Hammad Rajjoub is working as Technical Lead with Meezan Bank Limited. He holds a BS Computer Science degree from Karachi University and has MCP.NET certification (as well as a number of Brain Bench Certifications). He is member of ACM (http://www.acm.org) since 2002 and was Chairman of ACM-CSKU Chapter (http://www.csku.edu.pk/acm) for the year 2002. He has been working on .Net since its Beta 1 release. His areas of interest include Distributed Computing, Service Oriented Architecture, Aspect Oriented Programming, Design Patterns and Quantum Computation.

He has developed number of enterprise scale applications using C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server. He is a .Net Evangelist and speaks frequently at knowledge sharing sessions. He has hosted number of sessions at local as well international conferences. He has written a number of articles for local as well as international publishers. He has also written a case study for Wrox Publishers (http://www.wrox.co.uk). He also trains people at software houses on .Net and helps them migrate from VB/VC to VB.Net/VC#.

He is also a user group leader of .NetWizards which is an INETA (http://www.ineta.org) chartered user group. He is a member speaker’s bureau INETA Pakistan, and member of INETA Pakistan Executive Committee. He teaches at Dept. Of Computer Science, Karachi University and PAF KIET as a visiting faculty member. He spends his spare time learning and evangelizing .NET. For more details visit his blog at: http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com Or see his Microsoft MVP Profile

Adnan Farooq Hashmi did his MS (Software Engineering) from SZABIST in 1999, and was awarded the Gold Medal for his batch. He was co-founder of Lynx & Connexions Inc. in October 1999, and was the application architect for an Internet based utility bill payment system that involved SSGC, PTCL, and KESC in 2000. He also founded Core IT Education Centre in 2001, which later became an Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Approved Study Centre. He has mainly been involved in the development of Enterprise applications using Oracle, SQL Server, ASP, and ASP.NET, and has also conducted Training for Government organizations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. His latest venture is Voicability, a Speech Technology startup.

He is User Group Leader of Core.NET, an INETA (International .NET Association) chartered User Group evangelizing Microsoft .NET Speech Technologies. He speaks frequently at INETA User Group events mainly on Microsoft Speech Application SDK and Flash Remoting. He has been a speaker at MS PDC 2005 also. Read his blog at: http://coredotnet.blogspot.com