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| Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017 | August 28–30, 2017 |
| Who: Storage, Tech, Virtualization What: Extra, VMworld |
When: Past Where: Las Vegas |
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Presenting Sponsors
Delegates
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.
| Becky Elliott | |||
Technologist and Blogger |
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| Carl Fugate | |||
Public Cloud Center of Excellence lead for a healthcare software firm |
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| Dan Frith | |||
I like punk rock and storage arrays. |
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| Eyvonne Sharp | |||
Eyvonne Sharp is a network architect for a Fortune 100 healthcare enterprise. |
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| Howard Marks | |||
Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
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| John White | |||
Dad, technology lover, softball players, car guy, cloud guy, product strategy executive at Expedient. |
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| Keith Townsend | |||
Founder and Executive Strategist at The CTO Advisor |
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| Mark Carlton | |||
Mark is a DataCentre Consultant in Wakefield, England |
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| Mark May | |||
Storage expert, unix curmudgeon, IT nerd, and sporadic blogger |
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| Matt Crape | |||
An IT Generalist with a passion for virtualization, storage, data protection, and helping others. |
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| Mike Preston | |||
3 x vExpert, blogger @ mwpreston.net and a typical Canadian eh! |
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| Phoummala Schmitt | |||
Just trying to survive in IT as a (woman) Sr. Systems Engineer with a focus on Messaging , Virtualization, Storage. |
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| Rick Schlander | |||
Virtualization Architect & vExpert, Minneapolis & Rochester VMUG Leader, NetAppEMC Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer-Blogger. |
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| Rob Coote | |||
20+ year Networking and Virtualization geek, pivoting into Security. Wannabe hacker, but unable to exit Vim since 2014. |
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| Roger Lund | |||
Roger evangelizes virtualization by night, and is a Solutions Architect at Deltaware Data Solutions during the day. |
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| Sean Thulin | |||
Advanced Virtualization Consultant based in New England. |
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| Tony Mattke | |||
Network guy turned Security Engineer. Jack of all trades, master of none; I love to learn about everything. |
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Presentation Calendar
Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at stg-techfielddayq-staging.kinsta.cloud, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.
| August 29, 2017 | 11:00-12:00 | Kingston Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017 Delegate Panel: Becky Elliott, Dan Frith, Keith Townsend, Mark May, Matt Crape, Mike Preston, Phoummala Schmitt, Roger Lund, Ryan Lee, Scott D. Lowe |
| August 29, 2017 | 13:00-14:00 | Druva Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017 Delegate Panel: Dan Frith, Eyvonne Sharp, Howard Marks, Mark Carlton, Mark May, Mike Preston, Roger Lund, Ryan Lee, Scott D. Lowe, Sean Thulin |
| August 29, 2017 | 14:30-15:30 | Pluribus Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017 Delegate Panel: Carl Fugate, Eyvonne Sharp, John White, Mike Preston, Rob Coote, Roger Lund, Sean Thulin, Tony Mattke |
| August 29, 2017 | 16:00-17:00 | NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017 Delegate Panel: Becky Elliott, Carl Fugate, Dan Frith, Eyvonne Sharp, Mark Carlton, Mike Preston, Rick Schlander, Rob Coote, Roger Lund, Sean Thulin |
Event Staff
| 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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| Tom Hollingsworth | ||
Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics. |
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More Information
If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at sfoskett@gestaltit.com or call +1(508)451-9532.
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