The Speakers

Karel is a Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, who helps customers to successfully migrate and adopt the Microsoft Azure platform within their organization. He works for DexMach and helps the strategic customer projects to ensure they are successful on the Azure platform, and focuses on providing architecture and technical solutions for Azure projects.

His core areas of expertise are Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Platform.

As a technology enthusiast and a community member, he frequently shares his knowledge about experiences with Azure and other Microsoft technologies. Additionally, Karel is also a board member of the TechNine IT Pro user group.

When offline and not working, he enjoys having family time and running into the wild.

@kareldewinter

Wim is an Azure Technical Advisor, who has more than fifteen years of experience with Microsoft Technologies. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), his strength is to assist companies in the transformation of their business to the Cloud by implementing the latest features, services and solutions. Currently, his main focus is on the Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Platform and especially on Microsoft Azure and the Azure hybrid services.

Wim is also a Microsoft MVP in the Azure category and a founding board member of the MC2MC user group.

As a passionate community member, he regularly writes blogs and speaks about his daily experiences with Azure and other Microsoft technologies.

@wmatthyssen

Freek Berson speaks at various conferences around the world including Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Ignite | The Tour, Microsoft TechSummit, Microsoft TechDays, Azure Saturday, BriForum, E2EVC and ExpertsLive. Freek is awarded Microsoft MVP since 2011. He authored the book “Getting started with Bicep”, coauthored the book “RDS – The Complete Guide” and published the free e-books “Azure Virtual Desktop Handbook: Security Fundamentals” and “Azure Virtual Desktop Migration Guide for Remote Desktop Services” He works at Wortell, a Cloud integrator company based in the Netherlands, where he focusses on Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop Services, Azure and Infrastructure as Code using ARM & Bicep Templates. He is also a managing partner at rdsgurus.com. He maintains his personal blog at http://themicrosoftplatform.net where he writes articles and blog posts related to Windows Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop Services, Azure, and other Microsoft technologies. He shares his code via github.com/fberson and you can follow him on twitter via @fberson.

Tiago Costa is a Senior Cloud Architect and Advisor focusing on Microsoft Azure, International Speaker, Trainer and Author. For the past 20 years has been architecting and developing solutions using Microsoft technologies. In the last years Tiago have been helping companies to migrate and build Cloud native workloads in Microsoft Azure. Tiago has been working as at the Senior Architect level, but he always like to do some hands-on tasks on the Azure Administration and Development side of things. You can find him regularly in the classroom or online teaching Microsoft Azure. All this real-world experience allows him to deliver amazing trainings on Microsoft Azure.

Tiago has several Microsoft Certifications and awards:
– Microsoft Azure MVP (2016 – …)
– MCT – Microsoft Certified Trainer (2006 – …)
– MCT Regional Lead (2013 – …)
– Microsoft Certification Council Member (2020 – …)

He loves diving into new technologies and share his experience at conferences and training classes. What excites him about it’s work is to help others exploring new frontiers in technology and to become better professionals. He’s free time is spent with his family in the surroundings of the sunny Lisbon, Portugal, and building some cool geek projects.

Sander Berkouwer is a Dutch IT Professional. He works as CTO at SCCT in the Netherlands, where he helps colleagues and customers make the most out of Microsoft products, strategies and technologies. Sander blogs on DirTeam.com. He regularly gets invited as speaker for his enthusiastic approach, his in-depth real-world knowledge and of course as the author of the much-appraised Active Directory Cookbook. Sander has been awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (for the last 13 years), Veeam Vanguard award (for the last 6 years) and VMware vExpert (for the last 3 years).

Ben Whitmore is a Senior Cloud Consultant at CloudWay and an MVP in Enterprise Mobility. He actively works in the community sharing his knowledge, hosting user groups, and presenting. He is a contributor at https://MSEndpointMgr.com and runs his own blog https://byteben.com

Neil McLoughlin is a 2 x Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Mobility, ex-Citrix CTA and all round DaaS Geek. During the day Neil works as the UK Field CTO for Nerdio, a company specialising in extending the Azure Virtual Desktop Capability for customers all over the world. During the evening you will find Neil getting involved with community as he runs the UK Azure Virtual Desktop User Group, as well as the Virtual Desktops community. When he’s not spreading the DaaS love he enjoys spending time with his family and reading.