SPEAKERS
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Angeliki Patsiavou
Senior Change Management Consultant | Prosci® | International Speaker
Angeliki is an experienced Change Manager with a deep passion for user experience and inclusive designs of business applications. As an active advocate of the Microsoft Community, whilst others drive tech evangelism, she speaks about the human impact of accessible technology into transforming businesses. She can often be seen highlighting the importance of human-centered design in CRM systems and get into interesting debates about how technical and non-technical teams can come together to define what matters. Inspiring the future generation of young girls into STEM careers and mentoring women into Tech is another matter close to her heart, as she strives for more diverse pathways into IT from non-technical backgrounds.
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Anouck Fierens
Modern Workplace Consultant at Wortell
Anouck is working as a modern workplace consultant by Wortell, inside the modern workplace her main focus is on SharePoint, Microsoft Viva and the Power Platform
Inside SharePoint, Anouck focus is for building an Intranet, but also document management has no secrets for her.
When she is working with the Power Platform she is focusing on Power Apps, mostly canvas apps and also Power Automate flows. Anouck is PL-100 Certified and MCT. -
Arpit Shrivastava
2XMicrosoft MVP | 3XMCT | Power Platform Architect in Capgemini Sweden | Power Community Ambassador
My name is Arpit Shrivastava and I am a Microsoft Dynamics 365 enthusiast person who is having a passion for researching and learning new things and acquiring immense knowledge. I am providing consistent help, support, and sharing my knowledge through various Social Media Channels along with my Personal Blog, Microsoft Community, conducting online training and attending various 365 Saturday Events worldwide and sharing the best Solutions to the readers helping them achieve their goals and objectives in Customer Relationship Space.
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Edyta Gorzon
Microsoft MVP M365 Apps & Services, CollabDays Poland Team, Microsoft Teams & Adoption 💜
Edyta’s story with Microsoft technology has started in 2013. She helps organizations with digital transformation by developing change management strategies, guiding companies through the entire process, and training end-users on the practical use of Microsoft 365. She believes technology should be helpful to all users, regardless of their role in the organization or their technical abilities. Only then we can talk about the success of digitization. In addition to that Edyta is an active Microsoft Community Enthusiast. Since 2015 she organizes SharePoint Saturday Warsaw, now CollabDays Poland, co-hosts ACM Teams Europe, and speaks at Microsoft Community conferences.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional M365 Apps & Services since 2019.
In her spare time, you can meet her reading a book, running, caring for friends, or with a suitcase at the airport. An empathetic extrovert by nature. 😉 -
Fabio Franzini
CEO Apvee Solutions, Business Applications & Microsoft 365 Development MVP
Fabio Franzini is the CEO of Apvee Solutions, a company specialising in providing cutting-edge software solutions for businesses based on the Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
In addition to his role at Apvee, Fabio is also a member of the Patterns and Practices (PnP) team, a Microsoft initiative to provide guidance and tools to developers building applications on the Microsoft platform.
With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, Fabio has held various positions, including software engineer, solution architect, and project manager. He has a proven track record of delivering complex projects in a variety of industries.
For his contributions to the industry, Fabio has been awarded the title of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for both Business Applications and Microsoft 365 Development.
As an active member of the technology community, Fabio is a frequent speaker at international conferences, sharing his knowledge and insights with other industry professionals.
He also contributes to open source projects, helping others solve technical challenges and staying up-to-date on the latest trends and best practices.
Fabio is passionate about exploring new technologies and finding innovative ways to solve business problems. -
Gokan Ozcifci
Consultant. Entrepreneur. Microsoft Regional Director & MVP.
Gokan is an independent SharePoint and Office365 consultant for Neoxy where he assists customers with building innovative, intelligent and responsive cloud driven solutions. With the Mobile first, Cloud first ideology, his goal is to empower every person and organization to do more with the Microsoft cloud and the ecosystem is perfectly aligned to accelerate this. Creativity, automation and perspective are what he loves most when using the Microsoft cloud, so every customer can be more agile, responsive and competitive. Gokan is a frequent – and funny – conference speaker. He presented at numerous national and international conferences and is actively involved in European and American conferences: Microsoft Techdays, Microsoft Experiences, European SharePoint Conferences, SharePoint Days and SharePoint Fest are a few major ones.
A proud author of books that reached the half million of downloads and founder of several communities, Gokan is a real community warrior. Due to his active contributions in these domains, he has been honoured with Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Additionally, he is an active Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a Microsoft Regional Lead for all MCTs in Belgium.
You can always talk to me about: Soccer. World Traveling. Food. Next-Gen Cloud Systems. Architecture & Strategy. SharePoint + Office365! -
Joe Griffin
CEO at proMX UK Limited / Business Applications MVP
My name’s Joe Griffin, and I’m CEO of proMX UK, a Microsoft Inner Circle partner within the proMX group of companies. I hold various Microsoft certifications in Dynamics CRM/365 Customer Engagement, Azure, Power BI and SQL Server and am also a PRINCE2 Project Manager and Agile Practitioner. I have a broad knowledge of working with and managing projects involving Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Azure, Power BI, .NET and other technologies within the Microsoft cloud stack. During this time, I’ve developed a keen interest in coding, and love working with Transact-SQL, JScript, PowerShell, DAX & C#. Thanks to my previous experience, I have practical knowledge operating within the energy efficiency, managed services, retail, print & direct mail and utility sectors. I love getting involved as part of the Business Applications technical community and was very fortunate to receive the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft in 2020, in recognition of my contributions in this area. When I’m not blogging or tinkering, I enjoy reading, catching up on the latest films/TVs and also enjoy learning about and studying history.
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Kalle Saarikannas
Business Group Lead, Modern Work
Kalle leads the Modern Work solution area for Microsoft Finland. With a deep understanding of AI and its potential in the workplace, Kalle is dedicated to helping information workers unlock new levels of productivity, creativity, and skill development.
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Kimmo Koski
Business Applications Architect, Meltlake
Kimmo is an accomplished Technical Architect with a wealth of experience exceeding a decade in successfully implementing Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions across diverse industries. With an unwavering passion for technology, Kimmo remains at the forefront of the ever-evolving landscape, consistently seeking to expand his Power Platform knowledge and share valuable insights with others.
Kimmo has extensive experience with projects related to Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Service processes and custom solutions using the Power Platform toolset from the good old XRM days to the present. With this experience, he has gained valuable insights on how to extend solutions with pro-code capabilities that the Power Platform offers. -
Laura Kokkarinen
Software Architect, Microsoft MVP, Sulava
Laura is a software architect passionate about application security and software development best practices on the Microsoft cloud platform. She has been developing software with Microsoft technologies for over a decade and has focused entirely on Microsoft cloud services for the past 5+ years.
In addition to her day job as a software architect who still actively writes code, Laura blogs about technologies related to her work at https://laurakokkarinen.com and regularly speaks at international conferences. Sharing her knowledge comes naturally to her, and Laura has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award annually since 2019. -
Marcin Siewnicki
Microsoft 365 Consultant and Architect
I am Microsoft 365 consultant and architect. I create applications and solutions that improve and facilitate work using Power Platform, SharePoint, and Teams.
My adventure in IT began in 2005. Since then I have been creating and implementing business applications based on SharePoint and Microsoft 365 platforms. I am a big fan of task and process automation (Power Automate) and Modern Workplace platforms (Microsoft Teams).
Privately a husband, father of 2 sons. Fan of science fiction and cyberpunk, futurist. I co-organize the SharePoint Saturday Warsaw conference and speak at Microsoft's community events. -
Marco Rocca
Microsoft - Cloud Solution Architect MW
I'm a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Modern Work and deals mainly (but not only ...) with SharePoint, a product that has been with him for 15 years and has experienced the birth and growth of all the latest versions. Today, however, collaboration is not just SharePoint, but all Microsoft 365 applications that are helping to revolutionize the way we work. Although "writing code" is still one of its passions, today it supports customers in the migration of products on the cloud to the cloud world. In the last period I'm focusing on Power Platform and Teams. In the last years I have participated in several conferences as a speaker among which WPC Milan, PowerPlatform World Tour, SharePoint Saturday, Scottish Summit, Collabdays, European Collaboration Summit and Thrive.
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Marijn Somers
MVP, Owner @mijn365coach, Podcast hero #Office365Distilled
Marijn is a Microsoft 365 specialist and Microsoft MVP who has over 16 years experience implementing the full value of information worker solutions in any organization, large and small. He loves to share his experiences as a speaker on international events and blogger.
In 2016 he launched “Mijn 365 Coach”, a portfolio of video products helping end users onboard with and on top of the quick moving world of Office 365. He does consultancy via Balestra and has a podcast called #Office365Distilled -
Michael Noel
Author, Speaker, Technologist
Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert and bestselling author who has spoken on a broad range of topics at over 250 events in over 90 unique countries and on every continent. He has authored over two dozen major industry books including the bestselling SharePoint Unleashed series. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing (cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise helping businesses realize real value from both on-premises and cloud offerings.
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Michael Vonlanthen
Productivity Expert at Experts Inside
Michael Vonlanthen is an expert for Modern Collaboration, Hybrid Work and Employee Experience. His passion is innovative technology that changes our everyday work.
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Paul Hunt
@cimares - M365 Global Solutions Designer
Paul is the M365 Global Solutions Designer for WTW, a financial services organisation that operates all over the world. He has been an MVP in the Office Apps and Services category since 2016.
He has been working with SharePoint since the 2003 version and has a wide experience of SharePoint across many industry verticals. With a long background in supporting Windows technologies, Paul originally entered the SharePoint Consulting world as a developer/IT Pro hybrid which has stood him in good stead as his career developed into his current role as an Associate Director responsible for a Tenancy that spans multiple Geos and services colleagues all around the world.
Paul can often be found at user group events around the UK and Europe as both speaker and attendee, as well as on Twitter using the handle @Cimares. He is also on the steering group of CollabDays, a community led technology event initiative and a co-organiser of several Collab Days events such as CollabDays Birmingham and Bletchley Park. -
Pieter Op De Beéck
Trusted advisor
Hello! 👋 My name is Pieter, living in Belgium, together with both my wife and two lovely rascals (also known as my kids). 👨👩👧👦
I'm a consulting professional with over 17 years of relevant experience in the field of information management. I'm truly passionate about bridging the gap between IT and business, and gain energy-boosts from translating business requirements into technical solutions. "Hands-on" is my middle name as I love trying out new technical possibilities, particularly in the Microsoft 365 domain.
I try not to hold back bringing newly, gained knowledge and experience to the table and spread myfindings with 'the community' - you can decide for yourself whether or not this label suits you. 😎
Feel free to reach out to me as I'm always looking for ways to improve both myself, my writing skills and knowledge sharing about productivity and efficiency gains in the Microsoft 365 modern workplace. 🚀 -
Rodrigo Pinto
Enterprise Architect @Storm Technology super-duper-friendly #wysiwyg #pnplover
With more than 20 years of experience in Software Engineering & Architecture, Rodrigo Pinto is a Enterprise Architect, Office Apps and Services MVP, Specialist & Evangelist at Storm Technology . Responsible for the Modern Workplace area, he tends to use innovation in creating new solutions and development strategies. Speaker since 2009, he delivers regular sessions at Microsoft Events: Techdays, RoadtoSharePoint, Lightup SharePoint, Microsoft RoadShow, SharePoint Connections, SP24, European SharePoint Conference, CollabSummit, Microsoft TechRefresh, MVP ShowCase, SQL Saturday, Azure Boot Camps, User Group Meetings and online events. He started the SharePoint Portuguese User Group and loves the idea By and For the Community
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Serge Luca
ShareQL, Belgium "Doctor Flow", Power Platform Associates
Serge Luca (aka "Doctor Flow") has been 17 times MVP and is now a Business Apps MVP (Power Automates & Power Apps); he is based in Brussels (Belgium) where he works as a Power PLatform Solution architect; he has designed more than 16 Enterprise Flow projects. He is an international & Ignite speaker and a frequent blogger. Serge has executed several assignments for the Microsoft SharePoint team (Redmond) across the world and has worked for Microsoft Learning as a Subject Matter Expert in SharePoint and in Workflow Foundation. He has trained more than a thousand developers in SharePoint. He is also the author of the famous Master Class Microsoft Power Automate and Master Class PowerApps workshops and helped the Flow team creates the "Microsoft Power Automate in a day" workshop. He is the creator of the open-source Power Platform BPM Toolkit available on GitHub.Serge worked previously as a researcher for the University of Namur (Belgium) and is also a Microsoft (USA) contractor.
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Tatu Seppälä
Blogger & speaker | Security & Compliance, Insider Risk, Power Platform, IAM
Tech explorer & lifetime learner. Deep experience in consultancy, advisory and architectural roles in the Microsoft cloud tech space.
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Thomas Vochten
Technology Evangelist | Microsoft MVP | Trainer | Advisor #Microsoft365 #Azure
I am a technology evangelist helping companies to implement Microsoft cloud technologies such as Microsoft 365, and Azure. As Microsoft MVP, I also travel the world to speak at events, conferences and user groups to talk about technology and to make sure people do not make the same expensive mistakes that I made.
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Vesa Nopanen
Metaverse | Futurist | Speaker | Blogger | Mr. Metaverse
Vesa "Vesku" Nopanen, Principal Consultant and Microsoft MVP working on Metaverse, AI and Future Work at Sulava.
The Metaverse is a Digital Fabric with AI, Digital Twins, Metaverse of Things, Microsoft Mesh, and other services & platforms in the cloud connecting digital and physical worlds and people together.
The Metaverse journey is on its early steps and Vesku is guiding you and your organization towards the future. He is extremely passionate about Metaverse, AI, Mixed & Virtual Reality and how these technologies, with Microsoft Teams and Cloud, enable to change how people work together.
Vesku has 25+ years of experience in IT business on multiple industries, domains, and roles. He is also a futurist, active speaker, blogger, evangelist, and technology community member.
https://linktr.ee/vesanopanen
