Todd Anglin is an active .NET community member, President of the North Houston .NET User Group, an O’Reilly author, and Telerik's Chief Technical Evangelist. At Telerik, Todd is responsible for building Telerik's global community of developers and helping ensure Telerik's products serve the needs of .NET developers around the world. In the general .NET community, Todd is most involved with ASP.NET and Silverlight, contributing articles and speaking on these topics regularly. Before joining Telerik, Todd worked as a developer in a Fortune 200 financial services company. He is also an avid entrepreneur with previous experience running a small .NET SaaS company.

Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company's unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of the ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" ( www.dotnetrocks.com ) podcast and the host of "RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals" ( www.runasradio.com ) podcast.

Miguel Castro ( www.dotnetdude.com ) is a principal consultant and trainer with SteelBlue Solutions and specializes in building and teaching how to build, .NET solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, Conference Speaker, contributor to CoDe Magazine and DevSource.com, as well as an active blogger, and has been a software developer for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact). Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups, code camps, and conferences around the country. He has also been featured on the Internet Radio Talk Show, .NET Rocks, .NET Rocks-TV, Microsoft's ARCast (Architecture Podcast), MSDN Radio, and The Polymorphic Podcast on numerous ocassions. His blog and other things of potential interest can be found at www.steelbluesolutions.com . He currently resides in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria.

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET, MCT and is the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering architecture, mentoring and software solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He is also a speaker on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and has appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. He is currently teaching Silverlight across the country during his Silverlight Tour ( http://www.silverlight-tour.com ). Shawn is also the author of several books including the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley, and is also the co-author of four Microsoft Certification Training Kits for MS Press, as well as the upcoming book, “Prescriptive Data Architectures”. He has been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, InformIT, Windows IT Pro, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel’s Rich Client Series. Shawn has enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years. He can be reached at his website at http://www.wildermuthconsulting.com .

Goksin Bakir is working in Microsoft as the Developer Evangelist for Middle East and Africa. Prior to working in Microsoft he led one of the leading manufacturing software companies in Turkey. Besides his experience of over 17 years in the IT Industry, Goksin used to be the Microsoft Regional Director for Middle East and Africa. During his work as Regional Director, he also worked as a part time faculty for Bogazici University, MIS department. He is in the INETA Speakers Bureau and has spoken to many groups worldwide as well as at international conferences and seminars like Microsoft Teched, MDC, PDC, and NDC. He contributes to IT publications like PC Week, IT Weekly. Goksin has many excellence awards from leading software and IT companies. Goksin’s main areas of interest are technologies like .NET Application Development, Security, internet / intranet application architecture and application integration. He has completed many projects in large corporations with his teams; His recent work includes Enterprise solutions on .Net technologies.

Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. Prior he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York.

Remi Caron started in the IT Business in 1989. Back then Dbase II, Clipper and FoxBase ruled the world for desktop computing. From there he moved to FoxPro and all its successors – along with ASP, JScript SQL-Server, Com+, XML and XSLT. He jumped on the .NET train right after the .NET PDC in 2000, eventually moving from developing custom software from scratch into using platforms like Sharepoint and CRM, extending them with Office and Windows Workflow Foundation. Today his work varies from development to management. Remi is the chairman of the Software Development Network ( www.sdn.nl ), a user group in the Netherlands that has over 2,500 individual developers as members.

Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

Mark has over 23 years of experience in the disciplines of software engineering, database administration, and project management. Software that Mark developed for the radio industry is still in use today. He was a lead developer on the team that created Tapscan, a well-known Arbritron ratings analysis package that has dominated the media industry for many years. For the past five years, Mark has been awarded MVP status for his contributions to the Visual Studio .Net community and he serves as Microsoft's Regional Director covering the Southeast United States. Carl Franklin and Mark also co-founded .Net Rocks, an Internet radio program for .Net developers recognized in over 80 countries and now hosted by Microsoft on the MSDN site. Mark is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Application Developer, Solution Developer for .Net, and Database Administrator.

Hadi Hariri is Technical Lead at iMeta Technologies, an ISV specialized in developing complete IT solutions. His passions include software architecture and best practices. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi speaks at both national and international conferences and user groups. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons and runs the Malaga .NET User Group.

Kent is principal or contributing author on all of Strangeloop's pending patents. Before helping create Strangeloop, he served as CTO at IronPoint Technology. Kent also founded, Eclipse Software, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, that he sold to Discovery Software in 2001. In more than 20 years of professional development experience, Kent has served as architect and lead developer for successful production solutions with The Active Network, ADP, Lucent, Microsoft, and NCS. "Port View", an application Kent architected for the Port of Vancouver, was honoured as "Best Administrative System" at the 1996 Windows World Open Competition. Kent holds a bachelor of science in psychology from the University of Calgary.

Consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers, and currently focused on Smart Client Technologies like WPF and Silverlight, Tim Huckaby has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution”. Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world.

Martin Kulov is Microsoft department manager at ProPeople ApS. He has more than 10 years of experience through all the phases of software development process - from requirements gathering to application deployment and support. Martin is member of INETA Speakers Bureau and often speaks at international conferences and user groups. His favorite technologies are WCF, VSTS, ASP.NET, IIS, including techniques for debugging and diagnostics. In 2006, Martin has been awarded with the award Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional). He is also MCT, MCPD, MCSD. Martin is coauthor of the first .NET Bulgarian book called "Programming for the .NET Framework" Part I and II. He is president of the Bulgarian branch of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Martin is also founder of DevReach ( www.devreach.com ) - the premier conference for developers in SEE. At his web site www.kulov.net , you can find various information about upcoming events and trainings, and tons of tips and tricks on his blog .

Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for over 20 years. Julie is the author of "Programming Entity Framework" (O’Reilly) and is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at conferences around the world and author of articles in many technical publications. Julie lives in the tiny U.S. state of Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group and serves on the board of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance. You can read Julie’s blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog .

Tadeusz is an experienced manager, consultant, and an academic lecturer with 20 years of active involvement in Information Technology. His professional record includes co-founding CDN SA, the leading Polish software manufacturer for small and medium-size businesses. As Chief Technology Officer (11 years) he was the co-creator and co-architect of popular and bestselling business software package solutions in Poland: CDN Opt!ma and CDN XL.
He went through complete process of enterprise life cycle. Supervised the most successful merger on the Polish IT market – of CDN S.A. and COMARCH S.A.
Since January 2005 he is co-founder, managing partner and CTO at BPD Ltd. (Business Potential Discovery). He specializes in strategic management, sales simulation, distributed sales management and implementation of innovative computer technologies (like Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team System, Team Foundation Server) for strategic goal achievement.
Tadeusz is speaking at many Polish and international computer science and technical conferences (concerning business and technology) and is a gust lecturer for all main technical universities in Poland. For the last 12 years he has actively cooperated with the Polish division of Microsoft in Poland and since January 2003 holds the honorable position of Microsoft Regional Director in Poland. He was a respected member of the jury for the Software Design category at Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2006 (New Delhi, India), Imagine Cup 2007 (Seul, South Korea) and Imagine Cup 2008 (Paris, France) .

Maciej Pilecki is an Associate Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, global organization specializing in training, mentoring and consulting around Microsoft data platform. He has more than 6 years of international experience in software development, specializing mostly in MS SQL Server database applications. In the past he also used to work as a network administrator and security consultant.
He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and SQL Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP), frequently delivering courses and conference speeches on many aspects of SQL Server and application development.

Joel Semeniuk is a founder of Imaginet Resources Corp , a Canadian based Microsoft Gold Partner. Joel is also an INETA speaker, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Microsoft MVP specializing in team development with Visual Studio Team System. Joel has written many articles and books, his latest on Project Management best practices using Team Foundation Server for Microsoft Press.

Alain "Lino" Tadros is President & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based company, with presence in Colorado and Texas, dedicated to providing world-class consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise level businesses. Prior to founding Falafel, Lino was a well respected member of the development team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Mr. Tadros has been awarded Microsoft MVP status three years in a row (2005, 2006, 2007) for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, COM, and Web Services. Tadros is an industry renowned speaker and has given numerous presentations on 5 different continents since 1994. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors of 4 Silicon Valley corporations.

Vladimir Tchalkov is CEO of Crossroad ( www.crossroad.bg ), MVP and Microsoft Regional Director since 2004. Vladimir has strong experience in Visual Studio .NET/2003/2005/2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Sharepoint и Microsoft BizTalk Server. He has managed multiple projects for development of enterprise information solutions, Internet sites with content management and Microsoft Office add-ons. He is a presenter on many technical seminars and conferences - Microsoft Days 2002-2008, Sofia .NET user group, and many other. He is rated No.1 by the audience of Microsoft Days 5 times.

Deyan Varchev is a WPF specialist with Telerik a leading vendor of .NET controls. He has more than 4 years of international experience in software development, specializing recently in WPF and Silverlight applications. In the past he also used to work as a web developer using ASP.NET and trained others to master .NET technologies. He is a presenter on many technical seminars and conferences - Microsoft Days 2006-2008, Sofia .NET user group, and many others.

Jordan Dimitrov is a software developer in Telerik, responsible for building WPF controls and applications.  He is a Microsoft MCSD.NET and MCPD Enterprise Application Developer.  He has been involved in analysis and development of several large systems based on different technologies. Jordan focuses on the full continuum of technologies including ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, Windows and SQL Server.