Seattle 365EduCon Speakers
Andrew Connell is a web developer with a focus on Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365, specifically SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure, Node.js, .NET Core, and React that enjoys development, writing & teaching… if it’s a cutting-edge web you will find Andrew there! He has received Microsoft’s MVP award every year since 2005 and has helped thousands of developers through the various courses he’s authored and taught both in-person & in online courses. His training company, Voitanos (https://www.voitanos.io), is dedicated to delivering industry-leading on-demand video training for Microsoft 365 developers. Bob German is a Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft focused on Microsoft 365 and Azure development, especially building apps for Microsoft Teams using the Graph API. He's been developing collaborative applications since the early days of SharePoint, and has a background in the SharePoint Framework, Azure Bot Framework, and Azure Active Directory. Cathy, is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on the OneDrive and SharePoint PM team focused on SharePoint branding and the SharePoint integrations with Teams. Before joining Microsoft, she worked in the consulting world for 10 years and was a Microsoft MVP for 5 years. She has been focused on working with businesses to build enterprise solutions across numerous verticals and brings this unique perspective to the developer experience for ISVs within the ODSP team. Charles leads the Engineering teams for the Business Applications & Platform (BAP) in the Digital Transformation Platform Group. The BAP team includes Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power Portals, Dataverse and AI Builder products. Chris McNulty is Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft 365, Knowledge/Content Services, OneDrive, SharePoint, Stream, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva. Chris’s experience as CTO includes companies such as Dell and Quest Software. He was first recognized as a SharePoint MVP in 2013, and led the consulting practice at Knowledge Management Associates, a US based Microsoft Gold Partner. A frequent speaker at events around the globe, Chris is the author of the “SharePoint 2013 Consultant’s Handbook” among other works. Chris holds an MBA from Boston College in Investment Management and has over twenty years’ experience with John Hancock, State Street, GMO and Santander. He blogs at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com and co-hosts the Intrazone podcast at https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone. As an early adopter of the Power Platform, Daniel has first-hand experienced the growth of these products. Daniel's 15+ years of technology experience includes on-premises and online, and his current primary focus has been the integration of these products with SharePoint, SQL, Cognitive Services and One-Drive. As an MVP, Daniel works directly with the Product teams, giving them feedback and testing the new features. He is also a huge proponent of sharing knowledge and hence a regular contributor of online and local communities. Director of Product Management, Dataverse Jeff leads design, product, and engineering for Microsoft’s content creation and collaboration tools empowering over one billion people at work, school and home to achieve more. His team is responsible for the core Office apps, OneDrive, SharePoint, Stream video service and Photo, Video, and Paint3D tools. His previous roles include Corporate Vice President for Office 365 Program Management and General Manager for SharePoint. Jeff has an MBA from Harvard and a BS from New York University. Jeremy Thake is a Principal Program Manager in the Microsoft Graph engineering team. He has developed on the Microsoft platform since 1998. He has worked as a developer consultant, VP of Product at large and small ISVs. Jeremy has spoken at conferences, tweeted, blogged and run podcasts for over ten years. John is a Technology professional with almost 20 years of experience helping organizations understand how they can drive secure collaboration and business productivity through an effective use of technology. With a technical background in the Microsoft stack of collaboration products, and having held both technical and business management roles, John has a deep understanding of the priorities and concerns of both sides of the organization. In his current role as CTO of AvePoint Public Sector, John is responsible for both leading product vision and development as well as helping customers balance innovation and governance in their journey to the cloud. Julie leads the engineering organization driving the Pro Developer and Admin Experiences across the Power Platform. Mark is a senior product manager on the SharePoint & OneDrive team focused primarily on SharePoint in Office 365. He has worked at MSFT since 2000. He started working with SharePoint building a digital asset management (DAM) solution built on top of SharePoint 2007 (IMM, the Interactive Media Manager) before moving to the SharePoint team. Mark co-hosts The Intrazone podcast (aka.ms/TheIntrazone) – a show about the SharePoint intelligent intranet. He lives in the Sammamish, WA area and enjoys kayaking, soccer, hiking, Dad’ness, and quiet-bird-chirping moments for reading and writing books - when not playing that darned addictive Bejeweled. Twitter/@MKashman Max is a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft 365 in Education at Microsoft. He focuses on improving collaboration and productivity, and has worked with Microsoft 365 for the past ten years. He is a self-proclaimed geek, passionate about a broad range of messaging and collaboration tools and can't stop talking about the technology he loves. Ryan Cunningham is the Vice President for PowerApps, Microsoft’s low-code application development offering. Ryan has led PowerApps to millions of global users across Office 365, Dynamics 365, and standalone applications – helping everyone from citizen developers to professionals accelerate their delivery of enterprise line of business applications. Ryan holds advanced degrees from the University of Southern California and the London School of Economics and is a frequent presenter on the low-code movement. Sesha Mani is a 21-year technology veteran and is a Principal Group Product Manager (GPM) at Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft for 13+ years specializing in cloud SaaS products. His team leads the Security, Compliance, and Management product portfolio for Microsoft 365 SharePoint and OneDrive cloud services. Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo, Information Barriers, and Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) product capabilities are some examples of his team's product art. He lives in Redmond with his wife and two kids, he is an avid reader and a cricket sport lover. Since 2009 Stephen has led IT pro product marketing for a wide variety of products at Microsoft including Microsoft 365, Windows, Surface, Office and OneDrive. He now leads IT Pro Security, Management and Privacy for Microsoft Teams and is the host of the show Inside Microsoft Teams. Stephen is the General Manager for Power Automate (formerly known as Microsoft Flow) —a product that democratizes intelligent automation by empowering everyone to build automated workflows that reduce manual, repetitive tasks. Prior to starting Power Automate, Stephen worked on Azure Logic Apps and Azure Autoscale and Alerts. Adam Marget serves as the Product Marketing Manager at Unitrends, a leader in data center backup and disaster recovery solutions. An experienced technical marketing professional, Adam has been a member of the Unitrends team since 2016, during which time he’s held several roles at the company. Driven by a love and curiosity for technology, he’s been delighted to have been afforded the opportunity help both end users and channel partners solve challenges around disaster recovery and business continuity. Prior to joining Unitrends, Adam worked with national IT solutions provider CDW where he leveraged a variety of partner solutions to help his customers achieve their goals across backup, networking, security, power & cooling, endpoint and data center technologies. Connect at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammarget/. Asif has been training, consulting and mentoring on primarily Microsoft SharePoint technologies since 2002. He has been awarded SharePoint Server MVP for 10 consecutive years - since 2007. Asif provides online and in-person SharePoint training publicly and in private workshops. In addition to mentoring and teaching, Asif also is the CEO of VisualSP (https://www.visualsp.com) which provides a context sensitive help system for SharePoint end users. Ben Vanderberg is a Principal Developer Evangelist for Adobe Document Cloud platform. For the last 15 years, he has worked with organizations to help drive automation and paperless technologies. With the release of the iPad and the iPhone, he helped publishing organizations drive cross-publishing to the web, mobile, and traditional paper. At Adobe, he has been helping drive innovation in documents through e-signatures (Adobe Sign) and document automation using Adobe Document Services. He is also working with many enterprise platforms, including SalesForce, Microsoft 365, AWS, Azure, and other platforms. Ben is also an editor and contributor to Adobe Tech Blog. Brian Alderman is a Microsoft MVP, and since 1995 he has held several Microsoft certifications that currently include; MCT, MCSE for SharePoint, MCSA for Office 365, MCITP for SQL Server(R), and MCSE for Windows Server(R). As a Senior Technical Instructor and Consultant he has 30 years of experience in networking, SQL Server databases, SharePoint technologies, and project management. Brian's publications include Windows 2000 Professional, SQL Server 2000 Administration, SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion and Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out. He is an active speaker at SharePoint Industry conferences including SharePoint Saturday's, SPLive, DevIntersection, SharePoint Fest, Microsoft Ignite and several international SharePoint conferences including London, Milan, Dublin, and Madrid. Brian has a BS and MS in Computer Information Systems where he graduated summa cum laude from Regis University of Colorado Springs and now lives in Scottsdale, AZ where he enjoys playing golf year round and traveling around the world. CJ leads product management for knowledge in Microsoft Viva. She works on Viva Topics, a product which brings humans and AI together; organizing content and expertise across your organization, and bringing that knowledge to you as you need it. Craig Jahnke is a Customer Engineer at Microsoft who helps clients develop strategies for implementing SharePoint and Office 365 solutions that allow their employees to share information and data securely. He speaks at user groups, organizes M365 Chicago and the Chicago Power Platform Users Group, and loves to talk with others about technology and how to use it to solve business problems. Daniel is a Microsoft MVP and serves as Senior Director of Hybrid Office and U.S. Delivery at Creospark. Daniel works with the delivery team and clients throughout North America to better inform organizations and help them understand, adopt, and love their technology. Daniel is a sought-after trainer, providing customized Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, Power BI, and Power Automate training for companies around the world. Dave Russ, Senior Technical Account Manager at Synology, has worked with several resellers and hundreds of customers to provide customized solutions based on their needs. From basic file servers to backup solutions to surveillance solutions, he has experience in nearly every area of data storage and protection. Dave looks forward to continuing to provide customers with solutions that both fit their needs and work within their budget. Derek is passionate about building intuitive and useful applications, focusing on the design and user experience as well as the development. Microsoft MVP in Office Development. Don has spent the last 15 years working with companies of all sizes, helping them maximize their productivity in SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure. With over 30 years of programming experience, Don's passion for coding is centered around the complete Microsoft ecosystem of cloud technologies. He loves working the entire development stack, from database design to the user interface, including Business Intelligence solutions. Prior to working full-time in the IT world, Don spent 20 years as a pilot in the Air Force, accumulating over 4500 hours in various aircraft, including the T-1A, E-3B/C, and T-38. Drew Madelung is a Cloud Solutions Architect and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services. He helps organizations realize what is possible with Microsoft 365 & Azure, onboard them in a secure and compliant way, and drive sustained adoption for those solutions. He is experienced in a range of technologies but specializes in the collaboration and teamwork workspaces such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. He has helped deploy Microsoft 365 to multiple global companies while rolling out modern information protection and information governance technologies. He has been doing Microsoft consulting for 10+ years with a strength in security & compliance solutions. Eric Overfield is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP, a PnP team member, and a leading expert in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Azure architecture, strategy, and development. Mr. Overfield, President and co-founder of PixelMill, has over 23 years' experience with web design best practices and techniques, and over 17 years' experience with SharePoint and digital workplace architecture and implementation. Besides his in-depth knowledge of SharePoint’s capabilities, his expertise includes Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and Azure technology, design, and architecture along with custom solutions, TypeScript, JavaScript, and React. He is a co-author of Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development (Apress 2013) and Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint (EUSP Press 2013). An engaged speaker and organizer of Microsoft 365 events as well as an active member of the PnP team. Erica Toelle is a senior product marketing manager on the Microsoft compliance product team. Her focus is on growing the information governance and records management business and listening to customers and partners to make our solutions better. Erica is a long-time member of the SharePoint and Microsoft 365 community, a former Microsoft MVP, a published author, and a recognized expert in the information governance area. Gokan is an independent SharePoint and Office365 consultant for Neoxy where he assists customers with building innovative, intelligent and responsive cloud driven solutions. With the Mobile first, Cloud first ideology, his goal is to empower every person and organization to do more with the Microsoft cloud and the ecosystem is perfectly aligned to accelerate this. Creativity, automation and perspective are what he loves most when using the Microsoft cloud, so every customer can be more agile, responsive and competitive. Gokan is a frequent – and funny – conference speaker. He presented at numerous national and international conferences and is actively involved in European and American conferences: Microsoft Techdays, Microsoft Experiences, European SharePoint Conferences, SharePoint Days and SharePoint Fest are a few major ones. You can change your career at anytime, and this is what Holly Lehman, a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft, has done! For the past 7 years, she has been living the Microsoft life, driven by community obsession. As a Product Marketing Manager on Microsoft Teams, Holly has shown that you own your career. Navigating from End Point Manager to Azure and now Microsoft Teams Holly continues to define her next steps. Holly is partnering with our Partners, MVP & customer community by providing education and getting live feedback by our users! With her love for the Tech Community, she shares a journey with her Partner in Community, Isi Katanic as they travel the world (virtually) interviewing so many in the tech community. Her love for events makes her the point person for many events for Microsoft teams and loves the opportunity to learn more each and every day. Jason Himmelstein is a Microsoft Regional Director & 7 time Microsoft MVP, awarded in Office Apps and Services for Microsoft 365 and Data Platform for Power BI. With more than 20 years of experience working with Microsoft and related technologies and a strong passion for technology, Jason has spent the past 13 years dedicated to SharePoint, Business Intelligence, and Microsoft 365. Jason has successfully architected solutions for customers of all sizes and maintains an active speaking schedule, addressing conferences around the world. He also is an organizer/advisor of multiple Users Groups and SharePoint Saturdays, co-host of the BIFocal.show podcast, and has served as the SharePoint/Office 365 Track Chair for several National conferences. In his day job he is a Senior Manager at EY in the Financial Services Tax Technology & Transformation Division. I enjoy facilitating discussions on modern IT practices and drawing lurkers into the conversation. I am a seasoned consultant with a focus on digital collaboration and stakeholder engagement. I use 20 years of IT experience to engage customers in designing solutions to increase the value and decrease risk within their Microsoft investments. I am AvePoint's US Federal strategic lead (www.avepoint.com), co-founder of the OTSN Podcast Network (www.onthespot.tech), co-host on "This Week in Teams" and "Buzzkill" podcasts, co-organizer of the M365 Chicago community conference, and host of the M365 Government Community Call. Jill Hannemann is an expert in information architecture, taxonomy design, and portal strategy for clients in the government, media, hospitality, and products industries. She has significant experience in the design, maintenance, and content management of Microsoft SharePoint on-premises and Office365. In addition, she possesses expertise in web usability, project strategy, and information governance. She is a frequent speaker on topics including taxonomy design, information governance strategy, social computing, portal strategy, content management, and web usability. Joanne Klein is an independent Microsoft 365 consultant, a 5-time Microsoft MVP in Office Apps & Services, and an Advanced Compliance specialist in the Microsoft suite of tools. Joanne works with her customers on planning and implementing information protection and governance controls across their Microsoft 365 environments to address the unique challenges of today's modern workplace. She’s a firm believer that it’s not all about technology. John P White is the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of UnlimitedViz, the makers of tyGraph. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Guelph and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2010 and a dual MVP since 2018. He has spent far too long (since 1990) in the Information Technology space, and possesses a skill set that spans both architecture and development. He has been instrumental in delivering projects and applications that have been recognized with both local and global awards from Microsoft and IBM. Julie has been building software on primarily the Microsoft platform for over 20 years. With a degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in microprocessor system design from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she came at software initially from a very low level but quickly realized her love and aptitude for developing rich user experiences and solutions. She worked her way up through internal IT ranks reaching a Director of IT position before realizing more impact could be made in consulting and really focused on the SharePoint platform in 2007. Since then her focus has been on the SharePoint platform, Office 365, Azure, and client-side development. She's the co-author of the Widget Wrangler JavaScript library and continues to try and help innovate SharePoint and Office 365 solutions for her clients. She also has been a recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for Office Apps and Services since 2017 and is a Microsoft 365 PnP team member. Kai brings a future of work perspective to his work as a consultant and speaker. His extensive background in helping companies transform their workforce experience through holistic approaches has brought extensive recognition for his success in helping his clients create pragmatic human-centered collaboration solutions. His experience in enabling technology solutions through behavioral change and long-term sustainment models has provided special insight to clients on what they need to change in order to embrace new ways of working through effective content management, communication and teamwork. Liz is a Program Manager at Microsoft and former Office Apps and Services MVP. Liz loves a challenge, so everything from a business problem to troubleshooting an error in a system is just another learning opportunity. As a trainer and international speaker, she hopes to inspire others to learn something they can apply to their own work immediately. When she is not working in SharePoint or traveling, you may find her in a variety of activities as diverse as she is: playing music, riding motorcycles, training her dog and even a craft or two. You can follow her on twitter @percusn. Mark is Group Manager, Modern Workplace Architect at Avanade and a Microsoft MVP with more than 20 years of experience designing and developing software solutions. Mark’s daily responsibilities include forging the direction of solution architecture and development projects for clients while providing the best solutions for clients' unique problems. As a globally recognized SharePoint geek, Mark is an active blogger, presenter, author (and bacon aficionado) who is eager to lend his real-world knowledge of SharePoint to all who need it. In addition to speaking at various SharePoint & Office 365 conferences around the world, Mark is the organizer of The North American Collaboration Summit (www.collabsummit.org) in Branson, Missouri, the creator of the free InfoPath replacement tool StratusForms (www.stratusforms.com), and a podcaster at www.techsplaining.net Mike Fitzmaurice, WEBCON's Chief Evangelist and VP - North America, is a recognized thought leader in workflow/business process automation, citizen development, and low-code/no-code solution platforms and strategies. He has more than 25 years of product, consulting, evangelism, engineering, and IT management expertise. His decade at Microsoft included being the original technical product manager for SharePoint, helping launch and shepherd its first three releases; it was Mike who birthed, developed, and led developer evangelism on SharePoint, positioning it as a development platform. Other gigs included a decade at Nintex as Vice-President of Workflow and Product Technology and five years as Director of IT at the National Association of Broadcasters. Nate is an award-winning, certified technical trainer and content creator who specializes in Microsoft 365 apps and services. He trains corporate clients on a wide range of Microsoft 365 topics including OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and the Power Platform. He has authored several M365-focused books including M365 certification exam guides, he blogs regularly at NateChamberlain.com, and is often a guest speaker at user groups and conferences. Nick Brattoli is an Ohio native, MPV, MCSE, and self-employed Consultant, as well as the Collab365 Community Manager. He’s worked in the IT Field for 19 years, 13 of which have been SharePoint-focused. Nick is the Director of Demand Generation for Spanning. Nick specializes in the cybersecurity and data protection to help customers secure their businesses from some of the most sophisticated threats in the today's cybersecurity landscape. Nick works with IT professionals, MSPs, customers, resellers, and executives to deliver Office 365 products that delight the end users. Paul Robichaux is Senior Director of Product Management at Keepit and a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) – a title he has been awarded every year since 2003. Paul has worked in IT since 1978 and held a number of CTO and senior product development positions in the software industry. Paul is a prolific contributor to the Microsoft community: He is the author of an impressive amount of books and articles about Microsoft technologies, including the best-selling Office 365 for IT Pros, a contributing editor for Practical 365, and produces a continuous stream of videos, podcasts and webinars. He is based in Alabama in the United States. Paul is the Owner/Principal Architect at Don't Pa..Panic Consulting. He has been working in the information technology industry for over 30 years, and has played key roles in several enterprise SharePoint architectural design review, Intranet deployment, application development, and migration projects. he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the last 12 consecutive years and earned his Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters (MCSM) certification in 2013. Prashant G Bhoyar is a Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer ( MCT ), and Microsoft Certified Professional. He currently works as Cloud Solution Architect at Applied Information Sciences ( www.ais.com ). He is a trusted advisor and Subject Matter Expert in Conversational AI, Applied AI, Intelligent Business Process Automation, development, and post-implementation adoption of complex custom solutions in AI, Machine Learning, Bots, Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and SharePoint. Prashant has supported a multitude of government agencies and non-profit organizations in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Prashant is the co-author of the book “PowerShell for Office 365 “and is the technical reviewer of the book "Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration." He serves on the leadership committee for the Azure Data Fest conference, Artificial Intelligence Fest conference, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning User Group, Northern Virginia SQL User Group, and DC Metro Office 365 User Group. He is a renowned international speaker and actively speaks at technical conferences, most recently in India, Canada, England, Bangladesh, Peru, Washington DC, Austin, New York, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Fun fact??, Prashant is a recipient of the "Antarctic Service Medal of the United States of America" for his outstanding service in Antarctica. Ryan Schouten has been developing on SharePoint since December of 2006 and has worked with every version of SharePoint since version 2(2003). Since that time, Ryan has developed a love and understanding of SharePoint that helps him to be comfortable in SharePoint no matter what area he is working in. This knowledge allows Ryan to discuss complex development and admin concepts in a manner that is easy to understand. Ryan loves getting out and connecting with the community. Sameer is a Microsoft Practice Lead at AQL, speaker, and author with more than 25 years of technical consulting experience. He has worked with a wide range of enterprises, delivering high-impact solutions based on various technologies and platforms like RPA, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, and more. Below is the link for his book on RPA “Improving Business Value with RPA” Sarah Haase is an enterprise collaboration strategist, corporate librarian, and product manager responsible for implementing enterprise-level governance, compliance, and adoption strategies for Microsoft 365. She's also a blogger, Innovation Games facilitator, international speaker, Microsoft Apps & Services MVP, and a community organizer for SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities. You can find Sarah online at http://blog.splibrarian.com and @sarahhaase. You can listen to her on the Microsoft 365 Voice podcast (m365voice.com). Scott Shearer is a SharePoint and Office 365 evangelist and Microsoft MVP. Scott has over 20 years' experience in the IT industry implementing Microsoft products and technologies. He has held positions ranging from systems administrator to developer to trainer. Scott is an MCT and Microsoft Office 2016 Specialist Master. Currently, he is an Office 365 consultant providing innovative and cost effective solutions leveraging out of the box functionality. Scott is also known for mentoring and training SharePoint site administrators and frequently conducts SharePoint end user training sessions. He is a regular speaker at SharePoint events and a top contributor to the Microsoft Flow Power Users Community site. A sixteen-year Microsoft veteran, Sean is a Principal PM lead in the OneDrive/SharePoint team working on SharePoint Syntex, a new product designed to automate the classification of content and extraction of information from them using trained AI apps, to enhance investments in the taxonomy service, and to improve the search experience with metadata. I am a Solutions Engineer at Nintex and focus on facilitating process management and automation solutions with the Nintex Platform. I’ve been with Nintex for almost five years and have enjoyed every minute of successfully delivering solutions to businesses to enhance their SharePoint (and beyond) experiences. Stephanie is the Technical Community Lead at Avanade, with a focus on engaging Avanade's technical leadership communities and their passion for technology. As a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, she has been setting a strategic path from discovery to successful implementations using an innovative approach and consistent methodology. Stephanie is an active blogger and event speaker with over 10 years of experience in SharePoint projects and over 20 years in IT - from basic deployments to information architecture, content management, to business process automation. You can follow Stephanie at @stephkdonahue Steven is Point B’s Microsoft 365 solutions lead. He has more than 25 years of experience implementing technologies and behavioral changes required for teams to do their best work. He has successfully defined IT strategic roadmaps, delivered digital transformation programs, migrated enterprise applications to the cloud, and provided related advisory services within healthcare and other industries. Susan Hanley is a consultant specializing in the "people side" of intranet and collaboration solutions. She is a Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP and writes the Essential SharePoint blog for Computerworld at www.computerworld.com/blog/essential-sharepoint. Her areas of expertise include information architecture, knowledge management, collaboration and intranet strategy, user adoption, governance, and business value metrics. Senior content designer - Microsoft Tony is a customer focused leader with over 20 years of experience in Customer Support, Customer Success, Professional Services, and being a Trusted Advisor. Having worked with many international companies to help them migrate to the cloud or manage their cloud solutions, he has vast experience making customers successful, whether they be small business or large, international companies. Treb is a Power BI MVP and business intelligence expert with 24 years of experience. Virgil Carroll is the owner and president of High Monkey – based in Minneapolis Minnesota. Virgil also wears the multiple ‘hats’ of Principle Human Solutions Architect and SharePoint Architect. Virgil is one of those rare individuals who can dive deep into technical topics while speaking clearly to the business owners of a project and never forgetting that the end user experience has the highest priority. He calls it using both sides of his brain. Virgil is passionate about leveraging technologies ‘out of the box’ as much as possible with a focus on the strategic use of content to create websites that deliver the right content to the right audience on the right device at the right time. Virgil brings high energy, an ironic wit, and a sense of grounded perspective whenever he speaks to an audience. Virgil regularly speaks at conferences and user groups throughout the United States and occasionally in Europe. Vlad is an Office 365 consultant helping organizations get the most out their Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace. IT Professional at heart, Vlad focuses on helping administrators deploy, manage, automate, and configure governance across services such as SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. Wes is an independent consultant based in Minneapolis, MN and works primarily as an O365 / PowerApps / SharePoint platform evangelist, product specialist and solution designer. Wes assists organizations through platform roadmap creation, planning and governance, and alignment of business needs with out of the box SharePoint platform and PowerApps capabilities. Wes has been a developer, IT Pro, consultant, and technology evangelist for over 20 yrs and has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2009. He was an organizer and frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) for over 4 yrs and is now a board member and speaker for SharePoint Saturday - Twin Cities events. Wes has been a contributing author to two books: - "Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects (Microsoft Press, 2012)" - "SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One (Wrox, 2011)". Wes maintains a blog at http://www.idubbs.com/blog. William (Andy) Huneycutt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) specializing in Office 365 and SharePoint. He has worked as a training instructor, courseware developer, and consultant for ASPE Training since 2011. Passionate about helping organizations improve their portals by understanding how they are being used. Focusing on the areas of adoption, usage, search, governance, and more, Yarin helps organizations continue to optimize and enhance their M365 environments.
Andrew Connell
Microsoft MVP
Throughout the years Andrew has been fortunate enough to share what he has learned at conferences like Microsoft’s TechEd, Build, Ignite & the SharePoint Conference (SPC), the European SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Fest, and Angular’s ngConf & AngularU among many others all around the world in North America, Europe, Asia & Australia.
You can find Andrew on his popular blog (http://www.andrewconnell.com), follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell, check out some of the numerous projects he’s involved in on GitHub (http://www.github.com/andrewconnell) or listen to his popular weekly podcast, The Microsoft Cloud Show (http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com), which is focused on Microsoft cloud services such as Azure and Office 365 as well as the competitive cloud landscape.
Bob German
Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft
Before (re)joining Microsoft, Bob was a Microsoft MVP and Principal Architect at BlueMetal, where he led the development of numerous collaborative applications, Intranets, and other custom Office 365 and Azure based solutions.
Cathy Dew
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Ms. Dew is passionate about the community and has created and managed several community focused user groups, including several groups for Women in Technology. She has presented numerous sessions at user groups, SharePoint Saturday events, conferences, and training sessions.
Charles Lamanna
Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Platform
Under his leadership, the Dynamics 365 service moved to Azure and evolved into a fully managed SaaS–on a single version, with regular updates. The Dynamics 365 platform is now one of the largest fully Azure hosted SaaS (software as a service) products in the world, deployed to over 30 datacenters and supporting the entire Dynamics 365 business.
Before that, Charles worked in Azure for 4 years, leading the engineering teams that created Azure Resource Manager, Azure Autoscale, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Activity Logs, and several other management related capabilities. Before Azure, Charles founded MetricsHub, one of the first offerings for public cloud cost management and service health monitoring. MetricsHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2013.
Chris McNulty
Director of Product Marketing
Daniel Christian
Microsoft Business Application MVP
James Olenik
Microsoft, Director of Product Management, Dataverse
Jeff Teper
Microsoft Corporate Vice President – Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive
Jeremy Thake
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
In his spare time he's raising his beautiful daughter with his wife in Seattle and screaming at the New York Rangers to shoot the puck.
John Peluso
Microsoft Regional Director
Julie Strauss
Microsoft, General Manager, Power Platform Pro Developer & Admin Experiences
Her team delivers cross platform experiences to empower IT administrators and Pro Developers to drive digital transformation at scale and is delivering industry defining governance controls, and natively integrated no-cliffs management, and pro developer experiences.
Julie has 20+ years’ experience building customer centric experiences across a variety of disciplines and divisions in Microsoft and is passionate about empowering the IT & Pro Developer to drive digital transformation thru fusion teams!
Mark Kashman
Senior product manager - SharePoint in Microsoft 365
Max Fritz
Microsoft Program Manager
Max is the founder of the Minnesota Microsoft 365 User Group, and holds various Microsoft certifications. Max can be found speaking at Microsoft 365 conferences all over the country.
Ryan Cunningham
Microsoft, Vice President, Microsoft Power Apps
Sesha Mani
Principal Group Product Manager (GPM)- Microsoft
Stephen Rose
Sr Product Marketing Manager
Stephen holds over 20 technical certifications and been collecting them since Windows NT 4.0. It is also possible that Stephen may be the last living member of the Columbia House Record and Tape club.
Follow him @stephenlrose on Twitter.
Stephen Siciliano
Microsoft, General Manager for Power Automate
He joined Microsoft in March 2013 when MetricsHub—a SaaS company that kept its customers' cloud applications up and running for the lowest possible cost—was acquired by Microsoft. At MetricsHub, he was a co-founder and its Chief Design Officer.
Adam Marget
Product Marketing Manager at Unitrends
Asif Rehmani
Microsoft MVP
Asif has authored several books over the years. He is the author of "SharePoint 2013 - First Look for Power Users". He is also the co-author of the books "Professional SharePoint Designer 2007", "Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010" and "Real World SharePoint 2010" by Wrox publications .
Asif has been a speaker at conferences since 2006 on numerous SharePoint topics. His speaking engagements has taken him to several places around the world such as USA, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK and more at which he has spoken at many conferences including Microsoft's TechEd, Ignite, SharePoint Conference, SPTechCon, European SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Connections, SharePoint Fest, Evolutions, Best Practices Conference, SharePoint Saturdays, SharePoint Roadshows and more.
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Ben Truelove
Principal Designer at Microsoft
Ben Vanderberg
Principal Platform Evangelist - Adobe
Brian Alderman
Microsoft MVP, MCT, Author, Speaker
CJ Tan
Principal Product Manager
Craig Jahnke
Office 365 Architect and Collaboration Evangelist, Microsoft
Daniel Glenn
Microsoft MVP
Daniel is passionate about building technical community in Tennessee with his roles as the co-founder and current President of the Nashville Microsoft 365 Users Group and Director of Microsoft 365 Nashville. He is also co-host for the popular "365 Message Center Show" at http://MessageCenter.show. You can follow Daniel online at https://DanielGlenn.com and @DanielGlenn on Twitter.
Daniel is a sought-after trainer, providing customized Power BI and Power Automate training for companies around the world. He is also passionate about giving back and building the Microsoft technical community. Daniel holds leadership roles in various local user groups, serves as an organizer for SharePoint Saturday Nashville, and is a co-host for the popular "365 Message Center Show" for REgarding365 at http://MessageCenter.show. You can follow Daniel online at https://DanielGlenn.com and @DanielGlenn on Twitter.
Dave Russ
Senior Technical Account Manager
Derek Cash-Peterson
Principal Architect - Sympraxis Consulting
He has over 20 years of industry experience building customized intranets, extranets, and public facing websites based on the Microsoft stack. He specializes in front-end development and visual design/branding of SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft 365. He brings a design eye to a developers world along with skills in information architecture, content architecture, and collaboration strategy skills.
Don Kirkham
Microsoft MVP | Enterprise Architect, DMI
Drew Madelung
MS Solutions Architect | Microsoft MVP
Eric Overfield
Microsoft MVP, RD
Erica Toelle
Sr, Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft Compliance
Gokan Ozcifci
Microsoft Regional Director & MVP.
A proud author of books that reached the half million of downloads and founder of several communities, Gokan is a real community warrior. Due to his active contributions in these domains, he has been honoured with Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Additionally, he is an active Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a Microsoft Regional Lead for all MCTs in Belgium.
You can always talk to me about: Soccer. World Traveling. Food. Next-Gen Cloud Systems. Architecture & Strategy. SharePoint + Office365!
Holly Lehman
Product Marketing Manager, Teams at Microsoft
Jason Himmelstein
Microsoft Regional Director & Microsoft MVP
Jason is the author of the O’Reilly book “Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint”. Outside of this crazy working world, he is a happily married father of 2 dudes, a die-hard Texas Longhorns and San Antonio Spurs fan.
Jay Leask
Microsoft MVP, PMP
Jill Hannemann
Avanade | Workplace Experience Advisory
Joanne Klein
Microsoft MVP
Joanne blogs about these areas with a focus on how to secure, protect, and govern information assets while minimizing end-user impact.
John White
Microsoft MVP
John has accumulated a plethora of legacy technologies like Novell, Lotus Notes and Java. This experience has proven invaluable when architecting systems alongside legacy applications. Over the past decade, he has been focused on the Microsoft SharePoint and Business Intelligence platforms and is a frequent speaker on these topics.
He blogs as actively as possible at the White Pages and is the co-host of the weekly BIFocal podcast which covers the Microsoft BI space. John lives in the country just outside of Guelph, Canada. He is the father of 3 boys, is an avid scuba diver, gardener, and photographer, both under and above the water (but mostly under). Samples of his work can be found at on Flickr.
Julie Turner
Microsoft MVP
Kai Andrews
Point B Managing Principal, Microsoft Technologies
He has spoken to various groups at both public and private events including the OPEX Exchange Summit, Oregon Association of Government IT Management, University of Texas McCombs School of Business, many company conferences and off-sites including at Fortune 100 and 500 companies and leading non-profits, and numerous Point B events (Chicago, Seattle, Portland). Kai has been quoted as an expert by the San Antonio Express News and been featured on the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium podcast. Kai has published articles in the Seattle Business Magazine, Employee Benefit News and Portland Business Journal.
Prior to Point B, Kai was a CPA at Moss Adams and Clark Nuber and led software development teams at Arthur Andersen, developing custom solutions for healthcare and life sciences customers. Kai received his BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington Foster School of Business.
Liz Sundet
Microsoft Program Manager
Mark Rackley
Microsoft MVP
Mike Fitzmaurice
VP - North America, WEBCON
Nate Chamberlain
Microsoft MVP and MCT
Nick Brattoli
Microsoft MVP, MCT
Over the years, he’s worked in a variety of industries, such as Healthcare, Finance, Law, and Manufacturing. He currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and has building experience in the technologies surrounding SharePoint/Office 365, such as Azure AD and ADFS. In his free time, he practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, goes on adventures, works on nerdy projects.
Nick Saxena
Director, Demand Generation
In his spare time, Nick enjoys going for hikes, biking, kayaking and other outdoor adventures.
Paul Robichaux
Senior Director of Product Management at Keepit and a Microsoft MVP
Paul Papanek Stork
Microsoft MVP, MCSM, MBA
His core skills include architecting and customizing SharePoint environments both on-premises and in the cloud. He has significant experience leading SharePoint migration teams, troubleshooting infrastructure issues, and evaluating SharePoint environments for adherence to “Best Practices” and industry standards. He's authored several books and is a frequent contributor to the Microsoft forums.
Prashant G Bhoyar
Microsoft AI MVP, MCT
Microsoft MVP Profile Link : https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5002595?fullName=Prashant%20G%20Bhoyar
Ryan Schouten
Microsoft MVP, MCT
Ryan travels the country speaking about SharePoint and Office365. Ryan is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Microsoft MVP and has been working to help others be successful in their SharePoint endeavors.
Sameer Mohammed
Microsoft Practice Lead
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Sarah Haase
Microsoft MVP | Office 365 enthusiast | User adoption advocate
Scott Shearer
SharePoint, Flow and Microsoft 365 Evangelist and Microsoft MVP
Sean Squires
PM lead in the OneDrive/SharePoint team
Shawn Gray
Stephanie Donahue
Microsoft MVP, RD
Steven Piotrowski
Microsoft 365 Leader
Susan Hanley
Microsoft MVP, MBA
Tom Resing
Content designer @ Microsoft focused on M365
Focused on design of Microsoft 365 products for people who make things. Lead UX writer for Microsoft Viva Topics and SharePoint Syntex.
Tony Sterling
Sr. Director Customer Success
Treb Gatte
Microsoft MVP, MBA
Prior to becoming CEO of Marquee Insights, he worked in leadership positions at Microsoft, Starbucks, Wachovia (now Wells Fargo). He has been recognized as Data Platform MVP from Microsoft.
Treb lives in the Seattle area with his wife, children and corgi and holds an MBA from Wake Forest University.
Virgil Carroll
Microsoft MCT
Vlad Catrinescu
Microsoft MVP | MCT Regional Lead
As an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped over a million IT Professionals and end-users across the globe to better understand and to get the most out of Office 365 and the greater Microsoft 365 platform. Vlad is the author of three SharePoint books published by Apress and over 25 courses on Pluralsight covering SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and the Power Platform.
Vlad is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2013 and has his own blog at https://VladTalksTech.com. He also shares his knowledge by speaking at conferences around the globe and local community events. Vlad is often featured as an expert on other industry related websites and blogs.
Wes Preston
Microsoft MVP
William Huneycutt
Microsoft MVP
As a courseware developer for ASPE, he develops custom training and coaching solutions for Office 365 and SharePoint. His primary focuses are Business Process Automation, SharePoint for Business Analysts, and Workflows for SharePoint. Business Process Automation is centered on out-of-the-box solutions for content services, form services, business automation processes through workflows, and no code solutions.
Andy currently serves on the advisory board for the SharePoint Institute, an organization dedicated to the advancement of professionals through real-world SharePoint certification. He also serves on the leadership committee of the Charlotte Area SharePoint User Group and SharePoint Saturday for Charlotte, NC.
Yarin Negri
Boosting Adoption of Microsoft 365