Dan Allen Lead Architect, Citrix Consulting

Presenting: Why Folder Redirection Sucks, but is a Necessary Evil That Shawn Bass Will Have to Live With with Nick Rintalan and Why IOPS Suck and Everything You Know About Them is Probably Wrong! with Nick Rintalan

Dan Allen works as a Lead Architect on the Citrix Consulting team, implementing Citrix solutions for some of the largest customers in the world. Dan has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences in both the US and Europe including those from Citrix and Microsoft.  Dan is also one of the most well-read technical bloggers at Citrix, attracting hundreds of thousands of hits across his technical blogs on XenDesktop, XenApp, Profiles, PVS, etc. Dan joined Citrix Consulting in 2001, but has been implementing Citrix solutions for customers since 1998, when he first got certified on WinFrame 1.7. Prior to joining Citrix, he worked for one of the first Citrix partners in Pennsylvania. 

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Shawn Bass Independent Consultant and Blogger, ShawnBass.com

Presenting: Passwords Are Dead. Two Factor Authentication is Ready for the Masses, Are RDP8 and RemoteFX Finally Suitable for Daily Use? with Benny Tritsch, and Best Practices in VDI & SBC Environments, Part 2: OS Streaming and Optimizations with Pierre Marmignon

Shawn Bass, an independent consultant based in the Chicago area, is a “Citrix Technology Professional” and a “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.” He’s been working with Citrix technologies since the WinView product days, and today, most of his clients are Fortune 500 companies (primarily in the financial services and insurance markets).

Shawn got involved in trying to help the server-based computing community around February 2005. Back then, he’d spent long hours lurking on a variety of forums and learning from others, so he decided it was finally time to give back to assist others. Since that time, he’s become an active poster on the support forums on BrianMadden.com, the official Citrix Support Forums, and Softgridguru.com.

Shawn is a 10-time (and top rated) presenter at BriForum, and has spoken at other worldwide events including Citrix Synergy, PubForum, and various Citrix user groups. He also continues to teach the independent desktop virtualization 5-day master class that he and Brian developed back in 2004.

You can follow him on Twitter @shawnbass.

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Dan Brinkmann Solutions Architect, Lewan & Associates

Presenting: 5 Ways to Cut the Cost of VDI (What Vendors Aren’t Telling You)

Dan Brinkmann is a Solutions Architect for a large VAR based in Denver, Colorado. He is responsible for building his organization’s desktop virtualization practice including maintaining their Citrix Platinum & VMware Premier partnership levels. Dan engages frequently in architecting and executing multi-vendor solutions and professional services engagements to solve business problems for customers. Dan takes great pride in maintaining his independent perspective and his advice is not the regurgitation of vendor marketing. Dan is also a frequent speaker and evangelist on desktop and user virtualization technologies. Dan has spoken at such industry events including BriForum 2012 London, BriForum 2011 Chicago, Denver VMware User Group, Denver Citrix User Group in 2011, and many other Denver IT forums and events.

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Michael Burke Co-Founder, Virtual Dynamix (VDX)

Presenting: Hyper-V and System Center: How Good Can It Be?

Michael Burke is a Co-Founder of Virtual Dynamix (VDX), a leading Professional Services company headquartered in the Northeast specializing in desktop and datacenter transformation services nationwide. Mike has over 12 years’ experience working closely with Citrix and Microsoft products and solutions, and over five years’ experience architecting large world-wide Virtual Infrastructure solutions based on technologies from Microsoft and VMware. He has written many technical articles and whitepapers on various virtualization products and technologies and has been a guest speaker at several international conferences on the subject. In addition, he co-authored the book “The Real Citrix CCA Exam Preparation Kit (Syngress) and served as a technical editor for the book "VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide” (Brian Madden Publishing).

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Jason Conger Solutions Architect, Splunk Project

Presenting: Customize All the Things! How to Brand Web and Windows UI and Mobile Enterprise Applications: FUIT or ITFTW (IT For The Win!)

Jason is a Citrix Technology Professional, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, and long-time presenter, technical writer, and open-source software developer. With over 17 years’ experience, Jason has worked in the field as a Systems Integrator, worked for Citrix Systems as a System Architect, been a Director of Technology for a Citrix Service Provider, and is currently working at Splunk as a Solutions Architect.

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Randy Cook CTO, FSLogix, Inc.

Presenting: Hijacking DropBox for Fun and Profit (Or Maybe Just for Software Distribution)

Randy Cook is the creator of SVS. He has worked in application management and virtualization throughout his career at Symantec, Altiris, FSLogix, Caldera, and Novell.  Based in Utah, Randy likes running, hiking, shooting inanimate objects, and discussing politics and economics.

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Simon Crosby Co-Founder & CTO, Bromium

Presenting: One Ring to Rule Them All: Why Every Endpoint Will Be Virtualized

Simon Crosby is co-founder and CTO at Bromium, Inc., a company leveraging hardware virtualization to transform platform security. Previously Simon was CTO, Data Center & Cloud at Citrix Systems, which acquired XenSource, where he was co-founder and CTO. Along the way, Simon was a Principal Engineer at Intel, and founder & CTO of CPlane Inc., a vendor of virtual switching software. A long time ago, he was a faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is author of 40 research papers and patents.

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Rick Dehlinger CTO, nGenx Corporation

Presenting: Going Deep: RDP8 & RemoteFX Session Connectivity

Rick Dehlinger, formerly a founder and managing owner of Claros Systems (now part of nGenx) is currently the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at nGenx. Rick joined Citrix in 1999 as a Systems Engineer/Architect, and quickly became one of the most trusted and innovative technologists in the desktop virtualization community. After a short stint at Microsoft, he built a focused, highly specialized desktop/application virtualization consulting practice which has evolved over the last seven years into the service offering that nGenx delivers today. Rick is an active participant in the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) Program as well as a consistent supporter and presenter at a variety of industry events (including BriForum, Citrix Summit/Synergy, Geek Speak, PubForum/Experts to Experts Virtualization Conference, and a variety of user group events around the world).

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Rainer Enders CTO, NCP engineering, Inc.

Presenting: Traditional Network Security in a Mobile World: Which Security Controls Are Effective in a Morphing Threads Landscape?

Rainer Enders is CTO of Americas for NCP engineering, a secure remote access and VPN solution provider. He has over 20 years of experience in the networking and security industry. His other areas of expertise are complex network and system architectures as well as test automation in software quality assurance. Prior to joining NCP in January 2010, Rainer headed his own strategic consulting firm, Rainer Enders Consulting Enterprises, which focused on storage and data network security. Before that, he held a variety of technical roles at Identity Engines, NeoScale Systems, Yipes Enterprise Services and Ericsson.

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Jarian Gibson Virtualization Practice Manager, Choice Solutions

Presenting: Desktop Virtualization Monitoring Bake-Off with Shane Kleinert and Ingredients to a Successful Desktop Virtualization Bake-off: Results from Past Bake-offs and How to Create Your Own with Shane Kleinert

Jarian Gibson is a Virtualization Practice Manager for Choice Solutions focused on application and desktop virtualization technologies based out of the Kansas City area.  He works with his team architecting and deploying solutions throughout the US central region.  With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, Jarian has worked on numerous assessment, design, and implementation projects for application and desktop virtualization and delivery.  Jarian is an active contributor in the Citrix Support Forums, the Citrix IRC channel, ITVCE community blog, and has his own blog at jariangibson.com.  In July 2012, Jarian presented at BriForum Chicago and was also named Citrix Geek of the Week.  In late 2012, Jarian also contributed to Desktop Virtualization Deployment Insights eBook published by Citrix. 

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Denis Gundarev Senior Consultant, Entisys Solutions

Presenting: Citrix Internals: Tracing, Debugging & Troubleshooting

Denis Gundarev is a consultant with over 15 years in IT. Denis focuses on desktop virtualization, application delivery and the areas of server based computing, enterprise cloud computing and virtualization. He is a technologist at heart with a passion for defining technology strategies that fit the business and practically implementing systems in line with initiatives. Denis is also a Citrix Certified Instructor and Microsoft Certified Trainer.

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Srini Gurrapu Founder & CEO, Wheel InnovationZ

Presenting: Lightning Round: Why Application Proxy Network Services is Critical to Secure and Manage All Mobile Apps and BYOD

Srini Gurrapu is the founder and CEO of Wheel InnovationZ.  GigaOM recently recognized Wheel InnovationZ as one of the Top 10 hot startups in Austin. Srini has been an entrepreneur with many successful companies in the networking, security, virtualization and cloud computing markets such as BlueCoat, Neoteris (acquired by Juniper), FaceTime (now Actiance), RingCube (acquired by Citrix), Mokafive and Virtual Bridges. Srini led product management and strategic alliances at these startups and helped drive the vision, strategy and execution. Srini's primary forte is building trusting advisory relationships with marquee customers early in the company life cycle and building the company by delivering innovative solutions that make the customers successful in their strategic initiatives. Srini also worked as EIR (Entrepreneur-In-Residence) at Austin Ventures, one of the large VC firms in US.

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Jo Harder Senior Network Architect, Compushare

Presenting: XenApp Printing: Still Painful After All These Years

Jo Harder has been involved with Citrix products since the days of WinFrame and MetaFrame. She was a Senior Architect at Citrix for 11 years, followed by a year of consulting. She has been Senior Network Architect at Compushare for the past year, where she is focused on architecting cloud-based solutions for banking clients. This includes incorporating new technologies from various vendors that support complex financial application and security requirements.

Jo has presented numerous times at Citrix User Group, Synergy, and BriForum. She’s also a bona fide “guru” and Top 10 contributor to the Citrix forum on Experts Exchange.

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Zach Hughes Infrastructure & Operations Manager, Rural Community Insurance Services

Presenting: Windows Tablets in the Real World: Myths Debunked and Lessons Learned

Zach Hughes is the Infrastructure & Operations Manager at Rural Community Insurance Services, a Wells Fargo Company.  He has 14 years of experience in enterprise IT Infrastructure in a variety of disciplines including End User Computing strategy and architecture, XenApp application hosting architecture, networking, security, and IT management.  He is passionate about innovating infrastructure technology solutions that create a competitive advantage for business.

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Henrik Johansson Director of Professional Services, nGenx Corporation

Presenting: NetScaler Monitoring and Reporting: Who, What, Where, When? with Mike Nelson

Henrik Johansson, CTP (Citrix Technology Professional), CCIA certified, Citrix MVP SME and Director of Professional Services, nGenx is an infrastructure architect/designer with a focus on optimization, multi-tenant solutions, cloud and security, as well as increasing availability and security with Citrix NetScaler. With a background in security and development, Henrik has more than 17 years’ experience in IT and 12 years of Citrix experience. He is a NetScaler wizard and evangelist who has presented at various industry events including BriForum and multiple Citrix Synergy events.

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Nicke Källén Technical Consultant, Enfo Zipper

Presenting: Application Packaging Smackdown with Kevin Kaminski

Nicke Källén is a dedicated and passionate App-V specialist and is especially dedicated to sequence apps! Having worked within the IT industry since 2004, he is always eager to learn more about applications and all the fun problems they challenge IT departments with! Nicke has received the App-V MVP award for the past two years. He is and continues to be involved in the community and is especially active in the Microsoft Technet Forum for App-V.

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Kevin Kaminski Consultant, Big Hat Group, Inc.

Presenting: Application Packaging Smackdown with Nicke Källén

Kevin is a seasoned consultant focusing mainly on end user type technologies that range from device management to application delivery. Using his experiences from different organizations he is able to draw upon practical knowledge that he incorporates into his speaking engagements, training material and articles. As an App-V MVP, Kevin delivers and maintains an App-V master’s class with fellow MVP Tim Mangan. He also spends time blogging for MyItForum.com and speaking at various engagements such as BriForum and Microsoft Management Summit. To assist his local IT community he sits as a director on the Calgary IT Pro User Group and manages the Calgary Systems Management User Group.

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Brian Katz Director, Head of Mobility, Sanofi-Aventis

Presenting: The Mobile App Platform Debate: Native vs. HTML5 vs. Hybrid with Dan Shappir

Brian Katz has over 20 years experience in managing and implementing IT processes. He started his career working with a multi-national New York financial company maintaining their email and communications systems which also involved supporting their mobile computing platforms. He later moved to Sanofi-Aventis, an international pharmaceutical company, managing servers and storage. Katz's current role is managing his company's mobile initiatives, including working with business units defining bring your own device and company owned policies, investigating mobile device management requirements for employee and company owned devices, and working to identify applications to be supported on mobile platforms.

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Shane Kleinert Solutions Architect, JDL Technologies

Presenting: Desktop Virtualization Monitoring Bake-Off with Jarian Gibson and Ingredients to a Successful Desktop Virtualization Bake-off: Results from Past Bake-offs and How to Create Your Own with Jarian Gibson

Shane Kleinert’s passion for IT has been on full display during his more than ten years of experience working in enterprise environments.  He spent the majority of the last decade working with the sixth largest school district in the U.S. as a strategic consultant and trusted advisor.  Kleinert’s work with large-scale Active Directory, Group Policies, Desktop Management, Networking, and Scripting/Automation made for a smooth transition into the new world of Desktop/Server Virtualization & Application Delivery. He currently serves as the lead architect for JDL Technologies' virtualization efforts, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware technologies.

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Gabe Knuth Independent Industry Analyst & Blogger, BrianMadden.com

Presenting: 5x15 from Brian & Gabe with Brian Madden

Gabe Knuth is an industry analyst and blogger, known throughout the world as "the other guy" at BrianMadden.com. In addition to blogging on BrianMadden.com (including being heard weekly on Brian & Gabe LIVE), he also contributes to ConsumerizeIT.com and SearchVirtualDesktop.com.

Gabe can be seen speaking at industry events such as Citrix Synergy and is a nine-time presenter at TechTarget's own BriForum.

Gabe has been in the application delivery space for over 13 years and has seen the industry evolve from the one-trick pony of Terminal Services to the application and desktop virtualization of today. As a consultant early in his career, Gabe's exposure to many different types of technologies, organizations, projects, and processes continues to help him as a blogger/speaker. Fiercely independent, Gabe focuses on boiling off the hype and reducing solutions to their usefulness in today's corporate environments.

You can follow him on Twitter @gabeknuth

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Jim Libersky Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Barrier1

Presenting: Real Time Intelligence for Securing VM Environments

Jim Libersky has executive experience in technical management, strategic/tactical planning, marketing, customer service, and business/product development.  Jim has managed multiple technical sales teams, successfully launched division with explosive growth, and has been recognized by winning numerous awards in networking and security. He has been a guest and breakout speaker for various vertical customers in government, utilities, health, education, finance, and national conferences such as Interop and Remote Control Mag. covering various topics that include Security and Networking.

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Brian Madden Independent Industry Analyst and Blogger, BrianMadden.com

Presenting: 5x15 from Brian & Gabe with Gabe Knuth

Brian Madden is known throughout the world as an opinionated, super technical, fiercely independent desktop virtualization expert.

He's also written several books and thousands of articles about desktop and application virtualization. His blog site, BrianMadden.com, receives millions of visitors per year and is a leading source for conversation, debate and discourse about the application and desktop virtualization industry. Brian Madden has been a member of the TechTarget Editorial Speaker Bureau since its formation in 2012.

In addition, Brian is the creator of BriForum, the premier independent application delivery technical conference.

You can follow him on Twitter @brianmadden.

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Jack Madden Blogger, BrianMadden.com

Presenting: Enterprise Mobility Management: Jack Madden's New Book in 75 Minutes

Jack Madden writes about everything related to enterprise mobility management at BrianMadden.com. He was the editor of ConsumerizeIT.com (now a part of BrianMadden.com) and has also contributed toSearchVirtualDesktop.com. Jack is the co-creator of the Consumerization Nation podcast, and has spoken at BriForum, Citrix Synergy, and other events throughout the US. Jack was a co-author of The VDI Delusion, and his book Enterprise Mobility Management 2013 will be published this April.

Jack Madden has been a member of the TechTarget Editorial Speaker Bureau since its formation in 2012.

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Yury Magalif Principal Architect - Cloud Technologies, CDI

Presenting: Tips and Tricks on Building Agentless Antivirus Scanners for Virtual Desktops

Yury Magalif lives and breathes the latest virtualization, cloud, storage and data center technologies. He designed and implemented infrastructure for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies like Walt Disney and Bank of America to government entities like NJ Department of Transportation and Columbia University. For the past 4 years, Yury presented at the Hewlett-Packard Discover conference, where his lectures are in the top 10 by attendance and score above 90% in satisfaction rate. Yury works at Computer Design & Integration, LLC (CDI) in New Jersey as a Principal Architect for Cloud Computing. He holds certificates from Cisco, HP, VMware, Microsoft, EMC, NetApp and other manufacturers.

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Tim Mangan Kahuna, TMurgent Technologies

Presenting: Debugging App-V 5 and Lightning Round: What’s New in Microsoft App-V

Tim Mangan is the Founder of TMurgent Technologies LLP. Prior to launching TMurgent, Tim was with many software and/or hardware companies including Softricity, Sync Research, Teleglobe, and ComputerVision.  Somewhere in between, he also did consulting work.  At one point, he was also the President of the Frame Relay Forum, an international consortium of communication carriers, vendors, and users. Tim speaks at many conferences and has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Application Virtualization and a Citrix Technology Professional.

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Pierre Marmignon CTO, Norskale

Presenting: Best Practices in VDI & SBC Environments, Part 2: OS Streaming and Optimizations with Shawn Bass

Pierre is known as one of the very top European experts for application and desktop delivery, a field he has been working in since 2003. He has been successfully creating and subsequently running the Citrix departments for two Citrix platinum partners, creating and managing the teams that have delivered the Citrix environments now in use across a number of French Fortune 100 companies.  Pierre is a well-respected desktop virtualization expert and a leading voice in the technical community across Europe and the United States.  His reputation has been based on these successes as well as his creation of automation scripts and tools that industrialize Citrix integration and management.  These tools are in production today within thousands of organizations. He also runs the popular community website CitrixTools.net (now part of www.Norskale.com) and is a regular contributor to BrianMadden.com and other cutting edge technical websites.

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Theresa Miller Technical Systems Administrator, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Presenting: XenApp 6: Back to Basics

Theresa Miller is currently employed with Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and is a key member of the Citrix and Collaboration teams there.  Theresa has been working as a technical expert in IT for 17 years and has been working with Citrix since the Metaframe 1.8/XP days.  Most recently she was involved in spearheading a large implementation of Citrix XenApp6 for an Electronic Health Record deployment.  Through the years, she has gained valuable knowledge in the key decisions required for large application deployment, application profiling, Citrix Edgesight, Web Interface on Netscaler and has begun discovery on XenDesktop and provisioning services.

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Jim Moyle Lead Solutions Architect, Atlantis Computing

Presenting: How Do the New Storage Improvements in vSphere 5.1 Help Your Desktop Virtualization Project and The Future of Desktop Deployment: What’s Happening with MCS & PVS, Plus an Alternative

Jim Moyle has been an infrastructure technologist with almost two decades of passionate involvement in the IT industry. Over the last decade, he has been a specialist in the server based computing, application and desktop delivery sector. He has worked with many blue chip companies around the UK including being involved in the architecture and delivery of some of the largest Citrix farms in Europe. As the Lead Solution Architect for Atlantis Computing in EMEA, he is responsible for the design and execution of many world class projects for this Citrix Platinum partner. Jim also enjoys speaking at various industry events such as BriForum, E2E and Citrix Synergy. You can find him sharing knowledge on his blog at www.jimmoyle.com, on Twitter at @jimmoyle and on the Citrix IRC Channel.

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Mike Nelson Architect, nGenx Corporation

Presenting: A Crash Course in Hyper-V for VMware Administrators and NetScaler Monitoring and Reporting: Who, What, Where, When? with Henrik Johansson

Mike Nelson's IT career spans over 23 years, involving all different kinds of technologies. A speaker at BriForum’s 2008 through 2011, his roles in corporate management to industry consulting provide him with a wide range of hands-on experience. Mike has a strong passion for virtualization, both from a technical and visionary point of view. For the last 10 years, his focus has been on the SBC area, with major projects in VDI and virtual consolidations. He has served as an expert advisor for the Citrix Education team on Netscaler technology, and is an active VMware VCP and VMUG Leader and writes articles for TechTarget Web publications.

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Ian Parker Senior Web Services Administrator, Thomson-Reuters

Presenting: Performance Analysis and Monitoring of Multiple Servers on the Cheap and The New Xperf: Analyzing Difficult Problems with Xperf

Ian Parker is a Senior Web Services Administrator employed in the Tax and Accounting division of Thomson-Reuters.  He is part of a group that designs, builds, and maintains a XenApp infrastructure that supports over 10,000 concurrent users located around the world.  He specializes in performance and scalability issues.

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Nick Rintalan Senior Architect, Citrix Consulting

Presenting: Why Folder Redirection Sucks, but is a Necessary Evil That Shawn Bass Will Have to Live Withwith Dan Allen and Why IOPS Suck and Everything You Know About Them is Probably Wrong! with Dan Allen

Nick Rintalan is a Senior Architect in the Americas Consulting organization based out of San Francisco, CA.  He has been with Citrix Consulting for the last 9 years, working on some of the largest XenApp and XenDesktop deployments in the world.  He has authored several well-known whitepapers such as "The Top 10 Items Found by Citrix Consulting on Assessments" and "Best Practices for XenDesktop and XenApp" (CTX132799).  Nick has spoken at Synergy 6 times and BriForum 3 times on topics such as scalability and large farm design considerations.  Before joining Citrix, Nick briefly worked for the IBM Software Group on the WebSphere development team. Nick received his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans.

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Claudio Rodrigues WTSLabs Inc

Presenting: From Zero to RDS 2012 Hero: Learn All the New Features and How They Compare to XenApp

As the CEO at WTSLabs Inc., Claudio provides strategic direction and vision for the company. Claudio is also an active consultant and architect and specializes in Server Based Computing and Windows Architectures. He is the author of many technical articles on the subject and has been working with enterprise class environments for more than 14 years, mostly in North America, South America and Europe. Claudio holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and when he is not working he enjoys spending time with Anthony, Ana, Lucas, Eliana and his dogs Tobi, Blackie and Brownie. Worth mentioning he is also the BriForum GeekOut Master Champion having won it three times in a row and for that reason banned from it by Brian himself. 

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Dan Shappir CTO, Ericom Software

Presenting: Truth, Lies & HTML5: What the Present and Future of HTML5 Holds in Store for Us and The Mobile App Platform Debate: Native vs. HTML5 vs. Hybrid with Brian Katz

Dan Shappir is CTO and Vice President of Software Development at Ericom Software, a leading provider of remote access solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. Dan has 20 years of experience in software development ranging from real-time, multi-user games to missile trajectory analysis. He has presented at several industry conferences, and has published articles in various magazines.

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David Stafford Director of New Markets and Technology, VMware

Presenting: What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Today’s IT Needs to Get with the Times

Making his fourth BriForum speaking appearance, David Stafford is possibly the 2nd most passionate person on the planet when it comes to end-user technologies.  Having focused exclusively in this space for the last 18 years professionally, he has held IT roles from sysadmin to lead architect managing 100K+ user/device environments as well as spending time in business development and product management at a pair of amazing technology companies. He joined VMware in 2010 and is currently the Director of New Markets in the CTO office for End User Computing where he gets to help imagine, invent and share his excitement about future possibilities for where this industry is heading. You can follow David on Twitter @dstafford

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Michael Thomason Chief Technical Architect, Emory Healthcare

Presenting: Automation 101: Learning How to Automate Tasks for Horizontal Use and Lightning Round: Development Smackdown – How IT People Can Speak “Developer”

Michael Thomason is currently the Chief Technical Architect for Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, specializing in Microsoft and virtualization technologies. He has over 22 years of experience in the computer industry specializing in systems infrastructure management, desktop/server/application deployment, systems automation, and development. Michael is a unique ability to use the proper technology to solve real-world business challenges. He is an author of numerous tools, utilities and application delivery systems. Michael created the virtual desktop at Emory Healthcare where all applications are delivered virtually and was a major driver of Emory Healthcare’s virtual storage project which offers users limitless storage. Michael remains on the board for ThinLaunch software where he drives product innovation. Michael has consulted with hundreds of companies worldwide to further their knowledge and acceptance of the new virtual world.

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Benny Tritsch Director of Technical Community, AppSense

Presenting: Are RDP8 and RemoteFX Finally Suitable for Daily Use? and Lightning Round: Using Windows 8 Hyper-V and Azure to Build Great Demo and Test Environments

Benny Tritsch is a virtualization technology expert, IT system architect, technical communicator and market analyst working as Director of Technical Community at AppSense. He is a frequent speaker at leading international industry events and has published many technical articles and several best-selling books. Benny is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for RDS since 2004 and a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) since 2006. If you want to know more about Benny's community activities, check out his website at www.drtritsch.com.

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Jeroen van de Kamp Chief Technology Officer, Login Consultants

Presenting: An Insider’s Guide to Virtualization: Best Practices and Performance with Windows 8 and Server 2012, Including VDI & SBC Virtual Reality Check, 2013

Jeroen van de Kamp is the CTO for Login Consultants where he's responsible for defining and executing the technical strategy. From the start, he has played a critical role in the technical growth and accreditation Login Consultants has accumulated over the years.

He has developed several core solutions which allow Login Consultants to easily differentiate in the infrastructure consulting market like Solution4, the "Virtual Session Indexer" (Login VSI) and more. He is also responsible for several well-known publications like the Flex Profile Kit, TCT templates and "Project Virtual Reality Check". He has become a residential speaker for virtualization seminars around the world. Jeroen is a member of the "Citrix Technology Professional" program.

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Chetan Venkatesh CTO & Founder, Atlantis Computing

Presenting: An Objective Look at In-Memory Storage for VDI and Virtualization: The Beginning of the Very End for Storage, Compute, and Life as We Know It

Chetan Venkatesh is a four-time BriForum speaker. He is the CTO and Founder of Atlantis Computing – the leader in virtual storage software for Virtualization of servers and desktops.  He has been in the data center and enterprise storage industry for more than 15 years and has started 2 other companies in the space prior to Atlantis Computing. At Atlantis, Chetan has lead the development of the industry's first in-memory storage platform for virtualization (ILIO FlexCloud) as well as delivered the industry's first software appliance for storage for VDI - Atlantis ILIO which powers the largest VDI deployments globally. 

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Noah Wasmer VP of Products, MobileIron

Presenting: Becoming an IT Hero: Leaping from Desktop Virtualization to Enterprise Mobility Management

Before MobileIron, Noah led VMware's Horizon App Manager from concept to production. Before Horizon, Noah led the VMware View Product Management team responsible for developing the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) business. Prior to VMware, Noah was the CEO and Co-Founder of Centered Networks, a startup that pioneered the delivery of remote desktops and end user computing services from the cloud. Out of college, Noah invented Dotche, one of the first internet services bridging donor interests and nonprofit initiatives.

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Carl Webster Owner, Carl Webster Consulting

Presenting: More Things in Active Directory That Can Hurt Your Applications and Desktop Virtualization Efforts and How to Fix Them

Carl Webster is an independent consultant with over 35 years of IT experience. Webster has been working with application and desktop virtualization since 1990 and with Active Directory since 2001. He also holds the prestigious Citrix Technology Professional designation.

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John Whaley Founder and CTO, MokaFive

Presenting: Sandboxing Smackdown: Separating Fact from Fiction in Sandboxing Solutions

John Whaley is Founder and CTO of MokaFive and a Lecturer at Stanford University. He holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford, where he made key contributions to the fields of program analysis, compilers, and virtual machines. He is the winner of numerous awards including the Arthur L. Samuel Thesis Award for Best Thesis at Stanford, and has worked at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center and Tokyo Research Lab. John was named one of the top 15 programmers in the USA Computing Olympiad. He also holds bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from MIT and speaks fluent Japanese.

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