Jon is the executive director of the .NET Foundation. He works at Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist focused on ASP.NET and Windows Azure.

He's co-author of 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.

Dino Esposito authored over 20 books and 1000 articles in a so far 25-year-long career, gave 500+ conference talks and delivered no less than 10,000 hours of training. It is commonly recognized that his books and articles helped the professional growth of thousands of .NET and ASP.NET developers and software architects worldwide. Currently, Dino is Corporate Digital Strategist at BaxEnergy and practices with renewable energy and artificial intelligence. Next book is "Introducing Machine Learning in .NET". Get in touch at youbiquitous.net.

In addition to developing and shipping software on Microsoft stacks for 25+ years, Christophe Nasarre has been working as a technical reviewer for MSPress, Addison-Wesley and other publishing companies since 1996 on books such as "CLR via C#" and the last editions of Windows Internals.

He is providing tools and insights on .NET and Windows development via his blog. Christophe also presented technical sessions on stage both internally at Microsoft or for ISVs and customers at public events.

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.

A linguist by heart and a programmer by choice, Alfonso has brought his passion for natural languages to the computing world. He is the creator of Fable, a popular F# to JS compiler, and coauthor of the book "Mastering F#". Currently works as a web engineer using F# and Fable for highly productive and reliable software development.

Edwin has been working in IT since 1999 and is currently working as Principal Software Architect and Microsoft Community lead at Info Support in the Netherlands. He's a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Technologies category.

His primary areas of expertise are: building distributed systems, systems integration, (web-scale) software architecture and patterns, software craftsmanship, .NET (Core) development, Azure and DevOps. Edwin likes sharing his knowledge about these subjects by publishing videos and speaking on events.

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.