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What is GroupGyaan? GroupGyaan is a next generation marketplace for classroom sessions. The site allows you to book tickets for sessions on things that may be of interest to you, from a variety of different areas such as photography, cooking, parenting or negotiation skills. What's more, you can read reviews of sessions and even find articles written by Gurus themselves on the GroupGyaan blog.

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Essential Digital Photography Workshop

Lalit Deshmukh
Learn Photography Fundamentals, Composition, Travel, Nature and People photography with Fine Art Nature Photographer Lalit Deshmukh

Lalit Deshmukh
Lalit Deshmukh is a professional fine art photographer situated in Pune, India. Lalit is very passionate about nature, from where he draws much of his inspiration for photography. He enjoys capturing special moments in nature and invoking emotions via the compositions and light. Lalit has spent more than 10 years exploring and photographing western United States including the Rocky mountains, Colorado plateau as well as the Pacific coast and surrounding volcanic region. He has presented his work in Idaho Photographic Workshop, Western Idaho fair and HP in Boise, Idaho. He has provided training in Landscape and Nature Photography in the classroom and on the field. Lalit has also coordinated and photographed several projects with NGOs as an AID volunteer, in the areas of health, education, environment as well as children and women issues. Brought up in India and graduated in Electronics from Pune, later completed his masters in computer science from Ohio, United States. He comes with 12 years of professional experience in the software industry. He is also a PMP professional. Lalit now stays in India and is fully committed to his passion for photography and social issues.

Essential Digital Photography Workshop
Learn Photography Fundamentals, Composition, Travel, Nature and People photography with Fine Art Nature Photographer Lalit Deshmukh

22-Jun-2013

Pune

Closeups in Nature: Macro Photography

Lalit Deshmukh
Learn to capture fascinating close-up pictures in your own backyard

Lalit Deshmukh
Lalit Deshmukh is a professional fine art photographer situated in Pune, India. Lalit is very passionate about nature, from where he draws much of his inspiration for photography. He enjoys capturing special moments in nature and invoking emotions via the compositions and light. Lalit has spent more than 10 years exploring and photographing western United States including the Rocky mountains, Colorado plateau as well as the Pacific coast and surrounding volcanic region. He has presented his work in Idaho Photographic Workshop, Western Idaho fair and HP in Boise, Idaho. He has provided training in Landscape and Nature Photography in the classroom and on the field. Lalit has also coordinated and photographed several projects with NGOs as an AID volunteer, in the areas of health, education, environment as well as children and women issues. Brought up in India and graduated in Electronics from Pune, later completed his masters in computer science from Ohio, United States. He comes with 12 years of professional experience in the software industry. He is also a PMP professional. Lalit now stays in India and is fully committed to his passion for photography and social issues.

Closeups in Nature: Macro Photography
Learn to capture fascinating close-up pictures in your own backyard

Writing Secure Applications

Sagar Joshi
An introductory session for programmers on securing your applications.

Sagar Joshi
    Sagar has been in the IT sector since 1999, out of which he spent 6 years in information security area. His specialization is Application Security.He currently is working as a Senior Security Architectwith Microsoft R&D. His role involves helping internal MS customersand external customers in building secure solutions. He also helps in marketing security processes for Vientra. Prior to joining Microsoft R&D, he has worked with Deloitte & Touche as an assistant manager andas a software analyst and IT analyst for Tata consultancy services. Achievements Received Microsoft IT pro Excellence award in 2010 Received Microsoft IT pro Excellence award in 2009 Received Best Facilitator Gold Award from Cap Gemini in 2006   Education Qualifications BE, MBA, CISSP, CISA & CEH   Hobbies Other than an expert on application security, Sagar is interested in trekking.   Published Research Work    <ul> <li> Effective Threat Modeling using Threat Analysis and Modeling (TAM) on MSDN</li> </ul>   <ul> <li> He presented information warfare application Security at ISACA Hyderabad.</li> </ul>   <ul> <li> An informative write up on SQL injection attack and Defense (<a href="http://www.securitydocs.com/library/3587">http://www.securitydocs.com/library/3587</a>)</li> </ul>   <ul> <li> Submitted Phishing and Pharming to MSDN</li> </ul>

Writing Secure Applications
An introductory session for programmers on securing your applications.

After Engineering: What to do, When to do it, and How to do it!

Navin Kabra
Helping you decide between MBA, MS or a job, towards the right career choice

Navin Kabra
 With 11 US patents accredited to his name and many more pending, Navin is deeply engaged in a variety of technologies ranging from databases to EI to Web 2.0 to cloud computing. With a BTech in IIT, Mumbai, an MS and a PhD in Databases from the University of Wisconsin, the brilliant career was just obvious to follow. He started as a developer, and went on to become an architect and a manager. After working in every phase and part of the IT space, the best happened to him. Navin did not stop there. <div>  </div> <div> Navin's love for technology did not turn him in a geek, but in an entrepreneur. Navin was one of the first people to actively use the world wide web. In 1994, he created a website of lyrics of Hindi Movie Songs based on the ITRANS song book. Today, that website still exists at <a href="http://smriti.com" target="_blank">smriti.com</a>, and has over 10,000 songs in the database, and is still popular though he stopped working on it many years ago.</div> <div>  </div> <div> On a strategically placed sabbatical in the middle of his career, he launched <a href="http://Punetech.com" target="_blank">Punetech.com</a>, a portal for the technical community in Pune. The initiative has been flourishing ever since with an enthusiastic response from local fraternity. Navin works for <a href="http://Punetech.com" target="_blank">Punetech.com</a> in his free time, and has started many initiatives targeting tech professionals and engineering students. During the recession in 2009, Navin and a few others organized an "Internship Mela" where various Pune companies came together to offer hundreds of jobless engineering students short-term projects and internships. More than 800 students attended the first mela, and Navin has been involved in holding such events regularly ever since.</div> <div>  </div> <div> His latest venture is <a href="http://bharathealth.com" target="_blank">bharathealth.com</a>. As a co-founder and CTO there, he is responsible for creating online software for the healthcare industry.</div> <div> While building portals innovative in application and unique in design, Navin also writes numerous articles on varied topics. His blogs <a href="http://smriti.com" target="_blank">smriti.com</a> and <a href="http://smritiweb.com/navin/" target="_blank">smritiweb.com/navin/</a> along with his "for pune, by pune" community portal <a href="http://forpune.com" target="_blank">forpune.com</a> fetch around 10,000 visitors daily! And why not, when his blogs talk about hinduism, parenting and hindi songs as passionately as they talk about the latest in technology. His writing and works give a stage for people to interact, share knowledge and learn new things. Fan following is just a side-effect that Navin never aims for.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Meet Navin in his GroupGyaan sessions and take home more than you expected!</div>

After Engineering: What to do, When to do it, and How to do it!
Helping you decide between MBA, MS or a job, towards the right career choice

Understand Fat loss & Functional fitness training

Parag Mhetre
To embark on a journey towards good health, fitness and fat loss

Parag Mhetre
 Planning to incorporate a healthy and fit lifestyle and don’t know how to go about it? Parag Mhetre is the man for you. A fitness enthusiast and a trained martial arts expert, his motto is to encourage people to follow a healthy lifestyle for their overall health and well-being. Parag firmly believes that by spending 30-45 mins of workout along with his diet pattern everyday you can postpone ageing process and be functionally fit for lifetime.  His company Parag owns Energy24x7, a functional fitness setup which emphasis core strengthening and exercises, primarily focused on improving functional strength. The concept behind this set up is to maximize the effects of workout in minimum time. He has designed few exercise techniques which requires only 30 minutes, obtaining incredible results.   The goals of the company include gearing up individuals towards leading a healthier life. In addition, they also manage various health clubs and organize fat loss seminars at companies along with counseling. By first Quarter 2011, Parag will be starting his own Functional fitness Studio. His seminar sessions includes imparting knowledge on fitness through theory and practical sessions. He ensures that once you understand his exercise patterns, you need not join any Gym or health club in your life time.  Experience Parag’s experience in the field of fitness is vast. Since 1994, he has been in the fitness industry and from 1999 he has been mentoring and offering personal training. In 2002, he started conducting group activity classes at different Clubs including martial arts training (basic), Tae Bo (high intense cardio), Abs- Bootcamp (Abs workout), Therabands group classes and Cardio kick-boxing.Parag have traveled to Europe and US for sports and work. Functional fitness is common in west, he have learnt lots of exercise techniques from UK and have implemented those in this workout patterns. He has also worked with ‘Anytime Fitness’ India as a senior team member. Prior to getting into the fitness industry, Parag was a working with Dana Corporation in design department and was managing a team of Axle housing in India technical center. Currently, he also works with Dimensions Engineering Technology as a Consultant. Key Achievements <ul style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium" type="DISC"> <li> Represented India in Open world Karate championship held at Wesel, Germany in 2000 and won Bronze medal. </li> <li> Represented India in Dutch open Karate championship, held at Dalfsen, Holland in 1999 and won a Silver medal. </li> <li> Represented India in International championship held at Nepal in 1999 and won Bronze medal. </li> <li> Represented India in International championship held at Balewadi, Pune in 2002 and won Gold medal.</li> </ul> Certifications <ul> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Awarded Black Belt 1st Dan by International Budo Federation, India </li> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Certification of Functional fitness from InteGYM, Mumbai. </li> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Certification of Personal training from K11 Fitness, Pune. </li> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Certification of Supplementation Workshop from K11, Mumbai. </li> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Certification of Knee Pathologies Workshop from K11, Pune. </li> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Certification of Home based PT Workshop from K11, Pune. </li> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Certification for Shoulder Pathologies Workshop from K11, Pune.</li> <li style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium"> Diploma in Sports Management (Appearing from ISST Pune)</li> </ul> Educational qualifications  <ul style="font-family: times; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: medium" type="DISC"> <li> DME (Mechanical), DAE (Automobile), BE (Mechanical),  MBA (app)</li> </ul> Hobbies He is a sports and fitness fanatic. Parag loves writing and through his articles has been creating awareness about physical wellbeing to people.   Parag’s session with GroupGyaan.com will focus on several aspects of fitness including fat loss and need of supplementation.

Understand Fat loss & Functional fitness training
To embark on a journey towards good health, fitness and fat loss

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