Celebrities

Beat Schwegler, DPE Microsoft

Speaking day 1 at 09:00-10:30 and day 2 at 10:50-11:50

Beat Schwegler is an Architect for Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), supporting and consulting with large companies in software architecture related topics, and is a frequent speaker at international events and conferences. He has more than 13 years of experience in professional software development and architecture and was involved in a wide variety of projects, ranging from real-time building control systems, best selling shrink-wrapped products to large scale CRM and ERP systems.

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Dan North, Thoughtworks

Speaking day 1 at 10:50-11:50

Dan is a principal consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he writes software and coaches teams in agile and lean methods. He believes in putting people first and writing simple, pragmatic software. He believes that most problems that teams face are about communication, and all the others are too. This is why he puts so much emphasis on "getting the words right", and why he is so passionate about behaviour-driven development, communication and how people learn. He has been working in the IT industry since he graduated in 1991, and he occasionally blogs at http://dannorth.net. 

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Niclas Nilsson, factor10

Speaking day 2 at 09:00-10:30 and 10:50-11:50 

Niclas is a software developement coach, consultant, educator and writer with a deep passion for the software development craft. He started working as a developer in 1992 and drawn from experience, he knows that some choices makes significant difference in software development, like languages, tools, communication and processes. This is the reason behind his affection for dynamic languages, test-driven development, code generation and agile processes. Blog at http://niclasnilsson.se.

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Christian Weyer, thinktecture

Speaking day 2 at 14:00-14:50 and 16:10-17:00

Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions architectures. He has been modelling and implementing distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies. Christian has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects in the past few years, with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) being the two main technologies applied recently.

Christian's views on architecture and distributed solutions are considered both mature and innovating. A number of customers have put confidence into his experience when it comes to apply WCF and WF to real problems. The national and international developer and architect community knows Christian from his weblog, webcasts, forums activities, usergroup talks and conference performances. He was selected as one of the Microsoft MVPs for Solution Architecture and is an independent Microsoft Regional Director.  

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Tess Ferrandez - Escalation engineer, Microsoft

Speaking day 1 at 13:00-13:50

Tess is an escalation engineer in the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. She started debugging .NET issues when .NET was in the alpha stage and has been troubleshooting ASP.NET and other .NET issues ever since for Microsofts external customers as well as internal product teams. Tess Blogg: http://blogs.msdn.com/Tess

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Jimmy Nilsson, factor10

Speaking day 1 at 16:10-17:00

Jimmy Nilsson is co-founder of the consulting company factor10. He has written numerous technical articles and two books (“.NET Enterprise Design” and “Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns”). He has also been training and speaking at conferences, but above everything else, he is a developer with almost 20 years of experience.

Jimmy's blog: JimmyNilsson.com/blog/

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Eric Doernenburg, Thoughtworks

Speaking day 1 at 10:50-11:50 and day 2 at 14:00-14:50

Erik Dörnenburg is a senior developer and technical architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc., a provider of application development and integration services to the Global 1000. Coming from a background in enterprise applications and new media systems, Erik is currently exploring advanced patterns of enterprise software on various platforms.

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Forest Key, Microsoft

Speaking day 1 at 09:00-10:30

Forest Key is the director of the core Web/Client UX Platform & Tools team at Microsoft Corp. Prior to joining Microsoft, Forest worked as a product manager for a number of companies developing creative tools for the professional designer, such as Macromedia, Avid, and Pinnacle Systems. Forest was the founder and CEO of Puffin Design, a successful start-up developing high end tools for the TV, film and effects industries. Before entering the software industry, Forest worked as a professional film editor and visual effects animator including a stint at George Lucas’ Industry Light and Magic. During his time at Industry Light and Magic, Forest worked on Star Wars, Mission Impossible, Men in Black and numerous TV commercials.

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Catherine Heller, Microsoft

Speaking day 2 at 09:00-10:30

Catherine Heller is a Technical Evangelist in Redmond where she works with early adopters to ensure their success on pre-released versions of Microsoft technologies. For the past 10 months, she has been working with ISVs that are developing for Windows Vista. Catherine initially joined the evangelism team in 2003 to work with early adopters of Visual Studio 2005 and VSTO 2005. Prior to moving to Redmond, she spent three years working for Microsoft Services in Spain, where as a Senior Consultant she assisted enterprise customers with Web Services, COM+ and other middle-tier technologies. Catherine has worked with Microsoft developer technologies for over 15 years.

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