Todd Anglin is Chief Evangelist for Telerik, a leading provider of development tools and user interface components for .NET. Before joining Telerik, he worked for a large Fortune 200 financial services company where he learned the way of the “Enterprise” – big budgets, big projects, legacy systems, and incessant measurement. He now leverages this Enterprise experience to help Telerik make components that make the lives of all developers as easy as possible. Todd is an active author and speaker in the .NET community, focusing on web development technologies, a Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider, founder and President of the North Houston .NET Users Group, and an O'Reilly author.

Maarten Balliauw is a technical consultant in web technologies at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies. His interests are ASP.NET (MVC), PHP and Windows Azure. He's a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ASP.NET and has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature such as MSDN magazine Belgium and PHP architect. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events. His blog can be found at http://blog.maartenballiauw.be . Maarten has been a speaker at various national and international events: MIX (Las Vegas), TechDays Belgium, DevDays Netherlands, TechDays Finland, techDays Portugal, TechDays UK, ReMIX Belgium, PHPBenelux, 4Developers Poland, Linuxwochen Austria, DrupalCamp Finland, DPC, …

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 15 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, a Pluralsight instructor, an ASP.NET MVP, an author, a MCPD: ASP.NET 3.5, and a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the VSLive, Heartland Developers Conference, DevLink, DevTeach, Tulsa Tech Fest, DevWeek, DevReach, SDC, TechEd, DevConnections, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international events.

Tomislav Bronzin is founder of CITUS Ltd., Microsoft Silver Partner company for solution development and consulting for application lifecycle management.
He is owner of two ICT based patents and he received several gold medals for ICT based innovations (INPEX USA; INOVA Croatia). He was one of the key people involved in envisioning and development of some of the first mobile software solutions on Microsoft platform. Tomislav has more than 18 years of real-life experience in ICT and has received honorable titles: Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. He has been a regular speaker at Microsoft conferences in the region, like Microsoft TechEd Europe, WinDays and Mobility Day.

Richard Campbell has been involved with microcomputers and software since 1977. His career has spanned the industry both on the hardware and software sides, from manufacturing to sales, service, game development, line-of-business software and large scale systems. He's been deeply involved in creating new businesses around software, hardware, services and products in a huge range of roles, including technical, management and financing. During the halcyon days of the DotComBoom he was a consultant to venture capital firms providing technical due diligence and architectural direction.

Today Richard is on the board of directors for Telerik (www.telerik.com), a leading vendor of development, team productivity, automated testing tools, UI components and content management solutions in the Microsoft space. He is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks (www.strangeloopnetworks.com), developing an appliance for web site performance. He's a partner in PWOP Productions, creating a variety of multimedia programs including ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers," (www.dotnetrocks.com) a podcast produced twice a week for more than 150,000 listeners in 120 countries. In addition he's the host of RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com), a podcast for the IT Professional using Microsoft technologies. Richard also serves as a technical director for Penton Media, planning the content of magazines and conferences that engage technology professionals all over the world. You’ll find him blogging as part of the CloudMind collective at cloudminds.wordpress.com.

Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), Silverlight MVP (former ASP.NET MVP) and Telerik MVP. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina (www.ordina.be). Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF at conferences including TechEd Berlin 2010, TechDays Belgium – Switzerland - Sweden, DevDays NL, NDC Oslo Norway, SQL Server Saturday Switserland, Spring Conference UK, Silverlight Roadshow in Sweden, Telerik RoadShow UK… He’s also the author of many articles in various developer magazines and for SilverlightShow.net and he organizes the yearly Community Day event in Belgium. He also leads Visug (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. Gill recently published his first book: “Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook” (Packt Publishing) and is currently working on a new book on Silverlight 5. You can find his blog at www.snowball.be
Twitter: @gillcleeren

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.

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.

Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Community Architect working on the Web Stack, aiming to spread the good word about developing software. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6 years and before that he was a Principal Consultant at STEP Technology for nearly 7 years. He was also involved in a few things Microsoft-related like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen to him. He's written in a few books on ASP.NET. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com for the last 9 years and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com and http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com.

Tim Huckaby is focused on the Natural User Interface (NUI)- Touch, Gesture, and Neural, in Rich Client Technologies on a broad spectrum of devices.
Tim has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press. Tim has been awarded many times for the highest rated technical presentations and keynotes for Microsoft and many other technology conferences around the world. Tim has been on stage with, and done numerous keynote demos for many Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
Tim founded InterKnowlogy, a custom application development company, in 1999 and Actus Interactive Software in 2011 and has over 30 years of experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team on a Server Product. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP and serves on many Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council.

An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), and serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group Phil is also the founder and president of Agile Conferences, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to advancing agile in all aspects of software development. In his spare time, Phil works part-time as a Firefighter/Paramedic, serves as Cub Master for his sons’ Cub Scout Pack, and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog.

Jesse Liberty is a Senior Developer-Community Evangelist on the Windows Phone Team. Liberty hosts the popular Yet Another Podcast and his blog is required reading. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ and the forthcoming Migrating to Windows Phone. He was a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS and Vice President of Information Technology at Citibank and can be followed on twitter at @JesseLiberty

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

Vladimir Milev is the product manager for the data visualization division in Telerik Corporation. He is responsible for everything that is data visualization on all the supported platforms including Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET and Winforms. Vladimir was instrumental in the planning, design, development and shipping of most DV products Telerik ships. When not writing code he is analyzing the market and giving direction for the team by choosing what products to build and which features to ship. His other duties also include speaking at conferences, blogging and working with customers by helping them build their projects with Telerik’s tools.

Ed Musters, MVP, SharePoint Architect, Infusion Development. Ed has instructed the exclusive Critical Path SharePoint Training courses extensively across North America over the last several years. Ed holds all certifications in SharePoint in Development and Administration. Ed has been a featured speaker at DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria, at the SharePoint Summit in Montreal, at SharePoint Saturdays in Toronto and Birmingham, at Microsoft Tech Days, at the Great Indian Developer Summit in Bangalore India, the Toronto SharePoint Camp, and the Toronto Code Camp. Ed also speaks to user groups across Canada, including Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver.

Charles Nurse has been working with the .NET Framework since its first release, specializing in Web Applications using ASP.NET and he is a Microsoft MVP (since 2007) and an ASPInsider (since 2008). Since 2006 he has been Senior Architect for DotNetNuke Corporation the creators of the DotNetNuke Open Source Web Application Platform. He has spoken at many major conferences including the Software Developers Conference (SDC) (www.sdc.nl), MIX (live.visitmix.com ), DevConnections (www.devconnections.com), DevTeach (www.devteach.com), VSLive (www.vslive.com), Prairie DevCon(www.prairiedevcon.com), Microsoft Tech Days, and now DevReach(www.DevReach.com). He is a frequent speaker at local User Groups and Code Camps.

Software Craftsman (MVP for C#, MCAD, MCSD, MCDBA, Certified ScrumMaster) with more than 12 years of professional engagement in software development, mostly on NET platform. In recent years, he has mostly helped teams to learn and adopt agile programming and product management techniques like Test Driven Development and Scrum. He is a co-founder and CEO of Hive Studios d.o.o. (www.hive-studios.com). Five years in a row he has been a recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual C# reward.

Ivo Penev has fifteen years of professional experience in SW development in heterogeneous environments using C/C++, .NET, Java and others on different platforms.
In the last four years, Ivo is helping IBM clients in Bulgaria in developing their business initiatives by designing software solutions. As a Software IT Architect in IBM Bulgaria, Ivo is an expert in the Rational portfolio in Requirements Definition & Management, Analysis & Design, Configuration and Change Management, Release and Quality Management, Project Management.
Ivo Penev is Master of Science in Computer Science from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and MBA from the City University of Seattle.

Joel Semeniuk is a founder of Imaginet Resources Corp; a Canadian based Microsoft Gold Partner. Currently, Joel is also serving as an Executive VP at Telerik in charge of the Team Productivity Division. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Microsoft ALM and has a degree in Computer Science. With over 18 years of experience, Joel specializes in helping organizations around the world realize their potential through maturing their software development and information technology practices. Joel is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management tooling, techniques, and mindsets and regularly speaks at conferences around the world on a wide range of ALM topics. Joel is also the co-author of "Managing Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System" published by Microsoft Press as well as dozens of other articles for popular trade magazines.

Steve is a Senior Architect with The Code Project, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and founder of NimblePros consulting and tools. He has been a regular conference speaker since 2001 and has written or contributed to several books on software development, including 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Steve founded and coordinates a software craftsmanship user group in northeast Ohio (HudsonSC.com).
Steve is passionate about software craftsmanship and architecture and design best practices. He enjoys helping fellow programmers achieve their own "ah-ha" moments through speaking, his blog (http://SteveSmithBlog.com), videos, and other opportunities. Before joining The Code Project, Steve founded NimblePros, an agile consulting shop focused on software craftsmanship through their work, training, and tools designed to help developers deliver better software.
Steve lives in Kent, Ohio with his wife Michelle, daughter Ilyana, and son Nikita. He enjoys biking, swimming, karate, and all manner of games when he is not immersed in the latest developments in software.

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.

Gabe Sumner is as a Product Evangelist at Telerik, one of the world’s leading suppliers of .NET developer productivity tools, and the Sitefinity CMS platform. At Telerik, Gabe focuses on Sitefinity CMS, providing community education and collaborating with Telerik business units to ensure Sitefinity is meeting the current and future needs of customers. Gabe has a passion for bridging the gap between technology, business objectives and the small (but essential) day-to-day tasks needed to run an effective web site. Gabe's long career in technology has exposed him to many industries, and he now focuses on sharing the valuable lessons he has accumulated about creating empowering and approachable web-based systems with communities around the world.

Alain "Lino" Tadros is Chairman & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based company, with presence in Colorado, Texas, North Carolina and Michigan, dedicated to providing world-class consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise level businesses. Prior to founding Falafel, Lino was a member of the development team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Lino has been awarded Microsoft MVP status eight years in a row (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Mobile, COM, and Web Services. Lino 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.

Mihai graduated the Software Engineering Faculty in Timisoara Romania in 2006. In the same year he founded H.P.C. Consulting, now called Avaelgo, a custom software development and Microsoft .NET training company, where he always works with the latest technologies on the .NET platform. His time is divided between administrative and management work, technical work on current projects, trainings for software companies on Microsoft .NET, and organizing and delivering presentations to events in the .NET Romanian community (http://codecamp.ro , http://itcamp.ro ) and also at events organized by Microsoft in Romania or worldwide. Mihai is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, title given for his knowledge on ASP.NET and involvement in the .NET community.

Vladimir Tchalkov is a co-founder and CEO of Crossroad Ltd. Vladimir has 16 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 2002-2011 in Bulgaria, Sofia .NET user group, and many others. He was rated No. 1 by the audience of Microsoft Days 5 times.

Iva Valerieva is Business development & Marketing manager at Stone Computers, an IT system integrator and Cloud provider with over 15 years experience on the Bulgarian market. Iva is Master of Computer Science from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and in the recent years has specialized in IT service marketing and development. Her professional experience is focused on systems architecture, process optimization, service automation and cloud computing.

Dean Vitner is a mentor for SolidQ and a DB designer/developer for one of the major ISVs in Croatia. He has been working with SQL Server since version 6.0. He earned several MS certificates (MCSD, MCSD .Net, MCDBA, MCITP). He was awarded MS MVP for SQL Server every year since 2007. Dean manages the local MS community, and the Croatian SQL Server user group. He organized and helped organize several regional conferences and community events. He spends lot of time training on SQL Server, speaks regularly at events throughout the region, and writes about SQL Server for some local technical magazines.

Branimir is a C# MVP and UG Lead of Sofia .NET User group. He's a Freelance Software Developer, consultant and MCT. He's been working with .NET since 2001 and with Sharepoint since 2003. Other interests include MS BizTalk Server, MS SQL Server and design and development of distributed and decoupled applications based on WCF.

Anton Staykov is a Windows Azure MVP and founder of the Windows Azure User Group Bulgaria http://www.azure.bg/
He explores the Windows Azure Platform since its first public CTP at PDC’2008 and is following the platform evolution since then. He is active contributor to the thematic forums at MSDN.
The Speaker has more than 10 years of solid experience in developing dynamic applications for different domains – corporate sites, media portals, e-commerce, intranet line of business applications, real estate. His practical experience with the newest technologies helps unedifying the best solution for given problem.
Anton’s practical experience spans to the Telecommunication domain, where he gained valuable experience in the business analysis, design and developing of mobile value added services and products.
A graduated bachelor in Telecommunications and Master is Sciences in Internet Software Technologies.
The speaker is technical reviewer for one of the books covering the Windows Azure Platform: Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development.
You can find a lot of useful information, mainly covering the Windows Azure Platform on his blog at: http://blogs.staykov.net/