Irelands Inaugural Conference for Microsoft Cloud & Server 2019.

Mary Jo Foley

ZDNet, Technology writer, author, podcaster

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). She also is the cohost of the “Windows Weekly” podcast on the TWiT network. Got a tip? Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips and tattles. Confidentiality guaranteed.

Paul Thurrott

Technology podcaster, published author, and blogger

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with over 20 years of industry experience and the author of over 25 books. He is the News Director for the Petri IT Knowledgebase, the major domo at Thurrott.com, and the co-host of three tech podcasts: Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Mary Jo Foley, What the Tech with Andrew Zarian, and First Ring Daily with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows.

Aidan Finn

MicroWarehouse, Azure MVP, Technical Sales Lead

Aidan is an 11-year Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) with previous expertises of System Center Configuration Manager and Hyper-V. He works as the Technical Sales Lead of MicroWarehouse Ltd., an Irish technology distributor, where he focuses on assisting Microsoft partners with Azure skills & business growth.

Aidan writes a lot about public and private cloud technologies on his site and is the Contributing Editor on Microsoft virtualization for Petri.com. He has spoken at events around Europe and the USA, including TechEd Europe, Microsoft Ignite, E2EVC, and more, about Hyper-V and Azure. Aidan also runs a company called Cloud Mechanix, which runs hands-on Azure training in the EU.

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Kevin Greene

Ergo Group, Cloud and Datacenter MVP, Azure Cloud Lead

Kevin Greene is a Microsoft MVP and consultant working for Ergo, an IT services and consulting company located in Dublin, Ireland. A regular speaker at local and international events, he has also authored a number of books on Windows Server and Cloud and Datacenter Management technologies.

Kartik Pullabhotla

Microsoft, Azure Backup Program Manager

Kartik Pullabhotla is a Program Manager on the Microsoft Azure Backup product engineering team and is responsible for cloud-integrated backup solutions for hybrid IT environments, at scale monitoring and automation. Kartik has earlier worked on Azure Backup’s hybrid offerings such as Microsoft Azure Backup Server and Azure Backup agent. Now he works on File recovery from VMs, enlightened workload backup support, automation scenarios such as Powershell/CLI/ARM templates and REST APIs and Monitoring solutions for Azure Backup. With understanding on both hybrid and pure Azure offerings and insights into scale requirements for automation, Kartik hopes to expedite usage of cloud for infrastructure management and data protection.

Alexander Solaat Rødland

ITpro, MVP, MODE and Technology advisor

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in

Schrödinger’s Code – Code that has been written, but not tested, and is in a state of neither working nor failing until it is observed.

Besides my activity for ten years as a journalist and product manager for the Norwegian IT- Magazine ITpro.no, I have also managed to acquired two certificate of completed apprenticeship within electronics and ICT.

As of fall 2015 I have completed a bachelor degree in information science (BASV-INFO), and spring 2018 I completed my degree in Work- and organizational psychology at the University of Bergen, combined they focus on software development and motivational- and organization psychology. In my daytime job at Innofactor I focus on user experience and the interrelationship of humans, computers and implementation of new technology to peoples life.

I have been awarded with the MVP since 2014 and MODE (Microsoft OneDrive Expert) since 2017.

I have been a frequent speaker at various local seminars, TechDays Sweden, at Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) and Ignite.

Bob Duffy

Prodata, Irish SQL Dude and World SQL Jenga Champion

Bob Duffy is a SQL Server MVP from Dublin, Ireland who is MCA, MCM and now Analysis Services “Maestro” certified.

Bob used to work for Microsoft Consulting Services a Senior Consult and subject matter expert for BI/data. He now works at the Prodata SQL Centre off Excellence in Dublin, Ireland where he helps enterprise customers with cloud architecture, design, performance tuning, benchmarking and pretty much anything to do with SQL Server or Business Intelligence.

Damian Flynn

Lumagate, Cloud & Datacenter MVP, Principal Consultant

Damian is a Principal Consultant for Lumagate; an evangelist guided on the principal of “Making incredible technology, incredibly simple.”. Recognised as a Microsoft MVP since 2011 and Cisco Champion since 2014, he can be found blogging at www.damianflynn.com, tweeting under the alias @damian_flynn, and has published a number of white papers, technical articles, webinars, and co-author of multiple Microsoft Cloud related books, and Official Courseware. He is a regular presenter at many international and community events.

Currently focused on Cloud Technologies and the Hybrid Datacentre, Specialising in Azure Governance, and sustainable DevOps; Assisting organisations on Cloud optimised delivery of Legacy Apps and Microservices, leveraging containers and serverless when possible. When not working; his passion is IoT, with a background in PLC and emmbedded electronics, and has delivered professional home automation solutions.