Geek Speak Local - Iowa City, Iowa - June 25, 2009

Event Details

Date: Thursday, June 25th
Geek Speak Session Times: 1:00 - 4:00pm Central Time
Geek Speak Happy Hour: Drinks and Hors D'oeuvres, 4:00 - 5:00pm Central Time
Location: Holiday Inn Conference Center, 220 First Ave., Coralville, IA 52241

http://www.alliancetechnologies.net/news/geek-speak-event-june09.php

The information-packed days of Citrix Synergy 2009 are over and what an event it was! More than 3000 people gathered to examine the future of virtualization, networking, and application delivery technologies designed to help companies maximize constrained IT spending. As a follow up to Synergy 2009, Alliance Technologies is hosting Geek Speak Local in Iowa City to provide facilitated learning from thought leaders and tech experts, including Matt Lesak, Daniel Feller, Jason Conger, and Michael Keen.

Once again, this open forum event will give the audience the chance to run the show and will include discussions and input from experts in the delivery infrastructure community.

Here's the speaker line-up:

• Dan Feller kicking off the event with "VDI Design Considerations"
• Matt Lesak leading a demo session on how to build a successful VDI solution using XenDesktop and XenServer
• Jason Conger delivering a follow-on to his "Workflow Studio Orchestration" session at the Geek Speakeasy at Synergy 09
• Michael Thomason delivering a follow-on to his 2008 BriForum session on "Provisioning Services in the Real World"
• Michael Keen on "Using the Citrix Delivery Center to Enhance Your Enterprise Architecture"
  
  

About Daniel Feller
Daniel is a lead architect with the Worldwide Consulting Solutions group at Citrix Systems. Daniel is one of the longest standing consultants with Citrix dating back to 2000. Since then he has spent numerous years working with customers on analyzing, designing and implementing solutions ranging from: application virtualization, desktop virtualization and server virtualization. Daniel has spoken at numerous Citrix conferences and authored numerous white papers including the Provisioning Services for XenApp Best Practice Guide, Creating a High-Availably solution for XenApp with NetScaler, the XenDesktop Design Handbook, and the XenDesktop 10,000 User Design. You can follow Daniel on Twitter at http://twitter.com/djfeller.

About Matt Lesak
Matt joined Citrix's sales team in October of 2006 as a CDC Enterprise Sales Engineer for the Southeast region in North America. Over the past several years, he has worked in corporate IT infrastructure and consulting, and has taught Cisco and Microsoft courses. Matt and his family currently reside in Tampa, FL.

About Jason Conger
Jason Conger specializes in Server Based Computing and .NET technologies. Previous experience includes the design implementation of Citrix farms and products for a Platinum Citrix partner. Jason has also made guest appearances at iForum and Solutions Summit. Jason has his own website (www.jasonconger.com) centered on his experiences with Server Based Computing and environments utilizing a variety of technologies. There is much to learn from Jason, and much that he would love to share with you.

About Michael Keen
As the Senior Solutions Architect at Alliance Technologies, Michael has over eleven years of experience in the field of business and information technology, including Citrix Application Delivery infrastructure design, implementation, administration, and consulting. Michael has helped many businesses within Iowa capitalize on change. In February, Michael was added as a business and technology agility analyst for a leading virtualization solutions resource website called DABCC: http://www.dabcc.com/michaelkeen

About Citrix Synergy 2009

Where virtualization, networking, and application delivery meet!
Born as a user conference more than 10 years ago, Citrix Synergy has been completely re-conceived as the industry's premier thought leadership event where virtualization, networking, and application delivery meet.

Citrix Synergy combines four events into one, including Citrix iForum, Geek Speak Live!, Virtualization Congress, and Network World Live. Attendees benefit by attending a single track, or by combining sessions from various tracks to custom-build a conference to suit their individual needs. With all of the information presented over three days at Synergy, attendees walked away, armed with ideas and solutions to help address their most pressing IT issues, lower costs, and deliver more business value to their organization.

For more information about Geek Speak Live! at Synergy 09, click here.