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.

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 ‘Creating and Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 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

Mr. Johnson is a senior Architect and Project Manager with Marquam Group. He specializes in SharePoint Project Management, Enterprise Portals and Document Management. Mr. Johnson has managed numerous large scale implementations of SharePoint and has over 15 years of experience in technology services.

David has more than ten years experience envisioning, designing, and delivering solutions that provide measurable value. He began his professional career in the creative industry creating logos, websites, and print materials for a wide range of clients. A natural migration to web solutions using standards based XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and ColdFusion improved his technical abilities. He has been working with Microsoft technologies such as Office, .NET, SharePoint Server, and Project Server exclusively for the last 4 years. David is focused on maximizing business productivity using a blend of process improvement, technology, and change management. David is a certified MOSS Administrator and currently works as Principal Technical Consultant for Robbins-Gioia where he consistently delivers client outcomes with enabling technology

In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field. Eric has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years. Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architectural role with a focus on configuration and server implementation Never forgetting his developer roots, he still jumps in when needed to pick up the slack on custom dev needs. As PFE for Microsoft Eric is on the ground to plan and initiate and troubleshoot SharePoint engagements and guide them to fruition.

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.

Ian is a SharePoint Developer who is passionate about creating innovative solutions for today's challenges. As the founder of Renaissance Information Services, a consulting and training company, Ian has provided consulting to Fortune 500 companies, multi-nationals, non-profits and developed training for governmental organizations, small businesses and individuals.

Keith Rimington has five years of experience customizing SharePoint 2010 and 2007 for corporate intranets in the aerospace, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries.

Kevin McMillen is the Founder and President of two successful Microsoft Solution Providers: RyanTech and SPSUTAH Gold Sponsor, Microsoft Cloud Services. He is also the Founder of the IAMCP Utah Chapter and works very closely with the Microsoft Partner Network as an evangelist and blogger as well as special programs implementer.

Noah Sparks is an online community igniter focused on stewarding technology to craft high trust creation spaces. Approaching technology from a social perspective, Noah cultivates meaningful conversations and relationships, rich in tacit knowledge. He is currently the collaboration product manager for the LDS Church and has a bad habit of trying to level up on Nike+! @noahsparks

Owen has spent nearly two decades focused on content management software and solutions as a developer, product manager, sales engineer and consultant is currently Pingar’s vice president of solutions. He spent eight years at Microsoft working with SharePoint as a technology specialist and a SharePoint senior product manager. In 2010, Owen founded SharePoint Directions LLC, a consulting organization for SharePoint-oriented software companies. Owen is a founding board member of the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group. Owen’s conference speaker experience includes Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, SharePoint TechCon, SharePoint Connections, the Harvey Spencer Document Capture Conference, AIIM Expo/Info360, and several SharePoint Saturday conferences.

Ron is a SharePoint Solution Architect for the LDS Church, and has been working with the SharePoint platform for 5 years. He specializes in Workflow and Collaboration Projects using SharePoint, but prior experience includes 16 years of working with Lotus Notes. His background includes aerospace, manufacturing, finance, mortgage, point of sale, health care, and hsa markets.

President and founder of Intermountain Technology Group. Has been involved in many successful enterprise SharePoint applications. Specialized in Intranet solutions and Document Management Solutions.

Ryan Schouten has been working with SharePoint since January of 2007. He has had experience with all versions of SharePoint from 2003 to 2013. Ryan is a Microsoft Certified Professional SharePoint Developer and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for SharePoint Development. He loves working with SharePoint and spending time with his kids, not necessarily in that order.

Steve began his career in SharePoint as a consultant and developer at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), creating highly customized environments. For the past 3 years, he has been a member of Axceler’s engineering and pre-sales team. He currently serves as the primary technical resource for Axceler’s worldwide sales force, ensuring the success of many enterprises every week. Follow him @IAmGoldberg to see his musings about the world of SharePoint.

Mr. Carroll has run High Monkey Consulting over the past decade and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Mr. Carroll has 10+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is currently pursuing his 2nd Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interactions. Mr. Carroll is currently an MCT and MCTS in SharePoint and speaks all around the world on collaborative topics. Bringing a wealth of knowledge and a level of enthusiasm that would infect any audience, Mr. Carroll will use his sense of humor and storytelling ability to engage audiences while providing them with practical advice on collaborative best practices. Mr. Carroll has been speaking locally and nationally for over 15 years. In the recent past Virgil was a presenter at the SharePoint 2008 conference as well as SharePoint Best Practices conferences in Washington DC, San Diego, California and London, England as he continues to spread the important message of keeping business first.