Ted Pattison
Conference Chair
Co-Founder, Author, Critical Path Training
Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training, a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. Ted has frequently worked with Microsoft's Developer Platform Evangelism group to research and author SharePoint training material for developers early in the product lifecycle while in its alpha and beta stages. Ted published a SharePoint 2007 book for Microsoft Press titled Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that focuses on how to use SharePoint as a development platform for building business solutions. He is currently revising the content of this book for SharePoint 2010. Ted also writes a developer-focused column for MSDN Magazine titled Office Space.

Doug Barney
Vice President/Editorial Director, 1105 Enterprise Computing Group
Doug Barney has been a technology journalist for nearly 20 years, serving as a writer, news editor and editor in chief. Barney is Vice President/Editorial Director of the 1105 Enterprise Computing Group. In the space of 25 months, Barney launched Redmond Magazine, Redmond Channel Partner, and Redmond Developer News. In late 2006 the Redmond Media Group acquired Fawcette Technical Publications, including Visual Studio magazine. Barney was most recently Editor in Chief of Network Computing, bi-weekly publication with over 220,000 subscribers.

Early in his career, Doug worked as Senior Editor, Microcomputing for Computerworld. While not breaking news about PC software makers such as Lotus and Microsoft, Doug managed the Microcomputing section of the newspaper. One career highlight was the debate that ran in print between Doug and Bill Gates over the future of PC operating systems. From there, Doug became editor in chief of AmigaWorld, a 100,000 circulation newsstand-driven publication. Doug snagged art and editorial contributions from such notable readers as Arthur C. Clarke and Todd Rundgren. Later Doug joined InfoWorld and once again covered PC software. There, Doug was the recipient of the Computer Press Association Award for Breaking News.

More recently Doug served as Executive Editor of News for Network World newspaper where he ran both print and on-line news operations. His very first story for the publication revealed that hate groups were using the Internet to recruit new members and to tie disparate groups together. The story also exposed calls for censorship from certain human rights groups. The piece was followed up by NBC, AP, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and was syndicated nationwide by NBC. Doug has also been a frequent guest on CNN, CNNfn, NECN, and NPR commenting about PC and networking technologies.

Andrew Connell
Co-Founder, Author, Critical Path Training
Andrew Connell is a author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training Critical Path Training, a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a five-time recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing / Web Content Management (WCM) sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia & Seattle, Washington. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at www.andrewconnell.com/blog.

Paul Stubbs
Technical Evangelist for SharePoint and Office, Microsoft Corporation
Paul Stubbs is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for SharePoint and Office. He focuses on information worker development community around SharePoint and Office, Silverlight, and Web 2.0 social networking. He has authored three books on solution development using Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Silverlight, several articles for MSDN Magazine, and has also spoken at Microsoft Tech-Ed and Tech-Ready conferences.

Bob Fox
Bob Fox has been working as an IT Professional since the mid 90's. During that time he has spent a great deal of time working as a Systems Administrator with a focus on various Microsoft Technologies. For the past 6 years Bob's primary focus has been Microsoft SharePoint Services. He specializes in Architecture, Deployment, Portal and Site Customization, Administration and Collaboration Solutions. Bob has worked for such companies as Merrill Lynch, BISYS Retirement Services and Educational Testing Services, Time Warner Cable, The National Football League, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson to name a few. Bob is a member of B&R Business Solutions, LLC as a SharePoint Technologies Technical Lead and is a founding member of the ISPA (International SharePoint Professionals Association).

Steve Fox
Steve Fox is a Sr. Technical Evangelist with the Developer and Platform Evangelist (DPE) group. He spends much of his time in the areas of Office and SharePoint development, regularly evangelizing at conferences and with customers both nationally and internationally. Steve has co-authored numerous books and articles on Office development and speaks regularly to developers both domestically and internationally. When not working, he enjoys movies, playing hockey, writing, and reading.

Spencer Harbar
Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft SharePoint. With over fifteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe's largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint.

Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs.

Spencer is one of 22 people worldwide currently to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certification, and a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor for the Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management, Excel Services and Security elements of the SharePoint MCM. Find out more about Spencer at www.harbar.net

Scot Hillier
SharePoint MVP, Author
Scot Hillier is a SharePoint MVP and an independent consultant focusing on creating solutions with SharePoint 2007, Office, and related .NET technologies. He is the author of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005. Scot is a regular speaker at industry conferences such as Microsoft Tech Ed and SharePoint Connections. Scot is a former Naval submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. You can read Scot's blog and find out more about his services on his Web site. http://www.shillier.com

Joel Oleson
Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest, where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was involved in the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure, Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He later designed the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments.

Before Joel joined Microsoft, he worked for a large telecom organization where he architected multi-tiered web applications and multi-staged extranet deployments. He also managed the internal web development and test environments for Slate.com, a political webzine. Blog: www.sharepointjoel.com

Arpan Shah
Director, SharePoint Product Management team, Microsoft Corporation
Arpan Shah is a Director on the SharePoint Product Management team. He has more than 10 year's experience in the Internet space. He started with Microsoft back in 2001, leading the Content Management Server (CMS) technical product management effort. Over the last 8 years, he has been involved with subsequent SharePoint releases including SharePoint Server 2007 release. Arpan's team currently leads audience and platform product management for SharePoint.

Martin Tuip
Martin Tuip has over 15 years of IT experience. He started out his IT career in system administration, but has focused mostly on archiving and compliance products. He is runs of some of the world's largest user communities for Exchange and SharePoint and writes on one of the few archiving software dedicated blogs at www.archiving101.com. Martin is a published author, a 10-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server and currently works as a technical product marketing manager for Mimosa Systems.

Wouter Van Vugt
MVP, Author
Wouter van Vugt is a Microsoft MVP suffering from extreme programming addiction. As an MVP on the Open XML file format used by Office he focuses on document-centric solutions using Microsoft Office and the SharePoint product as a platform for business solutions. Wouter is a highly enthusiastic trainer, with enough energy to get you through an intense day of training. He is a frequent contributor to developer community sites such as OpenXmlDeveloper.org and MSDN and has published several white papers and articles as well as a book available on line titled Open XML: the markup explained. Wouter is the founder of Code-Counsel, a Dutch company focusing on delivering cutting-edge technical content through a variety of channels. You can find out more about Wouter by reading his blog and visiting the Code-Counsel Web site. http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter

Han Wang
Director of Products, AvePoint
Han Wang is the Director of Products at AvePoint, where he helps to steer the product direction as well as ensuring that everyone knows the products inside and out. Before joining AvePoint in 2008, Han was a software architect for companies like Goldman Sachs, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and Lucent Technologies, designing complex, distributed platforms. Han holds a B.S. and M.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Mike Watson
Mike Watson (MCSE, MCSA) is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability. Before joining Quest Software, Mike was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as Microsoft Services efforts such as MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Program) and SLM (Service Level Manager). Mike is a top-rated speaker at technical conferences, an instructor for Microsoft's Certified Master program, and a frequent contributor to white papers, articles, and books.

Shane Young
SharePoint MVP
Shane Young is a SharePoint MVP, independent consultant, and experienced trainer specializing in the administrative and architectural aspects of deploying SharePoint. With his focus on exposing power of SharePoint through proper configuration and a deep understanding of the built in capabilities, Shane helps his customers and students build the strongest possible foundation for their SharePoint based systems. Shane has also distinguished himself as a leading voice in developing effective upgrade strategies by contributing to Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs. His popular blog The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac contains lots of tips for solving everyday administrative problems. http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane