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Networking Field Day 40 |
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April 8–April 10, 2026 |
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Who: Networking What: Field Day |
When: Future Location: Silicon Valley |
Streaming Video
Join the discussion on Twitter using hashtag #NFD40.
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.
Presenting Sponsors
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.
| Ben Story | |||
Ben a seasoned tech professional committed to problem-solving and giving back to the community through his blog and mentoring. |
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| Eric Stover | |||
Enterprise network engineer focused on data center networks and learning everything. |
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| Jason Gintert | |||
Service provider roots, community builder at heart, Jason co-founded USNUA and now helps organizations navigate network automation and AI through Bits in Flight. |
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| John Osmon | |||
Holding no certs, people often wonder why anyone listens to John. His attempts to raise involvement and awareness by channeling the Bad Idea Fairy is often seen as disruptive. |
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| Michael Witte | |||
Mike is a technology leader with 45+ years’ experience, and for the past 15 years has served as a Principal Architect at WWT, specializing in data center, SDN, and AI/ML architectures, automation, multi-cloud solutions, and customer-facing training and labs. |
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| Pete Welcher | |||
Early CCIE with broad knowledge of IT topics |
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| Phil Gervasi | |||
Phil Gervasi is co-founder and CTO of Solutional, leading technical strategy and delivery across network design, automation, observability, and applied AI for modern infrastructure teams. |
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| Scott Robohn | |||
Scott Robohn is CEO of Solutional, working with clients in Networking, Automation, Operations, AI, Cloud, Security, and Emerging Tech. |
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| Tony Mattke | |||
25+ years of networking across ISPs, data centers, and enterprise environments, with a multi-year detour into security architecture. Now back in networking as an infrastructure architect doing consulting. |
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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.
| Wednesday, Apr 8 | 8:00-10:00 | ![]() |
Nokia Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | |
| Thursday, Apr 9 | 10:30-12:00 | ![]() |
Upscale AI Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | |
| Thursday, Apr 9 | 13:30-15:00 | ![]() |
Netris Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | |
| Friday, Apr 10 | 8:00-9:30 | ![]() |
Selector AI Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | |
| Friday, Apr 10 | 10:30-12:00 | ![]() |
NetAI Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | |
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Presenters: Irfan Lateef, Mike Hoffman |
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Event Staff
| Matt Garvin | ||
Matt Garvin is the Director of Operations for Tech Field Day at the Futurum Group and brings over a decade experience to the team. |
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| Rachael Fritz | ||
Senior Event Manager at Tech Field Day |
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| Tom Hollingsworth | ||
Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics. |
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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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