Speakers
Jon Galloway / Microsoft
Jon is the executive director of the .NET Foundation. He works at Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist focused on ASP.NET and Windows Azure.
He's co-author of Professional ASP.NET MVC, writes samples and tutorials like the MVC Music Store and is a frequent speaker at conferences and international Web Camps events. Jon's been doing professional web development for 17 years, including high scale applications in financial, entertainment and healthcare analytics. He's part of the Herding Code podcast, Twitters as @jongalloway and blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway.
He likes to travel, but spends most of his time in San Diego with his amazingly patient wife Rachel, three wonderful daughters, a dozen avocado trees and the occasional rattlesnake.
Federico Lois / Corvalius
Federico is a cofounder of Corvalius, a R&D company, and of Codealike, a Developer Analytics company. He has been working on algorithmic performance for the last 10 years, both with CPU and specialized hardware like GPUs. His experience ranges from banking software performance tuning to database engine optimization. He enjoys reading in binary and tinkering with registers and caches. Among his technology interests are highly distributed systems, massively parallel technology, low-level optimization and high-performance computer graphics.
Talk(s)
Metaprogramming for the masses
Egor Bogatov / Microsoft
Egor Bogatov is a software developer at Microsoft. He is a member of .NET 5 team (Mono Runtime). Also he contributes to CoreCLR and CoreFX.
Talk(s)
.NET 5: runtimes
Scott Wlaschin / Author of the book "Domain Modeling Made Functional"
Scott Wlaschin is a developer, architect and author. He is the author of the popular F# site fsharpforfunandprofit.com and the book "Domain Modeling Made Functional".
Known for his non-academic approach to functional programming, Scott is a popular speaker and has given talks at NDC, F# Exchange, DDD Europe, and other conferences around the world.
Talk(s)
The power of composition
Christophe Nasarre-Soulier / Criteo
In addition to developing and shipping software on Microsoft stacks for 25+ years, Christophe Nasarre has been working as a technical reviewer for MSPress, Addison-Wesley and other publishing companies since 1996 on books such as "CLR via C#" and the last editions of Windows Internals.
He is providing tools and insights on .NET and Windows development via his blog. Christophe also presented technical sessions on stage both internally at Microsoft or for ISVs and customers at public events.
Pavel Yosifovich / Author of the "Windows Internals" book
Pavel Yosifovich is a developer, trainer author and speaker. He's the co-author of "Windows Internals 7th edition Part 1" (2017), author of "WPF 4.5 Cookbook" (2012) and "Windows Kernel Programming" (2019). Pavel is also a former MVP and a Pluralsight author. He can be reached at zodiacon@live.com or through his blog.
Joreg / vvvv
Joreg is co-founder of vvvv and core-developer of the multipurpose toolkit vvvv. Besides he teaches, works for money and is mainly concerned with the integration of sound, image and computer code.
Raffaele Rialdi / Vevy Europe
Raffaele Rialdi is a senior Software Architect working as a consultant, speaker and trainer. Since 2003, he is a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Security category. His passion for the community brought him to be a member of the board of UGIdotNET, president of DotNetLiguria and co-founder of the Italian C++ user group. He is currently working as an architect and developer on the backend of an enterprise project with a specific focus on code generation and working on cross-platform mobile and IoT development in both C# and C++ languages.
Stephen Cleary / Faithlife
Stephen Cleary is a Christian, husband, and father who programs software in his spare time. :)
He is a Microsoft MVP and the author of "Concurrency in C# Cookbook" (O'Reilly) as well as several MSDN articles. He's also the top answerer for async/await questions on Stack Overflow.
His work usually deals with asynchronous and multithreaded programming, but he finds any challenging subject interesting. These days he uses C#/TypeScript, but remains interested in many different languages.
Talk(s)
Asynchronous streams
Maxim Arshinov / HighTech Group
The co-founder of HighTech Group, teacher in KFU and blogger. Try to google "как писать тесты" ("how to write tests" in Russian). The first result is his article.
Previously, before founding his own company, Maxim was employed as a Web Developer, Team Leader, CTO and Head of Quality Department in various companies from Kazan, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Antwerp, Belgium.
He is sure that technology is not a "thing in itself", but tools. The tools must suit the problem being solved. The work of an engineer is to select the right tools and create new ones.
