Gulf Developer Conference is the biggest developer event that takes place in Saudi Arabia. This is a 3-days conference that is expected to attract more than 2,400 attendees from Saudi Arabia and near-by Gulf countries. The current event dates are set on Dec 13-15, 2009. The conference will be held at Al-Yamamah University, on the same premise of the new Microsoft Innovation Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There will be 3 parallel tracks that would be delivered simultaneously for the duration of the event. The current speakers are:

Abdurrahman Al-Qahtani, Microsoft Architect
Abdurrahman Al-Qahtani is Architect Evangelist at Microsoft Saudi, working with the Developer and Platform Evangelism group. He works with communities to raise the awareness and adoption of new technologies and architectures from Microsoft. He also works with enterprises to show Microsoft platform value and drive adoption to address business needs.

Adel Zubair, Sr. Development Consultant
I was born in a family that love’s technology. My father is a Math teacher so i was born to think logically! wrote my first application using Quick BASIC at the age of 9 and won several awards Kingdom wise during high school in Computer Competitions. My love to Development made everyone around saying that i’ll get married to Visual Studio. I worked for different companies as Developer, Senior Consultant in dot Net and Currently working as a Project Manager. Started to have interest in Windows Mobile since i got my first Windows device and found that it is a real challenge to develop applications for these devices with limited resources, at the same time they are so fun to use, so i started the “Windows Phone Middle East” Community (Windows Mobile Power Group on Facebook) to spread out my knowledge

Amer Atiyah, Dynamics Ax Consultant
Amer has a bachelor degree in Computer science from the University of Jordan, MCSD on .NET, and MCTS for Dynamics AX development. Amer is a technical expert on many technologies; including .NET, BizTalk Server, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and most importantly on Dynamics AX. Amer has good experience in developing web application e-government solutions in Saudi using .NET technology. He has over three years of experience specifically in Dynamics AX development and has been involved in more than 15 projects in different verticals.

Ali Ramadan, Continual Service Improvement Director – Global Knowledge
More than 18 years experience in client/server and Web applications software design and development. Proficient in application design & programming, scalability of applications, application infrastructure management, maintenance and support. Experience in advising clients on strategy and developing business critical, multi-tier applications utilizing leading edge technologies. Proficient in database management techniques from conceptual to implementation phase. ITIL life cycle processes implementation experience.

Anton Delsink, Technology Advisor
A programmer at heart, Anton Delsink has extensive skills in developing solutions around Visual Studio, Team System and SQL Server. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he participates in worldwide events such as Microsoft TechEd, Professional Developers Conference and Mix. Anton joined Microsoft Gulf in Dubai in March 2007 and has been a vocal spokesperson for the improvement of software development practices in the region.

Fauzan Khan, Technical Consultant
Fauzan Khan is a Consultant working with a large consulting firm. He is a certified MCSD.NET / MCDBA / MCT with over 16 years experience. Fauzan’s competency goes beyond .NET development to extend to other development technologies (e.g. SQL 2005, SPS, CMS). Fauzan is considered to be one of the most senior technical experts within the developer community (in both training and consultancy). He is known with his deep knowledge/ expertise in existing and upcoming new Microsoft technologies.

Hassan Khawaja, Microsoft Field Engineer
Hassan Khawaja works as a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, based out of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia office. He works with all of the leading companies plus Public Sectors around the Kingdom and the Gulf region. This involves working proactively and reactively with the customer to ensure they are using Microsoft Technology in the most efficient and productive ways.

Jerry Yasir, Sharepoint Consultant
Jerry is Founder and President of Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG.NET) and SharePoint Consultant at EJADA. He hold a master degree in Computer Sciences and has nearly 8 Years of experience working in Microsoft Technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft .NET and Project Server. He is currently responsible of executing and managing many large scale SharePoint implementations in Saudi Arabia. He is a keen speaker and SharePoint trainer with interest on speaking on planning, implementation, customization and developing applications on top of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solutions. He also holds MCPD, MCTS SharePoint 2007, MCITP (EPM) and MCSD.NET.

Kadri Umary, Microsoft Architect
Kadri Umay is currently working as an Industry Solutions Architect for Saudi Aramco. He has been working for Microsoft for more than 10 years spanning roles that include support and consultancy. He holds an MSC Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect. Prior to joining Microsoft he has worked as an Academician, on Process Control and Automation and Software Development.

Mohamad Halabi, Architect
Mohamad Halabi works as an architect and consultant for ITD. He worked in software houses in Lebanon and KSA and currently handles BPM and SOA projects in the government education sector.

Mohamed Mosallem, Development Lead
Mohamed Mosallem is a Development Lead based in Riyadh, he has been working with the .net Framework since it’s early beta in 2000, he is specialized in developing Enterprise .net Applications and Enterprise Applications Integration, Mohamed is a community board member and regular speaker at DevLifeStyle the first .net users group in Riyadh, he can be reached through his blog www.mosallem.com

Omar Awwad, Microsoft Solutions Specialist
Omar has been working with SQL Server for around 10 years and is currently an application platform solution specialist in Microsoft Arabia with a specialty in Microsoft SQL Server availability, scalability and manageability. He also has excellent experience in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and performance Management solutions.

Pete LePage, Sr Product Manager, Microsoft Corp
Pete LePage works on the Internet Explorer team as a Senior Product Manager, helping developers take advantage of the Internet Explorer web platform. Pete has been designing websites since his early days in high school, evolving from overlapping ,

Randy Maningas, Solutions Specialist, Microsoft
Randy Q. Maningas is Mıcrosoft Dynamics CRM Solution Specialist in Saudi Arabia. In his role, Randy facilitates and works very closely with customers and partners in delivering CRM/xRM solutions. Randy joined Microsoft from General Electric Healthcare Saudi Arabia where he worked as Service Delivery Leader. Prior to that, he worked for Epicor partner in Saudi where he provided consulting services and project management expertise in the region. Has been in the ERP business since year 2000, he was one of the first who adapted Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that is, from its very first release. Randy has also been active speakers for various business solutions particularly related to ERP and CRM.

Tareq Ali, Technical Consultant
Based in Saudi Arabia, Tareq Ali is a Technical Consultant with ITWorx Arabia, a firm that specializes in .NET development and Microsoft server integration. Tareq has extensive experience in building advanced enterprise and integration solutions. Before Joining ITWorx Arabia, Tareq was leading integration team at Execution Limited, a stock broker based in London. Tareq is also considered to be one of the first developers started BizTalk integration projects in Egypt in 2004, and delivered a work shop to Batelco, the Bahrin Telecom company in 2005

Umit Tiric, Microsoft Architect
Umit Tiric has 14 years professional experience though he has started his career in 1989 by releasing his first commercially packaged software for insurance policy management for insurance companies. Since then, he has also designed, implemented computer network infrastructure projects on network layer but his main focus is designing and developing enterprise applications and integrations using various technologies, programming languages and products mostly focused on Microsoft products and technologies.

Wael Kabli, Microsoft Consultant
I started working for Microsoft in 2006 after I graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals as a Software Engineer. Since then, I have joined Microsoft Consulting Services and started my career as an Information Worker and Application Development Consultant. A major portion of my work is helping our customers deploy and accelerate our technology adoption such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and .Net Framework. http://blogs.msdn.com/wael

Zlatan Dzinic – Enterprise Architecture Consultant
Zlatan’s primary role is an Enterprise Content Management Lead, System Architect/Lead Developer and an Enterprise Content Management/Enterprise Architecture Consultant, he also comes from an extensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product background – MS SharePoint 03/07, Opentext – Livelink, Identitech – FYI, Global 360, Meridio, K2.NET, Opentext – Domea (including Business Intelligence), working, providing solutions and managing projects for the Public Sector (Local, Provincial and National Government) and also Corporate Sector (Mining, Retail, Telecommunications, Oil, Manufacturing, Banking and Tourism Industry) with a strong Business and Technical background. Mostly he is a Technical Lead/System Architect as well as Project Manager or a Best Practices Consultant on large Enterprise Content Management projects and Enterprise Strategy Initiatives. His main focus is Developing and Architecting Enterprise Content Management, Document and Records Management, including Business Process Management, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions as well as Office Business Applications (full blown end to end enterprise industry solutions). He’s a guest speaker at International and National Microsoft Conferences and he also presents at Local Community events on the topics of Enterprise Content Management, SharePoint Server and Technologies, Business Intelligence and Office Business Applications.

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