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VSLive! continues to set an unparalleled standard in editorial
excellence. As an attendee, you’ll meet the industry’s
most talented and respected developers—professionals
working in the trenches dedicated to delivering the most comprehensive,
timely information available. You’ll also meet top members of the Visual Studio Development Team from Redmond.
Francesco Balena
Francesco Balena is a Visual Studio Magazine contributing editor, Editor-in-Chief of Visual Basic Journal, VSM’s Italian licensee, author of Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, and coauthor of Applied .NET Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET. Francesco teaches VB .NET classes for Wintellect, and is the founder of the popular www.vb2themax.com Web site. He is also principal of Code Architects Srl, an Italian software company that specializes on .NET development.
Ari Bixhorn
Ari Bixhorn is the Lead Product Manager in the .NET Developer
Solutions division at Microsoft in Redmond,
USA. As product manager, Ari is responsible for technical
evangelism and product planning for Visual Studio .NET. Prior
to joining Microsoft, Ari worked at British Telecom developing
and supporting business-to-business electronic commerce solutions.
Roberto Brunetti
Roberto Brunetti is an instructor and consultant expert in
Windows DNA/COM+, Message Queue, IIS, ASP, DHTML and XML.
Since July 2000, Roberto has been focused on ASP.NET, developing
applications and teaching professional developers how to build
server-side code. He’s a regular speaker at major Italian
conferences, including WPC, and co-founder of DevLeap (www.DevLeap.it),
an Italian Web site and training company offering high-level
information for the developer community.
Andrew Brust
Andrew Brust is the President of Progressive Systems Consulting,
New York. Progressive specializes in developing and training
developers for client/server and other custom database applications.
Andrew’s experience includes training SQL Server, OLAP,
and Data Mining with .NET, and has been applied in banking,
government agencies, small business, and non-profit organizations.
Dino Esposito
Dino Esposito is a ADO .NET expert and a trainer and consultant
for Wintellect. Dino worked with Wrox Press on several book
projects, including Professional ASP 3.0 and Professional
Windows DNA. He’s also the author of Windows
Shell Programming, Instant DHTML Scriptlets
and Windows Script Host Programmer’s Reference.
Dino is the cofounder of www.vb2themax.com
and can be reached at dinoe@wintellect.com.
Chris Kinsman
Chris Kinsman teaches courses on ASP.NET in both VB .NET and
C#, and serves as Conference Chair for ASP Live!, part of
the VSLive! conference series. Chris is an ASP expert who
spends most of his time consulting, and has been working with
the technology since it was code-named Denali. A former CTO
for a large-scale Web site, and Chris continues to act as
contributing editor for Visual Studio Magazine. You
can reach Chris at ckinsman@vergentsoftware.com.
Paolo Pialorsi
Paolo Pialorsi is a certified consultant, trainer and author,
focused on Web app development with Microsoft technologies.
Paolo has been working with Visual Basic since version 1.0,
as well as Active Server Pages, COM/ DCOM, HTML, DHTML, XML,
XSLT, Web Services, and .NET Framework. He has written articles
for PCWeek (now Week.it) and worked with a fellow
developer on the Italian translation for Visual Basic 6.0
Power Techniques for Everyday Programs. In 2002 he co-founded
DevLeap (www.devleap.com)
and continues to provide high-level information to the Italian
development community.
Keith Pleas
Keith Pleas is one of the founders of Guided Design and has
worked for more than two years on the team developing the
.NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Keith is an internationally
known writer and speaker and is the Editorial Chair for VSLive!
2003. He is also a Visual Studio Magazine contributing
editor, and has developed Microsoft Professional Certification
Exams. Keith serves as an advisor to the INETA board and is
the liaison for the INETA Speakers Bureau.
Christian Weyer
Christian Weyer is a freelance developer and consultant based in Germany. Christian speaks regularly at developer conferences
and other events, and he writes German and English articles
about the latest and coolest technologies, including is XML,
SOAP, and related Web services. You can find out more about
him through his .NET and XML Web services Web site “.NET
XML Web Services Repertory” (www.xmlwebservices.cc),
and reach him at cw@eyesoft.de.
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