Karthik Bharathy is a Lead Program Manager in the BizTalk product group with nearly a decade of software experience. He has been with the product group since the days when BizTalk Services started off as a set of ideas on the drawing board. He has also shipped releases of BizTalk Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio. In his current role, he oversees the B2B platform experience across industry verticals. He has presented at several Microsoft conferences, including BizTalk Summit US and Europe, TechEd EMEA and US, TechReady US, MVP Summit US, and TechDays India.
His passion for computers started at the age of 12 when he coded BASIC on the ZX Spectrum. He graduated from Bangalore University in Computer Science summa cum laude and also holds a management degree from the Indian School of Business. In his spare time, he is usually travelling and is a major foodie.
Jon Fancey is an integration veteran who has worked on the Microsoft stack for over 20 years. He is a nine-time Microsoft Integration MVP and has worked closely with both the BizTalk Server and Host Integration Server product groups for nearly a decade. He has presented at many major conferences including TechEd, DevWeek, and the 2014 London BizTalk Summit. He has also written numerous articles and whitepapers for MSDN on BizTalk, SharePoint, and other topics.
Jon co-founded Affinus, a UK-based Microsoft partner, with Kevin B. Smith, formerly from the BizTalk product group, shipping the first three versions of the BizTalk product. Affinus works closely with large enterprise customers on interesting integration challenges, helping them move to the cloud.
Jon lives in West Sussex, UK, with his wife Fiona and two children, Ben and Tom, and their dog, Dilly.