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Left to Right: Alastair Cooke, Josh Warcop, Frederic Van Haren, Gina Rosenthal, Andy Banta, Brad Gregory, Ken Nalbone, Pete Welcher, Ray Lucchesi, Jack Poller, Chris Grundemann, Brian Martin |
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AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 |
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January 28–January 30, 2026 |
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Who: AI, Networking, Storage What: Field Day |
When: Future Location: Silicon Valley |
Streaming Video
Join the discussion on Twitter using hashtag #AIIFD4.
Live streaming video will appear on this page and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page during the event if available. Presentation times will be listed below in the local time zone of the event. We will also post video recordings to the Tech Field Day YouTube channel afterwards.
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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.
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Andy Banta | ||
Storage Janitor – seasoned technology professional |
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Brad Gregory | ||
Principal and Founder of MCN Strategies focusing on simplifying the world of hybrid multicloud networking for the enterprise. |
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Vice President of AI and Datacenter Performance at Signal65 |
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Chris Grundemann | ||
Independent advisor, analyst, and consultant. Specializing in internet routing, network architecture, and automation. |
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Frederic Van Haren | ||
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. |
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Gina Rosenthal | ||
Product Marketing leader who knows how to turn complex technology into stories that inspire and connect. |
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Jack Poller | ||
Principal Cyber Security Industry Analyst |
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Josh Warcop | ||
Consultant by day, hacker by night. |
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Ken Nalbone | ||
Specialist Engineer. Tech Community Leader. Loves to geek out about tech and food! |
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Marian Newsome | ||
Cybersecurity expert with 18+ years enterprise security at Dell Technologies, now helping Fortune 500 companies secure their AI implementations – IEEE CertifAIEd Lead Assessor specializing in AI governance frameworks. |
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Pete Welcher | ||
Early CCIE with broad knowledge of IT topics |
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Ray Lucchesi | ||
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. |
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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.
Event Staff
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Alastair Cooke | |
Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge. |
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Clara Hubbard | |
Clara Hubbard is an Event Coordinator at Tech Field Day |
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4 Links with Tag #AIIFD4
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Billion-Dollar AI Headlines Obscure Real Business Value
- Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Needs Resource Efficiency
- News: Cutting-Edge AI Networking and Storage Kick Off 2026 at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4
- Coverage: The Rise of DDoS Attacks and Nokia’s $4B AI Networking Bet | TSG Ep. 974
More Information
If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].
This is a Future AI, Networking, Storage in Silicon Valley