Amit Ben-Ari
Technical Specialist - Microsoft

Arlindo Alves
IT Pro Evangelist - Microsoft

Arlindo Alves started his career as an ICT consultant at a Microsoft Partner, with a strong focus and recognized expertise in server based computing. Today, Arlindo is an IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg, focusing on the next wave of technology innovations. As part of the IT Pro team he works closely with the technical community and maintains his own blog at http://blogs.technet.com/aralves

Ashvini Sharma
Program Manager  - Microsoft Corp

Ashvini Sharma is a Program Manager in SQL Server’s Strategy team where he’s working on various forward-looking projects. Prior to this role, Ashvini was with the SQL Server Business Intelligence team and has contributed as a tester, developer and development lead to SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005, respectively. Ashvini graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994.

Bart De Smet
Microsoft MVP for Visual C# 

Bart De Smet is Microsoft MVP for Visual C# and specializes in various Microsoft-related technologies, covering .NET Framework development, CLR, C#, SQL Server and Windows Server System. Since the year 2000, Bart evangelizes Microsoft technologies and delivers presentations on several technology events. Beside his evangelism efforts, he's busy maintaining his blog, writing articles for the local MSDN website in Belgium and doing consultancy for various development projects, spending long and lonely nights with his computer. In 2005, Bart graduated as a Master Informatics from the university of Ghent, Belgium with a summa cum laude degree. For the spare free time that remains, he loves to read technical and scientific books, browse the internet for interesting articles and blog posts, and spend time with friends. Hiking trips, jogging and taking the challenge of playing a game of snooker are the keywords of Bart's limited sports activities.

Bob Beauchemin
Director of Developer Skills - SQLskills

Bob Beauchemin is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and Director of Developer Skills for SQLskills. Over the past two years he's been teaching his SQL Server 2005 course to 500 students worldwide through the Ascend program. He is lead author of the books "A Developer's Guide to SQL Server 2005" and "A First Look at SQL Server 2005 For Developers", author of "Essential ADO.NET" and has written articles on SQL Server and other databases, database security, ADO.NET, and OLE DB for MSDN, SQL Server Magazine, and others.

Bruce Payette
Technical Lead - Microsoft Corp

Bruce Payette is a Technical Lead on the Windows PowerShell team. He is one of the founding members of the team, co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation. He has just released his first book, “Windows PowerShell in Action” from Manning Press.

Carrie Longson
User Experience Evangelist - Microsoft EMEA

Carrie has spent the last four years working in Microsoft Services UK as a User Experience Consultant, working on a number of large projects such as BBC JAM and the NHS CUI. Over the past year Carrie's main focus has been designing WPF applications using Expression Blend, she has worked on a number of key WPF demos, namely, Robbie Williams site, Financial Times reader, London Underground tracker, IMG Fashion/golf demonstrators and Building schools of the future showcase, to name but a few.

Chad Hower
Developer Advisor - Kudzu World

Formerly the the Regional Developer Adviser (DPE) for Microsoft MEA (Middle East and Africa), he was responsible for 85 countries spanning 4 continents and crossing 10 time zones. Now Chad is a Microsoft Regional Director covering Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia and a professional speaker at popular developer conferences worldwide. Chad was once introduced as having "mastered more languages than a United Nations translator." Chad is the author of the book Indy in Depth and has contributed to several other books on network communications and general programming. Chad writes regularly for the Software Developer Network Magazine (Dutch), and occasionally for other magazines. Chad is an expatriate who travels extensively year round with bases in Cyprus and Russia. Chad has also lived in Canada, Turkey, Jordan, and the United States. In total Chad has visited more than nearly 50 countries, visiting most of them many times.

Christian Weyer
Microsoft MVP for Solution Architecture - thinktecture

Christian Weyer is one of the co-founders of thinktecture, a company providing consulting, support and training services for software architects and developers. He is a Microsoft MVP for Solution Architecture and one of the few independent Microsoft Regional Directors (nominated for Germany). Christian has spoken at various developer conferences worldwide and forums and is a published author and writer of numerous articles for German and international technical magazines - based on his experience working with COM/DCOM, COM+, .NET, Web Services, Java and lately WCF. Visit his weblog http://blogs.thinktecture.com/cweyer/ to find out more about XML Services and Service-oriented integration and programming.

David De Backer
Technical Specialist - Microsoft

David Lowe
Senior Product Manager for Windows Server  - Microsoft Corp

David Lowe is Senior Product Manager for Windows Server with Microsoft Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for planning the worldwide launch and marketing activities for the next major version of Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn”. David has been with Microsoft since 2001, and in this time he has also been Senior Product Manager for Security and IT Professional portfolios with Microsoft Learning. Prior to joining Microsoft, David was Senior Lecturer in Internet Technologies at the Centre for Advanced Technology Training in Dublin, Ireland, where he specialized in Web development and XML. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University College, Dublin, and he is the author of "BizTalk Server: The Complete Reference", published by Osborne-McGraw Hill.

David Stoeckel
Technology Specialist Windows Client - Microsoft

David Stoeckel, born in France, moved to the Netherlands when he was 7. During his Graphic study (Photographic, Video and Editing) he started to work freelance consultant at small & midmarket customers. After working in the Publication sector for a few years as Network Administrator, he shifted to one of the biggest system integrators for 6 years as a Core Infrastructure Consultant and Architect(Microsoft based solutions). Last year David joined Microsoft to be able to focus even more on the Microsoft Core Infrastructure portfolio. At Microsoft he works as a Technology Specialist Windows Client for Enterprise customers, what is all about deployment and Desktop Lifecycle Management. Of course Virtualization and Application Deployment are an inevitable part of his knowledge, as such he is a Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Specialist.

Doug Mahugh
Technical Evangelist - Microsoft

Doug Mahugh is a technical evangelist for the Office Open XML file formats, and the moderator of the www.OpenXmlDeveloper.org web site. He works closely with Microsoft partners and other developers who are building solutions that support the Open XML file formats.

Eric Denekamp
Consultant - Infosupport

Eric Denekamp is a trainer consultant working for Info Support. Eric gives mainly training about infrastructure topics. Beside Windows Server 2003 he is also an known expert in Exchange server and the different aspects of the System Center platform. Have a look at his blog: http://blogs.infosupport.com/ericd/

Francois Manuel Billault
Senior Storage Technical Specialist for EMEA  - Microsoft

Francois Manuel Billault is a Senior Storage Technical Specialist for EMEA He has been a veteran in this industry for more than 19 year helping global to medium sized business customer to improve their Storage strategy.

Fred Baumhardt
Security Technology Architect  - Microsoft EMEA

Fred Baumhardt is the Security Technology Architect for Microsoft EMEA. Fred helps customers deliver end-to-end secure connected infrastructures built on Microsoft platforms as well as the emerging Microsoft Security technologies. Fred is a regular presenter at most Microsoft and third party security conferences worldwide. He has been responsible for architecting customer environments from small businesses to production Datacenters in private, public, and defence sectors. Prior to joining Microsoft, Fred's engagements have included defence and intelligence services, as well as financial institutions, government, and manufacturing. Fred holds MCSE+Security, Professional, Administrator, Database Administrator, and Trainer qualifications.

Gunter Staes
Techology Advisor - Microsoft

Ilse Van Criekinge
ICT Consultant - Atos - Origin

Ilse has been working since mid September 2006 as an ICT consultant for Atos Origin located in Belgium, where she focuses on Exchange migrations and deployments. Prior to joining Atos Origin, Ilse was employed as an Exchange Trainer at Azlan for more than five years. Being an MCT, Ilse offered several companies guidance in their Exchange and MOM deployments, as well as auditing the disaster recovery capabilities in their mail environment. As one of the five Exchange mentors chosen worldwide she has also helped other trainers to get familiar with Exchange 2003. During the last year she has ignited many IT Professionals with the power of Exchange 2007, by delivering trainings, and by co-founding a new usergroup Pro-Exchange in Belgium focused on Exchange Server. http://www.proexchange.be

Ingo Rammer
Co-founder thinktecture - thinktecture

Ingo Rammer is co-founder of thinktecture, a company providing in-depth support and technical consulting for software architects and developers. Ingo is the award-winning author of the books "Advanced .NET Remoting" and "Advanced .NET Remoting in VB.NET" and regularly shares his knowledge at industry conferences and events around the world, including TechEd, WinDev, DevWeek, NDC, VS.NET Connections, and DevDays. You can find out more about him at http://www.thinktecture.com/staff/ingo

Jake Zborowski
Product Manager in the Office Business Applications  - Microsoft Corp

Jake Zborowski is a Product Manager in the Office Business Applications (OBA) group responsible for the core readiness for the breadth of the Microsoft Business Intelligence product offering. Jake joined Microsoft with the acquisition of ProClarity Corporation in May 2006. Jake spent three years as a Product Marketing Manager with ProClarity Corporation in charge of product messaging and sales readiness. Jake holds a bachelor of economics degree from Albertson College and an MBA from the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University.

James O'neill
IT Pro Advisor - Microsoft

James O'Neill has been using Microsoft products since 1979 but it wasn’t until 2000 that he decided to join Microsoft. Most of his career has concentrated on gaining firsthand experience of operating systems and messaging technologies however, he spent 5 years running a consulting and training company where he shared his knowledge with individuals and companies alike. He has been a Microsoft certified professional since 1993, holding MCSE from NT 3.1 to Windows 2003. He became an IT Pro evangelist in March 2006 and before that spent six years working for Microsoft Consulting Services on a variety of projects for several well known, large organisations. Outside of work his free time is divided between his two small children and photography. He irritates people with a vast knowledge of trivia and by writing about himself in the third person.

Jay Schmelzer
Group Program Manager - Microsoft

Jay Schmelzer is the Group Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team at Microsoft. Jay and his team are responsible for delivering the core Visual Basic development experience, including the language, compiler and IDE, as well as a number of Visual Studio features vital to end-to-end application development including Data Design-time, WCF tools and Deployment. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jay was a partner with a leading consulting firm and specialized in the design and development of enterprise applications. Jay has authored several articles and books on application development and is a frequent speaker at conferences.

Jeff Prosise
cofounder - Wintellect

Jeff Prosise is cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), a developer consulting and education firm that provides services to companies all over the world. His most recent book, Programming Microsoft .NET, was published by Microsoft Press in 2002, and his writings appear regularly in MSDN Magazine and other developer magazines. A reformed engineer who discovered after college that there’s more to life than computing loads on mounting brackets, Jeff is known to go out of his way to get wet in some of the world’s best dive spots and to spend way too much time building and flying R/C aircraft.

Jelle Druyts
.NET Consultant - Compuware

Jelle Druyts is a consultant for the Compuware Professional Services division in Belgium, specializing in all .NET-related products at the edge of the technology stack. You can regularly find him lurking in the obscure corners of early alphas and betas, exploring the mysterious unknowns so you don't have to. He keeps up with the latest Microsoft-related technologies on his blog at http://jelle.druyts.net.

Jill Frank
Technical Writer in Exchange Team - Microsoft

Jill Frank is a technical writer at Microsoft, authoring content for Exchange Server. She is currently focused on writing about deploying Exchange in various topologies and about administrator tasks specific to Mailbox servers. She has worked on the Exchange team at Microsoft since January of 2000. Prior to her technical writing work, she focused on stress testing, performance analysis, and customer simulation testing of Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003.

John Craddock
Principal Systems Consultant 

John Craddock has designed and implemented computing systems ranging from embedded high-speed industrial controllers through to distributed IT solutions. John works as a consultant providing services to industry leaders including Microsoft, he was a key player in the Government Gateway Project and is infrastructure architect for a Web portal built on the .NET server technologies. In addition to his role as a consultant, he has written over 20 technical training courses that have been published worldwide. He has recently co-authored ‘Investigating and Managing Objects and Attributes for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003’ which is part of the Active Directory® Forestry series. John lectures internationally and has written and presented sessions on Windows 2000 and 2003 Active Directory at MTB, MEC, Tech-Ed, IT Forum, JDP and deployment conferences

Joris Poelmans
Applications Group Manager - Dolmen

Joris Poelmans works at Dolmen, a Belgian IT services company and Microsoft Gold Partner. His main competence area is Information Worker solutions using Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server, MS CMS and Office. He is a MVP for Windows SharePoint Services and one of the founding members of BIWUG - Belux Information Worker User Group - http://www.biwug.be. He regulary posts some SharePoint stuff on his blog at http://jopx.blogspot.com

Kim Oppalfens
Technical Consultant - Telindus

Kim Oppalfens is an MCT that was awarded the Windows Server System MVP - SMS begin April 2005. He frequents the public newsgroups around sms, as well as the beta newsgroups where he answers numerous post every month. Kim currently works as an Technical Consultant at Telindus in Belgium, where he is focusing on the Workplace Management Solution, Sms, Mom and Active Directory Migration Projects. Prior to this Kim has been an sms instructor for a little over 3 years. During this time he wrote his own SMS 2003 manual and thought it at a Train-The-Trainer session in Paris, and redelivered the same course in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium of course.

Kimmo Forss
Lead Architect Portal - Microsoft

Kimmo Forss specializes in collaborative applications on the .NET platform. His speciality areas are in the field of architecture, co-existence and migration. As a Senior Microsoft Consultant, he regularly works with customers and partners helping them to design and build .NET solutions. Kimmo also works closely with internal Microsoft product and marketing teams. He is a frequent speaker and trainer at industry conferences and workshops.

Kurt Claeys
Architect/Competence Leader - Ordina

Kurt Claeys (MCPD Enterprise Application Developer) is a .NET architect and trainer for ORDINA Belgium specializing in SOA architecture, Enterprise Application Integration and design patterns. As member of the Ordina Microsoft Product Experts group he and his ORDINA colleagues are blogging on www.n-technologies.be. Personal thoughts on .NET 3.0 can be found on www.devitect.net.

Kurt Roggen
System Architect - Guidance NV, Belgium

Kurt Roggen works as a System Architect mainly around Microsoft technologies as Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, Group Policies, Exchange Server 2003, security, etc... You might have seen and heard Kurt on several of our TechNet events, including Developer & IT Pro Days 2005, TechNet Evenings, TechNet Roadshows, TechEd 2005, IT Forum 2005, etc... Kurt is also a Microsoft Trainer, where he shares his field experience with customers.

Olivier van Noort
Solution Specialist Windows Client  - Microsoft

Olivier van Noort is working for Microsoft for 7 years now where he started in a role working directly for Microsoft Corporation in the Windows product group as a program manager. Over a year ago he moved over to Microsoft Netherlands where he is working as a Solution Specialist Windows Client for Enterprise customers, what is all about deployment and Desktop Lifecycle Management. Of course Virtualization and Application Deployment are an inevitable part of his knowledge, as such he is a Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Specialist

Patrick Tisseghem
Managing Partner - u2u

Patrick Tisseghem is MVP for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and has been involved in the next version of WSS and MOSS since June 2005 working for Microsoft Corp on the TAP program, the creation and delivery of the Ascend and TouchDown workshops. He is travelling most of its time delivering workshops, seminars and presentations on IW technologies such as SharePoint and Office development. Patrick is managing partner of U2U, a .NET training and services company based in Brussels, Belgium.

Peter Himschoot
Architect and Trainer - U2U

Peter Himschoot is an architect and trainer for U2U, specializing in .NET, Team System and BizTalk. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director. You can reach him at peter@u2u.net.

Raj Pai
Group Program Manager - Microsoft

Raj Pai is the Group Program Manager for the Visual C# team. The Visual C# team focuses on making developers more productive with the introduction of language innovations that make code simpler and more efficient, and code-focused IDE enhancements that reduce the effort required to write, navigate, refactor and debug code. As Group Program Manager of Visual C#, Raj manages a team of Program Managers that drive customer satisfaction and developer productivity by planning, designing, and driving future releases of Visual C# (language, IDE, and Visual Studio debugger). Raj has been at Microsoft since June 1999, and spent 4 years on the MSN Hotmail team prior to moving over to the Developer Division.

Ron Jacobs
Architect Evangelist - Microsoft

Ron Jacobs is an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team team based in Redmond, Washington. After a long career as a developer, program manager for various Microsoft products and product manager for patterns & practices Ron became host of the Channel9 show ARCast. A popular conference speaker Ron brings together solid architectural content and a sense of humor together to help you succeed in building architecturally sound and secure applications.

Ronald Beekelaar
Consultant - MVP 

Ronald Beekelaar is an independent consultant with extensive experience in virtual machine technology, Windows Server security, and network infrastructure design. He is a frequent presenter in international industry events including Microsoft TechEd covering topics such as IPSec, ISA Server and Virtual Server. Ronald is MCSE, MCT, and MVP in both Virtual Machine technology and Windows Security.

Ronny Bjones
Security strategist - Microsoft EMEA

Ronny Bjones is working for Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa) headquarters as security strategist. He has 23 years experience in ICT, 17 of those in security. Ronny published QuEST together with several industry specialists in the subject of electronic signatures. The book is a comprehensive guide on how to implement Electronic Signatures solutions and can be downloaded from Microsoft.com. Ronny oversees the whole areas of security but has a special interest in smart cards, PKI, cryptography and digital signatures. Ronny is a board member of EEMA, an organisation providing guidance on e-Business. Since ‘89 he is active in the field of Information Security doing large projects for the European Central banks, Police forces, big financial institutes, European Commission, etc. Ronny Bjones was one of the four founders of Utimaco Belgium, where he worked ten years as R&D director. Before Utimaco Ronny worked for a Belgian EFT specialist called Prodata and one of the first firms to specialize in cryptography in Europe called Cryptech. Ronny Bjones is an active speaker on conferences and acts as auditor for government sponsored projects.

Roy Osherove
Microsoft MVP, Principal - Team Agile (TeamAgile.com)

Roy is the Principal of Team Agile – An Israel based mentoring and training company focusing on Agile development methods and tools, with a strong technical focus for developers. Roy has spoken at several national and international conferences around the world, including Microsoft's TechEd and DevDays. You can read his thoughts about .NET and Agile Development at his weblog: ISerializable.com , and in articles he publishes online and on MSDN Magazine. Roy is also the Founder of the Agile Israel user's group - meeting monthly to discuss topics on Agile development, process improvement and implementing change in organizations. Roy has been involved in the software industry for a little over 10 years now. For the past 5 years ,he's worked as a consultant for small and large organizations in Israel and Europe, focusing on smarter development methods, architecture, methodology training and developer productivity.

Sally Storey
Senior Consultant 

Sally Storey has worked in management and consulting in the IT industry for Novell, Microsoft and now, independently. Sally works as a consultant on enterprise infrastructure projects in operations, logistics and deployment roles. Sally is ITIL qualified and specializes in building process that keep systems highly available and secure. Sally co-authored the Active Directory® Forestry series with John Craddock.

Sasa Radosevic
Security Technology Specialist  - Microsoft

Since August 2005, Sasa Radosevic has been working as Security Technology Specialist. In his current role Sasa Radosevic is speaking about the new Forefront security products. Product Manager - Sybari Software 2000-2005, Sasa Radosevic has been working as Product Manager EMEA for Sybari Software. In this capacity, he is in charge of the development and the technical/commercial support of the American company's entire product portfolio in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Sybari's offer consists of solutions to groupware-based virus and security threats (Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint Portal server). Radosevic has gained wide experience in network management and groupware environments. Preceding his changeover to Sybari in 2000, Radosevic had been working as a network consultant and manager for several Dutch IT companies. It was during his activities in this last company that he was introduced to Sybari's product Antigen.

Steve Plank
Identity Architect - Microsoft

Steve, or "Planky" as he is known, is an identity architect working in the UK's Developer and Platform group. He deals mostly with architecture design, and then proving that design in PoCs and so on for identity products. He is frequently involved in Proof-of-Concept work with alpha and beta code, and is therefore a conduit between what customers require in real-world-scenarios, and the product development teams. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as IT Forum and TechEd, both in Europe and the USA.

Tony Krijnen
Technology Advisor - Microsoft Netherlands

Tony Krijnen is a Technology Advisor in the Microsoft Platform Group in The Netherlands. In this job he is delivering technical presentations and demonstrations at tradeshows, events and partner sessions. Tony is 10 years with Microsoft now and has a broad knowledge of the Microsoft Office System, the Microsoft Server System and the Mobility platform. Tony has spoken previously at Microsoft IT Forum and at a variety of other conferences including TechEd, Gartner and IDC. More information about Tony Krijnen can be found onto his website: http://www.tonykrijnen.com