Chris Klug

Chris Klug is a senior software developer who has been doing Microsoft-based development, and architecture for 15 years. He’s been through a bunch of different domains, and experienced a lot of interesting challenges. Challenges that have kept him coming back for more, and made him appreciate the saying that your knowledge is the sum of all your failures. He is also an avid technical speaker since a few year back, and loves travelling, speaking and talking to passionate developers. But if you ask him, he will be honest and tell you that he would prefer to be on a beach kiteboarding…

Oh…yeah…a bio is apparently supposed to mention that he is an MVP, MCT, MCTS, MCPD, Azure Insider and so on. Not that it really matters for this conference…

Dan North

Dan North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over twenty years of experience in IT, Dan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Dan has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. He occasionally blogs at http://dannorth.net/blog

Maurice De Beijer

Maurice de Beijer is an independent software consultant and trainer specializing in HTML5, REST, JavaScript, AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC. For DevelopMentor he currently teaches Essential and Advanced AngularJS, Essential HTML5, Essential jQuery, Modern Web Development and Essential ASP.NET MVC courses. He has been awarded the yearly Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2005. Maurice is also very active in the Dutch dotNed user group where he regularly organizes meetings and the dotNed-Pluralsight study group meetings.

Chris Heilmann

Chris Heilmann has dedicated a lot of his time making the web better. Originally coming from a radio journalism background, he built his first web site from scratch around 1997 and spent the following years working on lots of large, international web sites. He then spent a few years in Yahoo building products and explaining and training people including Yahoo Answers, Search, Local and Maps. He then worked at Mozilla moving HTML5 support forward and advocating Firefox OS as an open alternative to closed mobile systems. Chris wrote two and contributed to eight books on web development and wrote many articles and hundreds of blog posts for Ajaxian, Smashing Magazine, Yahoo, Mozilla, ScriptJunkie and many more. He also wrote the Developer Evangelism Handbook in use in many companies to coach evangelists.

Mark Seemann

Danish Programmer. Creator of various open source software, including AutoFixture. Author of Dependency Injection in .NET.

Various links for the bio page, if you need them:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ploeh
GitHub: https://github.com/ploeh
Blog: http://blog.ploeh.dk
AutoFixture: https://github.com/AutoFixture/AutoFixture
Dependency Injection in .NET: http://amzn.to/12p90MG
Pluralsight: http://bit.ly/1vEkWh0

Matt Ellis

Matt Ellis works as a Developer Advocate at JetBrains. He has nearly 20 years of experience of shipping software, having been a developer, team lead and technical authority for companies such as BBC Worldwide, BNP Paribas and Egg (the UK’s first internet bank). During that time, he has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, from C++ and Unix to C#, Rx and the Web. He owns and contributes to various open source projects, and believes in the open closed principle.