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The only conference that dares to keep asking:

Why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet?

AutoCon 2 was held in
Denver, CO The Week of 18-22
NOV 2024

Thanks to everyone who made AutoCon 2 a success!!!

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Agenda


18-19 November (Monday & Tuesday) — Workshops

Monday, 18 November; Workshops will start at 09:00 local (MST / GMT-7) time and end around 18:00 local. Lunch will be served for workshop participants.

Tuesday, 19 November; Workshops will start at 09:00 local time and end around 18:00. Lunch will be served for workshop participants.

20-22 (Wednesday-Friday) — Conference

Wednesday, 20 November; Registration opens at 08:00 MST. Lunch will be served at 11:30. The conference will start at 13:00. There will be a happy hour from 17:00 to 19:00.

Thursday, 21 November; The conference will run all day. Lunch will be provided. There will be a social event from 18:00 to 22:00.

Friday, 22 November; The conference will end at noon local time. Lunch will NOT be served on Friday.

Speakers

  • Photo of AutoCon 2 opening keynote speaker Anna Claiborne

    Opening Keynote

    Anna Claiborne

  • Photo of AutoCon 2 closing keynote speaker Mircea Ulinic

    Closing Keynote

    Mircea Ulinic

  • Chris Grundemann

    Chris Grundemann

    Co-Founder @ NAF

  • Danny Wade

    Danny Wade

    Practice Lead, Network & Infrastructure Automation @ BlueAlly

  • Du’An S. Lightfoot

    Du’An S. Lightfoot

    Sr. Developer Advocate @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Eric Anderson

    Eric Anderson

    Sr. Infrastructure Architect @ Armstrong World Industries

  • Hari Gollapalli

    Hari Gollapalli

    Senior Software Development Manager @ PayPal

  • Jeremy Schulman

    Jeremy Schulman

    Senior Director of Solution Engineering, Infrastructure @ Major League Baseball (MLB)

  • Joe Wesch

    Joe Wesch

    Managing Consultant, Network Automation @ Network to Code

  • Jose Miguel Izquierdo

    Jose Miguel Izquierdo

    Technical Marketing Engineer @ Juniper Networks

  • Joseph Nicholson

    Joseph Nicholson

    Global IP Network @ NTT Data

  • Karl Newell

    Karl Newell

    Network Software Architect @ Internet2

  • Mason L Reimert

    Mason L Reimert

    Assistant Vice President, IT Infrastructure @ First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union

  • Matthew Deibel

    Matthew Deibel

    Grid Automation Services Manager @ Southern California Edison (SCE)

  • Michael Daly

    Michael Daly

    Senior Director of Engineering @ Imperva

  • Michael Wynston

    Michael Wynston

    Director Global Network Architecture and Automation @ Fiserv

  • Phillip Gervasi

    Phillip Gervasi

    Director of Technical Evangelism @ Kentik

  • Rajiv Gupta

    Rajiv Gupta

    Senior Network Engineer @ Genentech

  • Ryan Shaw

    Ryan Shaw

    Network Architect @ Zscaler

  • Scott Robohn

    Scott Robohn

    Co-Founder @ NAF

  • Steinn Bjarnarson

    Steinn Bjarnarson

    Lead product development engineer @ Advania Ísland

  • William Collins

    William Collins

    Director of Tech Evangelism at Alkira

Conference Program

Workshop Details

Practical network automation training to help kick-start your network automation journey!

Based on the overwhelming success of the AutoCon Workshop Bundle at AutoCon 1, we are hosting hands-on workshops again for AutoCon 2.

New for AutoCon 2; we are hosting multiple workshop tracks. Attendees are able to select the four specific workshops they want to attend, one from each time block - ”choose your own adventure” style.

We have workshops covering: SoT, Orchestration, Observability, K8s, AI, Ansible, Templates, Python, and more. Sessions are filled on a first-come, first served basis at the time of ticket purchase. See course schedule and workshop details below!

DATES: Monday and Tuesday, 18-19 November, 2024

All workshops require that you bring your own laptop with an SSH client. Some workshops may have additional requirements.

Workshops will run from 09:00am to 18:00pm local time (MST) both days. Lunch, as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks with snacks will be provided for all attendees. Conference ticket sold separately.

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