Robert Boedigheimer,
Robert Boedigheimer works for The Schwan Food Company providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 10 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and is currently implementing a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at several industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Microsoft's Visual DevCon 2005, and several VSLive! events.

Denny Boynton
Denny has been in the software business for over 11 years, working in many varied parts of IT organizations including operations (infrastructure), software development, application architecture, and enterprise architecture. He was an Enterprise Architect at Anheuser-Busch Companies in St. Louis for six years prior to joining Microsoft in December of 2006 as an Architect Evangelist.

Benjamin Day, Benjamin Day is an independent consultant specializing in the design and development of applications with Visual Studio Team System.  He is a Microsoft MVP for C#, conference speaker, and leads the Beantown.NET User Group.  Ben also provides consulting and training on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server and is a member of the Visual Studio Team System Customer Advisory Council at Microsoft.  When not developing software, Ben plays piano with a Boston-based jazz trio and is an enthusiastic restaurant, food, beer and wine buff.  

Chris Franz is a systems consultant for Sybase iAnywhere in Boise Idaho.
Chris has over 10 years of experience working with databases using many development languages such as Visual Basic, C#, Java and ASP.NET. He has spoken at several technical conferences, .NET user groups and provided training to developers all over the world. He is currently working on several projects using Advantage in Windows and Web based .NET applications.
Chris is an MCSE and has participated as a contributing technical editor on two books.

Ken Getz, Ken Getz is a developer, writer and trainer, working as a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC, a Microsoft Solution Provider. He is a lead courseware author and trainer for AppDev (), and has written and presented video courses covering C# and Visual Basic 2005, ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET 2.0 and more. Ken has co-authored several technical books for developers, including the best-selling ASP.NET Developer’s Jumpstart, Access Developer’s Handbook series, and VBA Developer’s Handbook series. Ken is a technical editor for Advisor Publications’ VB.NET Technical Journal, and he's a columnist for both MSDN Magazine and CoDe magazine. Ken speaks regularly at a large number of industry events, including Advisor Media’s Advisor Live events, FTP’s VSLive, and Microsoft’s Tech-Ed.

Billy Hollis,
Billy Hollis is an author and software developer from Nashville, Tennessee. Billy is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic .NET, VB .NET Programming on the Public Beta. He has written many articles, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He is the Regional Director of Developer Relations in Nashville for Microsoft, and runs a consulting company focusing on Microsoft .NET.

Vishwas Lele,
Vishwas Lele is a Principal Architect at Applied Information Sciences () where he has been involved in the design and development of .NET based applications for a number of clients. Vishwas has been a speaker at a number of developer events and has also authored many magazine articles and white papers on the .NET technology. Vishwas serves as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Washington, D.C. area. He is also a Solution Architecture MVP.

Chris Menegay,
Chris Menegay is a Development Process Consultant for Notion Solutions, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in software development process and Visual Studio Team System. He has been working with Team System full-time since late 2004. Chris has obtained a broad understanding of information technology by sharing best practices with the client companies he has worked with over the past 10 years. As a consultant, he has served in many different roles in the software development process. Chris has been a project manager, analyst, architect, developer, and tester. This broad background has given him insight into not only the technical challenges that face software projects, but the procedural challenges as well. He has written white papers and articles on Team System for MSDN and MSDN Magazine. Chris is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Microsoft Regional Director and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau.

Mark Michaelis
Mark Michaelis is the IDesign architect specializing in WCF and VSTS as well as a independent consultant with  in Spokane, WA . Mark was recognized by Microsoft as a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Team System and he wrote to official courseware for VSTS for Microsoft. Mark holds a MS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and he serves on several Microsoft Software Design Review teams including WCF, C# and VSTS. Mark speaks at developer conferences both nationally and internationally and has written several articles and books, in addition to maintaining a . His most recent book is .

Michael Pizzo, Principal Architect, Data Programmability, Michael Pizzo has worked for over 17 years in the design and delivery of data access solutions and APIs at Microsoft. Michael first got involved in data access as a Program Manager for Microsoft Excel in 1987, integrating Microsoft’s flagship spreadsheet product with relational data. This led to his involvement in the design and delivery of ODBC, along with the ODBC-based Microsoft Query Tool shipped with Microsoft Office. During the design of ODBC, Michael was active in the standards organizations, sitting as Chair for the SQL Access Group, working with X/Open on the CAE specification for “Data Management: SQL-Call Level Interface (CLI)”, serving as Microsoft’s representative to the ANSI X3H2 Database Committee, and as an elected ANSI representative to the ISO committee meetings that defined and adopted Part 3 of the ANSI/ISO SQL specification for a call-Level Interface (SQL/CLI). Following ODBC, Michael was a key designer and driver of Microsoft’s OLE DB API for componentized data access within a COM environment, and later owned the design and delivery of ADO.NET version 1.0. He is currently a Principal Architect in the Data Programmability Team at Microsoft, contributing to the architecture and design of the next version of ADO.NET and core building block for Microsoft’s exciting new Data Platform; The ADO.NET Entity Framework.  A frequent presenter at Microsoft TechEd, PDC, and other Microsoft events, Michael has also contributed articles to the Microsoft Architectural Journal, CoDe Magazine, and Redmond Developer News.

Tim RayburnTim Rayburn is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti USA and Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server. He has over 10 years of experience developing solutions for clients across the country, and has spoken at many user groups, code camps and conferences including Tulsa TechFest, Houston TechFest and TechEd 2007. Tim is an active blogger on topics related to BizTalk, C#, and the development process. His blog can be found online at TimRayburn.net.

Richard Hale Shaw,
VSLive! Dallas Conference Chair
Richard Hale Shaw is the founder of the Richard Hale Shaw Group, which has consulted and trained software developers since 1993. He's created and chaired numerous technical conferences, including C# Live! and the Black Belt tracks of the VSLive! conference series. An articulate writer and speaker on topics dear to the hearts of software developers and an outspoken critic of broken devtools, Richard specializes in consulting and training on .NET programming in C# and Managed C++. Richard is a member of the INETA () speakers bureau, and for his work supporting C#/.NET software developers, he's been recognized by Microsoft as a C# MVP since 2004. You can reach him at .

Paul Sheriff,
Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc., a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with Developer Days and several of their large events each year. Paul has authored five books on .NET and two on SharePoint in the form of eBooks that can be purchased at the PDSA web site at . Paul can be reached via email at .

Michael Stiefel,
Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, Inc., is a consultant on software architecture and development, and the alignment of information technology with business goals. His current work involves: Training in service oriented and distributed applications development, software best practices, in .NET, C#, Web services, C++ and SQL Server. Advising on IT strategy and planning, including budgeting, hiring and growth management. Design and implementation service based applications including Web services. Requirements analysis, project plan development, and design document development. Expert Witness for intellectual property cases. He is currently a member of the OASIS Technical Committee developing a core SOA Reference Model and related Reference Architectures. In July 2006, Stiefel was named a Microsoft Visual Developer - Solutions Architect MVP. You can find more information about him at .

David Walker,
David Walker is the current President of the Tulsa Developers .NET users group and founder and President of the Tulsa SQL Server Group and Tulsa Java Developers. He has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winnercomm, Inc. and IBM Global Services. In March 2007, he returned to Winnercomm as Manager of Technical Architecture and was promoted to Manager of Software Development and Technical Architecture in June 2007. He is the President of his own growing consulting business Professional Business Technologies, Inc.

He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He became a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET in July 2007.