Network with peers
This event will foster genuine conversation among practitioners. Hoodies, not suits!
Absolutely no selling
No vendor pitches, tables, or selling. This is a community-first event with a vendor neutral philosophy.
8:00am: Doors open!
Join us for coffee, tea and juices (bring your own breakfast).
9:00am sharp: Event kick-off
Event kick-off. Please be seated!
09:05 – Pete Crocker – Director of Product and Solution Architecture – IPFabric – Explaining the business value of network automation – Or why I succeeded the second time around!
At a previous $dayjob I was brought on board a network engineering team to bring in some expertise in network automation. Along the way, I built a greenfield DC in the UK fully automated, just to watch manual config changes happen on day 2, and the code abandoned. I’ll discuss what I learned about making sure leaders are aligned on the business value of automation, and how I succeeded at the next major project, including why we chose Ansible and NetBox as the core of the solution.
09:45 – Steve Corp – Director – Evolvere – Network Automation in Financial Services
Challenges and successes from recent customer engagements, common themes, some predictions for future directions.
10:25am: Break
10:45 – Dan Finneran – Principal Community Advocate – Isovalent – k8s and gateway API for managing on-prem and edge networks
A session around Kubernetes and Gateway API (Which is the evolution of Kubernetes networking) and how this is leading into new ways of automating on-prem and edge networks from the control plane to areas such as IPAM and routing.
11:25 – Jason Edelman – Founder and CTO – Network to Code – Transforming Enterprises and Careers with Network Automation
Network Automation continues to grow at a rapid pace enabling transformation for both organizations and individuals. In this session, the goal is to share general approaches and techniques for network automation covering everything build vs. buy, the importance of data and Source of Truth, and how to think about teams and career growth preparing for a fully automated network.
12:05am: Lunch
Presenter: Steinn (Steinzi) Örvar, lead product development engineer, Advania Icelands
Presenter: Miles Sutcliffe – NetSec & Platform Automation Team – iSAM
Presenter: Rick Donato – Founder – Packet Coders
Ian Chilton – DevOps Engineer – LONAP Ltd
Chris Wade – Co-Founder & CTO – Itential
Jason Edelman – Founder & CTO – Network to Code
Daniel Finneran – Principal Community Advocate – Isovalent
Steve Corp – Director – Evolvere Technologies
Pete Crocker – Director of Product and Solution Architecture – IP Fabric