Andrej Radinger is Microsoft MVP for Mobile Devices, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT and INETA EU Vice President for Membership. Andrej is founder and owner of Mobendo, company devoted to implementing Mobile Solutions and SmartClient Solutions into enterprise environment. Andrej has over 13 years of experience as a developer, trainer and consultant, with over 10 years of experience working on all aspects of mobility and is focused on Microsoft technology. He is also a Technology Champ for a mobility user group and local newsgroup. Andrej has developed various mobility applications, ranging from data collection and mobile sales, to warehouse and asset inventory. One of the largest customers was OSCE, an international organization that needed a mobile application for use on rugged mobile devices with bar code readers, for asset inventory throughout the European missions and data consolidation at a central location. Andrej is also deeply involved in two largest mobility projects in the region for Croatian Forests and Croatian Railways, implementing over 800 devices on the field at each partner. Andrej is a regular speaker at Microsoft events in the region, including sessions at TechEd Europe 2004 and 2005. Competencies: Visual Studio .NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server, .NET Compact Framework, all aspects of Mobile Solutions, VSTO. Languages: English, Croatian

Application Development MVP since 2002, author of three best selling books on mobile application development for Microsoft Press, and director of leading mobile appliations consultancy, Appamundi.

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.

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Chris Menegay is the VP of Consulting for Notion Solutions, Inc., a consulting services firm specializing in software development process and Visual Studio Team System. He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since late 2004. Chris has obtained a broad understanding of information technology by sharing best practices with the client companies he has worked with over the past 10 years. As a consultant, he has served in many different roles in the software development process. Chris has been a project manager, analyst, architect, developer, and tester. This broad background has given him insight into not only the technical challenges that face software projects, but the procedural challenges as well. Chris has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from 50 employees up to Fortune 500 companies. He has written white papers and articles on Team System for MSDN and MSDN Magazine. Chris is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Microsoft Regional Director and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau.

Daniel Moth has been with Microsoft since April 2006. Before that he worked in industry as a consultant, a developer and he was also an MVP for mobile development (a topic he wrote a book about). Recently he joined the Parallel Computing Platform to work on developer tools for the next versions of Visual Studio. Daniel's interests include anything to do with .NET and he blogs about that at http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog, which is also the best way to reach him.

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Eric White is a technical evangelist at Microsoft specializing in the Open XML Formats and SharePoint.  His background in software development started in the 70s, programming in 8080 assembler. He worked as a developer for a number of years before starting his own software business in 1990. After running a business for 10 years, he decided to become technical again. In particular, he enjoys writing about LINQ, Open XML, and functional programming. (See his blog for more information).

Fabrice BARBIN is co-founder and Technology Manager at Hommes & Process, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner working on Groove technologies since 2001. Groove MVP and Groove MCTS, he's founder of the "French speaking Groove User Group / Community". Speaker on several Microsoft events as Groove technical evangelist, he also writes press articles and is author of the first "French speaking" blog dedicated to Groove technologies.

Frank studied Physics in Wroclaw and Berlin. He joined Microsoft Germany in 1998. As a Technical Evangelist for embedded and mobile technologies, he focuses on application development and platforms in the device space. Using conference talks, workshops, articles, and online activities he explains how to combine Windows Embedded & Mobile with .NET and Visual Studio to easily create great software for smart, connected, service-oriented devices.

Giorgio Sardo is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Moving from Italy to the United Kingdom, Giorgio studied at Polytechnic of Turin and successfully obtained a Master of Computer Engineering with distinction. For four years he has been a Microsoft Student Partner Lead, leading a national university community forum. Before joining Microsoft, Giorgio had worked with one of the biggest Microsoft Partners in Italy and won the Imagine Cup 2006 worldwide championship with his project "Hello World". In 2007 he started working in Microsoft UK as User Experience Consultant, delivering compelling and stunning solutions based on Silverlight, WPF and Silverlight for Mobile. Later 2008 Giorgio will move to Redmond, to work as Technical Evangelist for Web Technologies (ASP.NET, IE8, ...).

Greg is an internationally recognised consultant, developer and trainer. He has been working in development since 1978, holds a PhD in Computer Science and a host of Microsoft certifications. Greg is the country lead for Solid Quality, a SQL Server MVP and one of only three Microsoft Regional Directors for Australia. Greg also hosts the popular SQL Down Under podcast (www.sqldownunder.com), organises the SQL Down Under Code Camp and co-organises CodeCampOz. He is a board member of PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server). He speaks regularly at SQL Server events around the world.

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. He is the author of C#/.NET courseware and much of the official Borland courseware including courses on COM and ADO. He has written over 50 articles for numerous magazines, has co-authored an application development book and is the author of the ADO chapter of "Mastering Delphi 6". You can read his blog at http://www.guysmithferrier.com.

Hadi Hariri is Technical Lead at iMeta Technologies, an ISV specialized in developing complete IT solutions. His passions include software architecture and best practices. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi speaks at both national and international conferences and user groups. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons and runs the Malaga .NET User Group.

Consultant, author, and trainer in .NET technologies, specializing in WPF. Co-author of O'Reilly's 'Programming WPF', author of Pluralsight's WPF and Silverlight training courses. TechEd EMEA speaker in 06 and 07.

A SharePoint developer and trainer since 2001, I have been architecting and developing SharePoint solutions, as well as training developers and administrators into the technology. I have certifications (MCTS) for all four sharepoint exams, and my involvement with the SharePoint community has been rewarded by microsoft for the last two years with two MVP awards. I currently manage the Canberra SharePoint user group in Australia, and am writing a popular blog aimed at SharePoint developers of all levels.

Jeff Wharton is WARDY IT Solutions Solutions Architect. Jeff is an active member in the Australian SQL Server community and President of the Canberra SQL Server User Group. Jeff holds a Masters Degree in Systems Development (.NET Stream) and is in the final stages of completing a Master of Database Design and Management (SQL Server 2005) degree at Charles Sturt University. Jeff was awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows Server System - SQL Server in January 2008.

Johannes Kebeck is a Technology Specialist in Microsoft's Virtual Earth Business Unit supporting customers and partners in EMEA and APAC. He is currently based in Reading, UK and has over 13 years experience in the GI/GIS market. In October 2004 Johannes joined Microsoft in Germany working within the Enterprise Product Group and in 2005 he joined the Virtual Earth team. Before specialising on Microsoft's geospatial products and services, he had experience with various GIS, spatial databases, relational database management systems, workflow management, collaboration products and IT security.

I am a Regional Director, MVP, and INETA Speaker. I have spoken at a dozen Tech Eds around the world on a variety of topics, mostly C++, and receive high scores wherever I go. I will co-ordinate with the C++ product team to work out C++ related talks to deliver in Europe but I have non-C++ topics I would like to propose as well.

Michael is a program manager lead on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) team, responsible for the managed programming model which includes the base class libraries, security, and interop. Before becoming a lead, he was the security program manager for the CLR. He joined Microsoft in 1998 as a developer in Microsoft Office. He graduated from Brown University in 1995 with degrees in computer science and history.

Neno Loje is a strategic consultant for the software development process at AIT TeamSystemPro Team and the first European Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual Studio Team System. As certified expert he supports companies with the introduction of Team Foundation Server from the decision, over migration to the individual customization. Furthermore he is a convinced Notepad user, MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer), MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist), MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer), and was awarded as Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Team System multiple times. You can reach him via his website www.teamsystempro.com.

Paolo Pialorsi is a consultant, trainer, and author who specializes in developing distributed applications architectures and service-oriented architecture solutions. He is a founder of DevLeap, a company focused on providing content and consulting to professional developers. Paolo wrote Introducing Microsoft LINQ with Marco Russo and is the author of three books in Italian about XML and Web Services. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Pat Helland has been working in Databases, Transaction Processing, Scalable Systems, Fault Tolerant Systems, Messaging Systems, and Service Oriented Architectures for 30 years.

After dropping out of college to feed the kids, Pat took a few jobs in Southern California before moving to Silicon Valley in 1978. There he worked at a startup called BTI Computer Systems to implement a database management system with his college buddy. They designed an implementation language and implemented a compiler, parser generator, btree subsystem, ISAM, and primitive DML before the "startup" shifted to being a "shutdown".

So in 1982, Pat started working at Tandem Computers where he inherited big chunks of the code for TMF (Transaction Monitoring Facility) which provided the database logging, recovery, archival, a disaster recovery for the NonStop System. During his tenure, this evolved from simple file access to NonStop SQL. In 1984 and 1985, Pat decided the code base was a complete pile of garbage and so he rewrote most of it against direct orders from management. Fortunately, the rewrite worked, the product became reliable, and he didn't get fired. By 1991, Pat had left Tandem to work at HaL Computers where he dabbled in hardware and architected a CC-NUMA (Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) multiprocessor which was shipped by Fujitsu.

In 1994, Pat was approached to develop enterprise software for a company in Washington State that built software for tiny little PCs. Since that seemed so preposterous, he had to accept. Pat helped start the team that built Microsoft Transaction Server and Distributed Transaction Coordinator which shipped in 1996. By 1999, he was having serious doubts about N-tier computing and helped to found the team that built SQL Service Broker. By 2002, his bad karma caught up with him and his boss, Peter Spiro, asked him to work on WinFS. After more than a year of WinFS, talking to customers seemed like a sane thing to do and Pat spent 18 months doing evangelism and talking about the challenges of building large scale service oriented systems.

For two years, Pat worked at Amazon on the Amazon Product Catalog and the system that handles product pricing from multiple merchants. This system processed hundreds of millions of feeds per day to organize tens of millions of product definitions and pricing quotes. He returned to Microsoft in March of 2007 and worked in DevDiv on Rich Internet Applications using Silverlight.

Pat is now back working on Architecture for SQL... His job is to both help in general architectural issues and to launch an incubation for a future set of features in SQL. His area of interest for this incubation is a self-managing scalable application and data platform.

Pat is active in the transaction processing and database industry and has been chairman of the High Performance Transaction Workshop (HPTS) a number of times. He has chaired numerous internal Microsoft conferences. Pat still finds time to make PowerPoint animations and write technical papers when his management is not looking (since it distracts him from his day job).

Paul Yao is a Business Alliance Manager with Utimaco Safeware, The Data Security Company. Paul is a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine, and coauthor of eight books including the first book published on Windows programming. Paul is founder of the Windows Embedded Developers Interest Group (WE-DIG), and founder of The Paul Yao Company.

University lecturer with experience with C#, Visual Studio and the .NET Micro Framework. Joint author of "Embedded Programming with the Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework " published by Microsoft Press. I have presented at a number of Microsoft Technical Conferences including TechEd EMEA 2006, 2007 and TechEd USA 2008. Microsoft MVP in Embedded Development.

Rob Tiffany is an Architect at Microsoft focused on delivering the best possible Windows Mobile solutions for his customers. His expertise lies in combining wireless data technologies, device hardware, Windows Mobile software, and optimized server infrastructures together to form compelling solutions. Prior to his current role, Rob was a Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Mobile in Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices division where he focused on growing the mobile developer ecosystem. He was also responsible for planning and running one of Microsoft's largest global developer conferences. Prior to joining Microsoft, Rob founded one of the industry's first mobile device management companies. A writer, speaker, entrepreneur and 14-year veteran of the software industry, Rob has been involved in some of the world's largest Mobile/Wireless Line of Business application efforts undertaken to date. He's the creator of Microsoft's Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator, the author of "SQL Server CE Database Development with the .NET Compact Framework" and "Pocket PC Database Development with eMbedded Visual Basic", plus dozens of articles found in leading software development publications. In his newest book, Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1, Rob describes how to build systems that scale to thousands of mobile devices. He's presented sessions on mobile development, infrastructure, and architecture at events all over the world including Tech Ed, Dev Connections, TechReady, VS Live, and MEDC. He got his start in programming by creating completely useless BASIC applications on the Timex Sinclair 1000 in the early 1980's. Luckily, he moved on to bigger and better things like 32-bit REXX on OS/2. Rob blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/robtiffany.

Rob Windsor is a Senior Consultant and the Director of Training with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. Rob focuses on the architecture, design and development of custom business applications using leading edge Microsoft technologies. In addition Rob is a top rated instructor - authoring and teaching courses on .NET development, SharePoint and software architecture. Rob is a member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau and he presents at conferences, code camps, and user group meetings in Toronto and across North America. He is President of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the developer community.

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Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. Prior he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York (Baruch College). Stephen is also a certified scrum master.

Steve Teixeira is the Product Unit Manager for the Parallel Development Tools team within Developer Division's Parallel Computing Platform organzation. The Parallel Development Tools team is responsible for envisioning, incubating, and shipping the tools needed by software developers to build applications that fully leverage multi/many-core CPUs. Previously, Steve was the Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Visual C++ team, where he was responsible for product strategy, definition, development process, and customer interaction. Steve has a broad base of management and hands-on experience in software development and information technology. Prior to joining Microsoft, Steve was co-founder and CTO of Falafel Software, a consultancy specializing in .NET. Steve has also held positions as Director of Product Architecture at Zone Labs, a leader in Internet security, CTO of ThinSpace, a mobile/wireless software company, and CTO of Full Moon Interactive, a full-service e-business builder. As a research and development engineer at Borland, Steve was instrumental in the design and development of Delphi and C++Builder. Steve is the best-selling author of five award-winning books and numerous magazine articles on software development, and his writings are distributed worldwide in more than a dozen languages.

Thomas Reimer works at Microsoft in the role of an Enterprise Technology Strategist for Microsoft Corporation (EMEA). His particular focus is the Microsoft Process Platform to deliver solutions for business process management, service orientation and application integration. Prior to joining Microsoft, Thomas held a management position at RESCO (Acando Group), a systems integrator, where he was responsible for a consulting unit. Thomas has a strong background in Microsoft and other enterprise technologies like IBM and SAP. Thomas is based in Germany and holds a Master of Business Administration degree.

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Tomislav Bronzin, Microsoft Regional Director, Windows Mobile MVP & MCT Tomislav Bronzin is the founder and CEO of CITUS, Microsoft Gold Partner Company that is specialized in software development, consulting and training. He has real-life experience with Microsoft technologies in development of distributed database applications, with special focus on Unified Communication Development and Windows Mobile solutions. Tomislav was involved in some of the first large Mobile Solutions project on Microsoft platform (see on-line Microsoft Case Studies: Croatian Forest/Railways). He owns several software related patents in that area and he is consider being authority in the field of Intellectual Property Rights. Tomislav is Microsoft Regional Director (recently received Global Impact Award Gold Medal) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Mobile Architect, one of the Community Leaders in Croatia and cofounder of several User Groups. He is regular speaker at Microsoft conferences and seminars like TechEd Europe, DevDays (just finished 4 town tour - did that as a single conference speaker!), PASS, SQL Sever Summer Academy and regional conferences: Sinergija (Serbia), NT Konferenca(Slovenia), MobilityDay, Windays, CodeCamp, DevArena, KulenDayz, Web.Start, Heroes Happen Here - VS2008 Community Launch. He is also teaching at several university workshops, including expert mentoring of student teams for Imagine Cup Championship. Tomislav delivered 5 Unified Communication METRO 2-day trainings (in English: Denmark, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Italy, Croatia) and my average grade was 8,84 from 9. Tomislav is president of Croatian Association of Computer Programmers, INETA Europe Vice President for Communities and co-founder of http://www.mscommunity.net.