Rachel Appel - Website/Blog

Rachel 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 and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications.

Rachel's Sessions: 101 - Web UI Warfare: Choosing Between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC ,410 - Get jQuery.ready()

Mike Benkovich    - Website/Blog

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer evangelist on the MSDN team at Microsoft. He has worked in a variety of professional roles, including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer. Mike is also a published author of books from WROX Press and APress that show developers how to get the most from their SQL databases. Since appearing in the 1994 Microsoft DevCast, Mike has presented technical information at seminars, conferences, and corporate boardrooms across America.

Mike's Sessions: 305 - An Introduction to Windows 7 and Sensors ,307 - LINQ to SharePoint to Silverlight. ,210 - How to Kill a Project and Deflate a Team – Surviving a software deathmarch.

Jason Bock   - Website/Blog

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.

Jason's Sessions: 408 - Assembly Coersion ,416 - Evolving .NET

Robert Boedigheimer      - Website/Blog

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 14 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an ASP.NET MVP, an author, 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, DevLink, DevTeach, Tulsa Tech Fest, DevWeek, TechEd, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international VSLive! events.

Robert's Sessions: 114 - Jumpstart Your Web Site with ASP.NET Dynamic Data ,216 - Regular Expressions in .NET

Jeff Brand      - Website/Blog

Jeff Brand is a .NET Developer in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Group. Jeff assists customers in evaluating, developing and deploying applications built on the .NET Framework and the Microsoft platform. He has been with Microsoft for twelve years and has served in variety of roles including infrastructure consultant, e-commerce technology specialist, and enterprise technology advisor.

Jeff's Sessions: 205 - Peer-to-Peer Made Easy ,312 - Peer to Peer in Windows

Lee Brandt - Website/Blog

Lee Brandt is a .NET Solutions Architect in Overland Park, Kansas. He has been programming professionally for over 10 years and developing solutions in .NET and C# since the early beta releases. He is an advocate for behavior-driven development, design patterns and agile methodologies.

Lee's Sessions: 207 - Getting Started with Behavior Driven Development ,314 - Mutual Developments's SOLID Kingdom or How to Spot SOLID Code Violations in the wild.

Patrick Chanezon - Website/Blog

atrick Chanezon manages the Client and Cloud Advocacy team at Google, making the web better as a development platform with open web standards, GWT and Google Appengine. He has been a Developer Advocate at Google since 2005, building and growing developer ecosystems for OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he has been working on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He's the co-founder of the ROME java open source project and the OSSGTP (Open Source Get Together Paris) group. Apart from programming and reading books and mangas, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

Patrick's Sessions: K4 - Browser, Mobile, Cloud, Social, Geo: portrait of the developer as a kid in a candy store

Drew Davies - Website/Blog

Drew Davies is the founder and design director of Oxide Design Co., a communications and information design firm established in 2001.
Drew is a member of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA), and the International Institute for Information Design (IIID). A past president of the AIGA Nebraska chapter, Drew now serves as the design director for AIGA's Design for Democracy (DFD) program. Drew's DFD team recently worked with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to implement national ballot design standards.
Drew believes that the most effective method of creating positive change in the world is to clearly communicate the ideas that can make a difference: Clarity creates efficacy.

Drew's Sessions: 412 - Top Tips for Interface Design (by Designer for Developer)

Michael Douglas - Website/Blog

Mike Douglas is a Solution Consultant at Deliveron Consulting Services where he provides end-to-end solutions and TFS installation, configuration, and custom development for clients. He has over 11 years experience building enterprise level applications on a variety of .NET technologies including WCF, Web Services, ASP.NET, Disconnected Smart Clients and Data Synchronization, Biztalk, and Team Foundation Server. Mike enjoys trying to keep up with the constant change and evolution of .NET. Mike is an experienced presenter having spoken at several Omaha .NET User Group meetings on CSLA.NET, Subsonic, and TFS. He also spoke at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference on a GIS integration project he helped lead. Mike actively maintains the open source project, Team Deploy, on CodePlex for deploying MSIs using Team Foundation Server. Mike also enjoys sharing his experiences in Code Generation, CSLA.NET, and TFS on his blog at www.CodeSmartNotHard.com.

Michael's Sessions: 212 - An Iteration in the life of an Agile Development Team with Team System 2010

Jarrod Edge - Website/Blog

11 years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Jarrod has crossed the globe training and consulting on Microsoft Visual Studio 5, 6, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 as well as Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 - 2008. Jarrod has worked with and trained many large companies on the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, WCF, XML Web Services, Website Development, Database Design and more.
As the General Manager of GetWebEdge, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions located in Orange Park, FL, Jarrod oversees the development of all Software and Websites.
Jarrod holds the following certification: MCT, MCPD, MCITP, MCSD, MCTS, MCAD, MCP, CTT, CTT+

Jarrod's Sessions: 206 - Intro to WCF

Donn Felker - Website/Blog

Donn Felker is a Principal Consultant with Agilevent, a Midwest .NET solution provider. He has over 9 years of professional experience in various markets that include – entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial, and real estate. He is a MCTS in Web Client Development for .NET 2.0 and 3.5 and is also a certified ScrumMaster. He is the founder and coordinator of the Twin Cities Give Camp, the founder of Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer, and now also runs the Twin Cities Developers Guild. He is a writer, presenter and consultant on various topics ranging from architecture, development in general, agile practices and patterns & practices.

Donn's Sessions: 215 - Testing With Mocks ,405 - Spark View Engine

Neal Ford - Website/Blog

Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide.

Neal's Sessions: 110 - Comparing Groovy & JRuby ,K3 - Smithying in the 21st Century

Adam Grocholski - Website/Blog

Adam Grocholski has a great job at RBA Consulting in Minneapolis, MN where he has been working since 2006. Lately he has been diving into the latest and greatest UI technologies such as Silverlight and WPF and showing his clients how they can leverage these technologies to create compelling line of business applications. Adam also has a strong commitment to the local developer community. From co-founding the Twin Cities Cloud Computing user group, to hosting nerd dinners, to speaking at the .NET and Silverlight user groups and code camps. When not working he enjoys spending time with his two awesome daughters and amazing wife. You can catch up with his latest projects and thoughts on technology at http://thinkfirstcodelater.com , or if that's a bit too verbose for your liking you can always follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/agrocholski .

Adam's Sessions: 103 - Building Navigation Applications with Silverlight 3 ,111 - An Introduction to .NET RIA Services

Scott Guthrie   - Website/Blog

Scott Guthrie is a Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division. He runs the development teams that build the following products/technologies: CLR and the core .NET Base Class Libraries, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, IIS 7.0, and Visual Studio Tools for ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and Mobile.

Scott's Sessions: K1 - VS 2010 for the Code Warrior ,203 - Guthrie - "Unplugged"

Adam Haeder - Website/Blog

As the Vice President of Information Technology for the AIM Institute, Adam Haeder manages AIM’s IT department and all related technology ventures. Adam has been the lead instructor in AIM's Cisco Regional Networking Academy and is the Vice President of the Omaha Linux Users Group. Adam has written books about the IT job market and Linux certification. He serves on the technology advisory councils of Omaha Public Schools, Millard Public Schools, the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Omaha and Kearney campuses, and the Linux Professional Institute. Adam has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of South Dakota at Vermillion.

Adam's Sessions: 311 - SugarCRM - Sexy Open Source CRM

Kevin Hoyt - Website/Blog

Kevin Hoyt is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems, Inc. Passionate about engaging user experiences, you'll most often find him meeting with customers, speaking at conferences, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. When not on the road, Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, photography and general aviation.

Kevin's Sessions: 301 - Integrating Flash and Hardware ,K2 - Defining Rich ,409 - Development for a Mobile World ,104 - Flex 4 Introduction and Interaction

Hasani Hunter - Website/Blog

Hasani is the co-founder and CEO of iDotCom Software, an iPhone development company based in Omaha, NE. With more than 10 years of application development and business experience, Hasani sets the corporate strategy and direction at I.COM in addition to leading the development efforts.

Hasani's Sessions: 406 - Intro to Objective-c and iPhone development

Vijay Ijju - Website/Blog

Vijay Ijju is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of ProKarma, Inc. ProKarma was named the fastest-growing private IT Services company in the country by Inc. Magazine, which recently announced its 2009 Inc. 500 rankings and comprehensive guide of America's fastest-growing private companies. Vijay has 20 years of experience in the IT Industry. His specific areas of expertise include Mobile Computing, Distributed Computing, Cloud Computing, Agile Transformation and eBusiness Solutions. Vijay is responsible for assessment of ProKarma’s technology roadmap, Research & Development Labs and internal capability to support current and future needs of clients and management related to development, deployment and support of software products and services.

Vijay's Sessions: 208 - Cross Platform Mobile Application Development: Challenges and Strategies:

Michael Labriola - Website/Blog

Michael has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. He specializes in developing applications with high business impact using emerging technologies. Michael co-authored Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source and Breaking Out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR, and has also published a series of articles on Adobe’s Developer Center teaching others to integrate Flex client and server technologies. As a frequent speaker on Flex topics and contributor to Flex mailing lists, he is known throughout the developer community. Michael also speaks Spanish, Italian, and pretends to speak more Japanese than he actually knows.

Michael's Sessions: 302 - From Concept to Concrete: Programming a Designer's Vision ,213 - Reanimating Dead Data with Flex

Javier Lozano     - Website/Blog

Javier is an ASP Insider and MVP that specializes in ASP.NET, system architecture, and training. Outside of work, Javier has helped co-found the Iowa .NET Users Group as well as the Iowa Code Camp along with communities and open source projects. On his blog, http://blog.lozanotek.com, you can find posts on ASP.NET, development practices, architecture, and design patterns just to name a few topics. Javier is an avid supporter of the community and likes to give back by speaking at user groups, local/regional .NET events, participating in forums, and by writing articles. On his blog, http://blog.lozanotek.com, you can find posts on ASP.NET, development practices, architecture, and design patterns just to name a few topics. Javier is an avid supporter of the community and likes to give back by speaking at user groups, local/regional .NET events, participating in forums, and by writing articles.

Javier's Sessions: 109 - ASP.NET MVC and Open Source Tools...Them's Is Like Peas and Carrots ,308 - Oh ASP.NET MVC, How Extensible Art Thou?

Matt Milner   - Website/Blog

Matt is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies (WCF, Windows WF, BizTalk, "Dublin" and the Azure Services Platform). Matt is also an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET application design and development. As a writer Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines including MSDN Magazine where he currently authors the workflow content for the Foundations column. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional and international conferences such as Tech Ed. Microsoft has recognized Matt as an MVP for his community contributions around connected systems technology.

Matt's Sessions: 401 - Building activities in Windows Workflow 4 ,316 - LINQ to who, what, where?

Nathan Moody - Website/Blog

Nathan is the Design Director of Stimulant, a San Francisco agency that designs and develops digital experiences for new interaction paradigms, specifically gestural, multi-touch, and multi-user applications. He has designed award-winning interfaces, interactions, illustrations, motion, and sound for nearly two decades. He has translated business goals into user experiences for Adobe, Charles Schwab, General Motors, General Electric, Leapfrog, Microsoft, New Line Cinema, Oracle, The North Face, Timberland, and Reebok. Nathan is a published magazine and book author, awards judge, and frequent speaker on matters of imaging, emergent interaction design, rich media workflow, and creative process.

Nathan's Sessions: 113 - Project Tuva: A Case Study ,309 - The Natural User Interface: Multi-Touch and Beyond

Ted Neward  - Website/Blog

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

Ted's Sessions: 102 - Rethinking "Enterprise" ,404 - The Busy Developer's Guide to ECMA(Java)Script

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: 201 - Jquery 101 ,112 - Silverlight Frankenstein

Carey Payette - Website/Blog

Carey Payette is a Senior Software Developer at American Electric Power where she implements Enterprise Applications using Web Services, ASP.NET, and WPF. Carey holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Laurentian University in Sudbury Ontario. She is the president of the Central Ohio .Net Developer's group (www.condg.org) in Columbus Ohio and has a history of speaking at various conferences in the midwest including Codemash, MSDN Developer's Conference, and multiple Day of .Net events. A mother of three boys, she is always on the go, but still finds time to keep up to speed on the latest technology trends as an avid magazine and book reader. Carey is also a Microsoft MVP in Client Application Development. In her spare time, she enjoys playing hockey and going camping with her husband and boys.

Carey's Sessions: 204 - Coding Rainbows - Using Prism (WPF/Silverlight) ,413 - Introduction to the Microsoft Sync Framework

Andy Peters - Website/Blog

Andy Peters is the President and Chief Architect at Ninth Division, an Apple and Ruby on Rails software development company. Andy works with some fo the most cutting edge companies in the market today helping to deliver solutions online, offline, and in the mobile space. Andy is a frequent speaker, trainer, and all around technology evangelist and is always looking for the next challenge.

Andy's Sessions: 214 - Enhancing your iPhone Development Workflow ,303 - Creating iPhone applications that communicate with the web

Ryan Phelan - Website/Blog

Ryan is the Lead Interactive Developer at Phenomblue where he works alongside a brilliant team of designers and developers on websites and applications for some of the largest brands in the world. With a background in Flash, Flex and data visualization, he has been creating rich interactive experiences for nearly 10 years. As an active speaker, blogger and member of the developer community, Ryan loves working with and teaching new and emerging technologies.

Ryan's Sessions: 407 - Now, with 20% more reality

Theo Priestly - Website/Blog

BPM evangelist and professional consultant of nearly 10 years. Considered a thought leader, futurist and maverick in the BPM community.

Theo's Sessions: 115 - "Hands on" BPM: Gesture based business process modeling ,306 - Twittering for Workflow

Brian Prince - Website/Blog

Brian H. Prince is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the architect community in his district. Prior to joining Microsoft in March 2008, he was a Senior Director, Technology Strategy for a major mid-west partner. Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various regional and national technology events including TechEd. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also an avid gamer.

Brian's Sessions: 415 - Windows 7: Under the hood. What made it go fasterer?

Matt Secoske - Website/Blog

Matt Secoske is the owner of Nimblelogic llc, a boutique software development company dedicated to making kick-ass web applications. Matt has over 12 years professional experience building quality software. He is a frequent speaker at numerous Omaha technology User Groups, and he has spoken at national conferences such as NoFluffJustStuff and OSCON. Matt also runs the website TechOmaha.com that highlights the happenings of the Omaha Tech community. He blogs occasionally at mattsecoske.com and can be found on twitter as @secos.

Matt's Sessions: 105 - Alternative Database Technologies ,108 - Lite-weight Web (+ Services) Development with Sinatra

Ken Sipe - Website/Blog

Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), IBM's largest service partner, where he leads multiple teams in the development of solutions in the SOA, Web 2.0 and portal domains, on both the Java and .Net platforms. Ken was the founder of CodeMentor, where he was the Chief Architect and Mentor, leading clients in the execution of RUP and Agile methodologies in the delivery of software solutions.

Ken's Sessions: 402 - Debugging your Production JVM ,211 - Hacking The Dark Arts

Aaron Skonnard - Website/Blog

Aaron Skonnard is co-founder of Pluralsight, a premier Microsoft .NET training provider. Aaron has authored numerous Pluralsight courses in the areas of Azure (cloud computing), WCF, Web services, XML and BizTalk Server. Over the years, Aaron has written numerous articles, whitepapers, and books and he's a contributing editor with MSDN Magazine where he authored The XML Files and Service Station columns for years. Aaron frequently speaks at industry events including TechEd, PDC, and VSLive! Check out his blog at http://pluralsight.com/aaron/.

Aaron's Sessions: 107 - Windows Azure: A New Era of Cloud Computing ,403 - .NET Services: Moving .NET to the Cloud

Dustin Tauer - Website/Blog

Dustin pulls double duty as an application developer and software trainer with Easel Solutions. He specializes in Flash, Flex and many other related technologies. Dustin graduated from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with an Information Systems degree. He works closely with Adobe contributing to curriculum development, writing Flash/Flex certification exam questions, and helping with product marketing. He also is the assistant-manager of the Minneapolis-based Flash/Flex programmer user group MN.swf (mnswf.com).

Dustin's Sessions: 414 - Flash Player Exposed

Kent Tegels    - Website/Blog

Kent Tegels is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on SQL Server and Business Intelligence. Kent is also an Adjunct Professor for Business and Computer Science. Since the 1980s, Kent has been building systems and educating his fellow developers, adminstrators and analysts. He spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to students and developers world wide. Kent enjoys helping people achieve their "AH-HA!" moments.

Kent's Sessions: 209 - Scripting Data Sources and Destinations in SSIS 2008 ,313 - How NOT to give a talk!

Dustin Thostenson - Website/Blog

Dustin Thostenson is an Independent .Net consultant, leading Delta 3 Consulting. He has been a developer and trainer in the Des Moines, Iowa area for the last 11 years. His focus has been on Microsoft technologies (ASP, VB, C#) with an emphasis on web development. Experiences span from developer to architecture and mentoring roles. To keep it interesting he teaches a couple of evening classes in programming at Des Moines Area Community College and volunteers in Central Iowa. Follow Dustin on Twitter: @dustinson.

Dustin's Sessions: 116 - Overview of Google Apps

Chris Williams   - Website/Blog

Chris Williams is a Technology Evangelist for Magenic. He is the founder of several .NET User Groups on the east coast, and most recently the Twin Cities XNA User Group and Twin Cities Developers Guild, both in Minneapolis, MN. He is a rabid blogger at BlogusMaximus.net, author of the very popular NINE Questions series and owner of the VB Community site www.ILoveVB.net. His most recent project is the Charity Fragathon fundraiser event.

Chris's Sessions: 411 - Leveraging Social Networking / Social Media tools in your applications

Greg Wilson   - Website/Blog

Greg Wilson, aka The Pragmatic TSQL Programmer, 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 WPF. 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: 106 - Building Data Objects the Way You Intended To ,304 - Creating WPF User Control for Complex Data

Philip Wolfe    - Website/Blog

Philip Wolfe is a Lead Developer with Farm Credit Services of America where he works on web-based and Windows Workflow Foundation applications. He has been developing .NET application since 2001 and is currently working on public and internal workflow-based web applications. He has been involved in the development community locally through user groups and HDC as well as nationally by contributing to Microsoft exams and speaking at Tech Ed in 2008 and 2009.

Philip's Sessions: 202 - Annoy Users LESS ,315 - Code and Asset Branching Best Practices