Previous editions

We have kept a high-level archive of partners, speakers and agenda's of previous editions to provide an impression what to expect in this years edition.

Click on the tabs below to investigate the years of 2017-2023 - click on the AME20** tab to close a year.

On our YouTube channel you can find the recorded presentations of previous years and in our gallery you will find some quick visual impressions. We are looking forward to seeing you in October!

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Partners AppManagEvent 2024:

Relevant content & event partners will be presenting, demonstrating and sharing their vision, solution or technology to help with your current or future IT project. Below outlines our partners for 2024 who demonstrated their expertise in technical break-out sessions and/or on their booth at the partner floor.

If you wish to become a partner for AppManagEvent, please contact us at: events@pds-site.com or call: +31 88 5588 400

Platinum Partners

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Gold Partners

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Speakers at AppManagEvent

Speakers at AppManagEvent share their vision & technical insights. Below is the final list of speakers who joined us on October 11, 2024. Many will join us in 2025 again. An update on the confirmed line up for 2025 will follow soon.

If you wish to become a speaker in 2025 and have interesting content for AppManagEvent - let's talk and contact us at: events@pds-site.com or call: +31 88 5588 400.

Bio -Sami Laiho

Sami Laiho is one of the world’s leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1996.
In 2019 Sami was chosen by TiVi-magazine as one of the top 100 influencers in IT in Finland. He is the 11th most followed person in his field in Finland.
 
At Ignite 2018, Sami’s “Behind the Scenes: How to build a conference winning session” and “Sami Laiho: 45 Life Hacks of Windows OS in 45 minutes”  sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this.

Bio - Paula Januszkiewicz
Paula Januszkiewicz is CEO of CQURE Inc., Security Expert, Penetration Tester and Trainer, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Regional Director.
Paula Januszkiewicz is an experienced cybersecurity expert, CEO, and founder of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy.

She is an honorable Microsoft Regional Director for CEE, an Enterprise Security MVP, and a top-rated conference speaker at events such as Microsoft Ignite, RSA,Black Hat, AppManagEvent and more. Her presentation was voted the best at Black Hat Asia Briefings 2019. In 2017, she graduated from Harvard Business School.
Paula has over 18 years of experience in the field, including performing penetration tests, consulting, and delivering sessions and trainings. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and has created security awareness programs for various organizations, including top management. Paula is also a member of the Technical Advisory Board at the Royal Bank of Scotland and has been granted access to the source code of Windows.
Bio - Tim Mangan

“The Kahuna” at his own company, TMurgent Technologies, Tim is recognized as a 12-year MVP by Microsoft and over a dozen years as a ”CTP Fellow” by Citrix.  As the guy who brought Application Virtualization to your vocabulary, he built the original version of what you know of as App-V today and has been nose deep into MSIX since even before it was announced by Microsoft.  

Author of books, including MSIX Fundamentals for IT Pros, The Developer’s Guide to MSIX, and The Application Book for Packagers, his company is well known both for their tools for IT Pros and their world-renowned training classes.

TIP: combine your visit to AppManagEvent by joining his Experts Packaging for App-V and MSIX class on October 14-17, 2024.

An in-person class taking place at the PDS' training facilities in Culemborg, The Netherlands.

Bio - Mikael Nyström

Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Technical Architect at Truesec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kinds of infrastructure tasks, in all kinds of environments, enterprise to small business.

Mikael is a very popular instructor and is often used by Microsoft for partner trainings as well as to speak at major conferences such as TechEd, MMS, etc. Mikael has been deeply engaged in the development of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019. Currently Mikael is a part of the Truesec CSIRT Computer Security Incident Response Team, helping customers world-wide to recover from cyberattacks

Bio - Peter Daalmans

Peter Daalmans is a Principal Workplace Consultant / Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer at Daalmans Consulting with a primary focus on the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility. Peter is awarded every year as a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP (Configuration Manager/Microsoft Intune/Enterprise Mobility Suite) since 2012.


Peter writes blogs and sharing his knowledge on his blog ConfigMgrBlog.com. Peter is also one of the founders and leads of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands.
Author of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Mastering System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and the just in 2017 released Mastering System Center Configuration Manager, books from Sybex. Peter also released last year a book called: Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite: Planning and Implementation.


Peter speaks at local and international group meetings, conferences like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft TechEd (Australia / New Zealand), IT/Dev Connections, Techmentor, Techorama Belgium, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), BriForum (London, Denver and Boston), TechDays Netherlands and ExpertsLive Netherlands. More about Peter here

Bio - Kenneth van Surksum

Kenneth van Surksum works as a modern workplace consultant at Secure At Work and is specialized in building modern workplace solutions on top of Microsoft 365. Kenneth is also a Microsoft MVP for Enterprise Mobility and Security.

Kenneth is co-founder of the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands (#WPNinjasNL) and organizes (virtual) community meetings on a regular basis.

Bio - Bob Kelly

Bob has been a long-time speaker at the AppManagEvent. He is a distinguished author, a three-time Microsoft MVP, and the founder of the AppDeploy/ITNinja communities. With a rich background in product management, he has spearheaded several market-leading IT professional solutions, driving innovation in the application management space. Bob is currently the Chief Product Officer at Juriba.

Bio - Jeff Wouters

Jeff Wouters, former 9* Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management, is the founder of Methos, consultant en Microsoft Certified Trainer Regional Lead with a focus on Infrastructure-as-Code and automation in general. He is a frequent speaker on (inter)national events and founder of the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG).

Bio - Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer is a Dutch IT Professional. Sander blogs on DirTeam.com. He regularly gets invited as speaker for his enthusiastic approach, his in-depth real-world knowledge and of course as the author of the much-appraised Active Directory Cookbook.
 
Sander has been awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (for the last 15 years), Veeam Vanguard award (for the last 8 years) and VMware vExpert (for 3 years).
Bio - Raymond Comvalius
Raymond Comvalius is an independent IT architect and trainer from the Netherlands. He has been active in the IT industry for more than 30 years, of which 25+ years focused on Microsoft infrastructure products for both Government and financial institutes. Raymond is the author of multiple books on Windows and security.
 
As an architect he supports organizations in IT strategy and realization of their next generation workplace infrastructure. Raymond is actively involved with the national and international IT community and was a speaker at multiple international Microsoft events.
Bio - Ronald Vonk

Ronald has been a prominent figure in the IT industry since 1991, bringing decades of experience and expertise to the table. His career began with a strong foundation in Novell and Microsoft products, where he honed his skills in various IT disciplines until the year 2000. During this period, Ronald developed a deep understanding of network infrastructure, system administration, and the intricacies of these leading technologies.

In the early 2000s, recognizing the growing need for specialized application management, Ronald shifted his focus to application packaging and technical application management. His dedication to mastering this niche area led to the founding of his first company in 2005, which was specifically tailored to provide top-notch application packaging services. This venture allowed him to address the complex needs of businesses seeking efficient and reliable software deployment solutions.

In 2015, Ronald took his vision a step further by establishing SparkleFlow, a company dedicated to revolutionizing application management for enterprise organizations. With SparkleFlow, Ronald aimed to create environments where applications could be managed with ease and efficiency, reducing the operational burden on IT departments and enhancing overall productivity. His innovative approach has helped numerous enterprises streamline their application deployment processes, ensuring seamless and error-free operations.

Continuing his commitment to innovation and accessibility, Ronald introduced a free version of SparkleFlow's popular software in 2024. This move was designed to make high-quality application management tools available to a broader audience, enabling more organizations to benefit from SparkleFlow's advanced features without a financial barrier.

Under Ronald's leadership, SparkleFlow has become synonymous with excellence in application management, known for its user-friendly interfaces, robust functionality, and unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction. His passion for technology and continuous improvement drives the company's success, making it a trusted partner for enterprises worldwide.

Bio - Danut Ghioghita

Danut is excited to represent Advanced Installer as a Senior Technology Consultant

In his role, he leads our support and consulting teams, helping clients overcome complex technical challenges, providing in-depth training, and offering strategic consulting services to optimize their software deployment processes.

In his session, he'll be introducing PacKit, their new tool designed to become the ultimate home for software packages. While PacKit is still in its early stages, this session offers a rare glimpse into its potential and how you can start leveraging its capabilities today. He'll be demonstrating PacKit live, so you'll see firsthand how it can improve your packaging workflows.

Bio - Berry Haveman

Berry is a passionate end-user computing specialist, now working as a solution architect at Liquidware.

He helps organizations with their digital transformation initiatives and more specifically, with optimizing their digital workspace management while ensuring a good user experience . Through his years as a consultant for desktop and application delivery practices across industries, he has a broad knowledge of the end-user computing ecosystem, which he uses today when advising clients on their digital workspace objectives.

Bio - Toms Knostenbergs

Toms Knostenbergs is a co-founder of Master Packager.

With over a decade of experience in application and product management, he has collaborated with hundreds of organizations to help them overcome their app management challenges. His experience in day-to-day application packaging led to the opportunity to build his own packaging solution. A solution that would solve the packaging problems Toms and others were facing while keeping the price affordable. A solution that would help others become Master Packagers and build Windows application packages that end-users love, enterprises want, and the Windows OS needs.

Toms loves application packaging and enjoys building products that solve real problems.

Bio - Josh Travers

Josh is the regional Field CTO of Rimo3. He has a commitment to driving business value through innovative technologies. With over 15 years of enterprise software experience at Embarcadero Technologies, Citrix, and Cherwell Software, Josh has held key roles from Presales Engineering to Customer Success leadership. Josh has spent his career building and leading teams to support and deliver a broad spectrum of technologies

Bio - Dan Gough

Dan Gough is a Software Engineer at Patch My PC, focussed on automating detection, packaging, deployment and testing of application updates. He also contributes to the development of PSADT.

Bio- Scott McAllister

Scott McAllister is a Support Engineer at Patch My PC. He specializes in third-party updates, ConfigMgr, WSUS, and Intune. Scott has a strong interest in automation technologies, including PowerShell & C#

Bio - Phil Wilcock

Ex, Microsoftie, ex 1E co-founder, Phil teamed up with old friend and former colleague Andreas to take on the apathy and stagnation in the world of bandwidth management, OS Deployment and Enterprise Systems Management in general and is now a 'Endpoint Management Disrupter' at 2Pint

Bio - Nico Zieck

Nico Zieck is the Director of Technology & Solutions at Recast Software where he serves as the primary evangelist for Liquit on a technical, practical, and business innovation level. Nico has been at the forefront of driving end user and reseller understanding of how Liquit continually innovates and pushes the boundaries of what is possible in application and digital workspace management.

Bio - Ronnie Emilio Tynell

Ronnie Emilio Tynell is a dynamic technology executive and the innovative founder and CEO of Robopack. He has a rich background in IT management and application packaging, and his expertise has revolutionized how businesses handle their software deployment processes.

Bio - David Butler-McAllister

David is a COO and co-founder of Access IT Automation, a best-in-class provider of IT automation products that help enterprises improve efficiency, save costs, and adapt to modern desktop strategies and digital transformation. 

With circa 30 years of experience in various roles in the IT industry, David has a deep knowledge of application management, VDI and cloud adoption, VMware and Microsoft products for desktop migrations.

Bio -Lorrain Plenderleith

Lorraine is currently working with Access IT Automation as an implementor and SME for Capture. 

Entering the world of the IT straight from Uni into support roles, then progressing into packaging and application migrations.

Lorraine has worked with many of the major financial institutions in both The City & Canary Wharf, working in both technical and project roles for large scale application and platform migrations, OS upgrades and VDI implementations.

Bio - Michael Baars

Michael is a former software developer that made the switch to the consultancy 'dark side'.

Because of the history building software solutions, the deployment of the stuff that 'works on my dev-system' is a different playing field. Deploying software to a single system is one thing, deploying to a company with 2000 machines a completely different one. 

This is a great puzzle all the time, and that is what makes this work great. It keeps you triggered, you have to follow the latest developments and this results in having the super hobby, and get payed for it! Combine that with a regular (network) BBQ - what else do you need!

Bio -Frank Wils

Frank has been in IT for almost 30 years. 

After some jobs as system administrator, he joined Axle-IT in 2006. After many projects implementing Novell, Micorsoft and  Ivanti (Pre 2017 known as LANDesk and RES) enduser computing solutions , Frank earned both the Ivanti MVP title as well as being one of only 5 worldwide obtaining the Ivanti EPM Master certification. 

Frank and Axle-IT pioneered by introducing one of the first commercially available application virtualization tools, Thinstall (later ThinApp) into the Dutch market, later did the same with one of the first Applayering Solutions, Unidesk (later Citrix) and works now together with Prianto to introduce Droplet, an innovative Application Containerization tool.

Since a couple of years Frank acts as Techdirector while still acting as consultant for some key accounts

Bio - Jeroen Braak

Jeroen boasts nearly 25 years of global consulting and business development experience, with a strong focus on IT operations, ITAM, and cybersecurity. He has successfully initiated and nurtured initiatives for the application packaging industry for several vendors.

In his current role as Security Solution sales at Flexera for EMEA and APAC, he is the author of the Monthly Vulnerability Insights Report.

Bio - Venkat Ram Donga

Venkat is a seasoned product manager with expertise in desktop and server installation products such as InstallShield, as well as application readiness solutions like AdminStudio.

With a strong focus on product development and market strategy, Venkat also manages security solutions like Software Vulnerability Manager, helping organizations streamline their software deployment and security practices.

Venkat is passionate about delivering innovative solutions that enhance efficiency and security across enterprise environments.

AppManagEvent 2024 had one opening-9am and one closing-4pm keynote for all attendees. 
After 10am, there were 4 break-outrooms with 45-minute sessions on various topics.

After the closing keynote, we celebrated two of the lucky winners of our Event Lottery

 

 08.00 - 08.45 - Registration
Coffee/drinks/sweets - networking with event partners

08.45 - 10.00  Welcome & Opening Keynote

10.00 - 10.15  Break

11.00 - 11.15  Break

 

12.00 - 13.00  Lunch - Break

13.45 - 14.00  Break

14.45 - 15.00  Break

15.45 - 16.00  Break

16.00 - 17.00  Closing Keynote & Lottery + invite for drinks/snacks

 


17.15 - 18.30 - Traditional Dutch "borrel"
Drinks/snacks/music - winding down and getting ready for the weekend

 

Some sessions are recorded and will be published in the event app before the end of October. Early next year they will be public on our youtube channel.

 

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List of sessions AppManagEvent 2024

AppManagEvent 2024 hosted 2 central keynotes (one) at the beginning and (one) at the end of the day.

Plus 24 45-minute sessions in break-out sessions in 5 timeslots throughout the day. In between the sessions there is plenty of time to engage with partners at the exhibition floor and get familiar with their solutions.

Below is the finalized list of sessions for 2024. You can find the agenda here

Opening Keynote - Forward to the Past and Back to the Future – Security in 2024/2025- Sami Laiho

Join Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer of Adminize, for a look back in to what 2024 changed in the Security Threat Landscape and to hear his predictions on what will the future have in store for us.

By: Sami LaihoSami Laiho

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Partners AppManagEvent 2023:

Relevant content & event partners presented, demonstrated and shared their vision, solution or technology on October 6, 2023. Our partners connect with prospects, customers and stakeholders to build mutual beneficial relationships and facilitate successfull IT projects.

There are several interesting partner options to match your exposure possibilities and event presence.

If you wish to become a partner for AppManagEvent, please contact us at: events@pds-site.com or call us on: +31 88 5588 400

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Speakers AppManagEvent 2023

Speakers at AppManagEvent share their vision & technical insights. Below outlines our speakers who joined us on October 6, 2023.

If you wish to become a speaker and have interesting content for AppManagEvent - let's talk and contact us at: events@pds-site.com or call: +31 88 5588 400.

Sami Laiho

Bio

Sami Laiho is one of the world’s leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1996.
In 2019 Sami was chosen by TiVi-magazine as one of the top 100 influencers in IT in Finland. He is the 11th most followed person in his field in Finland.
 
At Ignite 2018, Sami’s “Behind the Scenes: How to build a conference winning session” and “Sami Laiho: 45 Life Hacks of Windows OS in 45 minutes”  sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this.

Paula Januszkiewicz

Bio
Paula Januszkiewicz is CEO of CQURE Inc., Security Expert, Penetration Tester and Trainer, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Regional Director.
Paula Januszkiewicz is an experienced cybersecurity expert, CEO, and founder of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy.

She is an honorable Microsoft Regional Director for CEE, an Enterprise Security MVP, and a top-rated conference speaker at events such as Microsoft Ignite, RSA,Black Hat, AppManagEvent and more. Her presentation was voted the best at Black Hat Asia Briefings 2019. In 2017, she graduated from Harvard Business School.
Paula has over 18 years of experience in the field, including performing penetration tests, consulting, and delivering sessions and trainings. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and has created security awareness programs for various organizations, including top management. Paula is also a member of the Technical Advisory Board at the Royal Bank of Scotland and has been granted access to the source code of Windows.

Tim Mangan

Bio

“The Kahuna” at his own company, TMurgent Technologies, Tim is recognized as a 12-year MVP by Microsoft and over a dozen years as a ”CTP Fellow” by Citrix.  As the guy who brought Application Virtualization to your vocabulary, he built the original version of what you know of as App-V today and has been nose deep into MSIX since even before it was announced by Microsoft.  

Author of books, including MSIX Fundamentals for IT Pros, The Developer’s Guide to MSIX, and The Application Book for Packagers, his company is well known both for their tools for IT Pros and their world-renowned training classes.

TIP: combine your visit to AppManagEvent by joining his Experts Packaging for App-V and MSIX class on October 9-13, 2023.

An in-person class taking place at the PDS' training facilities in Culemborg, The Netherlands.

Kent Agerlund

Bio

Kent Agerlund - As an author, speaker, trainer, evangelist, Principal architect, and founder of CTGlobal , I specialize in Microsoft solutions.

My technology background has given me an in-depth knowledge and expertise to understand the needs of many diverse enterprises.  I’m probably best known for using “Real World” scenarios to demonstrate solutions and ability to reach the core issue.
Talk to me about: Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture & Strategy, Windows 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Intune and Configuration Manager.

 

Mikael Nyström

Bio

Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Technical Architect at Truesec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kinds of infrastructure tasks, in all kinds of environments, enterprise to small business.

Mikael is a very popular instructor and is often used by Microsoft for partner trainings as well as to speak at major conferences such as TechEd, MMS, etc. Mikael has been deeply engaged in the development of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019. Currently Mikael is a part of the Truesec CSIRT Computer Security Incident Response Team, helping customers world-wide to recover from cyberattacks

Peter Daalmans

Bio

Peter Daalmans is a Principal Workplace Consultant / Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer at Daalmans Consulting with a primary focus on the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility. Peter is awarded every year as a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP (Configuration Manager/Microsoft Intune/Enterprise Mobility Suite) since 2012.


Peter writes blogs and sharing his knowledge on his blog ConfigMgrBlog.com. Peter is also one of the founders and leads of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands.
Author of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Mastering System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and the just in 2017 released Mastering System Center Configuration Manager, books from Sybex. Peter also released last year a book called: Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite: Planning and Implementation.


Peter speaks at local and international group meetings, conferences like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft TechEd (Australia / New Zealand), IT/Dev Connections, Techmentor, Techorama Belgium, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), BriForum (London, Denver and Boston), TechDays Netherlands and ExpertsLive Netherlands. More about Peter here

Toms Knostenbergs

Bio

Toms Knostenbergs is a co-founder at Master Packager Ltd.

With over 11 years of experience in the application and product management fields, he has successfully collaborated with hundreds of enterprises worldwide to help them solve their most complex application packaging challenges.

Toms dedication and expertise have led his underdog software company to establish a new industry standard when working with MSI files.

Furthermore, Toms passionately shares his obsessed interest in application and product management by delivering sessions and training for organizations.

The next chapter for Toms is even more exciting and important which he will reveal in the upcoming session.

Berry Haveman

Bio

Berry is a passionate end-user computing specialist, now working as a solution architect at Liquidware.

He helps organizations with their digital transformation initiatives and more specifically, with optimizing their digital workspace management while ensuring a good user experience . Through his years as a consultant for desktop and application delivery practices across industries, he has a broad knowledge of the end-user computing ecosystem, which he uses today when advising clients on their digital workspace objectives.

Bogdan Mitrache

Bio

Bogdan Mitrache is the VP of Product at Advanced Installer.

He has over a decade of experience in application packaging and deployment and loves to help the community grow, as an active member on the MSIX techcommunity forums and Stack Overflow.

Bogdan is also the co-author of the MSIX Packaging Fundamentals book.

Kenneth van Surksum

Bio

Kenneth van Surksum works as a modern workplace consultant at Secure At Work and is specialized in building modern workplace solutions on top of Microsoft 365. Kenneth is also a Microsoft MVP for Enterprise Mobility and Security.

Kenneth is co-founder of the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands (#WPNinjasNL) and organizes (virtual) community meetings on a regular basis.

Erwin Derksen

Bio

Since 1999 in IT – Practical – Simplifier – Public Speaker - Likes sharing knowledge – Projects and changes only – Has also a technical focus – Acts as bridge between business and technology – Founded DerkIT in 2017 and Blue Identity in 2022 - Guides complex decisions and reduces them to the essence – Believes that humor, clarity, and simplicity are most important.

Raymond Comvalius

Bio
Raymond Comvalius is an independent IT architect and trainer from the Netherlands. He has been active in the IT industry for more than 30 years, of which 25+ years focused on Microsoft infrastructure products for both Government and financial institutes. Raymond is the author of multiple books on Windows and security.
 
As an architect he supports organizations in IT strategy and realization of their next generation workplace infrastructure. Raymond is actively involved with the national and international IT community and was a speaker at multiple international Microsoft events.

Sander Berkouwer

Bio
Sander Berkouwer is a Dutch IT Professional. He works as CTO at SCCT in the Netherlands, where he helps colleagues and customers make the most out of Microsoft products, strategies and technologies. Sander blogs on DirTeam.com. He regularly gets invited as speaker for his enthusiastic approach, his in-depth real-world knowledge and of course as the author of the much-appraised Active Directory Cookbook.
 
Sander has been awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (for the last 15 years), Veeam Vanguard award (for the last 8 years) and VMware vExpert (for 3 years).

Jeff Wouters

Bio

Jeff Wouters, former 9* Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management, is the founder of Methos, consultant en Microsoft Certified Trainer with a focus on Infrastructure-as-Code and automation in general. He is a frequent speaker on (inter)national events, the founder of the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG) and all around sci-fi geek.

Tony Krijnen

Bio

Tony Krijnen has fullfilled several roles since 1995 (!) with Microsoft Netherlands. In his current role as Cloud Solutions Architect Security he advises Microsoft partners with their strategy around Cloud Security.

Tony (aka Hyper-T in duo with Hyper D) has been speaking on events like IT Forum, TechEd, Gartner, IDC, TechDays, TechNet Briefings, etc.
In his free time, he enjoys being part of his band TIMBR (www.timbr.nl).  

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Dirk Schräder

Bio

Dirk is the VP of Security Research and Field CISO at Netwrix Corporation.

He is a seasoned IT-Security Expert holding CISSP and CISM certifications, spanning 20+ years hands-on experience. As an InfoSec professional he authored a range of article and lead researches around various topics, including medical device security.

Wout Vergauwen

Bio

Wout is a passionate IT professional with a broad Microsoft technology background and a deep focus on workplace and cloud solutions. He has over ten years of experience designing, delivering, and managing workplace and cloud projects in large international enterprise environments. With a history in Citrix products, Wout's focus now lies with the Microsoft 365, Intune, Azure Identity and Azure Virtual Datacenter product stacks and bringing classic environments to a modern cloud world. Wout firmly believes in a 100% cloud vision and goal and loves to take on the challenge of that journey. Wout is highly motivated, communicative, a quick learner, to the point, and is particularly good at thinking outside the box to create solutions for your challenges, but always with the "keep it simple" principle in mind.

Andreas van Wingerden

Bio

Andreas has over 25 years of experience in the end-user computing area which he now applies in his role as a solution architect at Liquidware. Andreas helps organizations designing their modern workplace in the most efficient way. More specifically: how to make sure your workspace is both cost-efficient, has a good user experience and is agile enough to facilitate application management now - and in the future? As he likes to say: “user experience dictates adoption, security and productivity”.

Kimmo Pitkänen

Bio

Kimmo boasts a long and colorful IT journey that spans back to 2005, marked by his versatile roles encompassing everything from being a SysAdmin to the prestigious position of IT Manager.

Presently, he specializes in the realm of endpoint and application management solutions at Recast Software.

Bob Kelly

Bio

Bob has been a long-time speaker at the App Manage Event. He is a distinguished author, a three-time Microsoft MVP, and the founder of the AppDeploy/ITNinja communities. With a rich background in product management, he has spearheaded several market-leading IT professional solutions, driving innovation in the application management space.

Jeroen Braak

Bio

Jeroen boasts nearly 25 years of global consulting and business development experience, with a strong focus on IT operations, ITAM, and cybersecurity. He has successfully initiated and nurtured initiatives for the application packaging industry for several vendors. In his current role as Security Solution sales at Flexera for EMEA and APAC, he is the author of the Monthly Vulnerability Insights Report.

Michael Bourton

Bio

As VMRay's Team Lead Technical Field Operations in  EMEA & APAC, Michael Bourton has more than 20 years of broad-based expertise in the IT sector and cybersecurity industry, holding senior positions with large, international technology companies.

Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Greenwich, along with CISSP, CCSP and CISSP-ISSAP qualifications.

 

Sachin Kumar

Bio

Sachin is the Engineering Leader within the Microsoft MSIX team.

AppManagEvent 2023 had one opening-9am and one closing-4pm keynote for all attendees. 
After 10am, there where 4 or 5 break-out rooms with 45-minute sessions on various topics.

 08.00 - 08.45 - Registration
Coffee/drinks/sweets - networking with event partners

08.45 - 10.00  Welcome & Opening Keynote

10.00 - 10.15  Break

11.00 - 11.15  Break

12.00 - 13.00  Lunch - Break

13.45 - 14.00  Break

14.45 - 15.00  Break

15.45 - 16.00  Break


17.15 - 18.30 - Traditional Dutch "borrel"
Drinks/snacks/music - winding down and getting ready for the weekend

 

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List of sessions AppManagEvent 2023

AppManagEvent 2023 hosted 2 central keynotes (one) at the beginning and (one) at the end of the day.

Plus 20+ 45-minute sessions in 4 break-out sessions in 5 timeslots throughout the day. In between the sessions there is plenty of time to engage with partners at the exibition floor and get familiar with their solutions.

Below is the finalized session list of 2023:

Opening Keynote - The Best Teacher is the Last Mistake: Stay Ahead of the Established and Emerging Threats - Paula Januszkiewicz

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face an ever-expanding array of security threats. The need to prioritize cybersecurity initiatives has become paramount to protect sensitive data, systems, and user privacy. Join Paula to explore the new and current avenues for security incidents to occur, while addressing the top priorities in cybersecurity for 2023!

During this presentation, we will delve into the latest trends and emerging threats that organizations must be aware of to bolster their defense mechanisms. Get ready for demos showcasing real-life attacks that will provide valuable insights into the evolving threat landscape.

In this session, Paula will also explore how a well-designed and executed Incident Response Plan plays a crucial role in minimizing damage and swiftly restoring operations. Discover the best practices, practical strategies, and mitigation steps required to develop an effective Incident Response Plan that aligns with the current state of cybersecurity threats prevalent in the global market.

Whether you are a cybersecurity professional, an IT manager, or an executive responsible for organizational security, this session will equip you with the knowledge and understanding to proactively protect your organization against the constantly evolving threat landscape. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and safeguard your digital assets in an increasingly interconnected world.

By: Paula Januszkiewicz  Paula J

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Partners AppManagEvent 2022:

Relevant content & event partners are presenting, demonstrating and sharing their vision, solution or technology. Below are the partners who showcased their solution and services on October 7, 2022.

There are several interesting partner options to match your exposure possibilities and event presence. If you wish to become a partner for AppManagEvent, please contact us at: events@pds-site.com or call us on: +31 88 5588 400

Platinum Partner

 

 Flexera

Flexera

Flexera helps executives succeed at what once seemed impossible: getting clarity into, and full control of, their company’s technology “black hole.” From on-premises to the cloud, Flexera helps business leaders turn IT insight into action. With a portfolio of integrated solutions that deliver unparalleled technology insights, spend optimization and agility, Flexera helps enterprises optimize their technology footprint and realize IT’s full potential to accelerate their business. For over 30 years, our 1300+ team members worldwide have been passionate about helping our more than 50,000 customers fuel business success. At AppManagEvent, Flexera Product management for the solutions AdminStudio and Software Vulnerability Manager will be present.

 Liquidware

Liquidware

Liquidware is the leader in Digital Workspace Management solutions for Windows workspaces.

The company's products encompass all facets of management to ensure the ultimate user experience across all workspaces - physical, virtual, DaS or cloud. Enterprises across the globe utilize Liquidware solutions to dramatically decrease time spent managing workspaces, while delivering increased security, flexibility and scalability.

Supported platforms include Microsoft physical, Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), RDS desktops, Citrix Desktops, VMware Horizon, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Nutanix Frame. Liquidware products are available through a global network of partners.

For more information, visit www.liquidware.com.

 ClueBiz  

ClueBiz

Cluebiz Technologies specializes in solutions for software distribution and software operations. The offerings fully map the process from software inventory, licensing, packaging, automated roll-out including testing and documentation to updates and patching.

With the Package Shop, Cluebiz operates the world's largest platform for installation packages with more than 843 current software products. The Package Robot stands for automated testing and packaging according to customer specifications. Deliveries is a cloud based software distribution solution that supports Windows, Apple Macintosh and Linux clients.

The company is headquartered in Basel and maintains an office in Ingolstadt.

 PatchMyPC

Patch My PC

Patch My PC is a Colorado-based company made up of 28 GIF lovers who work remotely in locations worldwide.The distance between them doesn't change the fact that they are a very close-knit team.

They collaborate daily to support over 3,600 enterprises worldwide on over 11.7 million devices. Small but mighty, the team is passionate about what they do, why they do it, and who they do it for. Their goal is to simplify how enterprises create, manage, update and deploy third-party applications within Microsoft Configuration Manager and Intune; while creating experiences and relationships with the customers that trust them.

 

Gold Partner

 

 Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. At AppManagEvent 2022, Microsoft will be represented by the MSIX Team with the latest insights from the Product Management team.

 Master Packager

Master Packager

Master Packager company was founded in 2018 with the vision to make application packaging easy, fast, and affordable for everyone, starting from application packaging freelancers and small companies to large enterprises. 

Our team members have been working as application packagers since 2012 with more than 6000+ application package experience. During this time, we have worked with many packaging tools; however, there were several issues with them. Either they were expensive, slow to handle large MSI files, or did not have the out-of-box functionality we were looking for to automate tasks.

To start creating more packages in a shorter timeframe while improving packaging quality we formed a team that created our own packaging software we would love to use and eventually make available to others. Internally we call someone a Master Packager who can package any application for Windows OS enterprise environment despite the complexity or requirements.

Our goal is to help you become a Master Packager.

 Advanced Installer

Advanced Installer (Caphyon)

Over the last 20 years Caphyon has created software applications for developers and Internet professionals that are reliable, secure and easy to use. Advanced Installer is used for authoring MSI/MSIX packages and repackaging by a wide range of users, from beginners to senior developers and system administrators.
Fast and easy to use, it ensures a great ROI for your team, reducing the time used to create the setup packages and leaving more time for development.

 IT Access Automation

IT Access Automation

Access IT Automation offers an array of industry leading automation products to increase IT efficiency, productivity, and profitability. These API-driven tools offer organizations maximum flexibility, add 360-degree visibility, and provide actionable insights across an entire IT estate, helping improve end-user experience and slash IT costs.

Access IT Automation expertly delivers automated app packaging and testing capabilities, endpoint management, app/user/device monitoring and reporting, along with digital experience visualization and remediation.

Leveraging best-in-class automation technologies, Access IT Automation takes time-consuming, often low-level, manual IT tasks surrounding workspace and digital transformation management, migration projects (including cloud), Work From Anywhere (WFA) initiatives, or even application rollouts, giving IT teams and management the ability to work on what matters, whilst adding in the comfort of compliance and security at every step. Please visit www.accessitautomation.com for more information.

 Recast Software

Recast Software

Recast Software offers enhanced control of enterprise endpoints and scalable IT automation.
We are trusted by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, elevating the digital employee experience impacting over 60 million devices. Our mission is to simplify the work of IT teams and enable them to create highly secure and compliant environments. Our software does this by seamlessly integrating with existing IT infrastructure to surface critical intelligence, increase first-call resolution, reveal vulnerabilities, quickly remediate issues, ensure compliance, enhance security, and maintain clear visibility across all devices.

PolicyPak  

PolicyPak - Netwrix

Netwrix makes data security easy, thereby simplifying how professionals can control sensitive, regulated and business-critical data, regardless of where it resides. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on Netwrix solutions to secure sensitive data, realize the full business value of enterprise content, pass compliance audits with less effort and expense, and increase the productivity of IT teams and knowledge workers. At AppManagEvent 2022, Netwrix will showcase its Netwrix-PolicyPak solution which provides Modern Desktop Management for the “Anywhere” Workforce Simplify Management, Security, Automation and Reporting with Powerful Paks of Policies that Integrate “Anywhere” Users Work.

Build upon Windows native Client Side Extension technology, PolicyPak includes policies to create, manage, and deploy settings that users need to get work done securely and efficiently in any workspace environment. GPO on premise, cloud and in hybrid environments!

 Scappman

Scappman

Scappman is a 100% cloud solution that automatically installs all the necessary updates for your third-party applications on Intune-managed computers.

Scappman makes the process of creating and updating third-party applications in Microsoft Intune very simple, so you can focus on more important things.

We not only offer the most extensive list of pre-packaged applications but also enable you to upload your own custom apps in our intelligent packaging engine or package your applications for you. The Scappman packaging engine is designed to reduce user friction caused by application updates, but also to overcome some of Intune’s limitations like updating available apps, even for custom apps.

To start deploying applications, just register on our portal and provide admin consent for our Scappman, choose an app from our App Store or upload your own, assign users to it and you’re good to go. Scappman will deploy the application and then keep it up to date.

Scappman is a good fit for companies of all sizes that want to want to work securely and up to date. Moreover, IT Service Providers can use Scappman to manage all customers at once, from a single pane of glass, and drastically reduce time spent onboarding new customers.

 PDS  

Professional Development Systems

 Founded in 1989, Professional Development Systems b.v. (PDS) is the leading Benelux tool distributor & educational partner for packaging, virtualisation & Privilege Management tools.
With years of representation & training expertise in Wise Package Studio, ChangeBASE, AdminStudio and InstalllShield, in 2021 PDS represents the solutions from Flexera (AdminStudio, AppPortal, WFM and InstallShield), Raynet (RayPack Studio, Rayflow, SAMi), BeyondTrust (Endpoint Privilege Management, Secure Remote Access, Secure Remote Support), PolicyPak (GPO management) and Liquit Setup Commander (silent switches for your application packages) for the Benelux region. Hosting unique IT Pro Speaker training on App-V, Security and Win10/Server Deployment.

PDS proudly represents the licensing and solutions from these vendors to assist, as independent advisor, endusers and local (resell/implementation/knowledge) partners to create successfull projects in close partnership with "our" manufacturer. PDS is the founder of AppManagEvent since 2006.

 

Silver Partner 

 

 Raynet

Raynet

Raynet is a global software vendor with market-leading solutions and managed service provider in the field of Enterprise Software Management. Following the mission "Discover to manage", Raynet offers the market unique products covering all technologies.

In addition to the headquarters in Paderborn, Raynet has further locations in Germany, the USA, Poland, and the UK. With more than 100 highly qualified employees, Raynet has been supporting well-known customers and partners worldwide in their projects with its portfolio since 1999 – from Technology Asset Inventory and Software Asset Management to Software Packaging and Workflow Management to Unified Endpoint Management.

Raynet also maintains strong partnerships with the leading companies in this industry. Raynet products are unique in design and functionality. Their development is highly driven by customers and partners, who play an important role in product optimization and are the main reason why they always occupy a top position.

Whether a new SAM project is to be set up or a deployment tool introduced, a packaging factory planned, or a migration carried out – Raynet is always the best-of-breed partner for all products, services, and solutions of Application Lifecycle Management for Enterprises.

 Liquit

Liquit

Liquit ’s story began in the Netherlands in 2015, when its three founders recognized a glaring hole in the application management services available to businesses.

Leveraging their decades of collective application management experience, they sought to create a one-stop solution able to fulfill all of an organization’s application management needs simply and efficiently, reducing the workload for IT teams and removing pain points for end-users.

Liquit, an end-to-end application management platform that immediately raised the bar for what an application solution can mean to a business. Incredibly intuitive, highly flexible, and technology agnostic, Liquit provides its clients with a competitive advantage that increases productivity, reduces costs, and empowers the work-from-anywhere capabilities that have become a necessity in today’s market.

The game-changing nature of Liquit has not only made our customers happy, but also attracted accolades from business and technology leaders, including being designated as a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018.

Today Liquit continues to expand its presence around the globe, constantly innovating to provide our clients with tomorrow’s application solutions before they even realize they need them.

 

Friend of the Event

 

 Workplace Ninja's

WorkPlace Ninja Group

This user group was founded in February 2013 as Windows Management User Group by IT Pro's with a passion for everything that has to do with managing Windows, but not limiting to Windows. Early 2021, we renamed our group to the Workplace Ninjas User Group in The Netherlands and be part of the broader WPNinja's all over EMEA.

Our goal is to provide a platform for IT-Pro's to share knowledge gain from the field and to share tips and tricks. This can be done via periodic physical meetups, virtual events, blogs or other channels. We want you to join us and take up the role within our User Group by sharing your knowledge with your peers from the community. Come and see us at the booth on the exhibition floor of AppManagEvent 2021!
 

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These experts where the event speakers in 2022:

 Sami Laiho  

Sami Laiho is one of the world’s leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1996.
In 2019 Sami was chosen by TiVi-magazine as one of the top 100 influencers in IT in Finland. He is the 11th most followed person in his field in Finland.
 
At Ignite 2018, Sami’s “Behind the Scenes: How to build a conference winning session” and “Sami Laiho: 45 Life Hacks of Windows OS in 45 minutes”  sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this.

 Paula Januszkiewicz  

Paula Januszkiewicz is the Founder and CEO of CQURE.

She is having a deep belief that high quality and positive thinking are key to success. In CQURE she devoted herself to her passion: Security Consulting – both for Management and IT Engineers, Penetration Tests, Architecture Consulting, Trainings (Authored), Seminars. She did hundreds of security projects, including those for governmental organizations. 

She is also is also a top speaker at many well- known conferences including Microsoft Ignite (she was rated No 1 Speaker among 1100 other Speakers), TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, TechEd Middle East, RSA, TechDays, CyberCrime, etc., and is often rated as number- one speaker.

Paula is engaged as a keynote speaker for security related events and she writes articles on Windows Security. She holds multiple Microsoft certifications, besides being familiar with and possessing certifications in other related technologies. Paula is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. In private, she enjoys researching new technologies, which she converts to authored trainings. She has access to a source code of Windows..

Tim Mangan

Tim Mangan is “The Kahuna” at his own company, TMurgent Technologies, Tim is recognized as a 15 year MVP by Microsoft and over 10 years as a ”CTP Fellow” by Citrix.
As the guy who brought Application Virtualization to your vocabulary he built the original version of what you know of as App-V today, and has been eyebrow deep into MSIX since even before it was announced by Microsoft.
Author of books, including MSIX Fundamentals for IT Pros and the upcoming Developer’s Guide to MSIX, his company is well known both for their tools for IT Pros and their world renowned training classes.

You can follow him on Twitter (@TimothyMangan), check out his personal blog.

 Jeremy Moskowitz  

Jeremy Moskowitz is a former Microsoft Group Policy MVP, one of less than a dozen Group Policy MVPs worldwide, is the most-published author on Group Policy, and a prolific Group Policy speaker worldwide. Since becoming one of the world's first MCSEs, he has performed Active Directory and desktop implementations for some of the nation's largest organizations.

Jeremy runs MDMandGPanswers.com to help people get their tough Group Policy questions answered.
His books and articles have been read by millions and translated into multiple languages. Jeremy has written for Windows IT Pro Magazine, REDMOND Magazine, Microsoft Technet Magazine, Inside Technology Training Magazine, PC Magazine, & Ziff-Davis' Windows Professional Journals, among others.
Jeremy has spoken at just about every existing Windows conference about Group Policy, including Microsoft TechEd / Ignite, Microsoft Management Summit, WinConnections, and TechMentor.

Due to travel restrictions, Jeremy will join the conference "remote-live".

Dian Hartono  

Dian Hartono is a Sr Product Manager Lead on MSIX at Microsoft.

She has been with the company for 8 years and has worked on teams ranging from the Microsoft Store to Windows.
Dian has a passion for all things related to developers and IT Pros. She's happy to chat about all things related to MSIX and app deployment on Windows.

Due to travel restrictions, Dian will join the conference "remote-live".

Harshada Kshirsagar  

Harshada Kshirsagar is a Program Manager with Microsoft and has worked on developer and IT pro aspects of MSIX.
Due to travel restrictions, Harshada will join the conference "remote-live".

 Kent Agerlund  

As an author, speaker, trainer, evangelist, Principal architect, and founder of CTGlobal , Kent Agerlund specializes in Microsoft solutions.

His technology background has resulted in an in-depth knowledge and expertise to understand the needs of many diverse enterprises.  Kent is probably best known for using “Real World” scenarios to demonstrate solutions and ability to reach the core issue.
Talk to Kent about: Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture & Strategy, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility +security, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Endpoint Manager.

 Bob Kelly  

Bob Kelly is an author and speaker at many IT Pro events and the founder of IT Ninja (formerly AppDeploy.com).

Today he continues to support the packaging community primarily in his role as Product Management Director at Flexera responsible for AdminStudio and other solutions targeting IT Professionals.

 Mikael Nystrom  

Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Technical Architectat TrueSec, with an extremely broad field of competence.

He has worked with all kinds of infrastructure tasks, in all kinds of environments, enterprise to small business. He is currently building Private Cloud solutions based on Hyper-V, System Center and Windows Azure pack as well as building deployment solutions for client OS as well as Server OS.

Mikael is a very popular instructor and is often used by Microsoft for partner trainings as well as to speak at major conferences such as TechEd, MMS, etc. Mikael has been deeply engaged in the development of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 as part of TAP. Currently Mikael is a part of the Truesec CSIRT Computer Security Incident Response Team, helping customers world-wide to recover from cyberattacks.

 Erwin Derksen

Erwin Derksen

Since 1999 in IT – Practical – Simplifier – Public Speaker - Likes sharing knowledge – Projects and changes only – Has also a technical focus – Acts as bridge between business and technology – Founded DerkIT in 2017 and Blue Identity in 2022 - Guides complex decisions and reduces them to the essence – Believes that humor, clarity, and simplicity are most important.

 Chris Muster  Chris Muster is a former ConfigMgr admin turned software developer. He works as the Chief Architect at Recast Software building products that help with IT systems management.
 Adrian Huber  

The potential of MSI is something that Adrian Huber, then Lead Architect for SW Quality Insurance at PWC, immediately recognized at the turn of the millenium. Later, in his role as Senior Consultant, Adrian advised major customers on deployment projects and guidelines. In 2004, Adrian took his expertise to his own company, the newly founded Cluebiz.

Since 2008, his focus is on translating best practices into web-based solutions. He believes that software distribution should be web-based, simple and hassle free: "Today, you no longer need to set up a project, hire a consultant or do your own packaging if you want to deploy software".
For the past six years , Adrian Huber has been working on Microsoft’s new MSIX package format, which he considers to be the future standard.

 Justin Chalfant Justin Chalfant founded Patch My PC in 2011. He enjoys all the technical aspects of developing solutions for our customer's problems. Outside of work, he love's playing ice hockey, and he is a big Colorado Avalanche fan!
 Toms Knostenbergs

Toms Knostenbergs is a co-founder at Master Packager Ltd.

He started working in the application and desktop deployment field in 2012. By creating the most complicated application packages for more than 200 customers worldwide while working with a highly professional and motivated team he became an expert in application packaging and enterprise deployments.

He has built a team of professionals at Master Packager company and is building the best software that helps solve application packaging and deployment challenges.

 Peter Daalmans  

Peter Daalmans is a Principal Workplace Consultant / Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer at Daalmans Consulting with a primary focus on the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility. Peter is awarded every year as a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP (Configuration Manager/Microsoft Intune/Enterprise Mobility Suite) since 2012.


Peter writes blogs and sharing his knowledge on his blog ConfigMgrBlog.com. Peter is also one of the founders and leads of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands.

 Kenneth van Surksum  

Kenneth van Surksum is a modern workplace consultant and Microsoft MVP at Insight24 specializing in building modern workplace solutions on top of Microsoft 365. He also works with public and private cloud solutions based on Azure and System Center.

Kenneth is co-founder of the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands (#WPNinjasNL) and organizes (virtual) community meetings on a regular basis.

 Berry Haveman  

Berry is a passionate end-user computing specialist, now working as a solution architect at Liquidware.

He helps organizations with their digital transformation initiatives and more specifically, with optimizing their digital workspace management while ensuring a good user experience . Through his years as a consultant for desktop and application delivery practices across industries, he has a broad knowledge of the end-user computing ecosystem, which he uses today when advising clients on their digital workspace objectives.

 Wout Vergauwen Wout Vergauwen started his application delivery career 15+ years ago as a Citrix engineer. That's also when Wout set his first steps in the world of automation and got sold on it. Just let the computer do it for you, rather than pointing and clicking all the time. 
 After almost a decade in the Citrix world, Wout switched to Microsoft cloud, starting with Azure, then switching to the stack closer to his roots: identity, device management & security.
 
It's during that time that the idea for Scappman sprouted. Wout was repeating a lot of his work at different customers and we started looking for ways to automate those tasks. A few months later, Scappman was born.
 Bogdan Mitrache Bogdan Mitrache is the VP of Product at Advanced Installer. He has over a decade of experience in application packaging and deployment and loves to help the community grow, as an active member on the MSIX techcommunity forums and Stack Overflow. Bogdan is also the co-author of the MSIX Packaging Fundamentals book.
 David ButlerMcAllister  

David Butler-McAllister is a seasoned business leader and an expert at helping companies automate application management.

With decades of experience in various senior roles in companies like Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS Investment Bank to name a few, David now occupies the role of COO at Access IT Automation, a company he co-founded in 2017. As COO, His role is multifaceted, encompassing everything from product development and sales to strategy and account management.

David is passionate about predicting and keeping ahead of modern desktop trends so that he can work with his team to produce custom automation solutions that result in faster, cheaper, and easier IT processes for enterprise.

 Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer is a Dutch IT Professional. He works as CTO at SCCT in the Netherlands, where he helps colleagues and customers make the most out of Microsoft products, strategies and technologies. Sander blogs on DirTeam.com. He regularly gets invited as speaker for his enthusiastic approach, his in-depth real-world knowledge and of course as the author of the much-appraised Active Directory Cookbook.

Sander has been awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (for the last 13 years), Veeam Vanguard award (for the last 6 years) and VMware vExpert (for the last 3 years).

 Raymond Comvalius  

Raymond Comvalius is an independent IT architect and trainer from the Netherlands. He has been active in the IT industry for more than 30 years, of which 25+ years focused on Microsoft infrastructure products for both Government and financial institutes. Raymond is the author of multiple books on Windows and security.

As an architect he supports organizations in IT strategy and realization of their next generation workplace infrastructure. Raymond is actively involved with the national and international IT community and was a speaker at multiple international Microsoft events.

 Andreas Sobczyk

Andreas Sobczyki is a Principal Consultant & Partner at CTGlobal in Denmark, former Microsoft Azure MVP, focusing Azure, Software-Defined Datacenter & PowerShell.

Also being co-founder of Cloud and Datacenter User Group Denmark, Andreas has over the last years committed himself to actively contribute to various communities where he is recognized for his ability to bring real-life considerations into perspective for cloud adoption and datacenter optimizations.
On stage at user group meetings and conferences Andreas has presented and shared his knowledge of these technologies and subsequently engage in follow-up conversations and roundtable activities.

AppManagEvent 2022 had 1 opening and 1 closing keynote for all attendees.
After 10am, there were 4 and one time 5 break-out sessions with 45-minute sessions on various topics.

After the closing keynote, you could be one of the lucky winners of our lottery price. 

Agenda AppManagEvent 2022

8:00 - 8:45

Registration

8:45 - 10:00

Welcome
&
Opening Keynote:
Hacker’s Perspective on New Risks:
Revising the Cybersecurity Priorities for 2022

Paula Januszkiewicz
 
10:00 - 10:15

Break

10:15 - 11:00
 Flexera   Access IT Automation    
Notes from the Field: Creative Solutions to App Challenges

Keeping your hybrid environments secure

Automate the Everyday & Transform the Future Increasing the security of on-premises Active Directory with Entra and Defender technologies  
Bob Kelly Kent Agerlund & Andreas Sobczyk David Butler-McAllister
Sander Berkhouwer & Raymond Comvalius  
11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:00
 Cluebiz Liquidware
ScappMan    
MSIX Deep Dive:
Exploring Possibilities
Taking your apps to the edge, even without App-V The NEW way managing apps through Microsoft Endpoint Manager Top 10 Big Little Sins about the Infrastructure Security: On Premise & In the Cloud
How to KISS using MAM
Adrian Huber
Berry Haverman Wout Vergauwen Paula Januszkiewicz Peter Daalmans & Kenneth van Surksum 
12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:45
Recast Software Cluebiz Flexera
 
Implementing Privileged Access Workstations (PAW) Solve Common Pain Points in your ConfigMgr Environment Intelligent Software Packaging: simple, fast and really affordable What's New and What's Coming for AdminStudio  
Sami Laiho Chris Muster Adrian Huber

Bob Kelly

 
13:45 - 14:00

Break 

14:00 - 14:45
Master Packager
  Netwrix - PolicyPak  
Adventures in Packaging - 2022
We’re stuck with MSI without its X and here’s why 4 steps to create an effective presentation that convinces your decisionmaker(s)! Least Privilege for Desktops: With and Without Microsoft Tools
 
Tim Mangan Toms Knostenbergs
Erwin Derksen Jeremy Moskowitz  
14:45 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 15:45
  Patch My PC Advanced Installer Microsoft  
OS Deployment from the Cloud with no local Infrastructure Automate Third-Party App Management in ConfigMgr and Intune App portfolio bird's-eye view - MSIX or not? Where we are with MSIX  
Mikael Nyström Justin Chalfant Bogdan Mitrache Dian Hartono & Harshada Kshirsagar

15:45 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:00
Closing keynote -
Going out with a BANG


 
 Sami Laiho
17:00 - 17:15
Event Wrap up, Lottery and closing
17:15 - 18:30

Drinks, Snacks, Reception

Some sessions are recorded and will be published later on our youtube channel

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Partners AppManagEvent 2021:

Relevant content & event partners are presenting, demonstrating and sharing their vision, solution or technology. Below are the partners who showcased their solution and services on November 12, 2021.

There are several interesting partner options to match your exposure possibilities and event presence. If you wish to become a partner for AppManagEvent, please contact us at: events@pds-site.com or call us on: +31 88 5588 400

Platinum Partner

 

 Flexera

Flexera

Flexera helps executives succeed at what once seemed impossible: getting clarity into, and full control of, their company’s technology “black hole.” From on-premises to the cloud, Flexera helps business leaders turn IT insight into action. With a portfolio of integrated solutions that deliver unparalleled technology insights, spend optimization and agility, Flexera helps enterprises optimize their technology footprint and realize IT’s full potential to accelerate their business. For over 30 years, our 1300+ team members worldwide have been passionate about helping our more than 50,000 customers fuel business success. At AppManagEvent, Flexera Product management for the solutions AdminStudio and Software Vulnerability Manager will be present.

 Raynet

Raynet

Raynet is a global software vendor with market-leading solutions and managed service provider in the field of Enterprise Software Management. Following the mission "Discover to manage", Raynet offers the market unique products covering all technologies.

In addition to the headquarters in Paderborn, Raynet has further locations in Germany, the USA, Poland, and the UK. With more than 100 highly qualified employees, Raynet has been supporting well-known customers and partners worldwide in their projects with its portfolio since 1999 – from Technology Asset Inventory and Software Asset Management to Software Packaging and Workflow Management to Unified Endpoint Management.

Raynet also maintains strong partnerships with the leading companies in this industry. Raynet products are unique in design and functionality. Their development is highly driven by customers and partners, who play an important role in product optimization and are the main reason why they always occupy a top position.

Whether a new SAM project is to be set up or a deployment tool introduced, a packaging factory planned, or a migration carried out – Raynet is always the best-of-breed partner for all products, services, and solutions of Application Lifecycle Management for Enterprises.

 PatchMyPC

Patch My PC

Patch My PC is a Colorado-based company made up of 28 GIF lovers who work remotely in locations worldwide.The distance between them doesn't change the fact that they are a very close-knit team.

They collaborate daily to support over 3,600 enterprises worldwide on over 11.7 million devices. Small but mighty, the team is passionate about what they do, why they do it, and who they do it for. Their goal is to simplify how enterprises create, manage, update and deploy third-party applications within Microsoft Configuration Manager and Intune; while creating experiences and relationships with the customers that trust them.

 

Gold Partner

 

 Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. At AppManagEvent 2021, Microsoft will be represented by the MSIX Team with the latest insights from the Product Management team.

 Rimo3

Rimo3

At Rimo3, we know apps. Rimo3 is a software solution that enables simple and scalable automation for migrating, modernizing, and maintaining apps at scale, across all physical or virtual desktop workspaces.
The company has been named after one of the world’s highest mountains – and one that is notoriously challenging to climb – Rimo3 combines the notions of a panoramic view (your application portfolio) with a task that has traditionally been hard to achieve (achieving and maintaining that view).
Let us give you an airlift to bring you quickly to your goal. Our vision is simple: Accelerate any application transformation journey and remain updated with ease and confidence once you’re there.

 Advanced Installer

Advanced Installer (Caphyon)

Over the last 20 years Caphyon has created software applications for developers and Internet professionals that are reliable, secure and easy to use. Advanced Installer is used for authoring MSI/MSIX packages and repackaging by a wide range of users, from beginners to senior developers and system administrators.
Fast and easy to use, it ensures a great ROI for your team, reducing the time used to create the setup packages and leaving more time for development.

 Policypak

PolicyPak

PolicyPak provides Modern Desktop Management for the “Anywhere” Workforce
Simplify Management, Security, Automation and Reporting with Powerful Paks of Policies that Integrate “Anywhere” Users Work.

Build upon Windows native Client Side Extension technology, PolicyPak includes policies to create, manage, and deploy settings that users need to get work done securely and efficiently in any workspace environment. GPO on premise, cloud and in hybrid environments!

NWCServices

NWS Services GmbH

NWC Services GmbH is a specialized German provider of IT workspace and workplace solutions. For over twenty years we have been offering our customers individual services for the successful and efficient management of IT endpoints. We serve customers from a wide variety of industries and sizes with both, outstanding consulting services and exceptional third-party products and in-house developments.
NWS Services offers expertise in the form of consulting-services, packaging support, in-depth training and support. We achieve our excellence by combining our experienced employees’ know-how with market-leading solutions from our partners (e.g. Microsoft, Ivanti, SoftwareCentral, etc.).
Our second pillar is our own products and tools for supplementing those strategic partner products for designing and implementing the best possible solution. Using our two decades long experience, a profound market view and through listening carefully to the wishes and requests from our customers, our products address tasks and problems that are left open by the usual deployment platforms.

Our current flagship product is the NWC Packaging PowerBench (PPB), which is our solution to make software packaging available for administrators and packaging engineers of all skill-levels and for all software distribution environments such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager or Ivanti EPM.

Through its outstanding user-friendliness and simplicity, the packaging process and scripting is done via drag-and-drop in a graphical editor while it creates native PowerShell packages, even without any PowerShell knowledge. Currently we are already providing over 140 dialog-based commands and are actively developing new functionality to even extend the usability and value.

 Scappman

Scappman

Scappman is a 100% cloud solution that integrates with Intune to automatically update applications.

Scappman enables you to easily install and update applications on your Intune-managed computers. We not only offer an extensive list of pre-packaged applications, but also enable you to upload your own custom apps in our intelligent packaging engine or package your applications for you. The Scappman packaging engine is designed to reduce user friction caused by application updates, but also to overcome some of Intune’s limitations like updating available apps, even for custom apps.
To start deploying applications, just register on our portal and provide admin consent for our Scappman, choose an app from our App Store or upload your own, assign users to it and you’re good to go. Scappman will deploy the application and then keep it up to date.

Scappman enables enterprises to be more secure, while reducing time spent on packaging & updating applications. On top of that it helps you overcome Intune’s limitations.

Scappman offers an enterprise-grade software- & patch management solution for small businesses that want to work securely and up to date.

Service Providers can use Scappman to manage many customers at once, from a single pane of glass, and drastically reduce time spent onboarding new customers.

 PDS  

Professional Development Systems

 Founded in 1989, Professional Development Systems b.v. (PDS) is the leading Benelux tool distributor & educational partner for packaging, virtualisation & Privilege Management tools.
With years of representation & training expertise in Wise Package Studio, ChangeBASE, AdminStudio and InstalllShield, in 2021 PDS represents the solutions from Flexera (AdminStudio, AppPortal, WFM and InstallShield), Raynet (RayPack Studio, Rayflow, SAMi), BeyondTrust (Endpoint Privilege Management, Secure Remote Access, Secure Remote Support), PolicyPak (GPO management) and Liquit Setup Commander (silent switches for your application packages) for the Benelux region. Hosting unique IT Pro Speaker training on App-V, Security and Win10/Server Deployment.

PDS proudly represents the licensing and solutions from these vendors to assist, as independent advisor, endusers and local (resell/implementation/knowledge) partners to create successfull projects in close partnership with "our" manufacturer. PDS is the founder of AppManagEvent since 2006.

 

Silver Partner 

 

 Sparkleflow

Sparkleflow

Sparkleflow is the only solution which keeps an eye on all aspects of Application Management. With it's flexible and modulair design, Sparkleflow provides a single point of entry for processes, information, documentation and files related to your application managment proces.

 Liquit

Liquit

Liquit ’s story began in the Netherlands in 2015, when its three founders recognized a glaring hole in the application management services available to businesses.

Leveraging their decades of collective application management experience, they sought to create a one-stop solution able to fulfill all of an organization’s application management needs simply and efficiently, reducing the workload for IT teams and removing pain points for end-users.

Liquit, an end-to-end application management platform that immediately raised the bar for what an application solution can mean to a business. Incredibly intuitive, highly flexible, and technology agnostic, Liquit provides its clients with a competitive advantage that increases productivity, reduces costs, and empowers the work-from-anywhere capabilities that have become a necessity in today’s market.

The game-changing nature of Liquit has not only made our customers happy, but also attracted accolades from business and technology leaders, including being designated as a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018.

Today Liquit continues to expand its presence around the globe, constantly innovating to provide our clients with tomorrow’s application solutions before they even realize they need them.

 Workplace Ninja's

WorkPlace Ninja Group

This user group was founded in February 2013 as Windows Management User Group by IT Pro's with a passion for everything that has to do with managing Windows, but not limiting to Windows. Early 2021, we renamed our group to the Workplace Ninjas User Group in The Netherlands and be part of the broader WPNinja's all over EMEA.

Our goal is to provide a platform for IT-Pro's to share knowledge gain from the field and to share tips and tricks. This can be done via periodic physical meetups, virtual events, blogs or other channels. We want you to join us and take up the role within our User Group by sharing your knowledge with your peers from the community. Come and see us at the booth on the exhibition floor of AppManagEvent 2021!

 

Friend of the Event

 

 Recast Software

Recast Software

Recast Software offers enhanced control of enterprise endpoints and scalable IT automation.
We are trusted by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, elevating the digital employee experience impacting over 60 million devices. Our mission is to simplify the work of IT teams and enable them to create highly secure and compliant environments. Our software does this by seamlessly integrating with existing IT infrastructure to surface critical intelligence, increase first-call resolution, reveal vulnerabilities, quickly remediate issues, ensure compliance, enhance security, and maintain clear visibility across all devices.

 

If you wish to be a partner for AppManagEvent, please contact us by e-mail: events@pds-site.com or telephone: +31 88 5588 400

These experts where the event speakers in 2021:

 Tim Mangan

Tim Mangan is “The Kahuna” at his own company, TMurgent Technologies, Tim is recognized as a 15 year MVP by Microsoft and over 10 years as a ”CTP Fellow” by Citrix.
As the guy who brought Application Virtualization to your vocabulary he built the original version of what you know of as App-V today, and has been eyebrow deep into MSIX since even before it was announced by Microsoft.
Author of books, including MSIX Fundamentals for IT Pros and the upcoming Developer’s Guide to MSIX, his company is well known both for their tools for IT Pros and their world renowned training classes.

You can follow him on Twitter (@TimothyMangan), check out his personal blog.

 Sami Laiho  

Sami Laiho is one of the world’s leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1996.
In 2019 Sami was chosen by TiVi-magazine as one of the top 100 influencers in IT in Finland. He is the 11th most followed person in his field in Finland.
 
At Ignite 2018, Sami’s “Behind the Scenes: How to build a conference winning session” and “Sami Laiho: 45 Life Hacks of Windows OS in 45 minutes”  sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this.

 Paula Januszkiewicz  

Paula Januszkiewicz

is the Founder and CEO of CQURE. She is having a deep belief that high quality and positive thinking are key to success. In CQURE she devoted herself to her passion: Security Consulting – both for Management and IT Engineers, Penetration Tests, Architecture Consulting, Trainings (Authored), Seminars. She did hundreds of security projects, including those for governmental organizations. 

She is also is also a top speaker at many well- known conferences including Microsoft Ignite (she was rated No 1 Speaker among 1100 other Speakers), TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, TechEd Middle East, RSA, TechDays, CyberCrime, etc., and is often rated as number- one speaker.

Paula is engaged as a keynote speaker for security related events and she writes articles on Windows Security. She holds multiple Microsoft certifications, besides being familiar with and possessing certifications in other related technologies. Paula is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. In private, she enjoys researching new technologies, which she converts to authored trainings. She has access to a source code of Windows..

Every year she makes over 200 flights each year to gain more and more experience, provides security consulting for top-100 companies and delivers penetration tests. Paula is a type that suffers when doing nothing, you can always expect some thoughtful ideas and interesting arguments.

 Jeremy Moskowitz  

Jeremy Moskowitz is a former Microsoft Group Policy MVP, one of less than a dozen Group Policy MVPs worldwide, is the most-published author on Group Policy, and a prolific Group Policy speaker worldwide. Since becoming one of the world's first MCSEs, he has performed Active Directory and desktop implementations for some of the nation's largest organizations.

Jeremy runs MDMandGPanswers.com to help people get their tough Group Policy questions answered.
His books and articles have been read by millions and translated into multiple languages. Jeremy has written for Windows IT Pro Magazine, REDMOND Magazine, Microsoft Technet Magazine, Inside Technology Training Magazine, PC Magazine, & Ziff-Davis' Windows Professional Journals, among others.
Jeremy has spoken at just about every existing Windows conference about Group Policy, including Microsoft TechEd / Ignite, Microsoft Management Summit, WinConnections, and TechMentor.

 John Vintzel  

John Vintzel is a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Developer Platform team leading up the MSIX effort and focusing on a broad range of enterprise app scenarios for Windows. A Microsoft veteran since 2008, John has previous worked as Program Manager as part of the System Center and Intune teams focusing on enterprise client and mobile device management.

Prior to his time at Microsoft; John spent lead up the Infrastructure Architect efforts and managing IT Pros for a large enterprise.

 Kent Agerlund  

As an author, speaker, trainer, evangelist, Principal architect, and founder of CTGlobal , Kent Agerlund specializes in Microsoft solutions.

His technology background has resulted in an in-depth knowledge and expertise to understand the needs of many diverse enterprises.  Kent is probably best known for using “Real World” scenarios to demonstrate solutions and ability to reach the core issue.
Talk to Kent about: Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture & Strategy, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility +security, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Endpoint Manager.

 Bob Kelly  

Bob Kelly is an author and speaker at many IT Pro events and the founder of IT Ninja (formerly AppDeploy.com).

Today he continues to support the packaging community primarily in his role as Product Management Director at Flexera responsible for AdminStudio and other solutions targeting IT Professionals.

 Mirko Colemborg  

Mirko Colemburg is MCT, MVP and computer scientist, he works as a Workplace Sommelier at baseVSION.
He helps customers to perform Windows updates or migrations with MS products, supports
Customer in their projects. Modern Workplace's change a lot in everyday working life.

Since Mirko is one of the leading experts in the field of "Modern Workplace" in Switzerland, he is your contact person for the future.

 Dennis Westhoff  

Dennis Westhoff is Senior Account Manager at Raynet. Dennis is responsible for partners and customers at Raynet and tries to find the best solution for every situation.

As a studied sports scientist, he knows how to change perspectives and tackle problems at their weak points.

 Frank Scholer  

Frank Scholer has been in the endpoint management business for about 25 years, working as a consultant, trainer and system engineer. During that time, he was specializing in infrastructure projects, automated operating system rollouts, software distribution, patch management and application packaging.

Lately he is focusing on product management for our products and the technical strategy of company NWS Services.

 Jeff Wouters  

Jeff Wouters, 9* Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management, is the founder of Methos, consultant en Microsoft Certified Trainer with a focus on Infrastructure-as-Code and automation in general.

He is a frequent speaker on (inter)national events, the founder of the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG) and all around sci-fi geek.

 Justin Chalfant Justin Chalfant founded Patch My PC in 2011. He enjoys all the technical aspects of developing solutions for our customer's problems. Outside of work, he love's playing ice hockey, and he is a big Colorado Avalanche fan!
 Marcin Otorowski Marcin Otorowski is Director Products & Innovations at Raynet, responsible for product design and release management.
Product owner of several packaging and data management products, including RayPack Studio. Many years of experience in both software development and software packaging let him understand challenges and issues packagers and managers must face to meet quality and time requirements. Loves turning complex challenges into solutions with innovative approaches, elegance, and UI/UX simplicity.
 
Certified packaging trainer; MSIX enthusiast; active contributor to Open Source world and recurring speaker at AppManagEvent.
 Peter Daalmans  

Peter Daalmans is a Principal Workplace Consultant / Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer at Daalmans Consulting with a primary focus on the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility. Peter is awarded every year as a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP (Configuration Manager/Microsoft Intune/Enterprise Mobility Suite) since 2012.


Peter writes blogs and sharing his knowledge on his blog ConfigMgrBlog.com. Peter is also one of the founders and leads of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands.

 Kenneth van Surksum  

Kenneth van Surksum is a modern workplace consultant and Microsoft MVP at Insight24 specializing in building modern workplace solutions on top of Microsoft 365. He also works with public and private cloud solutions based on Azure and System Center.

Kenneth is co-founder of the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands (#WPNinjasNL) and organizes (virtual) community meetings on a regular basis.

 Samit Halvadia  

Samit Halvadia is an application nerd. For 20 years, he’s been helping enterprises and solution providers deliver applications. Through progressive roles at Microsoft partner ISVs, Samit has helped to develop multiple application management technologies.

Currently the CTO of Rimo3, Samit started his career in sales engineering and product management for InstallShield and AdminStudio at Flexera. As App-DNA Vice-President of Global Technology and Solutions, he drove the technical development of the innovative application testing platform. At Citrix, he led global pre-sales customer strategy, helping organizations adopt VDI, cloud workspaces, and new app and desktop delivery strategies. He founded and ran the Citrix Demo Warrior competition, developing technical talent across the sales engineering organizations.

Samit is a well-received speaker at technology events such as Microsoft Ready, World Partner Conference (now Inspire), TechReady (now Ready), and MMS; Citrix Synergy, Summit and CUGC user groups; VMware VMWorld and VMUG user groups; INTEROP; and Chatham House. Notably, he gave a keynote from a soccer pitch at the first AppManagEvent.

Samit travels the world, but calls Chicago home. When he’s not nerding out over applications, he’s spending time with his family, playing platform tennis (paddle), or golfing.

 Wout Vergauwen Wout Vergauwen started his application delivery career almost 15 years ago as a Citrix engineer. That's also when Wout set his first steps in the world of automation and got sold on it. Just let the computer do it for you, rather than pointing and clicking all the time. 
 
After almost a decade in the Citrix world, Wout switched to Microsoft cloud, starting with Azure, then switching to the stack closer to his roots: identity, device management & security.
 Bogdan Mitrache Bogdan Mitrache is the VP of Product at Advanced Installer. He has over a decade of experience in application packaging and deployment and loves to help the community grow, as an active member on the MSIX techcommunity forums and Stack Overflow. Bogdan is also the co-author of the MSIX Packaging Fundamentals book.
   

Agenda AppManagEvent 2021

8:00 - 8:45

Registration

8:45 - 10:00

Welcome
&
Keynote - Zero Trust - The Future of Security

Sami Laiho
 
10:00 - 10:15

Break

10:15 - 11:00
Microsoft Patch My PC      
MSIX and enterprise app
deployment
Automating Third-Party
Application Creation and
Patching in ConfigMgr and Intune
Migrating to "Modern"
from zero to hero
PowerShell Toolmaking
for non-PowerShellians
 
John Vintzel Justin Chalfant Mirko Colemburg
Jeff Wouters  
11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:00
  Raynet
     
 Notes from the field: Where we
are now with MSIX and the PSF
Stop packaging.
Think out-of-the-package!
Don't bother your users with
Mobile Device Management;
Embrace modern!
Designing and building your MEM/Intune
environment for Operations
 
Tim Mangan Marcin Otorowski Peter Daalmans Kenneth van Surksum  
12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:45
Raynet Flexera Rimo3
 
Sysinternals 25th BDay
Tips&Tricks Troubleshooting Windows
IT Visibility – Discover to Manage What's New and What's
Coming in AdminStudio
Risk or reward? Choosing
Your Application Delivery Strategies
 
Sami Laiho Dennis Westhoff Bob Kelly
Samit Halvadia  
13:45 - 14:00

Break 

14:00 - 14:45

Advanced Installer NWC Services GmbH
 
Debugging bad Software Top 10 ways to make hackers
excited: All about the shortcuts not worth taking
DIY folder virtualization
using the PSF
Smart Software Packaging
for the Modern Workplace
 
Tim Mangan Paula Januszkiewicz Bogdan Mitrache
Frank Scholer
 
14:45 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 15:45
  Scappman Flexera   Patch My PC
What's new and trending
with Microsoft Client Management
Scappman - The NEW way of managing
applications with MEM
Yesterday and today: Top 10 changes
affecting AME attendees
How NOT to get hacked: Recommendations
from an actual Ransomware attacker
(who took home 4 million!)
Automating Third-Party Application Creation and Patching in
ConfigMgr and Intune
Kent Agerlund Wout Vergauwen Bob Kelly Jeremy Moskowitz Justin Chalfant
15:45 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:00
Closing keynote - Surrounded by Real Hackers.

Expand your Cybersecurity Skillset and Keep Cyber Threats Out of your Life
 
 Paula Januszkiewicz
17:00 - 17:15
Event Wrap up, Lottery and closing
17:15 - 18:30

Drinks - Snacks - Cooling Down

Some sessions are recorded and will be published later on our youtube channel

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If you wish to become a partner or a speaker for AppManagEvent 2022 (scheduled for Friday October 7, 2022): please contact us by mail: events@pds-site.com or call us on: +31 88 5588 400.
We are happy to help you.

 

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AppManagEvent on October 9th 2020 has been cancelled - let's meet in 2021 again !

May 7, 2020- Culemborg - The Netherlands.
Over the past few weeks we have closely monitored the global impact of the Coronavirus. Despite the fact that the Dutch Government Healthcare Center (RIVM) advised to cancel all meetings and events untill September 1st, we unfortunately had to decide to cancel the event on October 9, 2020.

The following considerations are made by us:

  • Firstly because the safety of all participants is most important
  • There are speakers and partners who are not allowed to travel at this time, due to corporate policy or national restrictions
  • We cannot give our visitors and sponsors any guarantee (anymore) regarding the quality of the content and scope of the event
  • No claim can be made by AppManagEvent on an insurance policy when we would cancel the event at a later time
  • AppManagEvent cannot organize the event without our partners, the measures taken around the Coronavirus are creating many uncertainties

We strongly believe that the in-person experience is invaluable for all participants which makes AppManagEvent a fantastic IT event since 2006. Because of this, we have decided not to switch to a virtual AppManagEvent and focus our efforts to a great edition in 2021. We will communicate the 2021 date as soon as the COVID-19 measurements are allowing us to organize the event again and will keep you up to date through our newsletter and social media.

Did you block AppManagEvent on October 9th in your agenda but you haven’t bought a ticket yet? Keep an eye on all messages for a new date. Please support the event by purchasing your entrance ticket when ticket sales re-opens. Attendees who already bought a 2020 ticket have received an email from us with more information.

We deeply regret that we have to take this decision, but we feel it is the only and right thing to do in this situation.

Finally we would like to thank our visitors, fans, our confirmed speakers and partners for their trust, loyalty and excitement around AppManagEvent: let’s plan on seeing each other in good health at the 2021 edition!
Thank you for your understanding and your support.

Stay safe and healthy!

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Partners AppManagEvent 2019:

Relevant content & event partners are presenting, demonstrating and sharing their vision, solution or technology. Below are the partners who showcased their solution and services on October 11, 2019.

There are several interesting partner options to match your exposure possibilities and event presence. If you wish to become a partner for AppManagEvent, please contact us at: events@pds-site.com or call us on: +31 88 5588 400

Platinum Partner

 

 Flexera

Flexera

Flexera helps executives succeed at what once seemed impossible: getting clarity into, and full control of, their company’s technology “black hole.” From on-premises to the cloud, Flexera helps business leaders turn IT insight into action. With a portfolio of integrated solutions that deliver unparalleled technology insights, spend optimization and agility, Flexera helps enterprises optimize their technology footprint and realize IT’s full potential to accelerate their business. For over 30 years, our 1300+ team members worldwide have been passionate about helping our more than 50,000 customers fuel business success. To learn more, visit flexera.com

 BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, offering the most seamless approach to preventing data breaches related to stolen credentials, misused privileges, and compromised remote access. 

Our extensible platform empowers organizations to easily scale privilege security as threats evolve across endpoint, server, cloud, DevOps, and network device environments. BeyondTrust unifies the industry’s broadest set of privileged access capabilities with centralized management, reporting, and analytics, enabling leaders to take decisive and informed actions to defeat attackers. Our holistic platform stands out for its flexible design that simplifies integrations, enhances user productivity, and maximizes IT and security investments.

BeyondTrust gives organizations the visibility and control they need to reduce risk, achieve compliance objectives, and boost operational performance. We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 100, and a global partner network.

PDS

Professional Development Systems b.v.

Rounded in 1989, Professional Development Systems b.v. (PDS) is the leading Benelux tool distributor & educational partner for packaging, virtualisation & Privilege Management tools.
With years of representation & training expertise in Wise Package Studio, ChangeBASE, AdminStudio and InstalllShield, in 2019 PDS represents the solutions from Flexera (AdminStudio, AppPortal, WFM and InstallShield), Raynet (RayPack Studio, Rayflow, SAMi), BeyondTrust (Endpoint Privilege Management, Secure Remote Access, Secure Remote Support) and Liquit Setup Commander (silent switches for your application packages) for the Benelux region. Hosting unique IT Pro Speaker training on App-V, Security and Win10/Server Deployment.

PDS proudly represents the licensing and solutions from these vendors to assist, as independent advisor, endusers and local (resell/implementation/knowledge) partners to create successfull projects in close partnership with "our" manufacturer. PDS is the founder of AppManagEvent since 2006.

 

Gold Partner

 

 Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.

 AppiXoft

AppiXoft

Through our high-end User Workspace Management solution Scense, AppiXoft delivers dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to many thousands of satisfied users worldwide. By applying a virtual separation between the user, desktop and underlying operating system, we transform any complex distributed desktop environment into an easy to manage and transparent infrastructure.

As Scense provides substantial flexibility and freedom to both regular and occasional IT users and, at the same time, allows IT administrators to stay fully in control, the solution ultimately results in happy faces on both sides.

 Advanced Installer

Advanced Installer (Caphyon)

Over the last 20 years Caphyon has created software applications for developers and Internet professionals that are reliable, secure and easy to use. Advanced Installer is used for authoring MSI/MSIX packages and repackaging by a wide range of users, from beginners to senior developers and system administrators.
Fast and easy to use, it ensures a great ROI for your team, reducing the time used to create the setup packages and leaving more time for development.

 

Silver Pa