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.

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.

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.

John has been in the business of debuggers and diagnostic tools for around 15 years. He cut his teeth on debuggers for Windows 16 and 32bit, SunOS and Solaris. After a brief stint doing embedded debuggers at Wind River Systems, John joined Microsoft during the Visual Studio .Net product cycle. He has worked as a developer and lead on native and managed debuggers. John was part of the TeamSystem team from Day -30, working on the VS profiler and code coverage. Since then John has worked on starting the project for the application flight recorder as well as continuing to develop debugging and profiling technologies. John dreams in CodeView records. There is no cure.

Dr. Hazim Shafi received a BSEE from Santa Clara, and MS and PhD degrees from Rice University. He joined Microsoft in 2005 from IBM Research. Hazim has over a decade of experience in parallel and distributed processing and has numerous publications and patents in the area. He is currently a Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team leading its efforts in parallel performance analysis tools. He also teaches classes on multithreaded application development at Microsoft.

Matt is currently the program manger focused on building the WF Designer in Visual Studio.

Daniel Moth has been with Microsoft since April 2006. Before that he worked in industry as a consultant, a developer and he was also an MVP for mobile development (a topic he wrote a book about). Recently he joined the Parallel Computing Platform to work on developer tools for the next versions of Visual Studio. Daniel's interests include anything to do with .NET and he blogs about that at http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog, which is also the best way to reach him.