THRIVECAST
Episode 50

Ruben Spruijt on finding Balance in IT, Family, and Motorcycles

 The love keeps pouring in from the #Netherlands – and today's guest has contributed an amazing amount to the technology world… but has hard and fast rules about balancing his family and personal life with work that you need to hear! Wondering about the motorcycle? So are we – we'll find out together!

Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist at Nutanix, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market analyst, technologist. An all-around End User Computing geek, he contributes to Nutanix product development and analyzes EUC technology trends that impacted current and future of work. Ruben is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor and was in the Citrix CTP program from 2008-2017 and VMware vExpert from 2008-2018. Ruben (co)founded several independent industry bodies such as Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC), VDI Like A Pro, Team Remote Graphics Experts (TeamRGE), WhatMatrix, AppVirtGURU wrote and co-authoring multiple disruptive research papers. Ruben has presented more than 450 sessions at national and international events such as BriForum, Citrix iForum Japan, Citrix Synergy, Gartner Catalyst, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft TechEd, NVIDIA GTC, and VMworld.

He is based in the Netherlands where he lives with his wife and three kids.