Davide Benvegnù is the International Development Manager for Aruba, the biggest Italian web services provider. With over 10 years of experience in software development and IT, he is currently responsible for the management of software development. He works with Azure and does Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). In the past, in addition to software development, he has also managed and coordinated the systems administration and dealt with virtualization and consolidation of entire data centers.
Davide has also been a freelancer since 2009 under the brand DBTek, and he makes web and desktop applications and Windows Store and Windows Phone apps as well as acts as a consultant in the field of ALM.
He is a member of the staff of DotNetToscana, an official Microsoft Technical Community, where he helps to organize events and gives speeches at technical conferences about .NET and the Microsoft technology stack. He has conducted several sessions and talks at events of national relevance, such as Community Days, SMAU, Festival ICT, and many others.
He has several IT-related certifications (issued by VMware, Veeam®, Microsoft, and others). He always keeps himself up to date with the advances in the field of technology and tries to transfer his knowledge and passion through the talks and courses he participates in as a trainer.
James Bowling is a VCAP5-DCD, VCAP5-DCA, VCP-Cloud, EMCCIS/EMCCA, VMware vExpert (x4), Cisco Champion for Data Center, PernixPro, Houston VMUG Leader, and virtualization enthusiast living in Houston, Texas. He has over 15 years of experience. He received the 2009 COMMON/IBM Power Systems Innovation Award for Energy Efficiency for his design and implementation of the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Datacenter in Arlington, Texas. He has given presentations at VMworld US and EMEA about automation and orchestration. His experience spans designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale cloud infrastructures. He is currently the Principal Consultant for Data Center Practice at General Datatech in Dallas, Texas. He can be reached on Twitter (@vSential) or through his virtualization blog at http://vsential.com/.
Steve Dolphin is an experienced solutions architect who's been working in the professional services sector for over 10 years. His extensive experience with a range of hardware and software platforms ideally locates him for a wide range of business projects and consultancy. He can be contacted via his website, www.stephendolphin.co.uk.