Jared M. Spool is the founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world. If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective and knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.

Jared spends his time working with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about, and is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. He is also the conference chair and keynote speaker at the annual UI Conference and Web App Masters Tour, and manages to squeeze in a fair amount of writing time. He is author of the book, Web Usability: A Designer’s Guide and co-author of Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work.

Amir Rajan is a jack of all trades. He has expertise in a number languages (C#, F#, Ruby, Scala, JavaScript, and Objective C). He is an ASP.NET Insider, co-author of NSpec, creator of Oak MVC, and a humble contributor to Canopy F#. His open source contributions have landed him podcast appearances on Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and .Net Rocks.

Last but certainly not least, Amir is the creator of A Dark Room iOS. This minimalist text based RPG conquered the world and took the #1 spot in the App Store across 5 countries. It has been downloaded over half a million times and continues to rank well above AAA titles such as Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies, and GTA Vice City.

This chart topping iOS game and its unprecedented rise to the top has received critical acclaim from Paste Magazine, Giant Bomb, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Cult of Mac, and The New Yorker.

Brian Sullivan is a principal consultant for Improving Enterprises in Dallas. He got his start in programming maintaining legacy mainframe applications in COBOL at a large trucking company, but quickly realized he needed to find a more productive environment in order to stay sane. He jumped at the opportunity to help transition some of those COBOL applications to .NET, and he hasn’t looked back since. He has been working with Microsoft technologies since the .NET 1.0 days, and is interested in introducing modern web development techniques to the clients he works with. Brian is recipient of the Microsoft MVP award in ASP.NET and a graduate of Harding University.