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Speakers
Sessions and Speakers are subject to change without notice
Todd Baginski, Fresh Tracks Consulting, LLC
 Todd began working with WSS and SPS in the beta stages of the products, in 2003. He has architected and implemented intranets, extranets, wireless deployments, and several custom applications with the WSS and SPS platforms. Todd created the first SharePoint advanced development training curriculum in the training industry for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Two versions in a row, Todd broke ground in the training industry by being the first to offer advanced developr training for SharePoint! Todd speaks at many SharePoint conferences including the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Microsoft TechEd, and SharePoint Connections. He has also spoken at Microsoft events at the Microsoft offices in both Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also presented several sessions at the Rocky Mountain SharePoint User’s Group.
Todd is also the content author and presenter for the BDC portion of the SharePoint Master Certification program. Most recently, Todd architected and led the team which developed the new sharepoint.microsoft.com and sharepoint2010.microsoft.com web sites. He enjoys spending time with his wife and their dogs, playing and coaching lacrosse, playing hockey, riding his bike in the Rocky Mountains, and skiing every chance he gets.
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Robert Bogue, Thor Projects
 Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC, which provides SharePoint consulting services to clients around the world. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShepherd.com. Robert has been pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program for the past 6 years. He was most recently awarded for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Before that Robert was a Microsoft Commerce Server MVP and before that Microsoft Windows Servers-Networking MVP. Robert is also a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion and a team member for the SharePoint Guidance. Robert is the president of the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN, www.spindiana.com). He’s also a member of the board for the Indiana Windows Users Group (www.iwug.net). Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog. You can reach Robert at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.
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Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training, LLC
 Andrew 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.
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Roger Doherty, Microsoft
 Roger Doherty is a Senior Technical Evangelist with Microsoft’s Platform Evangelism team in Redmond. Roger joined Microsoft in 1991 from Sybase, Inc. and has worked in a variety of database roles as a trainer, pre-sales technical specialist, software design engineer and evangelist. Currently Roger works with the SQL Server team and other evangelists to drive developer adoption of SQL Server and Business Intelligence in enterprise and breadth scenarios worldwide. Roger is a native Philadelphian and enjoys mountain-biking with his wife Jeanne and searching for an advantage in games of chance.
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Kirk Evans, Microsoft
 Kirk Evans is an Industry Architect for Microsoft’s Communications Sector vertical. He works with the largest media companies and advertising agencies, showing them how to build the next generation of applications and services leveraging the Microsoft platform. Visit Kirk’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans
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Donovan Follette, Microsoft
 Donovan Follette is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist and has evangelized a number of technologies including Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Services and Active Directory Federation Services. Most recently he focuses on Office development and building fully integrated solutions with Office and SharePoint as the platform.
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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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Wendy Henry, SharePoint-eLearning.com
 A Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Wendy has been an independent technical trainer, author, and consultant for the last 10 years...specializing in Microsoft SQL Server since 1999 and SharePoint since 2005. Wendy is a contributing partner on SharePoint-eLearning.com which provides tutorial screencasts, live webcasts and other educational material about all things SharePoint. The author of various proprietary courseware for leading technical education centers, Wendy has also been called on to edit technical material by national publishers such as McGraw-Hill and Microsoft Official Learning Products. Her technical certifications include Microsoft (MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, MCT); Novell (CNE, CNI) and Cisco (CUSE, CCNA). She also consults on Windows/ADS network architecture and SQL/SharePoint design to several Fortune 500 companies.
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Scot Hillier, Scot Hillier Technical Solutions, LLC
 Scot 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.
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John Holliday, John Holliday & Associates, Inc.
 John Holliday is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP for Office SharePoint Server and has over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100. He is a co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development from Wrox Press and a contributing author of The SharePoint Administrator’s Pocket Consultant from Microsoft Press.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John developed a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. His expertise includes all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special emphasis on document automation, collaboration, and enterprise content management.
In addition to his professional career, John is actively engaged in humanitarian activities through Works of Wonder International, a non-profit he co-founded with his wife Alice, and the Art of Living Foundation, an international service organization devoted to uplifting human values throughout the world.
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Dan Holme, Intelliem, Inc.
 A 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.
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Chris Johnson, Microsoft
 Chris works on the SharePoint team at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond Washington focusing on Enterprise Content Management & Web Content Management. Chris joined Microsoft in 2002 in New Zealand & worked with customers across the Asia Pacific region on Content Management Server and SharePoint technologies. In 2007 he moved with his family to Redmond to work on the SharePoint 2010 release. Chris’ background is in development and enjoys all things technical. He has spoken at numerous conferences such as TechEd & SharePoint Conference. Chris holds a Bachelor of Computer Science & enjoys throwing himself out of perfectly good airplanes.
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Todd Klindt, SharePoint 911
 Todd has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last six years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog.
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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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Jie Li, Microsoft
 Bio not available.
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Matthew McDermott, AbleBlue
 Matthew, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, is a Principal Consultant for AbleBlue in Austin, Texas. A specialist in Microsoft technologies focused on search, social, collaboration and web content management, Matthew has led SharePoint implementations since 2002 for organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to state and local governments. Matthew’s free time is spent as a canine handler for K9 Search • Austin, a volunteer K9 search team serving the FBI and Austin & San Antonio Police Departments.
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Raymond Mitchell, Inetium
 Raymond Mitchell is a Senior Consultant for Inetium and frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group. He has also spoken at the Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and St. Louis SharePoint User Groups, as well as several SharePoint Camps. He blogs under the alias IWKID on Information Worker technologies including SharePoint and Office development.
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Mike Morton, Microsoft
 Mike has been at Microsoft for over 14 years working in a number of groups. For the past 18 months he has been working on the team in the Visual Studio group that is building a set of next generation tools to make SharePoint development within Visual Studio 2010 significantly easier and more efficient.
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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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Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training
 Ted 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.
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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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Claude Steinmayer, NetApp
 Claude Steinmayer joined NetApp as a senior marketing and product management professional with 39 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully leading cross functional teams in high tech companies. In his current role at NetApp, Claude’s focus is on NetApp solutions for Microsoft applications such as Exchange and SharePoint, as well as on solutions for Hyper-V.
While working for companies such as IBM, Amdahl, HDS, EMC, and Sun Micro Systems, Claude’s particular emphasis has been on strategic sales, product marketing, product management, strategy development and implementation of go-to-market action plans. Claude has consulted independently in Canada, Europe, and Africa on IT strategic business plans and implementation with Fortune 100 companies. Married with four children and living in California, Claude is a commercially rated pilot, and a certified dive master.
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Paul Stubbs, Microsoft
 Paul 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.
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Venky Veeraraghavan, Microsoft
Bio not available.
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Shane Young, SharePoint911
 Shane has over 12 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past three years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer for http://www.SharePoint911.com. Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elite group of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MVP’s.. He has architected SharePoint solutions for clients ranging from 20 to 50,000 users. Shane is a renowned speaker at national and international SharePoint conferences. He is also the author of The Ted Pattison Group’s course SPA401: Professional SharePoint Server 2007 Administration. Shane also maintains a popular SharePoint focused blog http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane that contains a lot of beneficial technical information about SharePoint administration.
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