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Tech Field Day 27

Standing: Siamak Tavallaei, Michael Davis, Andrew Blackburn, Nico Stein, Jeffrey Powers, Andy Banta, Stephen Foskett, Aaron Conaway, Geoff Burke
Inset: Allyson Klein, Craig Rodgers, Gabrie van Zanten, Barry Coombs, Raff Poltronieri

Tech Field Day 27

March 8–March 10, 2023

#TFD27

Who: Tech

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Hybrid, 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.

Aaron Conaway

Long-time Network Guy

Allyson Klein

@TechAllyson

Allyson Klein’s insatiable curiosity about innovation led her to found The TechArena covering all things edge to cloud.

Andy Banta

@AndyBanta

Storage Janitor – seasoned technology professional

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.

Craig Rodgers

@CraigRodgersms

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

Gabrie van Zanten

@GabVirtualWorld

Consultant at Open Line

Geoff Burke

Data Protection and Kubernetes Specialist

Jeffrey Powers

@Geekazine

Consumer, Enterprise, Music Technologist. Podcaster and Youtuber. Co-founder of Build Day Live.

Michael Davis

@0UR080R05

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

Nico Stein

@NicoAStein

Nico has been working in IT for over 15 years and is currently the AVP of IT at a Credit Union based in Maryland.

Raff Poltronieri

@RaffaPol

Cloud Solutions Architect – vExpert – Blogger&Speaker

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, Mar 8 8:00-9:30
Men&Mice Presents at Tech Field Day 27
Presenters: Lauren Malhoit, Sigfús Magnússon
Wednesday, Mar 8 10:30-11:30
CXL Roundtable at Tech Field Day 27
Moderator: Stephen Foskett
Wednesday, Mar 8 12:30-14:30
MemVerge Presents at Tech Field Day 27
Presenters: Ahmad Danesh, Charles Fan, Jianping Jiang, Steve Scargall
Wednesday, Mar 8 15:30-16:00
CXL Consortium Update at Tech Field Day 27
Presenters: Siamak Tavallaei
Thursday, Mar 9 9:00-11:00
Kentik Presents at Tech Field Day 27
Presenters: Avi Freedman, Kareena Hirani, Mike Krygeris, Rosalind Whitley
Thursday, Mar 9 11:30-12:30
Delegate Roundtable at Tech Field Day 27
Moderator: Stephen Foskett
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Andrew Blackburn

Video Editor at Tech Field Day

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


20 Links with Tag #TFD27

  1. Coverage: Overlay Management
    • Aaron Conaway
    • Men&Mice
  2. Coverage: Make Managing DNS, DHCP and IPAM Easy With Men&Mice
    • Barry Coombs
    • Men&Mice
  3. Coverage: Enterprise Network Observability With Kentik
    • Barry Coombs
    • Kentik
  4. Coverage: Unleashing the Power of CXL: A New Era of Server Architecture
    • Barry Coombs
    • CXL Consortium, MemVerge
  5. Coverage: Men and Mice DDI Software
    • Geoff Burke
    • Men&Mice
  6. Coverage: Tech Field Day Doodle: MemVerge, Astera Labs, Xconn, and CXL
    • Barry Coombs
    • Astera Labs, MemVerge
  7. Coverage: Tech Field Day Doodle: Kentik
    • Barry Coombs
    • Kentik
  8. Coverage: CXL Enabled Memory Innovation With Memverge
    • Allyson Klein
    • MemVerge
  9. Coverage: Tech Field Day Doodle: Micetro by Men&mice
    • Barry Coombs
    • Men&Mice
  10. Coverage: Tech Field Day Doodle: MemVerge and CXL
    • Barry Coombs
    • CXL Consortium, MemVerge
  11. Coverage: Men&Mice DDI, the “friendly” Manager
    • Nico Stein
    • Men&Mice
  12. Coverage: A Game-Changing Approach, New Mergers and a Disruptive Technology With Siamak Tavallaei From the CXL Consortium
    • Sulagna Saha
    • CXL Consortium
  13. Coverage: CXL: Composable Infrastructure’s Missing Link
    • Andy Banta
    • Astera Labs, CXL Consortium, MemVerge
  14. Coverage: Implementing CXL With MemVerge
    • Sulagna Saha
    • MemVerge
  15. Coverage: Synthetic Network Monitoring With Kentik
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Kentik
  16. Coverage: Unified DDI Management and Orchestration With Men&Mice
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Men&Mice
  17. Coverage: The IT Industry Is Doing Better Than It Seems
    • Andy Banta, Geoff Burke, Nico Stein, Stephen Foskett
    • On-Premise IT
  18. Coverage: IP Address Management in a Modern Dynamic Network
    • Aaron Conaway, Jeffrey Powers, Stephen Foskett
    • Men&Mice, On-Premise IT
  19. Coverage: Looking Forward to Tech Field Day 27
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Kentik, MemVerge, Men&Mice
  20. News: Looking Forward to Tech Field Day 27
    • Stephen Foskett
    • MemVerge, Men&Mice, Tech Field Day

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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