Aaron is a Senior Developer and Technical Web Specialist with Readify and Microsoft MVP for Internet Explorer Development. Aaron focuses mainly on front-end web development, with a passion for JavaScript.

Aaron is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Aaron has authored numerous Pluralsight courses in the areas of Azure (cloud computing), WCF, Web services, XML and BizTalk Server. Over the years, Aaron has written numerous articles, whitepapers, and books and he's a contributing editor with MSDN Magazine where he authored The XML Files and Service Station columns for years. Aaron frequently speaks at industry events including TechEd, PDC, and VSLive!

Adam Grocholski is a Technical Evangelist and Partner at RBA Consulting in Minneapolis, MN as well as a Microsoft MVP in client application development. He can usually be found talking to anyone who will listen about Silverlight, Windows Phone, and Windows Azure.

Adam Purkiss is the Principal Architect at MondayCall Solutions in San Francisco. He spends most of his time designing and developing software in Apex and Visualforce and has been deeply involved in the Force.com community since 2008.

Adam Tuliper is a Software Architect specializing in WCF, ASP.NET, SQL Server, MVC, C#, jQuery, and Silverlight with a strong emphasis on security. He is a top rated INETA Community Speaker, MSDN Magazine Author, national conference presenter, and regularly speaks at .NET User Groups and code camps.

Alan is a developer at Relevance, where he specializes in web applications. He is a frequent contributor to the Clojure language, and has also contributed to several popular Clojure libraries. At Relevance, he's built Clojure software for a range of clients, in domains ranging from online gaming to network security.

Amber MacArthur (AKA Amber Mac) is the President of Konnekt Digital Engagement (www.konnektnow.com) and the bestselling author of Power Friending, a social media guide for business professionals.

Andreas Öhlund is the lead developer for the popular open source service bus NServiceBus.

Andrew has worked in technology for 25 years, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence. He is the author of the ZDNet blog "Big On Data", and has been a columnist and conference speaker since the mid-90s, and a technology author and blogger since 2005. Andrew is also Founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights, an analysis and strategy firm serving Microsoft customers and partners.

Andrew Connell is an independent consultant that enjoys development, writing and teaching. Andrew is an eight-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2005-2012) for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) and Microsoft SharePoint Server. You can find Andrew on his blog (www.andrewconnell.com), follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell or email him at me@andrewconnell.com.

Ben Galbraith, together with his long-time friend Dion Almaer, forms one-half of the dynamic "Ben and Dion" duo that founded Ajaxian.com.

Benjamin Day is a consultant and trainer specializing in software development best practices using Microsoft-based technology. He is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, a certified Scrum trainer via Scrum.org, and a speaker at conferences such as TechEd, DevTeach, and VSLive. He can be contacted via http://www.benday.com.

Billy in an internationally known author and speaker. He offers consulting and training services for user experience design, end-to-end architecture, and presentation tier construction and development. You can see Billy at major conferences all over the world, usually doing sessions to help developers to become more focused on user experience design.

Bob Beauchemin is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and Developer Skills Partner for SQLskills. 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 and whitepapers on SQL Server and other databases, database security, ADO.NET, and OLE DB for MSDN, SQL Server Magazine, and other publications.

Bret is a consultant based in Ramona, CA. Bret has over 20 years of experience in the IT field, and over a decade of experience as a trainer. He is a published author having contributed to multiple Syngress publications. He is also frequent speaker at regional events such as Code Camps and user groups. He focuses primarily on SQL Server, but is an expert in .NET development as well as SharePoint development, configuration and administration.

Brian Lagunas is an INETA Community Speaker, co-leader of the Boise .Net Developers User Group (NETDUG), and original author of the Extended WPF Toolkit. Brian currently works at Infragistics as a Product Manager for the award winning NetAdvantage for WPF and Silverlight components.

Brian Noyes is CTO and Architect at Solliance, an expert technology solutions development company. Brian is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and specializes in rich client technologies including XAML and HTML 5, as well as building the services that back them with WCF and ASP.NET Web API.

Bryan is the Java Practice Manager of Software Technology Group a consulting company based out of Salt Lake City.

Carlos Figueira is a Senior Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft on the Web Platform and Tools team. Carlos has worked with WCF team for over 5 years, and has been an active member of community forums for WCF.

Chris is a freelance WordPress theme and plugin developer, one half of the design studio Arcane Palette Creative Design, lead developer of WordPress theme shop Museum Themes and Project Manager for the event management plugin Event Espresso. In his free time, he makes electronic music.

Christian Weyer is a well-known veteran in designing and implementing distributed applications architectures. With his company thinktecture he has been focusing on end-to-end aspects of distributed software systems in the past 16 years. His toolset includes technologies like ASP.NET, WCF, or Windows Azure. These days he is rather a friend of lightweight architectures based on Web APIs and Push Services.

Clemens Vasters is a Software Architect and currently works for Microsoft where he helps shaping the technical strategy for the Windows Azure Service Bus. Clemens has a long history educating developers, having taught some of the first available .NET training courses for developers in Europe in early 2002.

Specializing in large-scale web system implementation, Craig spent his early career working with COM and C++, but since 2001 has been teaching and consulting full-time on the .NET platform in C#. Craig has written for MSDN magazine and spoken at conferences both nationally and internationally.

Craig Shoemaker is a developer, instructor, writer, podcaster, and technical evangelist of all things awesome.

Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer and speaker.

Dan is the Scripted Practice Manger for Software Technology Group. Dan also works with the Java Practice Team and specializes in Spring, Ruby, Python, Groovy, JavaScript, and PHP. In his free time, Dan provides Jazz Guitar lessons.

Dan is an independent consultant, author, and speaker. He likes data; pointy data, rectangular data, even data just lying around on the floor. He is a co-author of the book "A Developers Guide to SQL Server 2005". His articles have been published in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine and he has spoken at WinDev, Microsoft events, as well as to various developer groups.

Dan Wahlin founded The Wahlin Group (http://www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which specializes in ASP.NET, jQuery, Silverlight, and SharePoint consulting. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award for ASP.NET, Connected Systems and Silverlight.

David is a software developer with a back ground in IT systems administration. When he’s not learning something new about technology, or speaking about technology, he enjoys billiards and watching/attending motocross races.

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. David has been the keynote speaker for more than a hundred events, and his seminars have been attended by tens of thousands of people in forty-five countries. His books have been published in a dozen languages, and his consulting clients have included HP, IBM, Microsoft, Stanford University, and Target Corporation.

David Donovan is a pioneer in bridging technologies. His favorite is audio technologies with software applications. He is involved in speech synthesis and tools for authoring presentations. His latest crave is performing music interacting with visualizations, but he also likes travelling and sailing.

Dave Mann is a founder and Director for Aptillon, a five-time SharePoint MVP and a trainer for Critical Path Training.

David has over 18 years of experience in software development, and as an Agile coach, he specializes in VSTS and Agile software development.

David Yack is a Business Technologist, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, Microsoft MVP / Microsoft Regional Director, Photographer based in Colorado Springs Colorado

Derik Whittaker is a Software Architect who specializes in all things .Net who has been building enterprise systems for over 12 years and along the way has picked up a thing or two about building create killer systems. He is a 5 time C# MVP and blogs at http://devlicio.us.

Dion Almaer is a technologist who loves to code and build.

Dmitri is a developer, speaker, podcaster, technical evangelist and wannabe quant.

Dominick works as an associate consultant for the Germany-based company thinktecture. His main area of focus is security in general and identity & access control in particular.

Don Robins has spent over two decades building custom business applications, and more recently has focused on technical instruction, integration and mobile development on the Force.com platform. Certified as a Force.com Advanced Developer and Salesforce.com Technical Instructor, he regularly delivers the Salesforce.com developer classes and workshops around the US and abroad.

Donald Belcham is a senior software developer, independent contractor, and agile development expert who is a strong supporter of fundamental OO patterns and practices. Since 2007, he has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in C# and is a member of the JetBrains Academy.

Doug has spent the last 20+ years in the software industry - gradually evolving from a pure bits and bytes guy to a technical strategist, content/messaging guy, and technology evangelist, with a few years of marketing thrown in for balance. He's currently a program manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft.

Joe focuses on High Performance Computing and .NET languages. Joe has been specializing in Microsoft technologies since 1992, and is well-versed in Microsoft's High-Performance Computing initiative (HPC Server, Compute Cluster Server, MPI, MPI.NET, OpenMP, PFx), web technologies (ASP.NET and Ajax Extensions for ASP.NET), the desktop (WinForms), LINQ, .NET Framework, and its most popular languages (VC++, C#, F# and VB).

Dustin is a co-founder of Developer Advocates, a freelance evangelism for hire outfit. He is also a co-host on the MashThis.IO podcast. As a PostSharp MVP, he regularly attends user groups, code camps and other developer events to speak about aspect oriented programming and a range of other topics.

Elijah Manor is a Christian and a family man. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider, and IE userAgent and specializes in front-end web development. He enjoys blogging (http://elijahmanor.com), tweeting (@elijahmanor), and speaking about the things he learns.

Eric is a Principal Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!, Inc., where he is a lead developer on the Yahoo! Messenger team. Since graduating from Purdue in 1994, Eric has been building software applications on Windows platforms. Eric is interested in all aspects of the .NET framework, but specifically WPF, Silverlight, and other client technologies.

Erik is a software architect, team leader and technologist that enjoys working with a wide variety of programming languages, frameworks and tools. An active blogger with extensive experience teaching and demonstrating software development techniques, he is always up for any conversation about technology.

Erin Stellato is a Senior Consultant with SQLskills and a SQL Server MVP. She has worked as a SQL Server professional since 2003 and her interests include Internals, Performance Tuning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Erin is an active member of the SQL Server community as a presenter and blogger.

Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, ALM Ranger, Telerik Insider, and president of the Orlando .NET User Group (ONETUG). He is passionate about Scrum and continuous improvement using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

Filip is an enthusiastic developer that strives to learn something new every day. His greatest passion is programming and ever since Filip was a little boy he has always strived to master it. All his community contributions has made Filip a Microsoft Visual C# MVP and a DZone Most-Valuable Blogger.

Fritz is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Editor in Chief. Fritz is the author of the books 'Essential ASP.NET' and 'Essential ASP.NET 2.0' published by Addison Wesley.

Gill Cleeren is an author, trainer and lead developer, focusing on XAML-based technologies. He's a Silverlight MVP and Microsoft Regional Director. He lives in Belgium.

Glenn works as a Principal Consultant at SQLskills.com. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2007, and he is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College - University of Denver. He is the author of the book SQL Server Hardware (Redgate 2011), and he wrote chapters for both SQL Server MVP Deep Dives books.

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.

Hadi Hariri is Developer, Speaker and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains.

Howard Dierking is a Program Manager on the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft where his current focus is on all things Web.

Ian is an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.

James Kovacs is a Technical Evangelist for JetBrains. He is passionate in sharing his knowledge about OO, SOLID, TDD/BDD, testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques.

Janis Hall combines more than 15 years of technical knowledge with business acumen when working with organizations on needs analysis and delivery for custom support models, system integration and upgrades, process analysis, and the design and implementation of collaborative sites. In her previous work at Mindsharp, as a MetroStar Systems Instructor, and with Pluralsight Janis incorporates her passion for SharePoint and its countless benefits into viable, innovative classes that provide students with both technical know-how and concepts of functional benefits.

Jason Alba is founder of JibberJobber.com, an online relationship manager for professionals to manage their career and job search. Jason is the author of I’m on LinkedIn – Now What??? and coauthor of I’m on Facebook – Now What??? and specializes in helping professionals with career management, network, and personal branding.

Jason Roberts is a Journeyman Software Developer, author of the book Keeping Software Soft, open source contributor and Windows Phone & Windows 8 Store app creator.

Jesse Liberty is a Technical Evangelist for Telerik. Liberty hosts the popular Yet Another Podcast and his blog is required reading. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including two books on Windows 8.

Jesse is a speaker, author, developer, and entrepreneur. He wrote four books on social technologies, and was named one of 20 developers to follow by Entrepreneur Magazine. Jesse manages social media accounts in the hundreds of thousands of fans. Jesse currently leads social strategy for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and consults for companies big and small.

Jim has spent over 17 years developing software for aerospace, education, and casinos. Since 2010 he has run Code Owls LLC, a company in Charlotte NC specializing in IT tooling and automation technologies. Jim is a PowerShell MVP and avid speaker.

Jim Cooper is a senior software developer at Pluralsight. With more than 18 years of software development experience, he has gained a passion for Agile software development -- especially eXtreme Programming (XP).

Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc. (www.jwhh.com) a New Hampshire-based consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iPhone, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 25 years of software engineering experience with the past 12 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions.

Jimmy is a Senior Developer in McKinsey Solutions in London. He works on everything that is cool and interesting, and occasionally on those less cool things as well. He is constantly looking for something new and exciting. He is also active in the technical community as speaker.

Joe has been a web developer for the last 13 of his 16+ years as a professional developer. He has specialized in front end and middle tier development . Although his greatest love is writing code, he also enjoys teaching and speaking about code.

Joe Sack is a Principal Consultant, author and trainer at SQLskills.com. Prior to joining SQLskills, Joe worked at Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer. He is a SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and was responsible for the SQL Server MCM Program from 2009 to 2011.

John has been developing software for 20 years. Starting with a brief stint in Mumps and PowerBuilder, he has moved over to .NET since 2001. As the Founder and principal of Tritium Consulting, he has helped government agencies and international banks distribute and move their data around the world. Recently he has spent time developing ASP.NET MVC, WCF, VSTO solutions using VS Team System and Team Foundation Server.

John Papa is a well-known former Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft on the Silverlight and Windows 8 client teams. John is a Microsoft Regional Director and author of 100+ articles and 10 books, specializes in professional application development with technologies including Windows, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server.

John Sonmez is a software developer for TrackAbout. He has a passion for technology and strongly believes that simple is best when it comes to programming. He maintains a blog dedicated to that theme at http://simpleprogrammer.com.

John has been developing software for over 20 years. Today, he focuses on ASP.NET development and is having more fun than ever solving for clients. John is a Practice Director for Custom Application Development at Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Partner and the Trusted Technology Partner in Business Innovation. A 10-time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP Award; currently an ASP.NET/IIS MVP. John is also an ASP Insider, and is the INETA Mentorfor PA and WV. John is the author of several books and is a frequent contributor to CODE-Magazine.

Jon Fancey is a co-founder of Affinus, a UK-based consultancy specializing in large-scale enterprise problems and solutions. Jon focuses on Microsoft’s server products, in particular BizTalk Server and SharePoint as well as web services and associated technologies. He has written for MSDN Magazine and Web site and talked at various Microsoft-focused conferences including TechEd. Jon is recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for his community contributions.

Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly, as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST.

Jonathan Kehayias is a Principal Consultant with SQLskills. He is the youngest person ever to achieve the Microsoft Certified Master - SQL Server 2008 certification and has been a SQL Server MVP for many years.

Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie is the author of the highly acclaimed "Programming Entity Framework (with a second edition coming soon) and authors the MSDN Magazine Data Points column.

Julie Yack is a founding partner of Colorado Technology Consultants and a Dynamics CRM MVP. She is very involved in community efforts helping with developer user groups, mentoring up and coming technologists and advocating on behalf of small technology businesses with legislators in Washington DC.

Kate Gregory is in her fourth decade of being paid to program. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment. Current work makes heavy use of .NET and Visual C++ for both web and client development, especially for Windows 7 and 8. Managing, mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking occupy much of her time, but she still writes code every week.

Kathleen Dollard is a .NET Team Coach, has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998, and is an <a href="http://asp.net/">ASP.NET</a> Insider.

Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. Keith is a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, and has authored several books for developers covering Windows security, ASP.NET, and COM. Keith was recognized as a Microsoft MVP for many years.

Keith Burnell is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies. Keith has been developing software for over 15 years specializing in large scale ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC web site architecture and development as well as teaching and mentoring clients on the benefits of test-driven development.

Kenny Kerr is a computer programmer and recognized expert in Windows operating system development and programming languages.

Kevin Kuebler is a Lead Software Developer for the Services team at Telerik.

Leonard Lobel (Microsoft MVP, SQL Server) is CTO and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop. He is also a principal consultant at Tallan, Inc., a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Competency Partner. Lenni is also a consultant, trainer, and frequent speaker at major industry conferences.

Liam is a freelance web developer, working mostly with Microsoft tools and technology, based in Brisbane Australia. Since 2006 he has been working with local startups, developing web-based products. Prior to his startup projects Liam spent 5 years in corporate IT.

Llewellyn is an agile coach, creator of approval tests, and co-founder of TeachingKidsProgramming.

Lynn Langit has been working with data for over 14 years. She is an architect, author and popular speaker on SQL Server, Google Cloud, Hadoop, MongoDB and more.

Technology Manager at Info Support, Microsoft regional Director, Visual studio ALM MVP and IT Architect Consultant.

Mario Hewardt is the author of Advanced Windows Debugging and Advanced .NET Debugging.

Mark Seemann is the author of Dependency Injection in .NET and the inventor of AutoFixture. He is a professional programmer and software architect living in Copenhagen, Denmark, and currently an independent advisor. He enjoys reading, drawing, playing the guitar, good wine, and gourmet food.

Matt is an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET application design and development. As a writer Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines including MSDN Magazine where he currently authors the workflow content for the Foundations column. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional and international conferences such as Tech Ed. Microsoft has recognized Matt as an MVP for his community contributions around connected systems technology.

J. Michael Palermo IV is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist based out of Phoenix, AZ

Mathematician and software developer, Michael L Perry applies formal proof to creating reliable software. He has developed a method starting from the works of the greats (Meyer, Rumbaugh, Knuth), and embodied it in his open-source frameworks (Update Controls and Correspondence).

Mike is the Managing Technical Editor at Pluralsight, where he works with authors to continually improve the technical quality of the Pluralsight library. A former C# MVP, Mike has over 20 years of experience developing high performance software systems and training developers around the world. Mike is co-author of Win32 Multithreaded Programming and Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers.

Microsoft Integration MVP, previous ASP.NET MVP, Microsoft Community Lead, and Solution Architect in the e-Gov sector.

Niraj works as an Enterprise Architect for a Fortune 500 company and has an innate passion for building / studying software systems. He is also a manager/speaker at BDOTNET, India’s largest .NET user group.

Oliver Sturm is a consultant and trainer on topics around .NET software architecture. An Associate Consultant at thinktecture, he is also well known as an author of training classes and articles, an expert on programming languages and a Microsoft C# MVP, and for his experience in the specialized area of DevExpress UI components and frameworks.

Paul is an independent consultant and originally focused on technical software (robotics), then moved into (lower layers) network programming. Currently he sails the much murkier waters of Identity Management and Identity Federation, that way combining the interest in both programming and network infrastructure.

An Enterprise Architect by day and an open-source contributor by night, Paul has more than 19 years in the Information Technology industry spanning academic, start-up and enterprise environments.

Paul is the CEO of SQLskills.com, a Microsoft Regional Director and a SQL Server MVP. He worked on the SQL Server Storage Engine team at Microsoft from 1999 to 2007. Among other things, he wrote DBCC CHECKDB/repair for SQL Server 2005 and was responsible for the Core Storage Engine during SQL Server 2008 development.

Peter is a tech-head pure and simple. He is a UK & Europe group manager for Lidnug, and writes software for fun and for a living. He has been doing I.T in one form or another for best part of 30 years and will likely never stop.

Phani Tipparaju is a Consulting Architect and co-founder of BrainScale consulting where he focuses on helping various customers with their architecture, design efforts and mentoring of developers.

Pinal Dave is a Pluralsight Developer Evangelist.

Rich has been active with the Microsoft web technologies since 2001, primarily building data driven and e-commerce websites. As a Senior Software Engineer at Quicken Loans, Rich focuses on integration services and web-based line-of-business applications.

Richard is a developer-architect at Unity Corporation in Eagle, Idaho. He takes a holistic approach toward software development by exploring pan-technological and non-technological solutions to customer issues. Richard blogs about code and technology at http://elegantcode.com/author/rcirerol.

Richard is a Product Manager for cloud computing provider Tier 3, a Microsoft MVP, blogger, author, trainer and frequent public speaker.

Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Portal Solutions - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in DC and Boston. He has over twenty years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint.

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been developing web sites for the past 15 years. He is an ASP.NET MVP, an author, and a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert regularly speaks at national and international events.

Robert C. Cain is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Server, MCTS Certified in BI, and works as a Senior Consultant for Pragmatic Works.

Robert spent nearly 10 years at Microsoft creating software that made it easier for everyone else to write software. Most recently Robert worked on Team Foundation Server on the Administration and Version Control teams. Currently Robert can be found working in the utilities sector on Smart Grid technologies.

Sahil Malik has been a Microsoft MVP for the past 8 years, author of several books and numerous articles in both the .NET and SharePoint space, consultant and trainer who delivers talks at conferences internationally.

Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related technologies. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects, speaking at industry events, and delivering. Scot can be reached at scot@scothillier.net.

Scott has over 15 years of experience in commercial software development and is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and local user groups. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and has authored books on several Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, and Windows Workflow.

Scott Seely is the president of The Jeanius Factory, Inc., a Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft MVP.

Shawn Wildermuth is a nine-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of seven books and dozens of articles on software development. He is one of the Wilder Minds at http://wilderminds.com.

Stacia Misner is a consultant, instructor, author, mentor, BI Partner for SQLSkills, and principal of Data Inspirations specializing in Microsoft business intelligence technologies for over 10 years. She is a frequent speaker at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit, SQL Server Magazine Connections conferences, and various Microsoft events worldwide.

Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company, Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools.

Steve Evans is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Pluralsight Author, and technical Speaker at various industry events.

Steve Michelotti is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and an Architect/Developer for Applied Information Sciences (AIS). He has consulted at Advertising.com/AOL where he was the Tech Lead for one of the highest volume .NET applications in the world.

Steve is co-founder of NimblePros, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Microsoft MVP. He has been a regular conference speaker since 2001 and has written or contributed to several books on software development, including 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Steve founded and coordinates a software craftsmanship user group in northeast Ohio (HudsonSC.com).

Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies.

Thomas is a UK IT Pro, with over 40 year’s experience in the IT field. He’s presently doing writing, consulting and training around some of the key Microsoft technologies including PowerShell, Lync and Windows Server/client. He’s an MVP in PowerShell.

Todd is a Lead Developer for Telerik’s Enterprise Services division.

Troy is a Software Architect, Microsoft MVP for Developer Security and ASPInsider. He's a regular conference speaker, frequent blogger at troyhunt.com and is the author of the OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers series and the free eBook of the same name.

Vinod Kumar has worked with SQL Server extensively since joining the industry over a decade ago. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server for more than 3 years. He now works with MTC as a Technology Architect. He is a well-known speaker at all major Microsoft and third party technical conferences.

Vishwas has been working with Windows Azure for the last four years. As part of his role as CTO of Applied Information Sciences, he has worked on several Azure related projects.

Wendy Henry is an accomplished technical educator, author, conference presenter and consultant. She has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 1998.

Yacine has been involved in the development of database-driven, n-tier web applications for over 10 years. Over time he has taken on various roles, including development, project management, offshore platform management and technical consulting. He has helped build a few solutions for Microsoft North Africa.

Yasser Shohoud is an engineer at Facebook where he helps partners build social apps using the Facebook platform.

Zoiner Tejada is a Windows Azure MVP and the president and chief problem solver at TejadaNET, providing strategic guidance to enterprises and startups leveraging cutting edge cloud technologies from Microsoft.