Speakers

PUG

	Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson (a Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation) Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson is a Group Program Manager for Team Foundation Server. She has worked on several releases of Visual Studio. She graduated from Brown University in 1998 and worked at the internet startup Acquantive advertising before joining Microsoft in 2001.
	Bijoy Singhal , Microsoft Corporation Bijoy is an Evangelist with Microsoft India and he works on evangelizing development technologies. His responsibilities include driving the awareness-excitement-readiness cycle around these areas, build a community and help incubate solutions on these technologies with the SIs and ISVs in India. He's been at Microsoft for two years, first working as a Technical Lead on the VC++/C#/.NET framework support team and recently moving into the present role. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked with a product development company on installation technologies and before that with a B2B startup as a software developer. When he is not working, he enjoys reading, watching movies, listening to music and sleeping
	Subodh Sohni Subodh is freelance trainer and consultant on Microsoft Visual Studio - Application Lifecycle Management. He has conducted trainings and events on VSTS and Visual Studio 2010 for Microsoft India and Microsoft APAC. Subodh publishes his articles related to Visual Studio 2010 at http://www.dotnetcurry.com . Subodh is MVP - VS ALM, MCT and MCTS - TFS. He has experience in production, sales, software development, network administration, software deployment, software architecting and project management. He has worked earlier in organizations like HAL, Sandvik Asia Ltd. and SEED InfoTech Ltd. Subodh can be reached at subodh@ssgsonline.com
	Sanjay Vyas Sanjay Vyas, the founder of SkillLabs, has been in the field of IT for over 25 years and has worked with a wide range of technologies and interacted with customers at various levels of engagement. Sanjay is the originator of Concept visualization, a unique and powerful methodology of training, which can bring about a quantum change in any organization's productivity. He is one of the first to start teaching Windows SDK and MFC programming on Windows 3.1. He has mentored top software development companies in India. He was conferred the Microsoft MVP for .NET and Solution Architect.
	Nauzad Kapadia Nauzad Kapadia is the founder of Quartz Systems, a company based out of Mumbai that does corporate trainings and offers consultancy services for the Microsoft platform and range of products. Since Oct. 2002, for 6 years running, Microsoft has conferred on him the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) status in recognition of superior technical contribution to the user community in general. He was instrumental in the formation of the INETA (International .NET Association) Academic Committee which was responsible for spreading .NET awareness and assisting various educational institutions in coming to grips with new technology. Since Oct. 2003, Nauzad has been a regular speaker at major Microsoft events like MSDN, DevDays, TechEd, Devcon and Innovation Days to name a few. He has also been working as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) and has authored content on ADO.NET 3.5, Web services, SQL Server 2005/2008, Windows Workflow Foundation and C# 2.0. Nauzad has a total of 12 years of experience in the IT Industry and has worked on almost all technologies right from COBOL and Dbase to .NET. However lately he has become passionate about BizTalk, SQL Server and SharePoint and devotes most of his time and efforts towards these technologies. Apart from computers, he relishes National Geographic, bikes, rock music, beer, pizzas and anything else that comes in the category of “fun and entertainment”