Rockford Lhotka is the author of several bestselling books, including the Expert VB 2005 and C# 2005 Business Objects books. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He contributes to several major magazines and regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies (www.magenic.com), a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. For more information go to www.lhotka.net.

Adam Calderon, a Principal Engineer at Interknowlogy and a C# MVP, is an accomplished software developer, author and speaker with over twelve years of experience designing, developing and leading large scale mission critical software projects. In his long career, Adam has worked with numerous Fortune 1000 companies in such diverse industries as automotive, telecommunications, publishing, medical and insurance, assisting them in applying Microsoft technologies to further their business initiatives.

EPS has worked on numerous software projects for Fortune 500 companies including Philip Morris, Qualcomm and Microsoft. Markus has also worked with some of the more well known FoxPro developers and companies including SBC, F1 and Micromega. Markus is a contractor for the Microsoft Visual FoxPro team where he is mostly responsible for object modeling and other object related technologies.

Markus is an international speaker having presented sessions at numerous Visual FoxPro conferences including DevCon 97. DevCon 98, FoxTeach 1996, the European Visual FoxPro Conference, the Dutch Lowlands conference in Amsterdam, the Great Lakes Great Database Workshop in Milwaukee and several FoxExpress conferences in Las Vegas.

Markus has written numerous articles for publications including Fuchs, FoxTalk and Microsoft Office & Database Journal. Markus is the owner and editor of the "Software Developer Magazine", a European Visual FoxPro publication (www.eps-software.com/sdm). Markus is currently working on a book (Advanced Object Oriented Programming with Visual FoxPro 6.0) which is scheduled for publication in January 1999.

Markus is the author of several well known tools such as GenRepoX and Visual WebBuilder.

Markus also received the Visual FoxPro MVP Award (96, 97, 98, 99) from Microsoft for his contributions to the FoxPro community. Visual LandPro 98, one of the applications Markus is currently working on, was a finalist in two categories for the Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards, 1998.

You can reach Markus at megger@eps-software.com or www.eps-software.com

Reza Madani is the current president of the Visual Basic User Group in Orange County.  Over the past 18 years he has worked in numerous platforms and technologies including C, C , C# , Delphi, and J2EE just to name a few.  He also has advance knowledge of database platforms such as Oracle and Sql Server 2005.  Over the past 3 years, Reza has been working in .Net based enterprise solutions for web applications, and most recently has been focused on business intelligence solutions. Reza is the managing partner of HarborObjects, an enterprise software consulting company based in Newport Beach, CA.

Kevin McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc, and a Microsoft .NET MVP.  He is a speaker with MSDN Canada Speaker’s Bureau and is also a well known speaker and trainer throughout North America and Europe including VSLive!, DevTeach (where he serves as one of the .NET chairs), SDC Netherlands, and Advisor DevCon. He is co-author of the book "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", author of the book ".NET for Visual FoxPro Developers", has authored several articles for CoDe magazine and has been interviewed on the .NET Rocks! Internet Radio Show. He is the Chief Software Architect of the MM .NET Framework and spends about half his time on the road training and mentoring companies to build well-designed, high-performance .NET desktop, ASP.NET and Smart Device applications. He has also helped many developers transition to the .NET development platform in his highly acclaimed .NET training classes.

Mark Miller is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express and the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush and Refactor!, as well as the DXCore extensibility layer for Visual Studio. Mark has been writing software for over two decades and has strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures and great UI.

Scott Mitchell, author of six ASP/ASP.NET books and founder of 4GuysFromRolla.com, has been working with Microsoft Web technologies since 1998. Scott works as an independent consultant, trainer, and writer, recently completing his latest book, Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours. He can be reached at mitchell@4guysfromrolla.com or via his blog, which can be found at http://ScottOnWriting.NET.

Russ Nemhauser is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and a Microsoft Certified Professional, and has served as an Architect, Developer, Team Leader, and Project Manager over the past several years. His projects have included enterprise applications, online commerce sites, and corporate intranets for Wall Street, Universal Studios, Microsoft, Seagram, and others. Russ actively participates in the development community, speaking at several conferences and user groups each year. He also writes for several technical magazines and industry web sites.

Scott co-founded Vertigo Software in 1997, after working for Pixar, NeXT, and writing two successful Visual C books.

Scott is the Microsoft Regional Director for Silicon Valley, and is a highly rated speaker at conferences such as Tech·Ed, VBITs, and DevDays.

Founder and President of Beta V Corporation

Bill is a developer, trainer, and author of numerous books on Visual Basic and data access programming. After 14 years with Microsoft and over 30 years working in the computer industry, Bill left Microsoft in 2000 to focus more on his own writing and training for Beta V. During his years with Microsoft, Bill held numerous roles which included working with the Windows 1.0 Developer Liaison team, Microsoft University, the Visual Basic User Education team, the Visual Studio marketing team, and finally at Microsoft Technical Education. Currently, Bill writes and travels the globe in order to guide, mentor, and train developers in his areas of expertise: Visual Basic, data architectures, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and the new .NET Framework.

Bill was made a Microsoft MVP in 2003 and 2004 for his contribution to the developer community. You can find him answering questions on the Microsoft public newsgroups. Visit microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet.

Chris Rolon is an Architectural Consultant for Neudesic, one of Microsoft's leading .NET professional services firms headquartered in Irvine, CA. Chris brings more than 25 years of software development expertise and experience in building complex, mission critical applications. For the past fifteen years he has specialized in development using Microsoft technologies. His passions include .NET development and security. Chris has been actively involved with Microsoft's .NET development environment since it was introduced at the Professional Developer's Conference in 2000. When not speaking about .Net or coding Chris can be found on his bike riding the hills of Southern California.