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As executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud + AI Group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for the company’s computing fabric (cloud and edge, including cloud infrastructure, server, database, CRM, ERP, management) and Artificial Intelligence platform (infrastructure, runtimes, frameworks, tools and higher-level services around perception, knowledge and cognition).

Prior to leading the Cloud + AI Group, Guthrie helped lead Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud platform. Since joining the company in 1997, he has made critical contributions to many of Microsoft’s key cloud, server and development technologies and was one of the original founders of the .NET project. Guthrie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke University.

Richard Campbell started playing with microcomputers in 1977 at the age of 10. He’s really never done anything else since. In that time he’s been involved in every level of the PC industry, from manufacturing, to sales, to development, and into large scale infrastructure implementation. He has been a witness and participant to the Bill Gates vision of “A PC on every desktop.”

For years he’s served as a consultant to companies in many countries, including Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force, providing advice on architecture, scaling systems and mentoring development teams. His long experience in working with large scale systems made him a sought-after consultant during the halycon years of the DotCom boom. He worked closely with venture capital and private equity firms providing architectural guidance and due diligence.

He is a Microsoft Regional Director and is recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area ofASP.NET development.

In 2004 Richard first met Carl Franklin, creator of .NET Rocks (www.dotnetrocks.com), The Internet Audio Talkshow for .NET Developers. Richard was a guest on show 69, but his friendship with Carl quickly evolved into a partnership and by show 100 in early 2005 he came onboard as co-host. In 2007 he started RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com), a podcast for IT Professionals.

He is a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, which was acquired by Radware in 2013 and spent five years on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014.

In 2012 Richard founded the Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), an organization designed to let developers around the world donate their skills to disaster relief organizations by building open source software. By 2014, Humanitarian Toolbox became a 501(c)3 registered US charity, working on a number of different projects for the United Nations, US Center for Disease Control and Red Cross.

Today Richard is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms as well as the co-owner and content planner of the DevIntersection (www.devintersection.com) group of conferences.

Noelle LaCharite is leading Developer Experience for Cognitive Services and Cloud AI at Microsoft. She helps developers envision, build, deploy and operate intelligent apps using Azure services. She is passionate about Mindful Leadership, work-life harmony and helping people achieve more. She also specializes in helping organizations develop intelligent, conversational apps and systems of intelligence, delighting customers along the way.
She has spent many years as an architect and evangelist for IBM, RedHat, EMC, and Amazon Alexa. She has taught thousands of people the value and importance of using AI, Machine Learning, and mindful leadership and has delivered keynotes, workshops, and conferences around the world.

Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on the latest methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Kinect for Windows, a Microsoft Regional Director, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut.

He was awarded the MVP for Kinect because of his work on gesture recognition. Namely, KinectTools and GesturePak. KinectTools is an abstraction over the Kinect 2.0 SDK that takes the detail work out of using the Kinect in a Windows application. GesturePak lets you record, edit, and recognize gestures in a Windows application. Both are free open source products.

Carl is also the creator of Music to Code By, a set of 25-minute long instrumental music pieces designed to get you into a state of flow and keep you there. Music to Code By has been praised widely by developers for keeping them focused and helping them solve difficult problems.

Carl has been a leader in the .NET community since 2002, and in the Visual Basic (VB) community before that. In the very early days he wrote for Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, authoring the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page.

Before he started .NET Rocks! in 2002 (three years before the word ‘podcast’ became popular) he developed and taught hands-on training classes for VB.NET and ASP.NET via his training company, Franklins.Net.

Carl has spoken regularly at conferences around the world, such as DevIntersection, NDC, NDC London, OreDev, Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft TechEd Europe, DevTeach, DevReach, and others.

In addition to his work in the development field, Carl works in the music business as a composer, recording engineer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist. With his band, the Franklin Brothers, he has produced two albums, Lifeboat to Nowhere and Been a While. Both albums get nothing but five star reviews. Noted guitar virtuoso John Scofield has collaborated with Carl on two songs, Chain Reaction and Groove or Get Out of the Way.

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 https://codenasarre.wordpress.com/ blog.
Christophe also presented technical sessions on stage both internally at Microsoft or for ISVs and customers at public event such as Microsoft TechDays Paris.

Gill Cleeren is a Microsoft Regional Director, Visual Studio MVP and Pluralsight author.
Gill focuses on web and mobile development and loves Xamarin. Gill is a frequent speaker at many international conferences such as TechDays, TechEd, NDC, VSLive and many more. He also is the founder of Techorama, the biggest developer conference in Belgium and he runs Visug, the .NET user group in Belgium as well.
You can find his website at www.snowball.be.

I’m a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft MVP and Developer Advocate at Docker, Inc. I’ve been architecting and delivering successful solutions with Microsoft technologies since 2000, most recently Big Data and API implementations in Azure, and distributed applications with Docker.
Currently I’m interested the evolution of the Microsoft stack, exploring the great opportunities to modernize existing .NET Framework apps with Docker, and run them alongside new .NET Core apps in Windows and Linux containers.
I’m a regular presenter and workshop host at conferences. I’ve been fortunate to speak recently at NDC, DockerCon, SDD, DevSum, Container Camp and Future Decoded. You’ll often see me at user groups too – Docker London, London DevOps and WinOps are my locals.

Kevin Gosse has been using Microsoft .NET technologies for 10 years, across client, server, and mobile applications.
He is currently employed at Criteo, where he works on scalability, debugging, and optimization issues.

Steve Gordon is a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, senior developer and community lead based in Brighton. He works for Madgex developing and supporting their data products built using .NET Core technologies.
Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 15 years. Steve is currently developing cloud-native services, using .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Docker. He enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting at user groups and conferences.
Steve is excited to be a part of the .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects, most actively helping save lives with open source software and the Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org).
You can find Steve online at his blogwww.stevejgordon.co.uk and on Twitter as @stevejgordon

Kendra Havens is a program manager at Microsoft on the .NET and Visual Studio team.
Her focus is .NET tooling and the testing experience in Visual Studio. You may recognize her from videos on .NET Core, VS Code, and Docker.
In addition to an unruly enthusiasm for technology, Kendra loves reading and camping.

Jiří Činčura is an independent developer and consultant focusing on data and business layers, language constructs, parallelism and databases.
He’s Microsoft MVP, maintains ADO.NET driver for Firebird (with EF and EF Core support) and blogs at https://www.tabsoverspaces.com.

I am Adam Furmanek and I have been working as a .NET developer for 5 years. Right now I am at Amazon working with Scala, Spark and Machine Learning.
I am always interested in digging deeper, exploring machine code and going through implementation details to better understand internals of the technologies I use every day. That's why I like debugging, decompiling and disassembling the code to understand memory models, concurrency problems and other details hidden deeply inside.
In my free time I play ping-pong, watch Woody Allen's movies and blog stuff at http://blog.adamfurmanek.pl

David is the Technical Curriculum Manager for .NET at Pluralsight.
He brings 20 years of experience to the role in writing software, including the last 13 years developing with .NET. He brings a pragmatic approach to everything he does by emphasizing practical solutions to real-world scenarios encountered by developers every day.
He appreciates code that is simple, maintainable and approachable and he enjoys working with others in the .NET community as we work together to improve ourselves and each other.

As a former Pilates teacher and professional horse-rider, Layla changed careers and became a self-taught .NET developer. Microsoft technologies and the support of people using it became her new passion.
Today, she’s based in London, organises the .Net meetup in Milton Keynes and helps developers all over the world as a Twilio developer evangelist.

Marco De Sanctis is a freelance consultant in IT, with 15 years of experience in the .NET Platform. His interests range from a very strong tech background in C#, ASP.NET and the whole Microsoft stack, to Solution Architecture, especially for Cloud based applications.
His current focus is on running container based applications in Azure.
Thanks to his contributions to the .NET community as content manager for ASPItalia.com, he’s been awarded as Microsoft MVP for the last 8 years in a row.

Michael Kaufmann is Director of DevOps and Innovation for Devoteam and builds agile teams all over Germany for customers like Daimler, Porsche, Bayer, Carl Zeiss and many more.
Mike has been working as a .net developer, DevOps consultant and manager for 18 years. He loves Scrum, Agile, DevOps, .Net, Clean Code and Azure. His passion is to help organizations on their journey to Agile, DevOps and the Cloud.
Besides being one of the organizers of Azure Meetup Stuttgart, he is a frequent speaker at international conferences and user groups. He is also an active blogger.
Michael is a Microsoft MVP for DevOps / Development Technologies ever since 2015.

Radu Vunvulea is a technology enthusiast working as Group Head of Cloud for Endava. He has a vast experience in different technologies and industries.
Most of his time is spent working with the cloud, helping companies to innovate and finding solutions to their business problems.
He enjoys building bridges between people and helping others to grow. He shares his knowledge on his personal blog and at different events where he is invited as a speaker.
In his spare time, he drives an IT community and he is also a Microsoft Azure MVP.

Mauro is a Solution Architect in Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus, and former Microsoft MVP (2006 - 2016).
He spends his time helping developer building better .NET systems leveraging Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and message based architectures.
Mauro usually writes about technology, but not only, on his English blog at http://milestone.topics.it and his Italian blog at blogs.ugidotnet.org/topics.
He is also passionate about skiing, classical dance and music, in general.

Dror is an freelance consultant and software architect.
He has been writing software professionally for more than a decade, during which he has worked for industry giants such as Intel and SAP as well as small startup companies. He has extensive knowledge of many programming languages and platforms including C++, assembly, .NET (C#/VB) and Java. Dror is a Pluralsight author and public speaker.
He is an expert in agile methodologies and software engineering practices.
When not writing code, Dror mentors developers and conducts courses about clean code, unit testing and TDD. In his blog (www.helpercode.com) Dror writes about programming languages, software development tools, clean code, cool programming languages and anything else he finds interesting.

I am a consultant and software engineer working on diverse tech stacks but focusing mostly on .NET in C#, Web Technologies and iOS/Swift.
I am a build system enthusiast and always work on improving DevOps processes at our company to make life easier for developers.
I was awarded Microsoft MVP for community and open-source work around .NET Core Tooling.

Johnny Hooyberghs is a passionate .NET Architect, Developer and Trainer since 2008 and teaches programming in .NET and C# for a higher education institute for adults since 2010.
He has been passionate about .NET ever since it was released. His areas of expertise are C#, WCF, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Azure and ALM using the Microsoft Stack.
In his free time he likes traveling, visiting theme parks all over the whole world and is always searching for the next technological challenge.

Miroslav is a software architect for .NET and JavaScript, employed as a Technical Lead at Seavus.
He uses .NET from version 1.0. From Windows Forms, through WPF and Silverlight, all the way to ASP.NET Core.
Currently, he is focused on ASP.NET Core, client-side JavaScript development and software craftsmanship. During his career, he worked on a lot of small and big projects, including a couple of local startups.
He is one of the members of the development team for the Kicks platform and one of the moderators for https://javascriptkicks.com and https://dotnetkicks.com.
Besides that, he is an active community member, user groups speaker and one of the leaders of "BLbit Banja Luka" user group. His blog is at https://miroslavpopovic.com.

I'm a software architect & developer who loves to work on open source projects. See my Github profile: https://github.com/hikalkan.
I'm the lead developer of the popular ABP framework (see https://github.com/aspnetboilerplate/aspnetboilerplate and https://aspnetboilerplate.com/)
I'm mostly interesting in developing reusable framework & libraries, distributed systems, multi-threaded and scalable solutions. I'm talking at local and international conferences about multi-tenancy, microservice architecture and developer tools. I'm writing technical articles on various platforms.