Bio

Daron is a Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft MVP since 2008, with a focus on AI and Azure. He is a regular speaker at international conferences talking about AI, Serverless, and Engineering Culture. Daron is the CEO for Deveload, a Solliance Partner Network Member.

I've always been a developer at heart, although my first profession was as an aviation engineer in the British Royal Navy. I have owned and operated a number of consulting companies - currently I am founder and president of CustomMayd. We design and create developer training and develop Xbox, mobile, desktop and web software for a variety of clients, both small and large. My personal passion is Windows development using UWP and the composition APIs - I'm especially looking forward to project Reunion and WinUI3. I love sharing my experience and passion for technologies and often present to local user groups as well as create developer and architect training for Microsoft.

In my leisure time I exercise, read, and ride my motorcycles in the Colorado mountains.

Dan is a Microsoft/Xamarin MVP, an avid OSS Contributor and Author best known as for his work as a maintainer of the immensely popular Prism Library. By day he works as a Consultant specializing in Cloud, Mobile and DevOps. He loves to share his passion for developing mobile apps with developers around the world and is the organizer for the Xamarin Developer Summit.

In those arguably rare moments he's not busy slinging code you might find him out Scuba Diving, Off-Roading or through hiking in the remote wilderness, pretty much unplugged.

I am Chief Digital Officer for iCubed, a leading Microsoft Gold Partner, currently living in Milan, Italy.

We help customers build fantastic and innovative applications, drive the digital transformation of their business, thought cloud, web, mobile, and new technologies. I'm also responsible for the learning division, thanks to my 20 years of expertise in this area.

I'm **Microsoft Regional Director**, helping customers to be in touch with Microsoft, and **Microsoft ASP.NET MVP since 2002**.

In 1998 I founded and I'm currently serving as network manager for ASPItalia.com, the largest Italian dev community, counting about 70,000 users. I'm publishing code since 1998 with open source license, driving the Microsoft ecosystem in Italy to exchange more broadly.

I'm a well-known professional author with 30 published books, and a speaker at the main developer-focused events worldwide.

I'm the organizer of CommunityDays, the most important community conference in Italy, with 1,000+ participants every year.

I'm very passionate about design and home automation.

Microsoft MVP on Developer Technologies.

Trainer. Developer. Speaker.

1200+ hrs of training on .NET web technologies for more than 700 students, delivered in the last 5 years.

Speaker on .NET technologies at 30+ IT conferences in Europe, and the USA, in the last 3 years.

A consequent fan of C# from the year 2001.

Damir Arh has many years of experience with software development and maintenance; from complex enterprise software projects to modern consumer-oriented mobile applications. Although he has worked with a wide spectrum of different languages, his favorite language remains C#. In his drive towards better development processes, he is a proponent of test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. He shares his knowledge by speaking at local user groups and conferences, blogging, and writing articles. He has received the prestigious Microsoft MVP award for developer technologies 9 times in a row.

Mobile Architect with extensive of experience gained developing projects based on Microsoft technologies. Has worked on mobile applications using Xamarin as well as server applications using .NET Core hosted in the Azure public cloud. Likes to share knowledge on his blog and at conferences. Organizer of Xamarin Warsaw Mobile Developers meetup and administrator of Xamarin Developers Group Poland. In his spare time likes to enjoy a dram of scotch whisky.

I've been writing JavaScript since the days of Netscape. I've specialized in React since shortly after it was launched, and have partnered with teams around the globe to ship dozens of significant React projects. I've authored multiple courses on C#, React, and JavaScript that have been viewed by over 500,000 developers worldwide. I've trained over 10,000 developers in person, while leading 100's of sessions at businesses and conferences across the USA and internationally.

Determined but shy, maybe not the perfect speaker, but for sure one of the most passionate - and modest.

Motivational or tech sessions, I think that a lot of people can learn from my experience.

My name is Cristian Civera and I've been working with .NET since the first release, developing for Windows and web. In the last years, my passion is focused on web and cloud technologies, in particular to web frameworks, such as React and Angular, and Microsoft Azure as a backend platform.

For 15 years I've been working as a freelance software architect for many Italian clients and several fields: IoT, home automation, industry automation and management system.

I'm coauthor of several books, scripts and articles in italian language, published on a Italian big community named ASPItalia.com. Thanks to these contributions I'm Microsoft MVP since 2004.

Ciaran is a .NET Developer and Architect. after 17 years doing consulting across various industries, culminating in leading the Software Engineering & Architecture Centre of Excellence for Avanade & Accenture, he's now a Googler working on Google Meet.

He speaks a lot on designing business systems, distirbuted systems, messaging and event driven architecture, and also making enterprises ready to develop systems like this - digital transformation and team structures.

Chris Woodruff AKA Woody is the Team Leader for Developer Relations at Quicken Loans, the nation's largest mortgage lender, which is based in Detroit, Michigan. Woody has over 25 years of experience when he started his career before the first .COM boom. He has spoken at many events across the globe, covering software development and architecture topics such as database development, APIs, and web development. He is a proven mentor that enjoys helping, educating, and supporting other developers to gain knowledge through his speaking, writing, and online content. When not working or spending time with his family, you can find Woody traveling down the Bourbon Trail finding new bottles to share with friends. You can read more about Woody on his blog at https://chriswoodruff.com and follow him on Twitter at @cwoodruff

Software and cloud engineer, dad, blogger, husband, speaker, and all around geek. I currently works as a Developer Advocate for Microsoft Identity helping developers and teams leverage the power of the identity and cloud. Before joining Microsoft, I was a successful entrepreneur collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. I've been building software for over 15 years and I'm truly passionate about Open Source . I try to contribute regularly to OSS projects and I work closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better.

Christian Weyer is co-founder and CTO of Thinktecture AG. As a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), Google GDE (Developer Expert), and independent Microsoft Regional Director (RD) for Germany, he is an engaged and passionate speaker at various software conferences and events all over the world. For over two decades, his heart has always been with cross-platform solutions and distributed end-to-end architectures - with his head in the Cloud since 2007.

Chris is a Senior Customer Engineer on the Fast Track for Azure team at Microsoft. He is a Co-Lead for the DevOps Category inside the Fast Track Team. Previously, Chris lead an Azure Practice and a DevOps Practice, and was a Consultant and Architect. He has a focus in modern applications, containers, security, and DevOps. In his free time, Chris is a father, an international speaker, an avid reader, a gamer, and all around nerd.

Charles Nurse is a Pluralsight Author, an 11-time Microsoft MVP (2007-2018) and an ASPInsider (since 2008). He is a successful .NET Architect and a Graph enthusiast, and he has led development teams on both Open Source projects and large Enterprise projects.

He has spoken at many major conferences including the Software Developers Conference (SDC) (www.sdc.nl), DevConnections (www.devconnections.com), DevTeach (www.devteach.com), VSLive (www.vslive.com), Prairie DevCon(www.prairiedevcon.com) and DevReach(www.DevReach.com). He is a frequent speaker at local User Groups and Code Camps, including .NET BC, VBug, Vancouver TechFest and Microsoft Developer days.

Many years of speaker experience, with a background in education.

Topics include Open-Source, Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies, Sharing Economy, Peer-to-Peer Economies, and more.

Catalin Gheorghiu is a solution architect from Romania. The current interests are in the area of (I)IoT, industrial mobile and cloud solutions. In addition to addressing the software development and architecture, is a trainer and consultant. In his spare time is member of the technical community, contributing with articles and blogs (signed MrSmersh), presentations to several user groups/meetups (also is RONUA Timisoara user group leader), and lecturing all over Romania and abroad.

Since 2011, every year he was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award. Is also a current holder of the Intel Software Innovator Award. Is a current Microsoft Certified Trainer.

Hi, I am Carole, I am a development team lead, developer and community meetup organiser.

I have a real interest in the "people" side of tech, ensuring the industry is as empathetic & inclusive as it needs to be. On the tech side I am .Net C# developer & 4 x Umbraco CMS MVP.

Topics to speak about:

* C#

* .Net

* Blazor

* Tech Leadership

* Architecture

* Umbraco CMS

* Headless CMS

Reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn to get in touch :)

Hey, friends 👋🙂

During the pandemic I found myself stuck without motivation or drive to learn anything new or create anything and that really hit home for me about a year ago - when I found myself at a low point personally and professionally - stuck without being able to move forward. I decided to start writing articles on online magazines, start learning new tech, and made a conscious decision to grow, and have been speaking at meetups and conferences for about a year now, building as much as I can.

I've been in web and application development from the early days of .NET - starting when 1.1 was released and using every version professionally since - focusing on predominantly web and cloud technology but with a bit of application and mobile development thrown in. I aspire to be the proverbial swiss army knife that Scott Hanselman uses as an example in his talks - good at one thing, but with a lot of other areas of experience.

I know I am not the finished article, but I also know that nobody is - and I've been driving myself to be more involved in open source projects and mentoring where I can in an effort to get closer to that goal. If I can help a few people come along that journey with me, or if I can learn from a few people on the same journey then all the better ❤