Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a professional services company and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.

Rockford is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, INETA speaker, and Microsoft Software Legend. He is the author of several books, including Expert Visual Basic .NET and C# Business Objects. He is a columnist for MSDN Online and contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections.

During his career, Rockford has been responsible for software architecture, design and development, network administration and project management. He has designed and built systems for bio-medical manufacturing, agriculture, point of sale, credit card fraud tracking, general retail, construction and healthcare.

Juval Lowy is the founder and Chief Architect of IDesign where he specializes in system architecture and large applications design.

Juval is a Microsoft MVP, Software Legend, Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, and active participant in Microsoft's internal design reviews for future versions of .NET.

Juval is a frequent speaker at major international software development conferences where he talks about .NET, component-oriented design and the development process. Juval is the renowned author of highly regarded books for O'Reilly and has published over 60 articles covering almost every aspect of .NET development in MSDN, CoDe, Visual Studio, and .NET magazines.

Billy Hollis is the founder of DotNetMasters, a professional services consultancy with expertise in application architecture and design, .NET software development, and .NET training.

Billy is a Regional Director, MVP, and a member of the INETA speakers bureau. Microsoft crowned Billy a "Software Legend" in 2002. As author and speaker, Billy is a tireless advocate of .NET smart client development. He wrote or co-authored many books on .NET, including the first book published on Visual Basic.NET.

Billy frequently presents at major conferences, including TechEd USA, TechEd Europe, Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, COMDEX, VSLive!, Microsoft's Patterns and Practices Architect Summit, SD West.

Les is a noted author, Microsoft MVP, and popular INETA speaker who regularly presents at numerous conferences in the US, the Americas, Europe, and Russia.

Les founded Pinter Consulting in 1982 after selling the precursor of Microsoft Word to a 23-year-old Bill Gates. Pinter Consulting has developed enterprise applications for Halliburton, Shell Oil, Exxon, Mitchell Energy, Lockheed, Catholic Charities, TRW, and numerous small and medium-size companies throughout the United States and abroad. His company offers development services in VB.NET, ASP.NET and Visual FoxPro.

Les has written numerous book. He is a Contributing Editor for Universal Thread Magazine, published a FoxBASE and FoxPro newsletter for over 10 years, and continues to publish articles on FoxPro, SQL, VB.NET, and ASP.NET on his website and in Les Pinter's Database Journal.

Doron has broad experience and a rich understanding of software architecture and design, having built enterprise applications at Disney and for many other global clients before joining Disney. Doron invented, designed and built a key pillar in Disney's security architecture, and led many of the company's major application efforts of the past six years.

Doron, with his relentless focus on business value, is our voice of the customer.