There are few things I enjoy more than getting up in front of a stage to nerd out on various topics. Regardless of the audience size or subject matter, I pour a vast amount of time and energy in preparing high quality collateral, demos, and visuals for the audience to learn and chuckle.
I’m currently on hiatus from public speaking and not participating in Call for Papers / Speakers.
I leverage several platforms to store collateral and engage with event organizers: Speaker Deck, SlideShare, PaperCall, and Sessionize. Additionally, resources from each presentation is posted to GitHub.
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Event List
Below are all of the various events, user groups, conferences, and so forth in which I participated as a speaker, adviser, or industry expert. This database defaults to all events; you can use the miniature filterbar to find a specific year.
- Mon07Aug2023Tue08Aug2023Vail, Colorado, US
- Mon08Aug2022Wed10Aug2022Vail, Colorado, US
- Tue08Mar2022Wed09Mar2022San Francisco, California, US
- Mon09Aug2021Thu12Aug2021
- Tue18May2021Wed19May2021
- Tue17Nov2020Fri20Nov2020
- Tue13Oct2020Thu15Oct2020
- Tue29Sep2020Wed30Sep2020
- Tue23Jun2020Thu25Jun2020
- Mon11May2020Digital
Session: How an Immutable Architecture Combats Against Ransomware
- Tue21Jan2020Wed22Jan2020
- Wed18Dec2019
- Tue10Dec2019
- Wed13Nov2019Thu14Nov2019
- Thu07Nov2019Austin, Texas, US
- Wed30Oct2019
- Tue10Sep2019
- Fri06Sep2019Sat07Sep2019
- Sun25Aug2019Thu29Aug2019
- Fri16Aug2019
- Wed17Jul2019
- Tue16Jul2019San Francisco, California, US
- Tue18Jun2019
- Mon17Jun2019
- Sat15Jun2019Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Tue11Jun2019
- Tue11Jun2019Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Mon10Jun2019
- Thu06Jun2019Fri07Jun2019
- Wed29May2019
- Tue28May2019
- Thu23May2019
- Tue21May2019
- Wed01May2019
- Tue30Apr2019
- Wed24Apr2019
- Tue23Apr2019
- Thu18Apr2019
- Tue16Apr2019
- Wed10Apr2019Fri12Apr2019
- Mon08Apr2019Thu11Apr2019San Francisco, California, US
- Thu04Apr2019
- Tue02Apr2019
- Thu14Mar2019
- Thu07Mar2019Phoenix, Arizona, US
- Tue26Feb2019Wed27Feb2019
- Tue04Dec2018Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Sun14Oct2018Thu18Oct2018Orlando, Florida, US
- Mon24Sep2018Fri28Sep2018Orlando, Florida, US
- Sun26Aug2018Thu30Aug2018Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Mon23Jul2018Thu26Jul2018
- Wed30May2018
- Thu17May2018
- Tue08May2018
- Mon09Apr2018Thu12Apr2018Bellevue, Washington, US
- Wed04Apr2018Fri06Apr2018Palo Alto, California, US
- Mon19Mar2018
- Mon05Mar2018Thu08Mar2018
- Mon26Feb2018Wed28Feb2018
- Thu01Feb2018
- Mon04Dec2017Thu07Dec2017
- Mon27Nov2017Fri01Dec2017
- Thu26Oct2017
- Tue24Oct2017
- Thu19Oct2017
- Wed18Oct2017Trondheim, Norway
- Tue17Oct2017
- Mon02Oct2017Wed04Oct2017Orlando, Florida, US
- Mon25Sep2017Fri29Sep2017Orlando, Florida, US
- Wed20Sep2017Fri22Sep2017Lisbon, Portugal
- Mon11Sep2017Thu14Sep2017Barcelona, Spain
- Sun27Aug2017Thu31Aug2017Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Sun06Aug2017Tue08Aug2017
- Thu27Jul2017Menlo Park, California, US
- Wed26Jul2017
- Wed28Jun2017Fri30Jun2017Washington, D.C., US
- Mon12Jun2017Wed14Jun2017San Francisco, California, US
- Thu08Jun2017
- Wed07Jun2017Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Mon15May2017Tue16May2017
- Thu04May2017Fri05May2017
- Thu20Apr2017
- Sun09Apr2017Wed12Apr2017
- Tue28Mar2017
- Wed22Mar2017Washington, D.C., US
- Wed08Mar2017Fri10Mar2017San Francisco, California, US
- Fri27Jan2017Sun29Jan2017
- Wed18Jan2017
- Wed16Nov2016San Jose, California, US
- Mon07Nov2016Thu10Nov2016
- Thu03Nov2016
- Mon17Oct2016Thu20Oct2016
- Thu22Sep2016Chicago, Illinois, US
- Wed07Sep2016
- Sun28Aug2016Fri02Sep2016Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Session: INF8036 Enforcing a vSphere Cluster Design with PowerCLI Automation (Video) - Top 10 Winner
Session: INF8038 Getting Started with PowerShell and PowerCLI for your VMware Environment (Video) - Top 10 Winner + 3peat
Session: MGT8714-SPO Creating Automated Self-Service Data Protection with Rubrik and vRealize Automation
Session: STO8718-SPO Building Next-Gen Data Protection for VMware Environments with Rubrik
- Sun07Aug2016Tue09Aug2016
- Thu21Jul2016Westbrook, Maine, US
- Wed20Jul2016Indianapolis, Indiana, US
- Thu23Jun2016
- Mon20Jun2016Wed22Jun2016
- Fri17Jun2016
- Thu02Jun2016
- Thu26May2016Denver, Colorado, US
- Mon16May2016Fri20May2016
- Mon02May2016Thu05May2016
- Mon25Apr2016Fri29Apr2016
- Tue12Apr2016San Jose, California, US
- Wed06Apr2016
- Thu31Mar2016
- Thu17Mar2016's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- Wed16Mar2016London, United Kingdom
- Tue08Mar2016
- Tue01Mar2016
- Thu25Feb2016Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Tue23Feb2016Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Wed03Feb2016Fri05Feb2016Austin, Texas, US
- Thu19Nov2015
- Thu12Nov2015Cincinnati, Ohio, US
- Tue10Nov2015Nashville, Tennessee, US
- Mon02Nov2015
- Fri30Oct2015
- Thu22Oct2015
- Mon12Oct2015Thu15Oct2015Barcelona, Spain
Session: Instant Application Recovery and DevOps Infrastructure for VMware Environments - A Technical Deep Dive
- Thu08Oct2015New York City, New York, US
Session: An Introduction to Rubrik
Session: vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0 – Technical Deep Dive
- Thu24Sep2015Atlanta, Georgia, US
- Wed23Sep2015Chicago, Illinois, US
- Thu17Sep2015
- Wed16Sep2015
- Tue15Sep2015
- Thu03Sep201511:00San Francisco, California, US
- Sun30Aug2015Thu03Sep2015San Francisco, California, US
- Sun30Aug2015
- Fri14Aug2015
- Thu23Jul2015
- Thu02Jul2015
- Thu18Jun2015Chicago, Illinois, US
- Mon08Jun2015Wed10Jun2015
- Thu28May2015Fri29May2015
- Mon27Apr2015Fri01May2015Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Wed08Apr2015
- Thu19Mar2015
- Fri21Nov2014Antwerp, Belgium
- Thu20Nov2014Copenhagen, Denmark
Session: Stop Being a Mine Sweeper (Watch the video on YouTube)
- Tue18Nov2014Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Session: VMware NSX - Software Defined Networking in the Real World
Session: Networking Deep-Dive Discussion Group / Whiteboard
Keynote: Stop Being a Mine Sweeper (Watch the video on YouTube)
Interview: VMware EMEA Tour on YouTube
- Thu09Oct2014Boston, Massachusetts, US
- Mon06Oct2014Wed08Oct2014Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Tue23Sep2014Wed24Sep2014Austin, Texas, US
- Wed17Sep2014
- Thu04Sep2014New York City, New York, US
- Wed27Aug2014San Francisco, California, US
- Tue26Aug2014
- Mon25Aug2014Thu28Aug2014San Francisco, California, US
- Mon25Aug2014San Francisco, California, US
- Sun24Aug2014
- Mon11Aug2014Tue12Aug2014
- Thu05Jun2014
- Mon19May2014
- Tue22Apr2014Middleton, Wisconsin, USA
- Tue01Apr2014Bellevue, Washington, USA
- Tue04Mar2014Wed05Mar2014
- Thu27Feb2014Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Wed19Feb2014
- Thu06Feb2014Sydney, Australia
Session: Leveraging Unified Fabric for VMware vSphere
Ask the VCDX Panel: Scott Lowe, Michael Webster, Josh Odgers, Travis Wood & Chris Wahl
- Wed05Feb2014
- Tue04Feb2014
- Tue04Feb2014Melbourne, Australia
Interview: Melbourne VMUG User Conference: Chris Wahl
- Thu23Jan2014
- Wed22Jan2014
- Wed22Jan2014
- Tue14Jan2014
- Tue10Dec2013Thu12Dec2013Barcelona, Spain
- Wed13Nov2013Fri15Nov2013San Jose, California, US
- Post: Hybrid Flash Array From Nimble Storage Makes iSCSI Sexy Again
- Post: Avere’s Edge-Core Architecture Beefs Up Tired, Hoopty NAS Storage
- Post: Coho Data Brings SDN to SDS for a Killer Combination
- Post: How To Not Suck at Technical Presentations
- Post: Oxygen Cloud’s oDrive Seeks To Empower User Controlled File Sync
- Album: Google+ Storage Field Day 4 Photo Album
- Event Page: Storage Field Day 4
- Thu07Nov2013
- Tue22Oct2013
- Wed04Sep2013
- Sat31Aug2013
- Wed28Aug2013
- Mon26Aug2013Thu29Aug2013San Francisco, California, US
- Mon26Aug2013
- Mon12Aug2013Wed14Aug2013Vail, Colorado, US
- Mon12Aug2013
- Wed07Aug2013
- Thu25Jul2013
- Tue09Jul2013Baltimore, Maryland, US
- Tue25Jun2013
- Mon24Jun2013
- Mon24Jun2013
- Sun23Jun2013Thu27Jun2013Orlando, Florida, US
- Post: Closing Thoughts from the Cisco Live Roving Reporter
- Post: Roving Reporter for Cisco Live: Scooping The Data Center Buzz
- Interview: Omar Sultan
- Interview: Jim McHugh
- Interview: Frank Palumbo
- Interview: Ryan Adzima
- Interview: Ted Karakekes
- Interview: Behind the Scenes with Amy Lewis
- Tue18Jun2013Fri21Jun2013Austin, Texas, US
- Thu06Jun2013Chicago, Illinois, US
- Wed05Jun2013Chicago VMUG - Chicago, Illinois, US
- Tue21May2013VMware HQ - Palo Alto, California, US
- Thu16May2013
- Wed24Apr2013Fri26Apr2013Denver, Colorado, US
- Wed20Mar2013Boston, Massachusetts, US
- Mon25Feb2013Wed27Feb2013Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Mon25Feb2013Around the Storage Block Podcast
- Mon25Feb2013
- Thu21Feb2013CloudCamp Chicago - Chicago, Illinois, US
- Panelist: What Roles are Hot in 2013? (Videos)
- Mon11Feb2013Tue12Feb2013
- Thu17Jan2013
- Fri11Jan2013
- Wed09Jan2013
- Thu13Dec2012Orlando, Florida, US
- Tue04Dec2012Thu06Dec2012
- Thu15Nov2012Chicago VMUG - Chicago, Illinois, US
- Sun26Aug2012Thu30Aug2012San Francisco, California, US
- Post: Tech Talks, Roundtables, and the VMworld Bag
- Post: Scale Computing Debuts The HC3: Simple Integrated Solutions for the SMB
- Post: Xangati Advances Cloud Monitoring with StormTracker
- Post: VMware’s New Gauntlet of Certifications
- Post: The VMware User Group (VMUG) at VMworld
- Interview: A discussion on VMworld with Tintri
- Speaker: NFS on vSphere Community Tech Talk
- Sun26Aug2012
- Mon04Jun2012Thu07Jun2012Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Post: HP Discover 2012 – Targeted Sessions
- Post: Consumer vs Enterprise Gap – Keynote Session at HP Discover
- Post: Harnessing Tech Conferences for Certifications
- Post: HP Virtual Connect’s New Knockout: Flat SAN
- Post: HP’s Smart Update Manager 5 Enhancements
- Interview: ‘FlashForw
ard to Frankfurt’ : IT training and a mechanical bull? Only at HP Discover - Interview: How Tech Conferences Help You Get IT Certifications
- Fri04May2012
- Thu01Mar2012Chicago VMUG - Chicago, Illinois, US
- Thu23Feb2012San Jose, California, US
- Tue29Nov2011Thu01Dec2011
- Sat01Oct2011
- Sat01Oct2011Camp IT Conference - Chicago, Illinois, US
- Sat01Oct2011
- Thu15Sep2011San Jose, California, US
- Mon22Aug2011Fri26Aug2011Las Vegas, Nevada, US
- Mon01Aug2011