Mohamed Aboelqasem is a solution architect in Kuwait Finance House Bank—development department, where he engages with leading and designing different enterprise on-premises and cloud solutions. He brings over 12 years of deep technical experience to Microsoft technologies. He has deep practical experience in the government, financial, and oil and gas industries. M.Aboelqasem works mainly in the Middle East, Egypt, KSA, and Kuwait. He currently resides with his family in Kuwait.

He is working in the KFH bank, which is one of the biggest Islamic banks in the Middle East and is the Islamic bank leader in Kuwait. KFH owns groups of banks in different countries such as Bahrain, Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi, and Germany.

Mike Branstein is a developer and leader, who is passionate about systems architecture, team building, application life cycle management, and technology. Mike lives in Louisville, KY, and is the director of application development at KiZAN Technologies. As a consultant, he enjoys working with clients to improve development and project management processes using Team Foundation Server.

Mike blogs with his brother, Nick Branstein, at http://brosteins.com, where they are known as "The Brosteins". You can find Mike on Twitter at @mikebranstein.

Michael Jurek is a senior professional with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He likes learning new technologies and enjoys addressing technological challenges. He sees himself as a strong and creative personality with very good communication and presentation skills and a great sense of humor.

Michael worked for 13 years for Microsoft as a software architect focused on solution architecture, databases, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), and cloud adoption. Since 2013, he has been a freelance consultant with the same focus.

Michael is married and has two children. His hobbies are using a giant astronomical telescope, playing volleyball, reading about the history of the Second World War, and manually working at his weekend house located deep in the forest.

Sudheer Mohan Mirampally is a senior solution architect for Yash Technologies, where he is responsible for the technology and architecture across US and Middle East (Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain). He is currently in the Yash Technologies Global presales team and supports sales and customer/prospect engagements.

As a solution architect at Yash, he is responsible for building and presenting customized business solutions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Office 365, in addition to integrating CRM and Dynamics Marketing, Dynamics NAV, and Dynamics AX, he is also well poised in SQL Server DQS and MDM.

Sudheer completed his MCA degree from Osmania University, and has a total of 11 years of experience in CRM and Microsoft Stack consulting, implementing, and supporting solutions that have diverse technologies and capabilities. He worked as a consultant and implemented the business solutions with Intac, Cyquent FZ LLC, Source Edge, and HCL (ADHAAR).