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Cloud Field Day 16

L-R: Jordan Villarreal, Adam Fisher, Philip Sellers, Stephen Foskett, Gina Rosenthal, Denny Cherry, Hin Tang, Jon Myer, Michael Levan
Inset: Ben Young, Justin Warren, Jason Gintert, Enrico Signoretti, Max Mortillaro, Phoummala Schmitt

Cloud Field Day 16
January 25–26, 2023
#CFD16
Who: Cloud
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.

Adam Fisher

@BonzoVT

Technical Solutions Architect @ WWT | www.virtualbonzo.com | @bonzovt on Twitter

Ben Young

@BenYoungNZ

Specializes in the automation and integration of a broad range of cloud & virtualization technologies.

Denny Cherry

@MrDenny

Denny Cherry has over a decade of experience managing SQL Server and is currently a principal consultant for Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting. Denny holds several Microsoft Certifications including the MCM as well as being a Microsoft MVP, an MCM and a VMware vExpert.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

Independent analyst, blogger, event organizer, weekend sailor, gelato lover, always on a diet.

Gina Rosenthal

@Digi_Sunshine

Gina is the Founder of Digital Sunshine Solutions, an agency that provides product marketing as a service to B2B technology vendors. She has 20 years of industry experience as a technologist, trainer, and PMM.

Hin Tang

@HangTenTech

In tech as in life, Hannibal Smith said it best. “I love it when a plan comes together”

Jason Gintert

@BitsInFlight

Jason is a data networking professional with over 20 years experience and acts as co-founder & CTO of WAN Dynamics, co-founder of the US Networking User Association, CTO of Ohio IX and blogs at https://bitsinflight.com

Jon Myer

@_JonMyer

Tech Social Influencer & Thought Leadership | Chief Content Creator for Myer Media | Host of Jon Myer Podcast, A weird and quirky podcaster | Father x3

Jordan Villarreal

@SystemMTUOne

Life long technologist with a penchant for all things networking.

Justin Warren

@JPWarren

Justin is the founder and chief analyst at PivotNine

Max Mortillaro

@MaxMortillaro

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

Michael Levan

@TheNJDevOpsGuy

Kubernetes and Containerization Thought Leader, Engineer, Content Creator, and Consultant

Philip Sellers

@InfraPhilip

IT Strategist and Solver / Solutions Architect for XenTegra

Phoummala Schmitt

@ExchangeGoddess

Just trying to survive in IT as a (woman) Sr. Systems Engineer with a focus on Messaging , Virtualization, Storage.

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, Jan 25 8:00-9:00
Forward Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 16
Presenters: Craig Johnson, Peyman Kazemian
Wednesday, Jan 25 10:00-11:30
Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 16
Presenters: Julian Petersohn, Srija Allam
Wednesday, Jan 25 14:30-16:30
Solo.io Presents at Cloud Field Day 16
Presenters: Brian Gracely, Christian Posta
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Andrew Blackburn

Video Editor at Gestalt IT

Rachael Fritz

Event Coordinator at 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 #CFD16

  1. Fortinet’s FortiGate Cloud Native Firewall
    • Jason Gintert
    • Fortinet
  2. Forward Networks Twins Your Network, Offering Insights, Direction and Modeling for Changes
    • Philip Sellers
    • Forward Networks
  3. Cloud Field Day 16 – Day 0
    • Jordan Villarreal
  4. Application Security With Fortinet
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Fortinet
  5. Application Networking in Cloud Native 2.0 With Solo.io
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Solo.io
  6. Networking Takes Center Stage at Cloud Field Day 16
    • Adam Fisher
    • Fortinet, Forward Networks, Solo.io
  7. Forward Networks – Transforming Business With Digital Twin
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Forward Networks
  8. solo.io Service Mesh With Istio and Future Ambient Sidecarless Service Mesh
    • Hin Tang
    • Solo.io
  9. Forward Networks Digital Twins
    • Hin Tang
    • Forward Networks
  10. Fortinet Red vs Blue for Cloud Native Visibility and Protection for the Application Lifecycle
    • Hin Tang
    • Fortinet
  11. Understanding the Building Blocks of Cloud-Native Infrastructure
    • Philip Sellers
    • Solo.io
  12. Learning Solo.io’s Gloo That Holds Cloud-Native Together
    • Philip Sellers
    • Solo.io
  13. Cloud Field Day 16 #Shorts
    • Gina Rosenthal
  14. Cloud Field Day Looks to the Next Generation in January
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Fortinet, Forward Networks, Solo.io

More Information

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


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