TechDays 2012 Belgium – Sponsoring and partnerships at the technology conference for developers and IT Professionals

Jeff Prosise

Jeff Prosise makes his living programming Microsoft .NET and teaching others how to do the same. His latest book, Programming Microsoft .NET, was published by Microsoft Press in May 2002. His previous book, Programming Windows with MFC, has won awards for readability and is widely considered to be the definitive work on MFC programming.
A former engineer who discovered after college that programming is immeasurably more fun than designing lifting fixtures and computing loads on mounting brackets, today Jeff travels the world teaching ASP.NET programming and enlightening conference audiences about the new platform. He works closely with Microsoft developers in Redmond, WA, to track the development of the .NET Framework. Jeff is a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine, where he writes feature articles about Microsoft .NET and authors the Wicked Code column, and to asp.netPRO magazine, where he writes the monthly Ask the PRO column. And in 2000, Jeff cofounded Wintellect to provide .NET consulting and education services to developers everywhere.  

Jeff Prosise

Jeff Prosise makes his living programming Microsoft .NET and teaching others how to do the same. His latest book, Programming Microsoft .NET, was published by Microsoft Press in May 2002. His previous book, Programming Windows with MFC, has won awards for readability and is widely considered to be the definitive work on MFC programming.
A former engineer who discovered after college that programming is immeasurably more fun than designing lifting fixtures and computing loads on mounting brackets, today Jeff travels the world teaching ASP.NET programming and enlightening conference audiences about the new platform. He works closely with Microsoft developers in Redmond, WA, to track the development of the .NET Framework. Jeff is a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine, where he writes feature articles about Microsoft .NET and authors the Wicked Code column, and to asp.netPRO magazine, where he writes the monthly Ask the PRO column. And in 2000, Jeff cofounded Wintellect to provide .NET consulting and education services to developers everywhere.  

Glenn Block

Glenn Block Glenn is a PM on the WCF team working on Microsoft’s future HTTP and REST stack. Prior to WCF he was a PM on the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. He has experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. He has also been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so.

Glenn Block

Glenn Block Glenn is a PM on the WCF team working on Microsoft’s future HTTP and REST stack. Prior to WCF he was a PM on the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. He has experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. He has also been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so.

Rob Miles

Hadi Hariri

Hadi Hariri is a developer, speaker, podcaster and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and web development. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi has been speaking at industry events for over a decade. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons, and runs the .NET Malaga User Group. He is also a ASP.NET MVP and ASP.NET Insider.

Boris Jabes

Boris Jabes is a senior program manager on the Visual C++ team. He is currently trying to help Windows developers embrace cutting-edge graphics into their applications through better DirectX tooling. He was responsible for improving the VS 2010 IDE experience for C++ developers with a focus on scaling to multi-million line source bases. Before joining Microsoft, Boris obtained degrees from the University of Waterloo and Carnegie Mellon where he specialized in distributed systems and software engineering.

Ingo Rammer

Ingo Rammer is co-founder of thinktecture, a company providing architecture, design, review, and troubleshooting services for software architects and developers. He focuses mainly on improving performance, scalability and reliability of critical .NET applications and has rediscovered his love of client-side technologies with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.  

Kevin Dockx

Kevin Dockx lives in Belgium and works at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies, where he is a technical specialist/project leader on .NET web applications, mainly Silverlight, and a solution manager for Rich Applications (Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 Series, WPF, Surface). His main focus lies on all things Silverlight, but he still keeps an eye on the new developments concerning other products from the Microsoft .NET (Web) Stack. As a Silverlight enthusiast, he's a regular speaker on various national and international events, like Microsoft DevDays in The Netherlands, Microsoft Techdays in Portugal or on BESUG events (the Belgian Silverlight User Group). Next to that, he also writes articles for various Silverlight-related sites, and he wrote a best-selling Silverlight book, Packt Publishing's Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook (https://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-4-data-and-services-cookbook/book ).  His blog, which contains various tidbits on Silverlight, .NET, and the occasional rambling, can be found at http://blog.kevindockx.com/.

Maarten Balliauw

Maarten Balliauw has a Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering and has about 7 years of experience in software development. He started his career during his studies where he founded a company doing web development in PHP and ASP.NET. After graduation, he sold his shares and joined one of the largest ICT companies in Belgium, RealDolmen, where he continued web application development in ASP.NET and application lifecycle management in Visual Studio Team System. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist ASP.NET and Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ASP.NET, and works with the latest Microsoft technologies such as LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5, and has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature such as MSDN magazine Belgium.

Isabel Gomez Miragaya

I work in Microsoft as an ISV Developer Evangelist which means that I guide and help ISVs to adopt new technologies in their solutions. Therefore I have the great opportunity to see how ISVs and startups are successful with the help of Microsoft and that is a very inspiring privilege.

Scott Hanselman

Scott works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and he'll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. Before Corillian and Microsoft, Scott worked as a Principal Consultant at a local Microsoft Solution Provider called STEP Technology, speaking, writing, consulting, and very much not getting rich during Web 1.0.

Jan Tielens

After several years as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Jan joined Microsoft as a Technology Advisor for the Collaboration Platform. In this role he works as a trusted advisor for enterprise customers and partners. His main focus areas includes SharePoint, Office and Fast Search. Jan is located in Belgium, you can read his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/jan and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jantielens.

Phil Japikse

Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, and developing software for over 20 years. Phil is a Microsoft MVP and also holds MCSD, MCDBA, CSM, and CSP certifications. Phil is an international speaker and a passionate member of the developer community, speaking at events all around the world as well as serving as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group.
Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), is a Firefighter/Paramedic, and a volunteer for the Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog.

Hadi Hariri

Hadi Hariri is a developer, speaker, podcaster and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and web development. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi has been speaking at industry events for over a decade. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons, and runs the .NET Malaga User Group. He is also a ASP.NET MVP and ASP.NET Insider.

Jeff Prosise

Jeff Prosise makes his living programming Microsoft .NET and teaching others how to do the same. His latest book, Programming Microsoft .NET, was published by Microsoft Press in May 2002. His previous book, Programming Windows with MFC, has won awards for readability and is widely considered to be the definitive work on MFC programming.
A former engineer who discovered after college that programming is immeasurably more fun than designing lifting fixtures and computing loads on mounting brackets, today Jeff travels the world teaching ASP.NET programming and enlightening conference audiences about the new platform. He works closely with Microsoft developers in Redmond, WA, to track the development of the .NET Framework. Jeff is a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine, where he writes feature articles about Microsoft .NET and authors the Wicked Code column, and to asp.netPRO magazine, where he writes the monthly Ask the PRO column. And in 2000, Jeff cofounded Wintellect to provide .NET consulting and education services to developers everywhere.