Niklas Akerlund is a Product Manager at Lumagate. His focus is on private clouds and Microsoft System Center. Niklas has been working with Microsoft infrastructure solutions since 1998. He has quite a lot of experience in virtualization projects with consolidation planning and migrations from physical to virtual. Niklas has done both project management and technical design in Hyper-V upgrades and new installations. He started working with Hyper-V as a former employee in the TAP program for Windows Server 2008, and has great interest in automation and optimization of virtual machines and hosts. He was also responsible for the TAP program engagement for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 at RTS. Niklas has been on TechNet TV in Sweden and has been working as an MCT at a local learning center for a long time. He is also a VMware vExpert 2012 and a VCI.

Lai Yoong Seng has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in virtual machines since 2010. He has more than 10 years of experience in IT and started his career as a Hyper-V and System Center specialist for Redynamics in Malaysia. He started specializing in Microsoft virtualization and started blogging (www.ms4u.info) and presenting for local and regional events. He is the founder of Malaysia Virtualization User Group (MVUG), which has provided a one-stop center to people who want to learn about Hyper-V and System Center. Lai has also actively participated in Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP) in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1.