Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP and INETA Speaker, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. Steve is also an MCP, ICSOO, and community fanatic.

Jason Beres is the author of "Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days" from Sams, the co-author of the "Visual Basic .NET Bible" and the "C# Bible" from Wiley, and a contributor to "SQL Server 2000: The Complete Reference" from Osborne/McGraw-Hill and "ASP.NET @ Work: 10 Enterprise Applications" from Wiley. Jason is currently working on "Teach Yourself Visual C# .NET in 21 Days" from Sams, which is due out in the Q3 2003.

Jason was also a speaker at Microsoft Developer Days 1999, 2000 and 2001, the largest regional developer centric conference that Microsoft has each year. He also is also very active in INETA, the International .NET Association. Jason serves on the Infrastructure Committee and the Academic Committee, which are both volunteer positions to assist the ongoing support of .NET User Groups throughout the world.

With over a decade of Microsoft-centric software development in his wake, Todd C. Bleeker, Ph.D., is regarded as an innovative, resourceful, and competitive technologist with an intense desire to excel. Recently, Todd joined forces with Bill English to grow Mindsharp (http://Mindsharp.com), a high-quality training company.

Todd has architected many solutions for small and large corporations. For instance, in 2003 Todd architected the software that Air Canada uses to track its roughly $30 million of annual in-flight cash sales. Todd helped the State of Minnesota webify and manage over 40,000 pages of systems documentation using SharePoint Team Services. Todd implemented, on behalf of Microsoft Consulting Services, an MCMS POC for the Bank of Montreal. Todd also presented on Web Services and MCMS at TechEd.

In his spare time, Todd loves to soak up whatever technology Microsoft is churning out and spend countless hours in Minnesota with his wife, Kathryn, and six "high energy" children: Landis, Lake, Lissa, Logan, Lawson, and Lexa.

Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://www.magenic.com), a Microsoft MVP (C#), and an INETA (http://www.ineta.org) speaker. 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. He also is part of the leadership team for the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com) and runs the Twin Cities Languages User Group (http://www.twincitieslanguagesusergroup.com). Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.

Joe Brinkman (MVP), is co-founder and Vice President, Core Technology of DotNetNuke Corporation. With more than 25 years of experience in software development and network administration and a Computer Science degree from the United States Naval Academy, Joe brings a broad range of experience and expertise in a variety of software and hardware architectures. He has been actively involved with the DotNetNuke project since the early days of 2003, was a founding Core Team and Board of Directors member and co-authored two bestselling WROX books on DotNetNuke. Joe has been a Microsoft MVP for ASP.Net for the last two years and during his off time likes making sawdust in his woodshop, chasing a little white ball around a golf course or spending a quiet afternoon in a movie theater with his wife Gloria.

Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona. myKB.com, Inc. is a technology company specializing is commercial ASP.NET applications. His product line includes myKB.com (Knowledge Base Software), kbAlertz.com (Microsoft Knowledge Base Notifications), and EasySearchASP.net(Pluggable Search Engine for ASP.NET sites). Scott is an ASP.NET MVP as we as a Founding Member of ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early feedback to the Microsoft ASP.NET Team. Scott also runs AZGroups.com ( Arizona .NET User Groups ) one of the largest and most active user groups. After all this community work, and product development, Scott has also found time to publish a fiction novel titled “Surveillance” (surveillance-the-novel.com)

Stuart Celarier is Chief Software Architect of Aivea, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Connected Systems. His career spans more than two decades of development, architecture, writing, and training, with a focus on new and emerging technologies. His professional interests include the current and next generations of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), “Oslo” modeling platform, “Dublin” application server extensions, “Geneva” claims framework, .NET Framework 4.0, and Windows Azure.

Stuart is co-founder of Portland Code Camp and frequently speaks at .NET user groups, conferences, and community events. He is a member of the Software Association of Oregon’s Development SIG committee. Stuart is an INETA Speaker and has volunteered with INETA since 2003, including co-chairing the community-led Birds-of-a-Feather track at Tech•Ed 2005–2009 and PDC 2005.

Andrew Connell is a consultant, developer, instructor and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) focusing on Web Content Management (WCM). He's authored numerous books and articles on the subjects of Microsoft Content Management Server and SharePoint Products and Technologies. With a passion for SharePoint development and content management sites, Andrew has spoken on the subject of MOSS 2007 development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference. You can reach Andrew or subscribe to blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog.

Don Demsak is an independent consultant in the NJ/NYC metro area who specializes in building enterprise applications with .Net. He has a popular blog at www.donxml.com and is a Microsoft MVP (for XML, what else?). He is currently immersed in LINQ, C# 3.0, VB 9, and the various LINQ enabled frameworks.

Kathleen Dollard is a consultant, author, trainer, and speaker. She’s been a Microsoft MVP for over ten years and has spoken about .NET in 28 states and 5 countries. She’s written dozens of articles including the “Ask Kathleen” column in Visual Studio Magazine. She also wrote “Code Generation in Microsoft .NET” (Apress). Her passion is helping programmers be smarter in how they develop by learning to better use .NET languages, libraries and platforms. She works with WPF, WF, as well as core technologies including System.AddIn. She’s currently creating template infrastructure for code generation using VB XML literals. After working on the problem of capturing business intent in metadata and test definitions for years, she’s working with industry improvements in these areas. She’s also working on full life cycle improvements, such as unit testing, better debugging and static analysis (FxCop). When not working, she enjoys woodworking, snowshoeing, and kayaking depending on the outdoor temperature.

Mark Dunn has over 20 years of experience in the disciplines of software engineering, database administration, and project management. For the past four years, Mark has been awarded MVP status for his contributions to the Visual Studio .Net community and he serves as Microsoft's Regional Director covering the Southeast United States. Mark also co-founded .Net Rocks, an Internet radio program for .Net developers recognized in over 80 countries and now hosted by Microsoft on the MSDN site. Mark is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Application Developer, Solution Developer for .Net, and Database Administrator.