Valentine Boiarkine
Lead Software Architect ,  Blade Ltd
Valentine is a founder and the lead software architect of Blade (www.blade.net.nz). She specializes in enterprise software integration, IT alignment and business process automation. Valentine has designed distributed software systems for some of the world’s largest financial and legal organizations. She is the lead architect of revolutionary Blade Transfer Services file transfer technology. In recent years, Valentine has authored expert technical training resources for Microsoft. Her practical sessions focus on planning, deploying and troubleshooting Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, SQL Server, .NET and BizTalk solutions. She trains Microsoft support and escalation engineers around the globe. Valentine is also the author of numerous whitepapers, solution accelerators and guides for Microsoft and other leading software companies.

Peter O'Dowd
MVP Exchange Server ,  Blade Ltd
Peter is a Windows Server MVP for Exchange Server. He is a well known and respected figure worldwide and often utilized by Microsoft for consulting, content development and training assignments. He has over 15 years of industry experience with messaging and server technologies, specializing in Microsoft Exchange Server. Peter has been awarded MVP status in Exchange Server by Microsoft for the past 3 years as their way of rewarding and thanking him for his contributions to the Exchange worldwide community.