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Friday July 4
Saturday July 5
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The African Summit will be organized in cooperation with GUG South Africa and will be hosted in the beautiful 160 hectares Ingwenya Country Escape close to the Crocodile River. The 3,5 hour Hands-On labs will cover ZENworks, Teaming + Conferencing, BlackBerry solutions and of course GroupWise, hosted by local and international experts. The All-Inclusive event package includes 2 hotel nights,meals, shuttle service and more. | 
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| Why should you attend? | | Location | |
This two-day Hands-On Summit is based on the successful GroupWise EMEA Summits. During the last years these Summits have evolved into complete Hands-On events. Here are some of the advantages:
- Learn by Doing: Instead of just listening to speakers, you will get a chance to really work with the latest versions of GroupWise, ZENWorks and Teaming + Conferencing.
- By Experts for Experts: Labs will be presented by International and Local Experts, to make sure that help in your own language is always available.
- Fully Interactive: Each lab will run for 3,5 hours with a maximum of 20
people in one lab-room, there is plenty
of time to ask questions and get the right answers.
- Fully Equipped Lab-rooms: Each lab-room will be equipped with a laptop for
each attendee. All laptops will be fully equipped and prepared to maximize your time spend
on the lab content.
- World famous speakers, connect to global and local experts in their fields. All of our speakers will certainly make sure to help you to get the best results.
- Keynote by Alex Evans, Novell Product Manager for GroupWise.
- Free USB hard drive for each attendee, to contain all labs
which will
be attended. This way the labs can also be practiced back home or at the office.
So get involved and become inspired, as all attendees of
the previous Summits have been! | |
| | Info & Registration |
| Information |  | | | Register here... |  |
| What's included in the Summit Package? | |
Our All Inclusive Package offers (almost)
everything you need, as it includes:
- Lodging - 2 nights at the Summit hotel.
- Meals - Dinner on the evening before and on the first night
of the Summit, lunch (2x) and breakfast (2x).
- Shuttle Service from the EMEA Tour to the Summit location
and back to Pretoria or the airport.
- Free
USB hard drive to take your labs home.
- Discounted extended stay - you can stay earlier or longer
at the hotel for a discounted rate.
- All-Inclusive Packages for two days and Discounted Packages
for GUG-SA Members
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| Wednesday July 3 | |
18:30 |
Shuttle to
Summit | |
19:30. | Registration | | 20:00. | Dinner | | Friday
July 4 | |
7:00 - 8:00 | Breakfast | |
8:30 - 12:00 | Hands-On Labs  | | Lab010 | GroupWise Bonsai -
Collaboration Redefined | | Lab190 | Installing & Deploying Teaming +
Conferencing | | Lab200 | GroupWise Mobile Server on
Linux - Way to Go! | |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | | 13:30 -
14:15 | Keynote by Novell | |
14:15 - 17:45 | Hands-On Labs | | Lab050 | Clustering GroupWise on OES2 | | Lab260 | ZENworks 10 - Installation, Configuration, Discovery, and Deployment | | Lab280 | How Novell
Teaming + Conferencing can make Your Business Shine | |
19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner | |
20:30 - 22:30 |
Evening Activity | | Saturday July 5 | |
7:00 - 8:00 | Breakfast | |
8:30 - 12:00 | Hands-On Labs | | Lab210 | Upgrading to GroupWise
Bonsai | | Lab220 | Freeware
Tools for the GroupWise Administrator | | Lab270 | ZENworks Core Services | |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
13:00 - 16:30 | Hands-On Labs | | Lab020 | Making Teaming + Conferencing
Workflow work | | Lab030 | Getting Things Done - How to
Enable your GroupWise Power Users | | Lab290 | Preparing for Availability of Your
GroupWise System with a Proper Backup | | 16:45 -
17:30 | Closing Session | |
After
event | Shuttle to
trainstation |
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| The speakers on this event will be: | |
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| Alex Evans |
 Alex Evans has been with Novell for over 8 years,
starting his career in the European Support Center in Rotterdam, the
Netherlands. After 6 years supporting European GroupWise customers he moved to
Provo, Utah, continuing in his role as a GroupWise Support Engineer and
accepting the additional role of Development Liaison, working very closely with
the GroupWise development team. Alex worked briefly as a PSE for 4 of Novell´s
larger customers before becoming a GroupWise Product Manager. Alex is also a regular blogger on Novell CoolBlogs. |
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| Christrian Reeve |
 Christian has been working with a wide variety of technology in the IT industry since the late 90´s. A special focus on Novell products as well as various open source technology has enabled him to become a consultant specializing in this field. He has designed and implemented solutions that have used a range Novell technology including Clustering, XEN, OES and GroupWise. Christian has been the technical leader for several large Linux migration projects both locally and elsewhere on the African continent. |
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| Cobus Burgers |
 Cobus Burgers has been involved with GroupWise support
since 1992 in the days of WordPerfect Office. With 14 years of experience on GroupWise he´s still going
strong and he has been involved with most GroupWise deployments in South
Africa. Today he runs his own
consultancy company that specialises in large scale GroupWise deployment
and support, including custom build GroupWise document management
solutions. His company NetCB has a team of
GroupWise specialists who service about 200
000 GroupWise users in South Africa and most of the document management implementations
on GroupWise have been implemented by this team.
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| Erno de Korte - the Netherlands |
 Erno has been a speaker on many conferences like BrainShare, GroupWise
Summits and NUI events. He has a special interest in products
integrating GroupWise with PDA's. Erno has written many articles
for several magazines. for example the GroupWise Advisor Magazine. He
has also been one of two writers of the Novell Press "GroupWise
7.0 Administrator Solution Guide" and the lead author of the
"GroupWise Powerguide". | |
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| Freddy Mahhumane |
 Freddy works as a Junior Developer for NetCB Solutions and is also finishing his Information Technology Diploma in Software Development at the Tshwane University of Technology(TUT).
He has been developing with Java, Joomla, C++, Visual Basic.net and has been working as a Teaming + Conferencing administrator. Freddy also works as a GroupWise Trainer. He worked for TAMP* as a mentor in which after six months he became a Chairman of the program for a year. TAMP is the Technical Application Mentorship Program for above average students help struggling students in the field of Programming. |
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| Hendrik de Bruin |
 Hendrik is currently Director of Enterprise Support Services, prior to joining NetCB Solutions Hendrik was the Technical Services Manager of two other Novell Business Expert Partners within South Africa. Hendrik has been involved in some of the country´s largest Identity Management, GroupWise, ZENworks, Linux and eDirectory deployments, either during the technical implementation, the design or the project management phases, one of these projects include the largest NetWare to Linux migration in the EMEA. Hendrik has been deeply involved with Novell technologies for the past 7 Years, and has presented at various other technology conferences such as Novell Brainshare.
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| Jeff Royle |  Jeff, originally from South Africa, has over 15 years experience of providing IT solutions to large organisations in, the UK, EMEA and Asia. He headed up SiteScape sales and operations throughout EMEA and AsiaPAC and joined Novell as part of the acquisition. Jeff has been a regular speaker at a variety of events and has held a number of key positions within the CRM and Contact Centre technology market. He is currently Collaboration Sales Director for Teaming + Conferencing within EMEA helping partners and customers gain significant benefit by implementing and using Novell Teaming + Conferencing solutions. His responsibilities include driving Novell Teaming + Conferencing business forward by ensuring that T+C is effectively mapped to the business needs of their clients. |
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| Johan van Zyl |
 Johan started his programming career in his first year at University in 2002 while doing his Bachelors in Information Technology. After completing his degree in 2005, he enrolled for his Masters degree in Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. Johan is actively involved in GroupWise development and has led the NetCB developer team in completing a comprehensive GroupWise and Documentum DMS integration. He has since been leading the project on GroupWise DMS SOAP development on the Linux desktop. |
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| Kobus Bennemeer |
 Being an instructor, Kobus has been involved with training for almost 10 years, and more . His main focus is Novell products, and he became a well-known resource in the the IT industry. In the past year he turned to consulting on Novell products. Kobus has participated in a number of projects nation-wide, and worked with NCS, GroupWise, Novell OES on NetWare and SLES, BorderManager and ZENworks. |
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| Mickey Mseleku |
 Mickey Mseleku, a Varsity Collage graduate, joined NetCB in 2006. Mickey has worked with customers like the University of Pretoria, University of Limpopo, South African Bureau of Standards, Southern Era, etcera. He is currently working on Exchange to GroupWise migration at the University of Limpopo. Mickey specializes in OES, GroupWise, Netware and Linux. |
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Ron van Herk
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 Ron is one of the Worldwide Support Engineers dedicated to support ZENworks, he is working out of the Novell European Services Center in the Netherlands. As a Worldwide Support Engineer he is the interface between the Support organization and the ZENworks engineering teams. Ron has been dedicated to supporting ZENworks over the last seven years and speaks at many conferences and events including BrainShare, BrainStormer, GWAVAcon and many others. Ron also blogs at Novell Coolblogs ( www.novell.com/communities/node/4133 )
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| Tshepo Netsibo |
 Tshepo started working for NetCB in June 2006, working on a GroupWise rollout project at a university, which was his first experience with GroupWise. Since then he worked on a several projects, e.g. migrating GroupWise from NetWare to Linux, from Exchange to GroupWise, & from Lotus to GroupWise.
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