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AI Infrastructure Field Day 2

Left to Right: Bart Heungens, Guy Currier, Jay Cuthrell, Brian Martin, Karen Lopez, Mitch Ashley, Jack Poller, Andy Banta, Colleen Coll, Alastair Cooke, John Willis, Matt Garvin, Jim Czuprynski, Camberley Bates, Lino Telera
Inset: Max Mortillaro

AI Infrastructure Field Day 2

April 22–April 25, 2025

#AIIFD2

Who: AI, Networking, Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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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 Banta

@AndyBanta

Storage Janitor – seasoned technology professional

Bart Heungens

@BartHeungens

Technology enthousiast, blogger, trainer, speaker, trusted advisor, loves on-prem, uses cloud

Barton George

Barton has been in the tech industry for over 30 years, focusing on cloud, developers and open source.

Brian Martin

Vice President of AI and Datacenter Performance at Signal65

Camberley Bates

@CamberleyB

Futurum Group Practice Lead for Data Infrastructure

Colleen Coll

@ColleenColl

Orchestrating events, amplifying stories, and keeping tech communities connected—one unforgettable experience at a time.

Denise Donohue

Business architect & technical author, still fascinated by new shiny things.

Guy Currier

@GuyCurriersFeed

Chief Analyst at Visible Impact, specializing in AI, DevOps, enterprise applications, cloud, and CPU-GPU-xPU.

Jack Poller

@Poller

Principal Cyber Security Industry Analyst

Jay Cuthrell

👋 Hi. I’m Jay. Chief Product Officer at NexusTek. I write things at fudge.org. 🤓

Jim Czuprynski

Jim Czuprynski is an in-demand public speaker and technology advocate focused mainly on databases, analytics, spatial/graph, and AI.

John Willis

@Botchagalupe

John Willis is CEO and Founder of Botchagalupe Technologies.

Josh Warcop

@Warcop

Consultant by day, hacker by night.

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Lino Telera

@LinoTelera

Platform Engineer focused in IaC automation @ InfoCert S.p.A., blogger, podcaster

Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro is an independent data center consultant specializing in virtualization and storage technologies.

Mitch Ashley

@MitchellAshley

Innovator, Analyst and Product Creator in Cybersecurity, Cloud, DevOps and SaaS

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.

Tuesday, Apr 22 09:00 - 12:00
Google Cloud Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 – Morning
Presenters: Brendan Power, Ilias Katsardis, Ishan Sharma, Manjul Sahay, Marco Abela, Sean Derrington
Tuesday, Apr 22 13:00 - 16:30
Google Cloud Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 – Afternoon
Presenters: Aniruddha Agharkar, Dan Eawaz, Dennis Lu, Ivan Poddubnyy, Michal Szymaniak, Rose Zhu, Vaibhav Katkade, Vivek Saraswat
Wednesday, Apr 23 08:00 - 11:30
Juniper Networks Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Presenters: Jeremy Wallace, Kedar Dhuru, Kyle Baxter, Praful Lalchandani, Vikram Singh
Wednesday, Apr 23 13:30 - 15:30
Solidigm Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Presenters: Ace Stryker, Scott Shadley, Steen Graham
Thursday, Apr 24 08:00 - 11:30
Phison Technology Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Presenters: Brian Cox, Chris Ramseyer, Michael Wu, Sebastien Jean
Thursday, Apr 24 13:00 - 14:30
Netris Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Presenters: Alex Saroyan
Thursday, Apr 24 15:30 - 17:00
Nutanix Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Presenters: Ashwini Vasanth, Jesse Gonzales, Laura Jordana, Mike Barmonde
Friday, Apr 25 8:00 - 9:00
Aviz Networks Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Presenters: Ravi Kumar, Thomas Scheibe
Friday, Apr 25 10:30 - 12:00
Keysight Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Presenters: Alex Bortok, Amritam Putatunda, Gavin McKee
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Cassidee Marlow

Cassidee is an Event Coordinator at Tech Field Day

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


33 Links with Tag #AIIFD2

  1. Tech Field Day Podcast: A Different Type of Datacenter is Needed for AI
    • Alastair Cooke, Denise Donohue, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera
  2. Coverage: Solidigm: Building AI Storage Foundations
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Solidigm
  3. Coverage: Make an AI-Ready Data Center With Help From Juniper
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Juniper Networks, The Futurum Group
  4. Coverage: Google Cloud Provides a Complete AI Portfolio
    • Andy Banta
    • Google Cloud
  5. Coverage: AI Infrastructure Gets ‘Googleier’
    • Jay Cuthrell
    • Google Cloud
  6. Coverage: Scaling AI: Mastering Inference with Google Cloud’s GKE Inference Gateway
    • Jack Poller
    • Google Cloud
  7. Coverage: Build Your Own AI Infrastructure Using Google Cloud
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Google Cloud, The Futurum Group
  8. Coverage: Here’s How to Do Multi-Tenancy in the Age of AI
    • Sulagna Saha
  9. Coverage: Rethinking Monitoring: How Catchpoint Shifts Focus to the End User
    • Barton George
    • Catchpoint
  10. Coverage: Phison: Where Have You Guys Been Hiding?
    • Jim Czuprynski
  11. Coverage: Bringing Intent-Based Management to Open Networking for AI
    • Jack Poller
    • Aviz Networks
  12. Coverage: Simplifying Enterprise GenAI: Nutanix Enterprise AI at AIIFD2
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Nutanix
  13. Coverage: Juniper: Add Apstra, Ad Astra
    • Jim Czuprynski
    • Juniper Networks
  14. Coverage: Fortinet CNAPP Review: AI-Powered Cloud Security and Composite Threat Detection
    • Barton George
    • Fortinet
  15. Coverage: Solidigm: GenAI and RAG Gobble Storage Like Hungry Hippos
    • Jim Czuprynski
    • Solidigm
  16. Coverage: Google: Five Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Generative AI
    • Jim Czuprynski
    • Google Cloud
  17. Coverage: Phison Makes Waves With the Pascari X200 Series
    • Sulagna Saha
  18. Coverage: Keysight: Probing 7-Layer Network Salads for GenAI Performance Issues
    • Jim Czuprynski
    • Keysight Technologies
  19. Coverage: The AI Data Center Evolution: Juniper Apstra’s Lifecycle Solution for Performance at Scale
    • Jack Poller
    • Juniper Networks
  20. Coverage: Key Takeaways from AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
    • Alastair Cooke
  21. Coverage: Techstrong Gang – April 29, 2025
    • Guy Currier, Stephen Foskett
    • Google Cloud, Juniper Networks, Nutanix
  22. Coverage: Google Cloud Builds on Storage Portfolio to Fuel AI Hypercomputer
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Google Cloud
  23. Coverage: Nutanix: Working on the Easy Button for AI
    • Camberley Bates
    • Nutanix
  24. Coverage: Aviz Building Networks for AI
    • Josh Warcop
    • Aviz Networks
  25. Coverage: Phison: The $1.8B Data Company You Haven’t Heard of – Until Now
    • Camberley Bates
  26. Coverage: What is a Field Day? Why Does it Matter?
    • Solidigm
  27. Coverage: AI Infrastructure Space Is Red Hot
    • Alan Shimel
  28. Coverage: Techstrong Gang – April 22, 2025
    • Next Gen HPE ProLiant Compute Deep Dive
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Keysight Technologies
  29. Coverage: Contextual Graph Databases at AIIFD2
    • Karen Lopez
    • Juniper Networks
  30. Coverage: Google -Perspectives from AI Infrastructure Tech Field Day
    • Camberley Bates
    • Google Cloud
  31. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Needs to Be Boring
    • Alastair Cooke, Guy Currier, Jay Cuthrell, Max Mortillaro
  32. Coverage: What it Takes to Power AI at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Aviz Networks, Google Cloud, Juniper Networks, Keysight Technologies, Nutanix, Phison, Solidigm
  33. Coverage: Road to AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 – 22-25 April 2025
    • Lino Telera

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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