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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.