Stephane Alnet

CTO

Sotel IP Services

Stephane Alnet is the CTO of Sotel IP Services, where he develops innovative, inexpensive solutions to help others deploy SIP Trunking and VoIP solutions. He has been involved in large-scale Voice-over-IP deployments for over eight years; he is also the leader of the OpenSource project "CarrierClass.net", and a contributor to the Linux Kernel.

Chris Brogan

Vice President of Strategy and Technology

CrossTech Media

Chris Brogan has over 16 years of telecommunications and enterprise technology experience, including software release engineering, project management, data center planning, and solutions architecture. He left the enterprise behind in 2006 to work on events in the burgeoning field of Internet video, social media, and social computing technologies. Chris is co-founder of the PodCamp unconference series, which launched over 30 events all over the world to promote the understanding and use of podcasting, videoblogging, and other social media technologies to build relationships and extend communities. He has blogged since 1998 (when it was called "journaling"), and keeps a blog at http://chrisbrogan.com/

Laurie Cavanaugh

MES Solutions Provider

Wonderware Central

Laurie Cavanaugh is the MES Solutions Representative for Wonderware Central. She has over 19 years of experience providing process automation and management solutions across a variety of industries and applications. Laurie uses a results-oriented approach to identify how process changes will result in the highest return for her clients.

Terrence Davis

Senior Sales Engineer

WatchGuard Technologies

25 years+ in the computer networking industry holding various positions ranging from NOC admin, network admin, system admin, systems engineering, sales engineering, security specialist, network security consultant, and certified IT trainer. Attended College of the Mainland and North Texas State University specializing in studies in engineering and computer sciences and has completed several industry and product specific certification trainings to include; CCSA,CCSE,NCCA,NCOA,NCOA-Advanced,WSP,WCSP,WCSP-FV,WCSAV,WCSSE

Keith Ebel

President

Proximity Wireless

Keith Ebel is a business development and engineering professional with more than 24 years experience in the RF/microwave and wireless industry. As founder and president of Proximity Wireless, Inc., he and his team use their years of experience to craft in-building, external, above- and below ground wireless communications solutions for small and large clients in a variety of industries. His professional training includes specialized areas of electromagnetics, radio frequency and microwave characteristics, wireless communications, and radio modeling and propagation.

James Gaskin

Author and Columist

James Gaskin has been solving computer and network problems for businesses small and large since 1984. He also writes books, articles, and jokes about technology AND real life. In 16 books and hundreds of articles, network consultant Gaskin tells people faster, cheaper, newer, and smarter ways to connect to each other and the world. A founding member of the Network World Lab Alliance, Gaskin focuses on small office issues and product testing. He is the leading voice for the small business market through his long-running Small Business Technology newsletter distributed by Network World. As a speaker, Gaskin travels the country in Hawaiian shirts helping people laugh at their IT pain while teaching them new ways to put technology to work. In venues such as Network World Technology Tours and seminars at leading industry conventions such as Networld + InterOp, Gaskin delivers objective information stripped of marketing hype in his trademark "unbiased and unboring" style. When avoiding computers, Gaskin plays classical chamber music on the violin and tennis (but not at the same time) in the Dallas area.

Chris Gherardini

President

Turnkey Technologies

President of Turnkey Technologies, Chris Gherardini, has been in the accounting software industry for 23 years. After 9 years working for in public accounting firms, Chris formed Turnkey Technologies. His industry experience includes but is not limited to Aviation, Distribution, Manufacturing, Field Service, Construction, Retail, Health Care, Government and Oil & Gas. He is recognized by Microsoft Corporation as a Microsoft Certified Professional for Microsoft Dynamics GP Financials, Microsoft Certified Professional for Microsoft Dynamics Integration Tools and a Microsoft Certified Sales Professional.

Erick Harlow

Account Manager

Forensic IT

Erick has been diagnosing complex IT problems for over fifteen years. His focus has been on distributed systems in the manufacturing industry. For the past three years, Erick has been managing other engineers and teaching them how to solve complex problems faster and more efficiently. He has developed a keen ability to examine a complex IT problem and break it down into the logical steps needed for resolution.

Dave Hiechel

President and CEO

Eagle Software

Dave has been with EAGLE since 1986, serving first as a Programmer, Product Manager, and Software Engineer. In 1993 he became President and CEO of EAGLE. Dave has over 20 years of experience in the storage industry. He serves on Partner and Product Advisory Councils for Dell Storage. He is a VMware Certified Professional and in addition, holds channel certifications with CommVault, Spectra Logic, and QLogic. His responsibilities include site evaluation, storage assessment, solution recommendation and storage design.

Kent Lee

Astaro

At Astaro Corporation, Kent provides engineering support during the sales process and technical support for Astaro?s partners and customers. Kent has over 10 years of experience in telecommunications, enterprise networking, and information security. Prior to Astaro, Kent held positions with various consulting and system integration firms helping companies maximize their information technology investment. During his personal time, Kent enjoys fishing and thinking about numbers.

Tony MacDonald

Vizioncore

John Martini

Territory Sales Manager

Midwest, Overland Storage

John Martini has been in the IT business for 28 years, and focused on data storage for the past 16. He has been on assignment in Europe as well as Asia Pacific, and has a global perspective of the challenges facing businesses today in the arena of data protection. His broad knowledge of the storage landscape helps business partners and customers to understand what is available today, and how those technologies are best suited for them.

Thomas O'Boyle

Corporate Vice President

Miles Technologies

Thomas O'Boyle joined Miles as a partner/principal along with Mr. Beusch in 1999. Tom's successful career in sales and channel management with technology companies, such as Zebra Technologies and Silicon Engines over the past fifteen years is a major asset to Miles Technologies. Tom graduated from DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago with a BS in Electronics Engineering Technology. Tom and his wife of over 20 years, Donna, reside in Schaumburg, Illinois with their three children.

John Phillips

CBIZ Network Solutions, LLC

John Phillips is a Senior Advisor for CBIZ Network Solutions. Over the past 13 years, John has developed key business strategies and alliances that have facilitated revenue growth through CBIZ support services, including the co-development of a comprehensive Managed Services offering. John has over 25 years of experience in the information technology industry.

Dean Richardson

Vice President of Sales

ArcMail Technology

David Strom

President

David Strom, Inc

David Strom is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with audiences ranging from rank beginners to the most geeky. He has used computers since the early days when IBM was still a powerhouse, even before Al Gore invented the Internet. He was master of his own Internet domain before anyone heard the term on Seinfeld. He can give you the tools to help you buy and use the right stuff, and do it in a way that will be engaging, interesting, and above all, with humor, wit, grace, style, and just enough information that won't overwhelm you.

David has spoken around the world at numerous conferences from Sydney to Caracas to Tokyo and back. He does keynotes, break-out sessions, small and large groups, hands-on workshops and everything but the laundry. He does do Windows and he is a member of the National Speakers Association.David is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows such as ABC World News Tonight and NPR's Science Friday talking about technology. He has started dozens of magazines ? including being editors-in-chief at Tom's Hardware, Network Computing and DigitalLanding.com ? and contributed to many technology Web sites. His weekly "Web Informant" email list and "strominator.com" blog reach very influential readers throughout the IT, vendor, network computing, OEM and enthusiast, reseller channel and security communities.

He is currently the technology editor at Baseline Magazine. He draws on an extensive career in IT and has tested thousands of products and written numerous magazine articles. He was an early adviser to Covad Communications and many successful dot coms. When it came time for Prentice Hall to look for an expert on Internet email, Strom was their first choice to pen their now landmark book, Internet Messaging: From the Desktop to the Enterprise. Following on that success, he also wrote one of the first how-to books called Home Networking Survival Guide for Osborne/McGraw Hill.

David Troup

CEO & Founder

MailFoundry

Labeled a "serial entrepreneur" by colleagues, David has been starting successful companies since he was in high school during the first PC revolution. David founded MailFoundry to bring continuity back to email in a world where, as he puts it, "anti-spam has ruined email." David operates as a hands-on CEO, overseeing new product development and engineering as well as field marketing and business development. With a BS degree in Artificial Intelligence and a lifetime of applications "visioneering", David not only knows the ins and outs of the architecture and coding behind his products, he has the understanding and vision of where communications and technology are headed and how they are changing the way we work and live.

Greg Werkowitch

National Consulting Engineer

Relational Technology Solutions

Greg Werkowitch is a National Consulting Engineer with Relational Technology Solutions. In this role, he is charged with providing both business and technical expertise in helping clients evaluate, test, and acquire storage and networking technology. With more than 15 years of experience spanning several disciplines, including IT architecture, system design and implementation, sales and management, Greg's career is marked by accelerated sales growth and customer service excellence. Greg is a former Captain of the US Army and a graduate of Kansas State University.