Thomas Ball is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research where he manages the Software Reliability Research group (http://research.microsoft.com/srr/). Tom has been at Microsoft Research since 1999. He is one of the originators of the SLAM project, a software model checking engine for C that forms the basis of the Static Driver Verifier tool, made freely available by Microsoft for finding defects in device drivers. Tom's interests range from program analysis, model checking, testing and automated theorem proving to the problems of defining and measuring software quality.

Madan Musuvathi is a Researcher at Microsoft Research and is interested in building program analysis tools to improve the productivity of developers and testers. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2004.

Steve is the development lead for the Visual Studio Profiler and has been with that team for five years. Before that he was a compiler researcher studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ed Glas is group manager for the Visual Studio Team Test team in Raleigh, NC. Ed led the development of the web and load testing features in Visual Studio Team System from their inception, and is now also leading development of the test case management server. Prior to working at Microsoft, Ed co-founded HAHT Software, where he led the development of the HAHTsite web application IDE and application server. He also worked at startups OneTree Software, creator of SourceSafe, and Q+E software. In his spare time Ed enjoys spending time with his wife and five children and playing soccer.

Andrew has 20+ years experience in the industry as a developer and architect. He is a Program Manager in the Business Apps team, where he is focused on designing strategic features of the Visual Studio toolset for building Office Business Applications.

Misha Shneerson has been working in Visual Studio Tools for Office team for the past 6 years. Being responsible for the development of VSTO runtime Misha has gained invaluable experience about the live between managed and unmanaged worlds. Misha is passionate about bringing these two closer together and has played the key role in the last improvements in this area.

Raymond Chen has been involved in the evolution of Windows for over a decade. He currently works in the Windows User Experience group. He also writes The Old New Thing Web site and TechNet Magazine's Windows Confidential column. He has been called insane by Zack Simpson.

Stefan works as a program manager on the ASP.NET team. He covers a number of areas in the ASP.NET core runtime, as well as having worked recently on the Html bridge feature in Silverlight 2.

Started out writing bulletin board software with Turbo Pascal which became a startup software development business. Graduated from California State Bakersfield with a degree in Computer Science and Economics. Scott has spent the past 8 years developing software in the .NET space mainly in the ASP.NET area. For the past year Scott has worked at Microsoft on the ASP.NET as a Program Manager currently working on Dynamic Data and all things around data.

Leonardo Blanco has been at Microsoft since 1996. He is a Principal Development Lead in the Windows Desktop and Graphics Technologies team, where he focuses on development and maintenance of existing and new mainstream graphics APIs for Windows. During the Window Vista timeframe, Leonardo worked on the graphics stack that forms the basis of the Windows Presentation Foundation, most notably the composition and animation engines. He also helped build the Windows Vista Desktop Window Manager, which is responsible for Aero Glass and the Flip3D effect. Prior to Windows Vista, Leonardo worked on Windows CE, delivering multimedia technologies to both mobile and embedded devices. Leonardo holds a degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Hi, I'm Kam VedBrat, and I'm the Lead Program Manager for Mainstream Graphics API's on the Windows 7 team. I work on technologies including GDI, GDI+, the Windows Imaging Component, the Windows Color System, and (new for Windows 7) Direct2D and Direct Write. Over the last 10 years at Microsoft I've worked on Windows Vista, MSN Explorer, and Internet Explorer. Before Microsoft, I studied Computer Science at Purdue University (Go Boilers!), and graduated in 1998. My favorite color is orange, and if you want to learn more about me, read my blog! Thanks, -Kam

Allison Klein is the senior lead program manager for Direct3D technologies. She received her Ph.D. in computer graphics from Princeton University and before (re)joining Microsoft in 2006 she was briefly a university professor of Computer Science.

Chuck is an architect in the Cloud Infrastructure Services team, focusing on virtualization. Chuck has been with Microsoft since 1989, and worked on all versions of Windows from NT 3.1 to Vista.

Stefan works as a program manager on the ASP.NET team. He covers a number of areas in the ASP.NET core runtime, as well as having worked recently on the Html bridge feature in Silverlight 2.

Pablo is a Software Architect in the SQL Server group at Microsoft. He has worked in various areas of SQL Server and he's currently focused on making data and the web work well together with technologies such as Data Services (Project Astoria).

Jan is a technical program manager in Federated Identity team inside Identity and Security Division. He is designing products that help developers and IT professionals make the Internet and enterprise applications secure. Before joining Federated Identity team, Jan was a program manager responsible for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) security feature.

Andrew is currently a Principal Program Manager responsible for developer and partner investments in Dynamics CRM. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1997, Andrew worked for an IBM business partner in Southern California and has 15 years experience in product development and project management.

Isaac Kunen is a senior program manager on the SQL Server engine programmability team. Isaac has recently been concentrating on spatial database support, in addition to working on the SQL Server type system, SQL CLR integration, and database extensibility. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2005, Isaac was a developer at BEA Systems.

Jorgen Thelin is a Senior Program Manager for Identity Services in the Windows Live Division at Microsoft in Redmond. He deals with the creation of new product features for Microsoft’s federated identity provider infrastructure known as Windows Live ID, with particular focus on the developer-facing integration APIs.