He is a great application architect with 12+ years of experience on designing and developing customized application for different clients, Anthony thoroughly evaluates clients need and build a very robust application. He has experience in developing payroll, personal, document management and CRM application. Anthony has completed his Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and Microsoft Certification Professional Developer Certification and is currently working towards his Microsoft Architecture Certification. When he is not leading a technical team here at The Marketing Store, Anthony is busy learning Scuba diving, Skating, skiing and swimming.

Bruce Johnson is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp and a 30-year veteran of the computer industry. While he includes UNIX in his long distant past, the past 17 years have been spent on projects at the leading edge of Windows technology, including using .NET since the introduction of version 1.0.

His experience includes the creation of commercial web applications using Silverlight and AJAX, the implementation of numerous service-based architectures and the building of various Windows-based applications for software vendors. As well as his experience in system design and development, he has been published in a wide variety of technology periodicals, has given over 500 presentations at user conferences all over North America and has co-authored five books for Microsoft Press and Wrox.

Chris Dufour (MVP ASP .NET, MCAD, IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 UDB V8.1) is a Toronto-based software architect. He is currently working as a software architect for Compuware, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Chris is passionate about the developer community and has contributed projects like the ‘Code Camp Event Module’ and ‘Extended SQL Data Provider - SqlEx’ to the open source community on CodePlex. He is also the president of the East of Toronto .NET User Group and co-founder and organizer of the Toronto Code Camp and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the developer community.

Colin Bowern is a solutions architect and coach focused on the advancement of organizational goals through pragmatic technology. His work spans music, financial, public sector, and technology industries including start-up and multi-national organizations like Microsoft, Bank of Montreal, and officialCOMMUNITY. Colin engages teams and executive management to boost productivity and drive innovation through user-centric design and craftsmanship in software engineering. Recognized by the community for interactive contributions in public speaking, community building, and writing, Colin has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET for several years. His work appears across books, forums, and web casts. You can find out more about Colin on the web at ColinBowern.com.

Colin is the Principal Architect for DreamDigital, the CTO of Imparta and a committee member for the three main Ottawa user groups. He has been a hands-on Architect for over 17 years having led the creation of award-winning desktop-based immersive business simulation technology, cloud-based learning portals and workflow-driven performance tracking BI systems as well as creating the first streaming video community site with Windows Media. He has worked in the finance, telecoms, e-learning, Internet communications and gaming industries, with his latest business solutions currently in use by thousands of users world-wide in corporations like GE, HP, O2, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft & Reuters.

Ernst is a fervent believer in improving software development craftsmanship and professionalism. This is the main reason behind his involvement with Scrum.org. He has been delivering business applications on Java and .Net platforms for over 10 years and nows focuses on the Visual Studio ALM platform and .Net technologies that foster agile engineering practices.

Ernst shares his knowledge of Scrum and Agile Engineering Practices while coaching and training teams adopting Scrum as their software development process. He guides teams in their adoption of Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Refactoring, Simple Design and Domain Driven Design as means of improving their productivity within the Scrum Framework.

Ernst has been a Certified Scrum Master for five years and has recently been certified Professional Scrum Master (Level II) at Scrum.org.

Helen M. Overland has been immersed in the online world and Internet Marketing for over a decade. As Vice President of Client Services with Search Engine People, she is responsible for assisting a team of account directors and managers to help organizations grow their market share using the online channel. Current clients include Scotiabank, Air Miles, Purolator, and CAA.

She began life as a developer, then sharpened her skills in the trenches of E-Commerce and grew revenues steadily through the dot-com burst. In the past, Helen has generated 100% YOY increases in sales on tight marketing budgets of less than 5%. She did this in part through developing a set of custom E-Commerce tracking and analysis systems which helped identify profitable opportunities.

Known around the blogosphere as semlady, Helen shares her creative marketing insights in articles, whitepapers, and speaking at marketing and technology conferences.

I have been developing software for the last 15 years. Strongly focused on web applications, both for intranets and public facing websites.

My passion for software drives me to continually improve and look for techniques that allow me to deliver better software faster.

I'm a believer on Test and specially test first as a way to improve the design and make code more maintainable, clean an easy to read.

I'm a Scrum Master and advocate of Agile practices and XP development.

I also know that there is no silver bullet and what we believe to be true today can be proven wrong tomorrow.

Jean-René Roy has been developing IT systems for large and small enterprises since 1987. In 1991 he founded the consulting firm Technologies SoftDesign Inc.

Since that time he has worked on projects for Bell Canada, CGI, ArchiDATA, Sun Telcom, Accent de Ville, Kraft, ADN Medical and many other clients assuming the responsibility of Software Developers, Analyst, Team leader, Software architect and mentor. He has been and is still very active in the developers’ community by acting as a user group leader for more than ten years with the Montreal .NET community and the Ottawa .NET community.

He is also the co-founder of an international developer’s conference www.DevTeach.com which is now directed by a member of his team. Jean-René Roy is a SQL Server Microsoft MVPand is co-lead and mentor for the OttawaSQL.net BI study group.

Joubin is a Toronto-based software architect. He is currently working as the technology development manager at Softchoice. He is passionate about code generation and content management systems. He is is an AIIM Enterprise Content Management Practitioner. Joubin has contributed to open source projects such as the Code Kindler (http://codekindler.codeplex.com) and is currently working a Content Management System named AppFragments.

Leo is a senior interactive developer with Digiflare specialized in Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight/WPF, ASP.Net, and SharePoint. His work with a variety of emerging technologies has provided him with operational experience in several technical and business environments. Leo’s experience working in client-facing situations and enthusiasm for developing timely and effective solutions makes him a valuable addition to a team. Leo is also a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD).

Marc is the Lead Developer at Akanda Innovations Inc. Akanda is a Microsoft partner that does leading edge, enterprise class development, specializing in web based solutions that integrate and optimize islands of workflow. Marc has been developing professional software for 13 years and developing unprofessional software for even longer, starting with an Apple II. Currently he is focused on developing Asp.Net applications in C# and sharing information on Unit Testing.

Mark Arteaga is a Windows Mobile Solution Specialist with RedBit Development specializing in building custom software, training customers and helping customers implementing mobile based software systems. Mark's has been working in the software industry his entire career and currently main roles are designing, architecting and leading various software projects to help customers mobilize enterprise applications. Mark has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional six consecutive years for his involvement in the mobile and embedded developer community and is the only Device Application Development MVP in Canada. You can contact Mark via his blog at blog.markarteaga.com, mark@redbitdev.com or follow him twitter.com/MarkArteaga

Moustafa have been intensely involved with BizTalk products since 2004.He had published two books on BizTalk. He has developed, designed and architectured many systems with the BizTalk product family including BizTalk 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2006 R2. Moustafa has more than 20 years of experience developing software solutions, leading the Architecture, Design, and Refactoring of many large projects. Moustafa provided architecture and development consulting, and training courses to many organizations in last few years. Moustafa have published many articles and blogs on BizTalk. Moustafa holds IEEE/CSDP, MCSD (6.0, and .Net) and Oracle certifications. Moustafa acted as a referee for the IEEE Software magazine.

Nickolas Landry is Practice Manager in New York for Infusion Development, a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large corporations and agencies in the North America, the UK and Dubai (www.infusion.com). Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, a member of both the INETA and the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureaus, a Microsoft MVP on Device Application Development, and a former Microsoft Regional Director in Montreal. He is the Vice-President of IASA New York (www.iasahome.org), and is a Founding Member of WWISA (www.wwisa.org). With over 17 years of professional experience – starting with Visual Basic 1.0 – and a career almost entirely dedicated to Microsoft technologies, Nick specializes in .NET mobility, Bing Maps 7 Location Intelligence, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Game Development with XNA, and Smart Clients. He wrote multiple articles for CoDe Magazine and several .NET mobility courses for Microsoft, has been a technical editor for many books, and holds several professional certifications from Microsoft and IBM. www.twitter.com/ActiveNick

Paul Salsbury (B.A.Sc., MCPD) is a senior architect/developer, working with the .NET Framework since its inception, with over 25 years experience. He is a proponent of DDD, SOA, and various enterprise architectural concepts. He consults primarily to a company which provides practice & clinical management software to Ontario physicians, and controls about 25% of the province's marketplace. His recent projects include prototyping N-Tier ORM based distributed database solutions, developing a MVVM WPF based templating framework allowing end-users to configure rich editable forms for clinical encounters, and architecting an asynchronous and disconnected solution using MSMQ (with HTTP support & SRMP) and WCF's netMsmqBinding. Other highlights include successfully supervising the obtaining of OntarioMD's Validation 2.0 certification for the company's web service (.asmx) based EMR, and being a co-recipient of PC Magazine's Award for Technical Excellence for Software ('86).

Paul Scarlett is a DotNetNuke Developer and Evangelist who has been working with DotNetNuke since April of 2004 starting with version 2.0. Paul has developed several modules for DotNetNuke that allow ad-hoc access to the external databases and/or the underlying DotNetNuke database. He has presented at User Groups and Code Camps over the past few years on his favorite subject - DotNetNuke.

As the founder and president of Envision IT, Peter brings over 20 years of technology consulting and application development strengths combined with strong communication, analytical planning and business skills. This has allowed our clients to see more -transitioning internal facing Information Management systems to powerful customer facing, web enabled Enterprise solutions.

Within the Microsoft Community, Peter is known as a partner-evangelist for leading-edge Microsoft Technology. Peter is a past President of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners - Canadian Chapter and speaks at a variety of Microsoft and industry events. Peter holds a Bachelor of Applied Science – Computer Engineering (Dean’s Honour List) from the University of Waterloo.

Peter is actively involved in Envision IT's SharePoint 2010 preparedness plans and maintains a blog on these activities at blog.petercarson.ca.

Prosanta has been working with BlackBerry Web Development for over a year as an Application Development Consultant. He specializes in mobile web development, working with BlackBerry Alliance partners to build the absolute best mobile web experience for their users. Prosanta also works closely with the BlackBerry Web Product team to continue to build the Web Platform to better suite the development communities needs.

He has extensive business experience in numerous industries including Automotive, Education, Insurance, Financial Services, and Telecommunication. He is the co-founder and President of Prognex Corp. a technology firm specializing in Operational Productivity Management solutions for mid-enterprises.

He has over 9 years of experience in IT involved in Business Analysis, Architecture, Implementation of SOA, OOAD Enterprise Systems using .NET 1/2/3/4, SSIS, BEA Web logic, BlackBerry MDS, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Oracle 8/9/10g, VB 6, etc. to construct Enterprise Level Web Applications, Windows Services, COM+ Services, Smart Client Windows Applications, WPF, Pocket PC, Black Berry Applications, and Data Warehouses that are Scalable, Reliable, Robust, and Secure.

His emphasis is towards Business Objectives, Security and Integrity of Assets, and Clients.