The first Agile Conference in National Capital Region, India would be held on 8th March 2007 (Saturday) in Gurgaon. The venue is Ansal Institute of Technology, Gurgaon. It will be a day program and will intersperse technical, management and experience reports in the presentation slots of 60-70 minutes.

The tentative program for the conference is as follows:

• 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM: Registration and Opening
• 10:00 AM to 11:10 AM: Keynote Presentation
• 11:10 AM to 11:20 AM: Tea Break
• 11:30 AM to 12:30 AM: Presentation-1
• 12:40 PM to 1:40 PM: Lunch
• 1:40 PM to 2:40 PM: Presentation-2
• 2:50 PM to 3:00 PM: Presentation-3
• 3:00 PM to 3:20 PM: Tea Break
• 3:20 PM to 4:20 PM: Presentation-4
• 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM: Presentation-5
• 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM: Panel Discussion and Closing

You can send the title and the abstract of your presentation in not more than 600 words by 10th January 2008 to: agileconference@gmail.com

Here are the important dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 10th January 2008
• Notification of Acceptance: 20th January 2008
• Submission of Final Presentations: 10th February 2008
• Delegates Registration Starts from: 1st February 2008
• Conference Date: 8th March 2008 [Saturday]

The following are likely speakers:

• Pete Deemer, ex-Yahoo, as Keynote
• Naresh Jain, ex-Thoughtworks, ASCI
• Vikas Hazrati, Xebia

If number of speakers/ presentations increase, organizers may opt for unconference style post Lunch.

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Net Solutions celebrated year end with great gusto in traditional environment at Fort Ramgarh, near Panchkula. The employees started arriving at the venue from 11 AM onwards. Some employees used the bus from Net Solutions office to Ramgarh and back. A lot of employees [with spouses and kids] came on their own as well. Some of the highlights of the day were:

• The venue was decorated with traditional splendor
• The highlight of the day were some of the dedications [along with the songs played with the dedications] which ranged from naughty to die hard friendship odes to sentimental memory of old office to deliciously romantic
• In addition, there was a nicely put together puppet show which was captured in number of mobile phones
• Fun games which were won by following teams/ employees:
  • Tug of war: QA team was overall winner along with Male spouses winning over the female spouses team
  • Musical chairs: Rochak from QA team
  • Lemon race: Kundan won the Project Managers Race and Harpreet won the general race
• Rajasthani lunch rounded off a nice lunch and great day

Some of the images from the day include:

All in all, a great day and everyone enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

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