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Happy Monday Everyone!

Now, since we have announced our entire speaker lineup, we wanted to re-familiarize everyone on why you should attend Workplace Ninjas US 2027 in Scottsdale, AZ on January 11-13, 2027

As shown on Friday, we have the finest speakers from all around the world joining us from roughly 15 countries as far as Australia. A collection of not only #Microsoft #MVPs, security experts, Microsoft employees, and more!

An amazing pre-day with a collection of activities that foster collaboration, teamwork, and growth with our golf outing at the The Phoenician Resort, #LegoMasters tournament, #5K Fun Run, and Pool Party to get things started right!

One of the most unique #Community #Theatres running in an American Idol-esque format, showcasing 15 minute #lightninground sessions with a few of our speakers there to help your speaking and presentation skills.

An event that is so much more than just an event. It's an experience, a family, and a break from the chaos of #AI and the rest of it. We will have several experiences like a Recharge and Relax Area, Puppy Play Area, Podcast Studio themed to Lucy's Psychiatry Booth, and Puppy Yoga.

A fun and dynamic expo that will feature not just a bunch of #MSIntune sponsors, but sponsors from #DaaS, #Intune, #Security, #Automation, and much more! The perfect opportunity to find integration partners that fill the gaps in your #Microsoft stack. We even have outdoor sponsors, to let you engage in relaxed settings powered by an expo party that will be next level with incredible food and drinks.

Our #Speaker #Mentoring sessions are back known as "Elevate" Sessions, where anyone can sign-up for a 30m mentoring session with any of our speakers. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from some of the very best in the industry and solve those pesky problems that have been lingering from our friends at Microsoft Support.

Dynamic Sessions in a trackless format covering more areas than ever before with #Mobile, #Windows, #MSIntune, #MSEntra, #AI, #Copilot, #Windows365, #AVD, #MSSecurity, #Azure, #Automation, #PowerShell, #MCP, and more!

Swag that you actually want to keep! This year, we will elevate things by bringing back your favorite items like the thenorthface backpacks, and introducing items like collectable drink cups for the expo, beach towels, shirts, and #Clippy coins used to buy swag at our new SWAG STORE run by a collection of the best customer service people around (the kids of the people involved)

The most important reason why you should attend is simple. This is an event by US and for US. We are a bunch of friends who get together and do this for you. We want everyone to have an opportunity to meet special people, do good things, and learn together. We are a full non-profit organization because of one simple reason. We've been to many events, we've seen everything. An event, where every cent is spent on you, where there is no profit, no organization, just people serving people is our true differentiator.

Register NOW: https://workplaceninjas.us/why-attend/

Happy Monday and welcome to Round 7 of our speaker announcements, we only have a few left (3-4) after this set.

Last week we announced: Esther Barthel AJ Zafar John Joyner Frank Lesniak Peter Daalmans [MVP] and Aria Hanson

This week, we cover 6 amazing people who happen to be brilliant as well!

Tim Mangan, who I affectionately refer to as the father of #MSIX is THE definitive expert on #MSIX #AppAttach and so much more in the VDI space.

Bernhard Tritsch, the better half of the Ruben Spruijt and Benny show in the #VDI space is well-known for being a master of measuring performance and understanding exactly how things work like the #Doctor he is.

Danny Stutz, promoted from co-speaker to speaker this year has been an amazing young talent doing some wonderful things in the #PowerShell #Automation and #AI space over the last year.

Spencer Alessi, a new #MVP and nominee for the #ROTY Clippy, is an amazing guy and brilliant mind in #ActiveDirectory known for doing 100+ #AD #Pentests per year, will be joining us as a new speaker. We finally had the chance to meet him at #Blackhat and we couldn't be more convinced he was a perfect addition to the family.

Megan Gremmell, our moderator of #WomeninTech and #NeurodiversityinTech last year will be joining one of our unannounced speakers to cover #Windows365 for #Agents, which should be one of the top sessions in January.

Danielle Moon, is one of our biggest new additions this year. When I asked my amazing advisors like Sucheta Gawade and Lindsay Shelton, who do we absolutely NEED to champion our #neurodiversity and #women in #tech initiatives this year, it was 100% going to be Danielle. She's a force right now and we're so lucky that she's coming to join us!

You have to register now folks, because those registrations are picking up now and are going fast!! Only a few more early birds remain to join the fastest growing event in #EUC and #Microsoft.

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Today, we're going to talk about the activities that we have planned for you at Workplace Ninjas US.

Our activities this year are what make this event so special. Sure, anyone can throw together a bunch of sessions. Don't get me wrong, we have 60+ sessions from one of the finest sets of speakers that have ever been assembled, but we can do better.

January 11th, 2027 will be our pre-day where we do some amazingly fun things throughout the entire day.

Our #WPNinjasUS Fun Run 5K will kick off at 7 AM at the Canal just a block away. It's sponsored by our friends at Omnissa where we will run a few laps for the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research!

We will be doing an amazing Golf Tournament sponsored by Ferroque Systems Inc. at 9 AM, at the incredible The Phoenician Resort where the #PhoenixOpen is played. This event will have a capacity of 40 people, featuring a number of #MVPs and experts in a small and fun setting.

Our #LegoMasters tournament for those non-golfers will be running 10 AM-2 PM where we will be building the #USSEnterprise in this #StarTrek event. This team format will be a ton of fun, and we certainly encourage you to dress-up in your best #Trekkie outfit for a chance at additional prizes/swag.

The #Hackathon in its second year sponsored by WorkspaceDNA (the artists f.k.a. #Rimo3), will move to this #RoundRobin format where we will have 5 captains, and they will build their teams live and create an amazing product live with a #Clippy Trophy on the line and other prizes. We will even have our #Scholars involved, as we recently secured funding to sponsor 5-6 people with 3 years or less in tech, once again thanks to our friends at Devicie

The final event of the night will be the Opening Night Pool Party sponsored by Patch My PC, which will have an open bar, incredible buffet, and tons of fun (and likely ducks). This will be a can't miss opportunity to hang out with the attendees and have a blast.

It's not just the preday that has fun activities!!

Day 1, will feature a Puppy Play Area, where you can play with a bunch of adorable puppies when you've had too much #AI or too much #Microsoft and just need a break from all that tech stuff. This is a special opportunity to de-stress and de-compress with your friends.

Day 2, will have our Puppies & Yoga event at 7 AM, where you get 45 minutes of yoga, and another 30 minutes of puppy playtime. We love dogs, so what can we really say there?

We're going to have a ton of fun in Scottsdale January 11-13, 2027, and these are just the initial things we have planned. We will continue to add other opportunities for people to have a special time in that amazing 70-degree weather.

Make sure you register now friends!!

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Last week, we announced a great 6-pack with Christiaan Brinkhoff Rod Trent Sandy Zeng Jose Schenardie Ugur Koc and Mirko Colemberg.

This week, we give you the 5th set of speakers for Workplace Ninjas US

🎸 April Dunnam is an amazing cloud advocate for Microsoft on #PowerPlatform and #Copilot, along with being a great musician. She was the perfect person to anchor our Copilot and #AI tracks as she does a masterful job of advocating and teaching the hottest area at #Microsoft today.

🍖 Chris Cavazos one of our newer #MVPs focusing on both #AVD and #Windows365 fresh off his first trip to MVP Summer Camp in March. Chris is a great guy, who delivers some fantastic sessions. He also happens to be one of the nominees for the "Rookie of the Year" #Clippy Award aka "Next-Gen Ninja"

🫅 Morten Waltorp Knudsen [MVP] is the gold standard when it comes to community. The man who has grown Experts Live Denmark from a small event to 1000+ attendees in just a few short years. Morten is an expert in #MSSecurity #SecurityCopilot and #MSEntra who won the Chuck Norris Award last year in Dallas over Fabian Bader by ONE VOTE!

🥷 Simon Binder, a beloved #MSIntune MVP who has been one of the best speakers at #JNUC and is both a MVP and a Nerdio #NVP. Simon is a great speaker, technologist, and overall great person. He will also be the person running the Golf tournament and 5K Fun Run this year as a key advisor to the organizers.

🍺 Somesh Pathak [MVP] 🇳🇱, is the most brilliant #iOS and #MacOS #MVP, who has built several tools and has been one of the top speakers around the world. He's also an organizer for Workplace Ninjas India, who had his son running the registration booth last year, firing people left and right.

🔐 Mike Soule, one of the creators of #Maester with our dear friend Merill Fernando, will make his #WPNinjaSUS debut in Arizona. It also happens to be his home state. He's a great mind in the security space, who we're very excited to see in Scottsdale.

This six pack, showcases some amazing people in the #Microsoft community. We just have a few more weeks, before you have the full roster!!

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Hi All,

We announced 6 more speakers today, which is very exciting:

📎 Christiaan Brinkhoff, one of our very good friends and forces behind much of #AVD and #Windows365, who is now EX-Microsoft and makes his new home at Nerdio will be joining us for a great session. He recently moved back to the Netherlands. We're ready to welcome him back to America! He never disappoints as one of the better speakers our community has to offer.

👮 Rod Trent, the man who can truly do it all, and a prolific Microsoft speaker. Rod is an author, amazing #MSSecurity #evangelist, technologist, and just all-around amazing person. We're so glad after some conflicts last year, that he will finally join us in the desert to help anchor our security sessions.

💥 Ugur Koc was soft launched awhile back like our friend Rudy Ooms, and also has a new home this time around joining Robopack while bringing that energy to the #AI space at Robopack. The man of 1000 agents, and reigning #hackathon champion will be trying to repeat in January.

👩‍🔬Sandy Zeng is someone we have idolized for a long-time. She is an absolute rockstar, who wrote #IntuneDiff in a world where everyone is basically building the same agent. She stood out with this great product. She's a member of our #SuperFriends at CloudWay, who were the first ones to really amass a collection of brilliant #MVPs before it became to be a popular idea.

🐨 🪃 Jose Schenardie, one of the founders of our good friends at Devicie, who were the sponsors of the #scholars in Dallas, who were front and center at the #hackathon. He's one of the main reasons they've become a household name in the #MSIntune and #MSSecurity space over the last few years, with his amazing ideas, like his recently released product for #SecurityCopilot. He's more than just a #vibecoder folks.

🌴 Mirko Colemberg is how we round out this week's round of 6. We're beyond ecstatic that the brilliant founder of WorkPlace Ninja Summit will join us in Scottsdale. The team for #WPNinjaS have enabled us to do so much for our American friends, while being a brilliant #Microsoft #MSIntune thought leader and evangelist.

We've continued to say, this will be the best collection of speakers at a Microsoft-focused event in recent memory. That's what we've been hearing from the speakers who are part of this amazing event on January 11-13, 2027. We're now up to this amazing set of people:

• Merill Fernando
• Christiaan Brinkhoff
• Dominiek Verham
• Edine Olijve Watkinson
• Ewelina "Welka" Paczkowska
• Lindsay Shelton
• Rod Trent
• Oktay Sari
• Ugur Koc
• Rudy Ooms
• Richard Hicks
• Jonah Andersson
• Eric Woodruff
• Simon Skotheimsvik
• Mona Ghadiri
• Sucheta Gawade
• Donnie Taylor
• Sandy Zeng
• Nathan McNulty
• Ru Campbell
• Maurice Daly
• Johan Arwidmark
• Michael Niehaus
• Jose Schenardie
• Lavanya Lakshman
• Sangee Visweswaran
• Mirko Colemberg

We still have an amazing 24 speakers still to announce. We collected feedback, me made improvements, and we brought the people you want to see.

The best speakers, the best venue, the best sponsors, and the best mission. Come out and join us in the desert: Workplace Ninjas US | Save the Date 2027

Hi Everyone,

It's our pleasure to introduce the second set of speakers for Workplace Ninjas US, who already join last week's first set of announced speakers: Jonah Andersson, Edine Olijve-Watkinson, Ru Campbell, Nathan McNulty, Simon Binder, and Michael Niehaus

Firstly, we announced our Day 1 Keynote will feature two amazing Microsoft people for our Day 1 Keynote: Sangee Visweswaran and Lavanya Lakshman, both great leaders on the Intune Product Team!!

Now, today we're happy to officially announce these 6 speakers who will be part of the very strong group joining us in Scottsdale, AZ:

Rudy Ooms was unofficially announced on a podcast but let us officially introduce you to the master of #reverseengineering #MSIntune who knows his way around #DLLs and pretty much everything else in Intune. He's going to be doing a few sessions that have never been done before. He is alone worth the price of admission. Get ready for a Rudy you've never seen before!

Johan Arwidmark is one of the smarter people in the #MSIntune world, specializing in things like #OSD, #SCCM, and so much more.

Mona Ghadiri is another special person who made an amazing name for herself with her amazing work in Dallas with our #scholarship recipients showing the power of true mentorship. She was one of the first #securityCopilot MVPs and is a great person to know.

Donnie Taylor is one of our favorite people, who does some amazing #AI work, as shown in his session about n8n at #WPNinjaSUS Dallas in April. He's got a few more captivating sessions that you don't want to miss.

Lindsay Shelton is one of our favorite #Copilot people today. Her Intro to #PowerAutomate in Dallas last December was one of the top sessions of the week.

Oktay Sari rounds out our group this week. Oktay is one of the experts on #iOS and #MacOS for #MSIntune. We'll be extending our #MSIntune sessions in Scottsdale covering more platforms and he will be a major part of that strategy!

Let's be honest, 70 degrees in January is a great idea, and we have a ton of really dynamic and interesting things planned to make this a can't miss event unlike anything people have seen in recent memory.

Read our "Why Attend" to see why you should join us in Scottsdale: https://workplaceninjas.us/why-attend/

Hi All!!

As we officially announced over the weekend on Twitter/X, the one and only Merill Fernando is our first officially confirmed speaker for Workplace Ninjas US 2027 in Scottsdale.

Our dear friend Merill recently announced he's leaving Microsoft to do his own thing. He's someone who is very special to all of us and personifies our mantra of surrounding ourselves with good people who just contribute to that immaculate vibe aesthetic we showed throughout Dallas.

One of our core principles is to bring people YOU want to see to our events. Merill epitomizes that concept as one of the first events ever to bring Merill to the states. We saw how all of you responded through mentoring sessions, engagement, and just hanging out.

With Merill engaging on his new journey, you better believe we will be celebrating his time with Microsoft with a "Merill-bration" of sorts. Make sure you register now, and don't miss out at a bigger, better, and dare I say it MORE FUN year two in Scottsdale.

Join us and register now, as we still have a few early bird tickets remaining:

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Hi All!

Recently we announced that tickets are on sale for Workplace Ninjas US 2027 in Scottsdale, AZ under our early bird rate of $650.

As we mentioned, you can register here: https://workplaceninjas.us/why-attend

This week, we announced a special grand prize on our LinkedIN page: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/workplace-ninjas-us_wpninjas-wpninjasus-mvpbuzz-activity-7454962460027092992-y5wz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAQExl8BqurHWjHHJebf6sXEktz2RuZeMYc

We are going to be giving away a Lenovo Thinkstation to one attendee:

Lenovo Thinkstation P5 W790 (Xeon W5-2555X), 256 GB of RAM ($6000 value) to one special attendee.

Everything you do in Scottsdale will earn you extra chances to win, and only one person will walk away with this amazing prize.

We're very excited for the opportunity to set someone up with their own home lab and hope everyone is as excited as we are for January!