Location
The conference takes place at the beautiful
Wyndham Garden Berlin Mitte
Osloer Str. 116A, 13359 Berlin, Germany
Click on the image above to be taken to the Wyndham Garden website to find out more about the hotel accomodations.
Schedule
Full schedule coming soon. In the meantime check out our growing list of speakers and topics below.
Colin Anderson
Colin Anderson is an IT systems engineer, university faculty member, and an avid outdoorsman. His passion for implementing and sharing WLAN best practices was ignited while troubleshooting nightmarish networks over a decade ago.
Scott Pereira
Scott has worked for over 14 years in the world of wireless and is currently focused on enhancing the iBwave Wi-Fi design software capabilities. He has established himself as a respected thought leader in the indoor wireless design industry and is a regular speaker at wireless trade conferences around the world. He is excited to be joining the Wi-Fi conversation at the WLAN Pros show.
Andrew Yourtchenko
I have a lot of fun with both doing quite nerdy stuff and then talking about it to a crowd of folks.
Gregor Vucajnk
You!
Why haven’t you signed up to speak for one of our “Ten Talk” slots? We’d love to hear from you. Please email Matthew to submit your title and topic.
John Anderson
John Anderson is a Product Planner for the Fluke Networks Enterprise Solutions Business Unit at Netscout where he and a world-class engineering team are building the next generation of wireless installation and maintenance tools (surveying, analysis, spectrum analysis) for engineers and technicians charged with deploying emerging technologies.
Ferney Munoz
Network Administrator, Wireless enthusiast, father of three, totally in love with life.
Ronald van Kleunen
Ronald van Kleunen is the CEO and founder of Globeron Pte Ltd, based in Singapore, since 2003. He manages the daily business operations and provides certification training services in APAC and EMEA. He has 20 years of experience in designing IT/Service & Network Infrastructures, IT/Network Services and IT/Network Operations. He speaks regularly at international events organized by the ITU/IMPACT, BroadGroup, BICSI, WiFiTrek, WLPC USA, WLPC Europe. Before Globeron, since 1995, he worked at various multinational corporations, including Motorola Solutions APAC, Sun Microsystems APAC, IBM and AT&T Global Network Services EMEA and Ericsson Telecommunications, The Netherlands.
David Coleman
David Coleman is a wireless mobility consultant and trainer. For the last seventeen years, David has instructed IT professionals from around the globe in enterprise WLAN design, WLAN security, WLAN administration and WLAN troubleshooting. In his spare time, David writes white papers, blogs and books about enterprise Wi-Fi networking. David is the co-author of Sybex Publishing’s CWNA Study Guide, CWSP Study Guide and CWAP Study Guide. David is the Senior Mobility Leader for Aerohive Networks and is CWNE #4. Aerohive invites you to download a free ebook co-authored by David Coleman: WLAN Troubleshooting and Design here: http://bit.ly/1I5miUu
Michael Gullqvist
Michael Gullqvist has been working with trouble shooting and network performance analysis since the early nineties. As a co-founder and CEO of 7LAB, he is heading a focused team that is constantly seeking ways to improve the availability and quality of Wi-Fi networks.
Karol Krol
Karol Krol is an MSc AGH UST, Krakow. Wireless has been a passion since the early Ham-radio fox hunting days. Since 2001 his focus has been W-Fi chipset design for companies such as Spirea and Nanoradio (now Samsung). In 2009 Karol partnered with 7LAB to head Wi-Fi trainings and troubleshooting department. Since 2012 Karol heads development of the AirMobile solution to help troubleshoot mobility issues in Wi-Fi networks.
Matthew Casteel
Matthew serves as Keith Parson’s “digital personal assistant” helping maintain the blog, conference registration, and more. Matthew lives in Mesa, AZ with his wife and 8 kids.
Donal O Duibhir
Donal began his networking career in Cisco amidst the dot com collapse and has been around the traps (and world) both back of house and front of house in Enteprise, Telco, Financial, SME/SMB and paddled a bit in the channel.
More recently he started two small tech businesses, supported the startup scene in Oceania for many years, volunteers via tech, and is now helping Airbnb accelerate their internal networks and platforms. He’s a buddhist informed permaculture network geek who sees everything as interconnected.
Shaun Neal
Solution Architect at Burwood Group. Technology consulting specializing in smart solutions to create better outcomes for our customers, specifically in the areas of wireless and security.
Steven Heinsius
is a well known speaker from the Netherlands. He is CCSI certified and speaks on many occasions throughout his region (EMEAR).
Marko Tisler
Marko Tisler is currently working as a member of Technical Marketing team at Aerohive Networks. He has a B. Sc. degree in Computer and Information Science with focus on system architectures. Prior to joining Aerohive, Marko worked as a Cisco Systems instructor and professional services consultant, first for Enterprise WLAN and later for Service Provider WLAN architectures. Marko has lately been engaged with work on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization, specifically with network abstraction, programmability and orchestration.
Alan Blake
One of the newest Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE®), obtaining the most advanced skills available in the current enterprise Wi-Fi market. Blake is the 129th person worldwide to hold this prestigious title, which has been recognized as one of the 10 most difficult designations to earn throughout the entire IT industry.
Scott Stapleton
Scott started out in Wi-Fi with nothing more than a soldering iron and N-type connector in hand, scouring roof tops for ex-pay-TV antennas as part of the community Wi-Fi movement of the early 2000s – an obsession that lasted several years. Having since moved through several ICT roles Scott wound up in networks and naturally gravitated towards Wi-Fi, trading a hobby for a career. Having recently made the move from Australia to Europe he now plans to provide worldwide wireless consulting services.
Jussi Kiviniemi
Vice President of Wi-Fi Design Tools at Ekahau. Product / marketing / evangelism.
Martin Ericson
A networking trainer for more tahn 25 years living in Göteborg Sweden and former responsible for developing Ascom training material for their VoWiFi phones. CWNE #148.
Mike Leibovitz
Director, Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks
Christopher Hinsz
Chris manages the AirMagnet Mobile toolset for the Fluke Networks Enterprise Solutions Business Unit at Netscout which includes AirMagnet Survey PRO, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer, and AirMagnet Spectrum XT among others.
Chris has been working in the Wi-Fi industry for over 14 years attending both IEEE802.11 meetings and Wi-Fi Alliance meetings in that time. Chris was previously at Motorola Solutions where he managed Access Point products and represented Motorola Solutions on the Wi-Fi Alliance Board of Directors.
Keith Parsons
Keith Parsons is Managing Director of the Institute for Network Professionals. A gifted presenter, Keith is known for his wit and broad technical experience. He holds 58 technical certifications (9 Wireless) and has earned an MBA from the Marriott School of Management. He is author (or editor) of a 30+ technical publications and has developed seven technical industry and vendor certifications.
Mr. Parsons is a sought after presenter for a variety of technical conferences on the subjects of Wireless LAN and Network Security/Penetration Testing. He travels throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia in behalf of a wide variety of IT vendors, explaining their products to networking professionals.
Carter J Burke
CEO/Owner at AccelTex Solutions
As the Wi-Fi space gets more crowded, and the definition of “High Density” gets expanded, it is critical that site survey engineers and installers select the proper antennas for their deployments. This session will discuss the common challenges seen in high density deployments, review the 2 most common types of antennas (Omnidirectional and Patch), and discuss when you should considering using which kind.
Ever wonder why Wi-Fi NICs aren’t calibrated? Come learn why and how you can adjust your WLAN designs accordingly.
Every attendee will receive their own LinkSprinter. Keith will be walking through all the details of the device providing tips and techniques on how to best use it in the field.
WLAN security is the top of mind concerns for network owners with continued increase in frequency of new threats and cyber-attacks. Waiting months or even weeks for slow firmware update response to the security monitoring systems is no longer an option. Much like best of breed anti-virus software defends your computer from attacks, you need peace of mind that your WLAN network is protected 24x7 against the latest security threats. The session will provide an overview of WLAN security challenges and how dynamic threat update technology provides the maximum WIDS/WIPS security posture for your WLAN network.
Both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz unlicensed bands are home to hundreds of different types of RF emitters that can interfere with Wi-Fi transmissions and impact performance. But not all interferers are the same, and some have greater impact than others. What characteristics of an RF interference source will impact Wi-Fi performance, how do these detriment Wi-Fi performance, and how can you measure them to determine if they are a problem to solve? We can examine the RF signatures of different interference sources, measure their impact on performance, and visually see these key characteristics. Visualization and detection methods will help us to focus our time on solving those that need to go, and simply dealing with those that don’t.
Technologies of days past, such as radio and television, are quickly being overtaken by Wi-Fi as the most sought medium from our global population. In today’s digital world, people expect Wi-Fi wherever they roams. The combination of often free, experience-driven Wi-Fi is being delivered by many businesses with an expectation for great outcomes. In this new outcome economy, businesses seek delivery of excellent experiences to building brand loyalty and increase revenue. The practice is far from “evil” as expressed by many in the Wi-Fi experts community – it become one key element of digital business transformation. Join Mike Leibovitz as he explores this topic from his objective position.
Purpose build VoWiFi devices normally have settings for configuring WLAN and LAN QoS settings for different traffic type like voice stream, signalling and messaging. Modern smart phones can run additional applications like video, web services etc. This session will discuss the parameters that are used to achieve QoS in WLAN and LAN. It will also show how this can be observed and discuss how this is implemented in some popular devices.
A part of WMM is UAPSD an efficient power saving method for voice devices. This session will discuss the theory behind it. Its best usage is i dedicated VoWiFi phones where in can multi-fold the talk time. The session will also show how to trace this and discuss the use of this in modern smart devices.
"How to best survey in my specific environment?", "Why can't I get the CAD stuff to work", "How can you Finns make liquorice that good?", "is Wi-Fi Amanda a real person or a cyborg from 2074?" - The folks from Ekahau have flown in from Finland to answer all your questions. Bring your questions, and your Ekahau project files with you and let's get things resolved.
The premiere of Ekahau Site Survey version 8.5. Upgrade to version 8.5 may not sound like a big deal – but we like to think it is. Join the session to find out if we’re lying – or just for the Finnish Whiskey ;)
Predictive surveys provide speed and 'AP on a stick' surveys provide accuracy but is there a method that can provide the best of both worlds?
Captive Portals do NOT I repeat, Do NOT need to exist in public Wi-Fi. No one likes them but they are among us. Here I talk about the different variations of public Wi-Fi access and Captive Portals, examples of some bad ones...maybe ill find a good one (rare) I did blog about this here: www.gbrnetblog.com
SDN is not a new concept, however it has grown in popularity lately and has started to be introduced to WLAN verticals as well. The session discusses various flavours of SDN and their current implementations and builds up to the SDN and WiFi platforms possibilities for the future.
In this session I would like to discuss the synergies between SDN and Wireless LANs. Since SDN means different things to different audiences, the session first discusses the SDN architectures and protocols and compares them to some of the existing WLAN architectures (e.g. split MAC) and protocols (e.g. CAPWAP). CAPWAP has already been successfully addressing some of the challenges of static network architectures for Wireless LANs in a way that is not so different to SDN (e.g. OpenFlow). The session concludes with the call for Wireless LANs to be made directly programmable using well defined APIs, which is a prerequisite for any SDN architecture.
more details coming soon...
How to use tools like ELK(Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) to quickly spot patterns and problems in your Wifi footprint. We will drill in to some simple tools and scripts for instrumenting large and small Wifi deployments. Let's use the users and clients as the sensors for simple performance management via tomography.
Have you ever considered launching your own blog, or getting help managing many of the "little", "annoying" tasks you just hate getting to each week? Have you ever considered outsourcing to your very own personal assistant? Matthew will walk you through some simple strategies on how you can do just that.
7Lab has extensive Wi-Fi troubleshooting experience. Mobility in Wi-Fi is challenging, therefore troubleshooting and 24/7 monitoring from the true clients becomes necessary.We will display practical troubleshooting cases from end user perspective.
During this "Ten Talk" session we will give a basic overview of practical troubleshooting cases from end user perspective.
Technology research firm Gartner estimates that by 2020, the number of Internet of Thing (IoT) devices will be 26 billion units worldwide, which far exceeds the expected 7.3 billion PCs, tablets, and smartphones. Could this be the beginning of the self-aware Skynet predicted by the Terminator movies? New enterprise WLAN challenges lie ahead in a world where all the number of IoT devices far exceeds the number of people on the planet Earth. WLAN administrators will have to confront new WLAN design, security and administration challenges as we move into the future with an IoT connected world.
Wireless devices are getting adopted more and more in home environments, ranging from mobile end-user devices to home automation devices. However these devices are impacting the communications in-side your house and might even impact your neighbors wireless network. This session will cover what kind of wireless tools are needed in the homes.
WLAN security is the top of mind concerns for network owners with continued increase in frequency of new threats and cyber-attacks. Waiting months or even weeks for slow firmware update response to the security monitoring systems is no longer an option. Much like best of breed anti-virus software defends your computer from attacks, you need peace of mind that your WLAN network is protected 24x7 against the latest security threats. The session will provide an overview of WLAN security challenges and how dynamic threat update technology provides the maximum WIDS/WIPS security posture for your WLAN network.
There are many sayings in the in the networking world. One of my favourite as an example is “Packets don’t lie”. The statement is not completely accurate but it does relate to the state of mind WLAN engineers often have towards metrics they are relying on when designing, verifying and troubleshooting WLANs. This session is getting deeper in one of the basic metric, RSSI, to demonstrate it’s implicit nature, and providing an understanding that the values we are operating with on daily basis are very volatile and unpredictable.
IPv6 uses a lot of multicast. This tends to make WiFi professionals worried. Based on experiences operating mid- to large- scale (10K-30K stations) conference networks (CiscoLive, Mobile World Congress, FOSDEM), this talk will consider various parts of the protocol contributing to multicast usage, and offer the ways to control them - using both vendor-specific (Cisco) as well as the existing and upcoming standards-based mechanisms.
Assembling a complete hands-on lab for teaching WLAN fundamentals doesn't have to come at a high price. A variety of low-cost tools and techniques will be discussed during this "Ten Talk" session.
You can check out several of the speakers and topics above. It’s not too late to apply for a “Ten Talk” session yourself.
All recordings will be available online after the event.
Check out some of the highlights from one of last year’s events:
Always a highlight at each WLPC event.