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.

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, Speaker Liaison for the Philly .NET User Group, and community fanatic.

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.

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 run the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com) and 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.

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.

As a Speakers Bureau Alumnus, Jon Box is no longer available for requests.

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.

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.