Robert Boedigheimer works for The Schwan Food Company providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 10 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and recently implemented a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a "Charter Member" MCPD: Web with C#, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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

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.

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

Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts, has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for the past many years, author of many books and numerous articles, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally.

Ed Musters is the SharePoint Practice leader for Dapasoft (http://www.dapasoft.com) and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Ed is President of the Toronto .NET User Group. Ed has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation many years in a row for outstanding contribution to the development community, and is currently an MVP for MOSS. Ed has instructed the exclusive Critical Path SharePoint Training courses extensively across Canada. Ed holds all certifications in SharePoint including WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 for Development and Administration. Ed has been a featured speaker at the Toronto SharePoint Camp, the Toronto Code Camp, the Great Indian Developer Summit 2008 in Bangalore India, at DevReach 2008 in Sofia Bulgaria, at the SharePoint Summit 2009 in Montreal, at SharePoint Saturday 2009 in Toronto, and at Microsoft Tech Days 2009. Ed also speaks to user groups across Canada including Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver. Ed holds a black belt degree in Karate, so watch the conference carefully for the in person appearance of the “.Net Ninja”!

Simon Sabin is a independent consultant specialising in database architecture. He has been working with SQL Server for almost 10 years, was awarded as a Microsoft MVP in April 2006 and is an active member of UK SQL Server Usergroup. You can read his ramblings on SQL Server on his blog, http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons.

Emil Stoychev is a Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), leader of Silverlight User Group Bulgaria and CTO at CompletIT, a company specializing in Silverlight development, consulting and technical writing. His professional experience is focused on .NET development, especially Silverlight, ASP.NET and WCF. Emil is co-founder of SilverlightShow (www.silverlightshow.net) – an independent Silverlight community.

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

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