I’ve found it helpful to keep track of events I’ve attended over the years. Here you will find past events I’ve attended in past years. Events I have planned for the current year can be found on the home page.
2024 – was a busy year. So busy I didn’t have time to record all the events I attended. If you were looking you probably saw me at the following events:
- Wichita VMUG Christmas Party
- Kansas City VMUG – Presenting
- Omnissa One
- VMware Explore – Presenting
- NVIDIA GTC
2023 is off to a great start. Lots of conferences are returning to in person and I’m already booking rooms for some of them. If you’d like to catch me at a conference here are some of the ones I am planning on attending. Currently I don’t have any sessions I’m presenting but will add them if I given the opportunity. If you can’t find me at an event you can hit me up on twitter (@wonder_nerd). I’m planning on the following events:
- Wichita VMUG meetings as time allows
- GPU Tech Conference (spring) (online) – March 20th to the 23rd
- 3 proposed sessions none accepted
- VMware Explore US (in person) – August 21st to 24th
- Call for papers has not been announced as of this posting
- Kansas City VMUG UserCon (Date TBD)
2022 was a year of hybrid events. It has also been a busy one for me, not so much with the events but teaching at classes at K-State. I taught two this year, CMST-315 (Intro to Sys Admin) and CMST-460 (Principals of Software Engineering). If you were looking for me at events I made it to 5 this year. They were:
- NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC Spring) (online) – March 21st to 24th
- VMware Explore (formerly VMworld) (in person in SF) – August 29th to September 1st
- vBrownbag Tech Talk – [VMTN1980] Educating the Next Generation of IT Professionals Using VMware Technology
- NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) – Developer Conference (online) – September 19th to 22nd
- Kansas City VMUG User Con (in person) – October 27th
- Paid sponsor session – Dell APEX
- Wichita VMUG Christmas Party (in person) – December 13th
2021 hasn’t been the year to catch me in person at conferences for obvious reasons. I’ve still been attending them, just virtually, which means you can find me in the conference’s social channels or you can hit me up on twitter (@wonder_nerd). I’m planning on the following events:
- GPU Tech Conference, April 12-23; Sessions:
- 2021 International SeaPerch Challenge, June 4-5; Session:
- Introducing AI in Education – Panel session with:
- Dustin Franklin – NVIDIA (Moderator)
- Christine Nguyen – Boys & Girls Clubs of Western PA @BGCWPA_STEM
- Derek Runberg – SparkFun Electronics @sparkfun
- Introducing AI in Education – Panel session with:
- VMworld September 28-30;
- VMware Code Connect, Sessions listed above
- GPU Tech Conference, October
- No sessions presented
2020 was a lousy year for many, surprisingly I was able to make it to more events than normal. You may have virtually seen me at:
- GPU Tech Conference, March 17 – March 21; Session S21670 How NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Workstations, Virtual PCs, and Virtual Apps are Transforming Industries – Completed Session here
- VMworld September 28-30;
- Opening Acts – Wednesday, 30-Sep-2020 midnight PDT: Transition to the Workplace of the Future – https://blog.vmunderground.com/openingacts-2020/
- Moderator: Tony Foster @wonder_nerd
- Panelists:
- Tom Howarth @tom_howarth
- Tina Krogull @tinakrogull
- Joep Piscaer @jpiscaer
- Laurens van Duijn @laurensvanduijn
- Session [ETML1848] – Dynamic Optimization of Mixed VDI and Artificial Intelligence Workloads A joint panel session with thought leaders at NVIDIA, VMware, Dell, and ITQ
- Birds of a Feather [KUB2879] – Raspberry PI & Kubernetes Setup with Eric Nielsen
- Birds of a Feather [ETPD2884] – How to be an Effective Evangelist with Corey Romero
- Opening Acts – Wednesday, 30-Sep-2020 midnight PDT: Transition to the Workplace of the Future – https://blog.vmunderground.com/openingacts-2020/
- VMware Code Connect, October 1 & 2
- GPU Tech Conference, October 5-8
- Dell Technologies World, October 21 & 22
- VMUG Virtual Event, November 4th; Dynamic Optimization of Mixed VDI and AI Workloads A joint Dell and NVIDIA session on delivering VDI by day and compute by night.
- SC20 (Super Compute 20), November 17 – 20
In 2019 you might have seen me at the following events or conferences:
- GPU Tech Conference, March 17 – March 21; Session: S9870
- Kansas City VMUG UserCon, June25; Session:
Dell Technologies Cloud Platform powered by integrated Dell EMC & VMware
- VMworld San Francisco, August 25 – August 29: Session: VMTN5019U – “The Thrifty Admin, VDI by Day Compute by Night”
In 2018 you may have had the chance to visit with me at the following events:
- GPU Tech Conference, March 26 – March 29; Session S8483 – Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops
- Dell Technologies World, April 30 – May 3
- VMworld Las Vegas, August 26 – August 30; Session: VAP2340BU – Driving Organizational Value by Virtualizing AI/ML/DL and HPC Workloads
You may have had a chance to catch up with me at these events in 2017
- GPU Tech Conference (GTC), May 8 – May 11; Session S7349 – Getting Started with GPUs for Linux Virtual Desktops on VMware Horizon
- VMworld Las Vegas, August 27 – August 31
- VMworld Barcelona, September 11 – September 14
- Super Computing 17 (SC17), November 13 – November 16
For 2017 I did not attend Dell EMC world in May, due to my speaking at GTC at the same time.
In 2016 I attended:
- GPU Tech Conference (GTC) (April 4-7) – Session S6245 – IT-as-a-Service with Visually Intensive VDI
- EMC World (May 2-5)
- VMworld San Francisco (August 28 – September 1)
- LISA 16 (December 4-9) – Workshop 2: Data Center Virtual Realities: What Could They Look Like?
