Adam is a MCPD SharePoint Developer & MSTC SharePoint Configuration and is currently a SharePoint consultant and developer, working for Mando Group. He has worked with SharePoint since 2008, providing highly bespoke and customised sites for both intranet and internet sites. Before becoming a developer his background was originally in servers and networking infrastructure, which allows him to cross the boundaries between the Developer and IT Pro worlds of SharePoint. He blogs online www.thesharepointbaker.co.uk and you can find him on twitter sharepointbaker.

Alan Richards has been working in the education sector for over 17 years and during that time has been at the forefront of using IT. He has led teams that have been among the first to roll out Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010, many of these successes have been showcased in Microsoft case studies. Alan is also a regular blogger and speaker at various events.

Alex O’Donnell has worked with SharePoint at Microsoft for over four years starting in the Support business before moving to the Office 365 Operations Team and now to Consulting Services. Focusing on performance, scalability and high avail-ability to deliver enterprise content management, social collaboration, search and business intelligence applications to some of the largest SharePoint customers in the world. Active speaker at internal Microsoft events worldwide.

Founder of 21apps, a small consultancy focused on helping our clients deliver measurable business value from their SharePoint deployments.  I have been working with SharePoint since 2001 and worked through all of the pain and joy of every version up to the product it is today, becoming a SharePoint MVP in 2007.  Regard myself as a Tummeler, Inspiring people to change the way they work through Gamestorming, Visualisation and Agile techniques.

Ant Clay is an Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor and Trained Facilitator and one of a new breed of SharePoint 'business technology consultants'. Working with clients to innovate and align technology investments to organisational outcomes whilst changing the way they work through facilitation, visualisation, Gamestorming and storytelling.

Aonghus Fraser (@gusfraser) is the SharePoint Lead Consultant for C5 Alliance, a Gold Partner in the Channel Islands with over 70 experienced IT consultants where he leads the SharePoint Team delivering solutions to financial institutions, legal firms and governments based offshore. Gus has been developing solutions with Microsoft technologies for over 15 years and has been working with SharePoint since WSS 2.0. He has been responsible for the SharePoint solution architecture for a wide variety of enterprise clients in that period. Gus runs the Channel Islands SharePoint User Group and speaks regularly at a variety of events including International SharePoint Conferences and SharePoint Saturdays. In the little spare time he has he also lectures to undergraduate Software Engineering & Computing students and blogs about SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies at http://techblurt.com

Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in SharePoint Server 2010 (MCPD), a SharePoint Server MVP in 2012, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).  She has been a web designer/developer since she was 15 years old notepad coding HTML 3.0 websites. She enjoys working with SharePoint, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at several conferences, code camps, user groups, and SharePoint Saturdays in the past four years. She currently works for Planet Technologies and lives with her cat, Gambit in New York City.  If you would like to contact her you can e-mail her at rebecca.isserman@gmail.com or fill out the contact form at her blog http://www.mosslover.com.

Bill Ayers is a consultant developer and software architect who has been working on SharePoint since the 2003 version of the product, and is a Microsoft Certified Master, SharePoint Server 2010. He specializes in web content management and Intranet portals. His twitter handle is @SPDoctor and his blog can be found at www.spdoctor.net. He is also a moderator on SharePoint.StackExchange.com.

Brian Cartmel (@BrianCartmel) is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010 and has over 15 years’ experience in the consultancy world with the last 9 or so being SharePoint focused. Having working through all versions of SharePoint (since Tahoe!) and many early implementations of the product, Brian still enjoys using the product to build new solutions and meet challenging business requirements.

Chirag Patel (MSc, MCTS, MCITP, MCSD) is a Chartered IT Professional and Senior Consultant at PointBeyond (London, UK) specialising in SharePoint Business Applications. With over 10 year experience in solution design, implementation & administration as Development DBA and SharePoint Administrator, he has enjoyed working with many versions of Microsoft SharePoint, SQL Server database technologies together with Office365 and Windows Azure cloud platforms. Chirag is active in the technical community attending and speaking at various events including SharePoint Saturdays (UK, EMEA & India) and online contributions recognised with the Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Award. Regular participation in charity events includes London to Brighton Bike Ride and London Duathlon.
You can follow Chirag on his blog http://techChirag.com and @techChirag on Twitter.

I have over 12 years experience working with complex projects on Microsoft technologies. I am MCSD.Net and SharePoint certified, and have worked on several large-scale web initiatives including e-commerce, intranet, back-end integration and workflow projects. I specialise in SharePoint, and have a background with other Microsoft web technologies such as Content Management Server and Commerce Server. I am active in the SharePoint technical community, and have spoken at several Microsoft and industry events. I am also recognised by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SharePoint.

Christian Buckley is a SharePoint MVP, an internationally recognized author and speaker, and Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, where he drives product awareness and both partner and community development. He previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of Office365), and led an engineering team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with some of the world’s largest hi-tech and manufacturing companies to build and deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects (MSPress),  three books on software configuration management and defect tracking, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet

Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy and ISV headquartered in Irving, Texas, and Director of BinaryWave Limited, based in Bristol, England. Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is an advisory committee member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and Regional Evangelist for the International SharePoint Professionals Association (South Central United States). Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world

Ian’s (@ianwoodgate) background is in financial services and IT. He is managing director of PointBeyond Limited (www.pointbeyond.com), the UK’s leading SharePoint business application specialists. Ian has been actively involved in many SharePoint projects across a diverse range of industries and he particularly enjoys interfacing between business and technology, assisting with IT strategy, and leveraging technology appropriately to deliver effective solutions. Ian regularly speaks at SharePoint events, organises meetings of the SharePoint UK User group in Southampton, and has a blog at blog.pointbeyond.com.

I am an experienced SharePoint Consultant and Microsoft Certified Professional with a Mechanical Engineering degree and a strong background in data analysis. I have been working in the SharePoint arena for 5 years and enjoy the client facing and technical elements that a consultancy role provides. Throughout my career I have worked with an extremely diverse client portfolio from Formula 1 Racing teams to secondary schools and everything in between. I inspire clients by engaging them using language they understand and analogies. I deliver SharePoint with personality which end users can engage with. You can find me on Twitter (@jobybyrne) or http://www.youtube.com/jobybyrne

Mark has worked with SharePoint Technologies since 2003 and touched all aspects of the platform including development, infrastructure and the entire business intelligence stack. Working with real world SharePoint projects for almost ten years across public and private sectors, Mark brings a wealth of experience of what works best. Mark now specialises in the Microsoft Business Intelligence 'stack', and works with organisations to get the best insight from their business data. He is also heavily involved in the SharePoint community, hosting and speaking for the SharePoint User Group UK, and co-organising the SharePoint Saturday events in the UK. Mark is a director at Intelligent Decisioning Ltd (ID Live), a SharePoint/CRM and BI solutions provider based in Nottingham, UK. Aside from IT, Mark is also a qualified soccer coach, avid West Ham Utd fan and a keen practitioner of self defence systems Krav Maga and FAST Defence

Independent Solution Architect been designing and delivering enterprise solutions for over 8 years, including SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010

Nigel has been involved in SharePoint since SharePoint 2003, before that he was involved in Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 and 2002.  He has extensive experience in designing architectures for website and document management solutions.  Nigel is experienced in providing SharePoint services through interfacing with business and technical leads to ensure the strategic alignment of Solution Architecture with the business leads.

Patrick Sledz is working with SharePoint since 2005. He started as an infrastructure consultant, but realized that SharePoint success is not only related to technical aspects. His work as a consultant consists of assisting organizations to deliver SharePoint business value and create the awareness in these organizations that a strong technical team is not sufficient to deliver this added value. Patrick’s areas of focus are : governance, user adoption, organizing a support model and training Patrick is active in the BIWUG (Belgian and Luxemburg Information Worker User group) and blogs at http://www.officeandbusiness.be. You can follow him on Twitter at @patman2520.

I work for Trinity Expert Systems as a SharePoint Solutions Architect, and have worn many hats during my time working with SharePoint. I started as an IT Pro and decided to learn workflow development to solve some serious issues we had with Line of Business systems. This snowballed with the release of SharePoint 2007 and I decided to become a full time SharePoint consultant in 2008.

Since learning so much from the community in my early SharePoint years, I decided to pay my debt to society by speaking at user group events and co-organising the London User Group.

Penelope Coventry is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and an independent consultant based in the U.K., with more than 25 years of industry experience. She focuses on the design, implementation, and development of SharePoint Technology–based solutions. She has worked with SharePoint since 2001 and, in recent years, has lead a team for the ATLAS Consortium on the Defence Information Infrastructure project, provided consultancy services to U.K. Microsoft Gold partners, and trained consultants, administrators, and end-users on Microsoft and Hewlett Packard projects. She has produced SharePoint related courseware for Mindsharp since 2002 and teamed up with Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge to produce several SharePoint related whitepapers. Penny has co-authored a number of books, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, the two editions of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step and the Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step book. Penny has spoken at a number of conferences, at the UK’s SharePoint User Group meetings and is frequently seen at TechEd and IT Forum, either as a Technical Learning guide or at the Ask-the-Experts stands.

Piyush is the Technical Architect at Cloud2 working on SharePoint and web solutions for quite a few years. In his current role he works very hard at finding effective strategies to solutions for customers implementing SharePoint

Randy Perkins has been working with SharePoint and other CMS/DMS solutions since 2001. Randy is a BCS Chartered IT Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and Microsoft Certified IT Professional. He founded the Channel Islands SharePoint User Group and is co-leader of the East Anglia branch of the SharePoint User Group UK

A Solutions Architect with over 20 years’ experience working with mid-tier and Enterprise organisations, Seb is currently providing consultancy services to businesses that are looking to utilise SharePoint in big-data scenarios, architecting information repositories, portals and business process management platforms.  A frequent speaker at events and active member of the SharePoint community, when he is not SharePoint’ing, Seb enjoys the outdoors, fine wine and spending time with his wife and new-born son.

Simon Hudson is an entrepreneur and health sector specialist. He formed Cloud2 in 2008 following a rich career in the international medical device industry and the IT industry. Simon’s background encompasses quality assurance, medical device development, international training, business intelligence and international marketing and health related information and technology. Simon has had articles and editorials published in a variety of knowledge management, clinical benchmarking and health journals and has been a presenter at clinical, KM and media conferences. He holds two patents relating to medical devices.

Simon founded Foundation SP's sister company, Foundation IT, in 1996. He has over 20 years' experience delivering enterprise IT solutions. As an ex-IT manager, Simon understands the challenges that customers face and is able to quickly create solution options. As a passionate IT industry player, Simon is in touch with the latest developments and is able to covert this understanding into practical solutions. Simon is currently engaged in providing strategic SharePoint consultancy to a global defence industry company with in excess of 100,000 users for what is one of the world’s largest projects of its type

I specialise in supporting organisations develop and implement successful business strategies based on Microsoft productivity and cloud technologies. In the past 6 years I have worked with some of the UK’s and the world’s leading organisations to deliver measurable business benefits from intranet, collaboration and social business investments based on SharePoint products and technologies. I am an international speaker at Microsoft and SharePoint events, a co-author of the SharePoint 2010 Handbook, author of the Art of SharePoint Success, and a regular columnist for CMSWire. I am a co-leader of the London branch of the SharePoint User Group UK

 

Zubair has been a Programme Manager at BAE Systems since 2001 and is integral to Enterprise IT services team overseeing project Olympia’s Shared Services initiative. He holds a BEng degree in Electrical Engineering with Management Science from Lancaster University