Keynote: Mike Michalowicz
Mike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur’s cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.
Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognized as the guy who “challenges out dated business beliefs” and teaches us what to do about it.
Vendor Presentation: Malwarebytes
Michael Sherwood
Sherwood's officially been a technician since the mid-90s - but first pissed his mom off by breaking (and fixing) his new Apple IIc in the early 80s. He's been fortunate to serve clients both in the US Air Force as well as the private sector. Built some cool technician tools along the way which have helped 50+ million devices get setup and working again - he's kind of proud of this. Today you'll find him at Malwarebytes leading their technician program called Techbench. He loves our industry and serving others so if you're lucky, he'll buy you at least one beer!
Alex Smith
Alex fell in love with all things Windows and technology related in the late 90’s. It’s at the point now where it’s almost an unhealthy relationship. He used his unique in-depth Windows knowledge and problem-solving skills to train over 100,000+ technicians for 7+ years before using that knowledge to help make tools for those same technicians. Today, Alex can be found working for Malwarebytes as the Technical Product Manager of the Malwarebytes Toolset. This allows him to continue to support technicians while also feeding his unhealthy addiction to Windows.
Subject Matter Experts
We're bringing in experts in a wide variety of tech and general business topics to help guide you through the ins and outs of running a successful IT business.
Paul Mendiola
Freedom Voice
Topic: VoIP
Brian Zorc
Data Rescue MDs
Topic: Data Recovery
Tim Taylor
Tim Taylor Consulting Group
Topic: MSP Business Coach
Bruce Himmelblau
Blue Sky Video Productions LLC
Topic: Video Marketing
Jason Hinton
Microsoft Partner Development
Topic: Microsoft Partner Programs
Fabrice PARISOT
Fab's AutoBackup
Topic: Data Backup
Ken Dwight
"The Virus Doctor"
Topic: Virus Remediation
Nicole Martin
HR Boost
Topic: Hiring, firing and outsourcing
Carolyn Kitty, CPA
Small Business Consultant
Topic: Accounting Best Practices
Sherrice Kindred
The Viti Companies
Topic: Tech Insurance
Markus Loving
Online Market Domination
Topic: Becoming an Authority
Jeff Stoffel
Microsoft Azure Specialist
Topic: Cloud Services
Derrick Wlodarz
President, FireLogic, Inc.
Topic: HIPAA
Robert Simmons
Hatmen Marketing
Topic: SEO/PPC
Steve Peck
Business Growth Strategist
Topic: Marketing and podcasting
Peer Facilitators
Your fellow IT Business Owners will facilitate workshops and labs on tools and tech that they know well, so you can learn from others in the trenches.
Tom Bull
Two River Computer, LLC
Brian Semrau
Brian Semrau Computer Consulting
Jason Miller
Unbound Digital
Amit Mehta
TechVoo
Lori Tisinai
Computer Concepts
Matthew Rodela
Tech Site Builder
Marvin Bee
MB Systems
Jeff Halash
TechNut PC
Paco Lebron
Prodigy Teks
Matthew Brock
Computer Solutions: AZ