Steve Buchanan is an enterprise cloud architect and Midwest Containers Services Lead on the Cloud Transformation/DevOps team with Avanade, the Microsoft arm of Accenture. He is an eight-time Microsoft MVP, and the author of six technical books. He has presented at tech events, including Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, and user groups. He is active in the technical community and enjoys blogging about his adventures in the world of IT on his blog at buchatech.com.
Janaka Rangama is a Microsoft Azure MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is originally from Sri Lanka, known as "the pearl of the indian Ocean," and now lives in Australia, known as "the land down under." Currently a Senior Principal Product Technologist at Dell EMC Azure Stack Product Engineering Team, he is one of the leading hybrid cloud experts in the APAC region. He is a well-known speaker at many international conferences and an expertin both Microsoft and OSS technologies. He co-leads the Melbourne Azure Nights user group and is one of the founding members of the Sri Lanka IT PRO Forum.
Ned Bellavance is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Founder of Ned in the Cloud LLC. As a one-man tech juggernaut, he develops video courses, runs the Day Two Cloud Podcast for Packet Pushers, and creates original content for technology vendors. He is passionate about learning new technologies and sharing that knowledge with others, whether that is through courses, speaking, blogging, or authoring books. He has presented at tech events, including Microsoft Ignite, Cloud Expo NYC, and the Midwest Management Summit (MMS). You can find his musings on the IT industry at his website at nedinthecloud.com.