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Orin Thomas

Orin Thomas is an MVP, an MCT and has a string of Microsoft MCSE and MCITP certifications. He has written more than 30 books for Microsoft Press IT Pro topics. He is an author at PluralSight and is a contributing editor at Windows IT Pro magazine. He has been working in IT since the early 1990's and regularly speaks at conferences in Australia and around the world.

Michael Otey

Michael Otey, senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro, is president of TECA, a software-development and consulting company in Portland, Oregon. Michael has covered the topic of virtualization extensively for Windows IT Pro, having written several features articles showing how to take advantage of virtualization in the enterprise as well as reviewing all of the major virtualization products. He also previously served as technical director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro. Email him at mikeo@teca.com Follow Michael on Google+ and Twitter.

Bill Kleyman

Bill Kleyman brings more than 15 years of experience to his role as Executive Vice President of Digital Solutions at Switch. Using the latest innovations, such as AI, machine learning, data center design, DevOps, cloud and advanced technologies, Mr. Kleyman delivers solutions to customers that help them achieve their business goals and remain competitive in their market. An active member in the technology industry, he was ranked #16 globally in the Onalytica study that reviewed the top 100 most influential individuals in the cloud landscape; and #4 in another Onalytica study that reviewed the industry's top Data Security Experts.

Anthony Johnson

Anthony Johnson, Managing Partner at Delve Risk

Thomas Martin

Thomas Martin, Former GE CIO and Founder of NephoSec

Andy Fernandez

Andy Fernandez, Product Marketing Manager, Zerto

Andy Fernandez is a Global Product Marketing Manager at Zerto. With a focus on product marketing and launches, he strives to translate technical innovation to business value. After spending years in various technology companies and entrepreneurial pursuits, Andy is focused on launching industry leading products and accelerating their adoption.

Marissa Schmidt

Marissa Schmidt, Sr. Director of Product Management, Citrix ADC

During the 10+years at Citrix, Marissa Schmidt has led Citrix ADC to 1000% growth, while also helping with cloud initiatives with strategy/roadmap for AWS, Azure and GCP cloud marketplace. She also oversees overall ADC security and compliance solutions such as with HSMs, FIPs, GDPR. Previous to Citrix, Marissa was already in ADC market as global Alteon product manager and ten years in Engineering and Engineering Management at Nortel. She holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a Master's in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, California.

PG Menon

PG Menon was most recently Senior Director, at Aruba Networks, A Hewlett Packard Company where he was product marketing lead for its $1.2B switching product line. Before Aruba, PG was senior director of technology strategy at Brocade Communications where he led several corporate initiatives such as SDN and DevOps for cloud and datacenter markets. Prior to Brocade, PG was a founding executive in numerous startups that resulted in M&A with major corporations such as ARRIS International and Cabletron Systems. PG Menon has an MS EE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and BS in EE from IIT, Varanasi, India.