MIX Videos

• Nate Koechley
  Nate Koechley is a Yahoo! front end engineer and designer based in San Francisco’s Mission district. When he’s not helping design and build the open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library he edits the YUIBlog, promotes accessibility, defines Yahoo! browser support policies, writes occasionally at his personal blog, and presents at conferences around the globe.

• Robby Ingebretsen
  Robby Ingebretsen is a user experience designer and developer with a singular purpose: making great ideas real. As founder and principal of Pixel Lab, Robby helps clients make stuff -- especially the sort of stuff that gets made from the unique full-bodied blend of a little design love and little engineering kung-fu.

• Robby Ingebretsen
  Robby Ingebretsen is a user experience designer and developer with a singular purpose: making great ideas real. As founder and principal of Pixel Lab, Robby helps clients make stuff -- especially the sort of stuff that gets made from the unique full-bodied blend of a little design love and little engineering kung-fu.
• Mike Hillberg
• Jaime Rodriguez
  Jaime Rodriguez is aTechnical Evangelist in Microsoft’s Client Evangelism team. Jaime’s passion is great software architecture, he has been doing if for 15 years and has covered it all (from C++ on linux, to J2EE, to .NET). Jaime’s current mission is to show customers how easy it is to accomplish both great software architecture and amazing user experiences using Windows Presentation Foundation. You can follow Jaime’s musings at http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer.

• Steve Zheng
  Steve Zheng, Ph.D., Chief Software Architect, Head of Tencent Research. Before joining Tencent, he worked in Microsoft, Redmond, for eight years. Dr. Zheng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking Univeristy, and Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, majored in Computer Science.

• Julien Codorniou
  Bizspark Project Manager, formerly EBT lead in France for 3 years.

• Jonathan Zuck

• Matt Smith
  Matt Smith is a recognized digital media industry evangelist and speaker. He presently serves are Senior Director, Systems Architecture for Inlet Technologies. In this role, Smith works closely with premier customers and partners, helping them deploy their digital media strategy quickly and successfully while reducing risks and avoiding pitfalls. Prior to Inlet, Matt most recently served as a key video architect and evangelist for Yahoo!, where he worked for 9 years designing, delivering and managing leading-edge video compression technologies and workflows to execute live events and create other digital media offerings. He was also responsible for working closely with technology partners like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and others, and has been a featured speaker at a variety of video and technology conferences and events. Prior to Yahoo!, Smith spent several years at NBC, first at the affiliate level and later with the network.
• Robert Ames
  Robert Ames (B.S. C.S. / UT Dallas) has extensive experience with internet-related companies and technologies. Mr. Ames has had the good fortune of delivering a complete ecommerce community site with a start up as well as development, testing, and optimization of existing Top 100 internet destinations. Mr. Ames currently works with video delivery at Yahoo!, the number one trafficked site on the internet.

• Dr. Neil Roodyn
  English born, Dr. Neil travels the world working with software companies. He loves Australia, where he spends the summer enjoying the Sydney lifestyle and helping software development teams get more productive. Dr. Neil spends his other summer each year flying between northern Europe and the USA working with software teams and writing about his experiences. Over the last couple of decades Neil has worked with a variety of companies including Synon, ComputaCenter, SLK, EDI, Citect, Microsoft and Rogue Wave. Neil has also been involved in the formation of several software start-ups. Neil brings his business and technical skills to the companies he works with to ensure he has happy customers. Dr. Neil has been closely associated with leading edge technologies for the last ten years. This started with adopting, using and then teaching C++ in the early 1990’s. Then in 1995 getting to grips with the details of COM and travelling around Europe teaching and mentoring development teams. Since 1999 Neil has been involved with the agile development movement, especially eXtreme Programming, which he has been using to help teams get more out of their development lifecycle. In the last 3 years Neil has been leading the push to .NET, by running several .NET projects and teaching .NET courses. Dr. Neil’s mobile lifestyle has lead him into the realm of mobile platforms and in the last couple of years Neil has been helping developers with mobile related development, including the Tablet PC, Pocket PC and Smartphone. Neil studied Software Architectures for Real Time Systems at University College London, for which he received a PhD. Neil also formed Sydney's eXtreme Programming Activity Club ( SyXPAC ). Download a presentation on Neil's capabilities.

• Celso Gomes
• Christian Schormann
  Christian Schormann is the Group Program Manager for Expression Blend, responsible for product planning and definition of Expression Blend and Design, and for long term product strategy of the Expression suite as a whole. Christian brings to Microsoft his background in high-end video editing and compositing systems (including Jaleo, Softimage|DS, and Avid Liquid). He has also been involved with 3D animation and music software. He has been involved with many aspects of software development hands-on, including product design, development, various levels of management, CTO-style work, and business and strategy planning.

• Christian Thilmany
  Christian Thilmany is a User Experience Architect for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corporation. He has been with Microsoft for over 10 years and has more than 19 years experience working as an architect, developer, and designer. Christian has worked with a variety of ISVs and Fortune 500 firms in fields such as user experience, design patterns, rich internet applications, composite applications, distributed application architectures, collaboration, and integration. When he is not working he enjoys scuba diving, snow skiing, and spending time with his family along with his two fat English Bulldogs. Christian is a published author for Addison Wesley and has been a frequent contributor to Java Developer's Journal and MSDN Magazine. You can follow him at blogs.flyover18.com, blogs.flyover18.com/christhi, and www.twitter.com/uxarchitect.
• Chris Bernard
  Chris Bernard is a User Experience Evangelist for Microsoft. A champion of making design a first class citizen in the world of software and Web development Chris works closely with designers, Web agencies, entrepreneurs, and start-ups to discover new business value at the intersection of business, technology and design. Chris spent the last 16 years working in the realms of broadcast, motion graphics, interactive, application and Web development holding previous roles as a Creative Director and Practice Leader in the Centers for e-business Innovation at IBM and in numerous design director and strategy roles in interactive and broadcast focused entities. A passionate advocate for advancing the practice and discipline of design Chris has been published in International Design Magazine and an upcoming article about innovation in the enterprise that will appear in the Journal of Business Strategy. You can follow him at www.deisgnthinkingdigest, and www.twitter.com/chrisbernard.

• Tyler Simpson
• Steve Guttman
  Steve Guttman is the Product Unit Manager for Expression Web at Microsoft where he oversees the product’s Development, Test and Program Management groups. Steve has been kicking around the graphics, multimedia and Internet industries for some years. He was the original product manager for Adobe Photoshop, and eventually managed Product Marketing for all of Adobe’s Macintosh graphics applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Dimensions and Streamline. Steve joined Fractal Design Corporation in 1994 as its VP of Marketing, where he launched the first version of Expression, and later did a stint as VP of Product Marketing for Macromedia’s Multimedia and Internet products group, where he helped develop the product strategy for Dreamweaver. He also helped launch one of the first photo communities at Zing.com in 1998. In 1999 Steve started Halfbrain.com, the first company to build and launch a browser-based spreadsheet and presentation program—over 6 years before Google’s initiative. Most recently, he worked at Autodesk, overseeing Product Management for its GIS and Civil Engineering products.

• Douglas Olson
  Douglas K. Olson is General Manager of the Expression Blend and Design products at Microsoft. With over 16 years of leadership experience at Adobe and Macromedia, he brings to Microsoft an extensive background in inspiring and driving the development of foundational products in the Creative Professional market. These products include Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady and Macromedia Authorware and Sitespring. Doug holds a degree in Business Management from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
• Christian Schormann
  Christian Schormann is the Group Program Manager for Expression Blend, responsible for product planning and definition of Expression Blend and Design, and for long term product strategy of the Expression suite as a whole. Christian brings to Microsoft his background in high-end video editing and compositing systems (including Jaleo, Softimage|DS, and Avid Liquid). He has also been involved with 3D animation and music software. He has been involved with many aspects of software development hands-on, including product design, development, various levels of management, CTO-style work, and business and strategy planning.

• Jennifer Smith
  Jennifer Smith is vice president of Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI), the training division of Aquent. Jennifer is the author of more than ten books on electronic publishing, including Dummies books on Web, interactive, and digital imaging software. She has more than two decades of design experience and delivers training for interactive, web, and creative organizations around the world. Prior to founding AGI she worked in advertising as an art director. Jennifer bridges the gap between technical and creative, working easily with both developers and designers. She has a unique ability to translate technical skills to address business issues, allowing organizations to use creative technology to achieve their business objectives. She developed the first ever Silverlight for Designers training program, which has been presented at interactive agencies around the world and also for designers at Microsoft’s headquarters. Jennifer’s has also created many Silverlight training tutorials that prepare users for the PhizzPop Design Challenge.
• Fred Gerantabee
  Fred Gerantabee is an Emmy award winning interactive designer, web developer and author based in New York City, and serves as training manager for Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI). Prior to joining Aquent, Fred was an interactive producer with ABC/Disney Interactive, working on ITV applications for hit shows such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the Academy Awards and Toon Disney’s JETIX Cards Live. Fred is the author of several books web and interactive technologies, and works extensively in helping bridge the gap between designers and developers. You can find his tutorials on the PhizzPop Design Challenge site as he dissects some of his Silverlight video game projects, helping users understand how to customize and skin games. While he geeks-out with the best developers creating Silverlight and other interactive projects, he gets his creative juices cranking with his guitar and band as he plays weekend gigs around New York City.

• Anthony Franco
  Anthony Franco is the president of EffectiveUI, the leading provider of rich Internet, desktop and mobile applications for Fortune 1000 companies. He has an extensive background in providing award-winning RIAs and user experience consulting to Enterprise companies. An industry veteran with 10+ years of experience, Anthony began developing RIAs for Warner Brothers in 1998. He has also authored several industry white papers and articles, including an Adobe Flex business guide published by O’Reilly Media. EffectiveUI’s client portfolio includes Ford Motor Company, Dow Jones, GE, Adobe, United Airlines, NBC Universal and Discovery Networks.

• Allan Li
  Allan Li is the founder and lead creative development for Next Experience Interactive(http://www.nxmix.com) which provides its clients the highest quality digital marketing, software ,and rich application solutions. Allan is a Microsoft Expression MVP. He has 10 years experience in web and software design. With his wide range of skills in both design and development, he is passionate about design, usability, technology and delivery of next-generation web application solutions.
• Ken Azuma
  Ken Azuma has dedicated the most of his work life to Rich　Internet Application development project using various RIA technologies. He is working like catalyst to blend the designer, developer and business decision maker areas of RIA project. After years of considering how developers and designers can work together to deliver a high quality product, Ken's perspective on RIA development has widened from that of a programmer to that of an architect. Ken inspires talented people from across the developer and designer communities with his vision of RIAs and the possibilities they offer. As senior experience architect at 2ndFACTORY Japan, his enthusiasm for Rich Internet Application will result in more bridges being built between the designer and developer worlds and more inspirational RIAs when the talents of these two groups are brought together. And now he convinced about importance of business Aspect of RIA, is thinking about project workflow and results that be appreciated by business decision maker, too.

• Daren May
• Paul Dawson
  Paul joined EMC Conchango in 1999, having been in the Internet and multimedia industry since 1995. His vision was to create a single team capable of user experience, design and build, as his belief was that only by understanding all of these areas can you create experiences that truly delight and actually do something useful. This is his second appearance at MIX, since his session “Virgins, Spaceships and Hobnailed boots”, which looked at the philosophy and process of Total Experience Design and was so well received that he couldn’t stay away. He now works at a strategic level with companies like Virgin Atlantic, Tesco, Nectar, Virgin Mobile, News International and Associated Newspapers to deliver user-focused innovation on new technology.

• Nishant Kothary
  Nishant is a Senior Evangelist at Microsoft where, depending on the time of day, he plays developer, designer, marketer or some convoluted combination of the three. He is very passionate about the Web and UX and has a better part of his career innovating on all things related to those two topics. Before joining Microsoft, Nishant worked as a Program Manager at Amazon.com where he was instrumental in the launch of Amazon’s 35th product category, Amazon Unbox Video Downloads. He then spent some time working on the Amazon Kindle team. Prior to that, Nishant developed and taught courses at Purdue University on subjects ranging from web design fundamentals to object oriented programming in Flash, and also coauthored a couple of books on Flash. Nishant has an educational background that marries design and computer science; he holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science & Interactive Media Design from Purdue University. He helps organize and presents at national and international conferences on computer graphics, web technologies and design, such as, the annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, Conference on Designing for User Experience, Webmaster Jam Session, MIX, Web Design World and others. Nishant lives in Kirkland, WA with his wife Pita, their extremely vocal tabbies, Izzy and Mango, and Yoshi, their Weimaraner puppy. You can also find him at www.rainypixels.com.

• Dan Harrelson
  Dan Harrelson is a senior technologist at Adaptive Path. He has an extensive background in web application development, IT administration, systems analysis, and design. He has over 10 years of technical and business experience, with expertise in all aspects of architecting and coding online media. Dan's unique understanding of both design and back-end systems allows him to help clients realize their product's full potential. Prior to joining Adaptive Path, Dan was the Director of Technology at Extractable where he directed the technical aspects of all projects as well as developing front-end applications and back-end management tools. He was also a senior web developer for Cable & Wireless, designing and overseeing much of the development of the international telecom's corporate web site as well as a web developer for Nortel Networks. Past clients include Charles Schwab, EA, Vivendi, FedEx, Sun, Visa, and SanDisk. Dan graduated with a bachelor's in Graphic Communication from Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo.

• Peter Eckert
  Peter is regarded as a visionary in User Experience Design by many of the top product and software companies in the world. As Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of projekt202, Peter has helped many Fortune 500 companies implement a meaningful User Experience Design process into their organizations. He has directed award winning efforts for SAP, Charles Schwab, Sabre, Motorola, Dell, Microsoft, Thompson Financials, Vignette, Buffalo, LeGrand, Logitech, Tektronix, Deloitte and many more. Peter aspired with projekt202 to build a unique environment that fosters creativity, provides a platform for innovation while delivering world class and award winning design solutions in an affordable manner to projekt202’s clients.. Before building projekt202, Peter was the Creative Director for frog design, inc. in Austin, TX. During his five years at frog, Peter directed efforts for SAP, i2 Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, Symantec, Halliburton, Hire.com and many other well-known companies. While studying in Germany, Peter was president of WATCH GMBH., a design firm he founded in Cologne, Germany. His client list included DaimlerChrysler, SMART, ZDF, Spiegel, the Swiss bank SBG, and a number of other prominent companies throughout Europe. A graduate of KISD in Cologne, Germany, Peter also studied Design at Arizona State University.
• Jeff McLean
  Jeffrey McLean is the Director of Design Technology at projekt202 in Austin, TX. He was an early adopter of WPF and Expression Blend, having worked with these technologies since the first public Betas. He brings over 14 years of pertinent experience and blurs the line between creativity and technology. Prior to his experience with WPF, he worked in the Film industry at Rhythm & Hues Studios in Los Angeles. There he held many roles including: Compositor, CG Supervisor, and Technology Lead. He is credited on many feature films including, Superman Returns and Harry Potter. His design and programming skills were fostered at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received a B.S. in Computers and Multimedia, a self-designed Major based on Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Art classes. Jeff also held positions as Art Director and Print/Broadcast Designer for companies on both the East and West coasts.

• Lou Carbone
  Recognized as the thought leader who launched the Experience Management movement with the seminal article he co-authored with Stephan Haeckel in 1994, Lou has worked with firms like Avis, Penske Truck Rental and Leasing, IBM. Capitol One, Allstate Insurance, Caribou Coffee, Taco Bell, Brinker International, HR Block, CarMax, Mayo Clinic, Best Buy, RBC, Oskar Mobil (Vodaphone) and many others.

• Johnny Lee
  Johnny Chung Lee is a Researcher at Microsoft Applied Sciences. He is a recent graduate of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a winner of Technology Review’s TR35. Johnny’s past research has explored a variety of input and output technologies, ranging from multi-touch systems, spatially augmented reality, haptics, immersive audio, to brain-computer interfaces. A theme throughout his work has been to increase the accessibility and reach of interactive technology. His recent projects with the Nintendo Wii remote have startled and inspired the education and gaming communities, demonstrating simple, yet powerful ideas that are readily accessible to millions of people around the world.

• Bill Scott
  Bill Scott has always enjoyed technology (25 years). And he has always enjoyed people (even longer). It was a natural to blend the two loves together. For a long time he couldn't decide if he was a designer or an engineer. He finally gave up trying to classify himself and just decided to live in both worlds as much as possible. This passion has led him to found user experience teams (Sabre), build Ajax frameworks (OpenRico) lead engineering organizations (Netflix), found design pattern libraries (Yahoo!), talk a lot about it (Ajax Evangelist) and even write a book about Designing Web Interfaces (O'Reilly).

• Joseph Fletcher
  Joe Fletcher is a User Experience Manager at Microsoft Surface and a recognized international speaker. He holds design to three core principles; Connection & Communication, Altering & Adapting behaviors, and Equivalent Exchange. His current passion is looking deeper into touch, gesture, and social computing. When not working on Microsoft Surface or traveling, he’s reading up on design and culture. He also enjoys finding parallels between the Design profession and the oddest of fields.

• Dan Roam
  Dan Roam is the bestselling author of THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN: SOLVING PROBLEMS AND SELLING IDEAS WITH PICTURES. Amazon rated THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN the # 5 business book of 2008, while BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and the London Times all voted it the best creativity and innovation book of the year. Dan has helped leaders at Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Boeing, and the United States Senate solve complex problems through visual thinking. Dan and his whiteboard have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News, and NPR.

• Luke Wrobleski
  LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 600 million people. He is currently Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. where he leads the design of the world's most accessed Web page (Yahoo.com) and many other popular products including My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Buzz. Luke is the author of two popular Web design books: Web Form Design (2008) and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (2002). He also publishes Functioning Form, a leading online publication for interaction designers. Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products (such as eBay Express and Kijiji) and internal tools and processes. He also foundedLukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy, taught interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

• Aaron Adams

• Tony Jones
  Tony Jones is a Technology Director for Razorfish (Atlanta) and the team lead for the Razorfish Content Management Center of Excellence. With over 10 years of experience in the Interactive space, Tony has worked with small and enterprise customers building large scale web applications on the .NET platform and family of servers. Prior to joining Razorfish in 2005, Tony was an Application Development consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services. Tony holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.

• Chris Auld
  You can usually find Chris Auld at events around the world by walking up the stack from his crazy yellow shoes. Chris is the Director of Strategy and Innovation (and too much travel) at Intergen, a Microsoft specialist consultancy based out of New Zealand. Chris travels the world enthusing others about technology. Trained as a lawyer but quickly realizing that it wasn’t much fun- he instead spent his formative years architecting Software as a Service applications for a Dot Com era company and building factory automation systems that to this day make some of the finest chocolate bars in the world. Chris has expertise that spans the Microsoft platform from the new Azure Platform to mainstay enterprise products such as Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM. As a Microsoft Regional Director Chris spends a bunch of time working with the development community around the world and providing their feedback up to Microsoft. In his spare time Chris enjoys adventure sports such as whitewater kayaking, mountain biking and back-country skiing as well as playing records on turntables to throngs of enthusiastic party goers or usually just to the dog.

• Corrina Black
  Corrina Black is the lead designer for the Silverlight platform and has recently been focused on understanding the unique value Silverlight enables for business applications.

• Joel K. Neubeck
  Joel Neubeck currently serves as Terralever’s Director of Technology, leading a talented, multi-disciplined team of software engineers and interactive developers. His diverse background includes experience in ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, digital print and image processing as well as service-oriented web development. Joel was recently named one of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) for Client Application Development, specifically his work for Microsoft Silverlight.

• Paul Cutsinger
  Paul Cutsinger is the Lead Program Manager for the Internet Explorer user experience. Prior to this, he worked on the Vista shell and it’s search & organize features.

• Jason Burby
  Jason Burby is the Chief Analytics & Optimization Officer for ZAAZ, a Web business design consultancy specializing in thoughtful, data-driven solutions across a wide industry spectrum for long-term, multi-national clients across the U.S. Jason is also co-author of “’Actionable Web Analytics: Using Data to Make Smart Business Decisions,” the leading text in the field of Web analytics. His primary role at ZAAZ is guiding clients through the process of implementing a variety of Web analytics tools, such as site performance monetization, scorecards, and A/B & Multivariate testing, to improve site business results, leverage new-found efficiencies and realize long-term business goals. His client roster includes Microsoft, Nike, eTrade, Ford, Sony, PayPal/eBay, Palm, Williams Sonoma, Expedia, Reuters, T-Mobile, Converse, Intel and Motorola, among others. He is a frequent lecturer at conferences and seminars around the world as the Web industry’s leading advocate in Web analytics and the effective use of visitor data toward improved site performance. In addition to the book, he has written extensively about Web analytics and its implications in the future Internet as a contributor to a number of texts over the years. In addition he has written a regular column on ClickZ.com on Web Strategy & Web Analytics for the past 5 years.
• Ryan Turner
  Ryan Turner leads social media efforts for ZAAZ, an interactive marketing agency implementing web channel strategies for clients around the US. Combining business analysis with customer research and leading-edge creative, Ryan develops marketing strategies and web architectures for companies leading the way in responding to the shifting media landscape. He’s worked with Boeing, Microsoft, Helio, Tom’s of Maine, REI, Converse, Sony, and others to find innovative ways to engage customers in co-creating value. Ryan blogs at www.websocialarchitecture.com.

• Stephan Hoefnagels
  Stephan Hoefnagels is a Senior UX Designer on the Windows team and is one of the key designers behind many of the new Windows 7 desktop features including the new taskbar, Aero Peek and Aero Snap. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, Stephan spent some time at Philips in the Netherlands, and Hewlett-Packard in the UK. Stephan received his master’s degree cum laude in Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2003.

• Peter Blois

• Joanna Mason
  Joanna Mason is a Program Manager for Expression Blend and Expression Design focusing on graphics, animation and user-experience. Enabling artists, designers and animators with powerful tools to create engaging content and interactive experiences has been at the center of Joanna's career focus for 12 years. She has worked on a variety of software applications including authoring tools for interactive applications, multi-player gaming, computer animation and special effects. In the Research and Development group at PDI/Dreamworks, Joanna created software used for feature films such as Shrek and Antz. Joanna started her career at the location based entertainment company Virtual World Entertainment helping develop titles such as BattleTech and Red Planet. Joanna earned her MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago. She also received her BA in Computer Science from Lake Forest college.

• Joshua Allen

• Shawn Konopinsky
  Shawn Konopinsky is an award-winning team leader with a passion for finding creative software solutions to business problems and head of Infusion’s User Experience practice. He has extensive experience working with clients to understand their business needs and translating them into effective and engaging interfaces. His skills were honed as a Program Manager for Microsoft Office before joining Infusion in 2006. Shawn has been a specialist in the field of interactive interface design for over five years and has been focused on Microsoft Surface since the release of Surface in 2007. Shawn holds a BSc in Computer Science with a focus on Human/Computer Interaction from University of Toronto.

• Bill Buxton
  Bill Buxton is the author of, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, published jointly by Morgan Kaufmann and Focal Press. He is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and has a 30 year involvement in research, design and commentary around human aspects of technology, and digital tools for creative endeavour, including music, film and industrial design, in particular. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc. – where 2003 he was co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement. In 2007, he was named Doctor of Design, Honoris Causa, by the Ontario College of Art and Design, in 2008 became the 10th recipient of the ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, and in January 2009 was elected a Fellow of the ACM. More information on Buxton and his work can be found at: www.billbuxton.com

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• Scott Guthrie
  Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the Web. Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

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• Deborah Adler
  Motivated by a desire to make people’s lives easier and safer, Deborah Adler designed a comprehensive system for packaging prescription medicine as her master’s thesis. The result—a completely reinvented prescription bottle and label. She brought this innovation to Target, and together they developed the ClearRx system. Adler continues to deliver new directions in products, packaging, labeling, identity and information systems through her multi-disciplinary design studio Deborah Adler LLC. There she pioneers design solutions for clients such as Target, Johnson and Johnson, and Medline in addition to exploring and developing her own projects. Always at the heart of her work is the belief that design can change people’s behavior. Prior to forming her firm in 2007, Adler was a senior designer for Milton Glaser for five years where she provided guidance to clients seeking new avenues in visual communications, signage programs and brand identity. Many prominent media outlets including New York Magazine, Glamour Magazine, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Sunday Morning have featured Adler. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt as part of the National Design Triennial and as a solo exhibition From Master’s Thesis to Medicine Cabinet. Adler received her Master of Fine Arts in Design from The School of Visual Arts in 2002.

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• Dean Hachamovitch
  Dean Hachamovitch is responsible for the design, development, and release of Internet Explorer. His passion is delivering trustworthy software that customers love. He joined Microsoft in 1990, helping lead the development and release of several versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

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• Todd Holmquist-Sutherland
• John Shewchuk
  John Shewchuk, a Microsoft Technical Fellow, leads the architecture and strategy teams focused on extending Microsoft’s .NET application development technologies to the Internet “cloud.” Shewchuk works in Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division (CSD) where he leads the technical strategy team. Over the last several years Shewchuk and his team have developed a wide range of Internet-based application messaging and identity federation technologies. Additionally, he was a co-founder of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) team and has been a key contributor to cross-industry interoperability initiatives. Working in conjunction with others on his team, Shewchuk developed Web services specifications and managed technical collaborations with IBM, Sun, SAP, and many others. He also has been a key leader and contributor to Microsoft’s efforts in federated identity, access control, and privacy. Previously, Shewchuk worked on Microsoft's development tools and runtimes and played a key role in the development of Visual Studio and .NET. Earlier in his career, he played a role in the development of many Internet technologies including stylesheets, browser behaviors and Web server controls. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/techfellow/Shewchuk/default.mspx

• Justin Smith
  Justin Smith is a Senior Program Manager in the .NET Services team. His focus is on the ‘Access Control’ feature area in Azure Services Platform. An expert on building distributed applications, Justin was a former developer evangelist at Microsoft. He was also a former trainer and consultant at Wintellect where he helped develop the Windows Communication Foundation course for professional developers. Justin regularly speaks at industry and user-group events, including DevWeek and MSDN Code Camp. http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/authors/auth9610.aspx

• Clemens Vasters
  Clemens Vasters works as a Senior Technical Lead in the .NET Services team and is responsible for the 'Service Bus' feature area of Microsoft's Azure Services Platform. Before joining Microsoft some 2 1/2 years ago, Clemens spoke at many conferences, taught technology, and helped companies with software architecture in over 35 countries. Since joining Microsoft, Clemens has mostly been in 'stealth mode' and worked on the WCF, Oslo, and the Cloud Services Platform teams. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB38/

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• Nigel Ellis
  Nigel Ellis is responsible for the design, development, and release of SQL Data Services. His passion extends to all things data and ensuring the delivery of trustworthy, highly reliable data storage systems. Nigel joined Microsoft in 1993 where he initially focused on delivery of desktop database software and later as a founding member of the SQL Server 7.0 team where he’s been working since. Nigel likes to “roll up the sleeves” and jump into the trenches to get the job done. He’s particularly passionate about problems that most people would shy away from and has found his match in the Services space.

• Manuvir Das
  Manuvir Das is a Director in the Windows Azure product group at Microsoft, where he leads the Developer Experience team. The role of this team is to translate the functionality provided by the service components of Windows Azure into a familiar, intuitive, and cohesive platform for service developers. Manuvir has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in Programming Languages. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington.

• Brad Calder
  Brad Calder is Director/Architect of Windows Azure storage, which provides massively scalable, highly available and durable storage for the cloud. Before Microsoft he was a Professor at University of California, San Diego in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and a co-founder of three startup companies: Entropia Inc., TracePoint Inc., and Bit-Raker Inc. He received his undergraduate degrees from University of Washington and his graduate degree from University of Boulder, Colorado.

• Steve Marx
  Steve Marx is a Technical Strategist on Windows Azure. He has worked at Microsoft for the past seven years, focusing on developers platforms and web technologies. He blogs at http://smarx.com.

• Ron Jacobs
  Ron Jacobs is a Sr. Technical Evangelist in the Microsoft Platform Evangelism group based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington. Ron's evangelism is focused on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Since 1999 Ron has been a product and program manager on various Microsoft products including the .Net Framework, Windows Communication Foundation and COM+. A top-rated conference speaker, author and podcaster, Ron brings over 20 years of industry experience to his role of helping Microsoft customers and partners to build architecturally sound and secure applications

• Chris Sells
• Douglas Purdy
  Douglas Purdy is a product unit manager (Silicon Valley translation: Director of Engineering) at Microsoft working on next-generation languages and tools to broaden the franchise of people building applications. His vision is to “to make everyone a programmer (even if they don’t know it)”. Previously, Douglas was the group program manager for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF/Indigo), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF/WinOE), ASP.Net Web Services (ASMX) and .Net Remoting teams. Douglas has been with Microsoft, on and off, since 1998 where he has worked in consulting, evangelism and engineering.

• Jeff Paries
  As a Sr. Digital Experience Developer, Jeff Paries is the lead Silverlight developer with Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a leading integrated communications company. Jeff has a strong background in 3D graphics and animation. Jeff is also an accomplished author and instructor in the area of 3D graphics and animation — he has authored several books and numerous magazine articles related to 3D. An early adopter of Silverlight, Jeff’s interests lie in developing animation concepts and methodologies within Silverlight. As a developer with design experience, Jeff’s mission is to help bridge the gap between design and development. His latest book, “Foundation Silverlight Animation” works to further this goal through a scenario-based approach.

• Laurent Bugnion
  Laurent works as a senior user experience developer for IdentityMine, one of the leading companies for Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Surface, Windows 7 and generally User Experience. In October 2008, Laurent wrote the book "Silverlight 2 Unleashed", published at Sams. This book is a complete tutorial about Silverlight. Privately, he codes in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF; and writes on http://www.galasoft.ch where he publishes articles, prototypes and demos related to the mentioned technologies. In 2008, Laurent earned a MCTS for WPF. 2009 is his 3rd year as a Microsoft MVP (Client App Dev).

• Joe Stegman
  Joe Stegman is a Group Program Manager of the Silverlight runtime team and is responsible for delivering technology enabling richer experiences on the web. Prior to working on Silverlight, Joe spent several years as a Lead Program Manager on the Windows Forms team where he focused on the visual designers and the Windows Forms data APIs. Joe has worked at Microsoft since 1998 and spent his first several years as a Microsoft consultant consulting working with large corporations in the development and delivery of e-commerce web sites.

• Shawn Oster

• Karen Corby

• Seema Ramchandani
  Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform’s performance. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build WPF’s Controls and Panel system, and then moved to work on the platform’s hardware acceleration story. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, Seema worked on brain-computer interfaces at Brown.

• Nicholas Brookins
  Nicholas Brookins is a Product Architect at Akamai Technologies, the leading managed services provider for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Nick provides technical design for the Akamai AdaptiveEdge streaming solution, based on Microsoft Smooth Streaming for Silverlight. He is also the lead developer for the Silverlight version of OpenVideoPlayer, an open source project that aims to provide a foundation for stable and scalable web-based video players, available at openvideoplayer.sf.net. Prior to his role at Akamai, Nick was the CTO of SAM Systems, where he played a key role in development of patent-pending methods for improving video quality and efficiency for the company's real-time surveillance video solutions. Aside from software development, Nick enjoys playing guitar and spending time at the beach in San Diego where he lives with his wife and daughter.

• James Clarke
  James Clarke has been a Program Manager on the Expression Encoder team since before V1 shipped. He has an extensive background in digital video and internet media with over 18 years spent in the industry. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, he worked first as a Program Manager at Avid Technology, one of the pioneers of non-linear video editing, and later co-founded Soho, London based ROOT6 Ltd where he was architect and principal developer on the successful ContentAgent encoding product. He is currently co-authoring a book on Expression Encoder for Sams Publishing.

• Jared Eischen
  Jared is a developer with Ascentium, specializing in ASP.NET and Silverlight. His latest work with Microsoft and Crispin stretches across Microsoft.com. He has a large interest in developing strong user experiences through Rich Internet Applications and holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington.
• John Stockton
  John is currently a RIA Developer at Ascentium where he builds Silverlight applications for major companies such as Microsoft and T-Mobile. His career has included building web applications for Fortune 500 companies such as GE, NEC, National City Bank and Sherwin Williams as well as government agencies like the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. John has recently been spreading the virtues of Silverlight by presenting at user groups, code camps and most recently the CodeMash conference. Last fall he also co-authored Silverlight 2 in Action with Chad Campbell.

• Michael Joffe
• Shaun Hirschman

• John Lam
  John works on the Open Source IronRuby compiler at Microsoft. He also helps folks around the company understand how to work together with the Open Source community to make better products for our customers.

• Rachel Appel
  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. She is also a member of the INETA speakers bureau.

• Scott Isaacs
  Scott Isaacs is an Architect on the Cloud and Browser Tools team responsible for the web-client architecture and frameworks. Scott is an internet veteran and during the mid to late 90s authored the original DHTML specification and represented Microsoft in the W3C helping define and drive many Internet standards.

• Jeff King

• Steve Gordon
• Keiji Kanazawa

• Jorgen Thelin

• Luke Shepard
  Luke joined Facebook two years ago, and has worked on various products across the site, most recently on Facebook Connect. He is Facebook’s representative on the OpenID Foundation board. He is passionate about maintaining privacy and making the internet easy to use. Before Facebook he worked at Amazon and went to school at Univ of Chicago.
• John McCrea
• Marc Canter
  Marc Canter, CEO of Broadband Mechanics (BBM) is a 25+ year veteran of the software business. BBM is a boutique social networking design and platform shop - specializing in building systems that support the open stack, custom semi-private networks and strategic thinking. Marc is an advocate of open social networking, open standards and what he calls the 'open mesh'. A speaker and panel moderator at many conferences around the world, Marc is not afraid to ask the hard questions which highlight the desire for users to control their own data and software developers to not be locked into web 1.0 strategies. Marc was the co-founder of MacroMind, which became Macromedia. While with MacroMind Marc helped develop: - the world's first multimedia player - now known as Flash, originally called Shockwave. The original player was the VideoWorks player - first created in Dec. 1984. Every Macintosh shipped with a player disc from 1986. - the world's first multimedia authoring system. Before MacroMind multimedia was created by programming. MacroMind helped introduce (along with Apple's Hypercard) the notion of end-user 'authoring' - where a simple scripting language and a timeline notional system were utilized to get images, sounds, animations and video synchronized and interactive - over time. First available in 1987. - the world's first cross-platform authoring system - popularizing the notion of "author once, play back many places". Content developers could create their interactive applications once, and play them back on Macintoshs or PCs. That was back in 1989. Mentioned in several books, a leading blogger and web personality - Marc is also known as a father of five kids and Reggae enthusiast.
• Kevin Marks
• Monica Keller
• Dare Obasanjo

• Noah Gedrich
  Noah oversees all BLITZ server-side engineering, Flash and Silverlight development, integration practices, functional and technical quality control, and technical project development.  Noah serves as the main Engineering and Software Development contact for the Business Development, Marketing and Account Management groups.  Before joining BLITZ, Noah designed, developed and managed the technical architecture of database-driven movie marketing and social networking community websites both flash and html-based.  His work on the website for the theatrical release of “Terminator 3,” began the trend of using user-generated content in web-based marketing for films.  The culmination of that work was developing the web-based fan club for the cult hit Napoleon Dynamite, which topped 300,000 registered users in 6 months for Fox Searchlight Pictures.   Noah’s work has garnered him numerous Clio, One Show and SXSW awards as well as an Award of Excellence in Communication Arts Interactive Annual.  Noah’s experience ranges through concepting, architecture and development of web sites and site features for clients in fields as varied as automotive, entertainment, finance and consumer product.  He has also been responsible for developing numerous internal business tools as well as budgeting, setting up and maintaining strategic corporate IT initiatives.  Prior to kicking off his “professional” career, he taught web-development to underclassmen at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in his role as a teaching assistant. Noah is also a classically trained violinist and has played in many of the eastern seaboard’s largest concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, The Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
• Ken Martin
  As Chief Creative Officer, Ken is recognized as a thought leader for the experience economy as he works with top brands to identify trends and opportunities, fuse insights with ideas, and redefine the audience’s experience. He works with BLITZ’s top client list to conceptualize results-driven, brand-centric, campaigns and applications that entertain while they inform. With a diehard focus on quality and visual impact, Ken’s purpose is to drive the agency’s creative mind-set and vision from original concepts through final deliveries, setting the strategies for finish-line solutions which deliver measurable results. Ken has been involved in the conceptual development and design of interactive campaigns for clients such as Adobe, Microsoft, Google, GE, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., Electronic Arts, LucasArts and many more. His talents and experience have led to great success for client projects, which have won countless awards including OneShow, KeyArt, London International Advertising Awards, SXSW, Flashforward Film Festival, FWA, ADDYs, HBO Comedy Festival.  Prior to BLITZ, Ken co-founded Silicon Valley-based, eStudio, an innovative interactive content developer. He was instrumental in raising $5M in venture capital. An avid entrepreneur even at age 15, Ken founded SignWorks and sold the business at age 18. Eleven years later, SignWorks is still going strong in the digital sign industry. When not at the office, Ken resides in Southern California with his wife, Ruth, and their three sons, Ethan, Gavin, and Colin. Ken has also been rumored to shred at Guitar Hero.

• Ambrose Little
  Ambrose is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, and works at Infragistics, makers of the world's leading presentation layer tools and components.  He’s an author of numerous articles, co-author of Wrox Silverlight 2, Silverlight 1.0, Professional ADO.NET 2, and ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks, and has spoken at various user groups, events, and conferences.

• Charles Duncan
  Charles Duncan is the Technical Management Director at AKQA. An accomplished interactive technology professional, Charles has  over 10 years experience in technical development management and creative concepting. Charles is focused on technical and creative innovation for brands such as Xbox, Nike, and Gap, earning numerous honors including: Cannes Cyber Lions, Clios, One Show and FlashForward.

• John Keagy
  John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of ServePath, a Managed Hosting provider based in San Francisco that has just launched its new GoGrid cloud computing service. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. ServePath, founded in 2001, serves the critical Internet infrastructure needs of thousands of businesses worldwide from its headquarters and data center facility in San Francisco. In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath’s second growth opportunity. Keagy’s vision became a two year development investment, now GoGrid, the cloud server hosting service launched in March 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced servers in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel. Prior to ServePath, John founded InReach Internet in 1994 and grew it to become the largest profitable Internet Service Provider headquartered in California, with over 35,000 customers. In 1991, John used the Internet to manage the overseas development of software and electro-optical imaging devices for computer and Internet security for biometric security start-up Identicator Technology. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley. He lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot.

• Alessandro Catorcini
  Alessandro Catorcini is a Senior Lead Program Manager on the API team in Live Search. He is responsible for exposing the capabilities of the Live Search engine to developers and facilitating the success of the technology’s adopters. Catorcini joined Microsoft in 2000 as a Technical Program Manager working on the XML features for NetDocs and Office InfoPath design-time. In 2004, he moved to the Common Language Runtime team of .NET, where he was responsible for the managed code reliability features and for the support of major partners adopting .NET technology. Prior to working at Microsoft, Catorcini worked as a Software Architect at Rina Spa in the shipbuilding industry. At this company, he designed the application for ship classification and built a cutting-edge editorial system. His background in this industry stemmed from his duty as a Technical Officer in the Weapon Engineering Corps of the Italian Navy. Catorcini was in charge of the validation and testing of the deliveries from the private sector to the Navy, including the fitting of new constructions and the refitting of existing vessels. Catorcini graduated from the University of Genoa in Italy with a degree in Electronic Engineering. In his spare time, he is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with his son.

• Chris Pendleton
  Chris Pendleton is the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Pendleton has been with Microsoft for over 6 years and has been in the location-based services and GIS industry for over 10 years. Mr. Pendleton specializes in all things Virtual Earth and Microsoft geospatial including, but not limited to technological deep dives, web and mobile application architecture and development, licensing arrangements and 3rd party revenue opportunities. Mr. Pendleton has a long history of application development, architecture, consulting and deployment of large scale web-based applications, especially those using geospatial intelligence. Mr. Pendleton also authors the Virtual Earth Blog on MSDN. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from San Diego State University.

• Gilbok Lee
  As CTO, of Huge Flow Corporation, Gilbok Lee is leading RIA Service Team, and his team focuses on Silverlight and Mashups (esp. Live Map), trying to apply those to SNS. Prior to founding Huge Flow, he studied Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University and worked for PCB Industries for 5 years as an MFC Programmer developing PCB CAD/CAM. For pleasure, he enjoys putting boiled rice into milk.
• Miho Heo
  The Product/PJT manager of Hugeflow - MIHO, with years of industry experience, had worked in product planning & development for Samsung electronics and was responsible for Yahoo! Korea international PM. Also she founded weenu Inc. (Art community) in 2006.

• Pablo Castro

• Yochay Kiriaty
  Yochay Kiriaty is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, focusing on Windows 7. He has more than a decade of experience in Software development, and as written and taught academic Computer Science courses in various Colleges.

• James Conard

• Mark Wilson-Thomas
  Mark is a Program Manager on the "Cider" team, which builds the WPF and Silverlight Designers in Visual Studio. He is responsible for the layout and visual designer features of the designer. Prior to joining developer division Mark worked in Microsoft Services as a Development Lead, building large scale web-based UIs for the UK Government, the BBC and others.
• Kevin Gjerstad

• Brad Abrams
  Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the Application Framework team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that powers breadth Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework.  Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework and Windows Forms.  Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library).  Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard.     Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.    Brad graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Science.  Find recent musings from Brad on his blog at:http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA/

• Nikhil Kothari
  Nikhil Kothari is a software architect in the .NET Developer Platform group within Developer Division at Microsoft. During his 10 years at Microsoft, Nikhil has focused on the Web platform, and has contributed to the design and development of .NET and ASP.NET since their inception, as well as various features in IIS7 and Visual Studio products. He is responsible for the server control framework in ASP.NET, initiated and led the development of ASP.NET AJAX, and now plays a key role in the programming model aspects of the Silverlight platform. He is the author of "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components", and is also responsible for starting and working on a number of innovative projects such as Web Matrix, Script#, Web Development Helper, and most recently Facebook.NET. He has presented at various Microsoft and industry conferences. Beyond a deep passion for developer tools and frameworks, Nikhil is enthusiastic and interested in digital photography. His blog is athttp://www.nikhilk.net.

• Eugene Osovetsky

• Alex Zambelli
  Alex Zambelli is a Media Technology Evangelist for Microsoft. Most recently his focus has been on Web media strategies and consulting on key Silverlight partner deployments such as NBC Olympics 2008 and Akamai SmoothHD. Alex has been closely involved with digital media technology development at Microsoft for over 6 years. He tested and developed software on product teams that delivered Windows Media Player 9, Windows Media Player 10 Mobile and VC-1 codecs before finally putting his hands-on experience to use as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft VC-1 Encoder. Alex was instrumental in ensuring VC-1 codec's continued adoption and success in the streaming media industry.

• Phil Haack
  Phil Haack is a Senior Program Manager with the ASP.NET team currently focused on the ASP.NET MVC Framework. ASP.NET MVC is being developed in a transparent manner with community involvement and has the goal of embodying and encouraging solid principles of good software design. Phil is a code junkie and loves to both write software and write about software on his blog. In his spare time, he leads the open source Subtext blog engine project.

• Mike Harsh

• Stephen Walther
  Stephen Walther is the author of the best-selling ASP.NET book of all time, ASP.NET Unleashed. He also is the author of the forthcoming book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed. Stephen has lived a year in Borneo, taught classes on metaphysics at Harvard and MIT, help found two very successful startups, and ran a training and consulting company. He is currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where his official title is ASP.NET MVC Ninja.

• David Ebbo

• Stephen Walther
  Stephen Walther is the author of the best-selling ASP.NET book of all time, ASP.NET Unleashed. He also is the author of the forthcoming book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed. Stephen has lived a year in Borneo, taught classes on metaphysics at Harvard and MIT, help found two very successful startups, and ran a training and consulting company. He is currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where his official title is ASP.NET MVC Ninja.

• Scott Hanselman

• Phil Haack
  Phil Haack is a Senior Program Manager with the ASP.NET team currently focused on the ASP.NET MVC Framework. ASP.NET MVC is being developed in a transparent manner with community involvement and has the goal of embodying and encouraging solid principles of good software design. Phil is a code junkie and loves to both write software and write about software on his blog. In his spare time, he leads the open source Subtext blog engine project.

• Crystal Hoyer
• Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec

• Giorgio Sardo
  Giorgio Sardo is a Technical Evangelist in Microsoft Corporation. Moving from Italy to the United States, he studied at Polytechnic of Turin and successfully obtained a Master of Computer Engineering with distinction. Before joining Microsoft, Giorgio leaded a national university community forum in Italy and won the Imagine Cup worldwide championship. He started his experience in Microsoft UK as User Experience Consultant, delivering stunning solutions based on Silverlight, WPF and Mobile and presenting several sessions at Microsoft conferences. In 2008 he has been nominated Best Consultant of the Year from the British Computer Society. Early 2009 Giorgio moved to Redmond, where he currently focuses on Web Client technologies, such as Internet Explorer and ASP.Net AJAX. His blog is blogs.msdn.com/Giorgio.

• John Hrvatin
  John Hrvatin is a lead program manager on the Internet Explorer Team. His work focuses on developer tools and platform performance and he’s spoken at several Microsoft conferences about these and other topics.

• Eric Lawrence
  Eric Lawrence is a Security Program Manager on the Internet Explorer 8 team. He recently spoke at Hack in the Box 2008 and O’Reilly’s Velocity conference. Prior to his current role, Eric was responsible for networking and HTTPS improvements in IE7. Outside of Microsoft, Eric is best known as the developer of the Fiddler web debugging platform, used by security and web professionals worldwide.

• Scott Cairney
• Jean-Yves Martineau
  Jean-Yves Martineau founded Cactus Commerce in 1995 and has in-depth experience in the areas of business development, technology solutions, business consulting and software product development. He is responsible for the company’s strategic vision as well as the software and solution delivery methodology. Mr. Martineau has helped develop e-commerce strategies for enterprise customers and partners such as Microsoft, Cable & Wireless America, PwC Consulting, Avanade and Dell Computer Corp. He is a member of Microsoft's e-Business Partner Advisory Council (PAC), Microsoft's RFID PAC and a founding member of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) PAC. Mr. Martineau has recently joined the EPC Global Software Action Group, which oversees the software applications portion of the emerging RFID market.

• John Bishop
  John Bishop is a co-founder of Inlet Technologies and currently serves as Inlet’s senior VP of strategy and business development. He is recognized as a digital video industry expert with well over a decade of experience in the digital media space. Under Mr. Bishop’s leadership, Inlet has grown from industry pioneer to industry leader, and has developed strong partnerships with other leading companies in the space, including Microsoft, Akamai and Adobe. Mr. Bishop’s strategy at Inlet has been to focus on development of products that offer greater automation, higher media production capacity, greater efficiency and an overall higher quality of media experience. He has emphasized the development of software that minimizes an organization’s need for onsite video encoding expertise. Prior to joining Inlet, John served as the Director of Business Development and Product Management for Osprey Technologies (acquired by ViewCast Corporation). There, he identified and developed key market partnerships and opportunities resulting in multiple consecutive revenue growth quarters. He has contributed to numerous digital media publications, and authored white papers and industry presentations.
• John Bocharov
  John A. Bocharov is a Program Manager on Microsoft's IIS team, with a focus on Smooth Streaming and related Media technologies. After graduating from UC-Berkeley with a degree in Bioengineering, he opted to heed the call of Software and signed on with a small dot-com in San Francisco. He joined Microsoft in 2005 as a part of the Data Programmability team, where he delivered the Data Access Components for Windows Server 2008 and helped define the 1st release of the SQL Server Driver for PHP. John has been in his current Media-focused role for a year. He encourages listeners to follow up on any questions they may have by posting a comment on his blog (http://blogs.iis.net/jboch).

• Thomas Deml

• Vijay Rajagopalan
  Vijay Rajagopalan is a Principal Architect in the Microsoft Interoperability team with the Platform & Interoperability Strategy division at Microsoft. His team is chartered to create & drive Interoperability Initiative across the company. His team collaborates with the Standards & Competitive Strategy teams at Microsoft on a number of projects – some recent interoperability efforts that were driven by his team include the Silverlight Tools for Eclipse, Cross Platform SDK for Azure Services Platform, OpenXML, Federated Identity & CardSpace. Vijay has about 15 years of experience in the enterprise space, has worked with customers and partners such as Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Intel, Fujitsu, Microfocus, Accenture among others; he has been at Microsoft for over 10 years, most of it in the enterprise space and spent 3 years as a Architect for Visual Studio Extensibility. His areas of interest are broadly in Software + Service, Formats & Protocol Interoperability, Federated Identity, data management, Domain Specific Languages, management of metadata and operational management but most of all in driving business value from technology investments.

• Murali Krishnaprasad

• Scott Stanfield
  Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo, a design and development agency in the San Francisco area. In 2008, Microsoft awarded Vertigo the Microsoft Partner of the Year for their ground-breaking Silverlight work on the Hard Rock Memorabilia experience. Other notable Silverlight projects include the Democratic National Convention in 2008, the Presidential Inauguration and CBS March Madness. Oh, and the MIX 2009 site.

• Loke Uei Tan

• Rob Conery

• Jon Flanders
  Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly, as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST, but he sees a bright future for modeling as a way to build complex systems.  He's a Microsoft MVP, and writes and teaches courses for Pluralsight (http://www.pluralsight.com/).  You can read Jon's blog athttp://www.rest-ful.net/.

• Jon Flanders
  Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly, as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST, but he sees a bright future for modeling as a way to build complex systems.  He's a Microsoft MVP, and writes and teaches courses for Pluralsight (http://www.pluralsight.com/).  You can read Jon's blog athttp://www.rest-ful.net/.

• Reed Shaffner
• Chris Auld
  You can usually find Chris Auld at events around the world by walking up the stack from his crazy yellow shoes. Chris is the Director of Strategy and Innovation (and too much travel) at Intergen, a Microsoft specialist consultancy based out of New Zealand. Chris travels the world enthusing others about technology. Trained as a lawyer but quickly realizing that it wasn’t much fun- he instead spent his formative years architecting Software as a Service applications for a Dot Com era company and building factory automation systems that to this day make some of the finest chocolate bars in the world. Chris has expertise that spans the Microsoft platform from the new Azure Platform to mainstay enterprise products such as Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM. As a Microsoft Regional Director Chris spends a bunch of time working with the development community around the world and providing their feedback up to Microsoft. In his spare time Chris enjoys adventure sports such as whitewater kayaking, mountain biking and back-country skiing as well as playing records on turntables to throngs of enthusiastic party goers or usually just to the dog.

• Shawn Wildermuth
  Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has spoken at conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about Silverlight, Oslo, Databases and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com). He is currently teaches workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain (http://agilitrain.com).

• Seema Ramchandani
  Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform’s performance. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build WPF’s Controls and Panel system, and then moved to work on the platform’s hardware acceleration story. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, Seema worked on brain-computer interfaces at Brown.

• John Papa
  John Papa (ASPSOFT), author of book Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly, is a Microsoft C# MVP, INETA speaker, member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for ASPSOFT who specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies. John has written over 60 articles for MSDN Magazine and authored several books on data access technologies including Silverlight, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, WPF, XML, and SQL Server. He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive and DevConnections, and viewed on MSDN Web Casts. You can always find John at johnpapa.net.

• Ward Bell
  Ward Bell is Vice President of Technology at IdeaBlade where he is responsible for the product direction of the DevForce .NET application framework, a product targeting smart client development. That product extends the ADO.NET Entity Framework with n-tier, client caching, and Silverlight support. Ward spent much of the last 30 years programming line-of-business applications for numerous companies including several of the Fortune 100. He is a Solutions Architect MVP. His blog is Never In Doubt.

• James Clarke
  James Clarke has been a Program Manager on the Expression Encoder team since before V1 shipped. He has an extensive background in digital video and internet media with over 18 years spent in the industry. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, he worked first as a Program Manager at Avid Technology, one of the pioneers of non-linear video editing, and later co-founded Soho, London based ROOT6 Ltd where he was architect and principal developer on the successful ContentAgent encoding product. He is currently co-authoring a book on Expression Encoder for Sams Publishing.

• Brandon Bray
  Brandon Bray is Senior Program Manager Lead in the Common Language Runtime and responsible for the foundations of the .NET technology stack. His team works on the garbage collector, code generators (JIT, NGEN), concurrency, operating system features, and the Core CLR. Bray has been working in Microsoft's Developer Division for eight years, and most notably designed the C++/CLI programming language.

• Alex Turner
  Alex Turner is a Program Manager at Microsoft. He works on compilers and keeps himself busy between VB, C#, and the Dynamic Language Runtime. Alex graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.

• Mark Wilson-Thomas
  Mark is a Program Manager on the "Cider" team, which builds the WPF and Silverlight Designers in Visual Studio. He is responsible for the layout and visual designer features of the designer. Prior to joining developer division Mark worked in Microsoft Services as a Development Lead, building large scale web-based UIs for the UK Government, the BBC and others.

• John Scarrow

• Chris Parker

• Gregory Renard
  Gregory Renard, known under the nickname of Redo within the French .NET communities, is recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP since many years. Gregory began its career into 96 in the university research on the new technologies. Creating its first company in 1997 in the Web Development, he is in parallel in charge of university courses on the .NET development and new Technologies. Today, Gregory is CTO and director for Research and Innovation within the research department and .NET expertise of Wygwam company of which he is cofounder. Gregory’s working daily on .NET architectures and futurology usages based on Microsoft technologies like Azure Services Platform, Live Agents, Live Mesh, Microsoft Surface, … Gregory’s blog : http://blogs.developpeur.org/redo/

• Tim Aidlin
  Tim Aidlin came to Microsoft with years of freelance and agency experience in the Seattle area, designing next-generation consumer and e-commerce websites. Now a UX Designer for MIX Online, with his team, Tim looks toward the horizon to discover and explore emerging web scenarios, creates software prototypes around these scenarios, and open-sources the designs and code to the community … all in hopes of fostering communication and enthusiasm for the web. In addition, Tim is the Creative Director for the MIX09 and the MIX conferences. He loves his job.

• Peter Smith
  Peter Smith is a new Program Manager at Microsoft in the .Net Networking group but an long time networking developer on a diverse set of applications ranging from networked simulations and statistical programs to occasionally-connected, self-updating catalog programs for a popular gaming company.

• Scott Hanselman

• Pablo Castro

• Jim Nakashima

• Lauren Cooney

• Brian Keller

• Jordan Snyder
  At EffectiveUI, Jordan builds web applications using Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. She has been using Silverlight since v1.0 and is a member of Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0Beta TAP (Technology Adoption Program) and Silverlight 3 EAP (Early Adoption Program). She is a musician, interactive artist, snowboarder, avid reader and engineer who is interested in everything from architecture to physics to spirituality.

• Chris Woods
  Chris Woods is a Program Manager on Microsoft’s Mobile Browse Platform team in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked with leading mobile companies including Symbian, Vodafone, and Nokia.

• Thomas Deml

• Jeff Wilcox
  Jeff is a Software Development Engineer on the Silverlight Toolkit team at Microsoft. Jeff created the Silverlight Unit Test Framework and the Silverlight Toolkit's AutoCompleteBox control. Before joining the Microsoft ASP.NET team in 2005, Jeff was a freelance open source developer, also founding YouTrip.com and MaizeWeb.com. Jeff is an alumnus of the University of Michigan, and maintains a blog at http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/.