Speaker

Mario Cardinal is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture. He is known as someone who can extract the essence of a  complicated  situation,  sort  out  the  core  ideas  from  the  incidental distractions, and provide a summary easy to understand. He speaks regularly about architecture and agility at international conferences. Since 2004, he hosted the Visual Studio Talk Show, a podcast about software architecture. He also leads the architecture user group for the Montreal .Net Community and is the architecture track tech chair for the DevTeach Conference. For the seventh year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Mario holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.