Sessions and Speakers are subject to change without notice
Scott Allen, Pluralsight Scott Allen is a founder of OdeToCode and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has over 15 years of experience with commercial software development in areas ranging from 8-bit embedded systems to highly scalable web applications. Scott is also a Microsoft MVP and a columnist for MSDN Magazine.
Bob Beauchemin, SQLSkills.com Bob Beauchemin is a Developer Skills Partner with SQLskills. He is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and has worked with computers since 1977. He has been an application developer and DBA with relational databases like Microsoft SQL Server™, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2 as well as non-relational databases including IMS/DB, IDMS, and others. Over the past two years he’s been teaching his SQL Server 2005 course to premier customers and Microsoft personnel worldwide through the SQL Server 2005 Ascend program. He’s provided SQL Server 2005 training to over 500 developers through this program.
Bob is lead author of two books on SQL Server 2005, A Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005 and A First Look at SQL Server 2005 For Developers, and sole author of Essential ADO.NET and has another book, SQL Server 2005 Developer’s Guide, in the works for Addison-Wesley publishers. A First Look at SQL Server For Developers has also been made available in a custom CD format. He has written articles on database, data access and XML technologies for MSDN Magazine, MSDN Online, SQL Server Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Java Developer’s Journal and others. His latest articles include a pair of articles on SQL Server 2005 XML topics and a series of six articles on ADO.NET 2.0 for MSDN Online.
Robert Bogue, Thor Projects Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC, which provides SharePoint consulting services to clients around the world. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShepherd.com. Robert has been pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program for the past 6 years. He was most recently awarded for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Before that Robert was a Microsoft Commerce Server MVP and before that Microsoft Windows Servers-Networking MVP. Robert is also a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion and a team member for the SharePoint Guidance. Robert is the president of the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN, www.spindiana.com). He’s also a member of the board for the Indiana Windows Users Group (www.iwug.net). Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog. You can reach Robert at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.
Richard Campbell, Strangeloop Networks 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). In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) and the host of RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com).
Kathleen Dollard, AppVenture Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. Kathleen is also a long time Microsoft MVP, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.
Dino Esposito, IDesign, Inc. An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine. Dino is also the author of two popular architecture books for Microsoft Press. They are "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" (2008) and "ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications" (2009). Get in touch at http://weblogs.asp.net/despos.
Carl Franklin, Franklins.Net Visual Studio Connections Conference Co-Chair Carl Franklin, the Visual Basic Track chairperson, has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for BasicPro Magazine, which then became Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine. He authored many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines on topics such as graphics, serial communications, and sockets programming. 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. Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut, and has a close relationship with the New England Microsoft Office. His students rave about his teaching abilities and vast knowledge of .NET carl@franklins.net
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. He specializes in tools and applications written in Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic. Ken has written many technical books, including ASP.NET Developers Jumpstart (Addison-Wesley) with Paul D. Sheriff, and is co-author of several best selling books, including Access 2002 Developer’s Handbooks with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy, Visual Basic Language Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert, and VBA Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert (Sybex). He co-wrote several training courses for Application Developers Training Company (AppDev), including Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, Visual Basic 6, and Visual Basic 5. He has also recorded video training for AppDev covering VB .NET, ASP.NET, VB6, Access 2000, and Access 97. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has spoken often at Microsoft’s TechEd conference. Ken also is a technical editor for Access-VB-SQL Advisor Magazine and a columnist for asp.netPRO Magazine and CoDe Magazine. You can reach Ken at keng@mcwtech.com.
Alexandru Ghiondea, Microsoft Alexandru Ghiondea has been a member of the C# Compiler Test team for three years. He works on the C# language, including features like the new dynamic keyword in C# 4.0. As a tester, Alex gets to know the ins and outs of the C# language, and enjoys sharing this knowledge in community events. When not thinking of ways to fool the compiler, he enjoys photography and hiking around the Puget Sound.
Anthony D. Green, Microsoft Anthony Diante Green is a Program Manager on the Visual Basic team at Microsoft. A life-long Chicago-native, he joined the VB Compiler team in Redmond in January 2010. Prior to joining Microsoft, Anthony worked in Chicago as a software solutions consultant for three years and for several years before that as an in-house developer/technician. Anthony has been programming in BASIC programming languages since the age of 14, mostly in Visual Basic, and has been an impassioned member of the .NET and Visual Basic communities since 2004. You can find Anthony’s blog at http://inotifythoughtschanging.net/.
Scot Hillier, Scot Hillier Technical Solutions, LLC Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. He is the author of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training (a joint venture of Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell). Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com.
Billy Hollis, Author Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta, from Wrox Press, as well as numerous other books and articles on .NET. His most recent book is Fast Track Visual Basic .NET. He writes a monthly column for MSDN Online, and is heavily involved in training, consultation, and software development on the Microsoft .NET platform, focusing on smart-client development and commercial packages. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), TechEd, and Comdex. Billy is also a member of the INETA (International .NET Association of user groups) speaker’s bureau and speaks at user group meetings all over the country.
Dan Holme, Intelliem, Inc. A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, Dan has spent 15 years as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. Dan’s company, Intelliem, is a boutique consulting and training firm with a Fortune-caliber clientele and deep expertise and experience in Windows, Active Directory, and SharePoint. From his base in beautiful Maui, Dan travels around the globe supporting customers and delivering Microsoft technologies training. Dan is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro Connections magazines, a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2010), and the community lead of SharePointProConnections.com. Dan most recent two books with Microsoft—the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam—are at the top of the bestseller list of Windows books. In early 2010, Dan was in Vancouver, British Columbia where he built SharePoint solutions to support the broadcast of the 2010 winter Olympics as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics, a role he also played in Beijing and previously in Torino.
Tim Huckaby, InterKnowlogy Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy – a custom application development firm comprised of experts in Microsoft .NET, tools, servers & platforms. As a Software Development Lead, architect, author, & speaker, Tim has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences held around the world and is consistently rated in the top 10% of all conference speakers.
Evan Hutnick, Telerik As the Developer Evangelist for Silverlight and WPF at Telerik, Evan has been able to explore these technologies and help provide insight into using them and staying on the cutting edge of what these next-generation technologies can provide. Evan is also an active speaker at both .NET User Groups and Code Camps and is working on his own community-based site for the XAML technologies (Silverlight, WPF, WP7).
David Kelley, Wirestone David has been building Targeted Customer eXperience’s primarily with distributed system architecture’s on the web and offline for over 10 years. David’s main focus is on in integrating technology into our environment from using sensor and robotics to touch and Silverlight. David is currently the Principal User eXperience Architect for Wirestone and publishes a blog Hacking Silverlight as well as posts related to design and UX on the User Group site Interact Seattle. Current projects including development of the touch tag smart retail space systems, augmented reality and Windows Phone 7 development in Silverlight. Career highlights including the Silverlight Bill Gates demo at TechEd 08 and the Entertainment Tonight Emmy site for the Silverlight launch and Emmy Awards as well as his work with Wirestone in the Retail space. In his spare time, David helps run Interact (Seattle’s Designer Developer Interaction Group and Interacts Silverlight Sig - Seattle Silverlight User Group) as well as playing with kids, travel, fish tanks and lego robots.
Todd Klindt, SharePoint 911 Todd has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last six years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog.
Nickolas Landry, Infusion Development Corporation Nickolas Landry is a Principal Architect and Practice Manager in New York for Infusion Development, a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large corporations and agencies in the North America, the UK and Dubai (www.infusion.com). Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, a member of both the INETA and the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureaus, a Microsoft MVP on Device Application Development, and a former Microsoft Regional Director in Montreal. He is the Vice-President of IASA New York (www.iasahome.org), and is a Founding Member of WWISA (www.wwisa.org). His primary goal is to help businesses connect their information, systems, and people together in a seamless integration to achieve complete enterprise agility. Aside from his work in designing business solution architectures using .NET technologies, Nick provides mentoring services in architecture, design and .NET development, authors and teaches .NET classes, performs system audits, and profiles technologies for various enterprise scenarios. With over 17 years of professional experience – starting with Visual Basic 1.0 – and a career almost entirely dedicated to Microsoft technologies, Nick specializes in .NET mobility, Bing Maps, SOA, architecture & design patterns, High-Performance Computing (HPC), game development with XNA, and smart clients. He wrote multiple articles for CODE Magazine and several .NET mobility courses for Microsoft, has been a technical editor for many books, and holds several professional certifications from Microsoft and IBM. Contact and blog: http://home.infusionblogs.com/nlandry.
Julie Lerman, The Data Farm Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog, is the author of the highly acclaimed "Programming Entity Framework (with a second edition coming soon) and authors the MSDN Magazine "Data Points" column. Follow Julie on twitter at julielerman.
Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign, Inc. Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: http://thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the popular CSLA .NET development framework, and is the author of numerous books, including Expert 2008 Business Objects. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and a regular presenter at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic (www.magenic.com), a company that specializes in planning, designing, building and maintaining your enterprise’s most mission critical systems. For more information go to www.lhotka.net.
Juval Lowy, IDesign, Inc. Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), specializing in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.5. His latest book is Programming WCF Services 2nd Edition (O’Reilly 2008). Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top .NET experts and industry leaders.
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Microsoft, Microsoft program managers, architects, evangelists, developers, and product managers will present this session. The specific speaker will be assigned closer to the conference date.
Brian Noyes, IDesign, Inc. Brian is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, and Connected System MVP. He is a frequent top-rated speaker at conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others. He is the author of Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, and Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0. Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the U.S. Navy, later turning his passion for code into his current career. You can contact Brian through his blog at http://briannoyes.net.
Al Pascual Al Pascual was born, bred and educated in Barcelona Spain,. He moved to England as a young lad to work as a developer in start-ups in the technology field. After seven years working in many small companies, Al moved to California with dreams of stock options to work for another start-up and enjoyed the world of low-level C and C++. After spending a few years working as a consultant, when .NET came out, Al helped companies be more productive. He became a pure web developer, believing that HTTP will rule the world and ASP.NET had nothing to do with classic ASP. Finally growing up and joining the corporate world to be part of the matrix, Al now has a wife, 3 daughters, 2 dogs, 2 rats, 1 turtle and a mortgage. He’s happy to work for a big company like ESRI as a senior software developer working mainly in Silverlight, ASP.NET and C#.
Paul Randal, SQLskills.com Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Paul worked on the SQL Server team for nine years in development and management roles, writing many of the DBCC commands, and ultimately with responsibility for core Storage Engine for SQL Server 2008. Paul writes extensively on his blog (SQLskills.com/blogs/Paul) and for TechNet Magazine, for which he is also a Contributing Editor.
Paul and Kimberly have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
Brian Randell, MCW Technologies Brian A. Randell a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC. For over 20 years, Brian has been building software solutions and educating his fellow developers. Brian spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio Team System 2008, Visual Studio 2010, and consulting worldwide for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, state and local governments, and small businesses. Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software. He does this through training and speaking at events such as VSLive! TechEd, and the PDC. In addition, Brian shares through the written word in books and technical publications. Brian currently writes the Team System column for MSDN Magazine and is a Team System MVP.
Paul D. Sheriff, PDSA, Inc. Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with Developer Days and several of their large events each year. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. You can reach Paul via e-mail at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff''’s Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).
Eric Shupps, BinaryWave Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy specializing in enterprise application development and performance optimization. Eric has worked with SharePoint products and technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is a sponsor of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and President of the International SharePoint Professionals Association. Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user groups and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at http://www.sharepointcowboy.com.
Kimberly L. Tripp, SQLskills.com Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.
Kimberly and Paul have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
Dan Wahlin, Wahlin Consulting Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the president of Wahlin Consulting which specializes in .NET and SharePoint consulting and training solutions. Dan founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers Web site (http://www.xmlforasp.net), which focuses on using ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, Silverlight and Web Services in Microsoft’s .NET platform. He’s also on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and is recognized as a leading authority on .NET technologies. Dan has written several books on .NET including Professional Silverlight 2 Development, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips, and XML for ASP.NET Developers. Dan’s blog is located at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin.
Shawn Wildermuth, Wildermuth Consulting Services LLC Shawn Wildermuth is an eight-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CODE Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com). He is currently teaches workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain (http://agilitrain.com).
Shane Young, SharePoint911 Shane has over 12 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past three years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer for http://www.SharePoint911.com. Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elite group of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MVP’s.. He has architected SharePoint solutions for clients ranging from 20 to 50,000 users. Shane is a renowned speaker at national and international SharePoint conferences. He is also the author of The Ted Pattison Group’s course SPA401: Professional SharePoint Server 2007 Administration. Shane also maintains a popular SharePoint focused blog http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane that contains a lot of beneficial technical information about SharePoint administration.
Scott Allen is a founder of OdeToCode and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has over 15 years of experience with commercial software development in areas ranging from 8-bit embedded systems to highly scalable web applications. Scott is also a Microsoft MVP and a columnist for MSDN Magazine.
Bob Beauchemin is a Developer Skills Partner with SQLskills. He is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and has worked with computers since 1977. He has been an application developer and DBA with relational databases like Microsoft SQL Server™, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2 as well as non-relational databases including IMS/DB, IDMS, and others. Over the past two years he’s been teaching his SQL Server 2005 course to premier customers and Microsoft personnel worldwide through the SQL Server 2005 Ascend program. He’s provided SQL Server 2005 training to over 500 developers through this program.
Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC, which provides SharePoint consulting services to clients around the world. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at 
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). In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of .NET Rocks! (
Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. Kathleen is also a long time Microsoft MVP, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.
An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine. Dino is also the author of two popular architecture books for Microsoft Press. They are "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" (2008) and "ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications" (2009). Get in touch at 
Visual Studio Connections Conference Co-Chair Carl Franklin, the Visual Basic Track chairperson, has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for BasicPro Magazine, which then became Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine. He authored many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines on topics such as graphics, serial communications, and sockets programming. 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. Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut, and has a close relationship with the New England Microsoft Office. His students rave about his teaching abilities and vast knowledge of .NET carl@franklins.net
Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. He specializes in tools and applications written in Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic. Ken has written many technical books, including ASP.NET Developers Jumpstart (Addison-Wesley) with Paul D. Sheriff, and is co-author of several best selling books, including Access 2002 Developer’s Handbooks with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy, Visual Basic Language Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert, and VBA Developer’s Handbook with Mike Gilbert (Sybex). He co-wrote several training courses for Application Developers Training Company (AppDev), including Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, Visual Basic 6, and Visual Basic 5. He has also recorded video training for AppDev covering VB .NET, ASP.NET, VB6, Access 2000, and Access 97. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has spoken often at Microsoft’s TechEd conference. Ken also is a technical editor for Access-VB-SQL Advisor Magazine and a columnist for asp.netPRO Magazine and CoDe Magazine. You can reach Ken at keng@mcwtech.com.
Alexandru Ghiondea has been a member of the C# Compiler Test team for three years. He works on the C# language, including features like the new dynamic keyword in C# 4.0. As a tester, Alex gets to know the ins and outs of the C# language, and enjoys sharing this knowledge in community events. When not thinking of ways to fool the compiler, he enjoys photography and hiking around the Puget Sound.
Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. He is the author of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training (a joint venture of Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell). Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at 
Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta, from Wrox Press, as well as numerous other books and articles on .NET. His most recent book is Fast Track Visual Basic .NET. He writes a monthly column for MSDN Online, and is heavily involved in training, consultation, and software development on the Microsoft .NET platform, focusing on smart-client development and commercial packages. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), TechEd, and Comdex. Billy is also a member of the INETA (International .NET Association of user groups) speaker’s bureau and speaks at user group meetings all over the country.
A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, Dan has spent 15 years as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. Dan’s company, Intelliem, is a boutique consulting and training firm with a Fortune-caliber clientele and deep expertise and experience in Windows, Active Directory, and SharePoint. From his base in beautiful Maui, Dan travels around the globe supporting customers and delivering Microsoft technologies training. Dan is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro Connections magazines, a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2010), and the community lead of SharePointProConnections.com. Dan most recent two books with Microsoft—the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam—are at the top of the bestseller list of Windows books. In early 2010, Dan was in Vancouver, British Columbia where he built SharePoint solutions to support the broadcast of the 2010 winter Olympics as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics, a role he also played in Beijing and previously in Torino.
Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy – a custom application development firm comprised of experts in Microsoft .NET, tools, servers & platforms. As a Software Development Lead, architect, author, & speaker, Tim has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences held around the world and is consistently rated in the top 10% of all conference speakers.
As the Developer Evangelist for Silverlight and WPF at Telerik, Evan has been able to explore these technologies and help provide insight into using them and staying on the cutting edge of what these next-generation technologies can provide. Evan is also an active speaker at both .NET User Groups and Code Camps and is working on his own community-based site for the XAML technologies (Silverlight, WPF, WP7).
David has been building Targeted Customer eXperience’s primarily with distributed system architecture’s on the web and offline for over 10 years. David’s main focus is on in integrating technology into our environment from using sensor and robotics to touch and Silverlight. David is currently the Principal User eXperience Architect for Wirestone and publishes a blog Hacking Silverlight as well as posts related to design and UX on the User Group site Interact Seattle. Current projects including development of the touch tag smart retail space systems, augmented reality and Windows Phone 7 development in Silverlight. Career highlights including the Silverlight Bill Gates demo at TechEd 08 and the Entertainment Tonight Emmy site for the Silverlight launch and Emmy Awards as well as his work with Wirestone in the Retail space. In his spare time, David helps run Interact (Seattle’s Designer Developer Interaction Group and Interacts Silverlight Sig - Seattle Silverlight User Group) as well as playing with kids, travel, fish tanks and lego robots.
Todd has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last six years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his 
Nickolas Landry is a Principal Architect and Practice Manager in New York for Infusion Development, a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large corporations and agencies in the North America, the UK and Dubai (
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at 
Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: 
Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the popular CSLA .NET development framework, and is the author of numerous books, including Expert 2008 Business Objects. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and a regular presenter at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic (
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (
Brian is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, and Connected System MVP. He is a frequent top-rated speaker at conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others. He is the author of Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, and Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0. Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the U.S. Navy, later turning his passion for code into his current career. You can contact Brian through his blog at 
Al Pascual was born, bred and educated in Barcelona Spain,. He moved to England as a young lad to work as a developer in start-ups in the technology field. After seven years working in many small companies, Al moved to California with dreams of stock options to work for another start-up and enjoyed the world of low-level C and C++. After spending a few years working as a consultant, when .NET came out, Al helped companies be more productive. He became a pure web developer, believing that HTTP will rule the world and ASP.NET had nothing to do with classic ASP. Finally growing up and joining the corporate world to be part of the matrix, Al now has a wife, 3 daughters, 2 dogs, 2 rats, 1 turtle and a mortgage. He’s happy to work for a big company like ESRI as a senior software developer working mainly in Silverlight, ASP.NET and C#.
Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server. 
Brian A. Randell a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC. For over 20 years, Brian has been building software solutions and educating his fellow developers. Brian spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio Team System 2008, Visual Studio 2010, and consulting worldwide for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, state and local governments, and small businesses. Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software. He does this through training and speaking at events such as VSLive! TechEd, and the PDC. In addition, Brian shares through the written word in books and technical publications. Brian currently writes the Team System column for MSDN Magazine and is a Team System MVP.
Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (
Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy specializing in enterprise application development and performance optimization. Eric has worked with SharePoint products and technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is a sponsor of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and President of the International SharePoint Professionals Association. Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user groups and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at 
Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server. 
Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the president of Wahlin Consulting which specializes in .NET and SharePoint consulting and training solutions. Dan founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers Web site (
Shawn Wildermuth is an eight-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CODE Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (
Shane has over 12 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past three years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer for