Consultant, Author and Coach John Alexander is a recognized Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), and has served as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Kansas City Region for the last seven years. As the .NET Practice Manager at Visionpace, an industry leader in developing enterprise solutions, John is experienced in the delivery of scalable, stable, and open enterprise-level .NET Web applications. He has also coached several teams of developers, including one that was directly responsible for placing that organization on CIO Magazine's Agile 100 List. In addition, John has written two bestselling books on .NET development (contributing to the first ever Visual Studio Team System book) and speaks at industry conferences such as VBITS(Visual Basic Insiders Technical Conference), VB Connections, and Developer Days.

Rachel Appel has been working as a mentor, instructor, software developer, architect and DBA for nearly 20 years. During her career, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies and systems and has contributed to projects of all sizes including large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies.

Rachel is the Vice President of the .Net Valley user group, as well as a leader and regular speaker in the Philly.NET and Central Penn.NET user groups of Pennsylvania. She can also be found speaking at code camps, user groups, community events and conferences.

Rachel’s expertise lies within developing solutions that align business and technology using the Microsoft .NET family of products, particularly ASP.NET & SQL Server. She is also an ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider, INETA Speaker and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications.

As a Solution Architect at Quilogy and member of Microsoft's Regional Director program, Jon Box serves as a .NET evangelist focused on helping developers utilize .NET. Jon's current work emphasizes mobility, using the Compact Framework and ASP.NET Mobile Controls. Jon has been programming professionally since 1985. In that time, he has worked in a variety of environments and languages that include Cobol, Assembler, Clipper, C, C++ (ATL, MFC, Win32), VB, VB .NET, and C#. Jon is in his fifth year at Quilogy and has had many responsibilities in that time including instructor, developer, project manager, a Managing Consultant, and a General Manager. Jon has presented at DevDays, TechEd, and hosted a variety of MSDN WebCasts. Jon is a co-leader of the Memphis .NET Users Group and writes a column for the .NET Developer's Journal. He became a MVP in 2004.

Pete Brown is a Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development (Silverlight and WPF), an INETA Speakers Bureau North America Speaker, and an Architect/Project Manager for Applied Information Sciences in the Washington, DC area.

Pete has been programming for fun since 1984, and professionally since 1992. From his first sprite graphics and custom character sets on the Commodore 64 to 3d modeling and design through to Silverlight, Surface, XNA, and WPF, Pete has always had a deep interest in programming, design, and user experience. Pete’s involvement in Silverlight goes back to the Silverlight 1.1 alpha application that he co-wrote and put into production in July 2007.

Pete has presented at venues ranging from ReMIX, TechReady, TechDays, and the MSDN Developer Conference to local user groups and code camps, ranging from 250 people per session to 8. In his spare time, Pete enjoys programming, blogging, designing and building his own woodworking projects and raising his two children with his wife in the suburbs of Maryland. Pete’s blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog

Andrew J. Brust is Chief, New Technology at Citigate Hudson, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in Business Intelligence and custom database applications built with .NET, SQL Server, and other Microsoft technologies. Prior to joining Citigate Hudson, Andrew was the President of Progressive Systems Consulting, which he founded in 1994 and merged with Citigate Hudson in 2004.

Andrew is Microsoft's Regional Director for New York and New Jersey, a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine, a regular speaker and Conference Chair at VSLive and a featured speaker at other conferences throughout the U.S. and internationally. Andrew has over 15 years of experience programming and consulting in the Financial, Public, Small Business, and Not-For-Profit sectors. Mr. Brust is also a Vice-Chairman of the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) Board of Directors.

Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company's unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of the ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" (www.dotnetrocks.com) podcast and the host of "RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals" (www.runasradio.com) podcast.

Jim Duffy is a Microsoft MVP, DotNetNuke Evangelist on the DNN Core Team, and the president of TakeNote Technologies. TakeNote, a Developer's Choice Award winner for hands-on training, specializes in training and creating business solutions with Microsoft enterprise technologies. He has presented .NET topics at a number of regional and international developer conferences including DevEssentials, Advisor Live events, DevTeach, including the upcoming DevTeach 2005. Jim is a popular speaker due to his knowledge, humor, and quick-witted approach. He is an exceptional trainer, skilled developer, and is a regular contributor of .NET content to CoDe Magazine. Jim's background also includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Systems and over 20 years of programming and training experience. Jim is also co-host of Computers 2K5,, a weekly call in radio show (AM 850 The Buzz) in Raleigh, NC.

Daniel Egan, past INETA President and VP Technology, has over the past ten years, held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. He is President and CEO of Odyssey Consulting Group, Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET , MCT and an MCSD as well as a .NET Insider for the Southern California Region. In addition to his development work, Daniel teaches a .NET Certification course at California State University Fullerton as well as serves on its .NET Advisory board. He is the Co-Founder of the SoCalDotNet Developers Group. Daniel is a frequent speaker and conference presenter and has written several articles in addition to being the author of Building Websites With VB.Net and DotNetNuke 3.0.

To find out more about Daniel, visit either of his blogs, http://www.DotNetDoc.com Dot Net Doc (www.DotNetDoc.com), a .NET and DNN developer resource website built using the Dot Net Nuke framework, or http://www.ThePatternMan.com The Pattern Man (www.ThePatternMan.com) which focuses on Design Patterns in .NET.

Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed, North Africa Developers Conference and other conferences around the world. He has written several books on database development and currently is writing the MS Press book SQL Server 2005 Core Developers Guide. 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 is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group.

Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, and Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is also the MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut. Email Carl at carl@franklins.net.