Andrey's favorite topics are performance and micro-optimizations, and he is the maintainer of BenchmarkDotNet (a powerful .NET library for benchmarking supported by the .NET Foundation). Andrey is a frequent speaker at various events for developers, and he is the program director of the DotNext conference. Andrey is also a PhD in computer science, a silver medalist of ACM ICPC. In his free time, he likes to study science (his primary research interests are mathematical biology and bifurcation theory). Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Weizmann Institute of Science and as a research scientist in the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS.

Miguel de Icaza is best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. He is also the co-founder of Xamarin, a company that built a .NET runtime for Android and iOS, and co-founder of Ximian a company that built Linux desktop products.

An architect. 16 years ago Igor started as a C++ developer, worked with Win, Linux, QNX in areas ranging from video processing to network card drivers with a full implementation of the TCP/IP stack. He switched to C# since 2009 and started dealing with architecture as well. His special focus is on the challenges of apps interaction, performance problems, as well as the convenience of developers working on complex projects.

Maoni Stephens is the architect and main developer for the .NET GC in Microsoft. Maoni loves working on #dotnet #dotnetcore GC and other perf stuff

Egor Bogatov is a software developer at Microsoft. He is a member of .NET 5 team (Mono Runtime). Also he contributes to CoreCLR and CoreFX.

Mads is the lead designer of the C# programming language and a program manager at Microsoft.

A software engineer working on diverse tech stacks but focusing mostly on .NET in C#, Web Technologies, and iOS/Swift.

A technology enthusiast who always works on improving development and DevOps processes at the company to make life easier for developers and help deliver high. Martin was awarded Microsoft MVP for community and open source workaround .NET Core.

Raffaele Rialdi is a senior Software Architect working as a consultant, speaker and trainer. Since 2003, he is a Microsoft MVP in the Developer category. He is collaborating with many communities in the .NET and C++ space, and is the president of DotNetLiguria. He is currently working as an architect and developer on the backend of an enterprise project with a specific focus on code generation and working on cross-platform mobile and IoT development in both C# and C++ languages.

Founder and CEO of Petabridge, a company dedicated to helping .NET developers build high-performance, large-scale, and real-time software systems. Founder and maintainer of the Akka.NET project.

In addition to developing and shipping software on Microsoft stacks for 25+ years, Christophe Nasarre has been working as a technical reviewer for MSPress, Addison-Wesley and other publishing companies since 1996 on books such as "CLR via C#" and the last editions of Windows Internals.

He is providing tools and insights on .NET and Windows development via his blog. Christophe also presented technical sessions on stage both internally at Microsoft or for ISVs and customers at public events.