Speakers

Brian Madden Independent Industry Analyst and Blogger

Brian Madden is known throughout the world as an opinionated, super technical, fiercely independent desktop virtualization expert.

He's also written several books and thousands of articles about desktop and application virtualization. His blog site, www.BrianMadden.com, receives millions of visitors per year and is a leading source for conversation, debate and discourse about the application and desktop virtualization industry. He also recently launched ConsumerizeIT.com to address the emerging trend around the consumerization of IT.

In addition, Brian is the creator of BriForum, the premier independent application delivery technical conference.

You can follow him on twitter @brianmadden.

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Shawn Bass ShawnBass.com

Shawn Bass, an independent consultant based in the Chicago area, is a “Citrix Technology Professional” and a “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.” He’s been working with Citrix technologies since the WinView product days, and today, most of his clients are Fortune 500 companies (primarily in the financial services and insurance markets).

Shawn got involved in trying to help the server-based computing community around February 2005. Back then, he’d spent long hours lurking on a variety of forums and learning from others, so he decided it was finally time to give back to assist others. Since that time, he’s become an active poster on the support forums on www.BrianMadden.com, the official Citrix Support Forums, and Softgridguru.com.

Shawn is a nine-time (and top rated) presenter at BriForum, and has spoken at other worldwide events including Citrix Synergy, PubForum, and various Citrix user groups. He also continues to teach the independent desktop virtualization 5-day master class that he and Brian developed back in 2004.

You can follow him on twitter @shawnbass.

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Gabe Knuth Independent Industry Analyst & Blogger, BrianMadden.com

Gabe Knuth is an industry analyst and blogger, known throughout the world as "the other guy" at www.BrianMadden.com. In addition to blogging on BrianMadden.com (including being heard weekly on Brian & Gabe LIVE), he also contributes to ConsumerizeIT.com and SearchVirtualDesktop.com.

Gabe can be seen speaking at industry events such as Citrix Synergy and is a nine-time presenter at TechTarget's own BriForum.

Gabe has been in the application delivery space for over 13 years and has seen the industry evolve from the one-trick pony of Terminal Services to the application and desktop virtualization of today. As a consultant early in his career, Gabe's exposure to many different types of technologies, organizations, projects, and processes continues to help him as a blogger/speaker. Fiercely independent, Gabe focuses on boiling off the hype and reducing solutions to their usefulness in today's corporate environments.

You can follow him on twitter @gabeknuth

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