Art has been working with .NET/SQL Server and SharePoint since 2001. He has developed, implemented and architected over 20 SharePoint implementations. From 80+ server farms for international Oil & Gas companies to single-server configurations, he has significant experience implementing SharePoint in all types of scenarios.

Brian is a Management Consultant and Enterprise Architect with over 30 years of experience reengineering functions and processes for many of the Global 100 corporations such as IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung Electronics Corporation. He has recently joined Satory Global as Business Architecture Lead providing process and performance guidance both internally and to Satory's key accounts.  Mr. Seitz has been on the leading edge of business performance improvement and the application of computer technology to solve real world problems. He provides insights and thought leadership through his blogs, magazine columns, white papers, analyst reports and consulting engagements.  Brian has been identified as a ghost contributor and credited with developing the Digital Nervous System concepts used in Bill Gates’ s book and set the foundation for Microsoft's Active Directory. Additionally he; Co-developed Microsoft's Rapid Economic Justification (REJ) methodology and trained MCS consultants and clients worldwide in the creation of value cases; Contributor to Microsoft's MSF, co-developing Enterprise Architecture Planning methodology.  While at IBM he was charged with the reengineering of strategy and marketing processes for the corporation; that for the first time in industry integrated and applied Six Sigma, ISO9000 and CMM in a strategy and planning context. This process has now been applied at many of the global 100 corporations that are thriving in today's economic climate.

Chris is passionate about learning, sharing his knowledge, and best of all, he’s extremely passionate about technology. He loves showing people how new tools and products can improve their businesses and especially, their lives. Chris has delivered thousands of live presentations and gave the keynote speech at the NPA Awards during Interop 2005. He’s also active in the community, and is currently developing a television series to highlight great work in the not-for-profit sector. Chris has a diverse roster of role models, including George Washington, Steve Ballmer, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Victor Frankl. His other loves? Entomology, fly-fishing, "building things" and dessert. Chris claims he’s on a lifelong quest to find the best steak and chocolate cake on Earth: "The only time I ever said "no" to dessert was when I didn’t understand the question."

Clayton is a former Marine who served one tour that ended in August of 2001.  From there, he joined Booz Allen Hamilton as an IT consultant in the Intel/DoD space.  After 6 years at BAH, Clayton went independent as a consultant to focus 100% on MOSS 2007.  Just a few months later in February of 2008, Clayton was hired by Planet Technologies as a Technical Architect and Central Region Practice Manager (Denver-based) focused completely on SharePoint.  In addition to being a SharePoint Architect, Clayton has a strong focus on codeless programming, which has led to expertise with tools like InfoPath and SharePoint Designer.

Clayton maintains a blog named Clayton’s SharePoint Madness (http://claytoncobb.wordpress.com) where he focuses heavily on advanced InfoPath and SharePoint Designer solutions.  He also has put a heavy emphasis on testing and learning as much as possible about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in preparation for their release in calendar year 2010.  Clayton is a current InfoPath MVP nominee and is excited about sharing the virtues of the many improvements made in InfoPath 2010.

Darvish ("D") Shadravan is a Senior Technology Specialist employed by Microsoft where he focuses on SharePoint, InfoPath, and related technologies. He has been with Microsoft for 13 years in various technical roles working directly with enterprise customers. Darvish holds MCTS-SharePoint, MCSE, and CISSP certifications.

Dave Milner is a SharePoint architect with an MBA, is a MCTS in SharePoint and an MCT.   Dave has 20 years of IT development experience with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500.  Dave is the author of the book “Pro ASP.NET SharePoint 2010 Solutions: Techniques for Building SharePoint Functionality into ASP.NET Applications” coming out this fall from Apress.

Based in Colorado Springs, Gary Lapointe is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and Independent Consultant/President of Falchion Consulting, LLC. Gary has designed and implemented many SharePoint solutions and specializes in automating deployments and common administrative tasks. Gary‘s blog is viewed by many as the definitive source on automating SharePoint configurations via STSADM and PowerShell. Gary can be reached via email at gary@falchionconsulting.com or twitter @glapointe (http://twitter.com/glapointe).

Holly Anderson is the product marketing manager for K2. Holly began working with two precursors to SharePoint, Microsoft Site Server and Microsoft Content Management Server, back in 1999. Since then, she has worked with every version of SharePoint on projects as diverse as UI customization, custom webpart and application development as well as SharePoint server administration. In 2006, Holly joined K2 where she uses her technical background to provide a unique perspective on the benefits of using workflow to improve both SharePoint and non-SharePoint based applications.

Since 2002, Jennifer Branham has worked as a SharePoint portal consultant providing multiple firms with planning, designing, and deployment expertise for SharePoint environments.  Her SharePoint expertise includes both commercial and government SharePoint solutions with such firms as iDevFactory and Booz Allen Hamilton.  Her applicable knowledge and understanding of the underlying SharePoint security has allowed her to provide many organizations with meaningful and enforceable policies for their SharePoint environments. She offers a realistic business look into management of SharePoint security today

Jim Hietala, CISSP, GSEC, is Vice President, Security for The Open Group, where he manages all security and risk management programs and standards activities. Jim is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and he participates in the SANS Analyst/Expert program, having written several research whitepapers and participated in several webcasts for SANS. He has also published numerous articles on information security, risk management, and compliance topics in publications including CSO, The ISSA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Risk Factor, SC Magazine, and others.

Michael has been working with SharePoint since 2001 with the introduction of SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and Windows SharePoint Services 1.0.  During the ensuing decade Michael has worked in and on all aspects of the SharePoint microcosm.  Michael spent most of that decade working with SharePoint in the federal government space with the DoD, DHS and many other agencies.  He now works for HP in the UCC space working with companies on how to take their strategy from a simple thought to production.

Russ Houberg is a SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has been a Senior Architect at KnowledgeLake for almost 6 years.  Russ is responsible for designing the taxonomy and topology architecture for KnowledgeLake’s document imaging customers that require enterprise class scalability.  Russ is the author of the SharePoint Storage Architecture Whitepaper and the co-author of the Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability TechNet whitepaper.

Ryan McCutchen is Senior Consultant with Neudesic focusing on SharePoint and User Experience. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003. He has worked as a SharePoint Consultant for the last 4 years delivering on a wide range of SharePoint deployments. Before that he spent 7 years as an Application Architect focusing on Microsoft and Portal technologies.

Sandeep has been working with SharePoint since early days of STS. He specializes in implementing medium to large scale SharePoint farm, creating custom solutions using InfoPath form & Workflow, building BI dashboards using PerformancePoint & Excel Services, integrating LOB applications with SharePoint and migrating Lotus Notes databases to SharePoint. Also, whenever time permits, Sandeep presents at SharePoint conferences and local SharePoint users group.

Sean is the Product Manager for SharePoint Products at Idera, a Microsoft gold certified partner and creator of tools for SharePoint, SQL Server, PowerShell and Dynamics.  As a consultant, Sean has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to architect, implement, troubleshoot, tune, and customize their SharePoint environments. Sean is an MCPD, an MCTS, and the co-author of the “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide” (http://tinyurl.com/SPDRBook).  He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or Twitter (@spmcdonough).

Shai Petel has vast experience in software development, consulting and training for organizations. He is currently responsible for KWizCom’s product development and technical research.  Since 2004, Shai has been training developers in maximizing the SharePoint platform utilizing a unique curriculum he created in collaboration with KWizCom experts. A Microsoft Certified Trainer, Shai's curriculum is used in several Microsoft official training centers worldwide.

Todd began working with WSS and SPS in the beta stages of the products, in 2003. He has architected and implemented intranets, extranets, wireless deployments, and several custom applications with the WSS and SPS platforms.

Todd created the first SharePoint advanced development training curriculum in the training industry for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  Two versions in a row, Todd broke ground in the training industry by being the first to offer advanced development training for SharePoint!

Todd speaks at many SharePoint conferences including SharePoint Connections, the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, and the TechEd 2008 Developers Conference.  He has also spoken at Microsoft events at the Microsoft offices in both Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He has also presented several sessions at the Rocky Mountain SharePoint User's Group.  Recently Todd presented at the Microsoft SharePoint Firestarter event at the Microsoft Conference Center, the Microsoft TechReady 7 conference, and the SharePoint on The Web presentation in Redmond.

Todd is also the content author and presenter for the BDC portion of the SharePoint Master Certification program.

He enjoys spending time with his wife and their dogs, playing and coaching lacrosse, playing hockey, riding his bike in the Rocky Mountains, and skiing every chance he gets.