Microsoft Regional Director Ahti Haukilehto toiminut pitkään IT-alan konsultoinnin ja koulutuksen asiantuntija- ja johtotehtävissä. Hän on kirjoittanut mm. Visual C# Trainer Kit-kirjan ja ollut mukana kirjoittamassa myös monia muita IT-alan teoksia. Ahti on yksi FC Sovelto Oyj:n perustajista ja toimii tällä hetkellä partner-konsulttina. Koulutukseltaan hän on tietokonetekniikan diplomi-insinööri.

Florin Rotar is the Technology Director for Avanade in the Nordic Region. As such, his main role is to help Avanade’s Nordic customers optimize and industrialize their usage of Microsoft technologies in complex and heterogeneous IT environments. Florin focuses primarily in the areas of Software Development, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Collaboration and Portals, NET solutions and architectures, Business Intelligence and Application Infrastructure. Florin has worked with Microsoft technology over the last 15 years and has significant consulting experience, an in-depth understanding of the Microsoft platform and a thorough understanding of the full life-cycle of information technology projects having worked on numerous industry-leading projects around the world with organizations such as Lloyds TSB, UBS, BP, EMI Music, Novo Nordisk, as well as several European Government agencies. Prior to joining Avanade at its conception in 2000, he has worked for Accenture and Procter & Gamble. Florin holds a Master’s of Science Degree from Lund Institute of Technology.

Regional Technical Specialist, Compuware Europe BV
Marcel Jankie works for Compuware since July 1998. During this time he gained deep Technical knowledge of software development and project management. At this time he is focused on the integrated solutions of Compuware in the Microsoft .NET environment, Java development and continuous integration testing. Before Compuware Jankie worked at Network associates as a technical specialist in computer viruses and network management.

is cofounder of Wintellect (http://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. See Jeff blogging at: http://www.wintellect.com/Weblogs/default.aspx.

is the Product & Audience Marketing Manager for Microsoft Expression at Microsoft Germany. Steffen joined the Microsoft Expression Team in 2006, but has many years of experience with the Microsoft Expression family of products: Before joining Microsoft, Steffen has been the German Product Manager for Creature House Expression (bought by Microsoft in 2003, now Expression Design) and for iView MediaPro (bought by Microsoft in 2006, now Expression Media) for both Macintosh and Windows.

joined Microsoft Services UK in 2003 as a User Experience Consultant, since then she has worked on a variety of media worthy projects and has been involved in the designer of almost all of the WPF demos. As a designer she is excited to at last see Microsoft entering the design market, with what she feels, is a compelling range of products. Over the past year she has been fortunate enough to deliver a number of presentations on Expression Studio to the design community, and has always been pleased by their surprised and excited response.

Formerly 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 EMEA, 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 50 countries, visiting most of them many times. Chad online at: http://www.woo-hoo.net/ and http://www.KudzuWorld.com/.

won his first programming award 1976 for a geographical survey solution he developed during his military service. Since then his passion is software. He worked as a systems engineer for Data General and Digital Equipment on their systems (AOS/VS and VMS) and started to work there with UNIX and Internet technologies in the mid-80ies. He finally worked there as project lead for large customer middleware projects. For a long time he worked as development engineer and later as architect for Software AG. There he worked on mainframes, UNIX, and Windows platforms, and architected middleware software that runs on all these platforms. He eventually became lead architect for large parts of their ENTIRE middleware technology, member of their internal architect council, and finally heads a team of architects to research a new generation of application development platform. He was also involved as architect in the initial design of the “TAMINO” XML database. In the late 90ies he joined Deutsche Bank and became an architect and project lead for their Internet payment technologies. In 1999 he joined Microsoft as a Principal Consultant, and since 2001 he is an Architect Evangelist in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group. In November 2005 he achieved the Microsoft Certified Architect credential. He graduated from the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf (Germany) with a masters degree (“Diplom”) in mathematics and biology.

is an Infrastructure Architect in the Microsoft EMEA Developer and Platform Group. He has held a number of technical and leadership roles in the IT industry over the last 15 years, including 5 years as a Principal Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services. Kevin has lead the architecture and design for Enterprise and eCommerce infrastructures in the UK public and private sectors including the infrastructure for a 120,000 user organisation and an extranet application platform for 1.2 million educational users. As Infrastructure Architect he provides advice and consulting to Enterprise customers and presents at international events.

Solution Architect, Competence Lead, Satama MST Oy, on työskennellyt Microsoftin työkaluilla ohjelmoinnin parissa noin yhdeksän vuotta. Hänellä on kokemusta Microsoftin CRM tuotteesta kahden vuoden ajalta jolloin hän on toiminut arkkitehtinä Quartal Content Managementin ja Sataman sisäisissä sekä asiakas-CRM projekteissa. .NET ohjelmoinnin sekä CRM:n lisäksi hän työskentelee Microsoft EPM tuotteen parissa.

Software Specialist, Tieturi Oy

Jarmo Hämäläinen on WM-datassa (a LogicaCMG company) työskentelevä ohjelmistoarkkitehti/sovelluskehittäjä (MCSD). Hän on erikoistunut .NET-sovelluskehitykseen ja Web-lomakkeisiin. 1990-luku meni Visual C++ -koodin parissa ja C# -aikakauteen siirtyminen alkoi ensimmäisen betan ilmestyessä.

Konsultti, FC Sovelto Oyj

Pääarkkitehti, TietoEnator, on toiminut Microsoftin teknologioiden parissa noin 10 vuotta. Sovelluskehitys Microsoftin työvälineillä, arkkitehtuurit ja palvelintuotteet kuuluvat Pasin osaamisalueisiin.

has been a member of training, and later the development organization, since the Dynamics AX product was conceived. Present he works for the Microsoft Dynamics AX global product management team as Technical Product Manager / Evangelist.