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Important: Please note the change in venue. It is now MAY FAIR BANQUET

Celebrate the Republic Day with fellow IT Professionals and Industry Experts as Mumbai IT Pro user group organizes The New Efficiency Community Launch in Mumbai on 26th January, 2010. The event is targeted for all the IT Managers and IT Professionals. Take the opportunity to meet some of the Best known in the Industry experts, interesting sessions, un-conference, and giveaways / prizes.

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AGENDA

09:00 AM to 09:45 AM: Registrations
09:50 AM to 09:55 AM: National Anthem
09:55 AM to 10:00 AM: Settle Down
10:00 AM to 10:10 AM: Keynote - Ashwin Kini
10:10 AM to 11:00 AM: Chief Guests - Intro + Panel Discussion
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM: Welcome to the world of Exchange Server 2010 - Dinesh Kursija
12:00 PM to 01:00 PM: Why upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 ? - Sajish Pavithran
01:00 PM to 01:30 PM: Lunch Break
01:30 PM to 02:15 PM: What's New In Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 - Juned Ansari
02:15 PM to 03:00 PM: System Center Overview - Aviraj Ajgekar
03:00 PM to 03:30 PM: Technical Unconference
03:30 PM to 04:15 PM: Technical Unconference
04:15 PM to 04:45 PM: Technical Unconference
04:45 PM to 05:15 PM: Technical Unconference
05:15 PM to 05:30 PM: Certificate + Prize Distribution
05:30 PM to 05:45 PM: Ending Note by Ashwin Kini
05:45 PM to 05:50 PM: National Anthem
End of Day

EVENT FORMAT

The morning sessions are targeted towards the IT Managers and post lunch for the IT Professionals

A panel discussion with the IT Industry experts and learn what's in store for IT in year 2010

Technical Unconference for the IT Professionals:

An eventful day with a mix of both conference and unconference in a single day. "An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose." During the unconference time all are participants and is the time when you get an opportunity to take the stage and conduct a session of your choice about The New Efficiency product of your choice. So if that interests you, please make sure you have your laptops and presentations with demos ready. Get prepared for the rapid back to back demo sessions. Please be noted, you are not only speaking in front of the in house audience, but these sessions are getting streamed LIVE across the Internet through the Microsoft's portal www.communitytechdays.com with a high viewership rate and then available for offline viewing. Take the opportunity to get yourself noticed. You will have to register your session details in the morning before 11:00 AM near the registration counter. In case of excess registrations, a polling among the attended audience will be conducted and the highest selected will be considered to fit within the slots. Make sure your session sounds interesting and appealing for the IT Professionals.

Get your hands on the Windows 7 and demo labs:

You may have found we have not kept any Windows 7 specific session since we have conducted several in the past. Now is the time for you to experience them and the productivity features hidden within it. Get a feel through a few machines deployed at the venue and learn yourself.

Demo shoot outs by the MumbaiITPro volunteers:

Outside the hall, you will find some volunteers demonstrating some tips on The New Efficiency products, learn and share them.

Get your laptops powered with Windows 7:

Volunteers will be available for installing Windows 7 on your laptop. Return back home with the power of Windows 7

Special Announcements:

Some special initiatives by MumbaiITPro to be announced.

SESSION ABSTRACT

Welcome to the world of Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to achieve new levels of reliability and performance, by delivering features that can help simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. In this presentation, we’ll introduce you to Exchange Server 2010, and highlight how this latest release can help you realize the new efficiency, by enabling you with less, to do more. In a time when your organization requires its communication tools to be cost effective and flexible, answer is Exchange 2010

Why upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 ?

Yes, you are right. Windows Server 2008 R2 is the newest Windows Server Operating System from Microsoft. In this session we will evaluate Windows Server 2008 R2 and check the various reasons for the upgrade to the best of your advantage. Windows Server 2008 is designed to help organizations reduce operating cost and increase efficiencies. We shall also explore the branch office capabilities, exciting new remote access experiences, Server management & the top IT pro tasks made easier with R2.

What's New In Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010
Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 allows employees to safely and productively use the Internet without worrying about malware and other threats. It provides multiple protection capabilities including URL filtering*, antimalware inspection*, intrusion prevention, application- and network-layer firewall, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection – that are integrated into a unified, easy to manage gateway, reducing the cost and complexity of Web security.

System Center Overview
System Center solutions help IT pros manage the physical and virtual information technology (IT) environments across data centers, client computers, and devices. Using these integrated and automated management solutions, IT organizations can be more productive service providers to their businesses.
The System Center Suite that we will cover are:-
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) R2
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
System Center Essentials (SCE)
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM)

EVENT SPEAKERS

Rakesh Mohan Goyal is the Director-General of Centre for Research & Prevention of Computer Crimes, India (CRPCC) and Managing Director of Sysman Computers P Ltd., Mumbai (www.sysman.in). He is engaged in IS Security, IS Audit and Forensics since 1991. He is also the Editor of tri-weekly newsletter and fortnightly magazine "CCCNews"  (www.cccnews.in) exclusively on IT Security, published by CRPCC, with subscriber base of over 92000+ as on January 2010. He has been member of various government committees relating to IT Act and chaired some technical / audit committees; expert committees regarding IS Security, IT Act and PKI.

He is an Engineering Graduate with Gold Medal; an MBA from I.I.M.-Bangalore with Gold Medal. He also holds certifications CISA, CISM, CEng, CMC, CCCI, CFE, FIE, MIEng, MIInst W, MIMC, MIIIE, FISM. He has authored 7 books on IT Security and over 50 papers/articles. He was awarded the Young Consultant Award for 1990 by CDC/Govt. of India. In his 38 years of career, he has done over 2000 IT security assignments. He also holds a First Degree Black Belt in Karate.

Author of books -

1. Computer Crimes - Concept, Control and Prevention (Published in 1993).
2. Bank Computerisation  (Published in 1996).
3. Digital Signature - All you want to know about it, but don't know whom to ask!  (Published in 2004).
4. Demystifying Information Technology Act - 2000  (Published in 2005).
5. Sankat Mochan Yojana (Published in 2005) - can be downloaded from www.sysman.in.
6. Publisher of Case Studies in Information Security (Published in 2002).
7. eBook - SECURING WI-FI NETWORK (10 steps to DIY Security)- can be downloaded from www.sysman.in.

M D Agrawal, Head of department and Deputy General Manager at Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, at Mumbai refinery
Having a total 28 years professional experience in IT is also the CSI (Computer Society of India) Fellow

Mr. Agrawal has had the privilege of actively participating in many of the successful events hosted by CSI.  Partial List includes:

• CSI 99  CSI National convention as  Organizing  Committee Chairman ,
• CSI 2004 as Event Chair , India
• IT 2020  National convention  in Mumbai
• Member of nomination committee :  Engineered Internet based voting facility
• Founder President of CSI-CIO Club in India. The innovative concept of CIO Club has engaged the attention and involvement of the Corporate World with CIOs/ CTO/ Head of IT and Senior IT professionals coming together to share their rich experience and knowledge and complimenting the academia.

Sanjay Shetty is the CEO of Wireless Strategist & Consultants (I) Pvt. Ltd. which consults companies on building mobile and .Net solutions. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for Mumbai India(12 years), locally known as Lord Mobility in the Microsoft India dev community. He’s also the International .Net Association’s, President for the Asia Pacific region and was earlier the Regional Lead for Culminis in Asia Pacific and EMEA. He has written many articles on .Net and Mobility at Devx, .Net Developer’s Journal, Mobilized Software. He’s been a regular speaker for the past 12 years at various Microsoft conferences such as DevDays, PDC, TechEd and other 3rd party events. He has spoken internationally at events like VSLive and Microsoft Mobile Developer conference.

Ashwin Umesh Kini is an IT Professional from Mumbai and passionate about Networking technologies. Works as Technical Consultant CNC on JD Edwards / PeopleSoft ERP with M/s Systime Computer Systems Ltd., Mumbai; a division of CMS Ltd. He holds Masters in Computer Applications, Bachelors in Computer Applications, and Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Awarded as 2008 Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Windows Server Customer Experience: Networking.

He is an active member of IT Professionals communities and volunteers as Regional Chairman APAC (Asia-Pacific) for Global IT Community Association (GITCA) formerly Culminis, an international not-for-profit organization devoted to the development and growth of the IT community world-wide, President of Mumbai IT Professionals User Group (MumbaiITPro) in Mumbai, India, panel member of Microsoft Online User Group Advisors, and Microsoft User Group Support Services steering committee.

His expertise is the areas of Windows Networking and Virtualization and freelances as “Subject Matter Expert” (SME) for Windows client, server, and virtualization solutions. When in leisure, he enjoys listening to music, watching sports and interests in photography. Ashwin blogs at http://www.ashwinkini.com/blog

Dinesh Kursija is a Senior Consultant with experience of Microsoft IMS products. He has designed and implemented IMS solutions for good number of companies.  He is also a Solutions Specialist in an IT industry with successful record of training industry solutions.  He works as a Consultant with  Seed Infotech, Pune for training and projects. Prior to working as Free Lancer, he worked as a consultant at Maestros & Wipro.

Already delivery webcast for Group Policy, 2003 Administrative structure. Also delivered sessions on Virtual tech days for OCS 2007. Also delivered fantastic Four Session on  Exchange 2010.

Introducing Exchange Server 2010, Flexible and Reliable Messaging with Exchange Server 2010

Anywhere Access with Exchange 2010, Protection and Compliance with Exchange 2010

Also delivered Exchange 2010 trainings for Microsoft at Eight locations all over India.

Dinesh has average 9+ years of industry experience, working with customers in on Microsoft Infrastructure products. He brings positive energy during his trainings. He has a graduation degree in Commerce. He is also a MCSE & MCT Certified. Other than Windows 2003, he has also successfully delivered trainings on Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, Hyper V, SCVMM, SCCM, SCOM, Windows 7, OCS 2007, Clustering, Exchange 5.5, 2003, 2000, 2003 & 2007, Windows 2000\2003\2008, Windows XP\ Vista\ 7, SMS\SCCM, MOM 2005\SCOM, ISA, LCS.

Sajish Pavithran works with Mphasis an HP company and working for their client British Petroleum (BP) as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer on a Wintel project. He has served as Partner Technical Consultant for Microsoft in the past and worked on DPM 2006/2007, OCS 2007, Exchange 2007 & MOSS 2007. His responsibilities included delivering Consulting and Advisory Services to Microsoft Gold Partners across North America region. He was one of 4 candidates from the entire process who was given the opportunity to deliver workshops in 6 cities in India on OCS to Microsoft Gold Partners, Sales specialist, Developers and Technology specialist and also delivered a few Hands on Labs. Sajish holds some of the certifications that include Veritas Backup Exec 10.0 Administrator, MCSE 2003, Certified IT Professional – Exchange Server 2007, Certified on Data Protection Manager 2007 inside and out, and ITIL V3 Foundation Certified

Juned Ansari is working as an Escalation Engineer in Zenith InfoTech with Experience on Microsoft Unified Communication solutions. His Principle areas of expertise are Windows 2003\2008\R2, Active Directory, Exchange 2003 and 2007, OCS, RMS, ISA Server 2006 and Products released under the Forefront family including TMG, IAG, Forefront Security for Exchange server,  SharePoint and OCS.

He holds a Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunications. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2003, Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2007 and MCTS on Exchange 2010.

He was also actively involved in Microsoft Evaluation Drive for products like Exchange 2010, Threat Management Gateway, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 by working on them in a Virtual Lab and Reporting advancements in the software on blogs on the Internet. He also Authors a blog at http://exchange360.wordpress.com