Nico Vermeir is a .NET developer living in Belgium. He specializes in Windows Phone and Windows 8 development. He is a founding member and current board member of the Metro App Developer Network (http://www.madn.be). You can run into him at almost every local tech event, both as a speaker and as an attendee. His blog can be found at http://www.spikie.be. He s also very active on Twitter (@NicoVermeir). Next to his own user group Nico is also part of Microsoft's Extended Experts Team, a Belgian team of technical experts and community leaders that are present at most community events to provide support, help and demos to attendees.