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Our Schedule Today AUDIENCE: Developer IT Pro End-User Business

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7:30 – 8:00 Breakfast and Registration – Building ACCE Room 105abc

8:00 – 8:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks – Room 105abc

8:30 – 9:40 Hassan Souhdi Les clés d’une gestion de projets et de travail efficaces avec Project Online et Planner les outils stars d’Office 365

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Sebastien Levert From SharePoint to Office Development : The path to your new playground

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John White OneDrive, TwoDrive, White Drive, Blue Drive

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Noorez Khamis

Office 365 for Business demystified for the average technology and business professional

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9:50 – 11:00 Antonio Maio How Secure is My Data in Microsoft Office 365?

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Vincent Biret Make Office Graph data useful for your company

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D’arce Hess The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Understanding Good Design Practices in SharePoint/O365

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David Drever Leading Practices for Planning and Implementing a SharePoint Environment

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11:10–12:20 Platinum Sponsor: Orangutech Inc. Topic: SharePoint 2016 Transitory Documents to GCDOCS Records Demonstration on Microsoft Azure

Daniel Sanscartier, CTO

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Amit Vasu Introduction to new SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

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Luc Labelle Introduction to Microsoft Flow and PowerApps

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Mike Maadarani Tips in migrating to SharePoint 2016 or O365, to avoid a migration headache

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12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:40 Amitabh Srivastav An Expected Journey: Managing the Risks of a SharePoint Implementation for an EDRMS solution

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Gold Sponsor: Collabware Topic: For the Record: Success with Records Management in SharePoint is Easy Robert Piddocke, Director Business Dev.

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Gold Sponsor: Helux Systems Topic: How to protect your SharePoint files on Mobile devices

Cham Tanh, CTO

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Nicolas Georgeault A SharePoint and Office 365 Hybrid

Configuration from A to Z

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2:50 – 4:00 Martin Laplante When Your Tower of Babel Reaches the Cloud: Languages and Office 365

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Bhakthi Liyanage Office 365 and SharePoint development Patterns and Practice Guide

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Haniel Croitoru

When to Use What When Provisioning SharePoint Online

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John Calvert, Brian-Paul Carline Perfecting Your SharePoint Platform Architecture and Implementation Plan for On Premises Nirvana

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4:00 – 4:10 Transition to Room 105abc

4:10 – 5:00 Experts’ Panel, Prize Giveaways & Closing Remarks – Room 105abc

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Amitabh Srivastav

X X X 100 403 An Expected Journey: Managing the Risks of a SharePoint Implementation for an EDRMS solution

Implementing SharePoint for an EDRMS solution requires executive buy-in and business support foremost, followed by managing expectations during the journey before system implementation, configuration, and rollout. Managing risks and expectations involves IM awareness, IM policy renewal, IM readiness, file plan update, and paper / content clean-up as a way to deliver incremental value and steady improvement.

Sebastien Levert (MVP)

X X X X 100 404 From SharePoint to Office Development : The path to your new playground

The world around the Office Developer is changing. And for someone with a heavy SharePoint background, it can be somewhat scary to make the move to the cloud. But don't be scared, SharePoint Developer! Become an added-value Office Developer and contribute to maximize the productivity of your enterprise. In this session, we will cover every aspect of the new Office Developer paradigm and we will ensure that you can make yourself at home in such a new world. The topics covered will be: SharePoint Add-In, Office 365 Apps, Office Add-In, Microsoft Graph.

Antonio Maio (MVP)

X X 200 403 How Secure is My Data in Microsoft Office 365?

When considering a cloud based service like Office 365, questions about security and trust often gets asked – questions like: Can I trust Office 365 with my company’s data? How secure is my data in Office 365? Organizations are often cautious when it comes to trusting cloud services with storing and providing access to corporate data. This becomes even more of a concern when we think about sensitive data, personally identifiable data or data that requires regulatory compliance controls. Being cautious and asking a cloud service provider questions about security and trust is a positive step. Answering those questions requires learning about the security strategy the provider has employed, and the specific controls they have put in place to protect your data. This session will answer those questions and provide an overview of the robust set of security capabilities available in Office 365.

Luc Labelle X X X 100 412 Introduction to Microsoft Flow and PowerApps

This session is aimed at decision makers, users / super user and has objective to demonstrate the value and the functionalities offered by Microsoft Flow and Power Apps. In this session, the attendees will be exposed to the challenges posed by the "digital transformation" in organizations as well as some of the

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tools offered by Microsoft to address these challenges such as Flow and PowerApps. After attending this session, participants will be able to better understand why and how to use Microsoft Flow and PowerApps to automate business processes and publish business applications. Topics include: Introduction to Microsoft Flow, Basic Flow of creation, introduction to PowerApps, creation and publication of basic application.

Amit Vasu (MVP)

X 100 404 Introduction to new SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

This is an introductory session on Microsoft's new and shiny SharePoint Framework. You will learn how to use new SharePoint framework, which tools to use when using SharePoint framework. If you are a SharePoint developer then this session will be help you understand new SharePoint framework. This session will also cover how to get started with new SharePoint framework.

Noorez Khamis (MVP)

X X X 100 413 Office 365 for Business demystified for the average technology and business professional

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the big push to move to the Office365 cloud? Are you just not up to speed on the major features, applications & technology advances to Office365 cloud that Microsoft seems to be releasing on a weekly basis (i.e. Mail, Planner, Delve, Teams, Yammer, etc.)? This session aims to give the average technology and business professional a high level and up to date overview of many of the major Office365 for Business features and applications as well as how you can get started with them. It also aims to give a quick overview on when you would use each feature.

David Drever (MVP)

X X X X 200 413 Leading Practices for Planning and Implementing a SharePoint Environment

There are many best practices for creating a SharePoint farm. But something not covered often enough and just as important is how to plan the farm implementation even before you install the binaries. In this session we will see some pitfalls taken by businesses as we discuss the leading practices of planning and implementing the non-technical side of SharePoint. We will cover items from who should be involved to proof-of-concepts to SharePoint Governance. This is a session for everyone as all members of a project should be aware of these concepts.

Hassan Souhdi (MCT)

X X X 200 403 Les clés d’une gestion de projets et de travail efficaces avec Project Online et Planner les outils stars d’Office 365

Project Online est une solution en ligne adaptable destinée à la gestion du portefeuille de projets (GPP) et à la réalisation des tâches quotidiennes fournie via Office 365. Project Online permet aux organisations d'utiliser rapidement des fonctionnalités de gestion collaborative du portefeuille de projets et tire sa puissance des nombreux avantages qu’offre Office 365. La famille d'outils d'Office 365 s'est étoffée avec Planner qui offre une façon simple et très visuelle d’organiser le travail d’équipe.

Vincent Biret (MVP)

X 300 404 Make Office Graph data useful for your company

More and more great companies are delivering Graph API’s and Services: a new way to expose data and how each information is

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related to each other. Microsoft reached a huge milestone with Azure Graph, Office Delve, Yammer API’s and Azure learning machine. It is your job as a developer to get the best benefit of this data for your core business users and even more: try to integrate your business data to the graph. We will see examples on how to exploit this new data management paradigm and explain the underlying concepts.

Bill Crider X X X 100 Vendor Area

Go Full Tony Stark with 3D User Interfaces using Microsoft HoloLens and SharePoint

You have seen Minority Report (maybe). You have seen Iron Man. (surely) Microsoft HoloLens represents the first step to the incredible User Interfaces you see in these movies. Combining speech, gesture and 3 dimensional graphics to form a natural UI that blurs the line between machine and user. In this special demo, you will get a sneak peak of the Microsoft HoloLens and how it is being used to create the future of UI and the future of collaboration. Held in the vendor areas, I will be doing 10-15 minute demos of HoloLens in general and discussing its use with SharePoint specifically. I will then let people actually use the headset.

Bhakthi Liyanage (MCT)

X X 200 404 Office 365 and SharePoint development Patterns and Practice Guide

The SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns & Practices (PnP) initiative focuses on transforming SharePoint full Trust Code Solutions in to the add-in model and provides samples and documentation to help you to implement typical customizations for Office 365 or for SharePoint (Online and on-premises) based on your functional requirements. This session will show you how to get started with PnP and identifies various server-side development tasks and implement them with client-side technologies using PnP.

John White (MVP)

X X 100 412 OneDrive, TwoDrive, White Drive, Blue Drive

OneDrive is the personal cloud storage system from Microsoft. OneDrive is the corporate cloud storage system from Microsoft. OneDrive is the offline file solution for SharePoint. All of these statements are true, so how does it all work? OneDrive for Business has undergone significant changes over the last year, and some of these changes have introduced confusion to customers. This session will attempt to clear up as much of the confusion as possible. We will walk through how One Drive has evolved over the years, and where it is at today. We'll walk through all of the current configurations for OneDrive, setting up a client and discuss optimal ways of working with it, and provide a few tips and tricks. We will conclude with a few recommendations.

John Calvert, Brian-Paul Carline

X 300 413 Perfecting Your SharePoint Platform Architecture and

While cloud-based services are increasingly popular, many organizations still require their SharePoint platform to be on premises. But all too often they lack deep experience in preparing

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Implementation Plan for On-Premises Nirvana

their SharePoint technology platform architecture and implementation plan, which leads to a boat-load of problems later on when their SharePoint farm can't support required work loads, misbehaves, or fails under load. In this presentation we will explore the latest best practices in on-premises SharePoint technology and platform architecture, and real-world experience implementing SharePoint 2013 / 2016 for several Government of Canada clients. In addition to SharePoint itself we'll address Active Directory, SQL Server, DNS & networking and other server system considerations for SharePoint.

Nicolas Georgeault (MVP)

X 300 413 SharePoint and Office 365 Hybrid Configuration from A to Z

Learn SharePoint and Office 365 Hybrid Configuration from A to Z. Even if you use SharePoint On premises, Hybrid is more and more in the DNA of Microsoft product. In SharePoint 2016, this way to consume and integrate external services will be part of the default architecture. If you do not look at that yet or if you want to be sure to get all the details about the new configuration option, we will give you a fully detailed configuration trail from Azure Services to SharePoint On Premises and Online. During this session you will:

– Learn why Hybrid is so important – Discover how to setup Azure AD Services and be sure to get

all the details about Identity management – Learn how to setup Office 365 Hybrid using the new Hybrid

Picker option – Learn how to connect correctly SharePoint 2013 and 2016 to

get Sites and hybrid services – Speculate with us what will be the next step in Hybrid

Roadmap. Benefits of Attending this Session:

1. Learn why Hybrid is so important 2. Discover the new Hybrid Picker 3. Learn what will be the next steps in the Hybrid Roadmap

D'arce Hess X 100 412 The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Understanding Good Design Practices in SharePoint/O365

Everyone is looking for that “Wow” factor when it comes to

design. Anytime you look at a site, you will instantly be able to

make a determination that it is good or bad based on personal

opinion.

In this session, we will review high-level design considerations

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that help create an amazing site or can contribute to a very bad

design. We will discuss the following:

choosing for color palettes,

fonts,

page layout structures

recommendations for links

Various ways for users to navigate through a site

Understanding what the goal of your site is and how to

break it down into producible content

Understanding when to use links

By the end of this session, users will have a strong base to be

able to move forward with the designing process of a

SharePoint Intranet for both publishing and collaboration sites

in SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016 and Office 365. This session

will not include code examples and is targeted towards Business

Users, End Users and non-technical designers.

Haniel Croitoru

X X 200 412 When to Use What When Provisioning SharePoint Online

In order to meet specific business needs, SharePoint Online

requires various changes to be made to it, such as branding and

content structure. The process of applying these changes to a

SharePoint site is called Provisioning. SharePoint Online can be

provisioned in a number of ways. Depending on your specific

scenario of changes you need to introduce, your provisioning

options will vary.

In this session, I'll be covering and comparing provisioning

SharePoint solutions through the native SharePoint user

interface, SharePoint Designer, and PowerShell. In the latter part

of the presentation, I will share a process I've been successfully

using from requirements gathering to repeatable deployments

of SharePoint sites.

Come to my session to learn about the various provisioning

alternatives and when it's best to use each of them.

Martin Laplante

X X 200 403 When Your Tower of Babel Reaches the Cloud: Languages and Office 365

Office 365 handles many languages individually, but if there is more than one language at once things get tricky. Making SharePoint sites truly multilingual using the Multilingual User Interface is already difficult enough, but on Office 365 the challenges are multiplied.

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Some solutions that work with SharePoint on-premise are not possible. When configuring sites or localising apps, you may be surprised how many different factors Office 365 uses to determine the language of different components. Many of the language configuration and localisation methods described on Microsoft sites do not tell the entire story; they apply to some scenarios and not to others. You will find out what to watch out for, what works and what doesn’t, and how to fix it. You will learn some of the language-related challenges and opportunities that apply to both Office 365 and SharePoint 2013 or 2016, and some of the additional challenges unique to Office 365. The session will also discuss machine translation, specifically giving insight into what types of content translate well and what types don’t. Some points will be illustrated with short demos, but since most changes to language configurations take several minutes to take effect, there is some suspense involved in these demos.

Mike Maadarani (MVP)

X X 100 413 Tips in migrating to SharePoint 2016 or O365, to avoid a migration headache

Migrating data into any platform is a difficult task, especially if you are moving into Office 365. If you are migrating to either SharePoint On-Premise or O365, you will need preparation, good planning, and detailed execution activities are keys to avoid migration nightmare. This session will help you learn a methodology, adopted based on many previous migration, to help you deliver a successful migration project with happy users. We will learn the steps you need in your pre-migration analysis, migration checklists, post migration support, and any issues you might face during and after completing the migration efforts.

Daniel Sanscartier

X X X 100 403 SharePoint 2016 Transitory Documents to GCDOCS Records Demonstration on Microsoft Azure

This presentation will demonstrate through a live interactive session how to manage SharePoint 2016 transitory documents for collaboration purposes and then store some of these documents as records in GCDOCS. Transitory documents in SharePoint will be moved as records to specific folders in the GCDOCS workspace based on the OpenText AGA Connector Profiles and Query Rules. The trigger to submit SharePoint transitory documents as GCDOCS records will be based on SharePoint IM Policies or approval workflows. SharePoint document content types will be mapped to GCDOCS Categories and Attributes to ensure metadata migration We will demonstrate how the SharePoint Enterprise Search engine will be able to provide query-based results simultaneously from both SharePoint and GCDOCS repositories.

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Robert Piddocke

X X 100 404 For the Record: Success with Records Management in SharePoint is Easy

This session discusses the key elements of successful Records Management, the gaps to achieving them in SharePoint and how to bridge those gaps. It is a widely held belief that SharePoint is either inappropriate or incapable of handling electronic records properly. This session will show how this is a myth and SharePoint can, with the right help, successfully manage records, both electronic and physical.

Cham Tanh X X X 200 412 How to protect your SharePoint files on Mobile devices

As the number of mobile devices increase in the workplace, organizations are looking for ways to keep their information secure on managed and unmanaged devices. In this session, we will explore Office 365 new Mobile Device Management (MDM) feature as well as other features offered in the Security and Compliance Centre Portal.

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Our Speakers

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Vincent Biret (MVP) Products Team Tech Lead Negotium Technologies http://negotium.com @baywet http://microsofttouch.fr/default/b/vincent/default.aspx

SharePoint Geek for many years, I'm thrilled to share a bit of SharePoint Knowledge with you!

John Calvert Chief Architect Software Craft, Inc. @softwarecraft99 http://softwarecraft.ca/

Mr. Calvert is a seasoned SharePoint and .NET solution architect with over 18 years experience developing business solutions for a wide variety of customers. Mr. Calvert has architected solutions and led teams for multi-million dollar enterprise systems down to departmental scale solutions. He is well versed in all aspects of the software development life-cycle including requirements, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and support. He specializes in Microsoft technologies. Mr. Calvert has previously presented at SharePoint Summit Toronto 2014, SharePoint Saturday Ottawa 2013 and several Ottawa user group meetings.

Brian-Paul Carline

Information Technology professional with nineteen years' experience in Infrastructure Administration and Systems Integration serving a wide variety of business interests from software development and engineering to legal, banking and private industry consulting.

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Haniel Croitoru Lead Consultant, 2toLead @hcroitoru http://www.linkedin.com/in/hanielcroitoru

Senior SharePoint consultant with over 15 years of experience with a strong focus on project management and business analysis in public and private sector verticals including healthcare, financial services, utilities, non-profit organizations, and consulting. Since 2003 he has been focusing on SharePoint, delivering solutions and contributing as a SharePoint consultant, project manager, business analyst, and trainer. In addition to his professional tenure Haniel has always been a big proponent of sharing knowledge and giving back to the community through presenting at numerous conferences and networking meetings on the topics of utilizing SharePoint for various business verticals, accessibility as well as managing projects. Prior to entering the SharePoint arena, Haniel has spent a number of years in the medical imaging industry where he was a key member of the orthopedic marketing division and published four patents and numerous articles.

David Drever (MVP) Senior SharePoint Consultant Solvera Solutions http://www.prairiedeveloper.com/ @DavidMDrever https://ca.linkedin.com/in/david-drever-a4b489a

David humbly considers himself a SharePoint JoAT (Jack of All Trades). He is a Senior SharePoint Consultant and an Office Servers and Services MVP. Over the last 16 years David has worked in a wide variety of areas in IT ranging from Desktop\Server support to developing in C++ and .NET technologies. For over the last 6 years David has been working exclusively in the SharePoint space. He has helped stand up multiple Enterprise SharePoint environments as well as designed and built numerous SharePoint solutions. David recently worked with a client to implement a SharePoint 2013 environment that integrated with OpenText Content Server.

Nicolas Georgeault (MVP) SharePoint Senior Architect - Cortana Analytics specialist Negotium Technologies http://negotium.com @ngeorgeault http://blog.georgeault.co/

Since 1996, Nicolas Georgeault works on portals and collaboration tools. More particularly on the social networks usage in a business context with open source and editor's solutions. Since 2001, he has specialized in the use and implementation of SharePoint. Senior SharePoint Architect for Negotium Technologies in Montreal, he has the honor of being MVP SharePoint Server for 6 years. He now works for developing a new concept called "Enterprise Brain" which is a method to get the best of Enterprise BigData using social mining tools. Although he recently moved to Canada, it continues to participate in the French SharePoint user group in France and Montreal, and he lead the Office 365 User Group Montreal. He is with several of his colleagues MVP from the User Group SharePoint France (UGSF), an author of French books "MS SharePoint Server 2010" and "MS SharePoint Server 2013" published by Editions Lavoisier under the direction of Pierre Erol Giraudy.

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D’arce Hess Strategic Consultant AvePoint www.avepoint.com @darcehess http://thebrandingbutterfly.com/

D’arce is a Strategic Consultant for AvePoint which provides a varied array of products and custom solutions for SharePoint and O365. With a background in SharePoint Administration and Web Design, she works to create custom SharePoint extranet and intranet branding solutions for clients throughout the United States. When she is not helping plan SharePoint events or blogging for thebrandingbutterfly.com, she competes in archery or hangs out with her two cats.

Noorez Khamis (MVP) SharePoint Solutions Architect ReyJen Inc. http://www.khamis.net/ @nkhamis http://www.linkedin.com/in/noorez http://feeds.feedburner.com/RezsBlogSpotPosts

Noorez Khamis is a Microsoft recognized MVP in SharePoint Technologies. He has a background as a Senior Information Management Consultant & Senior SharePoint Solutions Architect with comprehensive experience in enterprise scale information solutions and portals. His technical background involves the project management, envisioning, architecting and hands-on development of complex IT solutions. He has 13+ years of industry experience in a consulting capacity while having been directly involved in hundreds of projects spanning the entire SharePoint spectrum including collaboration, document management, records management, business process management as well as web and enterprise content management solutions. His latest experience includes the administration of large development teams in his roles as IT Director and Senior Consulting Manager at large consulting companies. As a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and a highly accomplished applications architect, Noorez has a strong base in on-premises and cloud based information solutions capable of guiding clients to meet their IT needs. Noorez is also an active blogger, speaker, trainer, community contributor and an evangelist of the SharePoint platform.

Luc Labelle Founder & Consultant (SharePoint / Office 365), Kabesa www.kabesa.ca @Luc_Labelle

Luc Labelle has been working in IT for the past 15 years. With now close to a decade of experience as a consultant, playing different roles, he's been involved in countless SharePoint and office 365 projects. The context of intervention he has worked in has allowed him to recognize how to avoid pitfalls when it comes down to deploying SharePoint from both business and technical perspectives. Passionate about his work, Luc lately founded his own consulting firm, Kabesa. He tries to stay as implicated as possible in the SharePoint and Office 365 community and contributes in the promotion of the SharePoint and Office 365 user groups in Montreal by attending a speaking at local events.

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Martin Laplante IceFire Studios www.icefire.ca

Martin Laplante is former CTO and current CEO of IceFire Studios, a SharePoint product firm. Martin applies his background in computational linguistics and document management R&D to SharePoint projects. He has worked on Internet document applications since the late 1980s and on Web-based collaboration systems since 1995. After a period spent working in bikinis (his software helps women choose the high-quality, two-piece swimsuit that is right for them) he returned to working on Web-based collaboration starting with SharePoint 2003. Martin has a PhD from the University of Ottawa.

Sebastien Levert (MVP) Software Architect Negotium Technologies http://negotium.com @sebastienlevert http://www.pimpthecloud.com/

I am a software architect being in the SharePoint / Office 365 world since more than 8 years now. Based in Montreal, I am mainly focusing on the development side of the platform. I have worked with every versions of SharePoint, BPOS and Office 365. Always looking to keep my knowledge up to date, I have been recognized by Microsoft as MCTS, MCITP and MCPD on SharePoint Server 2010. I am also a very active member of the Quebec SharePoint User Group and of the Office 365 User Group and I love to share my passion for technologies.

Bill Crider Director, SharePoint Products and Services Ascendum @bill_crider_ http://drsharepoint.com/

Bill Crider was SharePoint when SharePoint wasn’t cool. Cutting his teeth on the 2001 version, and once performing a 2 version “upgrade” from digital dashboard to Portal Server 2003, complete with Kerberos authentication. Bill has been working with SharePoint for the past 10 years. Over that time, he has taken on developer, admin, power user and architect roles. Incredibly uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person, he will nevertheless include a few career highlights to entice you to his session. He is the author of the Wrox 24 hour SharePoint 2010 administration trainer. He is an on again, off again blogger with dozens of twitter followers who hang on every word of his monthly tweet. From large scale farm installations and upgrades to drafting NFL players to Airheads candy, Bill has enjoyed a wide ranging SharePoint career. When not SharePointing he enjoys various sports, games, playing the violin and all things Russian. Okay, ending on a serious note. His mission: to remove the clutter faced by information workers the world over and let them focus on the creative aspects of their work.

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Bhakthi Liyanage Sr. SharePoint Architect Bank of America Merrill Lynch http://www.bofaml.com/

I am a hands-on technical Solutions Architect primarily focused on delivering efficient and competitive business solutions on SharePoint Technology platform. I am passionate about the relationship between business and technology and how the latest technology can be leveraged to solve business problems. I am also engaged in providing strategy, implementation and support guidance to clients in various industries including Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Health and Manufacturing. I have been in the industry for well over 16+ years and have been working with SharePoint technologies for more than 10+ years.

Antonio Maio (MVP) Senior SharePoint Architect and Senior Manager, Protiviti @AntonioMaio2 www.trustsharepoint.com

Antonio Maio is an information security architect with over 25 years of experience in cyber security practices and systems, product management, software development and leadership. Antonio is currently a Senior Manager and Senior SharePoint Architect with Protiviti. He has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for 5 consecutive years, from 2012 to 2016, specializing in Microsoft SharePoint Server, Office 365 and Office Services. His background includes implementing cryptography and PKI systems, information security technologies, and both information governance and cybersecurity best practices. His experience with Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 extends over the last 10 years. When he’s not helping enterprise, military or government organizations solve security challenges, you can catch him speaking at conferences or contributing to the community through his blog: www.trustsharepoint.com.

Hassan Souhdi (MCT) President, Senior Consultant Intellico Consulting @hsouhdi https://www.linkedin.com/hp/?dnr=QpNMGMGIbw_dPVUAjAgMLMRZCQ_qvqw_8sV

Hassan Souhdi is a Senior Solutions Architect focusing on SharePoint, Dynamics, Microsoft BI solutions and EPM. He has over 16 years of experience in software and hardware engineering, helping both big firms and start-ups build new solutions that leverage BI, application infrastructure, security, databases and mobile technologies, he holds bachelor of technology in computer science and engineering. Hassan has spoken at dozens of conferences as well as university courses and as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Hassan offered more than 2 hundred training sessions for individuals aspiring to pass Microsoft certification exams. Hassan has vast experience with business intelligence, data warehouses and big data. His area of expertise is enterprise architecture, business intelligence, big data, KPI and analytics. As of 2011, Hassan is founder and CEO of Intellico Consulting www.intellico.ca, a consultancy firm, specialized in Microsoft Solutions' ecosystems centered around SharePoint and geared for Business Intelligence.

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Amitabh Srivastav IM Program Manager @am_srivastav

Amitabh is a Senior ECM / EIM Strategy Consultant / Program Manager with over 20+ years of IM/IT experience in planning, managing, and delivering enterprise-wide programs and projects to private and public sector clients. He has extensive knowledge and experience delivering business transformation programs, business / IT enablement projects, change management initiatives, governance strategies, IT roadmaps, and policies and procedures to clients. Since 2001, Amitabh has used his ECM / EIM knowledge, combining it with strategic thinking and practical implementation experience to deliver several enterprise-wide projects using products such as SharePoint, Livelink / GCDocs / RDIMS, Autonomy / Interwoven, and Plumtree Enterprise Portal. Amitabh has a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons.), Master of Science (Comp. Sc.), and Master of Science (Proj. Mgmt.) Degrees and is a PMP. He has been a speaker at PMI and ARMA conferences and a part-time instructor.

Amit Vasu (MVP) Senior SharePoint Consultant Momentum Digital Solutions http://www.momentum.com @amitvasu www.amitvasu.com/blog

Amit Vasu is Sr. SharePoint consultant, working on SharePoint and related technologies since 2003. For the past 10 years Amit is working at MS Partner Momentum Digital Solutions Inc. Amit's main area of focus is creating business process automation with SharePoint and related technologies. He also has several years of experience building dashboards using Reporting Services. Amit also frequently participates in the SharePoint community events including SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint code camp and local user groups.

John White (MVP) Chief Technical Officer and CoFounder UnlimitedViz @diverdown1964 https://www.facebook.com/john.p.white.10 http://www.linkedin.com/in/diverdown1964 http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/ http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/feed/

John P White is the Chief Technical Officer at UnlimitedViz Inc. He holds a Master’s degree

in Engineering from the University of Guelph and is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP. He has

spent 22 years in the Information Technology space, and possesses a skill set that spans

both architecture and development. He has been instrumental in delivering projects and

applications that have been recognized with both local and global awards from Microsoft

and IBM.

As a seasoned IT professional, John has accumulated a plethora of legacy technologies

like Novell, Lotus Notes and Java. This experience has proven invaluable when architecting

systems alongside legacy applications. Over the past decade, he has been focused on the

Microsoft SharePoint and Business Intelligence platforms and has become an expert with

the latest that these platforms have to offer.

He is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences, and he blogs as actively as

possible at http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com. John lives in Guelph, Ontario, and is the

father of 3 boys, is an avid scuba diver, and a budding photographer, both under and

above the water. Samples of his work can be found at http://www.flickr.com/wpages.

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Mike Maadarani [MVP] Senior SharePoint Architect @mikemaadarani http://www.maadarani.com/blog

Mike Maadarani is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and SharePoint Architect, and has been providing strategic SharePoint solutions for the past 14 years. With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Mike spent the last few years managing and delivering SharePoint solutions to a wide range of mid to large scale projects. He is an evangelist and visionary where he can and provide the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global SharePoint projects. Mike is a Search and ECM expert and has deployed large SharePoint ECM and Collaboration implementations in North America.

Daniel Sanscartier Chief Technology Officer Orangutech Inc.

Daniel Sanscartier is the CTO at Orangutech in Ottawa. He has 29 years of IT experience as a programmer-analyst, lead architect, technical business analyst, document management specialist and project manager. He has 13 years of experience developing SharePoint and web-based solutions. Daniel is currently the Project Manager and Architect for the SharePoint to GCDOCS Cluster Working Group at the Government of Canada.

Robert Piddocke Director of Business Development Collabware

Robert has been working with SharePoint for more than a decade and is passionate about getting organizations to succeed with the platform. He comes from an information retrieval background and is the author of 2 books on SharePoint Search. He is active in the SharePoint community in Vancouver, BC and is a member of the board of the Vancouver SharePoint Users' Group. He has worked for several independent software vendors providing add-on solutions for SharePoint that help organizations meet critical business needs. He recently joined Collabware, a Vancouver based Enterprise Content and Records Management vendor as Director of Business Development and has made it his mission to convince everyone he meets that SharePoint is the right tool for the job.

Cham Tanh Chief Technology Officer Helux Systems

Cham Tanh has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry and over nine years of experience building and developing SharePoint and .NET solutions. His position as Chief Technical Architect at Helux is backed by experience in every stage of the software development lifecycle, including data-driven, Windows, and web-based applications with an emphasis on enterprise-level solutions.

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Our Organizing Committee

Committee Member Bio

Jill Austin

Jill Austin has been working in knowledge management for three decades. She created the National Clearinghouse on Substance Abuse and the Canadian national resource database for the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Since 2001, she has been working at Microworks designing and implementing SharePoint solutions. She develops intranets and extranets, ECM and EDRMS solutions in SharePoint. With a Masters and a PhD in Library and Information Science, she is adept at developing taxonomies and metadata to enable lifecycle information management, while optimizing usability and information retrieval for business users. This is her second year as a volunteer on the SPS organizing committee.

Nick Kellett @NickKellett http://blog.nicholaskellett.com

Nick is a software technologist, speaker, instructor, and blogger with nearly twenty years of professional consulting experience in a wide variety of industries and countries. He has extensive expertise in web and enterprise software development and deployment technologies, in particular SharePoint and cloud services. He was a Microsoft SharePoint MVP from 2011 to 2015. His approach to software development and deployment is to combine cutting-edge technology with proven best practices and frequent prototyping. This approach helps to launch solutions that give clients maximum value and input while reducing their risk and expense.

Noorez Khamis (MVP) SharePoint Solutions Architect ReyJen Inc. http://www.khamis.net/ @nkhamis http://www.linkedin.com/in/noorez http://feeds.feedburner.com/RezsBlogSpotPosts

Noorez Khamis is a Microsoft recognized MVP in SharePoint Technologies. He has a background as a Senior Information Management Consultant & Senior SharePoint Solutions Architect with comprehensive experience in enterprise scale information solutions and portals. His technical background involves the project management, envisioning, architecting and hands-on development of complex IT solutions. He has 13+ years of industry experience in a consulting capacity while having been directly involved in hundreds of projects spanning the entire SharePoint spectrum including collaboration, document management, records management, business process management as well as web and enterprise content management solutions. His latest experience includes the administration of large development teams in his roles as IT Director and Senior Consulting Manager at large consulting companies. As a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and a highly accomplished applications architect, Noorez has a strong base in on-premises and cloud based information solutions capable of guiding clients to meet their IT needs. Noorez is also an active blogger, speaker, trainer, community contributor and an evangelist of the SharePoint platform.

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Diana Kirkwood

Diana Kirkwood is a SharePoint 2013 end user who is interested in all things SharePoint. Diana volunteers at the amazing SPS Ottawa Conference to learn more about SharePoint and to meet other phenomenal SharePoint users. By day, Diana is a technical writer/courseware developer and IT instructor.

Mike Maadarani [MVP] Senior SharePoint Architect @mikemaadarani http://www.maadarani.com/blog

Mike Maadarani is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and SharePoint Architect, and has been providing strategic SharePoint solutions for the past 14 years. With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Mike spent the last few years managing and delivering SharePoint solutions to a wide range of mid to large scale projects. He is an evangelist and visionary where he can and provide the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global SharePoint projects. Mike is a Search and ECM expert and has deployed large SharePoint ECM and Collaboration implementations in North America.

Amitabh Srivastav Senior Project Manager

Amitabh Srivastav is a Senior ECM / EIM Strategy Consultant / Program Manager with over

20+ years of IM/IT experience planning, managing, and delivering enterprise-wide programs

and projects with an aggregate value of $40 million to private and public sector clients. He

has extensive knowledge and experience delivering business transformation programs,

business / IT enablement projects, change management initiatives, governance strategies, IT

roadmaps, and policies and procedures to clients. Since 2001, Amitabh has used his ECM /

EIM knowledge, combining it with strategic thinking and practical implementation

experience to deliver several enterprise-wide projects using products such as SharePoint,

Content Server / Livelink / GCDocs / RDIMS, Autonomy / Interwoven, and Plumtree

Enterprise Portal (now Oracle WebCenter). Amitabh has a Bachelor of Computer Science

(Hons.), Master of Science (Comp. Sc.), and Master of Science (Proj. Mgmt.) degrees and is a

PMP.

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Antonio Maio (MVP) Senior SharePoint Architect and Senior Manager, Protiviti @AntonioMaio2 www.trustsharepoint.com

Antonio Maio is an information security architect with over 25 years of experience in cyber security practices and systems, product management, software development and leadership. Antonio is currently a Senior Manager and Senior SharePoint Architect with Protiviti. He has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for 5 consecutive years, from 2012 to 2016, specializing in Microsoft SharePoint Server, Office 365 and Office Services. His background includes implementing cryptography and PKI systems, information security technologies, and both information governance and cybersecurity best practices. His experience with Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 extends over the last 10 years. When he’s not helping enterprise, military or government organizations solve security challenges, you can catch him speaking at conferences or contributing to the community through his blog: www.trustsharepoint.com.

Kanwal Khipple CEO, 2toLead @kkhipple https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kanwalkhipple

Kanwal Khipple is the CEO and Co-Founder of 2toLead, a one of a kind consulting services firm. Kanwal is a thought leader within the SharePoint industry, experienced in building engaging and award winning solutions; most recently awarded Nielsen Norman award for the Top 10 Intranets for 2014 & 2015. He continues to push for innovation and disruption in tackling business problems by leveraging the right blend of design and technology. Kanwal has been recognized as a SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft for the past five years (2009 to 2014) and most recently as an Office 365 MVP (2015-2016).