Speakers

Shawn Bass ShawnBass.com

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 www.BrianMadden.com, the official Citrix Support Forums, and Softgridguru.com.

Shawn is a nine-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 virtualisation 5-day master class that he and Brian developed back in 2004.

You can follow him on twitter @shawnbass.

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Vincent Branger Infralys

After getting his Ph.D. in computer architecture in 1998, Vincent Branger worked two years as Project Manager for Prologue Software, the French ISV who implemented Windows NT 4 T.S.E. with Citrix and Microsoft. He then worked six years for Ozitem, a System Integrator, to create and develop the SBC consultancy centre. He became Ozitem's CTO and managed up to 150 engineers and diverse projects of varying size and complexity. Since 2006, he is a Freelance Virtualisation Consultant and Architect. He gives, among others, the Virtualisation seminar at Cap Gemini and does regularly consultancy around Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Ulteo, and other virtualisation technologies. Vincent Branger is an active member of the French Citrix community organising "Rencontres des Virtualisations" every year since 2007 (official Geek Speak Local).

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Dan Brinkmann Lewan & Associates

Dan Brinkmann is a Solutions Architect for a large VAR based in Denver, Colorado. He is responsible for building his organisation's desktop virtualisation 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 virtualisation technologies. Dan has spoken at such industry events including 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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Nathan Coutinho CDW

Nathan Coutinho is a Solutions Manager for CDW's System Solutions Practice. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry with various roles in consulting, engineering, management, and technical sales. He is responsible for enterprise storage, private cloud, virtualisation sales enablement, go-to-market strategy and solution development. Additionally, he manages 25 co-workers that are focused on selling these solutions from assessment to implementation.

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Kevin Goodman RTO Software

Kevin Goodman is an eight-time BriForum speaker, founder of RTO Software and creator of VMware's "Persona" product. From 2010 to February 2012, Kevin was Director of Product Management for VMware working in the End User Computing division.

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Nicke Kallen Zipper by Enfo

Nicke Kallen 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. Nicke has also been seen giving Gridmaster Trainings in the Nordics!

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Jack Madden BrianMadden.com

Jack Madden, called one of the top ten consumerisation thought leaders of 2011, is the editor of ConsumerizeIT.com. While his primary focus is on bring-your-own-device projects and mobile device management, Jack also contributes to SearchVirtualDesktop.com and BrianMadden.com on topics that blend consumerisation and desktop virtualisation.

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Kevin Kaminski Big Hat Group Inc.

Kevin Kaminski is no stranger to the challenges enterprises can experience when managing large deployments of Windows systems. As a career consultant, Kevin uses this opportunity to visit many diverse environments and see the challenges they face first hand. His contributions to the community can be seen on many sites such as the Microsoft TechNet Forums, Appdeploy.com, MyItForum.com, AppVirtGuru.com, and the Calgary Systems Management User Group. Currently, Kevin is a three-time App-V MVP and co-author of "The Client Book" about Microsoft App-V. He also teaches and maintains an App-V masters class with fellow App-V MVP, Tim Mangan.

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Gabe Knuth BrianMadden.com

Gabe Knuth is an industry analyst and blogger, known throughout the world as "the other guy" at www.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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Brian Madden BrianMadden.com

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, 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. He also recently launched ConsumerizeIT.com to address the emerging trend around the consumerization of IT.

In addition, Brian is the creator of BriForum.

You can follow him on twitter @brianmadden.

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Tim Mangan TMurgent Technologies

Tim Mangan is the Founder of TMurgent Technologies LLP. Prior to launching TMurgent, Tim was with many software and hardware companies including Softricity, Sync Research, Tylink, Avanti Communications, Memotec, Teleglobe, Infinet, and ComputerVision. Somewhere in between, he did consulting work for the WAN side of a major US bank. At one point, he was President of the Frame Relay Forum, an international consurtium of communication carriers, vendors, and users. Tim speaks at many conferences and has been awarded by Microsoft as a MVP for terminal services in 2007 and MVP for application virtualisation in 2008 and since. He was also awarded Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) in 2010 and since. Tim is also currently President of Virtualisation Group Boston, a user group in New England.

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Pierre Marmignon VirtuAll Solutions

As an architect specialising in application and desktop delivery since 2003, Pierre Marmignon now works with Fortune 100 companies in France, helping them to adopt desktop virtualisation. Pierre leverages his CCIA, CCEA and CCI certifications to focus on automation scripts and tools that ease delivery centre integration and management. In 2008, Pierre created the well known CitrixTools.net in order to share his knowledge, useful tools and technical content with the worldwide community. In 2011, Pierre founded VirtuAll Solutions to host all his community activities and provide professional services around all the tools he has created. Pierre has been a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) since 2009.

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Rodney Medina Immidio

Rodney Medina is an App-V MVP and CTO for Immidio where he is responsible for the technical vision, the roadmap and product management. His specialisation, besides SBC in general, specifically includes the Microsoft Infrastructure product range including App-V. He has been working in IT for 17 years, including as a Citrix and App-V instructor. He was one of the first to start working with App-V (previously SoftGrid) in Europe, as a product manager for CDG Europe at the time. Besides doing a lot of presentations, trainings, presales and PoC's, Rodney was actually the first consultant in Europe that implemented App-V environments into production. Rodney maintains the blog www.SoftGridBlog.com, which is fully dedicated to Microsoft App-V, and speaks regularly at various virtualisation seminars.

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Jonathan Meunier Infralys

Jonathan is a virtualisation consultant at Infralys (FR). Graduate from ESIGETEL, a French engineering school, he first worked for Login Consultants (NL) on Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC – Phase V and VI). He also founded vNewbie, a blog dedicated to help beginners in the virtualisation field. (http://vnewbie.com)

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Mike Nelson JMIC

Mike Nelson's IT career spans over 23 years, involving all different kinds of technologies. A speaker at BriForums 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 virtualisation, 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 also an active VMware VCP and VMUG Leader. He writes articles for TechTarget web publications and in any spare time that he has, he loves to spend it doing just about anything with his family.

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Ron Oglesby Unidesk

Ron Oglesby is Chief Solution Architect at Unidesk. He’s been recognised by Microsoft as a “Terminal Server MVP”, by Citrix as a “Citrix Technology Professional” and by VMware as one of the first “VMware vExperts.”

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Ian Parker Thomson-Reuters

Ian Parker is Senior Web Services Administrator for Thomson-Reuters, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He currently is part of a team that designs, implements, and maintains multiple Citrix farms serving over 13,000 users around the world. He was a speaker at both BriForum London and BriForum Chicago in 2011.

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Dan Shappir Ericom Software

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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Brandon Shell Splunk

Brandon has been in the IT industry since 1994. He spent his early years as a PC tech and general fix-it guy for numerous companies. He started a consulting company in 1999 that built, designed and supported networks and Windows infrastructure, as well as provided 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, Brandon left Microsoft for a position that allowed him to branch off, learn about new technologies (such as XenApp and XenDesktop) and focus on his real passion: PowerShell. In 2007, he joined the PowerShell MVP ranks and was awarded the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) in 2008. He has spent the last several years building his PowerShell and Citrix knowledge and helping others build theirs.

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Ruben Sprujit PQR

Ruben Spruijt is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at PQR. In his job, Ruben is primarily focused on application and desktop delivery, and hardware and software virtualisation.

Ruben has been awarded the Microsoft Most Value Professional (MVP), Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), VMware vExpert and RES Software Value Professional (RSVP) titles.

At various local and international conferences, Ruben presents his vision and profound knowledge of application and desktop delivery and virtualisation solutions.

He is the initiator of PQR’s conceptual modes of ‘Application and Desktop Delivery solutions’ and ‘Data and System Availability solutions’ and the originator of www.virtuall.eu, the solutions showcase of PQR. He has written several articles that have been published by professional magazines and informative websites. Ruben is one of three to receive the Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP and VMware vExpert community awards. To contact Ruben directly, send an email to rsp@pqr.nl or follow him on Twitter at @rspruijt.

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Benny Tritsch AppSense

Benny Tritsch is a virtualisation technology evangelist, IT system architect, market analyst and author, working as Technical Director and member of the Office of CTO at AppSense. Over the last few years, he has published many technical articles and several best-selling books, such as "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services" (Microsoft Press). Benny is a frequent speaker at leading international events such as Microsoft Tech-Ed and Citrix Synergy. He has received the Microsoft MVP award for remote desktop services each year since 2004. In 2006, he was a charter award winner of the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP). If you want to know more about Benny's activities in the virtualisation community, check out his website at: www.drtritsch.com or follow @drtritsch on Twitter.

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