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speaker[0]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_allenho.jpg" , tag:"Allen_Ho", name:"Allen Ho", desc:"Allen Ho is an Application Platform Architect with Microsoft Hong Kong. He helps architects and developers to design and develop enterprise applications using latest Microsoft .NET technologies. Allen has over 10 years of enterprise application development experience in different industries. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks and led development teams in large scale projects using agile software delivery techniques. Allen also has passion in game development for Windows and Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio."};
speaker[1]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Andrew_ehrensing.jpg", tag:"Andrew_Ehrensing", name:"Andrew Ehrensing", desc:"Andrew Ehrensing has 15 years of experience with corporate messaging systems. He is currently an Architect at Microsoft in the Central Region and has been with Microsoft since 2005. His current area of expertise is in consolidation and site resilient solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2007 that use both Microsoft and partner solutions (such as SAN level replication). He has delivered sessions for TechReady, Tech-Ed, and Exchange Connections as well as ramp-up programs for field and partner readiness around collaboration and messaging solutions. Andrew's hobbies include outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, backpacking, skiing, and golf-and especially important—the art of finding time away from work to partake in a hobby!"};
speaker[2]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_andy.jpg" , tag:"Andy_Cheung", name:"Andy Cheung", desc:"Application Platform Architect at Microsoft Hong Kong and a winner of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for three consecutive years. Andy was the Data System Architect in Centamap.com for 7 years, designing and maintaining the database systems behind Centamap. He is now responsible for connecting Enterprises in Hong Kong to provide advice and guidance for software architecture and implementation using Microsoft Technologies. He is also actively involving in local developer communities."};
speaker[3]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_BJ_Whalen.jpg", tag:"BJ_Whalen", name:"BJ Whalen", desc:"BJ is a Senior Program Manager on the Identity Management Team at Microsoft, where he is currently leading the team's engineering efforts in China. BJ is known for his focus on Admin UI, and has worked on a variety of server teams during his past 12 years with Microsoft including: Group Policy, Active Directory, and Core File Systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Brown University."};
speaker[4]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_bryonsurace.jpg" , tag:"Bryon_Surace", name:"Bryon Surace", desc:"Bryon Surace is a program manager on the Windows Virtualization team at Microsoft. This team is responsible for the overall strategy, design, and development of Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Server, and the next-generation Windows Server virtualization technologies. Bryon joined Microsoft in 2000. Before joining the Windows Virtualization team, Bryon worked as a program manager designing enterprise systems architecture."};
speaker[5]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Tangchiman.jpg", tag:"Chi_Man_Tang", name:"Chi Man, Tang", desc:"Chi Man, Tang is the Technology Manager of OEM Division at Microsoft Hong Kong. He is responsible for Microsoft’s Partner support and get ready on Microsoft technologies and solutions including Server, WinClient, Storage and mobile solutions. Chi Man specializes in network infrastructure and design, collaboration platform, storage and mobility solutions and over 15 years on field and consulting experience in IT industry. Providing solutions for partners and customers on Microsoft technologies and 3rd party integration is his passion."};
speaker[6]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_christao.jpg" , tag:"Chris_Tao", name:"Chris Tao", desc:"Chris Tao is a consultant in Microsoft MCS China east region with couple of years of ISV development advisory and project solution consulting experience in Microsoft. Since 2006 he mainly focuses on the Dynamics CRM and IW technical field to help ISV partner and enterprise customers to build robust productivity solutions. He has worked closely with Dynamics CRM 4.0 product team to lead the global CRM beta advisory and customer bug handling work last year. He has lots of product platform development and advisory experiences especially on Dynamics CRM, Office solutions and SharePoint(MOSS) solutions. He is also an active public speaker on the Microsoft Dynamics and IW technical field in China. Prior to joining MCS, he worked as several roles in Microsoft, as Partner Technical Consultant, ISV Advisory Engineer and Product Support Engineer. He lives at Shanghai and his blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/dipper "};
speaker[7]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_daniellai.jpg" , tag:"Daniel_Lai", name:"Daniel Lai", desc:"Daniel is a Solution Specialist for Security and Management at Microsoft Hong Kong Limited. He is responsible for deliver the Business Value and Technical Solutions of Microsoft Security and Management Solutions to the customers. Before joining Microsoft, Daniel was a Pre-sale Solutions consultant for Microsoft Infrastructure Solutions. He focused in Management Solutions and Desktop Deployment Planning Services. His strong technical and business knowledge in various projects allowed him to deliver outstanding results and solid value to his clients, including Government, SME and Enterprise.
Daniel was awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 6 years. And he was invited by our Global MVP and Community Team for a MVP Insider Interview on Jan 2007. "};
speaker[8]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_david.jpg" , tag:"David_Lowe", name:"David Lowe", desc:"David Lowe is Senior Product Manager for Windows Server with Microsoft Corporation. In this role, he manages worldwide evaluation and deployment programs for Windows Server 2008. David has been with Microsoft since 2001, and in this time he has also been Senior Product Manager for Security and IT Professional portfolios with Microsoft Learning. Prior to joining Microsoft, David was Senior Lecturer in Internet Technologies at the Centre for Advanced Technology Training in Dublin, Ireland, where he specialized in Web development and XML. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University College, Dublin, and he is the author of "BizTalk Server: The Complete Reference", published by Osborne-McGraw Hill."};
speaker[9]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Franklin_lo.jpg", tag:"Franklin_Lo", name:"Franklin Lo", desc:"Franklin Lo is the IT Pro Evangelist of Microsoft Hong Kong. He is responsible for building meaningful relationship with IT Pro audiences and driving satisfaction and positive perceptions with the IT professional community. Besides, Franklin is the Security Product Specialist of MSHK who works as the Technical Consultant for Forefront Security products. He is also the Technical Owner of TechEd Hong Kong. Franklin graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a Masters degree of Information Technology. He has 7 years working experiences in the IT industry."};
speaker[10]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_grey.jpg" , tag:"Greg_Low", name:"Greg Low", desc:"Greg is an internationally recognised consultant, developer and trainer. He has been working in development since 1978, holds a PhD in Computer Science and a host of Microsoft certifications. Greg is the country lead for Solid Quality, a SQL Server MVP and one of only three Microsoft MSDN Regional Directors for Australia. Greg also hosts the SQL Down Under podcast (www.sqldownunder.com), organises the SQL Down Under Code Camp and co-organises CodeCampOz. Greg is a PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) board member."};
speaker[11]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_harris.jpg" , tag:"Harris_Chan", name:"Harris Chan", desc:"Harris Chan is the Web Platform Architect of the Developer & Platform Group at Microsoft Hong Kong. Prior to this, he was a Software Design Engineer/Test of Office Server Group at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. He took an active role in the development of Microsoft web authoring tools including FrontPage 2003, SharePoint Designer 2007 and Expression Web. Nowadays, Harris works closely with enterprises, business decision makers, designers and developers to evangelize the most cutting edge Microsoft Web and User Experience technologies such as ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight and WPF. Harris graduated with a degree in Computer Science from University of Washington, Seattle."};
speaker[12]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Harry_ng.jpg", tag:"Harry_Ng", name:"Harry Ng", desc:"Mr. Harry Ng is the Senior Systems Consultant of Infocan Computer (HK) Limited (http://www.infocan.net). He works as a trainer, consultant and developer with focus on ASP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Studio, C#, SQL Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows Workflow, BizTalk, Project Server and related technologies. He has been working with .NET and SharePoint since before it was made available to the general public.
Mr. Ng is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) who holds many industry credentials including MCDBA, MCSE, MCSA, MCSD and MCP. The credentials demonstrate his in-depth knowledge and expertise in the broad range of Microsoft technologies. Mr. Ng is also the speaker of the Train-the-Trainer program on various Microsoft products. He is also a frequent guest speaker at several technology conferences, Microsoft seminars and user group meetings. He has trained and consulted many people in corporations and government departments. Experience encompasses many different corporate environments ranging from small, specialized locations to multi-site international corporations.
Mr. Ng has also served as a Developer, Architect Solution Consultant and Project Manager over the past several years. He worked closely with clients and partners to develop comprehensive service and solution offerings with a focus on Microsoft technologies."};
speaker[13]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_howard.jpg" , tag:"Howard_Chow", name:"Howard Chow", desc:"Howard Chow is an industry leading speaker and consultant specialized in in-depth Microsoft technologies. Over the past ten years, Howard has held a variety of positions in the information technology and consulting fields providing advice across major HK enterprises. Howard specializes in collaboration platform and information security infrastructure planning and has been actively providing training and tailor made skill transfer sessions to over 1000 IT professionals, including partners and trainers using Microsoft technologies. He has also been an active and popular speaker in many different Microsoft technology seminars (TechNet / TechEd) and has been invited by various top IT vendors to speak at of their events. Howard, as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, is a technology advocate and is currently devoted his career as Head of Technology Strategy at a HK based technology marketing firm where he leads his team to plan and execute marketing strategies for top-tiered IT vendors."};
speaker[14]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Jae_Kim.jpg", tag:"Jae_Kim", name:"Jae Kim", desc:"Working and living in different countries (US, France, China) I have a diverse background spanning different roles (developer, consultant, program manager, trainer), multiple platforms (Windows, Unix/Linux), databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), and application servers (Tomcat, Websphere, Weblogic).
Graduated from University of Maryland with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science."};
speaker[15]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_jason.jpg" , tag:"Jason_Langridge", name:"Jason Langridge", desc:"Jason has been with Microsoft since 1998 working with Microsoft's Enterprise customers. Within Microsoft's Mobile Communication Business Jason is responsible for business development for mobility solutions for Major Enterprise accounts. Jason has responsibility for enabling Enterprises to become more mobile, agile, flexible, opportunistic, and achieve the next level of productivity. With the latest innovation in mobile devices and networks - organization cans, for the first time, extend the central nervous system of the business beyond the office walls. His blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan"};
speaker[16]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_jasonwu.jpg" , tag:"Jason_Wu", name:"Jason Wu", desc:"Jason Wu currently is the senior group manager for Microsoft SQL engine product team in Beijing China, where his team is focused on the area of SQL server disaster recovery technologies. Before that he has held various positions at Microsoft SQL server group at Redmond, USA until summer of 2008, most recently as the senior program manager lead driving SQL engine investment strategy and project planning in China. He has spent most of his time working on core database technology areas, including system resource management and scheduling, transaction processing, logging and recovery, high availability & disaster recovery, and security. He joined Microsoft in 1999.
Jason graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with MS degrees in both Computer Science and Biomedical science. He holds a BS degree from Nankai University, Tianjin China."};
speaker[17]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_john.jpg" , tag:"Johan_Arwidmark", name:"Johan Arwidmark", desc:"Johan Arwidmark is a consultant and all-around ubergeek specializing in Enterprise Windows Deployment Solutions. He speaks at several conferences each year, including IT-Forum, MMS and TechEd. He is also actively involved in deployment communities like deployvista.com, itproffs.se and myitforum.com, and has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Setup & Deployment. He is known for an energetic and humorous style, tackling complex concepts using simple "Real World" scenarios and lots of live demos. His areas of expertise include: Enterprise Windows Deployment Tools and Solutions, MDT 2008, WinPE, USMT, WDS, and SCCM 2007."};
speaker[18]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_jon.jpg" , tag:"Jon_Flanders", name:"Jon Flanders", desc:"Although Jon spent the first few years of his professional life as an attorney, he quickly found chasing bits more interesting than chasing ambulances. He first worked at the University of Minnesota, building a financial reporting Web site using ASP and SQL Server, specializing in automatic integration between multiple data stores. Since joining the training industry in 1999, Jon has devoted his time to working on various projects while migrating from the world of ASP and COM to the world of .NET, ASP.NET, and Web Services.
Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out exactly how things work. Deducing the details and disseminating that information to other developers is his passion. Jon wrote Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and co-authored Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. His most recent technology interest is BizTalk 2006. He has been working with BizTalk since before its public release, authoring BizTalk courseware, articles, and utilities, as well as providing BizTalk consulting services. Jon has also been involved with Windows Workflow Foundation since its beta release, and currently has been working with Microsoft delivering jumpstart training for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and BizTalk RFID."};
speaker[19]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_zzq.jpg" , tag:"Justin_Zheng", name:"Justin Zheng", desc:"Justin Zheng is the SDET of Microsoft WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) R&D team. He joined Microsoft STBC in 2005 and dedicated to the development and test for WCF IT Pro Tools & WCF Development Tools. He has good understanding of Distribute System and Enterprise Application development."};
speaker[20]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_kare-.jpg" , tag:"Karen_Liu", name:"Karen Liu", desc:"Karen Liu is a Program Manager on the Visual C# team at Microsoft. She is responsible for the C# IDE in Visual Studio and the C# design-time experience for the LINQ project. Karen has worked on a variety of features across the IDE -- from IntelliSense, to code refactoring, to code snippets. Prior to joining Microsoft, Karen worked as a research assistant at the MIT Media Laboratory where she focused on developing and applying pattern recognition techniques to enable intelligent human-computer interactions. She holds a Masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in Computer Science."};
speaker[21]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_kenlin.jpg" , tag:"Ken_Lin", name:"Ken Lin", desc:"Mr. Ken Lin is the Founder and Vice President of the Hong Kong .NET User Group (HKNetUG). He formed this UG with Mr. Colt Kwong in 2002. He is holder of almost all Microsoft Certifications (MCP, MCP+I, MCDST, MCSA, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCAD, MCSD, MCITP) since the age of WinNT 4.0. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for many years. From 2002, he is awarded Visual Basic Insider, Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic from Microsoft, and Microsoft Community Star from Microsoft Hong Kong and Microsoft Taiwan.
Mr. Ken Lin is also an active technical blogger. He was invited by MSBLOG and JO-SAN.IT to be one of the Vista Bloggers. He was also selected to be joined a training from Windows Vista Product Group in Singapore in 2006.
Mr. Ken Lin has more than 10 years experience with desktop application development since VB5 and SQL6.5. He is currently working in a top tier brokerage firm, focusing on ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight and SourceCode-K2 workflow development. He is also awarded as SourceCode K2 Insider in 2007. He can be reached at Ken@HKNetUG.com."};
speaker[22]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Lorenz_Prem-.jpg", tag:"Lorenz_Prem", name:"Lorenz Prem", desc:"Lorenz is a Program Manager in Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD). He was a member of the WCF V1 team contributing to the config system and service manageability. Most recently he has been working on the WCF/WF developer experience in Visual Studio, Oslo, and BizTalk 2009."};
speaker[23]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_ludovic.jpg" , tag:"Ludovic_Fourrage", name:"Ludovic Fourrage", desc:"Ludovic Fourrage is the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Academy. Since 2006 he has pioneered the use of Web 2.0 technologies to bring learning and knowledge sharing inside Microsoft to new levels. In 2007 he launched the first enterprise-class podcasting platform called Academy Mobile to more than 30,000 Microsoft employees. Later in February 2007 Ludovic Fourrage shared his vision for the Liberal Enterprise with John Havens, author of Tactical Transparency.
He has been identified by the community as one of the top Enterprise 2.0 influencers. Ludo is married with one child and lives in Seattle, WA."};
speaker[24]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_mark.jpg" , tag:"Mark_Russinovich", name:"Mark Russinovich", desc:"Dr. Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services Division. Russinovich is a widely recognized expert in Windows operating system internals as well as operating architecture and design. His discovery of a rootkit on popular Sony audio CDs led to industry reforms in the area of computer privacy.
Russinovich joined Microsoft when Microsoft acquired Winternals software, the company he cofounded in 1996 and where he worked as Chief Software Architect. He is also cofounder of Sysinternals.com, where he wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer and RootkitRevealer. He previously worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, researching operating system support for web server acceleration and serving as an operating systems expert.
Russinovich coauthored "Inside Windows 2000" and "Windows Internals," both from Microsoft Press, is a contributing editor for Microsoft TechNet and Magazine and Windows IT Pro Magazine, and has written dozens of articles on Windows internals. He has been a featured speaker at major industry conferences around the world, including Microsoft's TechEd, IT Forum, and Professional Developer's Conference, as well as Windows Connections, Windev, and TechMentor, and has taught Windows internals, troubleshooting and file system and device driver development to companies worldwide, including Microsoft.
Russinovich earned his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University."};
speaker[25]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_mingxu.jpg" , tag:"Ming_Xu", name:"Ming Xu", desc:"Ming Xu is the Principal Program Manager for High Performance Computing at Microsoft. Ming is responsible for the design and architecture of the HPC Server Job Scheduler, Programming Model and Runtime Systems. Ming has 21 years of experience in the HPC space, 8 of them in Academia / Government Labs and 13 in the Industry. Ming joined Microsoft HPC team at its inception in 2004 and program-managed a global team spanning Redmond and Shanghai for the first two releases of the HPC product. Ming's passion involves making HPC affordable and accessible to the mass. Before joining Microsoft, Ming held the Principal Architect post at the Platform Computing Corporation, the leader in the HPC middleware space from 1996-2004. He was responsible for the design and technology strategy of their flagship products, LSF and Symphony. He was a post-doc at the Argonne National Labs from 1993-1995, focusing on developing parallel programming language compiler and runtime systems. He produced a message passing version of Fortran, Fortran-M, that runs on a network of workstations. Before joining Argonne, Ming was a Research Associate at the Centre for Novel Computing from 1991-1993, University of Manchester, where he involved in multiple parallel functional and logic programming language runtime systems. Ming got his PhD in the field of Parallel Discrete Event Simulation from the University of Exeter, UK in 1991."};
speaker[26]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_xueminmin.jpg" , tag:"Minmin_Xue", name:"Minmin Xue", desc:"Minmin Xue is the Program Manager of Microsoft WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) R&D team. Since she joined Microsoft STBC (Sever & Tools Business China) in 2006, she has been dedicated to develop a set of WCF tools, which helps to simplify customers' experience of building WCF services and make it easier for everyone to adopt SOA and enjoy its benefits. Before joining Microsoft, she worked for Alcatel and has around 8 years' R&D and project management experiences in Telecommunication industry."};
speaker[27]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_phil.jpg" , tag:"Phil_Haack", name:"Phil Haack", desc:"As a code junkie, Phil Haack loves to craft software. Not only does he enjoy writing software, he enjoys writing about software and software management on his blog, http://haacked.com/.
Phil recently joined Microsoft as a Program Manager with the ASP.NET team working on the ASP.NET MVC project. Prior to joining Microsoft, Phil worked as a product manager for a code search engine, a dev manager for an online gaming company, and as a senior architect for a popular Spanish language television network, among other things.
In his spare time, Phil contributes to various open source projects and is the founder of the Subtext blog engine project, which he recently learned powers the blogs on MySpace China."};
speaker[28]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Ronald_Beekelaar.jpg", tag:"Ronald_Beekelaar", name:"Ronald Beekelaar", desc:"Ronald Beekelaar is an independent consultant from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
He has extensive experience in Windows Server security, network infrastructure design, and virtual machine technology. Ronald is a frequent presenter in international industry events including Microsoft TechEd, IT Forum, Windows Connections and TechMentor, covering topics such as IPSec, NAP, ISA Server, Forefront, Stirling and Windows Server virtualization (Hyper-V). Ronald is MCSE, MCT, and MVP in both Windows Security and Virtual Machine technology."};
speaker[29]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_scott.jpg" , tag:"Scott_Schnoll", name:"Scott Schnoll", desc:"Scott Schnoll (MCT, MCSE, MCSA) is a Principal Technical Writer on the Exchange User Education team at Microsoft where he authors content on a variety of topics related to Exchange Server, including clustering, high-availability, storage and performance. He is a frequent speaker at major industry conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft IT Forum, Comdex and MCP TechMentor. Prior to joining Microsoft, Scott authored Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and he was the lead author of Exchange 2000 Server: The Complete Reference (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2000). Scott is a former long-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server, Windows and Rights Management Services."};
speaker[30]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Shane_Bartle.jpg", tag:"Shane_Bartle", name:"Shane Bartle", desc:"Shane is a Principal Application Development Consultant with Microsoft Services in New Zealand where he has worked for the past 8 years. He has worked in many technologies across the Microsoft application platform stack including SQL Server, ASP.NET, Content Management Server, SharePoint, Speech Server and C#, however began specialising in Business Intelligence solutions in the last two years. During his time at Microsoft, Shane also founded and managed the Microsoft New Zealand Innovation Centre which funds and builds public sector prototypes. He has presented a number of sessions over the years at TechEd in New Zealand."};
speaker[31]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_simonsung.jpg" , tag:"Simon_Sung", name:"Simon Sung", desc:"Simon Sung has more than 10-years experience in the I.T. Training sector and has high proficiency in a wide range of PC applications and server development programs. His expertise covers Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Sever, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), Systems Management Server (SMS), SharePoint Server, virtualization technology, Network Security, Web Design and Multimedia Technology, etc.
Simon has profound knowledge in system migration and network infrastructure development. In his capacity as a consultant, he is regularly involved in large-scale system migration projects.
Being a qualified Microsoft Certified Trainer, VMware Certified Instructor and Red Flag Linux Certified Instructor, Simon has been invited to appear as guest host of a series of IT television programs of ATV, radio programs of RTHK, as well as guest speaker of many large-scale Information Technology seminars. In addition, he also works as a freelance editor and his articles have been published in numerous PC magazines."};
speaker[32]={img:"images/spacer.gif" , tag:"Stephanie_Cheung", name:"Stephanie Cheung", desc:"Program Manager, Directory Services, Microsoft Corporation
Stephanie Cheung is a Program Manager at Microsoft in the Directory Services product development group based in the Redmond headquarter. She drives product development of Active Directory in the areas of Core and Disaster Recovery and has helped to ship Active Directory in Windows Server 2008. Stephanie has evangelized Active Directory by presenting major public conferences like TechEd, DEC, TechReady, etc. She is currently developing next generation Active Directory in the upcoming Windows release."};
speaker[33]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_steve.jpg" , tag:"Steve_Riley", name:"Steve Riley", desc:"Steve Riley is a senior strategist and worldwide security evangelist in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Steve specializes in the process of information security, including policies, networks, and hosts. Steve is a frequent and popular speaker at conferences worldwide, working to spread a better understanding of security science. He also spends time with individual customers to learn the security pain they face and show how some of that pain can be eliminated. Having been born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture."};
speaker[34]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_tara.jpg" , tag:"Tara_Seppa", name:"Tara Seppa", desc:"Tara Seppa, Information Worker Solution Specialist for Microsoft Corporation, assists customers who are looking for ways to get the most value out of the Microsoft solutions they are invested in. Tara works closely with CIOs and IT professionals by assisting them in evaluating and selecting business and technical solutions in key areas like search, portals and collaboration, workflow, unified communications, and content/document management. She is a graduate of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with a concentration in Information Systems and her background includes 7 years of technical sales experience at Microsoft. Prior to that she spent several years as a developer. "};
speaker[35]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_Yang_cao.jpg", tag:"Yang_Cao", name:"Yang Cao", desc:"Yang Cao is a Program Manager of BizApps (Business Applications), DevDiv (Developer Division). Yang began her career in Microsoft in 2007, after graduating with a master degree in Computer Science. She has been working on VSPro features such as Class Designer and Sync Designer, also helped released Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Currently she is working on next release of Visual Studio and is dedicated to helping enhance the develop experience of data driven applications."};
//speaker[32]={img:"images/speakers/speakers_robertzare.jpg" , tag:"Robert_Zare", name:"Robert Zare", desc:"Robert Zare is program manager on the SQL Server Integration Services team. Robert was, up until recently, program manager for the Analysis Services team for over 9 years, and in charge of the user interface for the team's development and management tools. Robert is also a co-author of 'Fast Track to MDX' and the upcoming 'Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2008.'"};
//speaker[9]={img:"images/speakers/speaker_donald.jpg" , tag:"Donald_Farmer", name:"Donald Farmer", desc:"Donald Farmer has worked in the Microsoft Business Intelligence team for 7 years, with expereince in both the Analysis Services and Integration Services product teams. Donald is now a Principal Program Manager for SQL Server Analysis Services, working to build the new generation of analytic technology, including predictive analysis, within the Microsoft business intelligence platform. Mr. Farmer is a popular speaker at international events for both business and technical audiences, with a wide range of interests including data integration, information quality, metadata intelligence, master data management and predictive analytics. He is a Guest Professor at the College of Software and Information Science, Southwestern University at Chongqing, China and is the author of a number of books and articles. Prior to joining Microsoft, Donald worked not only in Business Intelligence but in fields as varied as medieval archaeology and fish-farming."};
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