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AI Field Day 1

Row 1 (L-R): Ray Lucchesi, Stephen Foskett, Pieter-Jan Nefkens, Tim Crawford
Row 2 (L-R): Snehal Patel, Keith Townsend, Chris Grundemann, Kori Younger
Row 3 (L-R): Andy Thurai, Gina Rosenthal, Frederic Van Haren, Kati Lehmuskoski
Row 4 (L_R): Liselotte Foverskov, Ben Gage

AI Field Day 1
November 18–20, 2020
#AIFD1
Who: AI
What: Field Day
When: Past
Where: Silicon Valley, Virtual

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Andy Thurai

@AndyThurai

Andy Thurai is a technology influencer and a thought leader who focuses on emerging technologies such as Cloud, AIOps, AI, ML, DL, Edge, IoT

Chris Grundemann

@ChrisGrundemann

Creative|Technologist. Curious. Boisterous. Autotelic Autodidact. Heretic. Rider of Boards. Writer of Words. (((Technology, Marketing, & Strategy consultant)))

Frederic Van Haren

@FredericVHaren

Frederic is the CTO at HighFens Inc (active in the HPC & AI market). He spent more than a decade building large HPC & AI environments from the ground up and is frequently invited to speak at events to provide his vision on AI, Big Data and HPC.

Gina Rosenthal

@GMinks

Founder of Digital Sunshine Solutions, EMC, Dell, and VMware alum (along with a few startups!), and a vExpert.

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Kati Lehmuskoski

@KatiLehmuskoski

Kati Lehmuskoski is an experienced senior IT professional and she has published two books on Digital Transformation.

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Keith Townsend is the founder of The CTO Advisor LLC and is an IT management consultant with more than 18 years of related experience designing, implementing and managing data center technologies.

Kori Younger

@SDNDaughter

Engineer by day, blogger by night. Striving to make STEM equally as inclusive as it is innovative.

Liselotte Foverskov

@LFoverskov

Technical content, Writing, Podcast and videos via Textrovert.VMUG Leader in Denmark, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard and Psychotherapist

Pieter-Jan Nefkens

@PJNef

True consultant who wants to solve today’s problems with the latest technology. Continuous curiousity is a trait

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Snehal Patel

@SnehalPatel1410

Subject matter expert in the field of network engineering.

Tim Crawford

@TCrawford

Tim Crawford is ranked as one of the topmost influential CIOs

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Nov 18 08:00-10:00
Juniper Networks Presents Mist AI at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: Bob Friday, Jeff Aaron, Jisheng Wang, Krystle Portocarrero, Sudheer Matta
Wednesday, Nov 18 11:00-13:00
Aruba Presents at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: Ash Chowdappa, Bernd Bandemer, Fouad Zreik, Jose Tellado, Partha Narasimhan, Sriram Venkiteswaran
Thursday, Nov 19 9:00-10:00
BrainChip Presents at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: Anil Mankar, Chris Anastasi
Thursday, Nov 19 11:00-12:30
Red Hat Presents at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: Abhinav Joshi, Tushar Katarki
Thursday, Nov 19 14:00-16:00
Intel Presents Analytics Zoo at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: Fadi Zuhayri, Jason Dai
Friday, Nov 20 08:00-09:00
Cisco Presents at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: JP Vasseur, Krishnan Thiruvengadam
Friday, Nov 20 11:00-12:00
Intel Presents MemVerge at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: Charles Fan, Yue Li
Friday, Nov 20 12:00-13:00
Intel Presents VAST Data at AI Field Day 1
Presenters: Jeff Denworth
All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, US/Pacific in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Matt Garvin is an Event Manager and brings nine years of event support and logistics experience to Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen Foskett is a writer and speaker on enterprise IT topics and organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series.


Links with Tag #AIFD1

  1. Juniper Powered by MIST AI – This Stuff Is Hard
    • Keith Townsend
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  2. Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics Brings Intelligence to Classifying and Profiling Endpoints
    • Cisco
  3. Aruba Brings ESP to Network Operations at AI Field Day
    • Aruba
  4. BrainChip Introduces Energy Efficient and Precise AI Edge Solution at AI Field Day
    • BrainChip
  5. Buying Into the New Oil and Making It Work for You
    • Red Hat
  6. Eradicating Tier 1 and Tier 2 Support
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  7. Is Hardware Innovation Accelerating – Hardware vs. Software Innovation (Round 6)
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • BrainChip, Intel
  8. Architecting AI Infrastructure
    • Gina Rosenthal, Theresa Miller
    • BrainChip, Intel, MemVerge, Red Hat, VAST Data
  9. Key Takeaways From the AI Field Day
    • Kati Lehmuskoski
  10. How to Evaluate AI-Enhanced Analytical Tools
    • Gina Rosenthal, Theresa Miller
    • Aruba, Cisco, Juniper Networks
  11. Ok, Maybe Neuromorphic Chips Aren’t a Deadend
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • BrainChip
  12. #AIFD1 Day 2 Thoughts
    • Gina Rosenthal
  13. Tune Into the Very First AI Field Day Nov 18-20, 2020
    • Georgina Ford
  14. Thoughts on AI Field Day 1
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Aruba, Juniper Networks
  15. Meet Field Day Delegate – Frederic Van Haren
    • Frederic Van Haren, Matt Garvin
  16. Aruba AIOps – Beating Your Downtime Into Submission
    • Cloud Field Day 8
    • Georgina Ford
    • Aruba
  17. BrainChip Demonstrates How Its Akida Technology Is Delivering the Next-Generation of AI at the Edge at First-Ever AI Field Day
    • BrainChip
  18. Join Us for the First-Ever AI Field Day
    • Aruba
  19. Getting the Gang Back Together for SC20
    • Gina Rosenthal
  20. AI Field Day 1
    • Aruba
  21. AI Field Day Is Coming
    • Haydn Andrews
    • Tech Field Day

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at sfoskett@gestaltit.com or call +1(508)451-9532.


This is a Past AI in Silicon Valley, Virtual


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