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Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group. An active participant in the world of enterprise information technology, Stephen currently focuses on AI, edge, and cloud, and is a long-time voice in enterprise storage.

Stephen organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series for The Futurum Group, bringing a panel of independent technical content creators together with leading companies in the industry. We organize our Field Day events throughout the year in different topics, and also bring our community to industry events. Stephen also hosts the weekly Utilizing Tech podcast, and contributes to numerous podcasts, webcasts, and industry news reports.

A graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied the impact of technology and society, Stephen has lived in northeast Ohio for a decade. He frequently travels to Silicon Valley for Field Day events and appears on-stage, in analyst and press panels, and behind the scenes at events around the world.



197 Events Staffed


86 Field Day Appearances


146 Field Day Videos


200 Links with Tag @SFoskett

  1. Techstrong Gang – October 22, 2024
  2. Data Infrastructure Is A Lot More Than Storage
  3. Using AI To Connect Business Workflows
  4. Techstrong Gang – September 24, 2024
  5. Exploring the Importance of Data Infrastructure at AI Data Infrastructure Field Day 1
  6. AI and Cloud Demand a New Approach to Cyber Resilience featuring Commvault
  7. Techstrong Gang – September 17, 2024
  8. Demand for AI Pushes Up the Global AI PC Adoption Curve
  9. Hardware Still Matters at the Edge
  10. Taking Technology to the Edge at Edge Field Day 3
  11. AI Solves All Our Problems
  12. The Shifting Focus of AI at AI Field Day 5
  13. AI is Not a Fad
  14. What’s Causing a Skills Shortage in Mainframe?
  15. AI as We Know It is Just a Fad
  16. Mainframes Take the Main Stage at SHARE Kansas City 2024
  17. Qlik – Opening a Broader Access to AI-Driven Data Analytics
  18. The Mainframe is Still Going Strong
  19. Open Source Helps Small Businesses Modernize Applications
  20. Everything is the Cloud and The Cloud is Everything
  21. GenAI is Revolutionizing the Enterprise
  22. Google Shares the Scope of Enterprise Cloud at Cloud Field Day
  23. Techstrong Gang June 11, 2024
  24. Announcements From Qlik Connect | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 5, 2024
  25. Cloud Native is Just a Marketing Term
  26. Looking at the Rapidly Evolving Modern Cloud at Cloud Field Day 20
  27. Qlik Cloud Integration With Talend
  28. Moving Beyond Platform Engineering and IT Operations at AppDev Field Day
  29. Platform Engineering Is the Revenge of IT Operations
  30. The Critical Role of Advanced Storage in AI Data Infrastructure
  31. Data Quality is More Important Than Ever in an AI World with Qlik
  32. Containerization is Required to Modernize Applications at the Edge
  33. Credible Content From the Community is More Important than Ever
  34. The Bedrock of AI Is Data With Nick Magnuson and Clive Bearman of Qlik
  35. The Year of AI at AI Field Day 4
  36. Cloud Field Day – Infrastructure Matters on the Road
  37. The Truth Behind SaaS Data Recovery With W Curtis Preston
  38. Mind the Gap Between Hyperscale and Enterprise IT
  39. NodeWeaver: Pioneering Edge Computing Solutions for Tomorrow’s Challenges
  40. Automation, Analytics, and More at Cloud Field Day 18
  41. The Present and Future of Edge at Edge Field Day 2
  42. Storage Field Day 26 Is Headed to SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference
  43. Things Are Heating Up for Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore
  44. Announcements From Cisco Live
  45. Elevate Your Cloud Knowledge at Cloud Field Day 17
  46. What Is a Cloud Database and How Does It Work?
  47. Takeaways From the Recent Storage Field Day
  48. Enterprise Storage Enters a New Age
  49. What’s New in Storage at Storage Field Day 25
  50. Unraveling the Key Themes of Edge Computing – a Roundtable Discussion
  51. The IT Industry Is Doing Better Than It Seems
  52. IP Address Management in a Modern Dynamic Network
  53. Edge Is Not Just Cloud or Datacenter
  54. Deploying Applications Across Edge Locations With Mako Networks and Avassa
  55. Security Automation With ZEDEDA and Opengear
  56. Looking Forward to Tech Field Day 27
  57. Learn More About Edge Computing at the First Edge Field Day Event
  58. Is Kubernetes a Good Fit for Edge Computing?
  59. What Are the Limits of Edge Computing?
  60. Cloud Field Day Looks to the Next Generation in January
  61. Measuring the Current Day Blast Radius of Outages
  62. Edge Computing – Through the Timeline
  63. Digging Deeper Into the Theme of Sustainability in Enterprise IT
  64. Tech Field Day Is Back With a Mix of CXL
  65. Storage Field Day Returns to Silicon Valley!
  66. CFDx NetApp – Thoughts
  67. Cloud Field Day 15 Returns to Silicon Valley!
  68. Take Charge of Your Multicloud Environment With NetApp: A Cloud Field Day Extra
  69. Gestalt IT Is Headed to VMware Explore US 2022!
  70. ML Commons Unveils MLPerf Training V2.0 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 29, 2022
  71. Cloud Field Day Returns, Bridging the Datacenter to the Cloud
  72. AI Field Day Returns With a Focus on Data
  73. Developer Advocacy Isn’t Exactly What We Think It Will Be
  74. Do Enterprises Need Private Cellular?
  75. Join the Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere 22!
  76. Episode 14 – Having a Field Day With AI Expert Stephen Foskett
  77. How to Connect Everything From Everywhere With ZeroTier
  78. State of the Cloud
  79. Cloud Field Day Returns November 3-5, 2021
  80. The Cloud Is Finally Ready for the Enterprise
  81. Tech Field Day Returns With Avassa, Cisco, Pure Storage, and Xilinx
  82. Returning to NGINX Sprint 2.0 With Tech Field Day
  83. Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies HCI & Storage: Cutting Edge Infrastructure to Drive Your Business
  84. Announcing Storage Field Day 22, August 4-6, 2021
  85. Intel Sapphire Rapids Rushes Back to 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 30, 2021
  86. Pegasus Flies to Exploit Journalist Phones | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 21, 2021
  87. US Government Strikes Down JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 07, 2021
  88. The Enterprise Is Not Ready for AI
  89. AI Field Day Returns May 27 and 28
  90. Join Us on April 27th for Making the Future of Data Possible: An Event by Scality and HPE!
  91. Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021
  92. Intel Updates the Xeon Scalable Platform With Tech Field Day
  93. Join Tech Field Day on April 21-23, 2021
  94. Cisco Live Global 2021 Keynote Liveblog
  95. Presenters React to the Networking Field Day Experience
  96. Cloud Field Day Returns March 10-12, 2021
  97. Taking a Deep Dive Into Modern Storage Solutions With Storage Field Day 21
  98. Is Storageless Storage Just Someone Else’s Storage?
  99. Gestalt IT Rundown: December 16, 2020
  100. Scality and Cloud Field Day: A Bond That Spans Years
  101. Converging Conference Communities in the Cloud
  102. Voices in Innovation – Enrico Signoretti Explores the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Online Events
  103. Pure Storage FlashRecover Brings Cohesity to FlashBlade
  104. Judges on Fire: Stephen Foskett, Organizer in Chief, Tech Field Day
  105. Coming Together During COVID-19, With Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT
  106. Day Two Cloud 038: Making the Case for Third-Party Cloud Storage
  107. BONUS: The Origins of Tech Field Day – the On-Premise IT Roundtable
  108. Meet the #TFD Founder: Stephen Foskett
  109. Juniper NXTWORK 2019 Keynote Live Blog
  110. Druva Protects Corporate Data Outside the Firewall
  111. Where Did Tech Field Day Come From? Tech Field Day at 10
  112. SolarWinds Aims to Connect the Data Dots
  113. Meeting the Storage Performance Requirements of AI and ML Workloads With WekaIO
  114. Nth Generation Symposium Keynote Live Blog
  115. Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
  116. It’s All About the Delegates: Tech Field Day at 10
  117. Tech Field Day 20 – The Ten Year Anniversary Edition
  118. Commvault Go Day 2 Live Blog
  119. Stephen Foskett Gets the Latest News From Commvault at Commvault GO 2019
  120. Why You Should Consider Software-Defined Storage in Your Data Center
  121. Accelerate Day 1 Recap With Stephen Foskett From Gestalt IT by Pure Storage
  122. Pure Accelerate 2019 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog
  123. Pure Accelerate 2019 Day 1 Keynote Liveblog
  124. IBM’s New Class of Data Protection: Upcycling of the IT World?
  125. Leaving the Ecuador Open | Gestalt IT Rundown, September 18, 2019
  126. Can You Avoid Moving to the Cloud? No, and Why Would You?
  127. StorPool’s Strategy Rose to the Cloud—and Beyond!
  128. vSoccer at VMworld 2019
  129. The Contention Window: S1E12 : TechFieldDay – Mobility Field Day 4 Preview
  130. I Met Stephen Foskett
  131. What You See and What You Get When You Follow Me
  132. You’re Wrong About Data Protection Policy
  133. Nyansa Wants to Be the IoT Sheriff
  134. Liveblog: Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day 2019
  135. Intel’s Crossover Point: A 3D Spork?
  136. Voices in Data Storage – Episode 9: A Conversation With Stephen Foskett
  137. Goodbye X-IO, Hello Axellio and Violin 2.0!
  138. NetApp: HCI Stands For “Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure”
  139. NetApp’s Data Fabric Gets Real
  140. Smaller Conferences Can Have a Bigger Impact
  141. 9 Years of Tech Field Days with Stephen Foskett
  142. Commvault and Services
  143. Cloud Storage – AWS, Azure, and Beyond
  144. Multi-Cloud, DevOps, and Storage
  145. 3D XPoint Is At A Crossroads – Can Intel and Micron Deliver?
  146. What Differentiates Servers in a Commodity x86 World?
  147. Tech ONTAP Podcast: NetApp at Storage Field Day 15
  148. A Conversation with Congruity360 COO Mark Shirman
  149. Commvault GO 2017 Keynote Live Blog!
  150. #CiscoChampion Radio, S4|Ep.14: All About Tech Field Day
  151. Surprise! Facebook Shares Dramatically Improve Reach, Clicks, and Views
  152. Storage is Getting Cloudier!
  153. The Year of Cloud Extension
  154. Pure Accelerate 2017 Keynote Live Blog
  155. SPEP03 – TFD12 | Open TechCast
  156. What’s The Deal With Containers, Anyway?
  157. Tech Field Day: Seven Years Later
  158. Geek Speak: Snapshots Aren’t Backups (But They Could Be A Big Part…)
  159. Speaking in Tech: ‘Radical dev-docused’ work from Apple…
  160. Speaking in Tech: How good is the UK’s broadband? Really awful
  161. TECHunplugged Austin is One Packed Event
  162. Talking NVMe, 3DXpoint and Networking
  163. Tech Field Day Viewership Rockets Forward in 2015
  164. Every Device Can Speak SMB Protocol Thanks To Visuality Systems
  165. Live Streaming Video Adds to the Tech Field Day Experience
  166. Storage Field Day 8 Brings the Enterprise Storage Industry Together
  167. Infinidat’s Solution For the I/O Blender: Math
  168. What’s In A Name?
  169. Generation 3 drobo: Fall In Love All Over Again
  170. VFD4 – The email
  171. Cisco’s Trojan Horse
  172. Networking Field Day 8
  173. Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2014
  174. SolarWinds Showcases Virtualization Management for Hybrid IT and More at VMworld(R) US 2014
  175. #VMEspresso with SolarWinds at VMworld: “Storage I/O is About to Get Crazy”
  176. Why is DataGravity Such a Big Deal?
  177. 08 – Wireless Field Day 7 Kickoff « On The Fly Wi-Fi
  178. On experts, influencers, and evangelists
  179. Is Storage the Killer App for Software-Defined Networking?
  180. Show 184 – The Future of Networking Part 2 as Inspired by #NFD7
  181. Software-Defined Data Center Symposium, April 22 in Santa Clara, CA
  182. My Tech Field Day VFD3 Experience
  183. The Future of Networking Part 1 As Inspired By #NFD7
  184. “Everybody’s On the Internet, and Nobody Cares”
  185. Scaling Storage At The Client
  186. Scaling Storage In Conventional Arrays
  187. Scale-Out Storage Field Day?
  188. VMware-Integrated Caching? Not So Fast!
  189. SimpliVity Announcement Roundup
  190. AirTight Networks to Make its Live Tech Field Day Debut at Wireless Field Day 5 in Silicon Valley
  191. SDDC Interview: Tech Field Day’s Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth
  192. Show 153 – Cisco Live 2013 Roundtable Discussion with Tech Field Day
  193. Scaling Storage Is Hard To Do
  194. How Does OpenFlow Impact The Daily Life Of Networkers?
  195. We Might Be In The Business of Technology, But It’s The People That Make It Great
  196. Storage Field Day 3 Is Here!
  197. Solid State Storage Symposium – San Jose, CA
  198. Storage Field Day 1 – Silicon Valley
  199. Show 141 – The Pace of Change Is Picking Up
  200. One Year of Tech Field Day Video: 90,000 Views!

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