MIX09 Speakers

Aaron Adams

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:17:42 GMT

Adam Kinney

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:17:10 GMT

Beginning life as an art student, growing up in the military and then joining the world of technology, Adam Kinney feels right at home in that sweet spot between design and development. Always at least a part-time technology evangelist, Adam has traveled the trail of UI technologies. First HTML/CSS, then Flash, WPF, Silverlight, Processing, iOS, Canvas and now Windows Phone 7 , he has enjoyed learning, teaching and experimenting with them all. Adam’s current focus is data visualization and dynamic interactive happiness.

Alessandro Catorcini

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:18:55 GMT

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.

Alex Turner

Mon, 02 May 2011 21:22:58 GMT

Alex Turner is a Senior Program Manager for the Managed Languages team at Microsoft, where he’s currently brewing up C# and VB goodness on the "Roslyn" project. Alex graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and has spoken at BUILD, PDC, TechEd, TechDays and MIX.

Alex Zambelli

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:44:19 GMT

Alex Zambelli is a Media Technology Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism group in Redmond, Washington. He has been working on digital media technologies at Microsoft since 2002. Past Microsoft roles included testing VC-1 codecs and Windows Media Player. In his current job Alex helps customers build and deploy video streaming solutions based on the Microsoft Media Platform. Recent web projects included NBC/CTV Vancouver Olympics, NBC Sunday Night Football and TNT RaceBuddy 3D.

Allan Li

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:18:06 GMT

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.

Ambrose Little

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:19:31 GMT

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.

Anthony Franco

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:51:08 GMT

Anthony is co-founder and president of Denver-based user experience agency EffectiveUI. He built his company on the belief that people deserve better – better software, better experiences. A self-described usability fanatic, Anthony’s experience and insights into the UX process have helped guide numerous companies – small to large – to understand the importance of focusing on the customer or user when creating applications for the Web, desktop or mobile device, and realizing the benefits of doing so.

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:19:13 GMT

Bill Buxton

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:50:15 GMT

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

Bill Scott

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:17:26 GMT

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).

Brad Abrams

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:52:16 GMT

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 Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework. Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework. 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 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/

Brad Calder

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:51:28 GMT

I’m Brad Calder. I’m a General Manager of the Azure Storage team. Our team provides a reliable secure storage service for Windows Azure. All free time goes into my 3 boys (they love geo-caching), and I try to find time to do some long distance running.

Brandon Bray

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:05:44 GMT

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.

Brian Keller

Mon, 02 May 2011 19:01:35 GMT

Brian Keller is a Principal Technical Evangelist for Microsoft specializing in Visual Studio and application lifecycle management. Brian has presented at conferences all over the world and has managed several early adopter programs for emerging Microsoft technologies. Brian is a regular personality on MSDN’s Channel 9 web site, and is co-host of the popular show This Week on Channel 9. Brian has also co-authored several books on software development, including Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 and Professional Team Foundation Server 2012.

Celso Gomes

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:12:32 GMT

Charles Duncan

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:25:38 GMT

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.

Chris Auld

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:45:15 GMT

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 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 multi-tenant 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 been a key global trainer for the Azure Services Platform early adopter program and brings extensive theoretical and hands on experience in building high scale web applications. Chris is a Microsoft Regional Director for the Australia/New Zealand region and a regular presenter at events such as TechEd and MIX. In his spare time Chris enjoys adventure sports such as whitewater kayaking, mountain biking and back-country skiing.

Chris Bernard

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:50:23 GMT

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 with designers and developers as a strategic advisor on Microsoft emerging technologies that drive next-generation experiences and services development in the realms of interaction design, Web applications, social media, digital marketing and natural user interfaces. He is also co-author of Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend.

Chris Parker

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:18:51 GMT

Chris Pendleton

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:05:44 GMT

Chris Pendleton is the Lead Senior Program Manager for Bing Maps Geospatial Platform Team. Chris has been at Microsoft nearly a decade and has serviced the geospatial industry for over a dozen years. In addition to geospatial platform product development, Chris’ focus has been spatial developer ecosystems, enterprise application development and technical speaking engagements. Chris also holds an MBA from San Diego State University.

Chris Sells

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:59:56 GMT

I’m Chris Sells, a Program Manager in the Developer Division, which focuses on Metro style app-related tooling for JavaScript and HTML. For Windows 8, I work on the Metro style app templates for JavaScript and I work on blogging content, Metro style app Developer Center content and community relations generally. To paraphrase – I take the specifications from the customers, to the engineers – and I am very fond of my stapler. I think I used to have hobbies, but I’ll be damned if I remember what they were.

Chris Woods

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:17:02 GMT

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.

Christian Schormann

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:50:24 GMT

I’m Christian Schormann. I’m a Program Manager on the Expressions Blend team. For Windows 8, I am responsible for the product design and strategy for Expression Blend, the visual authoring tools for UX Designers and Developers. I am a toolmaker out of passion, making tools for artists and designers.

Christian Thilmany

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:18:17 GMT

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.