Conference Co-Chairs:
Andrew BrustVisual Studio Live! Co-Chair
Founder & CEO, Blue Badge InsightsAndrew Brust is Founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights, an analysis, strategy and advisory firm serving Microsoft customers and partners. Brust also serves as CTO for Tallan, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator; is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP; an advisor to the New York Technology Council; and co-author of "Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008".
Rockford LhotkaVisual Studio Live! Co-Chair
CTO, MagenicRockford Lhotka is the CTO of Magenic, and is the creator of the widely used CSLA .NET development framework. He is the author of numerous books on software development, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP.
Magenic is a company that specializes in planning, designing, building and maintaining your enterprise's most mission critical systems.
Advisory Board:
Michael DesmondEditor in Chief, MSDN Magazine
Michael Desmond is editor in chief of
MSDN Magazine, Microsoft's flagship publication for software developers working with Microsoft tools and technologies. A 20-year veteran in IT and technology publishing, Desmond was an editor at
PC World magazine for six years before launching an editorial consultancy that did work for leading technology firms like IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems.
Keith WardEditor in Chief, Visual Studio Magazine
Keith Ward is editor in chief of
Visual Studio Magazine. He's been a technology journalist for more than a decade. In that time, he's covered all aspects of the industry, from IT administration to virtualization to software development. He was founding editor of
Virtualization Review magazine, editor of
Redmond magazine and senior editor of
Microsoft Certified Professional magazine. He served as editor in chief of
MSDN Magazine before his current role with
Visual Studio Magazine.