VMworld is a place to learn and network. So it is great to see that around half of VMware CTO Ambassadors are sharing and contributing at VMworld. That’s very high for a group that is not part of any product Business Unit. We are field personnels and individual contributors. The high percentage shows the passion and capability of the group. Some of us are co-delivering the session with R&D and BU, showing the relationship that the group has. Other than presenting and facilitating, you can also find us at the Office of the CTO booth.
The following VMware CTO Ambassadors will be there: Adam Osterholt, Aidan Dalgleish, Amanda Blevins, Amy Chalifoux, Andrew Murphy, Anoop Jalan, Ben Lin, Charles Saroka, Christopher Cullingford, Christopher Knowles, Dale Carter, Donald Schubot, Eamon Ryan, Ed Hoppitt, Edward (Allen) Shortnacy, Edward Blackwell, Emad Benjamin, Eric Hardcastle, Gary Blake, Greg Mulholland, Iwan Rahabok, Jeff Whitman, Jennifer Green, Jerry Johanes, Jodi Shely, Jonathan Cham, Jonathan McDonald, Josh Gwyther, Julienne Pham, Justin Jones, Kannan Mani, Kim Jahnz, Martijn Baecke, Martin Banda, Michael Francis, Mike O’Reilly, Mostafa Khalil, Patrick Daigle, Peter Bjork, Richard Damoser, Roman Tarnavski, Ryan Pletka, Scott Carpenter, Sid Smith, Sunny Dua, TJ Vatsa, Tomas Fojta, Travis Wood.
Here are the list of sessions and workshops that we’re delivering or facilitating. See you there!
Applications
CNA4859 – Agility in the Datacenter – Workflows and Tools to Speed Application Delivery
- Roman Tarnavski, CTO Ambassador, VMware
- Chris Sexsmith – Sr Manager of Field Enablement, Cloud-Native Apps, VMware
- Kannan Mani – Staff Solutions Architect – Data Platforms, VMware
- GS Khalsa – Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
VAPP4440 – Migrating Large Oracle Footprint to Vblock
- Kannan Mani – Staff Solutions Architect – Data Platforms, VMware
- Chandra Mukherjee, KBACE Technologies
VAPP4449 – How VMware Customers Build and Tune High Performance Application Platforms
- Emad Benjamin – Principal Architect, VMware
- Wendy Zhao – Global Head of Middleware Engineering, Societe Generale
- Alessandro Quargnali-Linsley – Systems Engineer, Societe Generale
VAPP4732 – Enterprise Application Architecture Influence on SDDC
- Emad Benjamin – Principal Architect, VMware
- Jeff Quinn – Director or Virtualization & Cloud Converged Engineering at DTCC, DTCC
Cloud Native Applications
CNA5379 – Panel: Enterprise architecture for Cloud-Native Applications
- Martijn Baecke – Solutions Consultant, VMware
- Joe Baguley – CTO EMEA, VMware
- Robbie Jerrom – Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
- Greg Andsager – VP, Cloud Native Applicaions, VMware
- Chris Sexsmith – Sr Manager of Field Enablement, Cloud-Native Apps, VMware
- Aaron Sweemer – Director of Field Strategy, Cloud-Native Apps, VMware
CNA5479 – Running Cloud-Native Apps on your Existing Infrastructure
- Martijn Baecke – Solutions Consultant, VMware
- Robbie Jerrom – Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
CTO6659 – Ask the Experts – Cloud Native Applications
- Emad Benjamin – Principal Architect, VMware
- Joe Baguley – CTO EMEA, VMware
- Ed Hoppitt – CTO Ambassador, VMware
- Robbie Jerrom – Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
- Martijn Baecke – Solutions Consultant, VMware
vCloud Air
ELW-HBD-1681 – vCloud Air Workshop
- Captains: Jodi Shely (CTO Ambassador), Cleavon Roberts, Tony Welsh
SPL-HBD-1681 – VMware vCloud® Air™ – Jump Start for vSphere Admins
- Captains: Cleavon Roberts, Jodi Shely, Patrick Mahoney
SDDC IaaS
- Scott Carpenter – Staff SE | CTO Ambassador, VMware
- Jordan Wise – Architect, Lancaster General Health
- Dave Miller – IT Architect, Baystate Health
- Kevin Holland – Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
SPL-SDC-1606 – Cloud 101 – Deliver your Infrastructure as a Service
- Captains: Andrew Murphy, Kelly Montgomery, Danny Farber
- Jonathan McDonald, Solutions Architect |CTO Ambassador, VMware
PAR6411 – PSE: SDDC Assess, Design and Deploy 2.0 – What’s New?
- Jonathan McDonald, Solutions Architect |CTO Ambassador, VMware
PAR6412 – PSE: vSphere 6 Architectural Design and lessons learned
- Jonathan McDonald, Solutions Architect |CTO Ambassador, VMware
Business Continuity and High Availability
ELW-SDC-1605 – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Workshop
- Captains: Paul Irwin and Adam Osterholt
SPL-SDC-1605 – High Availability and Resilient Infrastructure.
- Captains: Adam Osterholt, Paul Irwin, Nick Fritsch
STO4510 – When it Rains it Pours: Protecting Your VMware Based Cloud.
- Aidan Dalgleish, VMware UK
- Matt Vandenbeld
SDDC Management and Operations
OPT5519 – Nimble Automation in a Regulated Environment: Good, Fast, and Cheap. Pick Any Two.
- Mike O’Reilly – Staff System Engineer, VMware,
- Jase Machado – Architect, Infrastructure Automation, Blue Shield of CA
- Jeff Shaw – IT Virtualization, Delta Dental
INF6108 – Something Broke, What Now? Managing and Troubleshooting OpenStack Environments
- Jonathan Cham – Global Solutions Consultant | CTO Ambassasdor, VMware
- Ben Lin – Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassasdor, VMware
NET5836 – OpenStack with NSX Architecture Deep Dive
- Jonathan Cham – Global Solutions Consultant, VMware
- Ben Lin – Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassasdor, VMware
ELW-SDC-1620 – OpenStack with VMware vSphere and NSX Workshop
- Captains: Ed Shmookler, Marcos Hernandez, Jonathan Cham, and Hadar Freehling
SPL-SDC-1620 – OpenStack with VMware vSphere and NSX.
- Captains: Ed Shmookler, Marcos Hernandez, Jonathan Cham, Hadar Freehling
- Eric Hardcastle – Principal SDE Solutions Engineer | CTO Ambassador, VMware
- Phil Smith – Staff Engineer, VMware
- Michael White – Director, DataGravity Labs & Customer, DataGravity
- Mike Kelly – CTO, Blue Medora
MGT4973 – Mastering Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning
- Iwan Rahabok – CTO Ambassador | Staff SE, VMware
- Sunny Dua – CTO Ambassador | Senior Consultant, VMware
Storage
ELW-SDC-1627 – Software Defined Storage Advanced Topics Workshop
- Captains: Mousumi Mullick and Martin Banda (CTO Ambassador)
- Noel Nguyen – Director of Systems Engineering, VMware
- Bo Bolander – Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
- Mostafa Khalil – Technical Director, VMware
- Greg Mulholland – VSAN Specialist | CTO Ambassador, VMware
STO4572 – Conducting a Successful Virtual SAN Proof of Concept
- Cormac Hogan – Corporate Storage Architect, VMware
- Julienne Pham – Technical Solution Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware
Network
MGT5973 – Automate the Deployment of NSX and Micro-Segmentation: A Deep Dive
- Justin Jones – Consulting Architect, Integration and Automation, VMware
- Mitesh Pancholy – Principal Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMworld
INF4823 – Real World – Architecting a vCloud for NFV Platform for Success
- Gary Blake – Senior Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware UK Ltd
- Niklas Kånge – Consulting Architect, VMware
NET4468 – Defining Your Future With NSX Certification
- Ben Lin – Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware
- Chris McCain – Director NSBU, vmware
End User Computing
- Aaron Black – EUC Product Manager, VMware
- TJ Vatsa – Principal Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware
SPL-MBL-1653 – Advanced Concepts of VMware Workspace Portal
- Captains: Peter Bjork, Karsten Giesse
EUC5909 – VMware’s End User Computing (EUC) Strategy into 2015 and Beyond
- Shawn Bass – Sr. Director, Strategy & Planning, VMware
- TJ Vatsa – Principal Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware
- Karthik Lakshminarayanan – Senior Director, Product Management, VMware
- Harry Labana – VP Products, VMware
EUC5062 – Your Desktops Secured: What Can NSX Do for You?
- Tristan Todd – EUC Architect, VMware
- Jeff Whitman – Staff Systems Engineer | CTO Ambassador, VMware
EUC4509 – Architecting Horizon for VSAN, the VCDX way – VMware on VMware.
- Simon Long – Cloud Architect, VMware
- Travis Wood – Senior Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware
EUC4630 – Managing Users: A Deep Dive Into VMware User Environment Manager
- Michael Bradley – Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
- Dale Carter – Senior Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware
EUC5516 – Delivering the Next Generation of Hosted Applications
- Justin Venezia – Sr. Solution Architect – VMware Alliance, F5 Networks
- Nick Jeffries – Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
- Dale Carter – Senior Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware
- Michael Bradley – Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
- Mark Ewert – Architect – EUC Technical Competitive Team, VMware
PAR6426 – App Volumes Architecture and Delivery
- Nick Jeffries – Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
- Dale Carter – Senior Solutions Architect | CTO Ambassador, VMware