Shawn Wildermuth is an eight-time Microsoft MVP (C#), member of
the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books and dozens of articles 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. He is currently teaches workshops around the country
through his training company AgiliTrain (
http://agilitrain.com). He can also
be reached via his blog at
http://wildermuth.com
Richard, who has 30 years of high-tech experience, is a Microsoft Regional Director for
British Columbia and is recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
(MVP) in the area of ASP.NET development. An impressive list of North American
organizations, including Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson &
Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force,
have benefited from Richard’s consulting expertise. Richard’s PWOP Productions
creates a variety of multimedia programs including ”.NET Rocks!, the Internet
Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers,” a podcast produced twice a week for about
150,000 listeners. Richard has contributed nearly 300 Advisor columns to
Microsoft Access Advisor, and is the author of courseware for AppDev’s national
SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series. Since 1995, Richard has been
a regular speaker on the technical-conference circuit—“I’ve spoken on every
continent except Antarctica,” he says—and, in 2006, was ranked the top speaker
at Tech Ed Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The son of an electrical engineer,
Richard was tinkering with microcomputers at age 10 and, by 16, had started his
own business developing custom software.
Remi Caron is Senior solution architect at Sparked BV based in the Netherlands with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He is an Microsoft MVP since 2003 and a regular speaker at various conferences. Over the years he has fulfilled and number of roles varying from developer to CTO. Next to his professional live he runs a user group in the Netherlands www.sdn.nl. In the recent past his focus has been BI solutions and SharePoint implementations.
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
Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy
Officer of
Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. He sits on the board
of several start-ups including
Triton
Works and is also a
certified scrum master. 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
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.
Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days
when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A
column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other
magazines. 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 & Garys VB Home Page. Carl is also the MSDN Regional
Director for Connecticut(
www.microsoftregionaldirectors.com), an MVP for Visual
Basic, host of .NET Rocks! and Mondays, and CEO of Pwop Productions, which
provides podcasting services.
Oliver Sturm is an experienced software architect, developer, trainer and author, with a strong background in various different fields including system and framework architecture and design, process modeling and user interface design. He is a C# MVP and he's the Director of Quality for Developer Express. He's currently working on a book for Wrox, titled "Functional Programming in C#", and he's the author of the DevelopMentor course "Essential F# for C# developers".