Programme Commitee

Programme Chair

Hadi Hariri JetBrains

Hadi Hariri is Technology Evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and best practices. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi speaks at both national and international conferences and user groups. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons and runs the Malaga .NET User Group.

Advisory Board

Ian Cooper

Ian Cooper has over 18 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. A passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile Ian has been described as test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group and helps run the Alt.Net UK Open Spaces event. At home he spends hours begging forgiveness from his wife for all the time he spends staring at a computer screen rather than her.

Eric Nelson Microsoft

After many years of developing on UNIX/RDBMS (and being able to get mortgages) Eric joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Technical Evangelist (and stopped being able to get mortgages due to his new 'unusual job title' in the words of his bank manager). He has spent most of his time working with ISVs to help them architect solutions which make use of the latest Microsoft technologies - from the beta of ASP 1.0 through to ASP.NET, from MTS to WCF/WF and from the beta of SQL Server 6.5 through to SQL Server 2008. Along the way he has met lots of smart and fun developers - and been completely stumped by many of their questions! In July 2008 he switched role from an Application Architect to a Developer Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Group. Currently Eric’s interests include digging into the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and the Windows Azure Platform. At home, he battles rat infestations, comes second to the family dog and uses any spare moments he has after 10pm to team up and play online with and against friends - keep an eye out for 'erknel' and say 'hi'.

Sebastian Meyen S&S Media

Sebastian is Chief Content Officer at S&S Media. He has actively been involved with the IT industry for more than 10 years. As a journalist he is constantly in touch with thought leaders in software development and architecture. He is editor in chief of the German speaking Java Magazin and program chair of the JAX conferences since 2001. Prior to joining S&S Media, he studied philosophy and anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany.