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Tech Field Day 24

Row 1 (L-R): Stephen Foskett, Paul Stringfellow, Chris Maki
Row 2 (L-R): Raffaello Poltronieri, Denny Cherry, Evan Mintzer
Row 3 (L-R): Barry Coombs, Michael Davis, Chris Hildebrandt, Robert Novak
Row 4 (L-R): Craig Rodgers, Drew Lentz, Keith Ward, Betty DuBois

Tech Field Day 24
September 1–September 2, 2021
#TFD24
Who: Tech
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Virtual

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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.

Barry Coombs

@VirtualisedReal

Barry is a passionate and energetic IT infrastructure and strategy specialist and evangelist turned business leader, as well as achieving many industry qualifications has been awarded the VMware vExpert title every year since 2010, alongside a wide number of over accolades.

Betty DuBois

@PacketDetective

Betty DuBois. I find clues in packets that solve network and application mysteries, so companies can stop finger pointing and get back to business.

Chris Hildebrandt

@CHildebrandt42

Sr EUC Consultant

Chris Maki

@ChrisMaki

Principal Solutions Architect, CDW Canada

Craig Rodgers

@CraigRodgersms

Product Manager – IaaS @ 11:11 Systems | Family man and platform guy who loves technology and clouds

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.

Drew Lentz

@WirelessNerd

A wireless network engineer with over 20 years in the data delivery industry.

Evan Mintzer

@EvanMintzer

Infrastructure Director and more!!

Keith Ward

@KeithWardWrite

Keith Ward is a veteran technology journalist covering the IT space for over 17 years.

Michael Davis

@0UR080R05

IT generalist and information broker, part time pyro and full time sarcasm.

Paul Stringfellow

@TechStringy

Technical Director of UK data management consultancy Gardner Systems. Host of the Tech Interviews podcast. Part of the NetApp A-Team and Veeam Vanguards as well as included on the CRN UK A-List.

Raff Poltronieri

@RaffaPol

Cloud Solutions Architect – vExpert – Blogger&Speaker

Robert Novak

@Gallifreyan

Citizen-analyst, writer, comedian, shopkeeper, retired system administrator, griller and smoker

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, Sep 1 8:00-9:30
Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 24
Presenters: Apurv Bhartia, Matt Bolick, Sunmeel Bhumkar
Wednesday, Sep 1 11:00-12:30
Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 24
Presenters: Goutham Rao, Joe Gardiner, Umair Mufti
Thursday, Sep 2 8:00-10:00
Avassa Presents at Tech Field Day 24
Presenters: Carl Moberg, Fredrik Jansson
Thursday, Sep 2 11:00-12:00
Xilinx Presents at Tech Field Day 24
Presenters: Pradeep Nallimelli, Sanjay Manney
All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

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 #TFD24

  1. Cisco Innovates IoT Through Expanded Portfolio
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Cisco
  2. Monitoring Apps in the Cloud With Avassa
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Avassa
  3. Pure Storage Portworx: Taking the Challenge Out of Kubernetes
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Pure Storage
  4. Xilinx SmartNICs for the Enterprise Data Center
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Xilinx
  5. Xilinx Unleashes the Power of the Smart NIC
    • Keith Ward
    • Xilinx
  6. Dramatically Decreasing the Time to Push Software to the Edge
    • Denny Cherry
    • Avassa
  7. Managing Applications at the Distributed Edge Cloud With Avassa
    • Keith Ward
    • Avassa
  8. Tech Field Day 24 – Opening Cans of Worms at the Ultra Reliable Smart Edge
    • Drew Lentz
    • Avassa, Meraki, Pure Storage, Xilinx
  9. Portworx Provides Software-Defined Storage for Kubernetes
    • Keith Ward
    • Portworx, Pure Storage
  10. Meraki Pushes Proactive Troubleshooting at Tech Field Day
    • Keith Ward
    • Cisco, Meraki
  11. Meet Field Day Delegate – Craig Rodgers
    • Craig Rodgers, Zach DeMeyer
  12. Tech Field Day Returns With Avassa, Cisco, Pure Storage, and Xilinx
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Avassa, Cisco, Pure Storage, Xilinx
  13. Meet Field Day Delegate – Betty DuBois
    • Betty DuBois, Zach DeMeyer

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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