Damir Tomicic

Managing Director, Axinom Group

Damir Tomicic is co-founder and managing director of Axinom Group (http://www.axinom.com/), a dynamic and fast growing IT company with subsidiaries in USA, Germany, Switzerland, UK and Estonia. Axinom Group is the leading European technology integrator specializing in the Enterprise Web Platform and Enterprise Content Management solutions. Axinom creates value for its customers by leveraging enterprise technology to design, build, and deploy customized, reliable architectures and scalable infrastructures to increase profitability, improve speed-to-market, and accelerate growth. Axinom is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and international Microsoft Vendor awarded numerous times already (e.g. Microsoft .NET Server Innovation Cup, SME Innovation Award, Microsoft Strategic Win Award and IPTV Award 2008). Damir Tomicic has over 15 years of industry experience. His skills expand into many areas, including Microsoft enterprise platform, IT & business architecture and international business development. His main focus is the mediation and implementation of modern software technologies and concepts at the Enterprise Web platform, in particular the sectors of .NET, software architecture, illustration and integration of business processes. Damir is senior, highly demanded and established international speaker. He regularly speaks on international technology conferences such as Web Services/XML WorldExpo, Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft WinDays, CeBIT , BASTA!, PDC and on behalf of International INETA Speakers Bureau. He is a frequent guest speaker at European Parliament in Brussels. Damir was awarded for the highest rated keynote presentations at several conferences. Damir is President of INETA Europe (International .NET Association) and member of INETA Worldwide Executive Council. He is Microsoft Regional Director for Germany since 2004 and member of the RD advisory council. Regional Directors are independent 3rd party advocates of Microsoft technologies whose mission it is to inform, educate and provide a vital link between Microsoft and the developer community. He was elected as a "Top 10 of all Microsoft Regional Directors worldwide" . Damir is a Chief Editor of the German architecture portal "Architects Connection" at Microsoft and he works closely with Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team (AST) in Redmond. Damir is Microsoft MVP Solutions Architect and he was awarded several times as an MVP for ASP.NET. Damir regularly consults Microsoft at a corporate level. He is member of different advisory councils at Microsoft and he writes regularly for MSDN Europe magazine, dotnet-Magazine, IT-Freelancer, CIO magazine and other technical publications. After being member of Board of Directors at International Association of Software Architects (IASA) for the past five years Damir resigned from his position and joined the Advisory Board working closely together with CEO and President of IASA. He was the founder and Co-Director of IASA Europe together with Richard Hubert.