Aaron Saikovski is a Senior SharePoint consultant with Microsoft Services Australia. He specialises in SharePoint architecture, development, deployment, administration and training. He is a certified Microsoft Technology specialist, consultant and trainer with over 17 years commercial IT experience. 
He has consulted for various sized Microsoft Enterprise clients in varying sectors such as defence, federal and state government, financial services, logistics and insurance both in Australia and internationally.

He is a local MCS field readiness champion for the SharePoint 2010 wave of technologies and is responsible for internal course and training material reviews and for training field consultants on the new wave of technologies. He is constantly connected to the SharePoint product teams based in Redmond to provide feedback and to assist in developer readiness around the new technologies.

Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and Business Intelligence solutions. At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Quicken, and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Adam is one of only three Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia . In this role, he regularly presents in conferences such as TechEd (USA, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia). A couple of times a year, he visits Microsoft headquarters in Seattle to learn the latest on Microsoft strategic directions and to undertake training in development technologies.

After years of working with SharePoint as a consulting developer, Alistair looked at the other side of the Office System and joined Microsoft as a Technology Specialist for Office. Alistair works with organisations improve their productivity and collaboration capabilities.

Brian Farnhill is an experienced SharePoint developer, with several years of experience developing and implementing a range of SharePoint based solutions for several clients. He is an active member of the SharePoint community who blogs, assists in the MSDN forums and helps run the Canberra SharePoint User Group, where he is also a regular speaker. He currently holds MCAD and MCTS (WSS3 Development) certifications. Before becoming involved with SharePoint Brian was an ASP.NET developer who spent several years developing custom applications.

Elaine has been working extensively with SharePoint since the 2001 version, including participation in RDP’s and other projects alongside Microsoft. She has been involved in all areas of projects including gathering requirements, assisting with governance, defining infrastructure and application architecture, solution development and training. Currently employed at OBS as an Architect focusing on delivering SharePoint solutions that meet customer requirements in a manner consistent with Microsoft best practices.

Aaron has been with OBS as a consultant for a year and a half.  He primarily works on SharePoint and asp.net custom applications and has worked on a number of OBS’s largest engagements in recent times.

Greg Low - is an internationally recognized consultant, developer and trainer. He has been working in development since 1978 and holds a Ph.D. in computer science. Greg is the country lead for Solid Quality Mentors, a SQL Server MVP and one of only three Microsoft Regional Directors for Australia. Greg also hosts the popular SQL Down Under podcast (www.sqldownunder.com) and is the board member of PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server) responsible for the global chapter program. He speaks regularly at SQL Server events around the world and is one of a handful of people to have achieved the new Masters level certification on SQL Server 2008.

Hennie leads the K2 team in Australia. Before relocating from Seattle, WA to Australia in Jan 2009, he was the chief operating officer for SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. ("K2") He joined K2 in 2002 from Accenture and led the establishment of K2's business in Asia Pacific and North America. Hennie holds a bachelor of engineering degree in electronic engineering. Hennie has held senior leadership positions in numerous Microsoft eco-system organizations and has lived and worked on four continents in the last decade. He is currently based in Sydney, NSW. He enjoys traveling the world and has a keen interest in people, technology, butterflies, orchids and scuba diving.

A SharePoint expert since 2001, Ishai has worked for several consulting companies, and developed many SharePoint solutions and is now working for UniqueWorld Australia as a Solution Architect. He was awarded the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP award from Microsoft for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. Ishai is the author of the popular SharePoint development blog www.sharepoint-tips.com and has published an end user book called “SharePoint 2007 How To” which is available for purchase in www.tinyurl.com/SharePointBook

With over 15 years of direct IT experience James has spent the last five years working exclusively with enterprise level SharePoint Solutions. Prior to this James spent a number of years working for a leading integration company based in Silicon Valley. While working directly with large customers such as Intel and Siebel, James gained an in-depth knowledge of Middleware, Workflow and Business Intelligence. Today, James consults on large scale Portal deployments and is an active member of the local SharePoint community.

Kathy Hughes, SharePoint MVP, is an independent SharePoint Consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Her main area of interest is in architecting and customizing SharePoint, and .NET deployments, specifically from a usability and design perspective.

Kristian has been working with enterprise solutions involving the SharePoint platform since its first release. In recent years, he has been assisting large organisations with bridging the gap between the SAP and Microsoft technology stacks and bringing enterprise data and functionality closer to users in an environment they are comfortable in.

Mark is a Technology Specialist for Emantra in Brisbane. Mark has over 10 years experience working in the IT sector, and has specialized in hosted technologies for the last 5, concentrating on Microsoft Web based technologies. Mark has designed and implemented large scale SharePoint and CRM farms for many of Australia’s Hosting Firms and is responsible for a large number of farms at Emantra.

Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major best-selling industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes, Windows Server 2008 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

Neil Haddley is an entertaining speaker who used to tell people how cool SharePoint is for a living (working for Microsoft as a Technical Sales Professional). Now Neil tells people how cool SharePoint is for free. For the last four years Neil has been researching how best to use SharePoint to handle paper documents and paper forms. The paper-laden office is here to stay and Neil will show you how to manage it smartly with SharePoint.

Rai Umair is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint and is a Principal Consultant within the SharePoint\OBA practice at Stargate Global Consulting. Rai lives, drinks and evangelizes SharePoint by day and is a Masters student majoring in Enterprise Architecture by night. Rai has been working with Microsoft technologies with a keen eye on business impact for a number of years in consulting, training and energy industries. He has presented at Microsoft Architect Tour, PROCOM, VS Live, CodeCampOz, MSUG and presently serves on the MOSSIG Board (SharePoint User Group) in Melbourne. He holds a Honors in Software Development & Computer Science from Deakin University as well as Microsoft certifications such as Microsoft Certified Trainer, BVPS, MCPD, MCSD.NET, and various MCTS certifications (8).

Tim Kremer is the Director of Spyk Software and has lead the development of some of Australia’s largest SharePoint sites, including the intranet for the highest rating TV Station and the public site for Australia’s largest engineering firm.