Speakers

Laurie Pottmeyer

Senior Product Manager, Community Lead, Microsoft Teams Engineering, Microsoft HQ US

Laurie Pottmeyer works at Microsoft as an Experienced Program Manager with a demonstrated history of bringing people together and surfacing the human element to impact technology. Strong PM professional skilled in Community Management, User Adoption, Product Feedback, Event Production, and Customer Experience.

Dan Holme

Product leader at Microsoft – Viva Engage, storyline & stories, personal networks, and leader communications. Microsoft HQ US

As a product leader on the Viva+Yammer team, my team of product managers create–in close collaboration with our research, design and engineering partners–the Viva Engage app in Teams & Outlook, storyline, stories, and new leadership features for Microsoft Viva suite customers. Together, these features enable anyone to share experiences, showcase work, celebrate milestones, and foster connectedness and personal networks across working groups and organizational silos; and empower leaders and communicators to inform and inspire employees at scale, with modern, media-rich, multichannel communications that reach and engage audiences across Outlook, Teams and Viva.

Mark Kashman

Microsoft HQ US
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft (SharePoint & Lists)

A SharePoint pun master in training

Mark is a senior product manager at Microsoft focused primarily on Microsoft Lists and SharePoint in Microsoft 365. He co-hosts The Intrazone podcast (aka.ms/TheIntrazone) – a show about the SharePoint intelligent intranet. He lives in the Sammamish, WA area and enjoys kayaking, soccer, hiking, Dad’ness, and quiet-bird-chirping moments for reading and writing books – when not playing that darned addictive Bejeweled.

Alina Fu

Microsoft HQ US
Director, Product Marketing, Microsoft Viva

Alina Fu is the Director, Viva Product Marketing at Microsoft. She started her career in product management before settling in product marketing for the last 15+ years. At Microsoft, she has held a variety of roles across SharePoint, Office 365 and Xbox. Her experiences have been centered around defining the vision and strategy, generating growth and brand awareness for rapid growth, unprecedented products and creating thought leadership in emerging product categories

Session: Bring clarity and alignment to the business and with AI in The Future of Goal-Setting   (online)
How does effective goal-setting and management deliver clarity for your workforce? Join this session to learn how organizations are using the latest trends from the 2023 State of Goal-Setting Report, best practices for a goals program, and why employees can focus on what really matters.

Chris McNulty

Microsoft HQ US
Director, Product Marketing for M365

Chris McNulty is Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft 365, Knowledge/Content Services, and Microsoft Viva. Chris’s experience as CTO includes companies such as Dell and Quest Software. He was first recognized as a SharePoint MVP in 2013, and led the consulting practice at Knowledge Management Associates, a US based Microsoft Gold Partner. A frequent speaker at events around the globe, Chris is the author of the “SharePoint 2013 Consultant’s Handbook” among other works. Chris holds an MBA from Boston College in Investment Management and has over twenty years’ experience with John Hancock, State Street, GMO and Santander

Introducing Microsoft Syntex – Content services for the AI era (online)

Rebecka Isaksson

AI Lab Sweden AB
Partner | Director Content & Collaboration AI

Rebecka is an experienced and visionary thought leader, with a passion for technology, people, and behaviors. She is currently a Partner of AI Lab Sweden AB where she provides strategic advisory on how Content & Collaboration AI is best leveraged, to establish a happy and healthy workforce and prospering business in a hybrid world. Her specialty lies within people and culture change, and providing guidance for how smart use of Knowledge can generate significant business value, when powered responsibly and ethically by AI-technology. As the former Director of Knowledge Management, and Product Marketing Manager for Content AI at Microsoft corporate headquarters, she has spent the last 10+ years working with organizations world-wide as an industry expert on Knowledge Management

Henrik Byström

Founding Partner
AI Lab Sweden AB

With almost 30 years and from many leading roles in digitalization, Henrik Byström is one of Sweden’s leading experts. He has had a special focus on modern work, AI, and leadership where he for many years led Microsoft Sweden’s concept of The New World of Work, i.e., to adopt modern ways of working, leadership, and employee focus by leveraging modern technology. Henrik is a highly appreciated speaker, who constructively encourages to think in new ways and challenge accepted truths (about enabling work regardless of time and place).

Christoffer Frisell

Founding PartnerAI Lab Sweden AB

A structured thought-leader with a growth mindset managing the start-up AI Lab Sweden (AI-labbet) based on his combined experience from the corporate environment (18 years) at Microsoft and experience as Managing Director (10 years) of a highly productive, smaller private equity organization. Christoffer provides valuable learnings and knowledge across broad interest areas in evolutionary technology shifts, leadership as a cultural driver, along with a true passion for developing effective teams in an entrepreneurial environment.      

Alva Markelius

AI Ethics Specialist – AI Lab Sweden AB

Alva is studying AI Ethics & Society at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge (UK). She is primarily interested in the ethical aspects of digitalization and responsible implementation of AI and robotics with consideration for diversity and global social, ecological, and economic sustainability. She has previously studied and conducted research on AI and human/robot interaction at Seoul National University (South Korea) and cognitive science at the University of Gothenburg. Currently, she is also researching humanoid social robotics and digitalization in healthcare at the University of Gothenburg. She is also a committee member of Cambridge Tech & Society – a student run society aimed at exploring how technology can best secure and further ideals of sustainable development and democracy at local, national, and international scales

Pia Langenkrans

Senior Microsoft 365 Expert/Digital Business Developer at Storyals and Cloud 476

Pia Langenkrans är en uppskattad talare som idag jobbar mest med förändringsledning och strategiska införanden av hela eller delar av Microsoft 365 plattformen. Hon har jobbat med SharePoint sedan det hette Tahoe (mer än 20+ år sen) och med Microsoft 365 när det hette BPOS. Under bältet har hon massor av timmar med intranät, dokumenthantering, samarbete, utbildning, adoption och 111 saker till. Med mycket humor och värme levererar hon både det ”uppenbara” och kreativa till många olika typer av verksamheter

Marc D Anderson

President | Sympraxis Consulting Boston, USA
MS MVP for Office Servers & Services, SharePoint Design specialist

Marc is President of Sympraxis Consulting, a virtual company centered around Boston, MA, USA. Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint and Microsoft 365 platforms.

Marc has over 35 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.

Marc is the developer of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) and The SPXSLT Codeplex Project. He is a repeat recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for SharePoint Server (2011-2023). He is also a member of the PnP Team

Wictor Wilen

MS HQ US
Product Leader in the Microsoft People System strategy team

Wictor Wilén is a Product Leader in the Microsoft People System team, creating highly personalized experiences that adapt to the unique interests of our users and the relationships that they have with other people and their content . He is a former member of the Microsoft Regional Director network and a Microsoft Certified Architect and Microsoft Certified Solutions Master for SharePoint. Wictor has worked in the portal and web content management industry since 1998 for consulting companies, founded and sold his own software company and saw the dawn of SharePoint back in 2001. Wictor is an active SharePoint community participant, author, tutor, frequent speaker at local and international conferences, and author of SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action and co-author of Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Between 2010 and 2021 Wictor was awarded the SharePoint Server MVP title by Microsoft for his community contributions. He can be found online at http://www.wictorwilen.se/. Wictor is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Eric Shupps

Founder and President of Apptigent,, Texas US
SharePoint MVP

Eric Shupps is the founder and President of Apptigent, a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software solutions.  Eric has worked in th eindustry for more than 30 years, primarily focused on Microsoft software and services, as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He co-hosts the Community CloudCast, has authored numerous technology articles, speaks at user group meetings and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular blog at http://www.sharepointcowboy.com.

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Anders Olsson

OneVinn
IT/Information-Security Advisor, MS Security MVP

Anders fifteen years within cyber security has earned him a reputation for know-how to create tailor-made, Microsoft-based security solutions. He loves adapting that technology to every organization’s needs and the current threat assessment. The last twelve years Anders have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – within the Forefront suite, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Mobility + Security and currently the Microsoft Security category.  
We have seen him as an appreciated speaker at events such as Techdays, Ignite Tour, TechX, Tech-Show and TechSummit over the past 12 years.

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Karoliina Kettukari

Meltlake, Helsinki, Finland
Leading Modern Work @ Meltlake | Microsoft MVP | Inspiring Speaker

Karoliina is a Modern Work Leader, Advisor and Microsoft MVP whose passion is to empower every employee with smart use of digital technology. Karoliina’s speciality is developing teamwork and internal communications with the help of Microsoft Teams and Viva.

Karoliina inspires customers to take advantage of the full potential of Microsoft 365 – in the end it’s all about excellent employee experience. Karoliina loves to share knowledge and learn from others, and she speaks actively at conferences and user groups.

💜 Community rocks!

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Paulina Tamme

LearningPoint, SE
Senior developer, MS Office Specialist

Paulina Tamme is a highly skilled developer in .NET and VBA at Learningpoint AB. She has been working with large customers in public sector and many well-known legacy firms. She is an expert in helping customers ensure that their documents are following the EU accessibility rules. She has been with Learningpoint AB for several years and has been involved in developing several of their Office products. Her expertise and experience make her a valuable asset to the company and her clients alike..

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Linus Nyholm

Microsoft Teams Technical specialist – Employee Experience

As a Microsoft Teams Technical Specialist, he helps enterprise customers create optimal employee experiences that improve productivity, develop empathetic leadership, and transform how employees feel about their work focusing on collaboration, insight, communication, growth, and purpose.

With a background as a SharePoint developer, consultant, and a passion for understanding IT and HR trends, Linus currently helps enterprise customers and partners understand the Digital & Physical employee experience promoting Microsoft Viva, SharePoint Syntex, Microsoft Teams Rooms, and of course Co-Pilot in Microsoft 365 and Viva.

Todd Klindt

PowerShell & SharePoint Administration specialist, MS MVP SharePoint

Todd has been a SharePoint lover since he was introduced to SharePoint Team Services, over 20 years ago. He reluctantly moved to the cloud 10 years ago, and has loved it ever since. His focus is administration, and the cloud has provided ample ways for him to indulge himself. He currently works at Sympraxis Consulting. He spends his days helping clients migrate into Microsoft 365 and get things set up once they’re there. His other love is automating tasks with PowerShell. He’s always trying to make things easier for his fellow Admins.

Susan Hanley

Founder of Susan Hanley LLC – SharePoint, Knowledge Management, Portals and Collaboration Consultant USA

Susan Hanley is a business analyst and information architect specializing in intranets and collaboration solutions. She is a recognized expert in the field of intranets, knowledge management, collaboration, and information architecture and has helped organizations of all sizes to optimize their use of the Microsoft 365 platform. Susan’s expertise has earned her the coveted Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft 365 Apps and Services, which recognizes exceptional contributions to the Microsoft community. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, where she shares her insights and best practices on how organizations can build and manage intranets and knowledge management solutions. Follow Sue on Twitter @susanhanley or the Essential SharePoint blog for Computerworld.com

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Gustaf Westerlund

CRM-Konsulterna
MVP, Principal Consultant

Senior solution architect bridging business, IT and people with a strong passion for making people cheer at the new technology and the opportunities it gives! Owner & founder of consultancy CRM-Konsulterna and public speaker at many international events. 11xMVP and CRM UG All Star.

Hasain Alshakarti

The Wolf – Principal Cybersecurity Advisor & Microsoft MVP at TRUESEC

Hasain, also known as “The Wolf”, is an industry-leading cyber security expert with more than 25 years of experience.

He has extensive and deep expertise from numerous design projects, security audits, advanced implementation projects, incident response, digital forensic, threat hunting and penetration testing. He helps customers understand and build solutions to protect, detect and respond to cyber threats for enterprises, government agencies, banks, military organizations among others.

Due to his expertise, he is a sought-after advisor, speaker and a popular instructor. For his many achievements over the years, Hasain has been awarded recognition as “Sweden’s leading IT security expert” and Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security and Cloud & Datacenter.

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Mikael Nyström

Expert System Center Cloud & Datacenter Management, MVP at TRUESEC

I am 35-year veteran of the industry and I can honestly tell you that I am not your regular consultant. I change wrong into right and explain the “why” behind it to make sure that you, my client, understands, trust, and buys-in to the path that we continue on. As a longtime Microsoft MVP that has experience as an IT Pro, Consultant, Instructor, Teacher, Presenter and more, there is not much that I haven’t seen or had experience in. I utilize the lessons I have been fortunate enough to learn to create a seamless and frictionless process for my clients, as working with me creates less stress for you.

As a global cybersecurity company, we’re proud to be at the forefront of protecting organizations and our society against cyber threats. Our purpose has been clear since day one: Creating safety and sustainability in a digital world by preventing cyber breach and minimizing impact.

Our team consists of cyber specialists covering the full spectrum of cybersecurity, each of us contributing with our unique expertise, willingness to make a difference, and a genuine wish to help. We never cease to challenge and reinvent ourselves to stay ahead of cybercriminals and find the best solution for you.

How do we start working together? It’s simple, we start with me saying “how can I help you” and we align on your needs. I believe in active listening and have a personal goal with each client to get you on the right track and help keep you there.

If you want the experience, the knowledge, and the expert guidance, look no further than right here. There is only one Deployment Bunny, and that is me.”

Ready to talk? Feel free to connect with me here on LinkedIn and drop me a line at Mikael.Nystrom@truesec.se or visit my site at http://www.deploymentbunny.com

Lise Rasmussen

Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Director Assistant at Vinterblot Film.

Lise works as a Cloud Solution Architect within modern work at Microsoft. Focusing on the M365 Power Platform she helps and advises customers on how to build solutions in Power Apps and Power Automate. She also runs workshops and support customers within the Power Platform and CoE for administrators

Sudha Narayanan

Senior Product Manager M365.

Software Engineer turned Product Manager with expertise in :
>Driving Products from 0 to 1 and realizing product success metrics.
>Strategizing and designing cross functional solutions.
>Putting together a highly efficient and motivated team of analysts and developers to drive solutions.

Immensely passionate about data driven story telling & decision making, with the motto of giving the “Right Information at the Right Time to the Right People in the Right Way”.
Driven by the scope for creativity, learning, business growth and solving complex business problems using technology.
Aspires to continue to explore new business possibilities, learn new technologies, meet new people and experience new countries and cultures.

Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

Ashiq is a skilled technology profession with 15 years of experience in Microsoft-based technologies, specializing in Microsoft 365 Platform and Azure. Ashiq’s interest in cloud services in Azure inspires him to explore new possibilities. As a Power Platform Architect at Avanade Sweden, Ashiq brings a wealth of technical expertise and experience across various industries, including Automotive, Banking, Pharma, and Retail. He is a trusted advisor to his clients in leveraging Microsoft technologies to solve complex business challenges. Ashiq is also an avid blogger and Microsoft MVP in the Business Applications category, demonstrating his passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and sharing knowledge. His primary focus is on designing and developing customized solutions on the Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, and Azure services. Through his deep understanding of these technologies, Ashiq has helped organizations streamline their processes, increase productivity, and improve overall business performance

Ashiq is a Microsoft MVP | MCT | Solutions Architect, and also a Blogger | Speaker | Power Platform Architect | SharePoint Architect

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Spencer Harbar

Widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Identity & Information Security authorities. Used to work in the music industry. Musician, Composer, Photographer. Royal Air Force. Cricketer. Advocate for dementia awareness, funding, and support.

Spencer is a MCA, MCSM, MCM, MVP, PMP, CISSP

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Göran Husman

HumanData Sverige, founded 2001.
Solution Architect M365 MCT Trainer, Author, rMVP

Göran is also responsible for the SEF speakers, and all content

Göran is the founder, of HumanData, a Swedish consulting company specializing in M365. Typical engagements are Solution Architect – Analyzing, Planning, and Implementing part, or all, of M365 tenants, advanced administration of M365 for governance, managment and security, Migration projects of all sorts, plus training/education within his expertice.

He has been granted the “MVP” award by Microsoft 13 times, and today is listed as an rMVP – “Reconnect MVP”. He has written three books about SharePoint, and one about Exchange. The last 6.5 years he was working as an M365 solution architect for H&M’s global organization with more than 150.000 users

Today Göran lives in Arbrå, Hälsingland, 2.5 h by car/train from Stockholm, in a fantastic farm, a “Hälsingegård” in Swedish. This means he prefer to work online, but can visit Stockholm when needed.