Kent Alstad
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 and is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP.
Todd Anglin
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.
Robert Boedigheimer
Robert Boedigheimer works for The Schwan Food Company providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 10 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and recently implemented a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a "Charter Member" MCPD: Web with C#, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Tomislav Bronzin
Tomislav is a CEO in CITUS, a Microsoft Gold Partner Company that is specialized in software development, consulting and training. He is Microsoft Regional Director (recently received Global Impact Award Gold Medal) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Solution Architect. Tomislav is one of the Community Leaders in Croatia and cofounder of several User Groups, INETA Europe Vice President for Communities, president of Croatian Association of Computer Programmers, and co-founder of http://www.mscommunity.net. He has real-life experience with Microsoft technologies in development of distributed database applications, with special focus on Windows Mobile solutions. Tomislav was involved in some of the first large Mobile Solutions project on Microsoft platform (see on-line Microsoft Case Study: Croatian Forest). He owns several software related patents in that area and he is considered being authority in the field of Intellectual Property Rights. He is regular speaker at Microsoft conferences and seminars like TechEd Europe, DevDays, Mobility Day, WinDays, Sinergija, NT Konferenca, PASS, Codecamp, KulenDayz as well as teaching at several University workshops, including expert mentoring of student teams for Imagine Cup Championship and participating in Microsoft Partners in Learning (PIL) program.
Richard Campbell
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.
Remi Caron
Remi Caron is Senior solution architect at Sparked BV based in the Netherlands with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He is an MicroSoft MVP since 2003 and a regular speaker at various conferences. Over the years he has fulfilled and number of roles varying from developer to CTO. Next to his professional live he runs a user group in the Netherlands
www.sdn.nl. In the recent past his focus has been BI solutions and SharePoint implementations.
Vladi Tchalkov
Vladimir Tchalkov is a co-founder and CEO of Crossroad Ltd. Vladimir has 14 years of experience as a project manager, architect and developer. He has managed multiple projects for development of enterprise applications and e-Government solutions. His professional experience is focused on .NET development, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server. Vladimir is frequently a speaker on many technical seminars and conferences - Microsoft Days 2002-2009 in Bulgaria, Sofia .NET user group, and many others. He was rated No. 1 by the audience of Microsoft Days 5 times.
Tiberiu Covaci
Tiberiu started his developer career in 1991, and since 1995 he works with different Microsoft technologies. He moved from Romania to Sweden 1996, to work as a programmer. Since 2004 he is working as an independent trainer teaching Microsoft Official Curriculum classes, on all levels for .NET programming, but what he loves most is teaching introductory courses because that can give him a chance to influence the future .NET programmers. Last year he was chosen Subject Matter Expert for the 70-565 Microsoft certification exam, and he is involved as a Technology Reviewer in some of the Microsoft courses that are under development right now. When he is not in the classroom he is doing research at KTH as a graduate student. He is a Group Leader for Sweden .NET User Group, and an INETA Country Leader for Sweden.
Luka Debeljak
Luka Debeljak is the Technical Lead in the regional HQ DPE team responsible for many of the CEE countries, where he is supporting strategic opportunities by technical guidance and delivery of presentations about newest technological and development concepts on Microsoft platform. He has joined Microsoft in 2003 as a Developer Evangelist and later managed the DPE team in Slovenia. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a development manager for a local ISV company and an outside coworker of Microsoft. During that time he has also obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. Luka is interested in everything related to Microsoft development platform and tools and is lately focusing on Software + Services architectural concepts and subsequently on the Microsoft Azure platform. So far he has appeared on several regional conferences, written many articles in different magazines and last year also successfully delivered Microsoft CEE DevDays tour (msdevdays.com). For an up-to-date status of his interests you can check his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/lukad.
Stephen Forte
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.
Erjan Gavalji
Erjan Gavalji is a Product Manager at Telerik. He has worked as a Senior Developer on the Telerik ASP.NET product teams for 5 years. Recently Erjan became the Product Manager of the Telerik Visual Studio Extensions product line. He leads the research and development of the VSX products which greatly facilitate the daily work of Telerik customers. Erjan has a long-time experience with Visual Studio IDE and has a passion for VS customization. He is excited to share his passion with other professionals.
Branimir Giurov
Branimir is a C# MVP and a UG Lead of the Sofia .NET User Group (
www.sofiadev.org ). He’s a freelance developer, consultant and trainer. He’s been working with .NET since 2001 and he’s also certified on all versions of the .NET Framework, MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005, MS BizTalk 2004/2006. Branimir is an MCT since 2001.
Hadi Hariri
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.
Chad Z Hower
Formerly a Developer Envangelist for Microsoft MEA (Middle East and Africa) and now a Microsoft Regional Director, Chad is a professional speaker at popular developer conferences worldwide. Chad was once introduced as having "mastered more languages than a United Nations translator." Chad is the author of the book Indy in Depth and has contributed to several other books and magazines on network communications and general programming. Chad travels extensively year round and has lived in Canada, Cyprus, Jordan, Russia, Turkey, and Tennessee. In total Chad has visited more than more than 60 countries.
Tim Huckaby
Tim Huckaby is currently focused on RIA & Smart Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, and Silverlight. He has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press.
Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft Technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launches events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at the events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a “Rock-Star” speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks world-wide on their behalf.
Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999 and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards.
Martin Kulov
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 CEE. 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 - http://www.kulov.net/blogs/martin
Sahil Malik
Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts, has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for the past many years, author of many books and numerous articles, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally.
Vladimir Milev
Vladimir Milev is currently a product team leader at Telerik corporation which he joined in 2005. His experience includes developing and designing web-based controls and frameworks using C#, javascript and CSS. Recently he joined Telerik’s WPF/Silverlight effort leading the development of data visualization components like RadChart and RadGauge. He is a MCPD Enterprise certified developer with experience in ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight as well as various automation and debugging tools.
Ed Musters
Ed Musters is the SharePoint Practice leader for Dapasoft (http://www.dapasoft.com) and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Ed is President of the Toronto .NET User Group. Ed has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation many years in a row for outstanding contribution to the development community, and is currently an MVP for MOSS. Ed has instructed the exclusive Critical Path SharePoint Training courses extensively across Canada. Ed holds all certifications in SharePoint including WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 for Development and Administration. Ed has been a featured speaker at the Toronto SharePoint Camp, the Toronto Code Camp, the Great Indian Developer Summit 2008 in Bangalore India, at DevReach 2008 in Sofia Bulgaria, at the SharePoint Summit 2009 in Montreal, at SharePoint Saturday 2009 in Toronto, and at Microsoft Tech Days 2009. Ed also speaks to user groups across Canada including Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver. Ed holds a black belt degree in Karate, so watch the conference carefully for the in person appearance of the “.Net Ninja”!
Simon Sabin
Simon Sabin is a independent consultant specialising in database architecture. He has been working with SQL Server for almost 10 years, was awarded as a Microsoft MVP in April 2006 and is an active member of UK SQL Server Usergroup. You can read his ramblings on SQL Server on his blog, http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons.
Chris Sells
Chris Sells is a Program Manager for the Business Platform Division. He's written several books, including Programming WPF, Windows Forms 2.0 Programming and ATL Internals.In his free time, Chris hosts various conferences and makes a pest of himself on Microsoft internal product team discussion lists. More information about Chris, and his various projects, is available at
http://www.sellsbrothers.com Emil Stoychev
Emil Stoychev is a Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), leader of Silverlight User Group Bulgaria and CTO at CompletIT, a company specializing in Silverlight development, consulting and technical writing. His professional experience is focused on .NET development, especially Silverlight, ASP.NET and WCF. Emil is co-founder of SilverlightShow (www.silverlightshow.net) – an independent Silverlight community.
Alain (Lino) Tadros
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.
Etienne Tremblay
Etienne Tremblay is an Associate Director in charge of the Microsoft technologies center at Fujitsu Canada in Montreal. He has over 17 years of experience in the IT industry and he specialized in Microsoft technologies in the last 10 years, specifically in managing the development process, he also has expertise in the mining and manufacturing industries. He has spoken at DevTeach since 2005 and is a member of the Microsoft Team System Advisory Council and a Microsoft MVP.
Christian Weyer
Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions architectures. He has been modeling and implementing distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies. Christian has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects in the past few years, with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Cloud Computing being the main areas and technologies applied recently. Christian's views on architecture and distributed solutions are considered both mature and innovating. A number of customers have put confidence into his experience when it comes to apply .NET, WCF and WF to real problems. The national and international developer and architect community knows Christian from his weblog, webcasts, forums activities, user group talks and conference performances. He was selected as one of the Microsoft MVPs for Connected Systems and is an independent Microsoft Regional Director .
Shawn Wildermuth
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 .