I saw him two times as a presenter in our user group. He's really good.

>Stephen Forte will be speaking at the SQL Server User Group on Thursday at 6pm. You
>must register to attend: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134822
>
>Location: Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA
>building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor
>
>Directions: B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
>1 to 50th St./Bway
>N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
>
>Session Info:
>Applications today are expected to expose their data and consume
>data-centric services via REST. In this session we discuss ADO .NET
>Data Services or "Project Astoria" and see how we can REST enable your
>data. Then you will learn how to leverage existing skills related to
>LINQ and data access to customize the behavior, control-flow, security
>model and experience of your data service. We will then see how to
>enable data-binding to traditional ASP.NET controls as well as
>Silverlight Then switching gears we will look quickly at consuming of
>REST services from any platform (including Ruby on Rails) using Visual
>Studio and the WCF REST Starter kit. We will conclude with a
>discussion on developing offline applications with the ability to sync
>back to the online data service. This is a very demo intensive session.