Jeff Teper
Corporate Vice President – Microsoft 365 Collaboration with Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive
Microsoft
Known as the “Founder of SharePoint,” Jeff came to Microsoft because of the company’s approach to solving challenges and empowering people through software. A developer at heart, today Jeff leads Microsoft’s collaboration platform including Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, which serve more than 1 billion people around the globe.
Outside of work, Jeff is an avid runner, and an avid fan of Disney and The Beatles. Jeff has an MBA from Harvard and a BS from New York University.
Scott Hanselman
Partner Program Manager
Microsoft
Scott has been a developer for 30 years and has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for 20 years! He works in Open Source on .NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has been podcasting for over 800 episodes of http://hanselminutes.com over 15 years and 700 episodes of http://www.azurefriday.com.
He’s written a number of technical books and spoken in person to over one million developers worldwide! He’s also on TikTok, which was very likely a huge mistake.
Karuana Gatimu
Principal Manager, Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft Teams Engineering
Microsoft
Karuana is a business architect and productivity expert currently working in the Microsoft Teams product group. With a 25-year history in collaboration technology and corporate IT, she is experienced in Microsoft 365 services with a focus on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Power Platform. She combines her technical expertise with a passion for community management and a #PeopleFirst approach to business transformation. Her team currently drives worldwide adoption of Microsoft 365 services, product feedback, and technical readiness for IT professionals, developers, and productivity Champions, including the Microsoft 365 Champions program and the Teams Technical Community. Her specialized experience in enterprise, government, non-profit, and retail solution architecture allows her to build large scale adoption programs and create the Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist and Virtual Event Production courses. She is the host & executive producer of Coffee in the Cloud on YouTube and a frequent speaker on empowering female leadership in technology and the future of collaboration.
Vesa Juvonen
Principal Program Manager
Microsoft
Vesa Juvonen works as a Principal Program Manager focusing on the community and ecosystem across Microsoft 365. He leads the Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP) initiative which is providing tooling, guidance and assistance on adopting recommended patterns for using Microsoft 365.
He has worked in different roles at Microsoft engineering helping on building capabilities in Microsoft 365 and to help customers and partners to use the different features across the platform. Prior moving to engineering, he worked as a Principal Consultant at the Microsoft Services organization, engaging with some of the largest customers in the world.
