Speaker Bios

Niels Hartvig

Umbraco founder and lead champion for the best ASP.NET CMS out there! Niels believes in conventions over configuration and that umbraco will get it's major breakthrough in 2009. He loves to hear what other people think about umbraco and is always up for a conversation about how it can get even better as long as it doesn't involve Silverlight.

Per Ploug Hansen

Umbraco guru and all around great guy.

Casey Neehouse

Casey started using umbraco in the early days of version 2.0, and provided an early review stating umbraco as "Powerrful, Flexible, yet Simple". After becoming more familiar with umbraco, Casey began answering questions for newer users, and was nominated as an umbraco MVP in 2007, and 2008.

Bob Baty-Barr

Principal at Malicious Think Tank and Umbraco Flash wiz.

Definition 6

Definition 6 leverages expertise in business applications, advanced infrastructure, design, marketing and consulting to create innovative communication, collaboration and commerce solutions that help our clients increase revenues and reduce costs to build competitive advantage.

Paul Sterling

Principal at Motus Connect and rabid Umbraco fan boy. Coordinator of the open-source Commerce for Umbraco project.  Umbraco MVP 2008. 

Douglas Robar

Doug Robar, owner of Percipient Studios and the designer of two of the most popular umbraco extensions, ImageGen and XSLTSearch, has been an active part of the umbraco community since 2005, is an umbraco trainer for North America, and has twice received the umbraco MVP award.


  • Umbraco CodeGarden US

  • October 6 - 7, 2008
    Chicago, IL
    Illinois Institute of Technology