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Speakers
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.
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Todd Anglin, Telerik
 Todd Anglin is an active .NET community member, President of the North Houston .NET User Group, an O’Reilly author, and Telerik''s Chief 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 an active author and speaker, focusing primarily on ASP.NET and Silverlight. Before joining Telerik, Todd worked as a developer in a Fortune 200 financial services company supporting applications on a wide range of platforms and technologies. He also an avid entrepreneur with previous experience running a small .NET software studio.
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Rachel Appel, Microsoft
 Rachel Appel is a recognized speaker, ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider and Microsoft Certified Trainer. Rachel also holds the MCAD & MCSD certifications and has been working as an instructor, software developer, architect and DBA for over 15 years. During her career, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies and systems and has contributed to projects of all sizes including large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies.
Rachel is the Vice President of the .Net Valley user group, as well as a leader and regular speaker in the Philly.NET and Central Penn.NET user groups of Pennsylvania. She can also be found speaking at code camps, user groups, community events and conferences. Rachel’s expertise lies within developing solutions that align business and technology using the Microsoft .NET family of products, particularly ASP.NET & SQL Server.
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Bradley Bartz, Microsoft
 Bio not available.
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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.
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Brad Becker, Microsoft
 Brad Becker is a Director of Product Management for Microsoft’s Rich Client platforms including Silverlight and .NET.
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Steven Borg, Northwest Cadence
 Steven Borg is the Visual Studio Team System Practice Lead at Northwest Cadence, a Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Inner Circle partner focused exclusively on helping organizations improve Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System. He has helped several organizations improve their software development process: reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding delivery dates. In addition, he assists the Team System community as a Team System MVP, an author, and a frequent speaker. Visit his blog at http://blog.nwcadence.com to learn more about Team System!
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Levi Broderick, Microsoft
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Dustin Campbell, Microsoft
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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).
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Jonathan Carter, Microsoft
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Andy Conrad, Microsoft
 Andrew Conrad is a Lead Software Design Engineer with the SQL Server group at Microsoft Corporation. His current projects include ADO.NET Data Services and the DataSet. He was one of the core designers of LINQ over DataSet, LINQ over Entities, and LINQ to Rest and has been working with LINQ since close to its inception. You can find his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/aconrad.
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Matthew Crowley, Microsoft
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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.
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Mike Downey, Microsoft
 Mike Downey is a Principal Evangelist at Microsoft where he focuses on platform adoption of Microsoft Silverlight and related technologies.
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Damian Edwards, Microsoft
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Markus Egger, EPS Software Corporation
 Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., a custom software development and consulting firm located in Houston, Texas. He specializes in consulting for object-oriented development, Internet development, B2B, and Web services. Markus has written numerous articles for publications including CODE Magazine, asp.netPro Magazine, FoxPro Advisor, Fuchs, FoxTalk, and Microsoft Office & Database Journal. Markus is the publisher of Component Developer Magazine (CODE). He is the author of a book on advanced object-oriented programming. You can contact Markus via e-mail megger@eps-software.com or visit him online (http://www.epssoftware.com).
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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.
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Chris Eyhorn, ArtOfTest
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Jon Flanders, MCW Tech
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Andrew Flick, Infragistics
Andrew Flick is the Group Product Manager at Infragistics, the leading provider of user interface components. He is responsible for planning, overseeing and marketing NetAdvantage for .NET and the TestAdvantage product line. Prior to becoming a product manager, Flick was a Technical Evangelist and was responsible for delivering product demos, supporting to Infragistics customers and writing reference applications. His reference application Expense 2005 for aspx gained significant recognition in the web development community. Flick has also written numerous articles for various trade publications and has spoken at a number of user groups and industry events.
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Donovan Follette, Microsoft
 Donovan Follette is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist and has evangelized a number of technologies including Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Services and Active Directory Federation Services. Most recently he focuses on Office development and building fully integrated solutions with Office and SharePoint as the platform.
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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
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Jay Girotto, Microsoft
 Current, Jay manages Pivot within Live Labs at Microsoft. Pivot represents a new way of viewing and using data that incorporates visual information, structured metadata and web content. Prior to joining Live Labs, Jay spent 4 years in various roles building Microsoft’s search engine - - Bing. He worked primarily on data that cannot be crawled and how it gets integrated with the web index. Jay’s first experiences in software were Silicon Valley-based start-ups. He led the product management team at DemandTec (DMAN) which provided pricing and promotion optimization software to retailers and consumer packaged goods companies. He also worked at Homestead (acquired by Intuit) where he built web publishing software for small businesses. Besides software, he has run for political office and lost, carried the Olympic torch during the 1996 Atlanta games and helped write three Harvard Business School cases. Born and raised in Iowa, he now lives in Kirkland with his wife and daughters.
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Hadi Hariri, JetBrains
 Hadi Hariri is a developer, speaker, podcaster and technical evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and web development. He is a book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, and Hadi has been speaking at industry events for over a decade. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons and runs the Malaga .NET User Group. He is also a C# MVP.
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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.
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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.
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Richard Hundhausen, Accentient
 Richard Hundhausen is the president of Accentient, a company that specializes in Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio. He has over 25 years of software and database development experience and 19 years of training and presentation experience. Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director, Visual Studio ALM MVP, and author of Microsoft’s "Professional Scrum Developer" course.
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Scott Hunter, Microsoft
 Scott Hunter is a Senior Program Manager on the ASP.NET team. He has over 20 years experience building, marketing and selling software products. He has spent that past 7 years specializing in .NET and ASP.NET development in the social networking and oil industries. Scott is currently working on RAD data based projects for the ASP.NET team.
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Tim Laverty, Microsoft
 Tim Laverty is a program manager lead in the Business Platform Division working on the Entity Framework. He is responsible for helping build next generation data access technologies from Microsoft. Tim has contributed to the design of a wide range of features for the Microsoft Data Platform including System.Data, System.XML, and Visual Studio Data Tooling. Tim is a 20-year industry vet and has worked in various industries including government, agriculture, games, and commercial software.
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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.
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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.
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Eilon Lipton, Microsoft
 Eilon Lipton has been a software design engineer for over five years on the ASP.NET team. Starting out with data source controls and moving on to UpdatePanels and Silverlight, Eilon is now working on Model-View-Controller for ASP.NET. In his spare time he cheers his favorite Formula 1 racing team and builds what he considers to be well-crafted furniture.
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Paul Litwin, Deep Training
 Paul Litwin is a developer specializing in ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and related technologies. Paul is a Programmer Manager with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is also the owner of Deep Training, a developer owned training company specializing in .NET developer training (www.deeptraining.com). Paul has authored a number of books and training courses on ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Micrsoft Access. Paul is the conference chair of Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He has spoken at a number of conferences and code camps, including Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, TechEd, and Seattle Code Camp.
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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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Sean McBreen, Microsoft
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Mark Miller, Developer Express
 Mark Miller is a high-speed coder with strong expertise in plug-in architectures, decoupled design, and great UI. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind CodeRush, Refactor!, and the DXCore. Mark has been writing software for over two decades.
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Stacia Misner, Data Inspirations
 Stacia Misner is a consultant, educator, author, mentor, and principal of Data Inspirations. Her career spans 23 years with a focus on improving business practices through technology. Since 2000, she has been providing consulting and education services for Microsoft’s business intelligence technologies. In addition, she has authored or co-authored six books, all published by Microsoft Press, covering different components of the Microsoft SQL Server database and business intelligence platform. Stacia has presented at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), Microsoft’s TechEd, SQL Server Magazine Connections, and various Microsoft events.
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Laurence Moroney, Microsoft
 Laurence is a Web Development Strategist at Microsoft and is the author of several books including: Introducing Windows 7 for Developers, and Introducing Silverlight 3, both for Microsoft Press, and The Fourth World for Destiny Press.
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Bob Muglia, President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft
 Bob Muglia is president of the Server and Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft. STB is chartered to deliver on Dynamic IT, Microsoft’s initiative focused on helping customers deliver technology innovation that helps IT pros and developers create highly-optimized and agile infrastructures that continuously align to changing business needs. As STB business leader, Muglia is responsible for developing and marketing Microsoft’s infrastructure and developer software. This integrated set of products provides the foundation for IT operations, security, application development and integration. The infrastructure and developer software portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Virtualization products, System Center management products and the Forefront line of business security products, among others.
Muglia is a member of Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team that is responsible for shaping the company’s business and technology strategy. Before he was named president of STB in January 2009, Muglia was senior vice president for the business group.
Since joining Microsoft in January 1988, Muglia has served in a variety of positions, including managing the development of the MSN network of Internet services and Microsoft Office family of business productivity applications, Windows Server applications, and productivity appliances such as Pocket PCs, eBooks and Tablet PCs. In addition, Muglia helped to bring together the Visual Studio family of developer tools and drove the Win32 API, customer requirements and product specification for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system.
Before joining Microsoft, Muglia was a development manager at ROLM Co. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Michigan.
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Tim Ng, Microsoft
 Timothy Ng is currently the engineering lead of the F# team at Microsoft.He has been involved in language related technologies at Microsoft for 7 years, first on the debugger, then on VB/C#, and finally on F#. You can reach him at Timothy.Ng@microsoft.com or http://blogs.msdn.com/timng.
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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.
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Richard Pegden, Micro Focus
 Richard Pegden is Head of Product Marketing at Micro Focus. Richard and his team are focused on portfolio planning at a strategic level within Micro Focus, as well as the positioning and messaging for the entire product set. Richard is also currently focused on a website redevelopment project.
Prior to joining Micro Focus, Richard spent ten years in the Service Management industry, notably at BMC Software. During his years at BMC, Richard is credited with developing the Service Desk Express product line (formerly Magic Service Desk Suite) where he was Global Product Manager for several years. Most recently Richard served as Product Marketing Manager at Hornbill Systems, where he led a number of strategic product and marketing initiatives aimed at increasing Hornbill’s profile and solution set in the Service Management industry. Richard is ITIL-certified and has a BSc (Hons.) in IT and Society.
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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.
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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.
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Chris Sells, Microsoft
 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.
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Joel Semeniuk, Imaginet Resources Corp
 Joel Semeniuk is a founder of Imaginet Resources Corp; a Canadian based Microsoft Gold Partner. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP in Team System, and INETA speaker, 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.
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Doug Seven, Microsoft
 Doug Seven is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, focusing on ensuring development teams are able to collaborate and communicate throughout the entire application life cycle. Prior to this role, Doug was a Senior Development Lead in Microsoft.com where he transitioned a "traditional" cross-functional development team to Agile methodologies using VSTS with Team Foundation Server. This transition included the implementation of test-driven development, paired programming, and Scrum. Doug has co-authored several books on Microsoft technologies, and spends a great deal of time engaging with, and supporting the community.
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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).
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Steven Smith, ASP Smith
 Steven A. Smith runs developer communities ASPAlliance.com and DevAdvice.com, which provide Internet developers with resources they need to learn new techniques and solve problems quickly. Steve also founded a military community site, ArmyAdvice.org, in 2004 while serving in Iraq. Steve’s credentials include Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsiders board member, and INETA Speaker Bureau member. Steve has authored two books on ASP.NET, the latest being the ASP.NET Developer’s Cookbook. He has spoken at DevConnections since fall of 2001. Steve lives in Ohio with his wife Michelle and daughter Ilyana.
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Clemri Steyn, Microsoft
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Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies
 Rick Strahl is the big Kahuna and janitor at West Wind Technologies on Maui, Hawaii. The company specializes in Web and distributed application development, develops several commercial and free tools, provides training and mentoring with focus on .NET, IIS and Visual Studio. Rick’s a C# Microsoft MVP, a frequent contributor to magazines and books, and a frequent speaker at developer conferences and user groups. He is also co-publisher of CoDe Magazine. For more information please visit his Weblog at http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/ or contact rick@west-wind.com.
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Paul Stubbs, Microsoft
 Paul Stubbs is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for SharePoint and Office, where he focuses on information worker development community around SharePoint and Office, Silverlight, and Web 2.0 social networking. He has authored three books on solution development using Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Silverlight, several articles for MSDN Magazine and SharePoint Pro Magazine, and has also spoken at Microsoft Tech-Ed, PDC, SharePoint Conference, DevConnections and Tech-Ready conferences around the world. Paul also holds a number of Office related development patents. Paul is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has received Microsoft Certified Applications Developer (MCAD) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certifications. Paul also frequently participates in the developer community on the Microsoft forums. Visit Paul’s blog at blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs for lots of deep SharePoint developer information.
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Stephen Toub, Microsoft
 Stephen Toub is a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft. He’s also a Contributing Editor for MSDN Magazine. You can reach Stephen at stoub@microsoft.com.
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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.
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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.
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Christian Wenz, Arrabiata Solutions GmbH
 Christian Wenz is author, trainer and consultant with focus on web technologies. He frequently contributes to IT magazines and speaks at developer conferences around the world. He is an ASP/ASP.NET MVP, contributor of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and member of ASPInsiders. His books have been translated into 10 languages.
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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).
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Paul Yuknewicz, Microsoft
 Paul is a Senior Program Manager Lead for the Visual Studio product group at Microsoft. His team designs and builds tools used to make application development faster and more RAD. This includes tools for data access, services, Windows, Sharepoint, and Office. The team also works on the content and community outreach efforts for Visual Studio. Paul has worked on many aspects of Visual Studio .NET since the time it was created ten years ago. Outside of work, Paul enjoys his time with friends and family and he can sometimes be seen playing lead guitar in his rock cover band.
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