Ingo Rammer is co-founder of thinktecture, a company providing in-depth technical consulting and training services for software architects and developers. Ingo is a world-renowned expert for design and development of distributed applications, and he provides architecture, design, and architecture review services for teams of all sizes. He focuses mainly on improving performance, scalability and reliability of critical .NET applications. Apart from his consulting services, he is a regular speaker at developer conferences around the world, has authored the award-winning best-selling "Advanced .NET Remoting" books for Apress, and writes a regular column on software design and architecture which is published in the United States, Germany and Italy. Ingo is the Microsoft Regional Director for Austria, and was recently awarded the Microsoft MVP status of Solution Architect. You can read more about him at http://www.thinktecture.com/staff/ingo and reach him at ingo.rammer@thinktecture.com. Distributed .NET Applications - Today and Tomorrow Optimising Distributed Application Scalability, Performance and Availability Indigo - Building Services with the Community Technology Preview Transactions in .NET 2.0 Tuning, Profiling and Troubleshooting Distributed Applications
	Clemens Vasters is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the Germany-based developer services firm newtelligence AG. newtelligence specialises in providing world-class developer education on Microsoft technologies as well as architectural consulting, architectural review and project coaching services. Clemens has over 14 years of professional experience as developer and architect. He is the author of several books, principal architect of the Microsoft examples "Proseware" and "FABRIQ", and a popular conference speaker on Microsoft technologies in Europe. In 2004, he received the Microsoft MVP Award 2004 in the "Solution Architect" category and the "Outstanding Microsoft Regional Director Award" for his contribution to the Microsoft Regional Director program. Clemens lives near Dьsseldorf in Germany. Visual Studio Team System and MSF v4 Interop & Integration: Best Practices for SOA with Today's Technologies Indigo - The Next Generation of Web Services The "Last Mile" Problem: How to Raise Events and Send Notifications to Users behind Firewalls
	Michael Li is the founding president and CTO of InfoCan Management, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and specialising in enterprise and internet solutions. As the first Canadian Borland Learning Partner, InfoCan offers certified hands-on training and consulting in Delphi, C#Builder, C++Builder, JBuilder, Kylix and DataSnap worldwide. From 1998-2004, InfoCan was voted 6 times by Delphi Informant Readers Choice Awards as the Best Training Company in North America. As a frequent speaker at developers' conferences worldwide, Michael is well known for his engaging and high-caliber presentations. He can be reached at mli@infocan.com. What is New and Migration to Delphi 2005 ASP.NET Caching and Performance Tuning ALM: Quest for the Perfect Requirements Introduction to Compact & Mobile Framework
	Hadi Hariri is Senior Developer and Project Manager at AtoZed Software. He is also Project Co-coordinator for Internet Direct (Indy), the open source project of TCP/IP components that is included in various Borland products. Having formerly worked for an ISP and software development company, he has extensive knowledge with internet and client/server applications as well as network administration and security. Hadi is married and resides in Spain, where he has been a major contributing author to various developer magazines. He also co-authored the book "Indy in Depth" and is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups. Web Applications Using IntraWeb
	Terry Dietzler is the president and co-founder of The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognised application development and training firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. Terry has been a Borland Certified Delphi Trainer since 1996 and is co-author of the book JBuilder3 Unleashed. Since the inception of DSW in 1987, Terry has managed and developed many software projects for a wide range of companies. During that time, he has become an accomplished developer familiar with several development products and languages with current proficiencies focused on Java, JBuilder, Delphi and C#. He has also spoken at many conferences including 3 Entwickler & 2 JAX (Java/Apache/XML) Conferences in Frankfurt, Germany, ICON99 and BorCon 2001. Unit Testing with NUnit Automate the Build Process with NAnt
	Neal Ford is an application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video presentations. Neal is the author of the books: Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques, JBuilder 3 Unleashed, and Art of Java Web Development. He has also spoken extensively at national and international conferences. Clean Up Your .NET Code Updated Design Patterns for .NET Updated Design Patterns for .NET Advanced Updating Scenarios for ADO.NET
	Chad Z. Hower a.k.a. "Kudzu" is the original author and project coordinator for Internet Direct (Indy). Indy consists of over 110 components and is included as a part of Delphi, Kylix and C++ Builder. Chad's background includes work in the employment, security, chemical, energy, trading, telecommunications, wireless, and insurance industries. Chad's area of specialty is TCP/IP networking and programming, inter-process communication, distributed computing, internet protocols, and object-oriented programming. Chad, whose motto is "Programming is an art form that fights back", also posts free articles, programs, utilities and other oddities at Kudzu World at http://www.Hower.org/Kudzu/. Chad can be reached at cpub@Hower.org. Using ADO.NET Application Setting the .NET way INI, Registry or XML
	Sebastian Weber has over 10 years experience in software development in the field of Microsoft technologies. He specialises in .NET Architectures and Technologies and thereby focuses on SQL Server and SharePoint. He writes articles regularly and speaks at conferences about these topics. Microsoft awarded him as Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows SharePoint Services. Sebastian works in the Platinion GmbH in Germany, A Company of The Boston Consulting Group, and is involved with software architectures and the implementation of .NET-based applications. SQL Server 2005 .NET Development SharePoint Web Part Development SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 - An Overview for Developers
	Malcolm Groves is the Regional Product Director of Asia Pacific for Borland Software Corporation. In this role, Malcolm is responsible for business development, technical management and sales for Borland's Developer Tools Solutions across Asia Pacific. Malcolm has over 14 years experience with Borland technologies, and has been in this position since October 2002. Based in Sydney, Australia, he has been a regular presenter at developer conferences in Australia, the United States and Europe, as well as an instructor for Borland Delphi, C++Builder and JBuilder training courses. Malcolm also writes regularly for developer magazines, including The Delphi Magazine. Together for Visual Studio.NET C# Architected RAD - The Power of Objects, the Speed of RAD Native .NET to J2EE Integration
	William Tay is a Senior Consultant/Enterprise Software Architect with NCS Pte Ltd. He has done research, development and implementation work in applying web services in environments of service-orientation. Besides being a MVP for Solutions Architect, William is also a Microsoft Regional Director who writes and speaks frequently in MSDN circuits, Microsoft TechED and other Microsoft events, as well as academic and industrial Web services events. He is a founding member and a XML Services Expert and Moderator of one of the INETA charter member sites (Singapore Professional DotNet Usergroup). William also sits on the panel of Subject Matter Experts on Web Services of the National Infocomm Competency Center of Singapore, together with XMLOne Usergroup and Singapore IT Federation, to craft out the Certified Web Services Professional (CWSP) Certificate. You can read about his views on service-orientation, software architectures and more via his technical blog at http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog. Demystifying WSDL SOAP Message-based Security: Today and Tomorrow
	Wei-Meng Lee (Microsoft .NET MVP) is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (http://www.developerlearningsolutions.com), a technology company specialising in hands-on training on the latest Microsoft technologies. Wei-Meng speaks regularly at international conferences and has authored and co-authored numerous books on .NET, XML, and wireless technologies, including Windows XP Unwired and the .NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide (both from O'Reilly Media, Inc). He writes extensively for the O'Reilly Network on topics ranging from .NET to Mac OS X. Wei-Meng is currently a Microsoft Regional Director for Singapore. What is New in ASP.NET 2.0 What is New in Visual Basic 2005 Cool Features of ASP.NET 2.0
	K. Daniel Ingitaraj Joined Microsoft Singapore in March 2004 as Director, DPE. In this role, Daniel is responsible for strengthening relationships with Singapore's software development community and for growing awareness and adoption of the .NET platform among local enterprise organisations, SI's and ISVs and academia. Prior to this role, Daniel Ingitaraj was a Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft India, where he was instrumental in growing the developer business with responsibility of developing strategic relationships with large SI's in India, helping large enterprises understand and adopt Microsoft.NET technologies and growing relationships with Ѕ million developers in India. In eight years with Microsoft India, Daniel Ingitaraj also managed SQL Server & E-Business Servers product lines. Microsoft Enterprise Software Application Platform
	Rashish Pandey Is the Product Manager for Developer Tools at Microsoft Singapore. In his current role, he is responsible for managing marketing and evangelism activites around Visual Studio and MSDN subscriptions. Managing the Software Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2005 Team System
	Sanjeev Sharma Is passionate about winning the hearts and minds of developers by helping them realise their potential through creative application of Microsoft technologies. As an ISV Developer Evangelist, he empowers the local developer community through high touch technical enablement on .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, and 64 Bit server platform. SQL Server 2005: High Availability & Scalability BIZTALK Server 2004
	Matthew Hardman Joined Microsoft in Adelaide South Australia where he took up a role as a National Technology Specialist focused on Developer Technologies after working for a variety of Systems Integrators, and Industries. From there, Matthew joined the Australian Developer Evangelism team as a Developer Evangelist, promoting the adoption of .NET and presenting at various technology conferences and user groups. Matthew then took the opportunity to move to Asia Pacific Regional HQ, where he provides strategic direction and assistance to ISV engagements for the region. The Road to Avalon: Building Next Generation GUI Applications
	Ms. Katherin Wu Field Technical Manager Asia South Compuware Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd Katherin Wu is Field Technical Manager of Compuware Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Asia South. She has been with Compuware for more than 8.5 years. Her responsibilities include all technical operations and customer support of all Compuware products. Katherin manages a team of Field Technical Specialists for all pre-sales activities and after-sales services, inclusive of providing technical account management to customers. Katherin has over 14 years of experiences in Application Development, Testing and Quality Assurance for both client/server and mainframe areas. She effectively positions the Compuware solution set of tools and methodologies for analysis, design, quality assurance, testing, data management, application performance and monitoring. Her IT end-users support experience and project management has added-value to her knowledge to be able to understand customer business objectives and successfully delivered several consultancy and testing projects to large commercial enterprises.
	Nick Jackson ASEAN Managing Director, Borland Software Corporation Based in Singapore, Nick is responsible for planning and implementing all business development initiatives, sales and marketing programs, and the general management of Borland's South East Asia operations to ensure Borland's continued growth and market success. Prior to this role, Nick held positions of Director of Marketing and Director of Business Development for Borland's Asia Pacific operations. Nick Joined Borland in January 2002. With more than 25 years' experience in the IT and technical services industries, Nick holds a BSC (Hons) degree and has written numerous articles on many aspects of IT and software, including information distribution, network management, network security, FDDI, ATM, remote LAN access, telecommuting, messaging, on-line gaming, eCommerce, the Internet, and supply chain management. Nick is a regular presenter at IT forums and is a frequent contributor to the industry press.