He was instrumental in the
formation of the
INETA (International .NET Association)
Academic Committee which is responsible for spreading .NET awareness and assisting various educational
institutions in coming to grips with new technology. In May 2004 and 2006, at the annual
INETA summit held at Bangkok and later in Kuala Lumpur,
Nauzad was nominated as the Vice President of the Academic
Initiatives Program
for the Asia Pacific Region. Nauzad is also part
of Microsoft’s “Train the Trainers” program, an initiative which aims at
imparting high level .NET training to professors and faculties of prestigious
educational institutions.
In the last 4 years, Nauzad’s passion for working with students and children has
led him to conduct over 40 workshops which touched over
12,000 students across 25 colleges and universities across India.
Since October 2003, Nauzad has been
appointed on the elite panel of speakers responsible for delivering MSDN and Technet seminars across India. He is also a regular
speaker at premier technical
events like
TechEd, DevDays and
DevCon since the last 5 years.
In Oct 2004, Nauzad was added on the
Microsoft PTR council for Asia Pacific, and is responsible for
developing content for Microsoft’s MSDN Connection Program. He has played the role
of a
SME (Subject Matter Expert) for technologies like Web Services, SQL Server 2005/8, WinForms, Sharepoint and Workflow Foundation.
In Aug 2005, Nauzad was one amongst the 10
other judges selected from across the globe to judge the prestigious
Imagine Cup finals held in
Yokohama, Japan. Two years
later he joined a panel of 24 to judge the Software Design Finals at Seoul, Korea.
In Sept. 2007, he was appointed as a member of the NABU (Knowledge Access Beyond bOundaries)
Advisory Council of Experts which provides consultation to international organizations
such as the United Nations and promotes UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
human rights and literacy development works.
To sum it in Issac Asimov’s words –
“We do not fear Technology…we fear the lack of it”.