RICK RAINEY is Principal Program Manager in Microsoft's Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT).

MICHAEL WASHAM, Microsoft Azure MVP, Insider and Advisor, is CEO of the cloud readiness company Opsgility. Michael has extensive history in the IT Industry where he has worked as an IT Professional, developer, Evangelist, and Program Manager before turning to his passion of enabling companies of all sizes make the digital transformation to the cloud. Michael is an avid blogger, author speaker, and trainer on cloud computing, debugging, and DevOps.

DAN PATRICK is the Chief Cloud Strategist for Opsgility http: //www.opsgility.com. He has an extensive background in the IT industry with a focus on Virtualization, Networking and Identity management. Dan is a 15 year veteran of Microsoft, where was a Principal Consultant and Prac¿tice Manager. Today he still works with Microsoft as an Azure MVP and advisor. He regularly speaks about the cloud all over the world, and you can follow him on twitter @deltadan.

STEVE ROSS is Partner Technology Strategist with Microsoft's One Commercial Partner Tech¿nology Team and is heavily involved in helping partners build services using cloud technolo¿gies. Steve has also been a Principal Cloud Solution Architect with Opsgility, building Microsoft Azure training content and teaching enterprise customers and Microsoft partners and employ¿ees all around the world.