Nikolai Tillmann has been with Microsoft Research for 6 years. He is currently leading the Pex project, building an automated test case generation tool for .NET based program analysis. Previously, he worked on Spec Explorer, a model-based testing tool.

Peter Provost is a Sr. Program Manager with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Architect Edition. He is a recognized agile coach, author and presenter and brings more than 10 years of agile development and project management experience. Peter is currently working with VSTS Architect Edition to help create the next wave of architectural and modeling tools.

Nikolai Tillmann has been with Microsoft Research for 6 years. He is currently leading the Pex project, building an automated test case generation tool for .NET based program analysis. Previously, he worked on Spec Explorer, a model-based testing tool.

Mike Barnett has been at Microsoft Research since 1995. He has spent the last several years working on the Spec# project, an advanced verification environment and language for .NET.

Emre Kiciman is a researcher in the Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) at Microsoft Research, where his interests are broadly in the area of large-scale Internet services, their operations, and their end-to-end reliability. His work focuses on monitoring and machine learning analysis of system behavior to improve reliability and performance. Most recently, he's been working on Web application performance and debugging.

Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread good information about developing software, very often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. He's written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on ASP.NET. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

Jeff King is a Program Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division. He is responsible for the Visual Studio ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editors. In previous releases, Jeff has also been responsible for the WYSIWYG design surface, delivering the Visual Web Developer Express Edition product, and authoring the Personal Web Site Starter Kit. On the side, he enjoys developing user experiences with WPF.

Cameron Skinner joined Microsoft in 2005 and is currently a product unit manager on the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) team. He is responsible for overseeing the Team Edition – Architect product line. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Skinner was the CTO and chief architect of application development tools for Embarcadero Technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as CTO for Advanced Software Technologies. In his limited spare time, Mr. Skinner enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and playing his acoustic bass.

Douglas Purdy is a product unit manager at Microsoft working on next-generation languages and tools to broaden the franchise of people building applications. His vision is 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) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF/WinOE) teams. Douglas has been with Microsoft, on and off, since 1998 where he has worked in consulting, evangelism and engineering.

Stephanie Saad is a Group Manager at Microsoft and is currently building tools for agile development. She has been working in the Visual Studio design team for the last 6 years, most of them on planning various new cool stuff for VSTS. She thinks Visual Studio is the coolest thing ever, although she still can't explain to her mom what she does.

Krzysztof Cwalina is a program manager on the .NET Framework team at Microsoft. He started his career at Microsoft designing APIs for the first release of the Framework. Currently, he is leading the effort to develop, promote, and apply the design guidelines to the .NET Framework. He is a coauthor of Framework Design Guidelines (Addison-Wesley, 2005). Reach him at his blog at blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina.

Jonathan is a 15 year Microsoft veteran who focuses on studying the intersection of graphics/imaging and networks. He is currently the architect of Microsoft WorldWide Telescope. Jonathan is also an avid amateur astronomer and designed built his own automated domed observatory as well as helped develop the field of DSLR astrophotography. When he is not at work on WorldWide Telescope Jonathan tries keep up with his 5 children and explain to them the majesty of the stars.

Kevin Gjerstad is the Group Program Manager for Windows Presentation Foundation. He has been at Microsoft for fourteen years and has worked on numerous projects including multiple versions of Internet Explorer as well as the presentation bits in Windows. Underpinning all his work is a passion for significantly improving user experience and usability by making it easier for developers to build great applications. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle.

Shawn Burke has at Microsoft since 1997, spending all of that time in Developer Division developing UI framworks such as Windows Forms, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight Controls. Shawn is currently the Product Unit Manager of the WPF/Silverlight Controls Team. Shawn holds a Bachelors of Business Administration a Bachelors of Science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Stephen Walther is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft who is responsible for ASP.NET MVC content and community. He is the author of the best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed.

Ben Ravani is a General Manager in the Global Foundation Services at Microsoft. Ben brings 21 years of experience in the high tech industry from business planning and product development to services design and operations support. Ben currently leads an organization that manages over 100 of Microsoft’s online properties with 10,000’s of servers deployed in data centers globally providing services to Hundreds of Millions of users worldwide. The scope of his responsibilities includes managing services with over a Billion transactions per day and 10’s of millions of concurrent sessions. He is responsible for operating a number of platform services including Windows Live ID, Messenger and Anti Phishing. Ben has provided design consulting to services such as WLID, Microsoft’s online Billing platform, Microsoft’s Rights Management Platform, and Microsoft’s award winning Internet Safety platform. Ben joined Microsoft over 14 years. Since then, he has held various leadership roles at Microsoft involved in developing and building a number of products and services. Ben started his career in developing technologies in the automotive and aerospace industries. He led an engineering team in the Boeing 777 development program responsible for the Electrical and Avionics Engineering Computing. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Danny Kim is a Microsoft MVP and recognized industry expert on Windows Group Policy, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Kim has helped more than 30 Fortune 100 companies, including Bank of America, Boeing, and Wal-Mart, design and deploy their Group Policy and DataCenter infrastructure. He has also architected and developed several leading Windows policy management products which have been licensed by Microsoft, NetIQ, Citrix, HP, Sony, Toshiba and others. Kim holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Sriram is a mild-mannered Program Manager on the Cloud Infrastructure Services team at Microsoft. Before this, he worked on Popfly and Visual Studio for Devices. He loves to game on his XBox 360 and tries to hide his love for all things Star Trek

Jitendra is a part of Microsoft Technology center at Infosys and an Architect on Catalytic IT, a joint IT Transformation Program with Microsoft. Currently he leads the Cloud Computing group and defines how various solutions and service offerings in Infosys should leverage this disruptive technology to provide a better value to our customers.

Erik Johnson is Sr. Director of Product Research for Epicor Software, the 6th-largest global ERP software supplier and responsible for managing software architecture strategy and relationships with technology partners. Erik represented Epicor at the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), where he contributed to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 and chaired the XML Schema working group. As an enterprise solutions architect, Erik was named to the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Prior to joining Epicor, Erik worked as a senior software architect and development manager at DataWorks Corporation.

Robert works in adCenter managing a couple billion dollars in billing one click and impression at a time. He has worked in the software-as-a-service space for the better part of a decade, joining most recently from the Live Meeting team.