Jon works at Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist focused on ASP.NET and Windows Azure. He's co-author of Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC, writes samples and tutorials like the MVC Music Store and is a frequent speaker at conferences and international Web Camps events. Jon's been doing professional web development for 17 years, including high scale applications in financial, entertainment and healthcare analytics. He's part of the Herding Code podcast, Twitters as @jongalloway and blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway. He likes to travel, but spends most of his time in San Diego with his amazingly patient wife Rachel, three wonderful daughters, a dozen avocado trees and the occasional rattlesnake.

A long-time trainer and top-notch consultant, Dino is the author of many popular books for Microsoft Press which have helped the professional growth of thousands of developers and architects. CTO of a fast-growing company providing software and mobile services to professional sports, at the moment Dino is also a technical evangelist and a member of the team that manages WURFL — the database of mobile devices used by organizations such as Google and Facebook. Recently, Dino co-authored (along with Andrea Saltarello) the second edition of the bestseller "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" (Microsoft Press).

Pavel Yosifovich is a developer, trainer author and speaker. He's the co-author of "Windows Internals 7th edition Part 1" (2017) and author of "WPF 4.5 Cookbook" (2012). Pavel is also a former MVP and a Pluralsight author. He can be reached at zodiacon@live.com or through his blog.

Author of the Pro .NET Memory Management book. Programming for over a dozen years, solving performance problems and architectural puzzles in the .NET world, speeding up web applications. Independent consultant, blogger, speaker and fan of Twitter. He also shares his passion as a trainer at Bottega IT Solutions in the area of .NET, especialy about application performance and diagnostics. Founder of the Warsaw Web Performance group. Microsoft MVP in the Visual Studio and Development Tools category. Co-founder of https://dotnetos.org initiative.

Raffaele Rialdi is a senior Software Architect working as a consultant, speaker and trainer. Since 2003, he is a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Security category. His passion for the community brought him to be a member of the board of UGIdotNET, president of DotNetLiguria and co-founder of the Italian C++ user group. He is currently working as an architect and developer on the backend of an enterprise project with a specific focus on code generation and working on cross-platform mobile and IoT development in both C# and C++ languages.

Alex has been involved in application development since the late nineties and worked as a lead developer and architect at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches architects to design and build modern distributed applications at cloud scale. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Visual Studio and Development Technologies 12 times. In his spare time, Alex likes to participate in all kinds of sport and loves playing and programming new and retro video games.

Виктор Гамов — сооснователь и лидер любимого многими программистами правильного подкаста «Разбор Полётов». По совместительству является Developer Advocate в компании Confluent, которая разрабатывает платформу на базе Apache Kafka. Помогает клиентам в проектировании и разработке распределенных систем обработки потоковых данных. Соавтор книги «Enterprise Web Development» издательства O'Reilly.

В свободное от работы время Виктор не забывает про качалку и бицуху. Является завсегдатаем конференций JUG.ru Group (JPoint, Joker, JBreak) и других международных конференций (JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, Qcon). Пишет в Twitter как @gamussa. Ведет канал про Kafka в Telegram.