allows him to practice the best principles of Microsoft Solutions Framework, and Microsoft Operations Framework - the secrets behind Microsoft's and many other IT companies' success. Amongst his past experiences, Rafal was also one of the founders of Bot Inc., a Seattle software development company. In his other previous roles at Oxford Computer Group Ltd and at Aris Corporation Rafal gained extensive practical experience in consulting and professional technical speaking on a variety of subjects, which he continues to perform at Project Botticelli Ltd. His frequent conference keynotes and other speeches have been sought after by many company directors, CEOs and business leaders. These included many Microsoft TechEd conferences, Butler Group events and very prestigious addresses in a number of European countries upon their governments' invitations. More recently, Rafal has been invited to speak at a Bill Gates summit in front of hundreds of Europe's prominent CEOs. Rafal specialises in four fields: study of programming models, security and cryptography.

Razi Bin Rais has been working as a Technology Consultant / Software Engineer in a Microsoft Gold Partner company and had done several projects on various Microsoft Technologies and Products in MEA region. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and currently doing Masters in Computer Science with specialization in Enterprise Workflows and Intelligent Collaborative Systems. He has firm experience on Microsoft Share Point Server, Windows Share point Services , Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) , Microsoft Content Management Server , and ASP.NET.He has involved in multidimensional application development like Database applications, Collaborative Web Portals, Web Based Solutions and Distributed Applications. His expertise on Enterprise Workflow Systems and Collaborative Systems and Portals is evident through his projects on these areas in which he leverage several Microsoft’s and its ISV Products and Tools including Microsoft Share Point Server, Microsoft Content Management Server, K2.Net BPM , Captaris Teamplate Workflow and Ultimus BPM.

Razi Bin Rais is also a Group Leader of MSServerSide.NET User Group, a Microsoft INETA and Culminis based Technology group He is also an active member of INETA Community Speaker Bureau and delivers seminars on Current and Next Microsoft Technologies and Products. He also authors series of articles on various Microsoft Technologies including Windows Share Point Services and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), ASP.NET 2.0 , BizTalk Server.

Richard Campbell has been working with computers since 1977 and is the president of Campbell & Associates, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a consultant to a number of companies in North America, focusing on building high-performance, large-scaling web sites utilizing Microsoft technology. Richard is also the co-host of .NET Rocks!, the internet audio talk show for .NET developers. In addition to consulting and writing, Richard speaks at conferences around the world.

Saqib Ilyas is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences with Computer Networks as the area of focus. Muhammad Saqib Ilyas did his Bachelors of Computer Systems Engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, in 1998 and Masters of Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA in 2001. Saqib is serving as Assistant Professor at Department of Computer and Information Systems Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technoloyg, teaching courses in Internet Computing and Object Oriented Programming. He has also taught courses in Fault Diagnosis and Reliable System Design, Computer Network Security and Routing and Switching. He is also the Secretary/Treasurer of IEEE Communications Society Karachi Chapter, Member Executive Committee IEEE Karachi Section, IEEE Student Branch Counselor at NED University, INETA Pakistan Country Leader. Saqib is an active volunteer speaker and has spoken at a number of seminars and conferences at various venues.

Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder ofCorzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region as well as an MVP and INETAspeaker. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed, North Africa Developers Conference and other conferences around the world. He is an author of Programming SQL Server 2005 (MSPress) as well as other books on application and database development. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group.

Dr. Umar Saif received his academic training from LUMS, Cambridge and MIT. He did his BSc (Hons) from LUMS (1998), PhD from University of Cambridge (2001) and Postdoctorate from MIT (2002), all in Computer Science. Dr. Saif worked and taught at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) for four years, where he co-led the team that developed system technologies for project Oxygen -- a US$40 million project sponsored by the US Department of Defense and an industrial Alliance of world-class companies. While at MIT, Dr. Saif also managed the multi-million dollar collaboration on future computing technologies between University of Cambridge and MIT sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and a consortium of hightech companies.

Dr. Saif's research interests broadly span areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Mobile Systems, Highspeed Routing Architectures and the impact of IT in developing world countries. Dr. Saif has authored several technical publications and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. He was the first Pakistani to receive a PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, where he was admitted to the doctoral program when he was only 19 years old. During his doctorate studies, he was a Trinity College Overseas Scholar and Commonwealth Scholar at University of Cambridge. He has been nominated for the MIT Technovator award and the TR100 award (awarded to the top 100 young scientists in the world). He has served on the technical advisory board of several technology companies and is a regular speaker at technology forums, especially relating to the impact of IT in developing-world countries.

Dr. Saif was a founding Director of the Pakistan Organization for Collaborative Research (POCR) at HEC. Recently, Dr. Umar Saif received a research grant from Microsoft Research (MSR) for his work on addressing the bandwidth limitations faced by Internet users in the developing world. Dr. Saif project was the first project sponsored by MSR in Pakistan.

"Vaqar Khamisani works for Microsoft in Pakistan as the Developer & Platforms Group Manager. His key area of responsibilities is to build and sustain strong relationships with the major stakeholders within the local IT Ecosystem.

The Developer and Platforms Group focus on four important stakeholder segments – Academia, Software Houses, Community and Customers. The relationship with them is primarily driven through various programmatic engagements and localized initiatives that generate awareness and momentum towards technology, as well as foster positive synergies between these various stakeholders.

Vaqar has a Bachelors, as well as a Masters degree in Computer Science & Engineering with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a well-known person in the local IT arena through his associations with various software houses and educational institutes.”

Wajahat Abbas is working as a Sr. Consultant with Kalsoft (http://www.kalsoft.com.pk), a software consulting and research firm focused on .NET development, consulting, and advanced .NET research. His area of expertise is ASP.Net, SOA, and XML Web services.

He is also engaged with Microsoft Consulting Services for last 2 years as a Senior Development Consultant and worked on developing middleware EAI services, and Portal Solution on the biggest project Microsoft has ever engaged in Middle East for Nawras Telecom (a joint venture of Oman and QTell).

He is Microsoft MVP for Visual Developer: ASP.Net category. He holds a BS Computer science degree from Sirsyed University of Engineering and Technology.

He is a Microsoft Evangelist and speaks frequently at knowledge sharing sessions. He is an active member of MSDN groups and shares his experiences with the community. He has also written number of articles about .Net for different developer community web sites.

He is a member speakerʼs bureau INETA Pakistan, and member of INETA Pakistan Executive Committee. He has taught at Dept. Of Computer Sciences, PAF KIET as a visiting faculty member. You can contact him through his blog at http://www.wajahatabbas.com

Focus on .NET 3.5 including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and LINQ. Additional focus on RIA development using Silverlight. Ten years of experience in software development and seven years of leading a not-for-profit educational movement. Taught over 10,000 students computer science and business subjects.

Triple Masters degrees in engineering (MSE), business (MBA), and accounting (M.Acc.) from Arizona State University (ASU). Master of Arts (M.A.) in Economics from KU. Professional qualifications include Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA). Also a Microsoft MVP.

Dr. Zubair Shaikh, Professor & Director, FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, has over 10 years of experience as an IT consultant for Wall Street and other national & international organizations. He has been a faculty member at Wayne State University, Michigan; GIK Institute, Topi; and Karachi Institute of Information Technology. He has been involved in the design, planning and management of IT institutions, and offshore software development organizations. His research expertise is in the areas of Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Computer Graphics, Database Management, and E-Commerce & Internet Management. He is author of more than a dozen research papers. Dr. Shaikh is also supervising PhD students under the R&D funding by Ministry of Science & Technology, Pakistan. He is an approved PhD supervisor by Higher Education Comission (HEC) Pakistan.