Mike Benkovich   - Website/Blog

The world of technology changes so fast it is tough to keep up. To meet that challenge, Mike works an MSDN Evangelist for Microsoft helping people explore what's possible with new tools and technologies. As published author on SQL, Mike has 20+ years working in the industry in a variety of roles from developer to consultant to architect to dba.

Mike's Sessions: 201 - Building the "Amazon Flipper" with LINQ and Silverlight

Jason Beres - Website/Blog

Prior to joining Infragistics, Inc., Jason Beres served as a .NET Architect and .NET Evangelist for Computer Ways, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and co-founded the Florida.NET Users Group. As Infragistics' Director of Product Management, Jason spearheads the Product Management program by promoting customer-driven, innovative features and functionality throughout all of Infragistics' products. Jason is a Microsoft .NET MVP, a leading member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and is the chairman of the INETA Academic Committee. He writes a monthly column for Visual Studio Magazine and is the author of numerous works including Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days (Sams, 2003), and the coauthor of the Visual Basic .NET Bible (Wiley, 2001), the C# Bible (Wiley, 2002) and Silverlight 1.0 (Wrox, 2007).

Jason's Sessions: 405 - TBD ,K2 - TBD

Jason Bock - Website/Blog

Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://www.magenic.com), and is also a Microsoft MVP. He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes", "CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", ".NET Security", and "Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.

Jason's Sessions: 105 - Reflection in .NET: Hacking and Futzing with IL ,101 - Reflection in .NET: Hacking and Futzing with IL

Robert Boedigheimer     - Website/Blog

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and runs Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 12 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and recently implemented a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Twin Cities Code Camp, Tulsa Tech Fest, Microsoft's Visual DevCon, and numerous national and international VSLive! events.

Robert's Sessions: 206 - Things Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know ,202 - Things Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know

Denny Boynton  - Website/Blog

Denny Boynton is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft based in The Gateway to the West, St. Louis, Missouri. He's worked in the technology industry for over 13 years in many different roles, including technical writer, "web master" (still don't know exactly what that means), network administrator, developer, project manager and enterprise architect. It is this breadth of experience that allows Denny to work effectively with other architects and technical decision makers to understand the capabilities of today's technological offerings and how these technologies can positively impact their employees, customers and bottom line. Denny is also an active blogger and speaker and is looking to work on an article and/or book in the near future.

Denny's Sessions: 107 - Building Custom Applications on SharePoint Server ,107 - Building Custom Applications on SharePoint Server

Jeff Bramwell   - Website/Blog

Jeff Bramwell has over 17 years of software development experience and is currently employed as a Lead Developer by Farm Credit Services of America. He has been working with .NET technologies (VB.NET and C#) since the early pre-release days (in mid 2000) and currently teaches a course in C# at a local university.

Jeff's Sessions: 105 - Using the Presenter First Pattern in Visual Studio 2008

Jeff Brand    - Website/Blog

I've been with Microsoft for 12 years. I started with the company soon after the release of Windows 95. Now those were heady days. I've seen the long march of Windows 2000 and was right there for the browser wars. While at Microsoft, I have been a consultant, an ecommerce specialist, and an enterprise technology advisor. Today, I am a .NET Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's North Central District. I live in Minneapolis and often travel to the surrounding states of Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas. In my current role, I am responsible for working with developers and customers that are evaluating or using .NET and assisting in them in understanding and using Microsoft’s developer platform.

Jeff's Sessions: 204 - MyTube With Silverlight 2 ,204 - MyTube With Silverlight 2

Scott Colestock  - Website/Blog

Scott Colestock is a Principal Consultant for Trace Ventures, LLC, based in the Twin Cities. He has delivered solutions in the SOA/BPM space for multiple clients in the area, as well as significant work in the Windows Mobile arena. Scott is recognized also for his work with Team Foundation Server, helping several clients successfully deploy and adopt. Scott is a BizTalk Server MVP, a certified ScrumMaster, and speaks frequently at user groups and industry conferences.

Scott's Sessions: 401 - Release Management with TFS ,305 - REST Interfaces with BizTalk ,401 - Release Management with TFS

Clint Edmonson - Website/Blog

Clint Edmonson is an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft’s North Central District, working with aspiring and seasoned architects to understand Microsoft’s latest developer and platform offerings and develop strategic roadmaps for their adoption.

Clint's Sessions: 102 - Advanced OO Laws & Principles

Dean Furness - Website/Blog

Dean Furness is Director of the Business Intelligence National Practice, and is responsible for developing market strategy for Quilogy’s BI offerings as well as implementing BI solutions for Quilogy’s customers. Dean speaks nationally on industry technology trends and at many events in all vertical markets. He has over 15 years of experience developing and implementing solutions for all types of organizations, with significant experience in creating leading-edge Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions. Dean is an active member of the Microsoft Partner Advisory Council for Business Intelligence.

Dean's Sessions: 302 - PerformancePoint Dashboards ,302 - PerformancePoint Dashboards

Dennis Kirlin - Website/Blog

Dennis is a Director of Applications Development at Farm Credit Services of America based in Omaha, Nebraska. His twelve-year software career includes development, project leadership and team leadership. In the last five years, Dennis has utilized and led agile development practices (XP, Scrum) and is a Board of Directors member of the Omaha Agile Development User Group.

Dennis's Sessions: 404 - Estimation in the Abstract for Development in Reality ,406 - Estimation in the Abstract for Development in Reality

Amanda Laucher - Website/Blog

Amanda Laucher is a Consultant for The Sophic Group. She has been developing Microsoft solutions in the Columbus, OH area for over 6 years and has spent the year traveling to code camps and user groups on the east coast and mid-west sharing her knowledge of F#. When she isn't developing, Amanda is busy promoting women in science and technology. You can read more about Amanda's interests and hobbies on her blog at www.pandamonial.com

Amanda's Sessions: 205 - F# at the office - Real world uses for the functional language ,203 - F# at the office - Real world uses for the functional language

Javier Lozano    - Website/Blog

Javier is a .NET web developer for imagetek, an enterprise content management provider, based in Grimes, Iowa. He's an ASP.NET MVP and MCSD specializing in ASP.NET, system architecture, and training. Javier is also a co-founder of the Iowa .NET Users Group where he serves as the speaker liason chair. On his blog, http://blog.lozanotek.com, you can find posts on ASP.NET, Silverlight, architecture, design patterns, .NET, XML just to name a few topics. Javier also enjoys giving back to the community by speaking at user groups, local/regional .NET events, being active in forums and by writing articles for Code Project. In his spare time, Javier enjoys spending time with his family and writing about himself in the third person.

Javier's Sessions: 207 - The Zen Of ASP.NETand MVC ,406 - Open Source Tools Every .NET Developer Should Use ,207 - The Zen Of ASP.NETand MVC ,403 - Open Source Tools Every .NET Developer Should Use

Matt Milner    - Website/Blog

Matt is an independent software consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies including .NET, BizTalk Server, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. In addition to spending countless hours digging into these technologies for his customers, Matt has tried to share this knowledge with others by contributing articles to MSDN Magazine, .Net Developers Journal, and C# Today. He has also co-authored several books on .NET technologies. As an instructor for Pluralsight, Matt authored the BizTalk Server and Windows Workflow Foundation courses and regularly teaches these and other technologies to developers around the world. When he isn’t writing code, Matt can be found teaching others about it at regional and national conferences.

Matt's Sessions: 403 - Put the Power in PowerShell ,304 - Internet Service Bus: Services and Identity in the "cloud" ,304 - Internet Service Bus: Services and Identity in the "cloud"

Rod Paddock - Website/Blog

Rod Paddock is President and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. Dash Point, with offices in Seattle, WA and Austin, TX, specializes in enterprise application architecture, custom software development, and software developer training. Dash Point specializes in developing custom business solutions utilizing Microsoft enterprise and development technologies including Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), ASP.NET, VB6, VFP, and SQL Server. Dash Point clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, the US Coast Guard and the US Navy. Rod is the Editor in Chief for CoDe Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development. He is a popular speaker at software development conferences and user groups across North America and Europe. Rod is a member of the INETA speaker’s bureau, the MSDN Canada speaker bureau, and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP.

Rod's Sessions: 202 - Ajaxing Your .NET Applications

Drew Robbins    - Website/Blog

Drew Robbins is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft focused on Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. He recently moved to Redmond from Columbus, Ohio where he was a field evangelist supporting user groups and community events as well as helping customers understand the business value of Microsoft technology. Drew has been involved in the developer community for 10 years, presenting at events around the world on Visual Studio, .NET and PHP.

Drew's Sessions: 402 - Dynamic Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework ,407 - Make Your Application More Scalable using “Velocity” ,402 - Dynamic Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework ,407 - Make Your Application More Scalable using “Velocity”

Lara Rubbelke - Website/Blog

Lara Rubbelke brings her passion for architecting, implementing and improving SQL Server solutions to the community as a Technology Specialist for Microsoft. Her expertise involves both OLTP and OLAP systems, data management, performance tuning, encryption, ETL, and the Business Intelligence lifecycle. She is an active board member of the Minneapolis PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) chapter and regularly delivers technical presentations at local, regional and national conferences, user groups and webcasts. Notably, Lara has presented at Tech Ed (2006 and 2007), the PASS Summit (2006 and 2007), the Minneapolis SQL Server 2005 Launch, and delivered numerous webcasts on MSDN and TechNet. Lara authored the Microsoft whitepaper detailing SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition features and was a contributing author of "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development". Prior to joining Microsoft, Lara was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

Lara's Sessions: 307 - Micromanage SQL Server 2005 Execution Plans

Brian Sampica - Website/Blog

Bryan Sampica is a .NET enthusiast with experience in many related Microsoft Technologies. Currently a Microsoft MVP 2 years running, from Cedar Falls, Iowa. He enjoys all things technology related. Being community driven and people motivated has lead Bryan to speak at many local .NET user groups as well as help form the first Iowa Code Camp. Currently he works for ASI Computer Systems by day, and authors for Wiley Publishing (wrox) by night.

Brian's Sessions: 203 - Utilizing VS2008 and Blend to Create a Line of Business Application

Joe Stagner  - Website/Blog

Joe joined Microsoft in 2001 as an ISV Development Technical Advisor and is now a Senior Program Manager on the Developer Tools & Platforms Team. His development experiences have afforded him the opportunity to create commercial software applications across a wide diversity of technical platforms from Mainframes, through UNIX and Linux, to Microsoft Technologies on the Intel and Mobile computing platforms. In recent years, Joe has been focused on Highly-Performant, Geoscalable web application architectures, multi-platform interoperability (especially PHP) and writing secure code.

Joe's Sessions: K1 - The Web – TAKE 2 !

Kent Tegels     - Website/Blog

In this session, you will learn about different techniques for storing, indexing and querying spatial data in SQL Server. We will start with solving a simple location problem, then examine techniques for solving with SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. We will then examine the new GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY data types in SQL Server and see how they can be used to for both Geographic Information System (GIS) and not-traditionally GIS types of Applications. While this session is focused on the application development use of these types, Database Administrators are also encouraged to attend as we will be discussing storage, performance and data integration issues.

Kent's Sessions: 306 - Space is data too! ,306 - Space is data too!

Andrew Troelson   - Website/Blog

Andrew Troelsen is a partner / Vice President of Training and Technology at Intertech Training, where he has worked for over 9 years. With Intertech Training, Andrew teaches and mentors America's leading organizations (including NASA, Microsoft corporation, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Wells Fargo and The Mayo Clinics) regarding the ways of .NET, and if duty calls, the Component Object Model (COM). He is the internationally best-selling author of numerous books (including C# and the .NET Platform (winner of the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award - Programming Book of the Year and a 2002 Jolt Award Finalist). Along with his book credits, Andrew has authored a series of articles for MacTech (www.mactech.com) where he explored .NET development on FreeBSD-based Unix systems (Mac OS's Darwin in particular) using the SSCLI, Mono and Portable .NET CLI distributions. Andrew frequently publishes articles for Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) regarding the .NET platform. He speaks at industry trade shows (VSLive, Microsoft Developer Days, HDC, Software Development [East and West] etc) whenever he has time, as well as various user groups and University settings.

Andrew's Sessions: 106 - Understanding State Machine Workflows ,103 - Understanding State Machine Workflows ,106 - The Silverlight Foundation

Chris Williams - Website/Blog

Chris Williams is a Technology Evangelist for Magenic and the founder/leader of the Twin Cities Developers Guild. He is a rabid blogger at www.BlogusMaximus.net and owner of www.ILoveVB.net. He's also a Visual Basic MVP, MCT, MCSD (.NET) Early Adopter, MCAD, freelance game developer, occasional author, tech editor, code camp & user group speaker, vintage arcade game collector and plays a pretty mean guitar in Rock Band.

Chris's Sessions: 303 - LINQ to PME (Pretty Much Everything) ,303 - LINQ to PME (Pretty Much Everything)

Greg Wilson  - Website/Blog

Greg Wilson, aka The Pragmatic TSQL Programmer (http://www.solidrockstable.com/blogs/PragmaticTSQL/default.aspx), has been active in the IT community for over 10 years with roles ranging from Network Administrator to Senior Developer. Greg has spent the last two years diving deeply into SQL 2005/2008 and developing tips and trick for developers to make use of the new features. One thing that you can always count on, is that Greg will discuss things pragmatically and give you lots of material that you can use right away at your office the very next Monday.

Greg's Sessions: 301 - Sql 2008 for the developer who knows SQL 2000