John Papa

John Papa is a Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft. (Formerly a Microsoft Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker, and member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders) John specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies including Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server. John has written over 70 articles and authored 9 books including his latest book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly Media. He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as MIX, PDC, VSLive and DevConnections, speaking at user groups around the country, and viewed on MSDN Web Casts. John also spearheaded the 1st annual Silverlight MIXer, a gathering of some of the most influential members of the Silverlight community for a great night a MIX09.