Alex Turner

Program Manager -  Microsoft

Alex Turner is the Program Manager for the C# Compiler at Microsoft, where he makes sure that C#’s new language features and compiler services become a reality. Alex graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and interned twice at Microsoft before joining the C# team full-time.

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

Bart De Smet

Microsoft MVP for Visual C# 

A former Visual C# MVP, Bart De Smet now works at Microsoft Corporation on the WPF dev team in an SDE role. Prior to this new challenge, Bart was active in the Belgian community evangelizing various Microsoft technologies, most of the time focusing on CLR, language innovation and frameworks. In his evangelism role, he's been speaking at various events and attended several international conferences including TechEd Europe, IT Forum and the PDC. In 2005, Bart graduated as a Master of Informatics from Ghent University, Belgium. Two years later, Bart became a Master of Computer Science Software Engineering from the same university.

Bill Hilf

General Manager, Platform Strategy -  Microsoft Corp

Bill Hilf is the General Manager of Platform Strategy driving Microsoft's platform strategy efforts across the company. Bill’s primary focus is to champion platform initiatives that cross these groups, while leading long-term strategy planning in the Windows Server and Tools organization. In this role, Bill regularly engages with the field and worldwide regions to provide a direct channel for customer and community feedback. This interaction enables customer and community input to be incorporated within Microsoft's forthcoming products and technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bill led IBM's Linux/Open Source Software technical strategy at a world-wide level for the Emerging and Competitive markets organization, in addition to his direct customer interaction as a senior enterprise architect. Bill has been involved with Open Source Software (OSS) for over twelve years, and is an IEEE Distinguished Visitor on the subject of OSS. Prior to joining IBM, Bill was Vice President of Engineering for eToys, where he helped build one of the premier ecommerce businesses on the Web. Previously, he worked as a software architect for multiple Silicon Valley-based software companies, such as CNET Networks and Black Sun Interactive. Bill is a graduate of Chapman University Graduate School.

Brian Delahunty

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.

Dandy Weyn

Curriculum Manager  -  Microsoft Corp

Dandy was born and raised in Belgium. He started his first steps in the database world at the age of 16. Since he became a Microsoft Certified Trainer he delivered training and consulting on SQL Server all over the world. The past couple of years he has worked as a consultant and content developer on SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 and has presented at major conferences. Dandy is currently authoring on SQL Server 2008. Within Microsoft he is responsible for the Database and BI Curriculum. Find out more on SQL Server 2008 through his blog on www.ilikesql.com

Daniel Meyer

Enterprise Technology Strategist -  Microsoft EMEA

Daniel is an Enterprise Technology Strategist with Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He is the EPG CATM Lead for Identity and Access Management in EMEA and works very closely with the Business/Product Groups in Redmond to drive field readiness, growth and platform adoption in EMEA. He is a speaker and organizer for many events like DEC Europe, Burton, RSA, MGX, TechEd and TechReady. Daniel is also responsible for managing partner relationships with key IDA partners and leads the competitive efforts for IDA in EMEA. Prior to joining Microsoft, Daniel worked for 8 years at Sun Microsystems in many different roles. Daniel is a lead technical specialist in many different areas like Application Platform, Java/J2EE, Web Services, SOA/ EAI, Portals and Identity Management. For several years, he was the EAI Lead in Europe, being responsible for some of the largest projects in Europe. Prior, he acted as a Senior Technical Account Manager for Private Telco’s in Germany, responsible for the largest Directory Projects in Europe. Before Sun, he worked in different roles with companies like IONA, ILOG, O2, Neuron Data etc. Daniel has a first class master's degree in Computer Science.

Daniel Van Soest

Daniel van Soest is working for Microsoft Netherlands as an IT Pro Evangelist. In his role he delivers technical sessions and demonstrations for large audiences on technical infrastructure related issues. Daniel mainly focuses on migration, deployment, security and operational strategies of Windows based infrastructures. Besides local events he also presented on TechEd Israel, TechEd South East Asia, TechEd ITforum Barcelona and other international events.

Dave Webster

Technical Evangelist -  Microsoft

Dave is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Timezone in the UK. He has worked for Microsoft since 1992, starting off as a Principal Consultant in Microsoft New England. He has worked with nearly every Microsoft development technology over the last 15 years, consulting in industries that range from healthcare to insurance, banking and manufacturing. Dave returned to his native UK in 2003 to take up his current role. He frequently speaks around Europe the Middle East and Africa on developer topics.

David De Backer

Technology Advisor -  Microsoft

David De Backer joined Microsoft in April 2006 as a Technology Advisor specialized in Client and Server operating systems as well as in security. He is helping customers improve their core infrastructure efficiency, effectively helping them move forward in the Infrastructure Optimization Model. His job involves both customer meetings as well as presentation in public events. Both roles help him demystify the broad range of products present in the Microsoft infrastructure portfolio.

Edwin Yuen

Senior Product Manager -  Microsoft

Edwin Yuen is the senior product manager in the Windows Enterprise Management division for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Edwin came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. Edwin has 13 years of technical consulting experience in both the commerical and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Erik de Bondt

Technology Advisor -  Microsoft Belgium

Before I joint Microsoft I was a Networking and Messaging consulting at a Microsoft partner. I gained a lot of knowledge and hands-on experience of all versions of Microsoft Servers (starting from NT 3.x) and Mail Servers (Starting from MSMail over Touchdown to Exchange). In the last years that I worked as consultant I also did architecture design and learned more about security. At Microsoft – 5th year – I now work as a pre-sales consultant for all Operating Systems, Management – Operations – Monitoring, Security and Unified Communications solutions.

Eugenio Pace

Eugenio Pace is an architect in the Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team (AST), responsible for developing architecture guidance in the SaaS space. Before joining AST, he was a product manager in the patterns & practices team at Microsoft where he was responsible for delivering client-side architecture guidance, including Web Clients, Smart Clients, and Mobile Clients. During that time, his team shipped the Composite UI Application Block, and three software factories for mobile and desktop smart clients and for Web development. Before joining patterns and practices, he was an architect at Microsoft Consulting Services where he led the development of several enterprise solutions throughout the world. You can find his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop

Fabio Yeon

Software Developer IIS  -  Microsoft Corp

Fabio Yeon is a veteran (10 years+) software developer at Microsoft. He has worked on projects ranging from user shell to system frameworks. He was one of the early developers of the ASP.Net project (pre-v1.0) and worked through the v2.0 release. For the past 3+ years, he’s been a developer in the IIS team. Outside of work, he likes to spend time with his wife and two young children.

Frederik Vandeputte

Senior Consultant -  Kohera

Frederik Vandeputte is a Senior Consultant and trainer for Kohera, the Microsoft SQL Server/Business Intelligence Competence Center of the Cronos Group. Frederik has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 and holds certifications as MCTS, MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCT and passed all SQL Server 2005 exams. Frederik is one of the co-founders and the Vice President of the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.BE). In January 2008 Frederik, became the first Belgian MVP on SQL Server. His blog can be found on http://www.vandeputte.org/.

Geert Baeke

Technology Manager -  Xylos

Geert works at Xylos where he is responsible for the adoption and integration of new technologies in Xylos’s offering. He specializes in infrastructure solutions such as Active Directory, Exchange Server, SharePoint and virtualization. He maintains his own blog at http://blog.baeke.info.

Gill Cleeren

Software architect -  Ordina

Gill Cleeren works at Ordina Belgium (blog.n-technologies.be), one of the largest players in the Belgian ICT market as a software architect. He specializes in UI-technologies like ASP.NET, AJAX and Silverlight. He is a Regional Director and an MVP for ASP.NET. You can read his blog on www.snowball.be and www.codeflakes.net .

Ilse Van Criekinge

ICT Consultant -  Global Knowledge

Ilse has been working since July 1 as ICT Consultant, Trainer & Business Development Manager at Global Knowledge Belgium bvba. Before that she worked for almost a year as an ICT consultant for Atos Origin located in Belgium, where she focused 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. 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 user group Pro-Exchange in Belgium focused on Microsoft Unified Communications. Ilse has been rewarded the Exchange MVP award in April 2007. http://www.proexchange.be

Ingo Rammer

Principal Consultant -  thinktecture

Ingo Rammer is co-founder of thinktecture, a company providing in-depth technical consulting and training services for software architects and developers. Ingo is a world-renowned expert for design and development of distributed applications, and he provides architecture, design, and architecture review services for teams of all sizes. He focuses mainly on improving performance, scalability and reliability of critical .NET applications. You can read more about him at http://www.thinktecture.com/staff/ingo and reach him at ingo.rammer@thinktecture.com.

Jan De Clercq

Senior Technologist -  HP

Jan De Clercq is a member of the HP Security Office, where he focuses on identity management and security for Microsoft platforms. He's author of Windows Server 2003 Security Infrastructures and co-author of Windows Server Security Fundamentals (Digital Press). He has been a speaker at several Microsoft and security-focused conferences. Jan has been involved in Windows, security and PKI-, SSO- related projects for large Compaq and HP accounts. Jan is based in Belgium

Jason Buffington

Senior Technical Product Manager -  Microsoft Corp

Jason Buffington has been working in the networking industry since 1989, with a majority of that time being focused on data protection. He is a Certified Business Continuity Planner, as well as a Microsoft MCSE-MCT and in 2005 & 2006 was awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in Storage technology. Jason has spoken around the world at numerous Microsoft events, including TechEd, Management Summit, WWPC, and IT Days, as well as SNW Europe & SNW-US, Network Storage Conf., DRJ, CPM, FOSE-Storage, HP-Compaq ENSA, SAN World, and other disaster recovery seminars. He has been published in several periodicals, including SNW, StorageInc., Storage Management Solutions, Network World, CTR, DRJ, TechTarget/SearchStorage and Enterprise Storage. With over 15 years of storage experience, Jason joined Microsoft as Senior Technical Product Manager for Data Protection Manager. He has previously held leadership posts as Director of Business Continuity for NSI Software with Double-Take, and Cheyenne/CA with ARCserve. Jason studied Computer Science at Texas A&M University.

Jay Schmelzer

Group Program Manager -  Microsoft

Jay Schmelzer is the Group Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team at Microsoft. Jay and his team are responsible for the Visual Studio design-time tools and runtime components used to build applications that leverage Microsoft Office client and server products, many of the Visual Studio features vital to end-to-end application development experience including Data Design-time, building and consuming WCF services and Deployment, as well as the application programmability and extensibility available in Visual Studio Tools for Applications. 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.

Jelle Druyts

Application Development Consultant -  Microsoft

Jelle Druyts is an Application Development Consultant at Microsoft, specializing in .NET-related products at the edge of the technology stack. He is especially interested in Software Factories and managing the application lifecycle using Team Foundation Server. He keeps up with the latest Microsoft-related technologies on his blog at http://jelle.druyts.net.

Jorge de Almeida Pinto

Senior Infrastructure Consultant -  LogicaCMG

Jorge is a Senior Infrastructure Consultant within LogicaCMG and is based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Jorge has been active in IT since 1997. He worked for CMG since 1999 and now for LogicaCMG after the merger between Logica and CMG at the end of 2002. Jorge has worked with Windows infrastructures since 1997, and he specializes in Windows Server and Active Directory. With the technical background he has developed, he has proven hands-on experience with Windows Server and Active Directory in areas like analysis, designing, implementations, migrations, troubleshooting and recovery. Jorge is MCSE certified and enjoys writing articles about Windows Server and/or Active Directory. He is also a frequent contributors and active member of the ActiveDir forum/mailing list and Microsoft Active Directory newsgroups on the internet. His blog can be found at: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/default.aspx.

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 both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. 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. He also worked as a co-author on "Real World SharePoint 2007" (Wrox, 2007) and SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 2007)

Kai Axford

Senior Security Strategist -  Microsoft Corp

Kai Axford (CISSP, MCSE-Security) is a Senior Security Strategist in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group. An eight-year Microsoft veteran, Kai is responsible for discussing and recommending security solutions for both private and public sector organizations worldwide. In addition, he conducts Chief Security Officer councils worldwide, taking executive feedback and affecting change within Microsoft’s security products and processes. Kai started with Microsoft in 1999 as a Server Support Engineer and then moved on to become an IT Pro Evangelist, focusing on his peers through the Microsoft TechNet Events program. Kai has delivered more than 200 security presentations on a variety of topics, including digital forensics, security management, and incident response. He is a frequent speaker at security conferences, executive meetings, and business seminars around the world. Kai is currently pursuing an MBA in Information Assurance and is a member of ISSA, INFRAGARD, ASIS, and the North Texas Electronic Crimes Task Force. He was the recipient of the 2006 “Rising Star” award from the Information Security Executive council. Kai is interested in security management and metrics and hopes to become a Chief Security Officer one day. Prior to Microsoft, Kai served as a leader in several real-world operations with the U.S. Army's elite 75th Ranger Regiment. Originally from Wisconsin, Kai is a huge NFL Green Bay Packers fan. He is based in Dallas, Texas with his lovely wife and a (very wet) yellow Labrador.

Kevin Rhodes

Group Program Manager -  Microsoft Corp

Kevin Rhodes is the Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Enterprise Networking Group. Kevin joined Microsoft in early 2005 after learning about the Network Access Protection project (NAP) and realizing what a great project it was. Since joining the team, Kevin has been focused completing NAP with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. He has also been heavily involved with the deployment of NAP with Microsoft’s own network.

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.

Kurt Roggen

System Architect -  Guidance, Devoteam Group

Kurt Roggen works as a System Architect mainly around Microsoft technologies as Windows Server/Client, Active Directory, Group Policies, Operations Manager and security. You might have seen and heard Kurt on several of our Microsoft events, including Developer & IT Pro Days 2005/2006/2007, TechEd, IT Forum, TechNet Evenings, TechNet Roadshows, etc... Kurt is also a Microsoft Trainer, where he shares his field experience with customers. As member of the Belgian IT Pro community, Kurt is an active blogger on Windows Server 2008. You can find his blog at http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk.

Matt Gibbs

Microsoft Corp

Matt Gibbs is the Development Manager of the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. His team is responsible for ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX and parts of Silverlight. Matt has been working on the Microsoft web development platform since 1997. He has received degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington and the University of Utah. He has also co-authored several books on classic ASP, ASP.NET, the ASP.NET Mobile Controls and AJAX. He lives in Redmond with his wife and three children.

Matt McSpirit

Partner Technology Sp. -  Microsoft UK

I joined Microsoft back in January 2006 as a Partner Technology Specialist, working primarily with our Virtualisation technologies. Since July of last year, my primary focus has been Windows Vista. Over recent months, I’ve worked with quite a number of our Partners, up and down the UK, enthusing and exciting them around the potential of Windows Vista and I’ve also had the chance to present to our Partners on Cinema screens across the country! Outside of the office, I’m keen on sports (being a big Man Utd fan) movies, and socialising with friends, and I also like to travel as much as possible! I also like the odd game on the Xbox 360! http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit

Michael Anderberg

IT Pro evangelist -  Microsoft Sweden

Michael is an IT Pro Evangelist out of Sweden, where he has been with Microsoft for almost 12 years. All this time he has focused on Windows and Security. Michael was also the track owner for the Security Track at Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona 2007. And he is currently holding the position of Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft in Sweden as backup for a colleague

Nikhil Kothari

Prinipal Architect -  Microsoft

Nikhil Kothari is a software architect in the .NET Developer Platform group within Developer Division at Microsoft. During his 10 years at Microsoft, Nikhil has focused on the Web development platform, and has contributed to the design and development of .NET and ASP.NET since their inception, as well as various features in IIS7 and Visual Studio products. He is responsible for the server control framework in ASP.NET, initiated and led the development of ASP.NET AJAX, and now plays a key role in the programming model aspects of the Silverlight platform. He is the author of "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components", and is also responsible for starting and working on a number of innovative projects such as Web Matrix, Script#, Web Development Helper, and most recently Facebook.NET. He has presented at various Microsoft and industry conferences. Beyond a deep passion for developer tools and frameworks, Nikhil is enthusiastic and interested in digital photography. His blog is at http://www.nikhilk.net.

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.

Patrick Viaene

Volume License Program Manager -  Microsoft Belgium

In the BeLux subsidiary, Patrick is responsible for promoting the correct Volume License options to customers and partners, assuring customers make the best licensing choice for their current and future software usage. In a prior role, Patrick was the Anti-Piracy manager for a few years; he joined MS as a Partner Account Manager, in 2000

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.

Rafal Lukawiecki

Strategic Consultant  -  Project Botticelli Ltd

In his role as Strategic Consultant at Project Botticelli Ltd, Rafal is responsible for analyzing and forecasting trends in the field of Information Technology. Rafal works closely with teams of up to 150 software developers, as well as with investors and their boards of directors, to practice the best principles of the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework. He has helped to build and restructure software development houses and IT consultancies to promote best efficiencies and productivity while stimulating excellent team spirit across organisations. He specializes in several areas: IT architecture models, statistics and more recently data mining, security and cryptography, and management of solution delivery. Rafal is a frequent and popular speaker at Microsoft events having presented at prestigious Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer conferences across Europe, Middle East and Africa. His uniquely energetic speaking style should keep you engaged no matter how complex the subject.

Rafal Lukawiecki

Strategic Consultant  -  Project Botticelli Ltd

In his role as Strategic Consultant at Project Botticelli Ltd, Rafal is responsible for analyzing and forecasting trends in the field of Information Technology. Rafal works closely with teams of up to 150 software developers, as well as with investors and their boards of directors, to practice the best principles of the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Microsoft Operations Framework. He has helped to build and restructure software development houses and IT consultancies to promote best efficiencies and productivity while stimulating excellent team spirit across organisations. He specializes in several areas: IT architecture models, statistics and more recently data mining, security and cryptography, and management of solution delivery. Rafal is a frequent and popular speaker at Microsoft events having presented at prestigious Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer conferences across Europe, Middle East and Africa. His uniquely energetic speaking style should keep you engaged no matter how complex the subject.

Ronald Laeremans

Product Unit Manager, ISV & Native Tools -  Microsoft Corp

Ronald Laeremans is the Product Unit Manager of the ISV & Native Tools team. The team owns the Visual C++ product and the code generation and analysis tools platform. Microsoft is renewing its investments in tools for ISVs and native development and the team is set to deliver a stream of exciting releases starting with the Visual C++ 2008 Feature pack. Ronald joined Microsoft in Redmond in 1999 and worked in various roles on the Visual C++ team. Before that he worked on Windows Server-based, high performance scalable systems, mostly in the telecom arena.

Rory McCaw

Principal Consultant -  Infront Consulting Group (Canada)

Rory McCaw is a Principal Consultant at Infront Consulting Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Toronto, and the author of a number of technical books, including How to Cheat at Managing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. Rory actively consults to large organizations helping them architect, implement, configure and customize System Center technologies integrating them into their business processes. Rory holds numerous industry designations in addition to being an accomplished public speaker who has delivered numerous webcasts and online learning sessions on MOM 2005, SCOM 2007, SMS 2003, SQL Reporting Services, Branch Office Infrastructure and Security. Rory has also spoken on these and other topics at industry events such as MMS, TechEd and Comdex. Rory enjoys developing training materials on the applications that he consults on and regularly delivers this training around the world for large enterprise customers. Rory has been nominated as a MOM MVP for the last 4 years and actively posts to his blog at http://spaces.msn.com/rorymccaw and company web site http://www.infrontconsulting.com. Rory is also the author of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 bootcamps which deliver in-depth technical knowledge of Ops Mgr to customers worldwide.

Roy Osherove

Developer -  Typemock

Roy Osherove is a developer at Typemock, creating the next generation of .NET unit testing tools for developers. you can read what he's up to on his blog: ISerializable.com, and catch his book: The Art of Unit Testing at http://The.ArtOfUnitTesting.com.

Scott Schnoll

Principal Technical Writer -  Microsoft Corp

Scott Schnoll (MCT, MCSE, MCSA) is a Principal Technical Writer on the Exchange Server team where he authors content on a variety of topics related to Exchange Server, including best practices, clustering and high-availability, performance, disaster recovery, setup, and deployment. He is a frequent and popular speaker at major conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft IT Forum, MCP TechMentor, and others. He is also the author of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and he was the lead author of Exchange 2000 Server: The Complete Reference (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2000). In addition, he was a contributor to the Exchange Server 2003 Technical Reference Guide (Microsoft, 2004), and the Exchange Server 2003 Resource Kit. Scott is a former long-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server, Windows and Rights Management Services http://blogs.technet.com/scottschnoll

Serge Luca

U2U

Serge Luca is a consultant, trainer and Microsoft MVP that specializes in Workflow Foundation and Sharepoint. In 2007 he was hired by Microsoft Learning (Redmond) as a Subject Matter Expert to design the Windows Workflow Certification exam. Serge offers Sharepoint and Workflow Foundation training to professional developers through U2U in EMEA and in China.

Steffen Krause

IT Pro Evangelist  -  Microsoft Germany

Steffen Krause is an IT Pro Evangelist for Application Platform at Microsoft Germany. After working for seven years as a BI and information management senior consultant for for various enterprise customers, he now supports the SQL Server community for Microsoft Technet, specializing in large databases, data mining and SQL Server Security. http://blogs.technet.com/steffenk

Stephen McGibbon

Steven Wilssens

Program Manager -  Microsoft

Steven joined Microsoft in 2006 as a Program Manager on the Popfly team where he was responsible for the Popfly backend, and Popfly Explorer. He just joined the community team at Developer Division where he is driving code.msdn.com and community integration efforts inside Visual Studio 10.

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 13 years with Microsoft now and has a broad knowledge of Microsoft Windows Vista, the Microsoft Office System, the Microsoft Server System and the Mobility platform. Tony has spoken previously at the Belgium TechDays, Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft IT Forum and at a variety of other conferences including the Microsoft Partner conference, Gartner Conferences and IDC.

Yves Goeleven

Technical Architect and Team Lead  -  Compuware Belgium

Yves is a Technical Architect and Team Lead for the Professional Services Division of Compuware Belgium. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for the last 7 years, both as a consultant and as a trainer. He is also a frequent speaker for the Belgian Visual Studio User Group on topics that cover all aspects of enterprise development.