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African Summit |
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Friday May 22
Saturday May 23 |
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The African Summit will be organized in cooperation with Open Horizons Africa.The 3,5 hour Hands-On labs will cover SUSE Linux Enterprise, OES, ZENworks, Teaming + Conferencing 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? |
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Location |
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Cullinan, Pretoria
South Africa
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| Travel Info |
 Nearest main airport is OR Tambo - Johannesburg International Airport. On Thursday May 21, after the EMEA Tour event at the Innovation Hub, we will provide shuttle service to the
Summit hotel. We will also provide shuttle service back to Pretoria after the Summit on
Saturday and Sunday. |
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Pricing & Registration |
Normal Price - ZAR 8900
Early Bird until March 31 - ZAR 7900
Members Open Horizons Africa - 10% discount |
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The Summit Time table |
Thursday
May 21
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| 18:00 |
Registration |
| 18:30 |
Shuttle Service |
| 19:30 |
Welcome Dinner |
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Friday
May 22
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7:00 - 8:00 |
Breakfast |
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8:30 - 12:00 |
Hands-On Labs |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:15 |
Opening & Keynote |
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14:30 - 18:00 |
Hands-On Labs |
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19:00 - 20:30 |
Dinner |
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20:30 - 22:30 |
Bonus Labs
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Saturday
May23
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7:00 - 8:00 |
Breakfast |
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8:30 - 12:00 |
Hands-On Labs |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 - 16:30 |
Hands-On Labs |
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Closing Session |
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After 17:30 |
Shuttle Service |
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| Please note: schedule can be changed without notice! | | |
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This two-day Hands-On Summit is based on the earlier successful EMEA Summits, which are both complete Hands-On events. Based on the feedback from our attendees in earlier years, we keep improving our 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 SUSE Linux Enterprise, ZENworks, GroupWise, Teaming + Conferencing, OES and partner solutions.
- By Experts for Experts: Connect to global and local
experts in their fields. All labs will be presented by well known Local
and International Experts.
- Fully Interactive: Each lab will run for 3,5 hours with a maximum of 15
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 for the labs.
- Free USB hard drive, so you can copy all labs
you attend and you practice back home or at the office.
So get involved and become inspired, as all attendees of
the previous Summits have been!
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| What's included in the Summit Package? |
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Our All Inclusive Package is also based on feedback of attendees of earlier events and offers (almost) everything you
need, as it includes:
- Lodging - 2 nights at the beautiful Summit hotel.
- All Meals - Dinner on the evening before the Summit and on the first night, lunch (2x) and breakfast (2x).
- Shuttle Service - From Pretoria to the hotel and back.
- Free USB hard drive - Can be used to store all labs.
- Free Internet Access - In and around our lab rooms.
- Discounted extended stay - you can stay earlier or longer at
the hotel for a discounted rate.
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| These Hands-On labs will be offered at this Summit (*) |
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You will be able to follow 4 labs selected
from the list below. After registering for the Summit, you will be able to select
your preferences.
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Freddy Mahhumane (South Africa) |
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Freddy Mahhumane (South Africa) |
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Freddy Mahhumane (South Africa) + Johan van Zyl (South Africa) |
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Johan van Zyl (South Africa)+ Cobus Burgers (South Africa) |
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Hendrik De Bruin (South Africa) + Laura Buckley (South Africa) |
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Hendrik De Bruin (South Africa) + Laura Buckley (South Africa) |
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Christian Reeve (South Africa) |
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Cobus Burgers (South Africa) + Mario van Zyl (South Africa) |
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Sander van Vugt (the Netherlands) |
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Sander van Vugt (the Netherlands) |
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Paul Van der Cruyssen (Belgium) & Erno de Korte (the Netherlands) |
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Paul Van der Cruyssen (Belgium) & Erno de Korte (the Netherlands) |
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Paul Van der Cruyssen (Belgium) & Erno de Korte (the Netherlands) |
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Gerhard Groesbeek (South Africa)
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Cobus Burgers (South Africa) |
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Christian Reeve (South Africa) |
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Gerhard Groesbeek |
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labs will only run once, certain combinations of labs might not be
available. The sooner you register, the better the chance we will be able to
honor your preferences. | |
| The speakers on this event will be: |
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Christian Reeve - South Africa
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 Christian is currently a Systems Engineer for NetCB solutions. Before that, Christian worked as a Senior Novell Specialist for the South Africa Social Services Agency. He has been supporting Novell software since the start of his career in 1999. Most recently, Christian was the technical lead in a project migrating an entire NetWare infrastructure spanning more than 20 sites to OES Linux. | |
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| Cobus Burgers - South Africa |
 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 supporting GroupWise since it was still called
WordPerfect Office, with a special interest in integration of document management,
workflow, CRM and PDA's. As an MCNE and
MCNI, he has delivered training and consulting throughout the world. Erno has
been a speaker on BrainShare, Summits and NUI
events. Erno has been one of authors of the Novell Press "GroupWise 7.0
Administrator Solution Guide" and the lead author of “The GroupWise
Powerguide". Erno has also written many articles for several
magazines and is one of the initiators of the Open Horizons magazine. | |
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Freddy Mahhumane
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 Freddy works as a Consultant 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; to help struggling
students in the field of Programming. | |
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| Gerhard Groesbeek - South Africa |
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in Pietermaritzburg, servicing the KZN region Gerhard has over 12 years
experience in the IT industry. He is a current CNE, having obtained his
certification in 1999. Gerhard has experience with Netware, OES on
Linux, Novell E-Directory, GWAVA, Report+, Zenworks as well as GroupWise. | |
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Hendrik de Bruin - South Africa
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 Hendrik is the Director of Enterprise Support services at NetCB Solutions. Prior to joining NetCB Solutions Hendrik was the Technical Services Manager of two other Novell Business Expert Partners within South Africa. Hendrik has been a driving force 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. Hendrik has been 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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Johan van Zyl - South Africa
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 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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Laura Buckley - South Africa
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 Laura has been a networking professional for 18 years, specialising in all versions of NetWare since v2.12 through to NetWare 6.5. She has in excess of 14 years experience in GroupWise, ZenWorks, BorderManager and eDirectory. Her qualifications include 25 Novell certifications, 9 CompTIA certifications and 2 Microsoft certifications. Laura became a Novell instructor in 1998 and a Master Novell Instructor in 2001. She has presented more than 300 Novell courses. Laura is currently a Senior Network Engineer for IT Dynamics where she heads up the Technical Solutions team. Her most recent (published) success story is the design and implementation of Open Enterprise server, eDirectory, GroupWise and ZENworks for aQuelle. | |
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| Paul Van der Cruyssen - Belgium |
 Ten years ago Paul Van der Cruyssen had to install
his first e-mail system, and it was ... GroupWise. Love at first sight!
After this installion he installed, migrated and supported small and
big groupware systems. Paul works as an independent consultant. As a
true believer he installed the first GroupWise on Linux in Belgium. If
there's time, then Paul is also active as a beta tester (iFolder,
ZENworks, GroupWise). | |
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| Sander van Vugt - the Netherlands |
 Sander van Vugt is involved in Linux since 1993. He has written several books on Linux, both in Dutch and in English. Sander is an expert in clustering as well: het presented on Novell Clustering Services together with Rob Bastiaansen on BrainShare 2006 and did a presentation on Linux Heartbeat Clustering at LinuxWorld Boston as well. Sander is working as an independent trainer and consultant helping people to migrate to Linuxall over the EMEA region. | |
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