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Networking Field Day 17

L-R: Nick Buraglio, Dominik Pickhardt, Greg Ferro, Drew Conry-Murray, Phil Gervasi, Ben Gage, Dustin Beare, Larry Smith, Tom Hollingsworth, Marena Karasevich, Eyvonne Sharp, John Herbert, Chris Grundemann, Richard McIntosh

Networking Field Day 17
January 24–26, 2018
#NFD17
Who: Networking
What: Field Day
When: Past
Where: 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.

Chris Grundemann

@ChrisGrundemann

Creative|Technologist. Curious. Boisterous. Autotelic Autodidact. Heretic. Rider of Boards. Writer of Words. (((Security/Network/Cloud/Mobility @Myriad_360)))

Dominik Pickhardt

@NetworkAutobahn

Network Problem solver for 10+ years.

Drew Conry-Murray

@Drew_CM

I'm a tech blogger and podcaster with 17 years' experience covering IT, networking, security, and more.

Dustin Beare

@Net_Introvert

ISP Network Engineer, IPv6 enthusiast,

Eyvonne Sharp

@SharpNetwork

Eyvonne Sharp is a network architect for a Fortune 100 healthcare enterprise.

Greg Ferro

@EtherealMind

Greg is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer, host of Packet Pushers Podcast and semi-professional writer.

John Herbert

@MrTugs

CCIE #6727 Emeritus, technology afficionado, scripter, nerd. What's not to love?

Larry Smith

@MrLESmithJr

Senior DevOps Engineer/Lead Automation Architect for Business Technology Architects

Marena Karasevich

@Renegade604

Network shaman, recovering switch hoarder, CCNP R&S, CCDA, ACMP

Nick Buraglio

@ForwardingPlane Buraglio

Network Architect, engineer, researcher, and blogger.

Phil Gervasi

@Network_Phil

Senior Network Engineer currently working in security.

Richard McIntosh

@802Tophat

Richard is a network engineer with over 8 years experience and multiple industry certifications.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Jan 24 09:30-11:30
Juniper Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 17
Wednesday, Jan 24 13:00-15:00
ThousandEyes Presents at Networking Field Day 17
Wednesday, Jan 24 15:30-17:30
Extreme Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 17
Thursday, Jan 25 08:00-12:30
Juniper Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 17
Thursday, Jan 25 13:30-18:00
VMware Presents at Networking Field Day 17
Friday, Jan 26 08:00-12:30
Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 17
Friday, Jan 26 13:30-15:30 Mellanox Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 17 with Ixia and Cumulus Networks
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific..

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd


Links with Tag #NFD17

  1. Cumulus VX Spine and Leaf
    • Marina Ferreira
    • Cumulus Networks
  2. Getting Out From Under the Policy Boulder with Juniper’s Contrail Policy Framework
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  3. Looking at the Internet with ThousandEyes
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • ThousandEyes
  4. Predictable VxLAN EVPN Scale with Mellanox Spectrum
    • Chris Grundemann
    • Mellanox Technologies
  5. Unlocking VXLAN with Mellanox
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Mellanox Technologies
  6. Field Area Networking
    • Nick Buraglio
    • Cisco
  7. Short Take – Cisco Field Area Networking
    • Nick Buraglio
    • Cisco
  8. Simplifying Network Security with Context-Aware Micro-Segmentation
    • Phil Gervasi
    • VMware
  9. Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Part 3
    • John Herbert
    • Cumulus Networks, Ixia, Mellanox Technologies
  10. Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Part 2
    • John Herbert
    • Cumulus Networks, Ixia, Mellanox Technologies
  11. Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Part 1
    • John Herbert
    • Cumulus Networks, Ixia, Mellanox Technologies
  12. Extreme Networks SLX Platform – Extremely Easy Analytics
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Extreme Networks
  13. Some Things I Learned About VeloCloud SD-WAN
    • Greg Ferro
    • Packet Pushers, VeloCloud
  14. Considering The Future Of Juniper’s Contrail And OpenContrail/Tungsten
    • Greg Ferro
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Packet Pushers
  15. OpenContrail & dNOS Join The Linux Foundation, Get New Names
    • Drew Conry-Murray
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Packet Pushers
  16. Extreme Automation with Extreme Networks (& StackStorm)
    • Chris Grundemann
    • Extreme Networks
  17. Cumulus – Not Your Average Networking
    • Larry Smith
    • Cumulus Networks
  18. Secure Multicloud Networking with Contrail
    • Chris Grundemann
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  19. Cumulus Linux and NetQ
    • Richard McIntosh
    • Cumulus Networks
  20. Orchestration From the Top Versus Automation From the Bottom
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  21. Juniper Woos The Enterprise With New Products
    • Drew Conry-Murray
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Packet Pushers
  22. The Winds of Change From January
    • Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018
    • Cisco, Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  23. Strategy Series: How do you view outside of your network?
    • Nick Buraglio
    • NetBeez, ThousandEyes
  24. Bringing DevOps To Routing – Cisco XR
    • Larry Smith
    • Cisco
  25. How to fit an Elephant into a small car to transport it over the Networkautobahn
    • Dominik Pickhardt
    • VeloCloud, VMware
  26. BiB 029: Cisco At NFD17 – Automation, Telemetry & Intent
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Greg Ferro
    • Cisco, Packet Pushers
  27. BiB 028: VMware NSX At NFD17 – SD-WAN & Security
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Greg Ferro
    • Packet Pushers, VMware
  28. BiB 027: Juniper Networks At NFD17 – A Platform Emerges
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Greg Ferro
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Packet Pushers
  29. BiB 30: Mellanox, Ixia & Cumulus At NFD17 – VXLAN & Whitebox
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Greg Ferro
    • Cumulus Networks, Ixia, Mellanox Technologies, Packet Pushers
  30. Networking is Finally Catching Up
    • Phil Gervasi
    • Extreme Networks
  31. Packet Capture – NSX 6.4
    • Karel Novak
    • VMware
  32. Step by Step – Upgrade NSX 6.3.5 na NSX 6.4
    • Karel Novak
    • VMware
  33. Intentional Infrastructure
    • Matt Oswalt
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  34. #NFD17 – It’s A Wrap
    • Larry Smith
  35. Off the Cuff – NFD17 Wrap Up
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Eyvonne Sharp, John Herbert, Jordan Martin, Nick Buraglio, Phil Gervasi
    • Cisco, Cumulus Networks, Extreme Networks, Ixia, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Mellanox Technologies, ThousandEyes, VMware
  36. What’s new and how to one click upgrade to NSX 6.4.x ?
    • Mariusz Kaczorek
    • VMware
  37. Networking Field Day 17: Hawt or Naught
    • Chris Grundemann
    • Cisco, Cumulus Networks, Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Mellanox Technologies, VMware
  38. New Role, Same Goal
    • Matt Oswalt
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  39. Networking Field Day 17 (NFD17) Redux
    • John Herbert
    • Cisco, Cumulus Networks, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, VMware
  40. Are network vendors ignoring serverless security?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI
  41. BiB 26: Extreme Networks At NFD17 – Composing Workflows For Mean Time To Payrise
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Greg Ferro
    • Extreme Networks, Packet Pushers
  42. Automatic Product Pitch Generator
    • John Herbert, Jordan Martin
  43. Legacy IT Is Not A Monument
    • Tom Hollingsworth
  44. Cisco, Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Last Day of NFD17!
    • John Herbert
    • Cisco, Cumulus Networks, Ixia, Mellanox Technologies
  45. BiB 25: ThousandEyes At NFD17 – Expanding Into User Experience
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Greg Ferro
    • Packet Pushers, ThousandEyes
  46. BiB 24: Juniper OpenContrail At NFD17 – One Fabric To Bind Them
    • Drew Conry-Murray, Greg Ferro
    • Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Packet Pushers
  47. Networking Field Day 17 – Here We Go!
    • Chris Grundemann
  48. NFD17 and Tech Field Day Extra Cisco Live Europe 2018
    • Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018
    • Dominik Pickhardt
  49. Network Field Day 17: Mark Your Calendars!
    • Drew Conry-Murray
    • Cisco, Cumulus Networks, Extreme Networks, Ixia, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Mellanox Technologies, Packet Pushers, ThousandEyes, VMware
  50. Its time for Network Field Day 17
    • Greg Ferro
    • Cisco, Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks, Juniper, driven by Mist AI, ThousandEyes, VMware

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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