Amplify 2026 Speakers
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Kees Baggerman
Kees currently directs a six-engineer R&D core, managing a 20-plus-person matrixed global organization across three continents. His focus is on developing architectural standards and performance benchmarks that empower organizations to run their most demanding applications—from VDI to mission-critical healthcare systems—on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Beyond engineering, his scope includes commercial stewardship, partnership development, and navigating enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations. He actively collaborates with core ecosystem partners including NVIDIA, Microsoft, Citrix, and Omnissa, as well as other leading enterprise technology vendors. With more than two decades of experience in the IT industry, Kees’s career has evolved from deep-dive technical consulting into strategic engineering leadership. He holds multiple U.S. patents in dynamic GPU resource allocation and image management and is deeply committed to the EUC and virtualization communities. He has been recognized with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), VMware vExpert/Omnissa Insiders, and NVIDIA Enterprise Advisor (NEPA) awards. Kees also serves as a co-founder and board member of the Dutch Citrix User Group (DuCUG).
Jon Bucud
Jon Bucud is a former Citrix CTA and CTP and an Okta Certified Professional who focuses on End User Computing and Identity and Access Management. He spends much of his time implementing and troubleshooting EUC platforms like Citrix DaaS, Single Sign-On, and federated identity solutions.
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Nick Burton
Nick is a Senior Sales Engineer at Login VSI with over a decade of end-user computing experience, spanning customer, consultant, and vendor roles. Specializes in virtual desktop implementations and large-scale EUC automations.
Jaymes Davis
Jaymes Davis is a technologist and enterprise architect focused on modern workspace delivery, Kubernetes-native platforms, and secure access for AI-driven organizations. He works at the intersection of Nutanix, Kubernetes, and Kasm Workspaces to help enterprises reduce VDI complexity, modernize user access, and deploy secure browser and desktop services alongside internal AI and LLM platforms. Jaymes frequently speaks on AI-ready infrastructure, containerized workspaces, and the future of enterprise computing.
Richard Faulkner
Richard Faulkner is a Solutions Architect at Ferroque Systems with 30+ years in EUC, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure. A former U.S. Navy Nuclear Machinist Mate turned IT architect, he specializes in Citrix, NetScaler, automation, and secure cloud-ready EUC design. Richard is a frequent presenter at industry events
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Denis Gundarev
For over twenty years Denis has been immersed in Remote Desktop, VDI, and application delivery. He is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft focusing on Partner Developer Relations, responsible for remoting protocol strategy, extensibility frameworks, and Windows 365 for Agents. His prior experience spans program management and engineering roles at Amazon, VMware EUC, Citrix, and e360, as well as EUC architect positions within large global enterprises.
Chris Hildebrandt
Chris Hildebrandt is a seasoned IT professional and Senior Consultant specializing in End-User Computing (EUC), VDI, and virtualization technologies. By day, he serves as a VDI Admin and deploys EUC solutions for clients at Choice Solutions, with deep expertise in VMware Horizon (now Omnissa), infrastructure, and automation. A long-time community leader, Chris is a long time vExpert and Cisco Champion, World of EUC Leaker for KC a member of the Omnissa Tech Insiders program. Beyond the tech world, he's a dedicated family man, love outdoors things, and enyoys the worlds of competitive shooting, range days, hiking, fishing, our about anything out in nature. Based in Kansas, Chris is passionate about knowledge sharing, PowerShell automation, cyber resilience, and building community in the tech space.
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Daniel Keer
Daniel Keer, aka theDXT, is an IT professional with over 15 years of industry experience, passionate about technology, who maintains a home lab for experimentation and shares insights on his blog (theDXT.ca), aiming to give back to the community. Daniel works at Digitally Accurate Inc. as Project Lead, and Senior Consultant. He is an Omnissa Tech Insider and VMware vExpert, and he regularly speaks publicly on technology topics.
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Fernando Klurfan
A long-standing member of the VDI community, my career took me over Citrix HDX and now Microsoft Teams
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Brian Langston
Citrix Architect and VDI evangelist. Designed and deployed numerous small and large Citrix Onprem and Cloud environments on everything from Xenserver to Nutanix to AWS.
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Yury Magalif
Yury is a Hybrid Cloud, EUC, VDI, MDM, and DaaS Architect who lives and breathes technology. He consults for Fortune 500 companies, is a Top 10 speaker at HPE Discover conferences, a two-time speaker at VMware Explore, and has been a VMware vExpert for 13 years.
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Scott Manchester
Scott helps enterprise teams turn cloud complexity into competitive advantage. As CPTO at Nerdio, Scott leads product and technology with a focus on building intuitive, scalable solutions for Microsoft-centric organizations managing Azure, AVD, Windows 365, and modern endpoint environments. His work centers on simplifying operations, accelerating partner success, and delivering SaaS platforms that scale with customer ambition. Scott is deeply engaged in the broader EUC and cloud ecosystem, tracking emerging technologies, competitive shifts, and the practical impact of AI on enterprise IT. He cares less about hype and more about what actually works in production. His approach blends strategic thinking with hands-on leadership: listening to customers, empowering teams, and making disciplined bets that compound over time.
Tim Mangan
Tim Mangan is the Founder of TMurgent Technologies. He creates all of the training and software produced by the company. He is widely recognized around the world as the lead expert on building and managing applications in the Microsoft Windows environment. Prior to launching TMurgent, Tim was with many software and/or hardware companies including Softricity, Sync Research, Tylink, Avanti Communications, Memotec, Teleglobe, Infinet, and ComputerVision. Somewhere in between he also did consulting work for the WAN side of a major US bank. At one point he was also the President of the Frame Relay Forum, an international consortium of Communication Carriers, Vendors, and Users. Tim speaks at many conferences around the world, usually on App-V, MSIX, Virtualization, and/or Performance. He has been awarded by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for "Remote Desktop Services", "Application Virtualization", and "Windows IT Professional" over the last 17 years. He also has been awarded by Citrix as a "Citrix Technology Professional Fellow", an achievement held by only four others around the world.
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Nick Prignano
Nick Prignano is an enterprise IT consultant specializing in end-user computing, Microsoft 365, and cloud infrastructure. With extensive experience designing and delivering AVD and Citrix migration projects, he helps organizations modernize their desktop environments without sacrificing performance, security, or operational sanity. Nick works with clients across complex, real-world scenarios — hybrid identity, brownfield networking, and enterprise-scale deployments — and is a regular contributor to the EUC community.
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Owen Reynolds
Owen lives in the Montreal area of Quebec, Canada. He works for a Citrix Solutions provider. He was previously a CTA , Owen is now the World of EUC leader for Montreal. Learn more at https://www.owenreynolds.me/
Frasier Roberts
Bio coming soon.
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Spencer Sun
EUC Solutions Architect for 25+ years. Worked at many integration partners, Citrix, AppSense, Unidesk and Login VSI, among others. Have spent the last 5 years focused on EUC Performance at PNC Bank and then Rightworks.
Jacob Williams-Ernst
IT Professional with 8 years of experience supporting virtual infrastructure and EUC using VMware, Microsoft, and in-house solutions.
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Dane Young
Dane Young (@youngtech on Social Media platforms) is recognized as a Microsoft Valued Professional for Windows and Devices with two awards: Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. Dane is highly specializing in End User Computing technologies for 20+ years as an IT Pro. Dane was recognized as a Citrix Technology Professional for 10+ years (prior to the program disbanding). Dane is currently a Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP), Nerdio Valued Professional, NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor (NEPA), Omnissa Tech Insider, and Parallels Very Important Parallels Professional (VIPP). Dane is a self-employed virtualization and cloud architect, specializing in the design and deployment of application, desktop, server virtualization, end user computing and cloud technologies from Citrix, Login VSI Hydra, Microsoft, Nerdio, Omnissa, Parallels, and others. Launching independent as an entrepreneur, Dane inspired and created YOUNGTECH where he is presently functioning as CTO, leading a team of Professional Services Consultants. Together, they empower clients to convert their technology roadblocks into a roadmap to success. Dane does this by working with clients and partners to develop and execute End User Computing projects at every scale. Dane has maintained and contributes to several industry recognized technical blogs, primarily writing on LinkedIn and blog.youngtech.com.