Andrey Akinshin is a senior developer at JetBrains, where he works on Rider (a cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper). His favorite topics are performance and micro-optimizations, and he is the maintainer of BenchmarkDotNet (a powerful .NET library for benchmarking supported by the .NET Foundation). Andrey is a frequent speaker at various events for developers, and he is the program director of the DotNext conference. Andrey is also a PhD in computer science, a Microsoft .NET MVP, a silver medalist of ACM ICPC. In his free time, he likes to study science (his primary research interests are mathematical biology and bifurcation theory). Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Weizmann Institute of Science and as a research scientist in the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS.

Jon has been a Microsoft MVP for more than 13 years, and is currently a software engineer at Google, London. He's the top contributor on Stack Overflow, the main contributor on the Noda Time library, and the author of C# in Depth.

Mei-Chin Tsai is Principal Group Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft. Her team owns C#/VB compilers and .NET runtime (often referred as CLR). Many of .NET innovation has been successful over her watch/supervision such as .NET native (a pure ahead of time compiler) and low allocation APIs (Span and Memory). She is passionate about making developers successful through languages and through a performing runtime. Mei-Chin is skilled in Test Automation, Mobile Applications, .NET, Java, Management, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Strong engineering professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mr. Martin has been a programmer since 1970.

He is a co-founder of cleancoders.com, offering on-line video training for software developers.

He is the founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, offering software consulting, training, and skill development services to major corporations worldwide. He served as the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, a Chicago based Software Consulting firm.

Mr. Martin has published dozens of articles in various trade journals, and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows.

He is also the creator of the acclaimed educational Clean Code video series at cleancoders.com.

Mr. Martin has authored and edited many books.

Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Core team at Microsoft. He works on making .NET Core work great in memory-limited Docker containers, on ARM hardware like the Raspberry Pi, and enabling GPIO programming and IoT scenarios. He is part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. Richard helps teams at Microsoft establish successful open source communities on GitHub, adopting the patterns used by the .NET team. He also writes extensively for the .NET blog. Richard reported for work at Microsoft in 2000, having just graduated from the University of Waterloo (Canada) with an Honours English degree, with intensive study areas in Computer Science and SGML/XML Markup Languages. In his spare time, he swims, bikes and runs and participates in a few local races each year. He enjoys British rock and Doctor Who. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.

Jeff is co-founder of Wintellect, a developer consulting and education firm that serves companies all over the world. He has written nine books and hundreds of articles on software development, and today spends most of his time working with Azure, building AI solutions, and managing WintellectNOW. In his spare time, Jeff builds and flies large radio-control jets. He loves the smell of jet fuel in the morning.

Vagif is a Russian/Norwegian developer working for a Norwegian company Miles. He has about three decades of programming experience, currently focusing on building systems in F# and C#. Vagif is a frequent speaker on software conferences, contributor to some open source projects and maintainer of Simple.OData.Client.

René Schulte is Director of Global Innovation at Valorem Reply working with teams across the globe on emerging technologies like the revolutionary 3D volumetric video telepresence solution HoloBeam and the AR Cloud enabling large, cross-platform user experiences with persistence. He is a creative thought leader with passion for UX and deep technical knowledge from more than 10 years in VR/AR/MR/XR technology and 3D programming, developing for the Microsoft HoloLens since 2015, was featured on Forbes and is listed as VR/AR/MR dev influencer. He also coded AI deep learning neural networks before it was cool and is leveraging modern AI to empower humans. He is a frequent (keynote) speaker and panelist at conferences like //build, Unite, Vision VR/AR Summit, VRDC (GDC), AWE, ESA and more. Blogs about many topics. He also created popular open source libraries like WriteableBitmapEx and the AR library SLARToolKit. He was honored several times for his dev community work with the Microsoft MVP award and recognized as Microsoft Regional Director.