Nachiket Karmarkar is a senior performance engineer with NVIDIA Professional Visualization and is focused on NVIDIA GRID. He is the lead engineer and is involved in core design and implementation of Project Cirrus that quantifies remote user experience for NVIDIA GRID. He has a strong background with VDI performance with VMware Horizon View and other datacenter technologies like all-flash storage. In the past, Nachiket has presented at partner trade shows, poster presentations and internally to engineering, product management and marketing within NVIDIA GRID.

Jared has been in the Information Technology space for more than 15 years. During that time, he has worked for Value Added Resellers as Deployment Engineer and Sales Engineer covering everything from Networking to EUC Solutions. He spent almost 6 years at Citrix Systems as the Sr. Sales Engineer helping lead the Rocky Mountain region become the Number one region in the US in 2012. At NVIDIA he currently serves as Technical Product Manager, following more than three years as Sr. Solution Architect and Global Team Lead for the Virtual GPU SA team.

Luke came to NVIDIA after working as an owner of an integrator/VAR. He'd previously been a sales engineer, solution architect, consultant, and system administrator with both VMware and Citrix technologies in public and private industry. An early evangelist of virtualization, Luke now sees the cloud delivery of the GPU as the key to solving the last hurdle of desktop and app virtualization and to the delivery of an amazing end-user experience.

Kees Baggerman is a Staff Solutions Architect for End User Computing at Nutanix Inc. In his role, Kees develops methods for successfully implementing applications on the Nutanix platform. In addition, he also delivers customer projects, including defining architectural, business, and technical requirements, creating designs, and implementing the Nutanix solution. Kees has been awarded the VMware vExpert status for 5 consecutive years and the Citrix Technology Professional for 3 consecutive years.

Learn more about Johna here - https://vhojan.nl/about-me-2/

Based in Cincinnati OH, originally from Costa Rica, Eduardo is an End User Computing and Virtualization architect focused on recommending, designing and deploying desktop and application delivery solutions and virtual infrastructure. He has performed this role as customer and as a consultant for companies all over the world over the last 15 years giving him experience on market verticals such as Financial, Education, Healthcare and Retail. He has deep experience in technologies such as Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, VMWare Horizon View, Microsoft RDS, NetScalers, converged and Hyper-converged infrastructure. Eduardo is a CUGC local leader, a Nutanix NTC, VMware SME and has spoken at Synergy, BriForum CUGC, VMUG and other conferences, he shares his experience in his blog www.molikop.com as well as Citrix support forums and community web