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Speakers
Sessions and Speakers are subject to change without notice
Jan Brücher, Getronics Consulting
 Jan 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.
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Danny Burlage, Wortell
 Danny 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.
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Peli de Halleux, Microsoft
 Jonathan ‘Peli’ de Halleux. Peli is a Senior Research Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA, where he has been since October 2006 working the Pex project. From 2004 to 2006, he worked in the Common Language Runtime (CLR) as a Software Design Engineer in Test (SDE/T) in charge of the Just In Time compiler. Before joining Microsoft, he earned a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Catholic University of Louvain. Earlier, he developed the unit testing framework MbUnit.
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Andries den Haan, Getronics Consulting
 Andries 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
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Mike Fitzmaurice, Nintex
 Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex, a global company committed to delivering out-of-box productivity solutions built for and with SharePoint technology, and is responsible for product direction, evangelism, technical marketing, and technical business strategy. Until May 2008, he had spent more than 10 years at Microsoft, the majority of that time working on Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server in roles including developer evangelism, competitive strategy, enterprise consulting, user education, product marketing, and technical event planning. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters.
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Steve Fox, Microsoft
 Steve 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).
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Spencer Harbar
 Spencer 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.
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Sam Hassani, Microsoft
 Sam Hassani has been working with Microsoft’s Premier Support customers as a Premier Field Engineer for the past three years. Sam’s expertise lies in operations, optimisation and support. When working with customers, Sam’s mission is to help them to deploy and operate healthy environments primarily achieved through extensive risk-assessments of enterprise-MOSS environments and knowledge transfer to technical staff. Sam has carried out a lot of work on the patching and upgrade processes for SharePoint 2007, working closely with the SharePoint product group to develop quality content on the end-to-end best practices for patching and upgrading SharePoint, and has continued to extend this knowledge to SharePoint 2010. Other keen areas of interest in SharePoint server to Sam are Search, Disaster Recovery, High availability, and Publishing in Extranet scenarios.
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Michiel Hazen, Ordina
 Michiel Hazen is an Enterprise Content Management specialist at Ordina with over 8 years of experience in the field of knowledge and information management. He’s experienced with all aspects of Enterprise Content Management in several roles, such as consultant, project manager, program manager, trainer and process manager. Michiel worked in various sectors and primarily in the public sector (government, education and health care), professional services and industry. Since 2005 Michiel, has worked on several SharePoint projects for intranets, document management, records management, workflow, enterprise search and public websites.
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Donald Hessing, VX Company IT Services
 Donald 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.
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Matthijs Hoekstra, Microsoft
 Matthijs is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft in The Netherlands, concentrating around the Microsoft productivity product stack: products like SharePoint, Office and the Unified Communications platform. His job is to get people enthusiastic about the Microsoft products. Before Matthijs joined DPE in 2008 he worked 6.5 years as consultant for Microsoft Services. Before that Matthijs started his career with Lotus Notes and Java development. Matthijs loves to present and talk about Microsoft products. He likes to talk to all different kind of people and doesn’t mind when people approach him to have a chat. Maybe he won’t admit it, but he secretly wants to be a pop star and plays Guitar Hero every night.
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Jonathan King, K2
 Jonathan King is a Technical Specialist for K2 responsible for supporting customers and partners across Europe. Working specifically in the Microsoft Business Process Management and Enterprise Content Management arena, Jonathan has a broad ranging technical experience including SharePoint, Documentum, Meridio, Dynamics CRM and BizTalk.
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Tony Lanni, AvePoint
 Tony Lanni, AvePoint’s Vice President of Marketing, performs research and analysis on Microsoft SharePoint landscape and evaluates industry trends that impact the course of business. Tony co-develops strategies for new product design and works on enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Tony’s extensive experience with SharePoint custom backup, recovery and administration applications has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within SharePoint communities and at technical events, such as Microsoft TechEd, Data Protection Summit and IBM Tivoli Nation.
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Daniel McPherson, zevenseas
 Daniel “Point2Share” McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas (www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before. You can find Daniel blogging at: http://community.zevenseas.com/blogs/daniel or on twitter: http://twitter.com/danmc.
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Robin Meure, zevenseas
 Robin has almost 6 years of experience with SharePoint. He works for zevenseas as part of a company dedicated to solving business problems with a combination of SharePoint and creativity. He helps a range of customers plan, deploy and build solutions on SharePoint, and participates actively in the broader SharePoint community though his blog (http://community.zevenseas.com/blogs/robin ) and many contributions to CodePlex. He is a founding member of the SharePoint Black Belts established by Microsoft in Holland to promote skills sharing among its partners.
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Michael Noel, Convergent Computing
 Michael 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 Unleashed, Windows 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.
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Patrick Püntener, IT Systems
 Patrick Püntener is the head of sales and marketing and a member of the board of itsystems. He is a Master of Science and has an extensive technical experience over many years with information and process management systems. As a result of his engagement in establishing the SharePoint competence for itsystems since 2001 and his activity as a columnist and author of professional articles, he today is an expert of the SharePoint community. He supports companies and public administrations as a consultant with the development of modern information architectures.
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Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com
 Asif 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.
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Patrick Savalle, Sogeti
 Patrick Savalle is working on the innovation and inspiration section of Sogeti, a big system integrator and global alliance of Microsoft. Patrick Savalle has a broad background, wrote several books and articles about C++, system architecture, and collaboration. Developed a multi-disciplinary method about social collaboration method. He is author of the book Teampark and owner of several blogs. More information about Teampark can be found on http://blog.teampark.org/.
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Richard Taylor, Perficient, Inc.
 Rick 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.
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Jan Tielens, U2U
 Jan is .NET Architect and Trainer at U2U (http://www.u2u.be). He focuses on Information Worker technologies including SharePoint and Office. Jan is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Office SharePoint Server and he is well known in the SharePoint community as the author of the SmartPart and the SmartTools for SharePoint. You can read his weblog at http://weblogs.asp.net/jan and follow him via twitter at http://twitter.com/jantielens.
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Erica Toelle
 Erica Toelle has been working with SharePoint since 2004, creating business solutions around Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration, and Communities. She has written several Enterprise Content Management whitepapers for Microsoft explaining SharePoint’s features and how to leverage them in a business context, and provided input into the 2010 Content features. Erica understands how to communicate about SharePoint to both a business and technical audience to foster shared understanding among everyone involved with a project.
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Serge van den Oever, Macaw
 Serge 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.
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Mark van Lunenburg, zevenseas
 Mark van Lunenburg has almost four years of experience with SharePoint, starting with SharePoint 2007 and recently working on early SharePoint 2010. He is working for zevenseas, a company with a SharePoint heart dedicated in solving business problems by using SharePoint and creativity. Mark has worked for different kinds of customers, each having their own unique requirements. He plans, builds and deploys solutions on top of SharePoint. Mark participates in the SharePoint community through his blog (http://community.zevenseas.com/blogs/mark) and via Twitter (@markvlunenburg).
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Mirjam van Olst, Macaw
 Mirjam 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.
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Wouter van Vugt, code-counsel
 Wouter 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.
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Marianne van Wanrooij, Connected Solutions
 Marianne is a solution architect and developer for her own company, Connected Solutions. She works on Information Worker solutions in the Education industry, integrating line of business (LOB) applications with Office clients and SharePoint. One of her biggest accomplishments is winning the Innovation Award 2009 for Education. Next to her daily work, she runs two user groups, DIWUG (Dutch Information Worker User Group www.diwug.nl) and the SDN Information Worker track (Software Development Network www.sdn.nl/iw).
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Bart Wessels, Microsoft
 Bart 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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