Benjamin Niaulin works as a SharePoint Specialist at GSoft, a Montreal-based software development firm specialized in Microsoft technologies. Passionate about SharePoint, Benjamin has been helping people around the globe reaching their goals by simplifying SharePoint solutions. With his Microsoft Certified Trainer certification and over 5 years of Training and Speaking experience, he has acquired the skills needed to help everyone understand and use SharePoint. Author of Brand SharePoint series on nothingbutsharepoint has been working on helping people re-experience SharePoint without coding for a while and loves to share his experience.

I have been helping companies with SharePoint deployments since 2006. I have traveled around the US to help private, public and government agencies deploy and improve SharePoint implementations. Although I have been part of every aspect of a SharePoint deployment, my passion is in user buy-in and adoption of SharePoint. Today, I focus purely on the user adoption side of SharePoint, using both out-of-the-box (OOTB) and third party tools to make SharePoint an effective for end users.

Product Manager and Evangelist at CloudShare, Chris Riley is a pure Technologist and recognized industry expert in document recognition, ECM, Cloud Computing, and analytics technologies. Chris lives and breathes technology and has been helping companies buy, use, and optimize advanced technologies given their business process and use case. Chris’s focus on market education has helped expose underlying problems in the acquisition and use of advanced technology and has helped both end-users and vendors mitigate the challenges to achieving ultimate success. Riley has 12 years experience in this arena, owned three software companies, and obtained several technology and business awards. He has degrees in Business Administration, Computer Science, and Mathematics, and holds certifications from the enterprise content management (ECM) trade organization AIIM as “Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMp)”, “Information, Organization, and Access Practitioner (IOAp)” and “Capture Practitioner”. Mr. Riley is a sought after speaker, and educator throughout the content gathering and delivery space.

Dan Barker is a Product Manager and Evangelist for Quest’s SharePoint Solutions team. Prior to joining Quest, Dan was a software engineer and systems architect for Progressive Insurance and earlier was a senior consultant for Crowe Horwath. Dan’s background in both technical and business leadership roles awards him a unique blend of strategic, technical, and business expertise. Dan is a graduate of Kent State University and holds an executive MBA from the Nance school of business at Cleveland State University. He lives with his wife in the Seattle Washington area.

Dave Healey is an innovative solution designer with a vision for technology in the enterprise. Twenty years delivering Enterprise Information Management solutions in large and complex organizations has informed his approach to design and implementation as an opportunity to drive change, foster innovation and strive for social impact. Dave is a passionate and articulate public speaker, skilled at painting a picture of the possible. His extensive experience in leading solution delivery teams grounds and balances his passion for the possible with the real world requirement to deliver, every time. An experienced leader, Dave has built a number of successful technology solution companies as well as working for world leading companies like Microsoft Corporation. His drive and enthusiasm for helping customers achieve and exceed their business objectives through technology is matched only by his love of the ocean and interest in helping kids develop their own passion for the marine environment through his work at the Seattle Aquarium.

Don has been instrumental in developing a highly competent, professional and efficient Services Delivery Team at Buildingi. As the Director of Operations, Don has leveraged his previous experience in managing large production CAD, construction and information technology teams to build a highly effective and strategic Operations Team.

Eric Overfield is a leading expert in SharePoint Branding and web based user interface design. Mr. Overfield, President and co-founder of PixelMill, has over 13 years experience with web design best practices and techniques, and over 8 years experience with SharePoint branding. Besides his in-depth knowledge SharePoint’s branding capabilities, he has expertise includes general SharePoint technology, design and architecture along with custom coded web parts, solutions, javascript, HTML5 and CSS 3. He resides in Davis, California.

Erica Toelle is a seasoned business analyst and has been working with SharePoint since 2004. Erica has spent much of that time focused on Organizational Change Management (OCM) project roles and was among the first in the industry to customize OCM methodologies to be more appropriate for the fast-paced nature of SharePoint implementations. Erica enjoys helping customers take their initial deployment through to enterprise-wide adoption so they get the most value out of their software investment.

Ivan Sanders is a SharePoint MVP and independent consultant with more than 15 years of broad-based hands-on experience with the design and development of mission-critical applications and innovative information management strategies in the enterprise deployment of Microsoft products, and delivering nothing but Microsoft SharePoint solutions since 2004. Ivan is active in the SharePoint Community through the MSDN and TechNet forums, TechEd and PDC Birds of a Feather, SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint ShopTalk, INETA, GITCA, and Local Southern California User Groups. Ivan can be found bi-weekly on SharePoint ShopTalk or http://twitter.com/iasanders, http://www.linkedin.com/in/iasanders.

Jason Keller is the president of TekDog Inc., of Columbus, Ohio. Jason has over 14 years of experience in IT and has been working with Microsoft SharePoint technologies since 2001. Jason’s SharePoint experience includes roles as a Technical Instructor, Business Analyst, SharePoint Consultant, Project Manager and Solutions Architect. Jason also specializes in Business Process Automation and works on a daily basis with clients to understand their business needs to architect SharePoint and Workflow solutions that resolve business inefficiencies and bottlenecks. Jason has a deep passion for SharePoint technologies and for sharing the knowledge of how SharePoint can help businesses run more effectively and efficiently.

Javier Barrera is a 10-year IT veteran. He is now a SharePoint Engineer for Rackspace Hosting Company, where he designs, implements, and troubleshoots SharePoint services for intranet or extranet environments. His primary focus is the infrastructure of numerous SharePoint farms ranging in size from single-server to multi-farm multi-server configurations. His other various responsibilities include Microsoft SQL and Exchange implementations. Twitter: @jtbarrera LinkedIn: javierbarrera

Jeff Shuey is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. Jeff is currently the Director of Strategic Alliances at Winshuttle. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Text, Kofax and Kodak. He speaks and blogs about ECM,and the Intersection between Social, Mobile and Cloud Computing.

Jennifer Mason has dedicated the last seven years to working with SharePoint. She started out as an intern focused on SharePoint and eventually began working as a full-time SharePoint consultant. She is currently working as a Senior SharePoint Consultant with the team at SharePoint 911. Her focus has been on strategy, project planning, project management, governance, and best practices for implementing business solutions using SharePoint Technologies. She has worked with a range of companies at different points in the lifecycles of their SharePoint implementation. She is passionate about SharePoint, and loves using the out of the box features to bring immediate ROI to the organization. Jennifer is involved in the SharePoint community and is one of the founding members of the Columbus Ohio SharePoint Users Group. You can learn more about Jennifer by viewing her blog: http://blogs.sharepoint911.com/blogs/jennifer

John is a SharePoint IT Professional with over eight years of experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and has spent over fyears working in the information technology consulting industry. He has worked with Microsoft Online Services (MSO) since 2008 and is a Microsoft Delta Force Ranger for Office 365. John co-authored the "SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide" in September, 2010 (http://tinyurl.com/SPDR2010book) and the “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide” in January, 2009 (http://www.tinyurl.com/SPDRbook). He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) for several Microsoft server products and platforms, including SharePoint 2007 and 2010, System Center Operations Manager 2007, and Hyper-V Server.

Karuana Gatimu is the Director, Solution Delivery for the Microsoft Discovery & Collaboration team in Redmond, WA with 20 years’ experience as a business solution architect. Currently she is delivering collaboration experiences to Microsoft employees worldwide from within Microsoft IT. Formerly, she was Director of Ecommerce & Marketing Operations & Lead SharePoint Architect for Skechers USA, Inc.. She remains Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for SPUGs.org, a non-profit group dedicated to promoting SharePoint User Groups everywhere.

Liam Cleary is a passionate individual who is excited about technology. Over 13 years ago he started his IT Career as an IT Trainer, became a Software Developer, looked after Servers, Firewall, Security and Network Design and Architecture, Consultant for SharePoint, a Principal Consultant for .NET Development and Collaboration and now works as a Solution Architect for SusQtech in Virginia working primarily with Non-Profits and Associations. His core focus as a Solution Architect is to ensure that SharePoint can either natively or with minimal customization meet the business requirement. Liam is also a five time SharePoint MVP focused on Architecture but also crosses the boundary into Development. He is passionate about all aspects of the SharePoint platform and loves to share the good word. He can often be found at user groups or conferences speaking, offering advice or just spending time in the community.

Martin Cox is an Architectural Consultant and a SharePoint expert in the Portals and Collaboration Practice at Neudesic, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. Martin is an architect, a hands-on developer of enterprise business solutions, and a techinical leader on consulting engagements. He is a regular speaker, blogger, and member of the Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group (PSSPUG). Prior to Neudesic, Martin was a Principal Development Lead at Microsoft in the Office team. Prior to Microsoft, Martin worked at various companies including Groove Networks, IBM, Lotus Development, and BroadVision.

Michal Pisarek is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, Founder of Dynamic Owl Consulting and author of the SharePoint Analyst HQ blog. Focusing on the business side of SharePoint, with a deep technical understanding, his passion is to empower organizations to gain real business value from the SharePoint platform by ensuring strategy, execution, change management, governance and technology converge correctly and pragmatically. A highly sort after speaker and respected SharePoint thought leader he has presented at many conferences and worked at a variety of clients from multinationals to small organizations. He details his thoughts on the blog, and contributes to other well regarded SharePoint related publications including CMSWire and NothingButSharePoint. Approaching SharePoint from a business angle, he ensures that business goals, technical solutions and effective change management are all considered in a pragmatic manner to deliver value to any organization.

Mike has been at Microsoft for fourteen years; during that time he has served as the business strategist on the Microsoft Project team, and also as a co-founder of the World Wide Project Management Office for Microsoft Consulting Services. Mike has worked with customers and partners in 15 countries on their project management needs and in the use of Microsoft Project. Mike is a PMI certified Project Management Professional.

Mike is currently responsible for working directly with organizations to help them improve the success rate of projects across the enterprise – from working with senior executives to ensure they have visibility and insight into their key initiatives, to working with project managers and other business professionals to ensure successful deployment and use of Project, Project Server and SharePoint. Mike maintains informational websites and blogs at www.TodaysProject.com and www.GoVisualize.com

Naomi Moneypenny is CTO at Synxi (a ManyWorlds brand) where she leads the development team and has overall responsibility for the infrastructure that is used internally, for partners and enterprise clients. Prior to her current position, Naomi was a business and IT strategist at Shell working on technology forecasting and collaboration. She has a Masters degree in Astrophysics as well as graduating in executive programs in strategy and M&A from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. She holds 15 patents in the area of adaptive systems.

Nina Ruchirat is a senior content project manager in the Office Content Publishing group, and is a liaison for the technical communities of Office, Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Project, and their related products and technologies. (Reagan Templin is a senior technical writer for SharePoint Server, with past experience in Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server. Follow her on Twitter @MSNinaR. She also Co-Tweets on @MSOffice_ITPro.

Nishan DeSilva is the Senior Director of Information Management & Compliance in Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs (LCA). He is currently leading an initiative to develop compliance-driven, document, contract, and records management solutions utilizing SharePoint and Office 365 to increase efficiency and reduce costs. The program joins flexible taxonomies concepts in Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 with key business processes using the lean six sigma methodology. Nishan is an experienced information management and technical expert with more than 19 years of business and technology leadership. He has a proven track record in developing and implementing global content and records management programs in the financial and legal vertical, including process re-engineering, e-discovery, risk mitigation strategies, policy development, and compliance technology solutions.

Patrick Curran is the Director for Planet Technologies' Federal Division. Patrick’s primary client is the Department of Energy, where he is Planet’s lead architect. His clients’ projects usually range from 1,000 to 10,000 end users. Patrick has been working with SharePoint since 2003 doing everything from Administration, Branding, and Development to Upgrading, and Troubleshooting. MCP, MCTS, MCITP, MCT

Patrick is one of three InfoPath MVPs at Qdabra Software - a company which is focused on electronic forms solutions and platforms for businesses of all sizes. Qdabra thinks InfoPath and SharePoint are the best technologies for business process automation.

With over 20 years of IT experience, Randy Williams is an expert in architecting and developing Microsoft-based web and database solutions. Randy has worked with SMB and enterprise organizations throughout North America and Asia. He is also active in the SharePoint community, running .NET and SharePoint user groups in Hawaii, Singapore and San Diego. Randy currently works for AvePoint as an Enterprise Trainer and Evangelist. At AvePoint, Randy works directly with enterprise customers and partners to deliver and implement solutions that help unleash Microsoft SharePoint’s full business potential. He also shares proven practices with the SharePoint community and provides thought leadership through speaking engagements at global conferences. A contributor to SharePointPro and Windows IT Pro magazines, Randy’s latest book, SharePoint 2010 Administration Instant Reference, was released in June of 2011. Randy is a SharePoint MVP alum, having been awarded from 2009-2011 and is now working towards his MCM. He currently resides in San Diego, CA.

Varied background in the educational field and software industry. Focus on helping people learn, from English and basic skills to complex technologies. Experience with enterprise and consumer technologies across Microsoft, including Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows client and server, SQL Server, Office, and SharePoint. Currently working on the SharePoint Enterprise Solutions User Education team supporting IT Pros.

Rick is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations including the US Air Force, Charles Schwab, and Nestle. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author. Rick worked for Microsoft on the Platform Engineering Team for BPOS, and is now a Senior Technical Architect for Perficient. Rick is based in Phoenix, AZ and is an avid Triathlete (Clydesdale class), enjoys playing chess and is active in the Boy Scouts of America

Sag is an enterprise architect with over 10 years’ experience designing, implementing and operating enterprise-class infrastructure solutions centred around the Microsoft stack of products. He specializes in virtualization, enterprise security, data management, systems management and collaboration solutions built around the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Sag has lived and worked across Canada, extensively throughout the United States, in Europe and in South America. He is presently employed as a Senior Technical Solutions Professional (TSP) with AvePoint, a global software company specializing in SharePoint governance and administration.

Sandra Mahan has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of Human Resources including staffing, metrics, employee relations, and benefits but her passion lies in the technology-side of the industry. She is the Agile SharePoint Product Owner for HR within her company and is looked to as a resource by many departments to provide quick, user-friendly applications. Sandra collaborates regularly with the IT department on projects using SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath 2010 and was part of the upgrade team from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 earlier this year.

Scott is a SharePoint Evangelist and Consultant at Slalom Consulting. With over 15 years consulting experience ranging from governments all over the globe to business local to Oregon, Scott has led some of the largest and most visible SharePoint deployments. Scott has written all levels of courseware for both training companies, and clients. Leveraging the OOB of SharePoint to achieve amazing capabilities is his specialty, and being able to come up with innovative and cutting edge portals is his trademark. He carries many certifications including Certified Forensic Professional, and is considered one of the few SharePoint Forensic Experts.

I serve as a primary technical resource for Axceler's worldwide sales force, ensuring the success of 40-plus prospects every week. I am a SharePoint expert and work with other IT professionals to improve their SharePoint environment. Prior to Axceler, I was a SharePoint consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), specializing in custom SharePoint development.

I work as a Product Marketing Manager on the Office and SharePoint products at Microsoft. I am passionate about developers and my current role centers around making the Office and SharePoint platforms powerful and flexible for developers.