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Mobility Field Day 5

Row 1 (L-R): Dave Benham, Keith Parsons, Jonathan Davis
Row 2 (L-R): Lariana Luy, Avril Salter, Mitch Dickey
Row 3 (L-R): Jennifer Minella, Samuel Clements, John Deegan
Row 4 (L-R): Nick Shoemaker, Lee Badman, Jason N. Beshara

Mobility Field Day 5

July 29–July 31, 2020

#MFD5

Who: Mobility

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Virtual

Important Update: In light of travel restrictions due to the global spread of COVID-19, we have switched Mobility Field Day 5 to a “virtual event” with the delegates and presenters participating online.

Add Mobility Field Day 5 to your calendar!

This virtual event features delegates and presenters from around the world. Add Mobility Field Day 5 to your calendar by downloading the MFD5 iCal file. This includes all public sessions from this event, with links to each appearance page. You can also see the complete agenda below. Note: The agenda uses US/Pacific time for consistency, but the iCal file should automatically adjust to your timezone!

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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.

Dave Benham

@BaldWiFiGuy

Dave is a Mobility Practice Director for a large VAR with over 20 years of experience in the networking industry.

Dr. Avril Salter

@AvrilSalterUSA

Wireless Systems Technologist and Architect

Jason N. Beshara

@JasonBeshara

I’m a mobility engineer with a passion for most things RF

Jennifer Minella

@jjx

International speaker, author, and enterprise security architect and advisor specializing in networking, wireless, and IoT.

John Deegan

@WiFi_John

John is a wireless architecht and all around tech enthusiast living in NYC.

Jonathan Davis

@SubNetwork

JD is CWNE #366, CWISE #5, and a co-founder of The Wi-Fi Awards.

Keith R. Parsons

@KeithRParsons

Keith is Managing Director of Wireless LAN Professionals, and focuses his energy on providing great WLAN education, design and consulting to global customers.

Lariana Luy

@LarianaLuy

Network Engineer, Professor, Rookie of the Year 2020, pursuing my CWNE. I love to teach and learn.

Lee Badman

@WiredNot

Lee Badman, CWNE #200, is a network architect and independent analyst with over twenty two years of covering the wireless and mobility space under his belt.

Mitch Dickey

@Badger_Fi

Mitch is a Senior Network Engineer for a large K12 in northern VA who is interested in all things RF.

Nick Shoemaker

@NShoe18

I have spent the last 18 years in wireless networking and route/switch spending a large portion of my career doing warehouse wireless deployments as well as outdoor mesh, retail, hospitality and carpeted space.

Sam Clements

@Samuel_Clements

Sam Clements is an avid wireless technologist with a passion for all things mobility.

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, Jul 29 8:00-11:30
Mist Systems Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Presenters: Bob Friday, Jake Snyder, Jeff Aaron, Jisheng Wang, Ryan Adzima, Sudheer Matta, Sunalini Sankhavaram, Wes Purvis
Wednesday, Jul 29 13:00-14:30
Celona Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Presenters: Andrew vonNagy, Jeremy Rollinson, Mehmet Yavuz
Thursday, Jul 30 8:00-9:30
NetAlly Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Presenters: James Kahkoska, Julio Petrovitch, Mike Parrottino
Thursday, Jul 30 10:30-12:30
Fortinet Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Presenters: Ben Wilson, Chris Hinsz, Sumanth Gorajala
Thursday, Jul 30 13:30-14:30
VMware Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Presenters: Anand Srinivas, John Turner
Friday, Jul 31 8:00-10:00
Cisco Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Presenters: Darryl Sladden, Fred Niehaus, Stephen Orr
Friday, Jul 31 11:00-12:00 Ventev Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Presenters: Dennis Burrell, Jim Baker
All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, 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 …

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


27 Links with Tag #MFD5

  1. Coverage: The Cisco Catalyst 9136 Access Point
    • Dave Benham
    • Cisco
  2. Coverage: Ending Wireless Eavesdropping With Wi-Fi Enhanced Open and Cisco
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Cisco
  3. Coverage: Challenging the Status Quo With CBRS and Celona
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Celona
  4. Coverage: Celona Tees Up Bigtime on CBRS
    • Mobility Field Day 4
    • Lee Badman
    • Celona
  5. Coverage: Is Cloud Managed Networks the Way to Go?
    • Haydn Andrews
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  6. Coverage: NetAlly AirCheck G2 Wall Mount Charging Caddy
    • Jonathan Davis
    • NetAlly
  7. Coverage: SD-IoT With VMware Nyansa
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Nyansa
  8. Coverage: Mist Is the New Edge
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  9. Coverage: Modernizing AirMagnet With NetAlly
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • NetAlly
  10. Coverage: The Spatial Streams Podcast: Episode 17: The JJ Xperience
    • Jennifer Minella, John Deegan, Landon Foster
    • Cisco, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Ventev
  11. Coverage: Unified Security Theory With Fortinet
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Fortinet
  12. Coverage: How to Return to Business as Fast as Possible in a COVID World
    • Haydn Andrews
    • Cisco, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  13. Coverage: Powering Your People With Ventev
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Ventev
  14. Coverage: Ventev Products Make the WLAN Better
    • Lee Badman
    • Ventev
  15. Coverage: De-Mist-Ifying Contact Tracing
    • Dave Benham
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  16. Coverage: Introducing the Cisco Catalyst 9105 Access Point
    • Dave Benham
    • Cisco
  17. Coverage: Mist Announces New Wi-Fi 6 Access Points at Mobility Field Day 5
    • Keith R. Parsons
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  18. Coverage: Fast Friday – Mobility Field Day 5 Edition
    • Tom Hollingsworth
  19. Coverage: Episode 0015-Welcome Back, Foster
    • John Deegan
  20. Coverage: The “Not to Be a Jerk, But…” Mist #MDF5 Blog
    • Lee Badman
    • Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  21. Coverage: #MFD5 Day 1-Quick Recap
    • John Deegan
    • Celona, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  22. Coverage: Mobility Field Day 5: The “Morning Of”
    • Lee Badman
  23. Coverage: It’s #MFD5 Eve!
    • John Deegan
  24. Coverage: Coffee Hour – Mobility Field Day 5
    • François Verges, Rowell Dionicio
    • Celona, Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, NetAlly, Ventev, VMware by Broadcom
  25. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Dr. Avril Salter
    • Mel Zura
  26. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – John Deegan
    • John Deegan, Mel Zura
  27. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Lariana Luy
    • Lariana Luy, Mel Zura

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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