Building Tech Careers

In association with CSE department, Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET), the phpXperts group organized a workshop entitled Building Tech Careers. on 02 October 2010 at DUET Auditorium.
Targeted audience of the workshop were
- IT Professionals – who are already working as a developer.
- Recent graduates – Who are graduate and seeking for a good IT career as a developer.
- Tech Students – Who wants to see themselves as a developer in future days.
- Faculties – Who can update themselves with latest development trends and focus projects/assignments based on that.

Program Flow and Short Description:
- Opening speech by Dr. Abul Kasem, Head of CSE, DUET
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- Ghazi Asif Salahuddin (Lenin)
CTO, Bullseyelogic
Topic Title: How to prepare for the next step
Comment: Lenin successfully draw all the audiences' attention by focusing on various example to success.
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- Tarek Mahmud Apu
Founder, WNeeds
Topic Title: OOP in PHP
Comment: This topic was too technical and long. The audience were not ready for a technical session at that stage.
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- Arild Klokkerhaug
CEO, Somewhere in Net Ltd
Topic Title: Anything you really want to do, you can do
Comment: Arild really knows how to have success in career and his guidance will obviously help the audiences.
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- M A Hossain Tonu
Software Engineer, Improsys Inc.
Topic Title: Software Engineering in PHP
Comment: Very basic, very interesting and very informative.
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- Anis Uddin Ahmad
Sr. Software Engineer, Right Brain Solution Ltd
Topic Title: Successful Freelancing Career
Comment: Freelancing became a passion for the tech savvies these days. They can invest less time and make more money, which good for the developers and the country’s economy. Anis selected a very HOT topic and audience should appreciate the guidelines he gave on his speech.
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- Nhm Tanveer Hossain Khan
IT Director, Tasawr Interactive
Topic Title: Hi code man! Ain't you crazy enough?
Comment: Most of the time audience do not understand Hasan’s high thought speeches. But this time he came with an exception. Hasan rocked this time.
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- Emran Hasan
Co-Founder & CTO: Right Brain Solutions
Topic Title: LAMP - lighten up your career
Comment: Another simple but informative topic. The QA session continued for a while as the audience were eager to know the prospect of PHP development.
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- Hasin Hyder
Founder, Leevio
Topic Title: Successful Team work
Comment: Not many speakers in Bangladesh selected this topic before. As a software developer this is a very important part for the industry. Hasin rocked the session as he did not focus on any technical issues but he really spoke the audience’s language. The QA session went well too.
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- Omi Azad
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Bangladesh Ltd.
Topic Title: MSDN, Finishing Speech, MSDNAA Announcement
Comment: How MSDN can help to build a industry standard developers community. The MSDN for building a better industry standard community. The surprise MSDNAA announcement was very exciting for the student audiences.
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- All Speakers
Topic: Q&A
Comment: This was the most important part of the entire workshop. We hope audiences got the answers they were looking for.
phpXperts are committed to arrange workshops like this frequently in future.


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