Anthony D'Angelo - Anthony D'Angelo BS, MS, MCTS: SQL Server 2005; has over 16 years of Application Development and Data Warehousing experience in various industries and technologies. For the past six years he has been developing Business Intelligence solutions using SQL Server, Analysis Services, Integration Services, and .NET Framework technologies. He currently is employed by Emerging Health IT as a Software Engineer for their Product Development department. He is also an Adjunct Professor at a local Community College.

Brian Knight - Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP, MCSE, MCDBA, is the co-founder of Jumpstart TV and SQLServerCentral.com. Brian has written and co-written 7 technical books including recently: Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration and Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS, TechEd and Connections.

Chris Randall - With 19 years in IT, Chris Randall has been a trainer, a developer, a database administrator, a courseware author and a consultant. He has worked with and trained customers in the US, Canada, Bermuda and Australia, recently settling down as Senior Trainer for Ameriteach. Chris focuses on SQL Server development and administration, including Microsoft's Business Intelligence toolset. Chris has spoken at several industry conferences, including SQL PASS and MCTCon. He is on the board of the Denver SQL Server User Group, a PASS affiliate. Certified in various Microsoft products since 1993, Chris current holds the following industry certifications: Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT); Microsoft Certified Database Administrator; Microsoft Certified IT Pro: Database Administrator; Microsoft Certified IT Pro: Database Developer; CompTia Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+). A graduate of Princeton University, Chris lives in Colorado's Front Range with his family, pets, computers and guitars.

Craig Utley - Craig Utley is a Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and a former Program Manager with the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) where he focused on Business Intelligence. Craig has been involved in the Microsoft BI space since the betas of SQL Server 7.0, when he helped write Microsoft's first data warehousing course. Since then he has consulted at a variety of businesses worldwide on their BI solutions as an independent consultant, a ProClarity consultant, and a member of SQLCAT. Thanks to his time on SQLCAT, Craig has seen some of the largest Microsoft data warehouses in the world and has worked directly with the Analysis Services development team. Craig is also a former MVP in C#, which he had to give up when he joined Microsoft in May 2006. Craig is a current member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and maintains an interest in the .NET space. He is the author of over 35 articles and 3 books, the most recent of which is about PerformancePoint Server 2007.

Donald Farmer - Donald Farmer has worked in the Microsoft Business Intelligence team for 6 years. He has worked on both the Analysis Services and Integration Services product teams. Donald is now Principal Program Manager for SQL Server Data Mining, working to build a seamless integration of predictive and exploratory analytics with the Microsoft business intelligence offering. Mr. Farmer is a popular speaker at international events for both business and technical audiences, with a wide range of interests including data integration, information quality, metadata intelligence, master data management and predictive analytics. He is the author of a number of books and articles. Prior to joining Microsoft, Donald worked not only in business intelligence but in fields as varied as medieval archaeology and fish-farming.

Erik Veerman - Erik Veerman is a Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors focusing on training, mentoring and architecting solutions on the SQL Server BI platform. His industry recognition includes Microsoft's Worldwide BI Solution of the Year and SQL Server Magazine's Innovator Cup winner. Erik has designed dozens of BI solutions across a broad business spectrum-telecommunications, marketing, retail, commercial real estate, finance, supply chain, and information technology. His experience with high volume multi-terabyte environments and SQL Server 64-bit has enabled clients to scale their Microsoft-based BI solutions for optimal potential. As an expert in OLAP design, ETL processing, and dimensional modeling, Erik is a presenter, author and instructor. He led the ETL architecture and design for the first production implementation of Integration Services (SSIS) and helped drive the ETL standards and best practices for SSIS on Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 reference initiative, Project REAL. Erik is co-author of the book SSIS Professional and Expert SSIS.

John Welch - John Welch is Chief Architect at Mariner, responsible for designing and implementing Mariner's business intelligence, data warehousing and performance management solutions for companies in the education, financial services, manufacturing and healthcare industries. John's experience with business intelligence solutions began with Business Objects reporting products, then he began providing OLAP solutions to customers based on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2000. John has since delivered solutions on Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 platform, leveraging Reporting Services, Integration Services, and Analysis Services extensively. Typical solutions include: migrating from Business Objects reporting platform to Microsoft Reporting Services; implementing Microsoft PerformancePoint Server to manage and monitor KPIs; and implementing an enterprise data warehouse using the Microsoft BI stack end to end.

Josh Jones - Joshua Jones is co-owner and Database\Operating Systems Consultant with Consortio Services in Colorado Springs, CO. There he provides training, administration, analysis, and design support for customers utilizing SQL Server 2000 and 2005. In his 7 years as an IT professional, he worked in multiple areas of Information Technology including Windows desktop support, Windows 2000 and 2003 server infrastructure design and support (AD, DNS, MS Exchange), telephony switch support, and network support. Josh has spoken at various PASS sponsored events about SQL Server topics such as 64-bit SQL Server Implementation, Reporting Services Administration, and Performance Tuning. He's been published in Redmond Magazine, Redmond Developer News, and Visual Studio magazine. He is currently co-authoring a data modeling book with Eric Johnson, available from Addison-Wesley, 1st half 2008.

Matt Masson - Matt has worked in the BI industry for the past seven years, and is now a developer on the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) team. A experienced programmer with a strong customer focus, he provides a unique insider's view to the SQL Server 2008 release. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, Matt was employed with Cognos Inc., where he worked on various BI and CPM products. He maintains an SSIS blog on MSDN.com, and can frequently be seen trolling the Integration Services support forums.

Ted Malone - Microsoft Visual Studio Team System MVP Ted Malone is currently Product Strategy Architect for Configuresoft, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV Partner. At Configuresoft, Ted is responsible for incorporating leading edge technology into the company's flagship product line, Enterprise Configuration Manager. Ted is also responsible for the Configuration Intelligence Analytics product, which uses the entire business intelligence stack (SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Performance Point Server 2007) from Microsoft to deliver leading-edge business intelligence for Information Technology managers and executives. Ted has been working with SQL Server Technologies since version 1.0 (Yes, there really was a SQL Server 1.0) and has worked as an Administrator, Developer, Trainer and Architect.

Jeremy Lowell - Jeremy has been engaged in SQL Server development, administration and database architecture for over 10 years. In that time, he has worked with many successful corporations including MCI, Wells Fargo, Lucent, Oxford International, IP Commerce, Regis University and others. Jeremy has served as a participating member on a joint FSTC and OMG project (I2PADS), which focus on industry collaboration, initiatives and standards in the Financial Services space. Having recently started his own database consulting practice, Jeremy's philosophy is to enable clients to focus on what they do best by allowing us to do what we do best. Feel free to contact him for consulting at Jeremy@DataRealized.com

Chris Shaw, Conference Chair - Chris is a SQL Server MVP and started working with SQL Server in 1995 and continues with it to this day. His career has taken him from a Yellow Pages publishing company to Wells Fargo and mortgage companies like Pulte Mortgage. Chris has enjoyed speaking and writing about SQL Server for the last 10 years. The combination of speaking and writing was his guide in becoming the Site Manager for SSWUG.ORG. Chris has been active in the SQL Server Community for a number of years including being the founder of the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group and speaking as the SSWUG content chair, not only at SSWUG Conferences but at Dev Connections as well. Chris's writings can be found on SSWUG.org, his blog (chrisshaw.wordpress.com) and in the SQL Server 2005 Bible.