Adel Khaled is currently pursuing his masters in software engineering at University of Alberta. For the past 4 years, he has held the position of technical manager and software architect at Netways an e-Solution company based in Riyadh. Adel has an extensive experience with .NET framework and has been working with .NET since early releases. He has over 7 years of experience in software development with Microsoft technologies developing client-server, windows based applications, web services and distributed applications. He has implemented many projects using Microsoft technologies such as Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Message Queuing, MS SQL Server and BizTalk. Before moving to .NET, he has worked in C++ building windows applications for Supply Chain and Customer Management in an Italian company called TXT.

Daniel is a senior solutions architect with over 19 years experience developing business applications. In the last 10 years he has developed large n-tier enterprise applications using VB/COM+, BEA Weblogic J2EE, JSP, ASP.NET, Windows clients and .NET distributed technologies.

Involved early with .NET since the 1.0 beta 1 release, he has been presenting lectures in .NET technologies since November 2001 at Universities, Institutes, Microsoft Events, and User Groups. Daniel founded the Calgary .NET User Group and he’s the current president. He has received five Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Awards since 2002 and holds MCP, MCAD, MCSD.Net, and MCT certifications. He has a Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering and a Master Degree in Computer Science.

Daniel is currently focusing on WCF/SOA and Enterprise Application Frameworks, and he's working for Alberta EUB, in Calgary, Canada, as a Corporate Solutions Architect. You can visit his weblog at www.DanielCarbajal.Net

David Woods is an independent contractor based in Edmonton, Alberta. He has worked his way from BASIC (and still has his Apple II to prove it) to .NET and still enjoying programming. Dave currently works on developing enterprise applications.

Drew is an experienced IT consultant with over 8 years of experience in the industry. He runs his own IT support and consulting company – Computer Issues. He is also the president of the Calgary IT Pro user group.

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Fred started building applications on a Tandy CoCo III in the early 80’s after teaching himself basic programming skills and then continued to develop using Assembler, C, C++ and VB on a part-time basis through the years until the Y2K problem raised its ugly head in 1997. He then formalized his education with a Business Systems Analyst Degree through the CDI College of Business and Technology.

In May of 1998, Fred was brought in under contract for the City of Lethbridge to work on their Y2K problem and was hired full time in 2000 where he’s still currently employed as a Corporate Systems Analyst / Senior .Net Developer.

In mid 2005, Fred founded the Lethbridge Dot Net User Group where he currently serves as the Group Leader.

John Bristowe is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Canada based in Calgary, Alberta. John is an experienced speaker and frequently presents Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) events across Canada. John co-hosts a podcast entitled, "Plumbers at Work" (www.plumbersatwork.com) which features members of the Canadian .NET development community talking about technology. Prior to joining Microsoft, John was a member of the Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) programs.

Manoj Khanna is an author, entrepreneur and an open source software supporter. Manoj is the founder of Dextrus Prosoft, an open source technology and services company working towards bringing usable and cost-effective open source technologies to small to mid-sized companies. Manoj founded Calgary Open Source Group in July 2007, for supporting Open Source Software Technology and culture in Calgary, and bring in open source debates/talks/presentations/network events from various members of the open source community located worldwide. Manoj is also an Executive Editor for Open Source Series for Happy About Publications. He's an alumni of Carnegie Mellon University. 

Matei spends his time developing the next killer application for Symantec. In his free time he enjoys lending a hand with the Calgary .Net User Group web sites and spending time with his wonderful family.

Nolan serves ThoughtWorks as an Application Developer with more than two years of experience in development of .NET applications. He is experienced with test driven development, OO design, patterns, aspect oriented programming, development of concurrent applications, refactoring, as well as other agile development methodologies. His main area of recent expertise has been Java leveraging the GWT framework, however he is also experienced with .NET technologies that made use of a combination of Spring.NET framework, remoting, as well as AJAX enabled ASP.NET.

Stephen Bosch is the Managing Director for Vodacomm.

Vincent Chiew is the president of Axis Cogni-Solve Ltd. A business technology and systems consultant. He is a professional engineer, information systems professional, project management professional, and a professional student in the province of Alberta.

His degrees consist of Electrical and Computer Engineering minor, Computer Science, Software Engineering, and currently working on his Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Informatics. He is a research member of both the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and the Computer Science department. He has published various academic and industrial peer reviewed papers.

Finally, he has presented, advised and consulted to groups such as the City of Calgary, Standard Council of Canada, Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta, Canadian Information Processing Society, RCMP, and PSEPC, in areas such as security, emergency, engineering, software, risk management, code of ethics, governance, professional practice, compliance, wireless technology, information technology, business technology, industrial technology, and advanced technology.