Speakers

Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.

Rockford is the creator of CSLA .NET, one of the most widely used development frameworks for Microsoft .NET.

He is the author of numerous books, including the Expert 2008 Business Objects book. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He contributes to several major magazines and regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and Dev Connections.

Scott Davis is a seasoned consultant with a decade of consulting experience on both the Microsoft and Java platforms, spending nearly all his time in Silverlight the last two years. Scott has experience in web, desktop, mobility, reporting, and database design and development, as well as project & staff management. Scott is currently the owner and principal consultant for Ignition Point Solutions; he is the leader of the Twin Cities Silverlight User Group; he is the president of BizLounge, a local entrepreneur group; and he is a member of the adjunct faculty in the information technology management master's degree program at St Mary's University in Minneapolis.

Jeff Brand is a .NET Developer in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Group. Jeff assists customers in evaluating, developing and deploying applications built on the .NET Framework and the Microsoft platform. He has been with Microsoft for fourteen years and has served in variety of roles including infrastructure consultant, e-commerce technology specialist, and enterprise technology advisor.

Javier is an ASP.NET Insider and MVP that specializes in ASP.NET, system architecture,and training. He has helped co-found the Iowa .NET Users Group, the Iowa Code Camp,Community for MVC (C4MVC) and MvcConf. Javier is also the author and primary contributorto the MVC Turbine open source project.

On his blog, http://lozanotek.com/blog, you can find posts on ASP.NET, architecture, and designpatterns just to name a few topics. Javier is an avid supporter of the community and likes to giveback by speaking at user groups, local/regional/national .NET events, participating in forums,and by writing articles. In his spare time, Javier loves spending time with his family and enjoys writing about himself in the third person. Twitter: @jglozano

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 14 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an ASP.NET MVP, an author, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, DevLink, DevTeach, Tulsa Tech Fest, DevWeek, TechEd, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international VSLive! events.

Chris Black is a developer located in Minneapolis, Minnesota who focuses on ActionScript development with Adobe Flex and AIR. Chris has a strong interest in building AIR applications for Android mobile devices. He covers these topics as well as sharing solutions to the problems he encounters when working with Flex and AIR on his blog, blackcj.com. Chris has spoken at many interactive conferences including Flashbelt, Flash on the Beach and MN.swf Camp. He is currently writing a book about ActionScript that will be released later this year.

Justin Grammens of Recursive Awesome, LLC ( http://recursiveawesome.com ) has been writing software for 12 years, holds a Masters Degree in Software Systems and has a patent pending on the process of a system to collect and rate digital media. He has written applications for a wide variety of platforms, in a number of different market sectors, is the owner of Localtone, LLC and founder of Mobile Twin Cities ( http://mobiletwincities.com ). Justin has built online e-commerce systems, real time mapping software, tax accounting systems and software for internet radio stations. He mainly works in the languages of Java, Ruby, Groovy and Objective-C and most recently has been developing software applications both for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry operating systems. Follow Justin and Recursive Awesome on Twitter at: @justingrammens and @recursiveawesum

Tom works as a software developer in the Twin Cities. His experience covers a broad range of Microsoft tools and technologies. And every so often he writes or presents some of the lessons learned along the way delivering solutions.

Scott Colestock is a Principal Consultant for Trace Ventures, LLC, based in the Twin Cities. He has delivered solutions in the SOA/BPM space for multiple clients in the area, as well as significant work in the Windows Mobile arena. Scott is recognized also for his work with Team Foundation Server, helping several clients successfully deploy and adopt. Scott is a BizTalk Server MVP, a certified ScrumMaster, and speaks frequently at user groups and industry conferences.

Energy, laughter and a contagious passion for coding - Mike brings it all to the podium. Mike has worked in a variety of roles including architect, project manager, developer and technical writer. The coolest part of his job? Running into people who are still using (and liking) his software applications. Mike is a published author with WROX Press and APress Books, writing primarily about getting the most from your SQL Server database. Since appearing in Microsoft's DevCast in 1994, Mike has presented technical information at seminars, conferences and corporate boardrooms across America.

Todd VanNurden is a 18 year software development veteran working as a Systems Architect for Microsoft with a focus on “Over the horizon” projects. He has extensive software engineering background having designed and developed systems at some of the largest companies in the world. Todd is often a featured speaker at many industry events including TechEd, PDC and for the fourth year running the Minnesota Developers Conference. You can reach Todd at ToddVan@Microsoft.com

Donn Felker is the founder of Agilevent a innovative creative development firm that specializes in web, mobile and agile technologies. He has over 10 years of professional experience in various markets that include – entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial, and real estate. He is the author of Android Development for Dummies and the author of the TekPub.com Introduction to Android video series. He is also a Microsoft ASP Insider, an MCTS in Web Client Development for .NET 2.0 and 3.5 and is also a certified ScrumMaster. He founded and coordinates the Twin Cities Give Camp and leads the Twin Cities Developers Guild. He writes, presents and consultants on various topics ranging from architecture, development, agile and patterns & practices. Follow Donn on twitter: @donnfelker or read his blog here: http://blog.donnfelker.com.

Adam Grocholski is a technical evangelist at RBA Consulting. Lately he has been diving into the Windows Azure Platform and the latest UI technologies such as Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight as well as some more obscure areas of the .NET Framework (i.e. T4 and MEF). Recently, Adam was named as a Microsoft MVP for his commitment to the Microsoft application development community. From founding and presenting at the Twin Cities Cloud Computing user group to speaking at the local .NET and Silverlight user groups along with code camps and local, regional, and national conferences, Adam is committed to building a great community of well-educated Microsoft developers. When not working he enjoys spending time with his three awesome daughters and amazing wife. You can catch up with his latest projects and thoughts on technology at http://thinkfirstcodelater.com, or if that's too verbose for your liking you can always follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/agrocholski.

J Wynia is an independent software consultant, writer and geek with 10+ years in the IT and software development game. He's been building ASP.NET MVC applications since the early tech previews and all of his ASP.NET work has been in MVC for the past 2 years. When he's not building apps for clients, he's building them for his wide range of hobbies.

Damon Allison is a former Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services and currently and independent consultant in the .NET and mobile software space. Since 2008 Damon has written iPhone applications in the medical, consumer, and entertainment industries with clients including General Mills, Allianz, Mayo Clinic, and Cisco Systems.

John Sheehan is a Developer Advocate for Twilio, a cloudtelephony service that provides a simple RESTful API for sending and receiving phone calls and SMS text messages from your applications. John is also the author of RestSharp, a .NET REST Client that hopefully doesn't suck. John has been developing for the web with Microsoft technologies since 1996 and currently resides in Broomfield, CO. Twitter: @johnsheehan

Jon is an IADNUG leader and consultant from West Des Moines, Iowa. He has been programing for the past 15 years and currently infatuated with writing WPF and Silverlight applications. Recently, Jon has created two tools that help .Net Developers write better code – Nitriq Code Analysis and Atomiq Duplicate Code Finder.

Brent Edwards is a Senior Consultant for Magenic, a Microsoft Gold Partner consulting company. Brent has been knocking around the .NET world for over five years, working on projects ranging from ASP.NET MVC with C# and jQuery to WPF with VB.NET. When not cranking out code, you can find him hanging out with his wife and three kids or riding his wakeboard, snowboard or mountain bike. Twitter: @brentledwards