Markus Egger, EPS Corporation and CoDe Magazine

Markus Egger is an international speaker, having presented sessions at numerous conferences in North & South America and Europe. Markus has written many articles for publications including CoDe Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, MSDN Brazil, ASP.net Pro, FoxPro Advisor, Fuchs, FoxTalk and Microsoft Office & Database Journal. Markus is the publisher of CoDe Magazine. Markus is also the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., a custom software development and consulting firm in Houston, Texas.

He specializes in consulting for object-oriented development, Internet development, B2B, and Web Services. EPS does most of development using Microsoft Visual Studio (.NET). Markus has also worked as a contractor on the Microsoft Visual Studio team, where he was mostly responsible for object modeling and other object- and component-related technologies.

Markus received the Microsoft MVP Award (1996-2006) for his contibutions to the developer community. Visual LandPro, one of the applications Markus was responsible for, was nominated three times in the Microsoft Excellence Awards.

Shaun Walker

(MVP, ASPInsider) is founder and president of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc., a solutions company specializing in Microsoft enterprise technologies. Shaun has 15 years professional experience in architecting and implementing large scale software solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is the creator and maintainer of DotNetNuke®, a Web Application Framework for ASP.NET which has spawned the largest and most successful Open Source community project on the Microsoft platform.

Based on his significant community contributions he was recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2004 and an ASPInsider in 2005. He is a frequent speaker at User Groups in his local area and is a contributing author to the WROX Press books Professional DotNetNuke - ASP.NET Portals and Professional DotNetNuke 4: Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET 2.0.

Shaun resides in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada with his wife and two children.

Rob Daigneau - Monster.com

has over 15 years experience designing and implementing enterprise-class database-driven applications for a broad array of industries from manufacturing, to financial services, to retail and wholesale.

Rob is the Director of Platform Architecture for Monster.com, one of the most visited Web sites in the world.

Chip Wilson - Geniant

Chip Wilson is the Chief Technology Officer of Geniant and the company’s Chief SOA Architect. He is a nationally prominent expert on Service Oriented Architectures and has been instrumental in carving out a leadership position for Geniant in the market, defining service offerings that enable clients to leverage the power and flexibility of a Service Oriented Architecture and recognize the promised benefits.

His recently published book, “Transparent IT: Building Blocks for an Agile Enterprise,” describes a detailed framework and roadmap for adopting an SOA and creating an agile, real time enterprise. He serves on myriad industry committees and holds a wealth of industry certifications from IBM, Sun, and Microsoft, including the prestigious Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA).

Mr. Wilson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Master’s of Science in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas.

Ron Jacobs

 is an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team team based in Redmond, Washington. After a long career as a developer, program manager for various Microsoft products and product manager for Patterns & Practices.

Ron became host of the Channel9 show ARCast.

A popular conference speaker Ron brings together solid architectural content and a sense of humor together to help you succeed in building architecturally sound and secure applications.