Most Active Speakers 2022

Sessionize proudly presents the list of the most active speakers in the year 2022!

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Antje Lamartine

Antje Lamartine

Antje Lamartine is Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Apps & Services and Lead for M365 Adoption & Change Management at IF-Blueprint in Munich.

She accompanies M365 implementations in local and international companies with her M365 Change Management expertise. She helps identify the challenges and fears associated with change and transforms them into possibilities and opportunities.

This includes developing change strategies, roadmaps and action plans and implementing them in close collaboration with her clients. Her passion is to help people successfully master the challenging journey into the "new normal", while ensuring that companies get the most out of their M365 investment.

Antje Lamartine is Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Apps & Services and Lead for M365 Adoption & Change Management at IF-Blueprint in Munich. She accompanies M365 implementations in local and international companies with her M365 Change Management exp... Show more

Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira

Currently, Sandro is working as Integration Team Lead at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premise and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size and criticality, using Microsoft Azure (API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, PowerApps, Flow, …), Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO and so on.
Sandro is very active in the BizTalk community as a blogger at his blog (https://blog.sandropereira.com), as a member and a moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, a TechNet Wiki author, GitHub contributor, a member of the several Integration communities, guest author at BizTalk360 (https://blogs.biztalk360.com/author/sandro) and Serverless360 (https://www.serverless360.com/blog/author/sandro), public speaker and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices” (https://www.biztalk360.com/biztalk-mapping-patterns).
He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since January 2011 for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community (https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4030655) and currently holds MCTS: BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2010 certifications.
You can contact Sandro at sandro-pereira@live.com.pt (Twitter: @sandro_asp)

Currently, Sandro is working as Integration Team Lead at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premise and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a tec... Show more

Dan Rey

Dan Rey

Dan Rey has been a technical and end user trainer for over 20 years. His ability to connect with business, leaders, support and technical contacts is one of the reasons he is a great contact for everyone. He is an involved community speaker and contributor and can be found on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, TechCommunity and many other places online or in person! On February 1st, 2022 Dan was awarded the Microsoft MVP in Office Apps and Services. He is the Chief Learning Officer for Smarter Consulting!

Dan Rey has been a technical and end user trainer for over 20 years. His ability to connect with business, leaders, support and technical contacts is one of the reasons he is a great contact for everyone. He is an involved community speaker and contr... Show more

Mayra Badillo Villamizar

Mayra Badillo Villamizar

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Business Applications. I had the honor of being the first Spanish-speaking woman in Latin America in the Business Applications category, and the first and to date the only person in Colombia. As a Microsoft consultant and contractor, she designed architectures and implemented productivity solutions in Power Platform and Microsoft 365 (Design Thinking), advising companies in the process of transforming their business processes until the delivery and execution of change management and adoption exercises; I diagnose its degree of adoption and usability, designing the business process transformation strategy using Microsoft 365, Project Online, Dynamics 365 (CRM) and Power Platform to end customers, business partners and accounts assigned by the manufacturer. +12 years Microsoft 365 | +10 years Dynamics 365 CRM | +9000 Consulting Hours | +500 hours Speaker | 20 Countries | +280 Conferences.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Business Applications. I had the honor of being the first Spanish-speaking woman in Latin America in the Business Applications category, and the first and to date the only person in Colombia. As a Microsoft ... Show more

Scott Helmers

Scott Helmers

Scott A. Helmers is a Partner at the Harvard Computing Group, a software and consulting firm that assists clients with understanding and implementing business process solutions. He is a co-inventor of TaskMap (www.taskmap.com), a Visio add-in that allows anyone to document, analyze, and improve their business processes. He has been named a Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visio every year since 2008 and is the author of four books from Microsoft Press including Visio 2016 Step by Step (http://www.VisioStepByStep.com). He is also a course author for LinkedIn Learning (http://bit.ly/LiL-Author).

Scott A. Helmers is a Partner at the Harvard Computing Group, a software and consulting firm that assists clients with understanding and implementing business process solutions. He is a co-inventor of TaskMap (www.taskmap.com), a Visio add-in that al... Show more

David Mehr

David Mehr

Since 2022 i am a M365 MVP. I am a SharePoint and Microsoft 365 enthusiast who grew up with IT and has a special fascination for Microsoft Search. My experience in building communication and collaboration platforms strechtes for more than 10 years and I am always up to the latest challenge in modern, digital work.

Since 2022 i am a M365 MVP. I am a SharePoint and Microsoft 365 enthusiast who grew up with IT and has a special fascination for Microsoft Search. My experience in building communication and collaboration platforms strechtes for more than 10 years an... Show more

Ralph Rivas

Ralph Rivas

Ralph is a seasoned professional with experience delivering quality software and solutions going back to the 90s. Currently, co-hosts the online (light) blue collar video blog/podcast http://www.cloudtalkshow.com, co-leads the Chicago Microsoft Power Platform User Group and is one of the main event organizers for https://m365chicago.com in addition to being a speaker in other virtual conferences and user groups. He has been an aficionado of Microsoft products going back to the first versions of Windows and Excel the original Low Code Platform which complements his MS MVP status for Business Applications and the Power Platform in particular.

Ralph has held many varied roles on project teams from programmer to support to mentor and trainer as well as a key resource for SharePoint/Office 365-related architecture, development, deployment, operations, governance and on-going support efforts while also able to deliver .NET based solutions on all other Microsoft supported platforms in as well as aspects related to the Portal and Collaboration workspace. More currently, he holds the role as National Solutions Architect at SOGETI USA in the Cloud Technologies group with a particular focus on supporting and implementing solutions around M365 and the Power Platform at all levels and recently invited to be a Sogeti Labs Fellow where he collaborates with innovation focused top technologists from all over the world.

Working with a major partner and with the community, he has been focused most lately on Power Platform governance and adoption at the enterprise level through direct participation with the Power CAT team and Power Platform Product team at Microsoft including deliveries of "in-a-day" events, hackathons, workshops as well as implementation and guidance around the Center of Excellence tool set as well as Adoption Maturity Assessments for baseline KPI's and measures.

Born in the Chicago area, his father's assignment with Abbott Labs had him growing up in the Philippines through the end of High School, the experience of which also included world travel that he continues to this day for business and leisure.

With a third grader at home and an older one out of college and into the workforce, he still is a family guy but still keeps in touch with his other interests in entertainment (music, improv comedy, etc.), history, travel, 70's era board games, the cinema and cultural experiences.

Expect to find Ralph in the various PnP SIG meetings in most of the topic areas such as M365 Maturity, SPFx Development and the very crucial Sharing is Caring Initiatives of the community.

Ralph is a seasoned professional with experience delivering quality software and solutions going back to the 90s. Currently, co-hosts the online (light) blue collar video blog/podcast http://www.cloudtalkshow.com, co-leads the Chicago Microsoft Power... Show more

Todd Libby

Todd Libby

Drew Madelung

Drew Madelung

Drew Madelung is a Cloud Solutions Architect and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services. He helps organizations realize what is possible with Microsoft 365 & Azure, onboard them in a secure and compliant way, and drive sustained adoption for those solutions. He is experienced in a range of technologies but specializes in the collaboration and teamwork workspaces such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. He has helped deploy Microsoft 365 to multiple global companies while rolling out modern information protection and information governance technologies. He has been doing Microsoft consulting for 10+ years with a strength in security & compliance solutions.

Drew Madelung is a Cloud Solutions Architect and a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services. He helps organizations realize what is possible with Microsoft 365 & Azure, onboard them in a secure and compliant way, and drive sustained adoption for th... Show more

Mohamed Derhalli

Mohamed Derhalli

Mohamed has been working with Microsoft technologies for 16 years & awarded 6 times as an MVP. He has a passion for SharePoint, Teams & Power Platform!
Mohamed obtained his Master's degree in Software Engineering from the university of Hertfordshire with the Golden Herts Award.

Mohamed has been working with Microsoft technologies for 16 years & awarded 6 times as an MVP. He has a passion for SharePoint, Teams & Power Platform! Mohamed obtained his Master's degree in Software Engineering from the university of Hertfordshire... Show more

Craig Jahnke

Craig Jahnke

Craig Jahnke is a MTC Technical Architect for Modern Work at Microsoft who helps clients develop strategies for implementing Power Platform, SharePoint, and Office 365 solutions that allow their employees to share information and data securely. He speaks at user groups, organizes M365 Chicago and the Chicago Power Platform Users Group, and loves to talk with others about technology and how to use it to solve business problems.

Craig Jahnke is a MTC Technical Architect for Modern Work at Microsoft who helps clients develop strategies for implementing Power Platform, SharePoint, and Office 365 solutions that allow their employees to share information and data securely. He s... Show more

Luise Freese

Luise Freese

Microsoft MVP, Microsoft 365 Consultant, Power Platform Developer

Luise helps customers around the globe to improve their business processes and to get rid of everything that only keeps them busy. She is a member of the Microsoft 365 platform community (PnP) team and supports developers in extending Microsoft 365. She loves all things community, open-source, stickers, and the number 42.

Microsoft MVP, Microsoft 365 Consultant, Power Platform Developer Luise helps customers around the globe to improve their business processes and to get rid of everything that only keeps them busy. She is a member of the Microsoft 365 platform comm... Show more

Torsten Strauß

Torsten Strauß

Torsten (MVP, MCSE, MCT) has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since the turn of the millennium and is specialized in performance optimization for large SQL Server environments.
He has been with bp as a database engineer for over two decades and collaborates closely with Sarpedon Quality Lab as a Principal Microsoft SQL Server Consultant.
Torsten has given more than 250 presentations on Microsoft SQL Server performance optimization at national and international conferences and user groups.
Torsten has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Data Platform since 2018.

Torsten (MVP, MCSE, MCT) has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since the turn of the millennium and is specialized in performance optimization for large SQL Server environments. He has been with bp as a database engineer for over two decades an... Show more

Kevin Feasel

Kevin Feasel

Kevin Feasel is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Proprietor of Catallaxy Services, LLC, where he specializes in data analytics with T-SQL and R, forcing Spark clusters to do his bidding, fighting with Kafka, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL (https://curatedsql.com), president of the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group (https://www.meetup.com/tripass), and author of PolyBase Revealed (https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484254608) and Finding Ghosts in Your Data (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-8870-2). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.

Kevin Feasel is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Proprietor of Catallaxy Services, LLC, where he specializes in data analytics with T-SQL and R, forcing Spark clusters to do his bidding, fighting with Kafka, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand... Show more

Alessandro Melchiori

Alessandro Melchiori

Software craftsman, husband, father, ex-sportsman and inquiring reader. Since I was young I have loved taking apart and reassembling things to understand how they work. Now, this passion has become my job: the step from Lego® to software development was small.
Finding the best possible solution so that a complex system can work at its best and making it run smoothly are the goals of my work. C# and Azure make up my survival toolkit and help me cruise through distributed systems and enterprise solutions, with ease.
Be it a command or an event, I try to do my best in contributing to the life of the communities that have adopted me, trying to “give back” at least a part of what I have received over these years.

Software craftsman, husband, father, ex-sportsman and inquiring reader. Since I was young I have loved taking apart and reassembling things to understand how they work. Now, this passion has become my job: the step from Lego® to software development ... Show more

Ben Watt

Ben Watt

Ben is CEO of Datalineo. He is based in Dublin, Ireland and has been specialising in Microsoft Data Platform solutions for over 25 years.

Ben is CEO of Datalineo. He is based in Dublin, Ireland and has been specialising in Microsoft Data Platform solutions for over 25 years. Show more

Mike Hartington

Mike Hartington

Mike is a developer, Angular GDE, and Director of Developer Relations at Nx. Big fan of the web, helping people, and building cool stuff.

Mike is a developer, Angular GDE, and Director of Developer Relations at Nx. Big fan of the web, helping people, and building cool stuff. Show more

Barry Stahl

Barry Stahl

Barry (he/him/his) is a .NET Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 30 years. Barry is also an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and a 30+ year resident of Phoenix Arizona USA. When Barry is not traveling around the world to speak at Conferences, Code Camps and User Groups or to participate in GiveCamps, he spends his days as a Solution Architect for Carvana and his nights thinking about the next Arizona GiveCamp, an annual event where software developers come together to build websites and apps for some great non-profit organizations.

Barry (he/him/his) is a .NET Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 30 years. Barry is also an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of anothe... Show more

Mustafa Toroman

Mustafa Toroman

Mustafa Toroman is a technology professional and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at run.events, a company that provides a platform for organizing and managing events. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has held various technical and leadership positions in companies around the world.
Toroman has a deep understanding of software development, cloud computing, and IT infrastructure management. He has expertise in building scalable and resilient systems that can handle large amounts of data and traffic. He is also a strong advocate for DevOps and believes in continuous improvement and learning.
Toroman is a Microsoft Azure MVP (Most Valuable Professional), a frequent speaker at technology conferences and events, and also and a community leader organizing meetups and events. He is also a published author and has written several books on Microsoft technologies and cloud computing.

Mustafa Toroman is a technology professional and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at run.events, a company that provides a platform for organizing and managing events. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has held various techn... Show more

Sander Stad

Sander Stad

Sander is a SQL Server DBA with over 20 years of experience in IT. He has worked with SQL Server since version 2000 and is a Microsoft MVP.
He is a huge PowerShell enthusiast and will try to automate processes as much as possible.

Sander is a SQL Server DBA with over 20 years of experience in IT. He has worked with SQL Server since version 2000 and is a Microsoft MVP. He is a huge PowerShell enthusiast and will try to automate processes as much as possible. Show more

Jason Himmelstein

Jason Himmelstein

Jason Himmelstein is a former Microsoft MVP in Office Apps & Services and Data Platform and a former Microsoft Regional Director with more than 25 years of experience working in the Microsoft eco-system. Jason has successfully architected solutions for customers of all sizes and maintains an active speaking schedule, addressing conferences around the world. He is also the co-host of the BIFocal.show podcast.

Jason is the author of the O’Reilly book “Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint”. Outside of this crazy working world, he is the father of 2 awesome dudes, a die-hard Texas Longhorns and San Antonio Spurs fan.

Jason Himmelstein is a former Microsoft MVP in Office Apps & Services and Data Platform and a former Microsoft Regional Director with more than 25 years of experience working in the Microsoft eco-system. Jason has successfully architected solutions f... Show more

Lars Klint

Lars Klint

Lars is a Principal Magician with Arkahna in Australia, an author, trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, community leader, aspiring YouTube host and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

Lars is a Principal Magician with Arkahna in Australia, an author, trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, community leader, aspiring YouTube host and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially ... Show more

Amarender Peddamalku

Amarender Peddamalku

Amarender Peddamalku is a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications. As a Digital Transformation Leader and Microsoft Modern Work Practice Lead at Perficient, my focus is on Employee Experience and Power Platform. Has over 15 years of experience with Microsoft Technologies and worked with every single version of SharePoint since its inception.

Amarender Peddamalku is a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications. As a Digital Transformation Leader and Microsoft Modern Work Practice Lead at Perficient, my focus is on Employee Experience and Power Platform. Has over 15 years of experience with Mi... Show more

Andrea Martorana Tusa

Andrea Martorana Tusa

Works for Pandora, a jewelry brand based in Copenhagen (DK).
Product Manager for the common Content Management platform built on Sharepoint.
Co-admin of the company's Power BI tenant with duties of governance, monitoring and auditing.
Solution Owner for the Data Analytics and Identity Access Management Azure platform.

Former Microsoft MVP Data Platform 2018-2024.
Common speaker in events and conferences around Europe (SQL Saturdays, PASS Summit, SQL Nexus, Intelligent Cloud, SQL Konferenz, SQL Day Poland, dataMinds Connect, Power BI Summit, Power Platform Bootcamp, etc).
Speaker for DW/BI and the Italian Virtual Chapter.

Author for sqlservercentral.com, sqlshack.com, UGISS (User Group Italiano SQL Server).

Works for Pandora, a jewelry brand based in Copenhagen (DK). Product Manager for the common Content Management platform built on Sharepoint. Co-admin of the company's Power BI tenant with duties of governance, monitoring and auditing. Solution Own... Show more

Liji Thomas

Liji Thomas

Liji Thomas, a Microsoft MVP in AI, is a seasoned technologist with over 15 years of experience in creating transformative digital experiences. As Gen AI Manager at H&R Block, she drives innovation by leveraging generative AI to enhance customer experiences and deliver business value. Her expertise spans AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and conversational AI.

Liji is passionate about harnessing AI's transformative potential to revolutionize business and human interaction with technology. A thought leader in the field, she actively shares her insights through speaking engagements, publications, and community involvement. Committed to diversity and inclusion, she mentors aspiring technologists and advocates for the next generation of AI leaders.

Liji Thomas, a Microsoft MVP in AI, is a seasoned technologist with over 15 years of experience in creating transformative digital experiences. As Gen AI Manager at H&R Block, she drives innovation by leveraging generative AI to enhance customer expe... Show more

Andrea Mondello

Andrea Mondello

I have helped organizations around the globe implement, adopt, and derive value from Microsoft Technologies.

I have over 20 years of experience designing and implementing SharePoint solutions. Over the past few years I have rejoiced in the rise of the Citizen Developer and jumped headfirst into everything Power Platform, building solutions that incorporate great usability, solid architecture, and the discipline of business process management and continuous improvement.

Past notable projects include transformation of a hundred-year-old national non-profit from file share silos to a thriving M365 implementation featuring Teams across five offices, the implementation of M365 for an international NGO with thousands of users across 19 countries in Asia, the development of a revenue recognition system built on Dataverse and Power Apps to handle hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and a document management solution for a legal organization with thousands of attorneys across the five boroughs of New York.

I began my digital career in web development and moved on to be a SharePoint administrator and developer, a Knowledge Management practitioner, Business Analyst and Project Manager, and Product Manager. Over my career I have worked in multiple business verticals including accounting, publishing, SEO and digital creative firms, drug development, health advocacy, not-for-profit organizations, education and consulting. I founded and lead a successful tech consultancy, specializing in digital transformation for International Development organizations. I call upstate New York home, and can't wait to get back on the road again helping clients in their digital transformation journey.

I have helped organizations around the globe implement, adopt, and derive value from Microsoft Technologies. I have over 20 years of experience designing and implementing SharePoint solutions. Over the past few years I have rejoiced in the rise of... Show more

Abdul Rasheed Feroz Khan

Abdul Rasheed Feroz Khan

Founder - CodeSizzler India | UAE
AI Engineer
7x Microsoft MVP on Azure
8x Microsoft Certified Trainer
Azure Cloud Advocate

Founder - CodeSizzler India | UAE AI Engineer 7x Microsoft MVP on Azure 8x Microsoft Certified Trainer Azure Cloud Advocate Show more

Kevin Chant

Kevin Chant

Lead Technology Advocate for Macaw. Originally from the UK and now living in the Netherlands. Microsoft Certified Trainer and Data Platform MVP.

Many years experience in the IT sector, including supporting companies in the top 10 of the fortune 500 list.

In addition to a lot of experience with the Microsoft Data Platform, also various Microsoft Certifications.

Real life experience with various Microsoft Data Platform offerings and Azure Devops. Held various roles; including Team Leader, SQL Server Product Owner, certification coach and Solution Architect.

In addition, involved with Data Platform Community in various ways. Including blogs, MVP videos, event organizer and sharing various repositories in GitHub.

Lead Technology Advocate for Macaw. Originally from the UK and now living in the Netherlands. Microsoft Certified Trainer and Data Platform MVP. Many years experience in the IT sector, including supporting companies in the top 10 of the fortune 50... Show more

Guy Royse

Guy Royse

Guy works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for learning—and for sharing what he has learned—Guy explores interesting topics and spreads the knowledge he has gained around developer communities worldwide.

Teaching and community have long been a focus for Guy. He runs his local JavaScript meetup in Ohio and has served on the selection committees of numerous conferences. He'll happily speak anywhere that will have him and has even has helped teach programming at a prison in central Ohio.

In his personal life, Guy is a hard-boiled geek interested in role-playing games, science fiction, and technology. He also has a slightly less geeky interest in history and linguistics. In his spare time he likes to camp and studies history and linguistics.

Guy lives in Ohio with his wife, his sons, and an entire wall of board and role-playing games.

Guy works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for learning—and for sharing what he has learned—Guy explores interesting topics and spreads the knowledge he has gained around develo... Show more

Jo Franchetti

Jo Franchetti

Jo is a DevRel Engineer at Deno. She is passionate about improving developer experience, teaching good use of JS and TS and building sparkly, wearable, internet connected tech. She mentors junior developers, advocates for mental health awareness and is devoted to improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Jo is a DevRel Engineer at Deno. She is passionate about improving developer experience, teaching good use of JS and TS and building sparkly, wearable, internet connected tech. She mentors junior developers, advocates for mental health awareness and ... Show more

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Most Active Speakers 2022

Every year, we put together a list of the most active speakers. This list features the top 3% of speakers who have participated in events using Sessionize during the 2022.

The 3% is calculated from the pool of all speakers that have at least one accepted session in year 2022. We don't include inactive speakers or speakers that had no accepted sessions during the year. There are around 12 thousand unique accepted speakers this year, the 3% is 371. Not all of them have their speaker profiles set as public, and we respect that, so the list doesn't show all of them.

The calculation is based on the number of accepted events, that's the main criteria, but to get more refined results we also look at things like multiple sessions per event, sharing a session with a co-speaker and how big the event is. Number of submissions and declined sessions don't affect the list.

Please note that the count of events and sessions in this list does not represent the number of events and sessions from the year 2022. Instead, it shows the number of events and sessions featured on the speaker's public speaker profile; these numbers have nothing to do with the award itself.