Speakers

Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked as a Senior Architect on the Architecture Strategy Team for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect, Developer and Development Team Lead for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana amd Arkansas. Chris is a devoted husband and father of four awesome children who keep him very busy. In his spare time, Chris serves as Scoutmaster for his oldest son's Troop, and Committee Chair for his youngest sons' Pack. Chris also enjoys travelling, cooking, camping and playing guitar. You can contact Chris through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig, via email at chris.koenig@microsoft.com, or via Windows Live Messenger at chris@koenigweb.com.

Tadeusz is an experienced manager, consultant, and an academic lecturer with 20 years of active involvement in Information Technology. His professional record includes co-founding CDN SA, the leading polish software manufacturer for small and medium-size businesses. As the Chief Technology Officer and the Vice President (11 years) he was the co-creator and co-architect of popular and bestselling business software package solutions in Poland: CDN Opt!ma and CDN XL.
He went through complete process of enterprise life cycle. Supervised the most successful merger on the Polish IT market – of CDN S.A. and COMARCH S.A.

Since January 2005 he is cofounder, managing partner and CTO at BPD (Business Potential Discovery). He specialize in strategic management, sales simulation, distributed sales management (using a network of business partners), and implementation of innovative computer technologies (like Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team System, Team Foundation Server) for strategic goal achievement.

Tadeusz was a speaker at many Polish and international computer science and technical conferences (concerning business and technology) and a gust lecture for all main technical universities in Poland.

For the last 12 years he actively cooperates with the polish division of Microsoft in Poland and since January 2003 has honorary position of Microsoft Regional Director in Poland.

BI consultant and developer. He has worked on multidimensional data jungles, artificial intelligence and controlling since 1994. He designs and implements data warehouses and analytical solutions dedicated especially for mid-size and small enterprises. Co-author of the Optima Controlling BI application awarded by Microsoft in the "Get ready for SQL Server 2005" contest.

MVP w kategorii Visual Developer - Team System. CTO sektora MSP w Comarch. Kieruje zespołem R&D rozwijającym system Workflow, bazujący na Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation oraz Service Broker. Od wielu lat związany z technologiami Microsoft. II miejsce w konkursie Mistrz .NET 2006. Lider Krakowskiej Grupy Developerów .NET. Interesują go nowoczesne metodyki prowadzenia projektów, architektury systemowe i cyfrowa obróbka dźwięku.

Gael is the founder and the project leader of PostSharp. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for Microsoft .NET, and has an advanced knowledge of Oracle Server, Microsoft SQL Server, TIBCO middleware, and UNIX platforms. Besides of maintaining PostSharp, he is working on the next generation of object-oriented and in-memory database server database servers within a Swedish company named Starcounter. He previously worked on back-office systems of a mobile operator.

 
Gael moved from Belgium to Czech Republic in 2001 after completing a Msc. in mathematical engineering. He is married, has two lovely kids, and speaks four languages (not including Polish ;).