Speakers

Brian Madden, Independent Industry Analyst & Blogger, BrianMadden.com

Brian Madden is an Independent Industry Analyst and Blogger. He is known throughout the world as an opinionated, super technical, fiercely independent desktop virtualization expert. He's written several books and over 1,000 articles about desktop and application virtualization. His blog (www.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.

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Shawn Bass, r. IT Consultant / Owner - SynNet, Inc. and Site Admin of Shawnbass.com

Shawn Bass is an independent consultant based in the Chicago area, with a focus on application delivery in the areas of Server Based Computing, Streaming and Virtualization, etc. He has been working with Citrix technologies since the WinView product days.Most of his clients are Fortune 500 companies (primarily in the Financial Services and Insurance markets).

Sean was awarded the Citrix Technology Professional award in 2006 for his community contributions on various forums as well as his presentations at various technical conferences throughout the world. He was also awarded Microsoft MVP in 2008 for contributions to the Terminal Services community.

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Tad Brockway, Product Unit Manager - RemoteFX at Microsoft

Tad Brockway is the Product Unit Manager for the Remote Desktop Virtualization (RDV) Calista (now RemoteFX) engineering team. He has been passionate about desktop centralization for many years, even before he joined the Microsoft Remote Desktop Virtualization team in 1998. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a UNIX developer.

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Michael Burke, Practice Director, VIRTERA, Inc.

Michael Burke tackles two sessions for us this year entitled “Advanced Hyper-V Architecture in a VMware World” and “App-V vs. ThinApp: Head to Head.” In his first session, Michael reveals architectural best practices with regards to cluster design, network architecture, storage consumption, including Cluster Shared Volumes and implications of use, management architecture, distributed Library Services, and more.  In “App-V vs. ThinApp” you'll be exposed to the pluses and minuses of each of these two leading application virtualization technologies with live demos that aren’t to be missed.

We chose Michael to present these sessions based on his experience as Practice Director for VIRTERA, Inc., a leading Professional Services company headquartered in the Northeast specializing in virtualization design, integration and operationalization services nationwide.  Mike has over 10 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 white papers 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 and served as a technical editor for the book VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide.

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Jason Conger, JasonConger.com

Jason Conger started his Server Based Computing career working for a Citrix Platinum partner where he performed design and implementation projects for world-wide corporations, provided training for system administrators and people seeking certification, and presented numerous technical seminars through the Citrix channel. Jason later joined Citrix Systems, Inc. as a System Architect. While at Citrix, he helped design and implement Citrix Systems internal usage of Citrix products before the products were available to the public. Today, Jason focuses on giving back to the community by developing tools to extend virtual environments, public speaking, and technical writing.

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Doug Coombs, Product Management, Endpoint Virtualization Technologies

Doug Coombs is responsible for directing the strategy and development of Symantec’s endpoint virtualization portfolio. He joined Symantec through the acquisition of Altiris, where he was working on developing the virtualization management strategy for Altiris. Prior to joining Altiris He worked for 10 years as a risk mitigation/quality assurance consultant for KeyLabs (at one time Exodus Performance Labs). His work with KeyLabs involved co-operating with companies such as HP, Visa, Hitachi Data Systems, Blue Cross Blue Shield and others to optimize the performance and dependability of their products and web-based applications.

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Nathan Coutinho, Solutions Manager, CDW

Nathan Coutinho is a Solutions Manager for CDW, focused on virtualization & storage. He has more than 12 years of experience in IT, covering various roles in management, technical sales and consulting. His current responsibilities include evaluating and educating clients on the trends and directions in the server, client and storage virtualization spaces, which makes him the perfect choice to present “Microsoft Licensing in a Client Virtualization Environment,” where he’ll deliver an in-depth view of how to license Microsoft products while utilizing client virtualization technologies. Not only does Nathan cover server operating systems, desktop operating systems, management and monitoring products and the use cases in which they can be used, you also learn what the compliant way to virtualize is and what the complexities are when it comes to software licensing in virtual machines as well as the costs involved to implement client virtualization.

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Scott Davis, Chief Technology Officer, VMware Desktop

Scott Davis is Chief Technology Officer for VMware’s Desktop B.U. and staff member in VMware’s Corporate CTO Office. He is involved in driving product and technology strategy spanning the breadth of VMware’s product lines, from Desktop to Data Center and Cloud initiatives. He has also served as VMware's Chief Data Center Architect and Storage CTO. A recognized expert in virtualization, clustering, operating systems, file systems and storage, he has held senior engineering and business management roles with both startup ventures and established industry firms.

Prior to joining VMware, he was a strategic consultant to Fidelity Investments and President, CTO and Founder of Virtual Iron Software, which was acquired by Oracle. Prior to co-founding Virtual Iron, he was Chief Technology Officer at Mangosoft, an Internet software and storage company with pioneering peer-to-peer clustering, caching and file system products. Earlier, Scott was Technical Director for Digital's industry acclaimed VAXCluster and VMS Volume Shadowing products, as well as Digital’s Windows NT clustering technology (later sold to Microsoft as the genesis of Microsoft 'Wolfpack' Cluster Server). Scott holds 14 US patents for clustering, storage and virtualization technologies and his products have won awards at Comdex, Demo and LinuxWorld.

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Rick Dehlinger, Chief Technologist, visionapp GMBH

Rick Dehlinger is the Chief Technologist for visionapp GMBH, and brings over sixteen years of IT engineering, consulting, management, and enterprise experience to the community. In 1994, Rick began his career in the Citrix/Virtualization industry with a pioneering Citrix integrator in the Northwest. He 'cut his Windows Server teeth' on Citrix "South Beach" (which became WinFrame) and never looked back. He began teaching classes on Citrix in 1997, and was one of the inaugural Citrix Certified Instructors when the program was first formalized. Rick joined Citrix in 1999 as a Systems Engineer, and quickly became one of the most trusted technologists in the Citrix community. He is known in the industry through uncommon outreach efforts such as the widely distributed 'Installation and Tuning Tips for Citrix MetaFrame' document, the CitrixNW support forum, Project Columbia, Project Willamette, TweakCitrix.com, and the Cal-AID Reference Design. He has also presented technical sessions at all but 2 of the main Citrix events over the years. After a short stint as an employee at Microsoft, Rick co-founded iQurious, a software and services company, dedicated to bringing to market highly-standardized, change enabled, extremely reproducible information technology systems. He also actively participates in the Microsoft MVP Program for Windows Terminal Server and Citrix's Technology Professional (CTP) programs.

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Daniel Feller, Lead Architect, Worldwide Consulting Solutions for Citrix

Daniel Feller is the Lead Architect of Worldwide Consulting Solutions for Citrix. He is responsible for providing enterprise-level architectures and recommendations for those interested in desktop virtualization and VDI. He is charged with helping organizations architect the next-generation desktop, including all flavors of desktop virtualization (hosted shared desktops, hosted VM-based desktops, hosted Blade PC desktops, local streamed desktops, and local VM-based desktops). Many of the desktop virtualization architecture decisions focus on client hypervisors and application virtualization. His public initiatives include the creation of best practices, design recommendations, reference architectures and training initiatives focused on the core desktop virtualization concepts, which makes him our go-to guy to present the session “Windows 7 and the Virtual Desktop Revolution,” where he gives you a solid understanding of how desktop virtualization fits into the migration puzzle including all the technical factors to consider and how to set up the most effective migration right from the start to avoid costly overruns and unnecessary headaches that could spell hours of wasted downtime.

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Simon Gallagher, Freelance Infrastructure Architect

Simon Gallagher is a freelance infrastructure architect with 14 years of industry experience. Based in London, he has spent 10 years with ioko's professional services team working with some of the biggest leisure, media and entertainment companies in the world. He specializes in using cloud and virtualization technologies to accelerate delivery of large-scale agile infrastructure projects. Simon is creator of Vinf.net, a popular blog on virtualization and infrastructure technologies. He holds a BSc (Hons) Computer Science from the University of Brighton and in 2009 received a VMware vExpert award and was our first choice to present the session entitled, “Building a Low Cost Home Lab, the Virtual Way.” Attend and watch as Simon shows you how to use VMware vSphere and open source technology to build a lab with shared storage, layer 3 networking, replicating SANs and as many virtual hypervisors as you need for less than $1k USD. Plus he tackles how to build a 20 node ESXi cluster on 2 physical boxes, how to test out VDI scenarios, scripts and provisioning processes, and more.

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Kevin Goodman, CEO and Founder, RTO Software

Kevin Goodman is a 20-year veteran in the software industry. He has had successful management roles in a number of private and publicly held high-tech companies, including RTO Software, where he is currently CEO. Kevin is the author of two books on computer programming, Windows NT: A Developer's Guide, and Building Windows 95 Applications.  He has been awarded three patents on application scalability and is the co-author, with Brian Madden, of the now famous "Citrix Logon Process" chart.

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Steve Greenberg, Founder, Thin Client Computing

Steve Greenberg is the founder of Thin Client Computing, a leading consulting group for advanced server-based computing and virtualization and streaming solutions. Active in server-based computing and virtualization since 1992, he is a pioneer in advanced deployments of presentation server, terminal services and various virtualization technologies. He has designed and implemented mission critical solutions for clients such as Motorola, Lucent Technologies, and Chase Manhattan. He is both a Microsoft MVP and a Citrix CTP.

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Eric Han, Program Manager at Microsoft

Eric Han is member of the Remote Desktop Virtualization (RDV) RemoteFX engineering team. He is the program manager for the virtual GPU, system performance, and its Logo programs.

Prior to his current role, Eric was a program manager within the core OS division working on network QoS and HTTP, and later Zune's RESTful web services.

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Martin Ingram, Vice President of Strategy, AppSense

Martin Ingram has been in IT for over 15 years, holding various technical and management position and is currently the VP of strategy at AppSense. During his career he has held strategy, product management and engineering positions at leading technology companies in the UK and US including Kalypton, Clearswift, Baltimore Technologies, Content Technologies, Avid Technologies and Tektronix. At this year’s BriForum, Martin joins Brian Madden on stage to deliver what’s sure to be a standing-room-only session entitled “Towards a New Desktop: The Future of Client Computing.” Additionally he’ll present a second presentation entitled “Why is Desktop Virtualization So Complex? Pulling Out the Complexity,” where he looks at the sources of complexity and how we can partition our architectures to avoid spiraling complexity.

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Sam Jacobs, Director of Technology Development Services, IPM

Sam Jacobs is the Director of TechDev Services at IPM, the longest standing Citrix Platinum Partner on the East Coast, and has been in IT consulting for more than 25 years. He has focused heavily on Citrix Web Interface (a.k.a. NFuse) customization and integration, with a number of his integrations and enhancements highlighted at Citrix Synergy and Solutions Summit. As the top poster in the Citrix Web Interface forums, he has assisted the Citrix community by developing tools to make Web Interface easier to manage for administrators, and more intuitive for end users. He has also implemented a number of advanced customizations for all versions of the Access Gateway technologies (Standard, Advanced, and AGEE/Netscaler). Sam graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brooklyn College and received an M.B.A. in Computer Science from New York University.

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Gabe Knuth, Independent Industry Analyst & Blogger, BrianMadden.com

Gabe Knuth is an Independent Industry Analyst and Blogger. He focuses on the technical side of the various server based computing products in the industry. Gabe began working with Windows-based products and Citrix in 1998 while working for a national consulting firm. Since then he has worked in a variety of different industries, including healthcare, financial, insurance, and logistics, focusing on Active Directory and server-based computing.

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Harry Labana, Chief Technology Officer, Citrix

Harry Labana joined Citrix in July 2009 as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Citrix Desktop Division. He is a member of the leadership team that charts the technological direction and product roadmap including Citrix’s $1 billion flagship product line. As CTO, he is also responsible for helping to communicate the strategic direction of the company’s desktop virtualization solutions to internal and external audiences. As part of the Citrix Office of the CTO, Harry collaborates with other Citrix CTOs to drive the company’s overall technology direction and product strategy and advises the executive management team.

Harry Labana has 15 years experience in numerous infrastructure, architecture, project management and software development roles in financial services firms such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, and he was a Citrix customer for many years.

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Brad Maltz, Chief Technology Officer, International Computerware, Inc.

Brad Maltz is the Chief Technology Officer for International Computerware, a leading IT infrastructure consulting company. As ICI’s CTO and lead consultant, he has focused on many different technologies such as server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, data center design and architecture, and ITIL design. He is an accomplished author who has been published at TechTarget’s web site, http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/ as well as other sites. Recently he achieved his VMware VCDX Certification. Over the past 12 years he has worked for companies such as EMC, Storability and Data General.

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Tim Mangan, Founder of TMurgent Technologies

Tim Mangan is the Founder of TMurgent Technologies (www.tmurgent.com) which specializes in application virtualization and performance. Prior to launching TMurgent, he was with many software and/or hardware companies including Softricity, Sync Research, Tylink, Avanti Communications, Memotec, Teleglobe, Infinet and ComputerVision. Somewhere in between he also did consulting work for the WAN side of a major US bank. At one point he was also the President of the Frame Relay Forum, an international consortium of communication carriers, vendors, and users. Tim was awarded a US Patent for CPU optimization techniques in 2003. He speaks at many conferences, including all of the previous BriForums, and has been awarded by Microsoft as a "Most Valuable Professional for Terminal Services" (2007) and “for Application Virtualization” (2008-9). He is recognized by Citrix as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP). Tim is also a founder and the current President of the Virtualization Boston User Group.

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Jim Moyle

Jim Moyle is a blogger, speaker and technical consultant with well over a decade of passionate involvement in the application and desktop delivery sector. He has worked with many blue chip companies around the UK. As the senior consultant for visionapp in Northern Europe he is responsible for the architecture and delivery of many world class projects.

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Mike Nelson, Senior SME Analyst for Virtualization, Kimberly-Clark Corp.

Mike Nelson's IT career spans over 20 years, involving all different kinds of technologies. He was a BriForum 2008 speaker on VDI technologies and 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 six years, his focus has been on the SBC area, with major projects in VDI and virtual consolidations and at this year’s conference Mike is slated to present “Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View: Head to Head,” which will focus on the two most prominent players in the desktop virtualization market: XenDesktop and View. Live demos of both technologies will be previewed with real-world examples of each. Also, we’ve tapped Mike to cover “Troubleshooting and Monitoring Your XenApp Environment with Edgesight,” where he’ll walk you through Edgesight and highlight the areas that you should be concentrating on to troubleshoot XenApp server backend issues and application problems.

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Ron Oglesby, Chief Solution Architect, Unidesk Corporation; Best-selling Author

Ron Oglesby is Chief Solution Architect at Unidesk, the virtual desktop management innovator. Ron is the co-author of best-selling technical design guides on VMware Virtual Infrastructure and Windows Terminal Server and is a popular speaker at events such as Citrix Synergy, VMworld, BriForum, and VMUGs. Ron has been recognized by Microsoft as a Terminal Server MVP, by Citrix as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), and by VMware as one of the first VMware vExperts.

Read his technical insights on VDI and how he is helping shape implementation strategies for Unidesk customers and the Unidesk product roadmap at http://blog.unidesk.com and http://www.twitter.com/ronoglesby.

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Ian Parker, Senior Webservices Administrator, Thomas-Reuters

Ian Parker is a Senior Web services Administrator for Thomson-Reuters, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  He has over 10 years of experience in IT and currently assists in the administration of a Citrix environment of over 8,000 concurrent users and is presenting the highly anticipated session entitled "Performance Monitoring Windows Servers: The Next Generation of Built in Windows Tools,” where he’ll reveal the capabilities and features of some of exciting new tools, including XPerf and the Event Tracing for your Windows infrastructure. Ian will specifically focus on practical, real world use of these tools to examine process and system wide CPU, IO, and disk usage.

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Brad Pedersen, Chief Architect and Senior Fellow

Brad Pedersen is Chief Architect at Citrix, a position he has held since 1993. He joined Citrix in 1989 as a senior software engineer, and was an original member of the company’s software design and development team. He holds twenty-two issued patents, including several on the design of the Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) protocol.

As Chief Architect, he is responsible for overseeing the architecture and design of all Citrix technology, including ICA, XenApp and XenDesktop.

Brad has over 30 years’ experience in software development. Before joining Citrix, he was senior architect at IBM, and prior to that, he worked for Harris Computer Systems as a senior engineer. He earned his Bachelor of Computer Science degree at the University of Minnesota in 1982.

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Nelly Porter , Principal Group Program Manager

Nelly Porter is the Principal Group Program Manager for the Remote Desktop Virtualization Product Development team. Nelly has been at Microsoft for eight years, five of which she is part of Remote Desktop Virtualization Core team ( a.k.a. Terminal Server team). Nelly’s primary focus is on good user experiences that generate passion about Windows products. This area becomes increasingly important in the recent years as a driver for customer adoption of remoting technology. Nelly works on the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) which is the most visible part of Remote Desktop Virtualization platform.

Prior to joining Microsoft, she was a developer and architect with HP, working on High Availability and Clustering, Print and all–in–one kernel drivers. Nelly also worked at Scitex, Israel, writing kernel drivers and firmware for multi-OS systems to support high quality digital publishing and rendering systems working in tandem with digital presses, plotters, and scanners.

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T.J. Purtell , Architect, MokaFive

T.J. Purtell is an architect in the CTO group at MokaFive where he is responsible for exploring new product areas. Prior to that, he worked for Actuality Systems where he developed a GPGPU-style volumetric graphics pipeline and applications built on top of it (e.g. radiation beam planning). In the early days of consumer graphics cards, he built GPU API translation layers and implemented a virtual Nintendo 64.

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Nicholas Rintalan, Architect, Citrix Consultant

Nicholas Rintalan currently works for Citrix Consulting out of their San Francisco office.  He has architected (or had a helping hand designing/implementing) some of the largest XenApp deployments to date including KP, Boeing, HP, Home Depot and Goldman.  Nicholas received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans.  Before joining Citrix, Nicholas worked for the IBM Software Group. He has authored several well known white papers such as “The Top 10 Items Found by Citrix Consulting on Assessments,” “Application Streaming Best Practices,” “Delivering Office 2007 using Application Streaming” and “XD and PVS Best Practices."

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Claudio Rodrigues, Senior Technical Architect/Consultant; Terminal Services MVP

Cláudio Rodrigues is a Senior Technical Architect/Consultant based in Ottawa. He has been deploying server-based computing solutions since the OS/2-based, Citrix WinView days. Thanks to his contributions to the Terminal Services community, he was the first person to ever receive the Microsoft MVP award for Terminal Services. He was the CEO of Terminal-Services.NET, the company that originally developed tools such as WTSGateway Pro and WTSPortal, later acquired by 2X Software Ltd. His main goal was to bring easy to use, reliable and affordable tools to the server-based computing market. He has worked all over the world doing terminal services/Citrix deployments and speaking at many different and interesting places. Since leaving 2X, he has been working on new and exciting products and ideas for the TS community at WTSLabs Inc. In his spare time he manages to do consulting work, conducting on-site trainings, and speaking at several conferences.

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Thorsten Rood, Principal Architect, net.workers Corporation

Thorsten Rood has 17 years of experience in systems engineering and is focused on managed environments. This IT veteran has been honored with a Citrix Technology Professional Award and is a MCITP and CCIA. He is the Principal Architect at net.workers corporation, a European consultancy experts group, where he is engaged on secure application delivery architecture, high-availability and virtualization solutions. Within his role he creates both visionary architectural designs as well as bullet-proven standard enterprise deployments using Windows Server System, Citrix software and hardware products (also known as Delivery Center/Cloud Center) and various virtualization stacks depending on business needs. With access to beta product code and designs, he has finalized a wide range of remarkable success stories and early adopter setups for demanding customers. In addition to other speaking engagements, Thorsten is a regular at BriForum and has been a speaker at the last six events. At BriForum, he is known for level 400+ sessions that cover real world needs.

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Brandon Shell, IT Contractor

Brandon Shell has been in the IT industry since 1994, having spent his early years as a PC tech and general fix-it guy for numerous companies. In 1999, He started a consulting company that built, designed and supported networks and Windows infrastructure as well as offering Microsoft training. In 2000, he joined Microsoft as contractor for the Directory Services team (the first of several times). He joined Microsoft in 2002 as a full time rapid response field engineer doing mostly Directory Service support for companies in the northeast. In 2004, he left Microsoft and took a position that allowed him to branch off and learn new technologies (such as XenApp and XenDesktop) and focus on his real passion, PowerShell. In 2007, he joined the PowerShell MVP ranks and spent the last several years building his PowerShell knowledge and helping others build theirs.

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Joe Shonk, Project-based Consultant; Thin Client Computing Expert

Joe Shonk is a veteran consultant in virtualization and server based computing. By day he works on advanced system deployments and at night can be found roaming the forums and on his blog at www.theshonkproject.com. Joe has presented at numerous venues and conferences such as BriForum and Citrix's GeekSpeak.  Joe is a Microsoft MVP and Citrix CTP but most importantly the BriForum 2008 GeekOut game show champion. Joe is going to be featured in a number of presentations this year perhaps most notably during the “Live Debate Smackdown: VIrtualization vs Bare Metal for XenApp and RDS workloads,” where he and co-presenter Steve Greenberg provide an entertaining and thoroughly geeky look at this important debate topic including whether to virtualize or not virtualize XenApp and RDS workloads; Bare metal vs Hypervisor performance; how to  compare user densities when using a 64bit OS; the performance cost of virtualization; are provisioning services worth deploying; of shared storage bring benefits for the added cost; and much more.

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Ruben Spruijt,Technology Officer, PQR

Ruben Spruijt is Technology Officer at PQR. His primary focus is on application and desktop delivery, hardware and software virtualization. He has been awarded with the Microsoft Most Value Professional (MVP), Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vExpert. He has presented his vision at international conferences and provided profound knowledge of application and desktop delivery and virtualization solutions. He is the initiator of PQR’s conceptual modes of application and desktop delivery solutions and as well as the creative mind behind their data and system availability solutions. Ruben is the creator of Virtuall, the solutions showcase of PQR. His published articles have been featured in professional magazines and websites.

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Michael Thomason, Chief Technical Architect, Emory Healthcare;Citrix/Microsoft Terminal Services Expert

Michael Thomason is currently the Chief Technical Architect for Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, specializing in Citrix/Microsoft Terminal Services. He has over 15 years of experience in the computer industry specializing in systems management, desktop/server/application deployment and systems automation. He is an author of numerous tools, utilities and application delivery systems including DeployMagic (automatically build/provision/publish Citrix/Terminal Servers), IMAWatch (view IMA start process), DGS (disk geometry setup), BrandMagic (user profile management tool), RebootMagic (reboot tool specially designed for Terminal Servers) and VFS (Virtual File System). Michael created the virtual desktop at Emory Healthcare where all applications execute and run over terminal services and was a major driver of Emory Healthcare’s virtual storage project which offers users limitless storage.

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Roy A. Tokeshi, Principal Sales XenGineer, Citrix Systems

Roy A. Tokeshi has been an active community contributor, engineer and consultant in the Citrix virtualization world for over 12 years. He is currently a Principal Sales XenGineer for Citrix Systems with a focus on XenClient, XenServer and XenApp. He recently purchased an iTouch just so he could get his 2 year old daughter Kylie off of his iPhone long enough to try the Citrix Receiver. This year Roy delivers his expert insight with the session “The Client Hypervisor: A Deep Dive into Type I Virtualization on Client Devices,” where he’ll explore and examine the underlying architecture and design of a client hypervisor to identify the potential benefits and limitations of this approach. He’ll cover the technical architecture of a type I hypervisor and how and where it can be successfully used and give a comprehensive demonstration of XenClient featuring an interactive stress test to see how and where it can be broken.

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Dr. Bernhard Tritsch, CTO, Immidio

Dr. Bernhard Tritsch -- known as Benny by his peers -- is an IT system architect and market analyst, focused on Microsoft-based computing solutions and technologies. He has 20 years of experience in IT research, system tools development, large-scale application delivery projects and virtualization technologies. In his current position as CTO for Immidio he is responsible for a team developing tools and products that help organizations adapt virtualization technologies in Microsoft Windows environments according to their business requirements.

Over the years, Benny has published many technical articles and several best-selling books, such as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services (Microsoft Press). He is a frequent speaker at leading international events. Every year since 2004 he was awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Terminal Server. Find more information about his community activities on http://www.drtritsch.com.

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Wilco van Bragt, Founder; VanBragt.Net Consultancy

Since 2000, Wilco van Bragt`s primary focus has been server-based computing and virtualization (application, hardware and OS) using primarily Microsoft and Citrix technologies. After working for several years as a senior technical consultant and technical project leader, he started his own freelance company VanBragt.Net Consultancy. He is creator of the VanBragt.Net Server Based Computing & Virtualization Centre, a website with SBC/virtualization-related product reviews, articles, reviews of freeware products, and blogs about several virtualization topics and events. His reviews and articles have been featured on other well-known websites.

He is a certified MSCE/MCITP (NT, 2000, 2003 and 2008), CCA, CCEA (Citrix Metaframe XP, Citrix Presentation Server 4), and CCIA (both Metaframe XP and CPS 4). He is also a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), Provision Networks VIP, RES Valuable Professional and a Microsoft MVP on Terminal Server.

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Jeroen van de Kamp, Chief Technology Officer for Login Consultants

Jeroen van de Kamp, Chief Technology Officer for Login Consultants, 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” 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. He is accredited as VMware vExpert and is one of the 30 members worldwide who participate in the "Citrix Technology Professional” program.

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Chetan Venkatesh , CTO & Founder at Atlantis Computing

Chetan Venkatesh is the Chief Technology officer and founder of Atlantis Computing. He is an entrepreneur who has started several enterprise software companies over the last 15 years. Prior to Atlantis Computing, He was the CEO and an angel investor in Etheract Software, a CAD software company that developed tools for Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems (MEMS). Before joining Etheract Software, Mr. Venkatesh was the CEO and founder of Insynchro, an enterprise collaboration product for large and complex projects that was acquired by Commerce Ventures. Prior to Etheract, He started Lucidity, a middleware company that developed products for exporting mainframe database reports to the web. Chetan holds a BS in Computer Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz and Inti College in Malaysia.

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Jon Wallace, Senior Solution Consultant

Jon Wallace manages the AppSense US technical team and has seen the product grow since its inception in 1999. He is a Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) and further to the AppSense blog, Jon is a frequent contributor to www.dabcc.com and his own website www.insidetheregistry.com.

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John Whaley, MokaFive

John Whaley is responsible for the technical vision of MokaFive. He holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University, 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 bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from MIT and speaks fluent Japanese.