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Left to Right: Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Frederic Van Haren, Ray Lucchesi, Dave Graham, Ivan McPhee, Stephen Foskett, Scott Robohn, Nick Patience, Keith Townsend, Ryan Booth, Carl Fugate |
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AI Field Day 7 |
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October 29–October 30, 2025 |
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Who: AI What: Field Day |
When: Past Location: 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.
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Calvin Hendryx-Parker | ||
AWS Community Hero | Python, Django, Orchestration & Containers | CTO and Founder | IndyPy & IndyAWS | FreeBSD, Linux & ZFS |
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Carl Fugate | ||
Public Cloud Center of Excellence lead for a healthcare software firm |
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Dave Graham | ||
Dave Graham is the Director of Marketing for MLCommons, an industry non-profit focused on AI for everyone. |
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Frederic Van Haren | ||
Frederic is the CTO at HighFens Inc (active in the HPC & AI market). He spent more than a decade building large HPC & AI environments from the ground up and is frequently invited to speak at events to provide his vision on AI, Big Data and HPC. |
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Chief Analyst at Visible Impact and Research Director in the Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces practice at The Futurum Group, specializing in AI, DevOps–cloud-native, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, enterprise applications, and cloud. |
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Ivan McPhee | ||
A techy at heart, Ivan thrives in navigating evolving business innovation and technology trends and crafting technical and marketing messaging that creates awareness, educates target audiences, differentiates businesses, and fulfills complex requirements. |
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Keith Townsend | ||
Founder and Executive Strategist at The CTO Advisor |
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Malcolm Booden | ||
Seasoned networking professional, with over 20 years experience in the design and implementation of large scale enterprise and service provider core networks. |
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Tech industry market research leader focused on AI including Generative AI. VP & Practice Lead at The Futurum Group |
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Ray Lucchesi | ||
Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products. |
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Ryan Booth | ||
Network Engineer with a passion for routing & switching and all things Data Center. CCIE#50117 |
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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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Presentation Calendar
Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at stg-techfielddayq-staging.kinsta.cloud, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.
| Wednesday, Oct 29 | 8:00-9:30 |  |
HYCU Presents at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Brian Babineau, Sathya Sankaran, Subbiah Sundaram |
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| Wednesday, Oct 29 | 10:30-12:00 |  |
HPE Presents at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Luke Norris, Robin Braun |
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| Wednesday, Oct 29 | 13:30-15:00 |  |
Fortinet Presents at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Keith Choi, Maggie Wu, Max Zeumer |
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| Wednesday, Oct 29 | 16:00-16:30 |  |
Calvin Hendryx-Parker Presents at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
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| Wednesday, Oct 29 | 16:30-17:00 |  |
Futurum Signal Presentation at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Stephen Foskett |
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| Thursday, Oct 30 | 8:00-9:30 |  |
Nutanix Presents at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Alex Almeida, Manoj Naik, Mike McGhee, Vishal Sinha |
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| Thursday, Oct 30 | 10:30-12:00 |  |
Articul8 Presents at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Arun Subramaniyan, Parvi Letha, Renato Nascimento |
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| Thursday, Oct 30 | 13:30-15:00 |  |
Digitate Presents at AI Field Day 7 | |
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Presenters: Rahul Kelkar, Rajiv Nayan |
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| Thursday, Oct 30 | 16:00-16:30 |  |
Utilizing AI Podcast | |
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Presenters: Nick Patience, Stephen Foskett |
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Event Staff
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Andrew Blackburn | |
Audio/Video Specialist The Futurum Group and Tech Field Day |
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Clara Hubbard | |
Clara Hubbard is an Event Coordinator at Tech Field Day |
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Stephen Foskett | |
Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud |
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14 Links with Tag #AIFD7
- Coverage: Digitate ignio and the 2025 AIOps Question: Build or Buy?
- Coverage: Reimagining AI from a Security Risk into an Asset with Fortinet
- Coverage: How Collaboration is Helping HPE Leverage AI in Practical Applications
- Coverage: Articul8’s Vision for Unique AI Models in the Enterprise
- Coverage: Beyond the Hype: Building a Resilient Data Foundation for AI
- Coverage: HYCU: End-to-End Data Protection for AI Workflows
- Coverage: From Blips to Breakthroughs: Scaling Autonomous IT with ignio
- Coverage: Greybeards talk domain specific AI with Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder & CEO, Articul8 AI
- Coverage: Layer 2C Validated: How Articul8’s Agentic Platform Proves the Intelligence Reasoning Plane
- Coverage: Data Gravity, AI, and the Unthinkable Problem of Moving Petabytes
- Coverage: The CTO Advisor 4+1 Layer AI Infrastructure Model
- Coverage: Wharton’s AI Report, Tech Field Day Vibes & Data Centers in Space
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Ready or Not, AI is Coming to the Enterprise
- News: Exploring the Future of Enterprise AI Deployment and Innovation at AI Field Day 7
More Information
If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, info@techfieldday.com.
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