Aric Watson is a full-stack web developer with nearly 20 years of experience, currently working for Nexcess.net, a Michigan-based web hosting company that specializes in hosting high-traffic Magento e-commerce websites. Aric works on internal projects as well as several of Nexcess' open-source Magento extensions. You can find him at various conferences and meetups.

Over the past 10 years, Jason Will has successfully worked as a social media and technology consultant, freelance writer, speaker and advisor.

A few things became clear over the course of time: building personal brands, teams and companies are the fueling elements of his passion. Content marketing > social selling always.

Jamie Dixon has been writing code for as long as he can remember and has been getting paid to do it since 1995. He was using C# and javascript almost exclusively until discovering F# and now combines all three languages for the problem at hand. He has a passion for discovering overlooked gems in data sets and merging software engineering techniques to sci-comp. When he codes for fun, he spends his time using Phidgets, Netduinos, and Raspberry Pis or spending time in Kaggle competitions using F# or R.

These are the tools and technology I've use to publish 100+ episodes of Hello Tech Pros podcast.

David S. Platt teaches .NET programming at Harvard University Extension School and at companies all over the world. He’s the author of 11 programming books, including Why Software Sucks (Addison-Wesley, 2006) and Introducing Microsoft .NET (Microsoft Press, 2002). Microsoft named him a Software Legend in 2002.

David Platt recently published The Joy of UX.

Hani Mourra is a Dad, Softwareprenuer and the creator of WordPress plugins that automate the publishing of videos, podcasts, and live videos to your WordPress site. He is extremely passionate about creating automation software to help content creators build their email list and grow their audience faster.

Aaron Schlesinger discusses the past, present and future of the Go programming language and why it is coming to take over the world.

Aaron Schlesinger is a Sr. Software Engineer at EngineYard where he’s a core contributor to the Deis project. Being a Go developer for the past 2+ years, he has distilled his knowledge of the language into the Go In 5 Minutes screencast as well as speaking at various conferences and events about Go.

Most people launch their product to the sound of crickets instead of fireworks. The reason is because their pre-launch sequence failed to ignite (or worse, they didn't have one). Arne Giske is running a 7-Day Entrepreneur Improvement Challenge and is giving away the case study on the exact pre-launch sequence he used to get this challenge off the ground.

This founder's company is providing the backend services to power your next Uber-like idea. Indemand let's you build an on-demand business in minutes.

Do we control the technology in our lives or does the technology in our lives control us?