Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's Azure Application Platform team, and runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft’s Windows Azure, AppFabric, and Web Server Technologies and Tools.

Dominick Baier is an internationally recognized expert for security of .NET and Windows applications. He supports companies worldwide with design and implementation of security features in their software as a security consultant at thinktecture.

Robert C. Martin has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects.

Corey has been practicing the Extreme Programming techniques for nearly 6 years; following the Behavior–Driven Development (BDD) techniques since the first rumblings of it in 2005.

Ryan Dahl is a programmer at Joyent and creator of Node.js. His work invariably involves interruptible parsers, event loops, and response time histograms.

James Shore is a thought leader in the Agile software development community. He consults with development teams worldwide to help them achieve high throughput, market focus, productivity, and quality.

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer. Mitch has been managing projects for over twelve years and has numerous plan–driven and agile projects under his belt.

Bruce Lawson evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He's been active in Web Standards since 2002, working with the Web Standards Project, the W3C Mobile Best Practices Working Group and developer education.

Sean is a Senior Program Manager on the Windows Phone Application Platform team. He is responsible for the data model in Windows Phone, including local database storage and APIs for accessing contacts and calendar information.

Anders Ganes has been developing SharePoint solutions since he graduated with a MSc in Computer Science in 2008.

Christian Larsen obtained a Master’s degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2007, where he wrote a Master’s thesis on GPU and cluster computing in collaboration with Schlumberger Ltd., Trondheim.

Jon Jagger is an independent software coach–consultant–trainer–enthusiast based in England.

Jan Maximilian Winther Kristiansen is a software engineer with Steria AS in Norway. His main passions are SharePoint 2010, C# and web related technologies like JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS.

Maarten Balliauw is a technical consultant in web technologies at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies. His interests are ASP.NET (MVC), PHP and Windows Azure.

Björn is passionata about building advanced solutions which are easy to use. He started as a game developer and has continued in the fincance sector.

Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team.

Mark Seemann is the inventor of AutoFixture and the author of "Dependency Injection in .NET".

Kristoffer heads the systems architecture group at BEKK Consulting, a leading Norwegian business and technology consulting firm. He has been working on web projects within large organizations in the private and public sector in Norway for more than 10 years.

From the dreamy world of building fascinating LEGO constructs and drawing plans of automated machines, Gáspár Nagy switched almost seamlessly to dive into the growing possibilities of programming personal computers.

Einar Ingebrigtsen is a software consultant specializing in .net related technologies. He is a Silverlight MVP and has been working with .net since its beta phases in 2001.

Damian Edwards is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team where he works on Web Forms and Microsoft’s work with jQuery, and a former Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET.

Rob Ashton is a freelance software consultant from the UK, but currently operating in Belgium. He primarily works on an primarily open source .NET stack and is passionate about good design and continuous improvement.

Rod Paddock founded Dash Point Software, Inc. in 2001 to develop high quality custom software solutions.

Philip Laureano is the author of LinFu, an open source framework for implementing AOP, dynamic proxies, design by contract, mixins, inversion of control, and universal event handling on the Common Language Runtime.

Peter Myers has 13 years solid experience working in OLTP database design and development, DBA support and Data Warehousing?Business Intelligence with SQL Server.

Kevin Dockx lives in Belgium and works at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies, where he is a 29–year old technical specialist⁄project leader on .NET web applications, mainly Silverlight, and a solution manager for Rich Applications (Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WPF, Surface).

Jason Bryant is currently the Commercialization and Quality Manager for the Norwegian Technology Center of Schlumberger Information Solutions.  He is responsible for the commercial delivery of market leading 3D visualization and reservoir modeling software for the oil and gas industry.

Michael has been working on the open–source MonoDevelop IDE and other projects in the Mono ecosystem since taking part in the 2005 Summer of Code.

Donald Belcham is a senior software developer, independent contractor, and agile development expert who is a strong supporter of fundamental OO patterns and practices.

Shy Cohen is a software architect and a consultant focusing on cloud computing, distributed systems, and software architecture. Shy is the Principal of Shy Cohen Consulting, a technology–consulting company, and the CEO of CloudValue, a company focused on cloud cost–management.

Husband, father and co founder of Contango Consulting AS. Svein Arne has been in the enterprise market for 10+ years working with automation and financial systems doing software development, design and training.

Ian Robinson (@iansrobinson) is the SOA practice lead for ThoughtWorks Europe, having spent many years architecting and implementing distributed systems for clients in the telecommunications, entertainment and financial services sectors.

Dennis Doomen has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry and is the Principal Consultant at Aviva Solutions. He is well–known for his pragmatic approach, and he has a lot of experience with ALM, TDD, BDD, DDD, design patterns, architecture, Agile practices, TFS and Silverlight.

Douglas Crockford was born in the wilds of Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers.

Szymon is an aspiring software architect and a journeyman. It means that I he intensively learns what software architecture is about. In his journey he tries many different approaches, sometimes succeeding and sometimes I failing.

Pieter Joost is a happy software developer living in a small and friendly town in the Netherlands. He

lives there with two kats and his girlfriend. His employer Atos Origin gave him the title principle

consultant, but he likes to call himself a passionated developer.

Originally a student in informatics, mathematics, and digital signal processing,Christian Johansen has spent his professional career specializing in web and front–end development with technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, and HTML using agile practices.

Emil Cardell is a passionate web consultant working with ASP.NET to build web sites, communities and web applications at Valtech in Stockholm. He engaged in the alt and progressive .net community and is an outspoken Kanban practitioner.

Gil Zilberfeld has been in software since childhood, starting out with Logo turtles. With more than15 years of developing commercial software, he has vast experience in software methodology and practices.

Aral Balkan is an interaction designer and developer with a decade of professional experience in creating web, desktop, and mobile applications.

Trygve Lie has worked professionally with web development since 1997 and mainly
focused on web–technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Anders Norås has been an luminary within the Norwegian IT––]community for ages. He’s give lots of talks at industry conferences and user group meetings on everything between hardcore programming to classic literature’s relation to computer culture.

Joel Abrahamsson is a consultant working with ASP.NET and the content management system EPiServer CMS at Valtech in Stockholm. He is very passionate about web development, primarily on the server side, striving to combine good development practices and principles as well as idea from the .NET open source scene with corporate web development.

Rune Sundling is a Principal Architect for Statkraft, and a former chair turned board member for the Norwegian .NET User Group (NNUG) Oslo.

 

Remy Sharp is a developer, speaker, blogger, author of upcoming co–author of Introduction to HTML5 and jQuery for Designers. He also organises the Full Frontal JavaScript Conference and is one of the curators of HTML5 Doctor.

Krzysztof Kozmic is a consultant with Readify, working and living in Brisbane, Australia. He’s been working with .NET framework since version 1.1. Since 2009 he’s been a core member of the Castle Project team, working primarily on DynamicProxy and Windsor container.

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.

Magnus has a burning passion for technology and for sharing his knowledge with others. As a .NET Architect consultant and Cloud expert, he works as a tutor, lecturer, process coach and technical lead.

Sebastien Lambla runs Caffeine IT, a .net consultancy ⁄ contracting company helping the good people of London adopt new technologies, new processes, new methodologies and in general anything that's new and shiny.

Tom Joined IBM Oslo, in 1958, and has been a business consultant since 1960, with his own company.

Gael Fraiteur is the Founder and Principal Engineer at SharpCrafters, makers of PostSharp – the most comprehensive aspect–oriented programming (AOP) toolkit for Microsoft .NET – based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Alf is a Principal Engineer with Computas, a Norwegian consulting firm specializing in services and solutions supporting knowledge work.

Erlend is head of the security competency group at BEKK, and is also board
member of the norwegian OWASP chapter.

Ben Hall is a UK C# developer\tester with a strong passion for software development and loves writing code.

Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider.

Barry Dorrans has spent 15 years cutting code, starting with mainframes, through DOS, Visual C and MFC before finally ending up on the .NET platform.

Billy Hollis was the author or co–author of many of the earliest books on .NET, and is also the author of a forthcoming book on Windows Presentation Foundation from Microsoft Press.

Gojko Adzic is a software craftsman with a passion for new technologies, programming and writing. Gojko got bitten by the specification–by–example bug five years ago.

David J. Anderson leads a management consulting firm focused on improving performance of technology companies. He has many years management experience leading teams on agile software development projects.

Rob Conery recently worked at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team. He is co–founder of Tekpub and the creator of SubSonic.

Michael Feathers provides training, coaching and mentoring services in Agile⁄XP programming practices, test–driven development, refactoring, object–oriented design, Java, C#, and C++.

Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools, automated testing and UI components. Stephen is also a certified scrum master.

Daniel González is a developer, architect, trainer, coach and team lead with Vertica A⁄S, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Århus, Denmark.

Chris Hardy, a Microsoft ASPInsider, works for a digital agency called Great Fridays in Manchester, UK developing ASP.NET solutions for clients such as Peter Gabriel and Emma Watson.

Amanda Laucher is a Geek at ThoughtWorks in Sydney, Aus. She's been helping teams work with functional programming languages for the past 2 years, and before that in C# and Java.

Jon Skeet is a Java developer for Google in London, but he plays with C# (somewhat obsessively) in his free time.

Sahil Malik is a Microsoft MVP (Currently in SharePoint server competency, previously C#), INETA Speaker, a .NET author, consultant and trainer and a well–rounded overweight geek.

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.

Olve Maudal loves to write code, but is perhaps more interested in how software is developed than what it actually does.

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

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer, based in the UK but consulting and training throughout Europe and further afield. The focus of his work is in programming, practice, process and patterns.

Carl Franklin is the host of the podcasts .NET Rocks! and dnrTV, and the producer of the podcasts Hanselminutes and RunAs Radio.

Richard Campbell is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and co–host of .NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talkshow for .NET Developers as well as host of RunAs Radio, the podcast for Microsoft IT Professionals.

Miguel Castro is an architect with IDesign with over 22 years of experience in the software industry. He’s a Microsoft MVP, member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and ASP Insider.

Geoff is a Certified Scrum Trainer and agile coach with a proven track record of helping individuals, teams and organisations in their adoption of agile, and Scrum in particular.

Scott Bellware is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, Texas. He is a five–time recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award and the founder of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners in Austin.

Stuart Sierra is a developer at Relevance, a member of Clojure⁄Core, and the co–author of Practical Clojure (Apress,

2010).

Jonas is a scientist at BEKK in Trondheim. He has broad experience and in–depth knowledge of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and the C# programming language.

Shay Friedman is a Visual C#⁄IronRuby MVP and the author of IronRuby Unleashed and ASP.NET 4 Programmer's Reference.

Jonas Bandi studied electrical engineering and information technology at the ETH Zurich and continued his studies with post–diploma courses at the ETH Zurich and at the SWS Bern.

Keith is a Principal Consultant with Zuhlke. He also manages their Centre of Agile Practice. This group provides training, coaching, mentoring, toolsmithing, and straightforward development to enhance client teams capabilities.

Tore is a software development enthusiast, speaker and C# MVP. He works as a managing consultant at BEKK Consulting in Trondheim, Norway.

Fredrik works as a senior consultant for Capgemini in Stavanger – at least that is what his business card will tell you. In his own words, Fredrik is a software craftsman apprentice, solving client’s software needs by day and studying the craft of software development by night.

Strategy consultant, agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer®.

Have been working with transformations to agile since 2005, helping organizations implement: Scrum, Kanban and Lean. 

Building better software faster is Martin's mission. Martin helps development teams implement lean⁄agile software development and improve their craftmanship teaching hands–on development practises such as iterative design and test–first.

Janet Gregory is Based in Calgary, Alberta, she specializes in helping teams build quality system, and her greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes.

Harald is a developer and solution architect at CIBER. He is a core .NET developer and tech–enthusiast, working with both Java and .NET. Passionate for low level details and performance.

Vagif Abilov is a Russian–born developer living and working in Norway. He has more than twenty years of programming experience. After spending his early years with Prolog and expert systems in Moscow, Vagif moved to Norway and took more product–oriented approach to development.

Udi Dahan is The Software Simplist, recognized by Microsoft Corporation with the coveted Most Valuable Professional award for Solutions Architecture now 4 years running.

Tor Livar Flugsrud graduated from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2003 and has seven years of experience as a software developer and software architect in Schlumberger

Computers has fascinated Mårten from the moment he laid his hands on a Commodore 64 and they continue to fascinate him today, 30 years later.

Kai has been working as a project consultant, teacher and coach for the past 19 years.