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Luca is a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Customer Success Team. His team is dedicated to making customers successful especially on DevTest Labs and .NET Core. In the past he worked on a few things in Microsoft (SQL Server, ADO.NET, LINQ, C#, F#, VS IDEs, …) and Credit Suisse London. He now lives in Xabia, Spain.

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains, and formerly founded MyGet. He’s an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP.

Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Maarten’s blog can be found at https://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Ibon has been involved in software development for more than 16 years. During this time, he has been employed by several companies in which he had the chance of work with a wide range of environment and technologies.

Currently he is part of Plain Concepts as advisor, mentor and coach for first line companies, focused mainly on development tasks, architecture, ALM/DevOps tools and Microsoft Azure cloud platform – area in which he has been awarded as Microsoft’s MVP.

He is co-founder of the Microsoft Basque Country user group and the Spain Cloud Computing User Group. he has been speaker in different kind of events for Microsoft, local groups or Spanish .NET groups

I have been working around software development for twenty years. During these years I have played a lot of different roles around software development like implementing agile methodologies, implementing software development practices like unit testing, CI/CD, and more.

My principal interests are helping teams to be more effective in their development teams with tools like best practices and agile methodologies. I am a current Microsoft MVP on software development technologies and run the MadridDotNet users group.

Also I love to be involved in the creation and developing all aspects of software products with proven experience during my career.

Rodrigo Díaz Concha is a Microsoft Regional Director, and for 11 consecutive times he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP, currently in both Developer Technologies and Microsoft Azure categories. He is a Carnegie Mellon® Software Engineering Institute Certified Software Architecture Professional, Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster, MCSD, MCTS, MCPD, MCP and LinkedIn Learning Author.

Author of “Aplicaciones de Negocio con Silverlight 5” (Business Applications with Silverlight 5), the very first book about Silverlight 5 in Spanish language and “Xamarin.Forms en Acción: Aplicaciones de negocio” (Xamarin.Forms in action: Business applications), the very first book about Xamarin.Forms in Spanish language.

With more than 20 years of experience, he has architected international award-winner software solutions. As Chief Software Architect at Lumed, he builds digital health and telemedicine solutions focused on transforming people’s lives. Also, he is a frequent speaker at Microsoft and non-Microsoft events all over Latin America, USA and Europe.

My name is Marco and I have an incredible passion for technology which I had the privilege to turn into a job. I’ve been working with .NET since the first beta, focusing on ASP.NET and, more generally, anything that is web-related. I’ve been an early adopter of Microsoft Azure – who remembers the portal in Silverlight? 🙂 – and, since its introduction, Cloud technologies have represented the core of my professional interest.

Today I work as a freelance Solutions Architect in the beautiful London, focusing on Cloud transformation. Getting involved in the .NET and Azure community is also a key aspect of my profession: I’m convinced that knowledge sharing is one of the best ways to improve our professional skills, and therefore I try to dedicate as much time as I can to activities such as writing articles or speaking at conferences and meetups. Thanks to that, I’ve been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for the last 10 years in a row.

Bogdan is one of the co-founders of Code for Romania and he is currently one of the Technology Officers that help in coordinating the project teams and in delivering the civic apps the organization’s volunteers are working on. Having over 10 years of experience in .net, flavoring from version 2.0 in a POS Windows application, to multi-tenant Azure enterprise solutions, Bogdan is also a Technical Team Lead for a technology company whenever he is not managing the coding teams in the biggest civic tech NGO in Romania.