Speakers

• Mike Azocar

  
  Mike is a full-time consultant based in Houston, Texas. He is an active and outspoken blogger, author, speaker and Team System community advocate. While his primary focus is on Team System, he is also interested in application lifecycle management, automated testing, agile methodologies, project management and virtualization. His blog can be found at http://www.michaelazocar.com/blog.
  
  His teaser on Process Templates is here ....
  
  and Scrum-Tastic Development in VSTS is here ....

• Dominick Baier

  
  Dominick Baier is an internationally recognized expert for security of .NET and Windows applications. He supports companies worldwide with design and implementation of security features in their software as a security consultant at thinktecture (www.thinktecture.com). As one of the few "Developer Security" Microsoft MVPs , he works directly with various security teams in Redmond. One of the offsprings of this cooperation is the book "Developing More Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications" which quickly became the book for ASP.NET security. Dominick also leads the security and WCF curriculum at DevelopMentor. You can find a wealth of security related resources as well as conference slide decks and tools/sample code at Dominick's blog at http://www.leastprivilege.com.
  
  To give you a taste of what to expect have a look at this ....

• Barry Carr

• Maurice de Beijer

  
  Maurice de Beijer is an independent software consultant specializing in Workflow Foundation and .NET in general. He has been awarded the yearly Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2005. Besides developing software Maurice also runs the Visual Basic section of the Software Developer Network, the largest Dutch .NET user group. Maurice can be reached through his websites, either www.WindowsWorkflowFoundation.eu or www.TheProblemSolver.nl, or by emailing him at Maurice /AT/ TheProblemSolver /dot/ nl
  
  Maurice's teaser on Windows Workflow

• Alan Dean

• Daniel Fisher

  
  Daniel is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) for Developing Web applications with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Visual C#, an Expert and Editor for Codezone Germany and authors articles in several leading German developer magazines. Since the initial beta release of Microsoft .NET in 2000, Daniel has built solutions using C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Prior to this he worked extensively with Borland Delphi and Visual Basic and completed various projects in Java, C/C++, Perl and PHP. Involved in many projects, primarily e-commerce and portal applications, he has lead the development of B2B solutions for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware firms, construction suppliers and companies in a variety of other industries. Daniel is a member of the Microsoft Community Leader and Influencer Program (CLIP) and leads the INETA Usergroup VfL-Niederrhein.
  http://www.lennybacon.com/

• Michael Foord

  
  I've been a Python developer for four years and for the last eighteen months have been working with a London Startup developing a new application with IronPython. I've written several articles on Python, including a HOWTO that has become part of the Python documentation. I'm currently writing a book for Manning called "IronPython in Action".
  My Blog
  
  Me in the Fish-Bowl at Tech-Ed Barcelona 2007

• Ben Hall

  
  Ben Hall is a UK C# developer/tester who enjoys all aspects of the development lifecycle and technology in general. During the day Ben works for Red Gate Software as a Test Engineer. At night, Ben is a MbUnit Core Commit Member, helping out on the project whenever possible. Ben has also gained his Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Web Applications and is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Administrating Windows XP.
  Ben's Blog
  
  His teaser on Red, Green, Refactor

• Alex Homer

  
  Alex has had a love-hate relationship with computers that goes way back to the Sinclair Z80 and the Oric Atmos. In 1996, he retired from his full-time work to concentrate on writing and developing in the fast-growing arena of the Web. This coincided with the release of Microsoft ASP 1.0, and since then he has been involved in a range of Web development areas; plus data access, XML and other related .NET topics. His own company Stonebroom Ltd. (http://stonebroom.com/) provides consultancy and bespoke development services to the IT industry. Alex has written or contributed to over 40 books on Web technologies for J. Wiley & Sons/Wrox Press, APress!, Addison Wesley, and Sams Publishing - predominantly on Microsoft ASP and ASP.NET, ADO and ADO.NET, XML, and mobile device support. He has also contributed over 50 articles to ASPToday, DevX, 15Seconds.com and other ASP-related Web resources sites, and developed documentation of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group. Alex regularly presents sessions on a range of Web and .NET technologies at conference in the US and in Europe. This includes the Wrox and ASPDevCon conferences; Microsoft's PDC, Tech-Ed, ASP.NET Connections and VS-Live conferences, and several other independent conferences. He has also conducted training sessions for various UK-based companies and developers on ASP.NET and XML. Alex is also a regular speaker at local .Net user groups, Microsoft local events and road shows, VBUG-UK and DDG-UK meetings. He is an MVP, and a member of the ASPInsiders Group and the CodeWise Community.
  http://www.stonebroom.com

• Dave McMahon

  
  Dave works as Chief Architect for .NET Development at Ridgian Limited, a privately owned software house based in Central Birmingham. Ridgian are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and specialise in Business Intelligence Solutions, Custom Software Solutions and Information Workder Solutions (SharePoint). He is a co-founder of The Next Generation User Group (NxtGenUG) net and has spoken at numerous User Group meetings, DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper conferences and at TechEd Barcelona. He is, by his own admission, a bit of a generalist and has spoken on subjects as wide as MOSS and Access to Regular Expressions and Developing .NET Enterprise Services Components. His 2 main loves in the technology world are XSLT and SQL Server 2005, specifically the XML features of SQL Server. His next big project is learning Haskell and F# in a year, watch out for a few 'different' sessions from Dave in 2008.
  
  Dave interviews Dave on XSLT

• Claudio Perrone

  
  Claudio Perrone is Chief Technology Officer at InnerWorkings, a company providing advanced learning and analysis tools for software developers. As a fervent agile advocate, Claudio builds passionate teams who share his appreciation for crafting software that meets real customer needs, with creativity, simplicity and elegance. In his career, he has participated in the design and development of several large-scale solutions for global companies in the fields of e-learning, e-commerce, manufacturing and automation. His blog is at http://www.claudioperrone.com

• John Price

  

• Gary Short

  
  I hang out here
  
  Gary Short [MVP C#] joined the army upon leaving school and was put on stores duty, where he was responsible for handing out the camouflage paint for trucks and tanks. As the distinctive patterned paint only came it two sizes, small for trucks and large for tanks, he soon grew tired of this work and became a hit man for Chipperfield's Circus. His mission was to track down competing circuses around the world and to kill them. This was very dangerous work as it is hard to kill a Circus, the best way being to always go for the juggler. Seeing there was no future in this Gary then drifted into programming where he pretends to know a lot about Patterns & Practices and he intends to stay in this profession until found out.
  
  Psst.. Want to see a Pattern ?

• Guy Smith-Ferrier

  
  Guy is an MVP in ASP.NET. He is the author of ".NET Internationalization" published by Addison-Wesley (http://www.dotneti18n.com). He is a Microsoft Certified Professional developer, author, trainer and speaker, has spoken at many European and US conferences, is the winner of the NxtGen Best Presentation 2006/2007, has been voted best speaker three times and is an INETA Speaker. He runs The .NET Developer Network (http://www.dotnetdevnet.com), a free .NET user group in the South West of England.
  http://www.guysmithferrier.com

• Oliver Sturm

  
  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 works for Developer Express as a Technical Evangelist and Lead Program Manager for the Frameworks Division.
  http://www.sturmnet.org/blog
  
  Here's Oliver's teaser on his C# Session
  
  and this teaser is on his WPF Session

• Dave Sussman

  
  Dave Sussman is an independent trainer, consultant and writer, who inhabits that strange place called beta land. It's full of various computers, multiple boot partitions, VPC images and very occasionally, stable software. He spends most of his time as an author, having written over 40 programming books and still can't work out why his royalty statements always seem to be negative. When not writing books or playing with testing alpha and beta software Dave can be found training for DevTrain or working with a variety of clients helping to bring ASP.NET projects into fruition. He is a Microsoft MVP, a member of the ASP Insiders and INETA Speakers Bureau. He has an expensive hifi, two guitars, a love of Malt Whisky and no social life. You can find more details about Dave and his books at http://www.ipona.com or at http://daveandal.net which he shares with co-author Alex Homer.
  http://blogs.ipona.com/davids

• Christian Weyer

  

• Andy Wigley

  
  Andy Wigley is an expert on developing mobile applications using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and is the co-author of the new Microsoft Press book Mobile Development Handbook (published May 2007), and of Microsoft .NET Compact Framework Core Reference (Microsoft Press).  He leads the software consulting company, Andy Wigley Computing Ltd , specializing in mobile and small business applications. Andy is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for device application development.
  www.wigleycomputing.co.uk
  
  Here's Andy in the Fish-Bowl at Tech-Ed Barcelona 2007

• Michael Willers

  
  Michael Willers is a co-founder of devcoach® (www.devcoach.com), a company that supports and accompanies customers in projects with the Microsoft® .NET platform all through from architecture to deployment. Michael has a strong emphasis on service-orientation (SOA), agile methodologies and processes and security. He is a recognized expert in the SOA-field and plans and realizes distributed systems on the Microsoft platform since many years. Michael is one of the early Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) experts and was a member of the technical adoption program for the Microsoft Corporation. For the federal office for security in information technology of the German government he and Daniel Fisher have created a security analysis and written practice-proven guidelines for the daily work with WCF. As experts for the topic “SOA with .NET” they traveled through Europe to discuss the requirements of architects from all over the world and help them implement solutions. Daniel is developing software since 1995 (since 1999 on the .NET Platform) and has worked several years on projects as a developer, architect, project lead and consultant for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware, construction supplies and has been a technical consultant for Microsoft Germany. He is actively contributing to the software developer community as co-founder of JustCommunity e.V. (www.justcommunity.de), organizer of the biggest regional community event, and mentor with his experiences as founder of the MSDN TechTalk series. Contact michael.willers@devcoach.de +49 (163) 8074 542

• Phil Winstanley

  
  Phil, far from having mastered space and time still finds himself in need of things with which to be distracted. One of those rewarding activities is ASP.NET development.
  
  As a developer, author, blogger and speaker specialising in ASP.NET Development (you know, the one with the <asp:AngleBrackets />) Phil’s experience has focused on building huge unwieldy systems for Enterprises and Blue Chips across the globe and in that time he’s learnt the hard way how to code ASP.NET in a highly effective and defensive manner.
  
  Microsoft have awarded Phil with the MVP award for the past seven years and he’s also a member of the ASP Insiders, a working group which consults directly with the ASP.NET team.
  http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/
  
  and this teaser is on how to learn from Phil's Mistakes