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Our Speakers
One of the most important assets of our events are our speakers, as they really share their "brains" during the Hands-On labs. For the EMEA Summit we´ve been able to get some of the most well known speakers on the world. And they´re preparing some very exciting new labs exclusively for this event. |
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| Aldo Zanoni - Canada |
Aldo is a co-founder of Omni Technology Solutions Inc. (Omni). Since 1999, Omni has focused on creating and marketing software products that provide real, tangible and valuable benefits to companies that use Novell GroupWise and eDirectory solutions and mixed Novell and Microsoft environments. Omni is focused on delivering customer pain relief in the areas of Web-based, "ZERO Rights", delegated user account managed for GroupWise, eDirectory, Active Directory and Exchange (eControl) and Managed GroupWise Policies, CRM / ERP and third-party integration with GroupWise (Riva). | |
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| Arnaud Delin - France |
Arnaud Delin is the CEO of Prestige Reseaux. Arnaud has many years of experience with GroupWise. Together
with other French GroupWise enthusiasts he has started the GroupWise
User Group France, for which he's currently the President. | |
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| Branden Black - USA |
 With more than 18 years experience in the technology industry, Branden Black, brings a wealth of experience in many areas, including software design and development, networking, communications and designing and architecting directories and messaging systems. Branden has held prominent leadership roles in several technology companies, such as Novell Inc., Sorenson Media, dotOne corporation (a technology driven company), True North Inc., and Makau Corporation. Branden provides leadership and consistency to Messaging Architects technical teams, providing the background and experience in communications architecture.
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| Christian Karch - Switzerland |
 Christian is Vice President Marketing at SKyPRO AG since 2005. He communicates for SKyPRO with partners like Novell, GroupWise and friends, Inetra, GWAVA, GUG, Open Horizons and more since the beginning of the development of SKyCOM. Christian is responsible for the Marketing of SKyPRO and especially for SKyCOM. He will represent SKyPRO in it's first office in the USA, located in Silicon Valley beginning 2009.
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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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| Denis de Wit - the Netherlands |
 Denis de Wit is working as Sales Engineer for Messaging Architects for over 3 years now. He has done quite some experiences with project based implementations of Messaging Architects products. He is speaker at several locations of the GroupWiseR and Novell Tour. | |
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| Diethmar Rimser - Austria |
 Diethmar Rimser (BrainAgents - a company focused on GroupWise) started with Novell in 1985. As a professional instructor he has been active since 1994 teaching Novell and Microsoft (It is always good to know both sides). But almost at the same time he has found his real profession - GroupWise. All his activities are now targeted on GroupWise. | |
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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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| Frank Korpershoek - the Netherlands |
 For over 15 years Frank is working in Novell environments while keeping an eye on the Linux system being evolved. Finally these areas became one and the fun has begun. Other topics of expertise are virtualization, security and of course GroupWise. | |
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Gert ter Burg - the Netherlands
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 Gert is the owner of GWCheck.com, GroupWise beta tester, co-founder of the GUG-NL, and blogs all things GroupWise on GWCheck.log (www.gwcheck.com/wpml). If it smells like GroupWise, it's on GWCheck.com (or it should be).
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| Horst Fuhrmann - Switzerland |
 Horst is the CEO of SKyPro, a 20 year old Swiss firm
based in Cham, near Zurich. SKyPRO provides custom programming and
large scale system integration and implementation services in the areas
of Novell applications and Identity Management. Current and past
clients include Swisscom, Swisscard, UBS, Credit Suisse, Novell, and
Microsoft, plus many others. | |
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Jamie Glendinning - United Kingdom
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 Jamie has been working with Novell products since 1996. Since joining ENGL in
2003, Jamie has become a Systems Consultant specialising in Windows deployment
using ZENworks and ENGL Imaging Toolkit. Jamie provides consultancy and support
for customers and partners world-wide. Outside of work, Jamie is a keen
paraglider pilot and spends as much time as he can in the air, you can see him in action here.
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| Jan-Arie Snijders - the Netherlands |
 Jan-Arie has been supporting GroupWise in various roles for almost 10 years. He
works for Novell since early 2004 and he's currently delivering Worldwide Support
for GroupWise. | |
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Johan Rosius - Belgium
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 Johan is VP of Workgroup Sales for Novell EMEA. In this role he is
responsible for managing and expnading the market for Novell networking
infrastructure and collaboration solutions portfolio, definition of
go-to-market strategy and the management of Novell Workgroup partner
eco-system. Johan reports directly to Volker Smid, President of Novell
EMEA. | |
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John Ellis - United Kingdom
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 John has been working in IT for many years and has been working with GroupWise for 14 years, for two blue-chip organizations. John is a founder member and previous chairman of the UK Groupware User Group. Lately he has been working on a project migrating to MS-Exchange, so now he really appreciates the strengths of GroupWise! | |
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| Justin Zandbergen - the Netherlands |
 Some people expect that Justin came out of a Linux-Pinquin egg - he's been involved with Linux since he became 14 and therefore has many years of experience. After his study to become an IT administrator he worked for OVEC ICT GmbH, nowadays he works for RealOpen IT. He has become a very experienced network engineer and has presented several sessions at a number of events, quite often about his favorite subject Clustering on Linux. | |
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| Kirill Lizunov - Ukraine |
 Kirill is one of the main developers working for SKyPRO, more information about him will follow soon...
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Marcel Ramaker - the Netherlands
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 As Senior System Consultant and founder of IT Service Essentials Marcel Ramaker has been working in IT since 1982. Starting his career in micro electronics he soon switched to an IT position as analyst/programmer on IBM systems. In 1986 he started his own firm with a strong focus on networking products from Novell. Now Marcel has an impressive skill set with products like SuSe SLES, OES, GroupWise and Teaming & Conferencing. | |
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| Mark Beermann - the Netherlands |
 Mark has a background in messaging and mobile data and has been involved with product and business management of mobile devices at Philips, business consultancy at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and involved in several internet start-ups on mobile services. The last couple of years he is active as interim and business development manager and independent telecom consultant. In 2003 Mark has started the Messaging Architects in the Netherlands. | |
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| Patrick Frontéri - Norway |
 Patrick has been a CNI/MCNIs in Norway since 1997.He
was the first GroupWise 5.5 CNE in Norway and he has delivered several sessions
and workshops for Novell Forum. Patrick participated with Novell on the launch
of GroupWise 6. His own company main focus is training and consulting for
GroupWise and related products. He is reseller for several vendors. | |
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| Paul Bellchambers - United Kingdom |
 Paul joined BlackBerry in January 2008, with responsibility for the
GroupWise market across EMEA. His background includes software
development (yes he has written software), customer support, marketing:
in a number of different roles with Digital Equipment Corp, Sun
Microsystems and Cisco. Another passion is cooking and he has worked in
the kitchens at Le Manior Aux Quat’Saisons run by Raymond Blanc. | |
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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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| Raymond Hulha - Germany |
 Raymond has been working in software development for more than 10 years. The last five years he has been focusing on developing extensions for GroupWise, so he is a real long time expert in GroupWise development and one of the early adopter of its SOAP API, pioneering the development of GWAVA Retain using the newest features of GroupWise 7 and 8. Raymond is the main developer for Retain, which is the archiving solution from GWAVA. Retain includes all latest archiving technology including the stubbing features, which will be available with the next GroupWise version 8.
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| Rene Kreijveld - the Netherlands |
 Rene is one of the leading Joomla experts in the world and one of the owner/founders of One-Company, specializing
in the implementation of Open Source Content Management Systems.
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| Rob Clarke - United Kingdom |
 Rob has been involved with Interchange Group for 8 years, initially based at the software development centre in Derbyshire. He now works as part of the Mobile and Remote Working technical team to provide applications and services for the company´s business clients. Though Rob has a varied portfolio of skills, he works mostly on platform integration which is in demand at the moment. | |
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| Rob Luhrs - USA |
 Rob Luhrs was a Senior Analyst
at SiteScape with over 6 years of experience in the enterprise
collaboration space before he started to work for Novell. During his time at Sitescape he has been both the lead
technical consultant to the majority of SiteScape's customer base. Nowadays he's often travelling all over the world to share his vast amount of knowledge with Novell partners and customers.
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| Rob van Kooten - the Netherlands |
 Rob works at Novell since 1991 ( Wordperfect at the time) and only supports on WP Office and GWise. He delivers ATT training, makes PAT visits and onsites. He has been a speaker at events like the Novell Summit in Sweden. He\'s currently delivering World Wide Support for GroupWise. | |
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| Robin Redgrave - United Kingdom |
 Robin has been working with GroupWise and
its predecessors for over 17 years. He has held jobs in both IS&T and System
Engineering, specializing in messaging. In 1996 he joined Novell Consulting
as a GroupWise consultant. Robin works on GroupWise projects in Africa, the
Middle East and throughout Europe typically designing, implementing and health
checking GroupWise systems as well as writing custom applications. He is a
regular speaker at BrainShare and other conferences. | |
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Roel van Bueren - the Netherlands
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 Roel van Bueren is working as a senior consultant and trainer for ROVABU NetWorks. ROVABU NetWorks' main focus is desktop and application management, desktop imaging, software packaging, .NET development and e-mail/groupware. Roel has been a speaker for several events like Brainshare, GWAVAcon, the GroupWise Summit and the Packaging Event. As an author, recently he has written five articles on Novell's new flagship 'ZENworks Configuration Management'. Regarding Novell, Roel is 'very much in love', for a very long time, with two specific products: GroupWise and ZENworks. In the Netherlands his company ROVABU NetWorks is 'ENGL integration partner' and 'Advansys' Formativ Custom Development Partner'. | |
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| Ron van Herk |
 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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Sander van Vugt - the Netherlands
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 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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| Scott Brown - USA |
 Scott is GroupWise Engineering
Manager. Initially hired
to work on GroupWise installs, Scott joined the GroupWise team in 2000. Since
then he has been involved in many aspects of GroupWise development including the
Windows Client, Linux Client, Client side APIs, and the
overall GroupWise build structure. He currently manages the GroupWise client
teams including the Windows, Linux, and Mac Clients. Scott holds
both an MBA and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young
University. | |
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| Stéphane Zanoni - Canada |
Stéphane Zanoni is the senior developer and project manager for Omni's
portfolio of Novell GroupWise, eDirectory, NetMail and mixed OES
enhancement products. Over the past 12 years, Stéphane's development
expertise and passion for excellence have resulted in Omni's continued
success in delivering innovative technology solutions to enhance Novell
customers' Return On Investment. Since becoming one of the youngest
Certified Novell Administrators (CNA) in the world at age 12, Stéphane
has kept current on the evolution of Novell's product offerings. | |
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| Svetlin Petrov - Bulgaria |
 Svetlin is an assistant professor in the field of networking and he is MCP,
CNS, CLS, CNE5, CNE6, CDE, CNI, CLE and CLP. He is very active Novell beta
tester (till now he took part in more than 50 Novell beta programs) and was the
best NetWare 6.5, NetWare 6.5 SP1, Novell Small Business Suite 6.5, Nterprise
Branch Office 2.0, ZENworks 6.5, Open Enterprise Server (OES), iFolder 3.0 on
OES, ZENworks 7 Suite, Novell Client for Linux and Novell Branch Office 9 beta
tester. | |
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| Tay Kratzer - United States |
 Tay is Lead Developer of Reload, Director of Linux Professional Services, and Author of the Novell Press GroupWise 7 Administrator's Solution Guide. Tay worked formerly with Novell Premium Service and has been Primary Support Engineer for some of Novell's larger customer sites. Tay is the author and co-author of 8 GroupWise-related books. Tay Kratzer has supported Novell GroupWise since 1993 and he is a Novell Master CNE. In the year 2000, Tay was recipient of the highest recognition award from Software Support Professional Association. | |
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| Tim Heywood - United Kingdom |
 Tim has been only been working with
GroupWise for the past 9 years and spends far too much of his time in the
GroupWise forums. A regular speaker at BrainShare and UK technical events
Tim enjoys practicing what he preaches with all of Novell's products; he's
also PM for GWMigrate. | |
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| Tommy Mikkelsen - Denmark |
 Tommy Mikkelsen has been working with Novell products for
over 12 years. Tommy has been very active in NUI
Denmark, as President and Vice President. He works with ZENworks,
BorderManager, and GroupWise, as well as Netware and eDirectory. Tommy
is Senior Consultant at IT Quality A/S. IT Quality is
one of Denmark's largest Novell Business Experts. | |
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| Zach Bitner |
 Zach has been with GroupLink for five years, he is currently the director of global partnerships. His background includes sales & marketing. He is a fanatical golfer, and the proud father of 3 children. Zach holds a degree in Business Administration from Weber State University. | |
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