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Featured Speakers

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$Joseph Reynolds, Microsoft C# MVP, Owner \ Principal Software Engineer, InfoCraft$

Speakers

Caleb Jenkins, Sr. Product Cloud Architect | 6x Microsoft MVP | International Speaker | Wrox Author, Software Manager, LinuxAcademy.com
Paul Hacker, Solution Architect, Microsoft MVP - ALM, AgileThought
Shawn Weisfeld, Technical Evangelist, UserGroup.tv, Microsoft
Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist, Microsoft
Brian Sullivan, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, Principal Consultant, Clear Measure
Jeff Bramwell, Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, Vice President - Enterprise Architecture, Farm Credit Services of America
Joseph Reynolds, Microsoft C# MVP, Owner \ Principal Software Engineer, InfoCraft
Matthew Groves, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
Michael Perry, Principal Consultant, Improving
Randy Walker, INETA Membership Mentor, Microsoft MVP, Owner, Harvest I.T.
Dennis Bottjer, Solutions Architect, ThriveFast LLC
Dustin Curzon, Executive Director, 36degreesNorth
Harold Pulcher, Senior Consultant, Improving
Priscilla McKinney, CEO/President, Little Bird Marketing
Tommy Falgout, Principal Developer, Yahoo!
Josh Mize, Site Reliability Engineer, Mozilla
Luke Crouch, Web Developer, Mozilla
Akram Taghavi-Burris, Instructional Designer, Oklahoma Univeristy
Alan White, Cloud Strategy Principal, Tierpoint
Allison Pollard, Agile Coach, Improving
Andrew Chandler, Senior Java developer, President Tulsa Java Developers Group, Williams
April Dunnam, SharePoint Developer, ThriveFast, LLC
Blake Davidson, Senior Xamarin Developer, CIE Digital Labs
Brittany Berwanger, Programmer Analyst, Explorer Pipeline
Carlos Angon, UI UX Developer
Christine Collins, Creative Director, Bad Penny Factory
Christophe Limpalair, Instructor, Linux Academy
Christopher Rogers, Software Developer, American Fidelity Assurance Company
Chuck Tryon, Chief of Program and Knowledge Management, Founder - Tryon and Associates, Professor - University of Oklahoma, Founder
Danny Cox, VP | Information Security Risk, Bank of Oklahoma Financial
Darren Gibson, Software Engineer, InterWorks, Inc.
David Walker, Associate Director - Digital Services, Virtusa|Polaris
Doug Halve, Senior IT Recruitment Manager, The Rowland Group
Edward Eckenstein, Principal Consultant, Smartly Secured, LLC
Floyd May, Grand Poobah of Technical Practice, Momentum3
Frank Evans, Data Scientist, Exaptive
Garret Wilson, President, GlobalMentor, Inc.
George Patterson, Manager of Research & Development, Avansic: E-Discovery & Digital Forensics
Heather Ball, Public Relations, OKgamers.com
Howard Magill, Founder and Manager, Road Map Technologies
James Huckaby, Software Architect, McKesson Corporation
Jason Knight, Scrum Master, Vitals
Jeff Ray, VP, Information Security Risk Mgmt, BOKF
Jessica Hollis, Laboratory Specialist, Avansic: E-Discovery & Digital Forensics
Jim Hudson, Senior Technology Evangelist, OakTree Software
Jim Maxson, Assistant Professor, Tulsa Community College
Joel Sallee, Senior Forensics Specialist, Assistant Lab Manager, Avansic: E-Discovery & Digital Forensics
Jon Cavanaugh, Sr Sales Engineer, op5
Jon Sousa, Founder, Lead Developer, Lead Artist, Emerald Interactive Games
Jonathan Bartlett, Director of Technology, New Medio
Joshua Hamilton, Full Stack Developer , Made By Munsters
Kevin Whitson, Hadoop Developer, Phillips 66
Lance Watson, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Avansic: E-Discovery & Digital Forensics
Mark Reynolds, Senior Solutions Architect, Southwestern Energy
Mark Smith, Big Data Engineer, Sonic Drive in
Matthew Reily, Software Architect, Interworks
Myke Bates, Associate Tech Director, The Alchemedia Project
NK Shrivastava, CEO/Lead Instructor/Agile Coach, RefineM
Noah Jenkins, Producer/Editor/On Screen Talent, Slef
Paul Gower, Principal Consultant / Founder, Lunamark
Pedro Serrano, Security Architect , Cimarex Energy
Rashard Hutchins, Game Over Entertainment, Inc
Rebecca Cecchini, Director, Product & Engineering, OpenLink
Ryan Overton, Principal Software Developer, QuikTrip
Sabrina Gelbart, Lead Web Developer and UX, LeadCliq
Saif Khan, Founder of OKgamers.com, GoBob Pipe & Steel
Sarah Daigle, CEO, Currant Tech
Scott McCarty, Software Architect, RelayHealth Financial
Scott Mitchell, Information Management Consultant, Self / Consultant
Sean Whitesell, President - Tulsa .NET Developers Group, Senior Binary Alignment Specialist, Momentum3
Stacey Brandhorst, Venture Advisor, i2E, inc
Terry Cox, Instructor, Linux Academy
Thomas Haslett, Instructor, Linux Academy
Todd Davis, National Director & Co-Founder, Gold Star Referral Clubs
William Anderson, Application Architect, ArcBest Technologies

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IMS Software is a global -industry specific- consulting service, we offer complete software solutions for Oil ` Gas industry, Finance, Real Estate, Banking, Education and Trading.IMS Software provides best practice methodology in software development, our partnership with lead technology organizations provides us the ability to offer our clients a wide selection of technology tools when implementing our solutions.

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TierPoint is a leading provider of IT Infrastructure that helps companies of all shapes and sizes improve performance and manage risk. We offer state-of-the-art Cloud services that are suited to your company's specific needs, and continue to be a leader in colocation and managed services. We are local to Tulsa, but are backed by world-class data centers in 20 U.S. markets coast to coast. We can help solve your business challenges by providing value-driven, enterprise-class solutions. Find out why our customers see us as trusted advisors and extensions of their teams.

ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS) is a natural gas distribution company and the successor to the company founded in 106 as Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, and became ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) in 180. ONEOK separated its natural gas distribution business in January 2014 to create ONE Gas, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded, 100 percent-regulated natural gas utilities in the United States. ONE Gas provides natural gas distribution services to more than 2 million customers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. Headquartered in Tulsa, Okla., its companies include the largest natural gas distributor in Oklahoma and Kansas, and the third largest in Texas, in terms of customers. Its largest natural gas distribution markets by customer count are Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla. Kansas City, Wichita and Topeka, Kan. and Austin and El Paso, Texas. ONE Gas serves residential, commercial, industrial, transportation and wholesale customers in all three states.

Avansic is a leading provider of e-discovery and digital forensics services to attorneys, litigation support teams, and business communities across the nation. We take a scientific approach to providing e-discovery, digital forensics, data preservation, online review, and expert consulting services.Avansic has its roots in academia we were founded in 2004 by computer science professor Dr. Gavin W. Manes. Since then, we have created a reputation as a trustworthy, reliable and responsive specialist in e-discovery and forensics fields.

We focus on doubling productivity and cutting IT Services costs by 50% or more. As Oklahoma's LEADING Microsoft Partner in providing Microsoft System Center and IT architecture solutions, we are experts in System Center solutions and Enterprise Mobility services that enable our clients to better plan, build and run their critical business while cutting IT budgets and doubling efficiency. We provide powerful services and solutions for your business, we work closely with Microsoft and other industry leaders to help you maximize productivity and time savings using Microsoft Systems Center solutions such as (SCCM, SCOM and SCORCH), Windows OS migration, Cloud solutions: EMS, Azure, Office 65 and Windows Intune, IT strategy and road mapping. We also offer application packaging services and remote application solutions. In short, get effective solutions for complex problems. Dramatic time savings. Up to 50% or more in cost cutting. Confidence that your systems are secure and working at full capacity.

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Aspose are file format experts. They offer a powerful set of file management APIs with which developers can create applications which can create, open, edit and save the majority of popular business file formats.The Aspose product range includes Microsoft Excel spreadsheet APIs, Microsoft Word processing APIs, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation APIs, PDF document creation and manipulation APIs and many others.The Aspose products range of supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, OneNote, Outlook, Project, Visio files, popular image formats and various other formats. Aspose produce APIs for .NET, Java, Cloud, which can be utilized in almost any modern language available today.Aspose Pty Ltd has been operating since 2002. The headquarters are in Australia, and the company has teams in numerous countries all over the world.

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As the development world's trusted educational provider of developer-focused content since 1, Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) provides attendees with cutting-edge techniques needed to solve development challenges with shipping or soon to be shipping technologies compatible with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio. No other conference, no corporate trainers, no one else compares to the Visual Studio Live! standard of editorial excellence and commitment by speakers, such as Microsoft Development Team members and renowned industry experts, to provide real-world, practical information.

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Aspose are file format experts. They offer a powerful set of file management APIs with which developers can create applications which can create, open, edit and save the majority of popular business file formats.The Aspose product range includes Microsoft Excel spreadsheet APIs, Microsoft Word processing APIs, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation APIs, PDF document creation and manipulation APIs and many others.The Aspose products range of supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, OneNote, Outlook, Project, Visio files, popular image formats and various other formats. Aspose produce APIs for .NET, Java, Cloud, which can be utilized in almost any modern language available today.Aspose Pty Ltd has been operating since 2002. The headquarters are in Australia, and the company has teams in numerous countries all over the world.

CodeSmith Tools is a privately-held software company specializing in the creation of software tools that help developers be more productive. Our goal is to build the best developer tools available to help developers around the world get their jobs done faster and help them avoid repetitive work.We believe in being open and available to our customers, and listening to what they have to say. Our highest priority is the success of our customers, followed by continued innovation with our products.

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