I’m very happy to announce that I will back speaking at Experts Live Europe 2019! I got 2 sessions to present this year, and I really look forward to go to Prague in November and be a part of this great community conference for the 7th time in a row! Read on for some more details, history and perspectives on why you should attend this conference also.

Experts Live Europe, SCU Europe & Me

This years event is the third edition under the name “Experts Live Europe”. Before that it was known as System Center Universe Europe, or just SCU Europe. The first edition of SCU Europe was in Bern, Switzerland, 2013. I went there because I wanted to attend a European based conference with focus on Datacenter Management after it was announced that Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) would be no more. I was immediately blown away by the community experience, great speakers and content. I made some contacts and friends I’m still happy to see and meet again today.

Of course I had to make it to the 2nd and 3rd editions of SCU Europe that were held in Basel, Switzerland, in 2014 and 2015. Speakers, sessions and community was as good or better as the first conference in Bern, and content was starting to focus more on Microsoft Cloud. Myself I was intrigued and motivated to be a bigger part of this community, and started submitting sessions proposals to be a speaker myself.

In 2016, SCU Europe moved out of Switzerland and to Berlin, Germany. And this year I was one of the speakers! I was so proud when the opening keynote video introduced this speaker from Norway, you can by the way see all those opening videos at https://www.expertslive.eu/history. The conference being in Berlin meant a much easier travel from Norway, and this time around I was able to bring some colleagues and customers along. We had a great time:

At the end of the 2016 conference it was announced that the name SCU Europe will be no more, from 2017 the conference would be named Experts Live Europe, being part of the Experts Live network of global community conferences (www.expertslive.org).

In 2017 we were back in Berlin and I was accepted as a speaker again :). Once again we traveled as a group of colleagues and customers, and had a great time enjoying the excellent content and community.

In 2018, after all 5 previous conferences had been in a city that started with the letter “B”, it was announced that Experts Live Europe 2018 was to be held in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic. For the third time in a row I would be one of the Experts again. Prague is also easy to travel to from Norway so we once again went as a group.

And that brings us to 2019, where we go back to the excellent Prague Congress Center, 20-22nd of November! I’m once again very proud to be speaking at this great community conference, and my record of 100% attendance for every SCU/ExpertsLive Europe record is intact, 7th time in a row now :).

My Sessions

As previously mentioned, I will be delivering two sessions at this years Experts Live Europe. And for the first time I will hold a session together with the one and only Samuel Erskine. This session should be both informative and entertaining!

My session with Sam is titled “Same old System Center.. but how can we hook up the Cloud and make it hot again!”. As System Center 2019 was released earlier this year, and with updates from Ignite, we will look into how System Center 2019 can go from “same old, same old..” to integrating with the Azure Cloud Platform and make System Center hot again!

My second session is named “Manage Identity Lifecycle and Access Control with Azure AD Identity Governance”, in which we will focus on how to manage identity lifecycle and make sure users have the right access at every time using Identity Governance solutions in Azure AD.

You can see the complete agenda for all the sessions here: https://www.expertslive.eu/agenda.

Community Rocks!

The thing I love most with ExpertsLive Europe is the really strong community of experts, sponsors and attendees. Beside the sessions and pre-conference itself, a big part of the value of attending is getting to know new people, connect again with people you have met before, learn, discuss and ask questions, get answers and be followed up with the best of the MVP’s and Community leaders out there. I started out standing in the corner and slowly started interacting with the community members, and now feel I have made many friends and being part of this great community myself. I really want to say hi to you in Prague, either if you are attending one of my sessions or you see me in the expo area, at the VIP party or attendee party.

Hope to see you there, and if you’re still not signed up, you can still register at http://www.expertslive.eu!