Can we squeeze one more expert onto our blog today? Of course! Mike Thompson will also be speaking this Friday at The Future of the Internet 2014: Defining Software Defined Networks. Mike Thompson is in the Office of the CTO and is the Director of Architecture and Engineering for Application Delivery, Cloud and Security for Read more…

We’re happy to have Matthew Wallace joining us as a TFI2014 speaker this Friday. Matthew Wallace is a veteran technologist with 19 years of experience in Internet services. He is currently working on bringing next-generation cloud services to life at ViaWest as Director of Product Development. He is the co-author of Securing the Virtual Environment: Read more…

Let’s keep this Monday rolling with another highlighted TFI2014 speaker: Recep Ozdag Recep Ozdag is Director of Solutions Marketing for SDN and NFV at Cyan Inc. Before joining Cyan, Recep was in product marketing for the Communications and Storage Infrastructure Group (CSIG) at Intel. He lead Intel’s SDN switch and router marketing efforts as well Read more…

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! We’re getting back in the grind this Monday by highlighting another of our illustrious TFI2014 speakers: Eric Osborne. Eric has been involved in the Internet industry for almost twenty years. His career took him from a small startup ISP later acquired by Verio (now NTT-America) to Cisco, where Read more…

We’re proud to announce yet another long-time industry expert who will be speaking at TFI2014: Scott Sneddon Scott Sneddon is a Principle Solutions Architect and leads Business Development in APAC for Nuage Networks, where he spends most of his time evangelizing the benefits of Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networking. Previous experience includes Chief Solutions Architect Read more…

We are very pleased to announce that Geoff Mulligan will be joining us in Denver a week from today to speak at The Future of the Internet 2014: Defining Software Defined Networks. Geoff Mulligan is currently serving as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for the Office of Science and Technology Read more…

Our next esteemed speaker to be featured here in preparation for The Future of the Internet 2014: Defining Software Defined Networks is Joseph Marsella. Joseph Marsella currently serves as Senior Director of Strategic Solutions & SDN at Ciena Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the companies market focused solutions including it’s SDN Read more…

We are especially excited to have Doug Marschke as a speaker at TFI2014 since he is also hosting a 1-day SDN essentials class the day before (Thursday, 21 August). Doug is currently the founder of a SDN services company called SDN Essentials. Specializing in Education and Professional services for various SDN architectures. Over the last Read more…

Happy Friday everyone! Today’s first highlighted TFI2014 speaker is John Giacomoni! John Giacomoni is a Senior Architect at F5 Networks focussing on SDN as well as both the kernel architecture and go to market strategy for the LineRate product. John has focussed his 15+ year career on bringing deep systems technologies to market in new Read more…

We’re happy to announce that one of our CO ISOC board members, and TFI2014 steering committee members, will also be joining us as a speaker for The Future of the Internet 2014: Defining Software Defined Networks: Jeff Doyle! Jeff Doyle, Principal Architect at FishNet Security Specializing in routing and MPLS, data center architectures, SDN, and Read more…