Sessions and Speakers are subject to change without notice
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.
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.
Itzik Ben-Gan, Solid Quality Mentors Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Founder of Solid Quality Learning. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (MSPress), Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (MSPress), and a co-author of Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (APress). He has written many articles for SQL Server Magazine as well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN.
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.
Miguel Castro, IDesign, Inc. Miguel is an architect with IDesign and provides architectural and development services to clients worldwide. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, ASP Insider, and has been in the software industry for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to Visual Basic 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact), Miguel jumped on .NET as soon as the first public Beta was released and has provided .NET solutions for clients in a variety of industries. He considers himself to be a .NET Developer and Architect and has equal love for both Visual Basic and C#, with no tolerance for language bigotry. He’s spoken at numerous user groups around the country as well as developer conferences in the US and abroad. His Web site, where you can find many downloads, article code, and his commercial product, CodeBreeze, can be found at: www.steelbluesolutions.com. Miguel currently lives in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria. You can find more of Miguel’s bio and his blog at: http://www.dotnetdude.com
Scott Cate, myKB.com, Inc. Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona. myKB.com, Inc. is a technology company specializing is commercial ASP.NET applications. His product line includes myKB.com (Knowledge Base Software) and kbAlertz.com (Microsoft Knowledge Base Notifications). Scott is also a Board Member for ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early feedback to the Microsoft ASP.NET Team. Scott also runs AZGroups.com (Arizona .NET User Groups), one of the largest and most active user groups in North America.
Ben Curry, Summit 7 Systems Ben Curry (CISSP, MVP, MCP, MCT) is an author and enterprise network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. Ben is a Managing Partner at Summit 7 Systems, a company focused on the next generation of Microsoft products. Prior to launching Summit 7 Systems, Ben was an owner/partner at Mindsharp, the world leader in technical education for SharePoint. Ben’s philosophy is that the best solutions are inspired by the best ideas, and he encourages his team to generate and share ideas on a continuous basis. His philosophy is also exemplified in his numerous published books, and in his willingness to share his ideas as an instructor, both in the IT world and in the underwater world — Ben is a certified scuba instructor with a passion for diving. Other passions for life include riding his Harley Davidson through his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, coaching his daughter’s softball team, and of course, being a husband to his wife, Kimberly, and a proud father of his children, Madison and Bryce.
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.
Gert Drapers, SQLDEV.net Gert Drapers is a Software Architect in the SQL Server Development group at Microsoft. As a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, he is involved in providing architecture design guidance and performance tuning for the largest and most challenging SQL Server deployments in the world. Gert brings extensive experience in the areas of application development, database management, data loading, and performance tuning of VLDB environments. Prior to his current position, Gert was working as Software Architect in the .NET Developer Division, responsible for the design and development of the next generation transaction manager and programming model. He started working on SQL Server in 1988 while working for Ashton-Tate. He joined Microsoft in 1991 where he held various development positions within the Developer Relation Group and Microsoft Consulting Services before joining the SQL Server development team in 1996. Gert worked on both SQL Server 7.0 and 2000; first as Software Design Engineer in the SQL Server Storage Engine and later as the Product Unit Manager of the SQL Server Management Tools team and as Architect of SQL Server DTS.
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.
Cathi Gero, Prenia Corporation Cathi Gero, C.P.A., is founder and development director of Prenia Corporation, providing custom software applications, training, and architectural designing to businesses and developers. Cathi is a Microsoft C# MVP and is an active member of the .NET community. She has extensive experience developing applications using the .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Crystal Reports as well as other technologies. She is a member of the Microsoft .NET Advisory Council. She is an internationally known speaker at conferences and user groups, author of numerous articles for Microsoft, and technical editor for several .NET books. Her monthly column, “Cathi Gero’s .NET Tips” appears in Universal Thread Magazine. Her Weblog, featuring .NET Tips and Tricks, can be found at http://blogs.prenia.com/cathi. Most of the year Cathi travels to various companies providing onsite training, mentoring, and development experience. Contact Cathi via email at cgero@prenia.com
Norman Guadagno, Microsoft Norman Guadagno is currently Director of Product Marketing for Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft. In his previous role at Microsoft he was responsible for the company’s marketing efforts to the Architect audience worldwide, including owning the Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum and the Microsoft Architecture Journal.
Norman has over 10 years experience in the software industry. Prior to Microsoft he was VP of Marketing at Qpass and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Primus Knowledge Solutions. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Director at Oracle on the Oracle Application Server team. Norman began his career as a usability engineer and in technical product management. He has a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester and an M.A. from Rice University. Norman and his family live and work in Redmond, WA.
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft’s web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the web.
Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development.
Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.
Alex Homer, Stonebroom Ltd. Alex began his love-hate relationship with computers in 1980 with the Altair and Sinclair Z80, while employed as a technical salesman with several manufacturing companies in the building industry. Since 1994, he has been working with and writing about various programming technologies–from databases to building Help systems. However with the growth of the Web, and particularly as ASP rapidly become a viable application platform, he has concentrated almost entirely on this topic. Alex has written or contributed to more than 30 books for Wrox Press, as well as producing articles for ASPToday. He has also spoken at several Wrox conferences on a range of topics, plus ASPDevCon and the Microsoft Professional Developer Conferences (PDC) and the VS.NET Europe conference. In what spare time is left, he runs his own software and consultancy company, Stonebroom Ltd. (www.stonebroom.com)
Rob Howard, Telligent Systems Rob Howard is a founder of Telligent Systems, Inc. Prior to founding »telligentsystems Rob was employed by the Microsoft Corporation where he was a member of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 team - specifically contributing to ASP.NET. Rob’s new company, »telligentsystems, is a solutions company specializing in building high-availability and high-scale software solutions. In addition, it also is building out a Knowledge Management product line whose first release is Community Server (see www.communityserver.org) which brings together and integrates some of the most powerful .NET solutions such as the Forums (used on forums.xbox.com) and .Text (used on blogs.msdn.com).
Ron Jacobs, Microsoft Ron Jacobs is an Architect Evangelist in the Microsoft Architecture Strategy group based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington. Since 1999 Ron has been a product and program manager on various Microsoft products including the .Net Framework, Windows Communication Foundation and COM+. A top-rated conference speaker, author and host of the podcast show ARCast.TV, Ron brings over 20 years of industry experience to his role of helping Microsoft customers and partners to build architecturally sound and secure applications.
Don Kiely, Senior Technology Consultant Don Kiely, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant, building custom applications as well as providing business and technology consulting services. His development work involves tools such as SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Office. He writes regularly for several trade journals, including Visual Studio Magazine and Advisor Media, Inc., is a top poster and moderator on the www.asp.net community forums, and trains developers in .NET technologies. When he isn’t living and breathing technology, he is exploring the Alaska wilderness with his dogs Mardy and Izzi, hiking, whitewater kayaking, skiing, and searching for the perfect sun dog. You can reach Don at donkiely@computer.org.
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.
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.
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.
Carlos Aguilar Mares, Microsoft Carlos Aguilar Mares is a Senior Development Lead on the Internet Information Services (IIS) product group at Microsoft. His team focuses on building the administration tools, remote administration, and the managed configuration API for IIS 7.0. Previously, he worked on the ASP.NET 2.0 Page and Controls team and before that, he was a Development Consultant working in Microsoft Consulting Services Mexico where he is originally from and where he joined Microsoft over eight years ago. When not at work, Carlos enjoys being with his family as well as playing tennis, guitar, Xbox, coding games, and pretty much anything related to computers. Co-author of the IIS 7.0 Resource Kit book.
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.
John Papa, ASPSOFT John is a Microsoft C# MVP, MCSD.NET, and INETA Speaker who has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for over 10 years. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies focusing on architecture, patterns and practices, data access and mobile development. He is a baseball fanatic who spends most of his summer nights rooting for the Yankees with his family and his faithful dog, Kadi. John has authored or co-authored several books on data access technologies, is the author of the "Data Points" column in MSDN Magazine, has presented MSDN WebCasts and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as DevConnections and VSLive. Contact John at www.johnpapa.net.
Tervel Peykov, Telerik Tervel Peykov is a Product Manager on Telerik''s RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX team. He is responsible for several ASP.NET AJAX controls among which is the award-winning RadEditor.
Matt Powell, Microsoft Matt Powell is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft’s Web and User Experience technologies. He has written dozens of technical articles for MSDN and other publications on Web technologies, authored a book on Internet Information Services, and has spoken at most of Microsoft’s major technical conferences. You can read his blog on technical and other issues at http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/.
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.
Thomas Rizzo, Microsoft Tom Rizzo has worked at Microsoft for the past ten years in a variety of roles including in the Microsoft field sales force as a systems engineer, a variety of roles in Microsoft’s server products including Exchange Server, SharePoint, and BizTalk Server and most recently SQL Server. Tom is also the author of a series of Microsoft Press books including Programming Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, 3rd Edition (October 2003). You can reach Tom either via e-mail at thomriz@microsoft.com.
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.
Joe Stagner, Microsoft Joe Stagner is a senior program manager in Microsoft Corporation’s Developer Tools and Platform Group and has been with Microsoft since 2001 focusing on highly scalable and performant Web application architectures, multiplatform interoperability and software security. Stagner brings 30 years of technical and business strategy experience to Microsoft which affords him a unique experiential perspective.
Paul Stork, Mindsharp Paul is a SharePoint Server MVP and a "Jack of all Trades" who has developed expertise as a network administrator, developer, and DBA. His primary area of expertise has been Microsoft application servers, which defy compartmentalization and leverage multiple technologies. In recent years he has focused primarily on SharePoint Products and Technologies, especially Web Content Management. Paul is a contributing author to several books including Developer’s Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform and the newly-released SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment Best Practices. His breadth of knowledge makes him a much sought after resource at Mindsharp when questions cross the traditional boundaries of administrator, developer and designer.
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.
Dave Sussman, Consultant, Ipona Ltd. Dave Sussman is an independent consultant, trainer and writer, who spends most of his time testing and writing about beta software, especially versions of ASP.NET. He has written or contributed to over 40 books for Wrox Press, APress, SAMS Publishing and Addison-Wesley, mostly on Internet and database topics. Dave has spoken at many conferences, including ASP Connections, ASPDevCon, Microsoft''s PDC, Tech-Ed, and VS-Live, and speaks regularly at local .NET user groups and meetings. Dave is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET, a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and a member of the ASP Insiders, a group of industry experts who advise the Microsoft ASP.NET development team.
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.
William R. Vaughn, Beta V Corporation William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, architect, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He’s written seven editions of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server and three editions of ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, Visual Studio/SQL Connections, DevTeach and VBug. He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine and many others as well as a bi-weekly editorial on developer issues for Processor magazine. Bill spends considerable time answering questions on the data-centric public newsgroups and speaking at user group meetings in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and at his speaking venues all over the world. Bill was added to the INETA speaker’s list this fall. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See www.betav.com or www.betav.comblogbillva.
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.
Stephen Walther, Microsoft Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the all time, biggest, best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is currently writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed. Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at http://StephenWalther.com.
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.
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.
Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Founder of Solid Quality Learning. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (MSPress), Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (MSPress), and a co-author of Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (APress). He has written many articles for SQL Server Magazine as well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN.
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 
Miguel is an architect with IDesign and provides architectural and development services to clients worldwide. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, ASP Insider, and has been in the software industry for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to Visual Basic 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact), Miguel jumped on .NET as soon as the first public Beta was released and has provided .NET solutions for clients in a variety of industries. He considers himself to be a .NET Developer and Architect and has equal love for both Visual Basic and C#, with no tolerance for language bigotry. He’s spoken at numerous user groups around the country as well as developer conferences in the US and abroad. 
Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona. myKB.com, Inc. is a technology company specializing is commercial ASP.NET applications. His product line includes myKB.com (Knowledge Base Software) and kbAlertz.com (Microsoft Knowledge Base Notifications). Scott is also a Board Member for ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early feedback to the Microsoft ASP.NET Team. Scott also runs AZGroups.com (Arizona .NET User Groups), one of the largest and most active user groups in North America.
Ben Curry (CISSP, MVP, MCP, MCT) is an author and enterprise network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. Ben is a Managing Partner at Summit 7 Systems, a company focused on the next generation of Microsoft products. Prior to launching Summit 7 Systems, Ben was an owner/partner at Mindsharp, the world leader in technical education for SharePoint. Ben’s philosophy is that the best solutions are inspired by the best ideas, and he encourages his team to generate and share ideas on a continuous basis. His philosophy is also exemplified in his numerous published books, and in his willingness to share his ideas as an instructor, both in the IT world and in the underwater world — Ben is a certified scuba instructor with a passion for diving. Other passions for life include riding his Harley Davidson through his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, coaching his daughter’s softball team, and of course, being a husband to his wife, Kimberly, and a proud father of his children, Madison and Bryce.
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.
Gert Drapers is a Software Architect in the SQL Server Development group at Microsoft. As a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, he is involved in providing architecture design guidance and performance tuning for the largest and most challenging SQL Server deployments in the world. Gert brings extensive experience in the areas of application development, database management, data loading, and performance tuning of VLDB environments. Prior to his current position, Gert was working as Software Architect in the .NET Developer Division, responsible for the design and development of the next generation transaction manager and programming model. He started working on SQL Server in 1988 while working for Ashton-Tate. He joined Microsoft in 1991 where he held various development positions within the Developer Relation Group and Microsoft Consulting Services before joining the SQL Server development team in 1996. Gert worked on both SQL Server 7.0 and 2000; first as Software Design Engineer in the SQL Server Storage Engine and later as the Product Unit Manager of the SQL Server Management Tools team and as Architect of SQL Server DTS.
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 
Cathi Gero, C.P.A., is founder and development director of Prenia Corporation, providing custom software applications, training, and architectural designing to businesses and developers. Cathi is a Microsoft C# MVP and is an active member of the .NET community. She has extensive experience developing applications using the .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Crystal Reports as well as other technologies. She is a member of the Microsoft .NET Advisory Council. She is an internationally known speaker at conferences and user groups, author of numerous articles for Microsoft, and technical editor for several .NET books. Her monthly column, “Cathi Gero’s .NET Tips” appears in Universal Thread Magazine. Her Weblog, featuring .NET Tips and Tricks, can be found at http://blogs.prenia.com/cathi. Most of the year Cathi travels to various companies providing onsite training, mentoring, and development experience. Contact Cathi via email at cgero@prenia.com
Norman Guadagno is currently Director of Product Marketing for Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft. In his previous role at Microsoft he was responsible for the company’s marketing efforts to the Architect audience worldwide, including owning the Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum and the Microsoft Architecture Journal.
Norman has over 10 years experience in the software industry. Prior to Microsoft he was VP of Marketing at Qpass and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Primus Knowledge Solutions. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Director at Oracle on the Oracle Application Server team. Norman began his career as a usability engineer and in technical product management. He has a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester and an M.A. from Rice University. Norman and his family live and work in Redmond, WA.
Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft’s web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the web. 
Alex began his love-hate relationship with computers in 1980 with the Altair and Sinclair Z80, while employed as a technical salesman with several manufacturing companies in the building industry. Since 1994, he has been working with and writing about various programming technologies–from databases to building Help systems. However with the growth of the Web, and particularly as ASP rapidly become a viable application platform, he has concentrated almost entirely on this topic. Alex has written or contributed to more than 30 books for Wrox Press, as well as producing articles for ASPToday. He has also spoken at several Wrox conferences on a range of topics, plus ASPDevCon and the Microsoft Professional Developer Conferences (PDC) and the VS.NET Europe conference. In what spare time is left, he runs his own software and consultancy company, Stonebroom Ltd. (www.stonebroom.com)
Rob Howard is a founder of Telligent Systems, Inc. Prior to founding »telligentsystems Rob was employed by the Microsoft Corporation where he was a member of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 team - specifically contributing to ASP.NET. Rob’s new company, »telligentsystems, is a solutions company specializing in building high-availability and high-scale software solutions. In addition, it also is building out a Knowledge Management product line whose first release is Community Server (see www.communityserver.org) which brings together and integrates some of the most powerful .NET solutions such as the Forums (used on forums.xbox.com) and .Text (used on blogs.msdn.com).
Ron Jacobs is an Architect Evangelist in the Microsoft Architecture Strategy group based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington. Since 1999 Ron has been a product and program manager on various Microsoft products including the .Net Framework, Windows Communication Foundation and COM+. A top-rated conference speaker, author and host of the podcast show ARCast.TV, Ron brings over 20 years of industry experience to his role of helping Microsoft customers and partners to build architecturally sound and secure applications.
Don Kiely, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant, building custom applications as well as providing business and technology consulting services. His development work involves tools such as SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Office. He writes regularly for several trade journals, including Visual Studio Magazine and Advisor Media, Inc., is a top poster and moderator on the www.asp.net community forums, and trains developers in .NET technologies. When he isn’t living and breathing technology, he is exploring the Alaska wilderness with his dogs Mardy and Izzi, hiking, whitewater kayaking, skiing, and searching for the perfect sun dog. You can reach Don at donkiely@computer.org.
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: 
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 (
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (
Carlos Aguilar Mares is a Senior Development Lead on the Internet Information Services (IIS) product group at Microsoft. His team focuses on building the administration tools, remote administration, and the managed configuration API for IIS 7.0. Previously, he worked on the ASP.NET 2.0 Page and Controls team and before that, he was a Development Consultant working in Microsoft Consulting Services Mexico where he is originally from and where he joined Microsoft over eight years ago. When not at work, Carlos enjoys being with his family as well as playing tennis, guitar, Xbox, coding games, and pretty much anything related to computers. Co-author of the IIS 7.0 Resource Kit book.
Microsoft program managers, architects, evangelists, developers, and product managers will present this session. The specific speaker will be assigned closer to the conference date.
John is a Microsoft C# MVP, MCSD.NET, and INETA Speaker who has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for over 10 years. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies focusing on architecture, patterns and practices, data access and mobile development. He is a baseball fanatic who spends most of his summer nights rooting for the Yankees with his family and his faithful dog, Kadi. John has authored or co-authored several books on data access technologies, is the author of the "Data Points" column in MSDN Magazine, has presented MSDN WebCasts and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as DevConnections and VSLive. Contact John at 
Tervel Peykov is a Product Manager on Telerik''s RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX team. He is responsible for several ASP.NET AJAX controls among which is the award-winning RadEditor.
Matt Powell is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft’s Web and User Experience technologies. He has written dozens of technical articles for MSDN and other publications on Web technologies, authored a book on Internet Information Services, and has spoken at most of Microsoft’s major technical conferences. You can read his blog on technical and other issues at 
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. 
Tom Rizzo has worked at Microsoft for the past ten years in a variety of roles including in the Microsoft field sales force as a systems engineer, a variety of roles in Microsoft’s server products including Exchange Server, SharePoint, and BizTalk Server and most recently SQL Server. Tom is also the author of a series of Microsoft Press books including Programming Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, 3rd Edition (October 2003). You can reach Tom either via e-mail at thomriz@microsoft.com.
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.
Joe Stagner is a senior program manager in Microsoft Corporation’s Developer Tools and Platform Group and has been with Microsoft since 2001 focusing on highly scalable and performant Web application architectures, multiplatform interoperability and software security. Stagner brings 30 years of technical and business strategy experience to Microsoft which affords him a unique experiential perspective.
Paul is a SharePoint Server MVP and a "Jack of all Trades" who has developed expertise as a network administrator, developer, and DBA. His primary area of expertise has been Microsoft application servers, which defy compartmentalization and leverage multiple technologies. In recent years he has focused primarily on SharePoint Products and Technologies, especially Web Content Management. Paul is a contributing author to several books including 
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 
Dave Sussman is an independent consultant, trainer and writer, who spends most of his time testing and writing about beta software, especially versions of ASP.NET. He has written or contributed to over 40 books for Wrox Press, APress, SAMS Publishing and Addison-Wesley, mostly on Internet and database topics. Dave has spoken at many conferences, including ASP Connections, ASPDevCon, Microsoft''s PDC, Tech-Ed, and VS-Live, and speaks regularly at local .NET user groups and meetings. Dave is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET, a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and a member of the ASP Insiders, a group of industry experts who advise the Microsoft ASP.NET development team.
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. 
William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, architect, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He’s written seven editions of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server and three editions of ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, Visual Studio/SQL Connections, DevTeach and VBug. He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine and many others as well as a bi-weekly editorial on developer issues for Processor magazine. Bill spends considerable time answering questions on the data-centric public newsgroups and speaking at user group meetings in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and at his speaking venues all over the world. Bill was added to the INETA speaker’s list this fall. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See 
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 (
Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the all time, biggest, best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is currently writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed. Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at