International .NET Association Asia Pacific

INETA APAC member groups and leaders are very active international communities which provide you as a member group leader to take part in special events that will help you grow and that will help your user group grow. INETA is involved in some aspect of nearly ever Microsoft produced event, as well as industry conferences. INETA APAC often produces some related event during these conferences, so you have the opportunity to learn from the leaders at the conference as well as your fellow INETA APAC leaders. It's a commitment to each of our member leaders that separates us from other organizations.

Speaker Bureau
User Group Events
APAC Volunteer Activities
Academic Activities

Speaker Bureau Presentations

Country, City Event User Group Date Speaker Topic

Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Independent Developers (MIND) August 2005 Meeting MIND 6th Aug 2005 Akila Manian CLR Internals

India, Bangalore BDOTNET 28th & 29th May 2005 Raj Chaudhari
Nauzad Kapadia

Praveen Srivatsva

Vinod Unny

Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Independent Developers (MIND) August 2005 Meeting MIND 7th May 2005 William Tay William Tay spoke to Malaysia's local user group, MIND to give a 5 hours presentation on XML, Web Services, SOAP, and Indigo.

India, Pune
Pune User Group 12-13 Feb 2005 Akila Manian
Nauzad Kapadia

Raj Chaudhuri

Sanjay Shetty
Upcoming - DevCon 2005
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India, Jaipur .Net Workshop for Students Jaipur.Net Students Group 27-28 Jan 2005 Nauzad Kapadia

Introduction to .NET
Building ASP.NET Applications with Web Matrix
Introduction to Web services and their relevance in the industry today.
Introduction to user goups, INETA, MS Academic initiatives and Imagine Cup.

India, Bangalore SQL BI Day SQLBang 22 Jan 2005 Dr. Nitin Paranjpe

OLAP

User Group Events

Country, City	Event	User Group	Date (dd/mm/yyyy)	Description
India, Hyderabad	TechFest 2005	MUGH	1st Week Dec 2005	TechFest 2005 is an event for celebrating Technology with the Technocrats. This event will have series of technical sessions by eminent people from the industry and also by the prize winners of SQLWiZ and CodeWarriorrs. The winners will present their whitepapers and application to the User Group and they will be appreciated by MUGH for their great efforts. This is a one day event which will also include lots of fun items like quizzes, crosswords, games etc and will come with lots of goodies for all.
India, Hyderabad	Code Warriors 2005	MUGH	12/09/2005	Code Warriors 2005 is a developer challenge, that enables software developers to develop and exhibit their applications using Microsoft .NET Technology. Developers are free to adopt some of the best practices in software development or develop their own way using .NET 1.1 or Whidbey and submit to MUGH for evaluations
India, Hyderabad	SQLWiZ 2005	SQLCon	07/09/2005	SQLWIZ 2005 is a Technical White paper contest conducted by MUGH to identify and reward the best SQL Brains of SQLCON, Hyderabad. This is an opportunity for developers to brainstorm on architecting, designing and database tuning; and showcase their skills to the technical community by presenting their white papers. INETA Volunteers would be acting as judges for the event.

APAC Volunteer Activities Calendar Year 2005

Activity	Type	StartDate(dd/mm/yyyy)	Description	Volunteer	Location	No. of People targeted	Country
Session on Tablet PC	User Group	1st October	Did a session on Tablet PC development. This was followed by a session by Dhaval Faria [MVP and INETA Volunteer] on UxTheme	Hardik Shah and Dhaval Faria	Mumbai	15	India
SFU and Table PC Session at VJTI College	Academic	5th October	Assisted MS ADE Tejas Shah on demos for SFU at VJTI College, Mumbai. Later gave a full fledged session on Tablet PC Platform for about 2 hours. Also spoke about INETA Academic and DevCon	Hardik Shah	Mumbai	30	India
Tablet PC Session @ CSI Event	Academic	1st Oct 2005	Did a session at one of the CSI events in the city. Explained them the TabletPC form Factor, Ink Management, InkColellection and Ink Recoginzers. Also told them about Tablet PC SDK 1.7. Had a good turn out of 100 students. Spoke about INETA Academic Initiatives as well.	Hardik Shah	Mumbai	100	India
Malaysian Independent Developers (MIND) July 2005 Meeting	User Group	2/7/2005	Presented a session on Microsoft Fiddler as a tool in debugging and performance tuning of ASP.NET applications	Lee Sin Min	Microsoft Malaysia, KLCC	50	Malaysia
Malaysian Independent Developers (MIND) August 2005 Meeting	Speakers Bureau	6/8/2005	Organized and invited Microsoft MVPs, Akila Manian from India, and Justin Lee from Singapore to present to Malaysia's local user group, MIND on CLR Internals, Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, and Building Secure Web Applications using ASP.NET 2.0	Lee Sin Min	Microsoft Malaysia, KLCC	70	Malaysia
Malaysian Independent Developers (MIND) .NET Day 2005	Speakers Bureau	7/5/2005	Organized and sent INETA APAC Speakers, William Tay to Malaysia's local user group, MIND to give a 5 hours presentation on XML, Web Services, SOAP, and Indigo.	Lee Sin Min	Microsoft Malaysia, KLCC	100	Malaysia
INETA Worldwide Summit 2005	Summit	19/08/2005	Attended the summit, shared best practices and activities of Malaysia's user group, MIND. Also participated in discussions on INETA APAC matters.	Lee Sin Min	Tioman		Malaysia
TechED Asia 2005 (Singapore)	Booth Duty	24/08/2005	Participated in the INETA booth duty with the objective of generating excitement for User Groups within the developer community at TechED. Supported the local SGDOTNet group and over 200 new registrations were recorded over the 3 day period. Also went around to exhibitors booth to solicit contact and interest in providing sponsorship to INETA>	Lim Fun Jin	Suntec Convention Center SG	400	Singapore
WW INETA User group meeting in Tioman	Conference	20th - 23rd Aug 2005	Attended the summit, participated in discussion on the WW council agenda. Presented information on APAC, activities, acheivements and learnings.	Sanjay Shetty	Tioman		Malaysia
GDI+ at Pune User Group	User Group	22/05/2005	Introduction to GDI+ and also some intermediate level information on GDI+	Dhaval Faria	Pune	25	India
Student Chapter at Sinhgad College of Engineering	Academic	21/02/2005	Introduction to .NET Framework, Introduction to ASP.NET, Introduction to Windows Mobile and Introduction to .NET Compact Framework	Dhaval Faria, Jignesh Desai, Mahesh Mitkari	Pune	150	India
D Y Patil College of Engineering, Pimpri	Academic	19/03/2005	session at D Y Patil on .NET Framework Introduction, .NET CF Introduction, ADO.NET and ASP.NET	Dhaval Faria, Priya Soni, Samprada NS	Pimpri, Pune	50	India
Whidbey	User Group	26th Mar 2005	Conducted a user group session for Kolkatta User group to revive and rejuvenate the group.	Nauzad Kapadia	Kolkatta	25	India
Technical Festival at VESIT Mumbai	Academic	12th Mar 2005	Hands on workshop on asp.net	Nauzad Kapadia	Mumbai	10	India
MIT Women's Engg College	Academic	21st Feb 2005	Introduced students to .net, pune user groupa and ineta	Nauzad Kapadia	Pune	75	India

Academic Events supported by INETA APAC

	Imagine Cup 2005 launched The Imagine Cup is your chance to work on the project you've always dreamed of and go head to head with the world's brightest students. Click here to register.
	Windows Embedded Student Challenge 2005 Enter the second annual Windows Embedded Student ChallengE! The competition challenges undergraduate teams of four, with a faculty mentor, to design a computer-based system that solves a real-world problem. Click here to participate.