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Wesley Bakker, motion10
DevConnections Speaker WesleyBakkerWesley works as lead developer, consultant and trainer at motion10, a global provider of consultancy and implementation services geared to complex integrated environments. As lead developer Wesley has been working on several of the largest SharePoint implementations in the Netherlands. As trainer Wesley has given many advanced SharePoint courses to companies such as Capgemini, Logica and Ordina. Furthermore, Wesley is a technical reviewer for O’Reilly and the co-author of one of the most popular MSDN white papers on integrating SharePoint and BizTalk Server.


Jan Brücher, Getronics Consulting
DevConnections Speaker JanBrücherJan is technical consultant and Applications and Services matter expert at Getronics Consulting specialized in .NET. Jan has 10+ years’ experience in a wide variety of web development, among other authoring two books at Addison Wesley about Flash ActionScript. Working 3+ years at Getronics Consulting he is always on the look for new technologies and challenges.
Follow Jan on Twitter http://twitter.com/_layouts




Danny Burlage, Wortell
DevConnections Speaker DannyBurlageDanny Burlage is the founder and CTO of Wortell, a software company specialized on Microsoft based in Holland. In his role he has architected many SharePoint environments from SharePoint 2001 and up. Danny likes to use the newest technologies in his projects. An example of this is the Wortell people page: http://www.wortell.nl/nl-nl/ourpeople/pages/onze-mensen.aspx. Danny blogs on: http://blog.dannyburlageonline.com.


Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training, LLC
DevConnections Speaker AndrewConnellAndrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a five-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing / Web Content Management (WCM) sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia & Seattle, Washington. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog.


Andries den Haan, Getronics Consulting
DevConnections Speaker Andriesden HaanAndries is a senior technical consultant and Portals & Collaboration matter expert at Getronics Consulting. He has many years of experience in several aspects of portal technologies both from a functional and technical perspective.
Product expertise is mainly focused around levering web based technologies for valuable business solutions, including search, collaboration, security content management and social Media.
Andries is working with Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies since 2001.
Connect, Share and Discover!
Follow him on Twitter http://twitter.com/awdhaan


Eric Dubbelaar, Microsoft
DevConnections Speaker EricDubbelaarEric Dubbelaar is a consultant at Microsoft Services in the Netherlands. From within the Information Worker team he’s responsible to support Microsoft’s enterprise customers with the use of SharePoint Server and Office Client technology. Eric was involved in the NEN2082 certification process for SharePoint 2007. He has been working for Microsoft since August 2008. Areas of his expertise are Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Search and architecting SharePoint solutions.


Marco Faasse, ETTU
DevConnections Speaker MarcoFaasseMarco Faasse is sinds 2008 actief bij ETTU als Business Consultant. Hiervoor is hij werkzaam geweest als consultant bij Randstad HR Solutions. Bij ETTU is Marco verantwoordelijk voor Functioneel Ontwerpen, interviews bij klanten, RFP en RFI’s en verzorgt hij presentaties t.b.v. de positionering van ETTU en SharePoint. Marco is betrokken geweest bij het ontwerp van het nieuwe intranet van UMG Meeus, The Greenery en Staatsbosbeheer. Marco weet als geen ander een duidelijk verhaal neer te zetten en een publiek enthousiast te maken.
Since 2008 Marco Faasse is working with ETTU as a Business Consultant. Before this he has been working as a consultant at Randstad HR Solutions. Marco is responsible for Functional Design, interviewing, RFP and RFI, and also corporate presentations for ETTU concerning SharePoint. He has been involved in projects like UMG Meeus, The Greenery and Staatsbosbeheer. As no other Marco knows how to get the attention when speaking in public and to enthusiasm his listeners.


Kelly Ferguson, Senior Manager, Global Product Marketing, EMC
DevConnections Speaker KellyFergusonKelly joined EMC in early 2004, initially as a competitive analyst in the corporate research group. In 2005, she transitioned into a software marketing role leading outbound marketing activities for EMC’s email archiving software. In 2009, Kelly was responsible for the global product launch of EMC SourceOne, a new family of Information Governance software. Since that time, Kelly has taken on a global role in the go-to-market activities for EMC SourceOne. Kelly is one of the architects and self-proclaimed mayor of SourceOne City – take a city tour at www.emc.com/sourceonecity
Prior to joining EMC, Kelly served as a journalist for several years. Her undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst was a dual degree in Journalism and Political Science. Kelly also earned an Information Age MBA with a concentration in Marketing from Bentley College (Waltham, MA). Kelly relocated from the USA to London, England in mid-2009.


Steve Fox, Microsoft
DevConnections Speaker SteveFoxSteve Fox has worked at Microsoft for 10 years across a number of different technologies including natural language, search, social computing, and more recently Office and SharePoint development. He is a customer-facing Sr. Evangelism Manager and regularly speaks to developers about Office and SharePoint development. He has spoken at several conferences, contributed to technical publications, and co-wrote a number of books including Professional Office Business Application Development: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and VSTO (WROX) and Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (WROX).


Tucker Hall, AvePoint
DevConnections Speaker TuckerHallTucker is the Director of Marketing at AvePoint where he oversees the design and execution of the company’s global messaging and customer activation initiatives. For several years, Tucker has been actively engaged in the SharePoint community, publishing numerous articles and white papers on SharePoint deployment architecture, governance, and protection strategies. Prior to joining AvePoint, Tucker worked as a journalist for the Financial Times Group, reporting on M&A activity within the technology sector. His contributions to the SharePoint community have earned him multiple speaking opportunities at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups throughout North America, EMEA, and Australia.


Spencer Harbar
DevConnections Speaker SpencerHarbarSpencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft SharePoint. With over fifteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web-based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint.

Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server-based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs. Product expertise includes SharePoint technologies, MCMS, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, Active Directory, Identity Integration Server and High Availability. Spencer is one of 22 people worldwide currently to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certification, and a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor for the Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management, Excel Services and Security elements of the SharePoint MCM.


Donald Hessing, VX Company IT Services
DevConnections Speaker DonaldHessingDonald Hessing is Lead SharePoint Architect at VX Company IT Services, a software company based in The Netherlands. He is one of the few people in the world holding the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SharePoint 2007. His passion is about designing and implementing innovative but practical solutions on top of SharePoint 2010.


Scot Hillier, Scot Hillier Technical Solutions, LLC
DevConnections Speaker ScotHillierScot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. He is the author of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training (a joint venture of Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell). Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com.


Dan Holme, Intelliem, Inc.
DevConnections Speaker DanHolmeA graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, Dan has spent 15 years as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. Dan’s company, Intelliem, is a boutique consulting and training firm with a Fortune-caliber clientele and deep expertise and experience in Windows, Active Directory, and SharePoint. From his base in beautiful Maui, Dan travels around the globe supporting customers and delivering Microsoft technologies training. Dan is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro Connections magazines, a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2010), and the community lead of SharePointProConnections.com. Dan most recent two books with Microsoft—the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam—are at the top of the bestseller list of Windows books. In early 2010, Dan was in Vancouver, British Columbia where he built SharePoint solutions to support the broadcast of the 2010 winter Olympics as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics, a role he also played in Beijing and previously in Torino.


Gareth Hutchins, Staff Systems Engineer – Information Intelligence Group, EMC
DevConnections Speaker GarethHutchinsGareth has been working for EMC since 2005. He currently works as the specialist for the Captiva product set in EMEA.
Gareth graduated with a BSc Honours degree in Computing from the University of Portsmouth and has worked within the Enterprise Content Management industry for over 10 years. Over this time, Gareth has been responsible for the delivery, evaluation and proposals for a number of ECM projects covering many different sectors, solutions and ECM platforms.
Gareth’s knowledge of the industry enables him to assist businesses on their content management strategies and help them architect solutions built upon the current technologies. His Subject Matter Expertise of document capture is called upon for detailed Proof of Concept exercises and assisting in the creation of capture strategies to leading Global organisations and EMC partners across the EMEA region.


Igor Jericevich, Technical Specialist, K2
DevConnections Speaker IgorJericevichIgor Jericevich is the designer and architect of the K2 CASE solution for SharePoint. Igor is part of the “first 25” group of K2 employees and has been intimately involved in both implementation and management roles during his time at K2. Igor joined K2 within the consulting services division and has been responsible for some of the largest K2 implementations in the world. His experience includes enterprise implementations of K2 with defence, government and large enterprise financial services customers. Igor went on to run and manage the UK professional services team. More recently Igor has taken up the role of product owner for the K2 CASE solution. Designed specifically for SharePoint the K2 CASE management framework for SharePoint provides an powerful platform for customers looking to implement mainstream business applications handling volume around a variety of business cases based on the SharePoint platform. Since going live with K2 CASE some 12 months ago mainstream customers in Insurance, government and retail have enthusiastically embraced CASE to run mission critical applications including insurance cover, incident management and criminal case management. Igor can be reached at Igor@K2.com.


Don Jones, Concentrated Technology
DevConnections Speaker DonJonesWith more than fifteen years of IT experience, Don Jones is one of the world’s leading experts on the Microsoft business technology platform. He’s the author of more than 35 books, including Windows PowerShell: TFM, Windows Administrator’s Scripting Toolkit, VBScript WMI and ADSI Unleashed, PHP-Nuke Garage, Special Edition Using Commerce Server 2002, Definitive Guide to SQL Server Performance Optimization, and many more. Don is a top-rated and in-demand speaker at conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Windows Connections, and TechMentor, and is an accomplished IT journalist with features and monthly columns in Microsoft TechNet Magazine, Redmond Magazine, and on Web sites such as TechTarget and MCPMag.com. Don is also a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft’s prestigious Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, and is the Editor-in-Chief for Realtime Publishers.


Alexander Ketelaar, e-office
DevConnections Speaker AlexanderKetelaarAlexander works for e-office, the human software organisation. He is responsible for SharePoint implementations as a project manager and consultant.
Alexander has a background in collaboration platforms and Enterprise Content Management. In past years he has solidified his expertise in various SharePoint implementations for clients in different sectors. Amongst these were customers who needed to comply with regulations such as the Dutch NEN 2082.
His focus on technology, without losing sight of the people who actually need to work with this technology, has proven to be of great added value for each customer he has worked with.
More info about e-office on www.e-office.com
You can follow Alexander on twitter: www.twitter.com/ketelaar.


Michael Noel, Convergent Computing
DevConnections Speaker MichaelNoelMichael Noel, MCSE+I, CISSP, MVP, has been involved in the computer industry for nearly two decades, and has significant real-world experience helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure. Michael has authored several major best-selling industry books translated into 7 languages with a total worldwide circulation of over 100,000 copies. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 UnleashedWindows Longhorn Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a principal consultant at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay area, Michael’s writings and worldwide public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise designing, deploying, and administering IT infrastructure for his clients.


Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training
DevConnections Speaker TedPattisonTed Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. For the last five years Ted has worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group researching and authoring SharePoint training material for early adopters. Ted started working with SharePoint 2010 in August of 2008 and since that time has led a series of 5-day training classes in which he has already taught hundreds of professional developers how to get started building custom business solutions using the SharePoint 2010 platform.


Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com
DevConnections Speaker AsifRehmaniAsif has been training and consulting on primarily SharePoint technologies since 2004. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT. Asif provides online and in-person SharePoint training publicly and in private workshops. In addition to training, Asif also runs a SharePoint Videos website (http://www.sharepoint-videos.com) which provides dozens of SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath video tutorials.

Over the years, Asif has been a speaker on SharePoint topics at several conferences including Microsoft’s TechEd, SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Connections, and Advisor Live. He is the co-author of the book Professional SharePoint Designer 2007 by Wrox publications (http://tinyurl.com/8tdsoq). Asif was the co-founder and is currently one of the active leaders of the Chicago SharePoint User Group (http://www.cspug.org)

For a more detailed bio, please visit http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/about/. You can reach Asif at: asif@sharepointelearning.com.


Lourens Siderius, ETTU
DevConnections Speaker LourensSideriusLourens Siderius is sinds 2007 werkzaam bij ETTU als technisch projectleider. Hiervoor is Lourens werkzaam geweest bij Getronics/Pink Roccade als Information Worker Consultant. SharePoint kent weinig geheimen meer voor Lourens, met grote projecten als UMG, Arcadis, Rijkswaterstaat en C1000 achter zijn naam. Lourens is bedreven in het realiseren van functionaliteit out of the box door de mogelijkheden van SharePoint optimaal te benutten. Daarnaast is Lourens bijzonder goed in het in kaart brengen van functionele wensen en specificaties van opdrachtgevers.
Lourens Siderius is working with ETTU since 2007 as a technical project manager. Before ETTU Lourens was working as an Information Worker Consultant at Getronics/Pink Roccade. With serious projects like UMG Meeus, Arcadis, Rijkswaterstaat and C1000 Lourens knows the in- and outs of SharePoint like nobody else. He is very familiar with out of the box functionality of SharePoint and by configuring in SharePoint he knows to get the max out of SharePoint. Besides this, he is really successful when it comes to translate the questions of the customer into SharePoint functionality.


Maarten Sikkema, Macaw
DevConnections Speaker MaartenSikkemaMaarten Sikkema is founder and chief technology officer of Macaw.


Ton Stegeman, PGGM
DevConnections Speaker TonStegemanTon Stegeman is SharePoint architect at PGGM, a pension company in the Netherlands. An important part of his job is to inspire users how to use SharePoint to organize their work. The other part is about architecting and developing SharePoint solutions, to make the platform meet PGGM’s users’ requirements. He has been working with the SharePoint platform since 2002. Before joining PGGM in 2009, Ton has worked 8.5 years for a Microsoft partner in the Netherlands. Life in Microsoft technologies started with ASP/VB6 and SQL Server. Since 2003 he focused on mainly SharePoint technologies. A lot of the technical details of his practical experience are written down on his weblog, which can be reached at http://www.tonstegeman.com/blog. Ton has been awarded the MVP Award for SharePoint Server by Microsoft 4 times.


Ingeborg Struijk, Microsoft
DevConnections Speaker IngeborgStruijkIngeborg Struijk is Senior Information Worker consultant in the Netherlands, specialized in SharePoint. She was one of the first SharePoint 2007 MCM’s in the world . As an architect she has been involved in several global SharePoint roll-outs. She focuses on making SharePoint a success, not only from a technical point of view (via implementing a valid architecture), but also by professionalizing the organization around SharePoint and improving the knowledge level of the people involved. Ingeborg was involved in the SharePoint 2010 RDP program. And she gives master classes to SharePoint developers, architects and trainers.
The blog of the Dutch IW team can be found here: http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/dutchiwteam/default.aspx
In her spare time she creates ceramics in her own pottery workshop.


Paul Stubbs, Microsoft
DevConnections Speaker PaulStubbsPaul Stubbs is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for SharePoint and Office, where he focuses on information worker development community around SharePoint and Office, Silverlight, and Web 2.0 social networking. He has authored three books on solution development using Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Silverlight, several articles for MSDN Magazine and SharePoint Pro Magazine, and has also spoken at Microsoft Tech-Ed, PDC, SharePoint Conference, DevConnections and Tech-Ready conferences around the world. Paul also holds a number of Office related development patents. Paul is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has received Microsoft Certified Applications Developer (MCAD) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certifications. Paul also frequently participates in the developer community on the Microsoft forums. Visit Paul’s blog at blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs for lots of deep SharePoint developer information.


Krishnan Subramanian, Microsoft



Richard Taylor, Perficient, Inc.
DevConnections Speaker RichardTaylorRick is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations including the US Air Force, Charles Schwab, and Nestle. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by MS Press. His influence within the MCT and SharePoint communities facilitated his being selected to present at the first MCT Community Summit held in Zurich, Switzerland and prompted Microsoft Learning to make changes to the Beta courseware that it might be ready for prime time.
Rick currently resides in the Phoenix, AZ area where he is an avid triathlete (Clydesdale class), and active in the Boy Scouts of America.


Serge van den Oever, Macaw
DevConnections Speaker Sergevan den OeverSerge van den Oever has been working with SharePoint for 10 years now. He started with the first betas of SharePoint 2001, code-named Tahoe, and is still heavily involved in SharePoint development. Since 1998, Serge works at Macaw in the Netherlands (http://www.macaw.nl). The last years as part of the Knowledge Development department, working on the Macaw Solutions Factory (http://solutionsfactory.macaw.nl), the Macaw tooling and guidance for developing on SharePoint and other Microsoft Server products. At this moment, Serge is involved in a huge SharePoint WCM project for one of the biggest Dutch insurance companies, and investigating the new opportunities delivered by the SharePoint 2010 platform and the Visual Studio 2010 development tools. You can read his weblog at http://weblogs.asp.net/soever and follow him via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/svdoever.


Mirjam van Olst, Macaw
DevConnections Speaker Mirjamvan OlstMirjam van Olst is a SharePoint Architect in the Information Worker Solutions department of Macaw in the Netherlands. Having worked with different versions of SharePoint since 2004, Mirjam has been helping companies in different industries and of different sizes to implement successful SharePoint portal, ECM and search solutions.

Mirjam is one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint 2007.

Being a strong community advocate, Mirjam is a co-organizer of the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG). Apart from being a regular author and editor for the popular DIWUG eMagazine, Mirjam is also an author for the SDN magazines, the Dutch .Net Magazine and the Dutch TechNet magazine. Mirjam is a regular speaker at both national and international conferences and events and can be found blogging at http://sharepointchick.com. In January of 2010 Mirjam was awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award.

In her spare time, Mirjam likes to play tennis and hang out with friends and family.


Wouter van Vugt, code-counsel
DevConnections Speaker Woutervan VugtWouter is a Microsoft MVP and independent expert on Office and SharePoint technologies. He has focused on SharePoint Foundation as a developer platform, wrote the world’s first book on Open XML and is an author for MSDN. Wouter is a trainer with Critical Path Training, with which he successfully authored and delivered SharePoint 2010 workshops to hundreds of professional software developers from Microsoft as well as other ISVs and System Integrators that have participated in the private beta as part of the TAP, Metro and Ignite programs.


Gijsbert in ’t Veld, Motion 10
DevConnections Speaker Gijsbert in ’tVeldGijsbert is CTO and Principal Consultant at motion10. He has more than 20 years of experience in the area of integrating business applications as an architect, designer and consultant. During the last 9 years he focused primarily on the Microsoft Application Platform, including BizTalk server, SQL server and SharePoint. This year Gijsbert received the Microsoft MVP award for the 5th time in a row for his contributions to the BizTalk Server technical community. He achieved this honor through white papers, presentations, books, blogs and helping the acceleration of the world wide adoption of BizTalk Server. In many cases Microsoft involves him as a Virtual Technical Specialist in pre-sales and QA stages for large or critical customers.


Bart Wessels, Microsoft
DevConnections Speaker BartWesselsBart is a Tech Specialist on the Office Platform at Microsoft. In his role he talks to global, large and mid-market customers on productivity solutions using both Office and SharePoint. Before joining Microsoft over five years ago, Bart was an MVP on Office System working at a Microsoft Partner as an IW Consultant.

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