Speakers

Sherif is Currently a Regional Channel Presales Engineer Working At AppDynamics (Part of Cisco Systems)
to provide world class pre-sales technical support to the channel partner, sales teams, and customers throughout the sales cycle on Application Monitoring on full stack of Technologies ranging from Java, .Net, MEAN and Cotainerized Applications

Sherif previously was a Technology Solutions Professional dedicated for Shifting Open Source technologies to Microsoft Cloud Platform “Azure” from Infrastructure (IaaS) to Application level (PaaS)
Where he first joined Microsoft as a Productivity Solution Specialist working dedicated for Visio in Middle East and Africa as one of the 6 team members worldwide.

Sherif has a total of 8 years of professional experience, and have been Working on all Microsoft technologies as a Senior Software Developer in ITWorx and Integrant (Microsoft Partners) for 3.5 years.
Then moved as a Business Analyst and Product Manager in Vodafone Group Services in Germany, one of the leading Multinational companies, for 1.5 years.

Graduated at 2011 With Honors, and was Assigned as a Teaching Assistant in Faculty of Computer and Information Science – Ain Shams University for 3 years

Specialties:
•Professional Skills: Solution Selling, Business Analysis and Product Management
•Programming Languages: C#, JavaScript/JQuery, HTML, Java, Node.JS
•Technologies: ASP.NET, ADO.NET, MVC 4.0, Entity Framework Windows Azure, SharePoint 2010, WCF, WPF, Windows 8 Apps
•Database Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Mongo DB

Mohannad Samamah

• Sr.Technical Evangelist – Africa and ME (Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar and Levant)
• Previous Experience: 15+ Years as SharePoint and EPM Technology Manager, PO, PM, PMO
• Contact Details: Mohannad.Samamah@Nintex.com

Alexander Trekin, IBM certified Solution Expert and Sales Professional, is the Senior Regional Director in Precisely’s UK office, and he is responsible for all aspects of solution sales and management to our customers and for overseeing the partner network in Russia, C.I.S., United Kingdom and Ireland, and Middle East and Africa. For past twenty years, he was responsible for over 200 high availability and disaster recovery projects in 24 countries worldwide, which gave him a unique insight on the subject.

Prior to joining Syncsort in 1999, Mr. Trekin held a variety of technical and management positions at SBS-AGRO Banking Group. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and is the Fellow of Institute of Sales Management since 2012.

One of the two SQL Server Speakers of Professional Association for SQL Server in SQLPASS Lahore General Conference. (http://lahore.sqlpass.org/Home.aspx?EventID=5615 )

Author at one of the most prestigious SQL Server Blogs SQLSHACK.com
(http://www.sqlshack.com/author/musabumair/)

One of the 4 SQL Server Speakers Cloud Society Community Data Science Roadshow by MVPs – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Featured Speaker at SQL PASS Lahore General Conference (http://lahore.sqlpass.org/Home.aspx?EventID=5615)
My professional experience runs on Microsoft SQL Server.
I started as a Developer, and now I am performing my duties as Senior Database Consultant.

Specialties: Database Administration, Database Automation, High Availability Solutions, Managing VLDB, ETL and performance tuning.

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One of the most experienced database consultants with a proven track in DB administration and analysis in many enterprise companies in government and semi-government and even private sector at Egypt, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Author at one of the most prestigious SQL Server Blogs:
SQLSHACK.com (https://www.sqlshack.com/author/ayman-elnory/)
Stellarinfo.com (https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/author/ayman/)
Mssqltips.com (https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlserverauthor/341/ayman-elnory/)

7+ years of Database Development & Administration& BI experience with many Microsoft certifications:
MCT (2018\2019)
Microsoft® Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics 2016
Microsoft® Certified Solutions Expert: Data Platform (SQL Server 2012/2014)
Microsoft® Certified Solution Associate (SQL Server 2012/2014)
Microsoft® Certified Professional (SQL Server 2012/2014)

I adore the adventure and have the passion of working with the database’s complex issues. Especially, high availability solutions, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
I started as a system Engineer, and now I am performing my duties as a Senior Database Consultant and analyst.

Rishi is working in Sales Engineering unit of MicroStrategy based out of their Dubai office. Until recently, he was working as Services Director with a consulting firm delivering Business Analytics applications using the MicroStrategy platform and has a cumulative experience of 16 years in delivering Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management applications.

Along with MicroStrategy, Rishi has worked extensively on IBM Cognos BI and Planning. With over a decade of customer facing experience in the middle east, his current role requires him to travel across the region, something which he enjoys a lot!

Rishi has been living with his family in Dubai for the past 12 years; loves to travel; and being an Indian.

Satya Jayanty is Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – SQL Server for last 10 years, Satya Jayanty is a subject matter expert in the areas of consulting & technical expertise within Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Architecture solutions with over 24+ years of experience. He is the author of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook (released May 2011) and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 cube-security How-to (October 2012) from www.packtpub.com, co-author of MVP Deep Dives SQL Server Volume II (released October 2011) from Manning Publications. Reviewed many SQL Server books on a technical reviewer capacity and SME (reviewer and writer) for SQL Server certification exams.

Satya (@SQLMaster) is a prolific speaker at major technology conferences such as Microsoft Tech-Ed (Europe, India and North America), SQL PASS (Europe and North America), SQL Gulf, SQL Saturdays and SQL Bits (UK). Owner of 2 leading SQL Server usergroup in the United Kingdom. Satya was very active (held Moderator positions) in SQL Server related newsgroups and forums such as www.sql-server-performance.com,SQL Server Central. Microsoft SQL Server tutorials, training & forum. and SQL Server Information at SQLTeam.com along with Microsoft Technet forums. Whenever time permits, Satya contributes to his own blog site, Data Platform Knowledge Sharing Network | SQLServer-QA.net – A Knowledge Sharing Network… and shares knowledge from his Twitter pod.

Denny Cherry is an MVP and MCM expert in the design and administration of Microsoft SQL Server (6.5-2014) database solutions at both the hardware and software levels of the design process.
On the software side I have expert level knowledge of a wide variety of Microsoft Software including Microsoft SQL Server (6.5-2014), Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Server (7-2014), Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (2005-2014), Microsoft SQL Server Replication (7-2014), Microsoft Windows Server (NT4 – 2012 R2), Microsoft Cluster Services (2000-2012 R2), and Microsoft Load Balancing Services (2000-2012 R2).In addition I am extremely experienced in the use of EMC Navispear, EMC PowerPath, HP/Compaq SmartStart, HP/Compaq RAID Utilities, and EMC DRU.

On the hardware side I have expert level knowledge of a wide variety of hardware including HP/Compaq 1850R, HP/Compaq 6400R, HP/Compaq 6500R, HP DL360, HP DL380, HP DL385, HP DL580, HP DL585, EMC CX-500, EMC CX-600, and EMC CX-700.

Andreas Wolter is both a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) on SQL Server 2008 and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master Data Platform (MCSM) SQL Server 2012 – making him one of only 2 experts worldwide being master-certified on SQL Server 2008 and 2012. Besides that he has also been awarded with the MVP for SQL Server since 2014.

He is the founder of Sarpedon Quality Lab, a Germany-based company that specializes in Development and Optimization of SQL Server Database- and Datawarehouse-architectures with focus on performance, scalability and security.

With over 15 years of experience with SQL Server he can be met at various international conferences and delivering training for the SQL Server Master-Class seminar-series held in Europe.

You can follow him at Twitter at @AndreasWolter and find his blog at www.andreas-wolter.com/blog/ .

Victor Isakov is MVP , MCM and MCA SQL Server since 9 years , he is a Database Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He provides consulting and training services to various organizations in the public, private and NGO sectors globally, and been involved in different capacities at various international events and conferences. He has authored a number of books on SQL Server and worked closely with Microsoft to develop the new generation of SQL Server 2005 Certification and Microsoft Official Curriculum for both ILT and e-Learning. He wrote exam items for various SQL Server 2005 exams., he reviewed all SQL Server 2005 exams , also he wrote exam items for various SQL Server 2008 exams and reviewed all SQL Server 2008 exams. In addition he wrote exam items for Microsoft Certified Architect: SQL Server program.