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Left to Right: Jon Hildebrand, Nathan Bennett, Ken Nalbone, Colleen Coll, Jon Myer, Jay Cuthrell, Stephen Foskett, Jack Poller, Ray Lucchesi, Maciej Lelusz |
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Cloud Field Day 21 |
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October 23–October 24, 2024 |
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Who: Cloud What: Field Day |
When: Past Location: Silicon Valley |
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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.
| Colleen Coll | |||
Orchestrating events, amplifying stories, and keeping tech communities connected—one unforgettable experience at a time. |
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| Jack Poller | |||
Principal Cyber Security Industry Analyst |
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| Jay Cuthrell | |||
???? Hi. I’m Jay. Chief Product Officer at NexusTek. I write things at fudge.org. ???? |
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| Jon Hildebrand | |||
Virtualization/Data Center/Cloud/Orchestration/Automation Enthusiast |
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| Jon Myer | |||
Tech Social Influencer & Thought Leadership | Chief Content Creator for Myer Media | Host of Jon Myer Podcast, A weird and quirky podcaster | Father x3 |
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| Justin Warren | |||
Justin is the founder and chief analyst at PivotNine |
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| Ken Nalbone | |||
Specialist Engineer. Tech Community Leader. Loves to geek out about tech and food! |
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| Maciej Lelusz | |||
Mostly techie, sometimes manager shaping IT transformation with cloud, datacenter, and edge expertise. |
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| Nathan Bennett | |||
Works in the Cloud with Software Dev, AI, and platforming |
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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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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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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.
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Platform9 Presents at Cloud Field Day 21 | |
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Presenters: Chris Jones, Pooja Ghumre, Roopak Parikh |
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| Wednesday, Oct 23 | 11:00-12:30 | ![]() |
Qumulo Presents at Cloud Field Day 21 | |
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Presenters: Brandon Whitelaw, Dack Busch, Douglas Gourlay |
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| Wednesday, Oct 23 | 14:00-14:45 | ![]() |
Delegate Roundtable at Cloud Field Day 21 | |
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Moderator: Stephen Foskett |
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| Wednesday, Oct 23 | 15:00-16:00 | ![]() |
Ignite Talks at Cloud Field Day 21 | |
| Presenter: Jack Poller, Jay Cuthrell, Stephen Foskett | ||||
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VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 21 | |
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Presenters: Bob Plankers, Eric Gray, Katarina Brookfield, Kelcey Lemon, Kyle Gleed, Prashanth Shenoy, Puneet Chawla, Rick Walsworth, Vincent Riccio |
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Event Staff
| Andrew Blackburn | ||
Audio/Video Specialist The Futurum Group and 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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27 Links with Tag #CFD21
- Coverage: Career Advice from a Long-Time Practitioner of Tech
- Coverage: Can We Find Data Storage to Match Your Data Growth?
- Coverage: Automation Will Change Our Socio-Economic Canvas. But Can It Assure Economic Well-being?
- Coverage: The Allure and Challenges of Private Clouds: Why You Should Investigate Platform9
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Company Acquisitions are a Necessary Evil in Enterprise Tech
- Coverage: Qumulo Distributed Global Namespace and Filesystem
- Coverage: Platform9 Rolls out New Solution Aimed at Upleveling Virtualized Infrastructure On-Premises to “Developer-Friendly Environment”
- Coverage: Platform9 Delivers On-Premises Private Cloud as a Service
- Coverage: VMware Drives Its Infrastructure Modernization Initiative With VCF 5.2, Featuring Easy Integration With vSphere Environments
- Coverage: Freedom of Choice and Fewer Barriers: Qumulo’s Data Platform Covers New Grounds
- Coverage: Platform9 Launches Private Cloud Director
- Coverage: Techstrong Gang – October 29, 2024
- Coverage: Nature Abhors a Vacuum
- Coverage: VMware #CFD21 Presentations
- Coverage: What do you think of Qumulo’s Cloud Data Platform?
- Coverage: What do you think of VMware Cloud Foundation?
- Coverage: The VCF Go-To-Market We Needed From Broadcom a Year Ago.
- Coverage: VCF Platform Overview
- Coverage: What do you think of Platform9’s Private Cloud Director?
- Coverage: Qumulo – Cloud Data Platform
- Coverage: BCOM/VMware – Private Cloud
- Coverage: Transformation pendulum
- Coverage: Platform9 Private Cloud Director
- Coverage: Platform9 Releases Private Cloud Director. Enables Virtual Machine Migration from VMware to OpenStack En-Masse.
- Tech Field Day Podcast: There are Too Many Clouds
- Coverage: Refocusing on Hybrid-Cloud at Cloud Field Day 21
- News: Refocusing on Hybrid-Cloud at Cloud Field Day 21
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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