Top-Notch, Industry-Expert Speakers…
The conference will feature top industry professionals, providing information that you really need to know on
getting up to speed with SharePoint, best practices and a whole lot more.
We are currently finalizing our speaker list - check back for updates very soon!
Meet the speakers…
Let us introduce you to some of the professionals we have lined up for April's conference:
Adam Levithan - Adam Levithan, MBA, has been working almost exclusively with MOSS since early 2007. Adam's focus has been on architecture, user adoption, and training. Using MOSS Adam has built several enterprise class web applications for the federal government. Throughout his 10 years of experience Adam has excelled in gathering requirements, uncovering clients' needs, troubleshooting technical and tactical issues, and coaching peers, clients and employees to success. Adam lives in the Washington D.C. suburbs of Maryland and works as a senior consultant and instructor for LCG Systems, Inc.

Christopher Regan - Christopher Regan, MCT, MCP, MCTS, currently serves as a managing partner of B&R Business Solutions. Chris leads all SharePoint engagements and also provides SharePoint administration, design, deployment & training services. He is a speaker at user groups and technical conferences, a blogger (http://cregan.wordpress.com), and a co-author on O'Reilly's SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide. Chris also serves as the Business Director and a Board Member for the International SharePoint Professionals Association (http://www.sharepointpros.org) , which helps to unite SharePoint professionals around the world and also assist local community-driven SharePoint groups.

Daniel Galant - Daniel Galant (MVP; MCT; MCSA: Messaging and Security; MCSE: Security; MCTS: Vista) is a recognized expert and trainer in Windows networking, Exchange, and SharePoint. As a Mindsharp instructor, Daniel enjoys chatting with students about technology and how it can be adopted in various business scenarios.Microsoft has acknowledged Daniel's professional contributions by twice awarding him the prestigious title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Networking.Daniel was one of the primary instructors on several Microsoft National Partner Education tours including Windows Server 2003, Office 2003 Deployment, and Exchange 2003 with Windows Mobile 5. In addition, Daniel has presented several webcasts for Microsoft on the various aspects of Exchange and Mobility functionality. As owner and founder of NetDesignIT Solutions, based in Saint Charles, Missouri, Daniel focuses on Microsoft technologies. For the past 10 years he has provided training as a Microsoft Certified Trainer with a focus on Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange, and now SharePoint.Daniel was first bitten by the computer bug when he bought an Atari 400 just before the dawn of time. Since those days he has managed to turn that hobby into a full-time activity. Daniel never tires of delving into the wonder and magic that makes computing so fascinating. When not in the classroom, Daniel enjoys computer gaming, watching the Sci-Fi Channel, and regular trips to Disneyworld where sometimes he even turns off his cell phone.

Lynn Langit - Lynn Langit works for Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist for the MSDN team, based in Southern California. She talks with developers live and via webcasts about the latest and greatest .NET technologies and products. Prior to joining Microsoft, she ran her own .NET company, designing and implementing projects in the SOA, ASP.NET, BizTalk, SharePoint, SQL (OLTP and OLAP) and Active Directory domains. Lynn has published 'Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence' (APress) in April 2007 and 'Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008' (MSPress) in Feb 2009. She is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer and holds the following certifications: MCP, MCT, MCSE. MCDBA. MCSD, MCITP (SQL Administration, SQL Development, SQL Business Intelligence), and MSF. Lynn's blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal. She also hosts a weekly show on MSDN Channel 9 at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/geekSpeak.

Paul Stork - Paul is a SharePoint Server MVP who has specialized in Microsoft products since the mid-1990s. As a "Jack of all Trades" he has developed expertise as a network administrator, developer, and DBA. For the last several years his primary area of expertise has been Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Paul works as a consultant/trainer for
Mindsharp where his breadth of knowledge makes him ideally suited to teach custom courses that combine modules from their Administrative, Development, and SharePoint Designer courses. His 20+ years of experience and broad background make Paul a much sought after resource for SharePoint questions that involve both administration and development issues. Paul is a contributing author to several books including
Developer's Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform and the recently-released
SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment Best Practices.

Rebecca Isserman - 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 an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePad. She enjoys working with SharePoint 2007, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at five code camps, two conferences, and three user groups in 2008. She currently lives in Olathe, Kansas working remotely for B&R Solutions. She lives with her two cats, Gambit and Rogue, plus her boyfriend, Johnny. 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.

Ricky Spears - Ricky is an instructor, author and consultant for SharePoint Solutions. He authored the popular SharePoint 2007 MOSS Core Features, SharePoint 2007 MOSS Advanced Features, and Mission: Automation - SharePoint Workflow and InfoPath classes. He has taught SharePoint to hundreds of students at some of the largest organizations in the world, including: AMD, BMW, Boeing, BP, Citigroup, Dell, FBI, Microsoft, U.S Army, U.S. Air Force, and hundreds of others.

Shannon Bray - Shannon Bray is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer and Microsoft Certified Trainer with nearly fourteen years experience in the field of Information Technologies. Mr. Bray currently serves as both a consultant and trainer with a specialization in ASP.NET, C#, and SharePoint 2007. He is the sponsorship coordinator for the Rocky Mountain SharePoint User Group and the President of the Colorado Springs SharePoint User Group. Shannon has been selected as an MCT Ambassador/Technical Learning Guide at Microsoft's Tech Ed for the past four years and has presented at Microsoft's TechReady 6 - 8 and TechED. He also holds MCTS certifications for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Shannon has a community site dedicated to WSS at www.wssclassroom.com and you can read his blog at www.shannonbray.com.

Shannon Callaway - Shannon Callaway is Manager of Messaging Services at MaximumASP a Microsoft Gold Certified Provider of web hosting and managed IT services. Callaway joined MaximumASP in 2000 and currently has more than ten years experience as a Microsoft Systems Certified Engineer. Callaway has worked closely with SharePoint and Exchange technologies over the last six years to develop her expertise. In 2007 she successfully lead a mail server migration of 23 shared mail servers hosting over 30,000 domains with no service interruptions. Additional responsibilities include training and oversight of IT staff at MaximumASP in a variety of areas including Sharepoint, Exchange, Mail Services, IIS and others. Callaway also provides training and mentoring for local tech focused high schools and colleges.

CA Callahan - CA Callahan is the founder and principal trainer for CallahanTech, a company that specializes in custom training, technical writing, and courseware. She has over a decade's experience explaining the ins and outs of Microsoft products, with a focus on servers and security. She wrote the book Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, is a passionate advocate for the product, and has been traveling around helping companies plan for and implement SharePoint Services. In addition to training and technical writing, she's a frequent presenter at conferences and expos; including Windows/Office Connections, LinuxWorld/NetworkWorld Expo, and IT360, with a brief stint instructing hands-on labs at Microsoft TechEd. Callahan is a contributing author of Windows Vista: The Missing Manual with David Pogue as well as Mastering Windows Server 2003 and its revision Mastering Windows Server 2003 upgrade edition for SP1 and R2 with Mark Minasi.

Jeremy Lowell - Jeremy has been engaged in SQL Server development, administration and database architecture for over 10 years. In that time, he has worked with many successful corporations including MCI, Wells Fargo, Lucent, Oxford International, IP Commerce, Regis University and others. Jeremy has served as a participating member on a joint FSTC and OMG project (I2PADS), which focus on industry collaboration, initiatives and standards in the Financial Services space. Having recently started his own database consulting practice, Jeremy's philosophy is to enable clients to focus on what they do best by allowing us to do what we do best. Feel free to contact him for consulting at Jeremy@DataRealized.com

Chris Shaw, Conference Chair - Chris is a SQL Server MVP and started working with SQL Server in 1995 and continues with it to this day. His career has taken him from a Yellow Pages publishing company to Wells Fargo and mortgage companies like Pulte Mortgage. Chris has enjoyed speaking and writing about SQL Server for the last 10 years. The combination of speaking and writing was his guide in becoming the Site Manager for SSWUG.ORG. Chris has been active in the SQL Server Community for a number of years including being the founder of the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group and speaking as the SSWUG content chair, not only at SSWUG Conferences but at Dev Connections as well. Chris's writings can be found on SSWUG.org, his blog (chrisshaw.wordpress.com) and in the SQL Server 2005 Bible.
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