Note: This is the list of speakers from 2010. Check back for the 2012 updated schedule and list.
This year’s speakers continue the tradition of veteran lecturer’s doing what they do best (and often sharing ‘up-coming’ presentations) as well as a selection of forum contributors presenting as well. There’s even potential for YOU to be a presenter. If interested contact Nathan Winters (contact information below).
Mark Minasi
Mark Minasi is a best-selling author, popular technology columnist, commentator, keynote speaker, and all-around alpha geek. What separates him from many of the other alpha geeks, however, is that he knows how to explain things to normal humans and often make them laugh while doing it. That’s reflected in his recent Reader’s Choice award for “Favorite Technical Author” at CertCities. More testimony to his popularity with tech world came at a recent SearchWin2000 webcast on tuning computers. At that webcast, Mark drew three times as many attendees as any previous webcast, crashing Yahoo!’s servers.
He is probably best known for his books in the Mastering series (Mastering Windows Server 2003, Mastering Windows NT Server, Mastering Windows 2000 Server, Mastering XP Professional, etc) and his perennial hardware PC repair and fix-it book The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide, now in its 13th edition. His monthly columns in Windows and .NET Magazine are among the best-read in the periodical. Mark has also authored 19 other technology books, spoken on technical topics in 20 countries, and written and performed in a dozen technical education videos.
Steve Riley
Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet’s dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com.
Todd Lammle
Todd Lammle, CCSI, CCNA/CCNA Wireless/CCNP/CCSP/CCVP, MCSE, CEH/CHFI, FCC RF Licensed, is the authority on Cisco certification and internetworking. He is a world renowned author, speaker, trainer and consultant. Todd has over 29 years of experience working with LAN’s, WAN’s and large licensed and unlicensed Wireless networks, and has published over 50 books, including the very popular Sybex Cisco CCNA Study Guide & Sybex CCNA Wireless Study guide. He runs an international training and consulting company based in Colorado and Texas. You can reach Todd through his forum and blog at www.lammle.com.
Roger Grimes
Roger A. Grimes, author or co-author of 8 books and over 300 magazine articles on computer security has over 23 years of experience in fighting malware and hackers. He currently works for Microsoft as a Principal Security Consultant, and is the InfoWorld magazine security columnist, constantly pissing off readers around the world. He misses hacking for Foundstone. Roger’s mother really, really enjoys his presentations and thinks you…everyone…will, too.
Laura E. Hunter
Laura E. Hunter is an independent Identity Management consultant, author of the Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd & 3rd Editions, from O’Reilly Publishing, and is the Principal for LHA Consulting Incorporated (http://www.lhaconsulting.com) She is an avid Active Directory, ADFS and Forefront Identity Management technology zealot, and likes to talk about herself in the third person when writing speaker bios. She blogs at http://www.shutuplaura.com, and Twitters (tweets? She’s not cool enough to know the verb form of Twitter) at @adfskitteh.
Michael B. Smith
Managing Partner, The Essential Exchange
Michael B. Smith is an Exchange MVP who owns and operates a consulting firm that specializes in Exchange Server and Active Directory. Michael has had over 25 years of experience in the IT field and focuses on providing solutions that support customers goals for operational excellence. Michael is also a well-known writer for such publications as WindowsITPro, Exchange Messaging & Outlook, and others. Michael recently completed his second book, Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with Operations Manager from Wiley and was technical editor for two recently published O’Reilly Media books: Active Directory, Fourth Edition and Active Directory Cookbook, Third Edition. Michael is active in a number of online Exchange communities and you can read his blog at http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael.
Eric B. Rux
Eric B. Rux is cofounder of http://www.whshelp.com/. His monthly column Coming Home to Windows Home Server can be read at www.connectedhomemag.com. Eric is a senior Windows administrator for a large bill-management company and teaches the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) program at a local tech college.
Nathan Winters
Nathan Winters is a Lead Consultant for Dimension Data. He is responsible for the Microsoft Office Communications Server practice in the UK. Nathan has been working in I.T. for six years and specializes in Exchange and Office Communications Server.
Midway through 2006 Nathan founded the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group UK which holds regular meetings in the UK to discuss topics related to Exchange. In April 2007 Nathan was awarded an MVP (Exchange Server) for his work with MMMUG and regular contributions to the Mark Minasi Forum. Nathan is a regular contributor to the MSExchange.org website and Nathan’s other articles have been published by Penton Media (Exchange and Outlook Administrator newsletter), Microsoft (TechNet Industry Insiders) and on the MMMUG website.
You can contact Nathan at Nathan@clarinathan.co.uk or through his blog at http://www.mmmug.co.uk/blogs/nweb
Aidan Finn
Aidan Finn, MVP, has been working in IT since 1996. He has worked as a consultant and administrator for the likes of Amdahl DMR, Fujitsu, Barclays and Hypo Real Estate Bank International where he dealt with large and complex IT infrastructures. More recently Aidan has been working in the server hosting and outsourcing industry in Ireland where he has focused on server management, including a large VMware VI3 deployment. Currently he is working for C Infinity, an outsourcing services company in Ireland, where he is the Systems and Infrastructure Manager. Here he has been working with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center as part of an advanced server deployment and management infrastructure.
Aidan is the leader of the Windows User Group in Ireland. Aidan was also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on System Center Configuration Manager in 2008 and was switched to be an MVP on Virtual Machine:Systems Administration in 2009. He is a member of the MS Springboard STEP program and is one of the MS System Center Influencers. Aidan has worked closely with Microsoft, including online interviews, launch events and has worked as a Technical Reviewer for a new Microsoft training course on virtualisation.
When Aidan isn’t at work he’s out and about with camera in hand trying to be a photographer. Aidan is one of the contributing authors of Mastering Windows Server 2008 R2 (Sybex).
Aidan’s blog can be found here – http://www.aidanfinn.com
Joe McGlynn
Joe is a Microsoft Certified Engineer working for Bryan S Ryan, The Complete Office Solutions Provider. As a Senior Engineer, he supports Windows Server 2000/2003 & 2008 and SBS 2000/2003 for SME’s in the greater Dublin area. There is also a long but optimistic list of SBS2008 customers.
Most times Joe will profess to knowing more about Whiskey that Servers, lives with 3 DNS gremlins and is looking for his ideal job as a DHCP Administrator for some lucky company.
Claus Nielsen
Claus has worked in IT since 1996. While completing his studies he began working as a consultant and ultimately took a position as Systems Administrator with the Copenhagen Airport.
Claus is currently working for a large pension fund in Denmark, where his duties include responsibilty for Active Directory, Exchange, Vmware and task automation.
He is also active on several technology forums, where he primarily focuses on Scripting and Powershell.
Ultan Kinahan
Ultan Kinahan is a Director of Technology for Brown & Brown in Atlanta, GA. Ultan has been working in IT Since the early 90′s throughout various roles until reaching his current position where he is the Director of Technology for a large multi national Insurance Company.
Primary areas of expertise are Messaging, Virtualization & Disaster Recovery, although these days he seems to spend more time doing paperwork than anything else!
Currently holds: MCITP EA & EMA, MCTS, MCSE, CCDA
Stacy Hein
Stacy Hein is a consultant and database administrator. He has worked for top leaders in the insurance, finance, and aerospace industries over the past 9 years. He is currently with FDI Consulting out of Omaha, Nebraska. Stacy is a senior consultant and provides training on SQL Server.
Scott Calvet
Scott Calvet is a Network Engineer for Brown & Brown in Atlanta, GA. Scott has been working in IT since the late 90’s for various types of businesses ranging from publishing, to insurance. Primary areas of expertise are Server and Desktop Virtualzation, Backups, DR, and Storage.
Michael Ferguson
Michael Ferguson is a senior consultant and Director of Technical Services for Frontier Futures, Inc, a top 100 Commodities firm. Michael has twenty years experience in IT specializing in desktop and server management, Web development, enterprise strategy, and security.
