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Technology Panels

Technology Panel: Cisco Meet the Expert
Tuesday 29 September 2009, Time:6:30pm — 7:30pm
Session ID: BRKGENPNL-1010
What’s on your mind? Here is your opportunity to “squeeze the intellect” of some of our leading engineers. Find out in an engaging, conversational format about the latest networking technologies. Why? When? Whether? Ask questions not covered in the sessions but which may be critical for your business .. or for your career! Chaired by our CTO, Kevin will ensure that we cover the hottest topics from virtualisation to video, clouds to collaboration, routing to roaming, wireless to wired and IP to IC. After brief introductions by the panel, discussion will be open to the audience who will then drive the questions and topics for discussion.

Kevin Bloch
Kevin Bloch is Chief Technology Officer at Cisco. He provides leadership of technology vision and leadership of people within Cisco to communicate and execute on that vision. An important aspect of the role is to communicate the benefits organisations can achieve from emerging technologies and market transitions.

Kevin joined Cisco 9 years ago. Previously, he held positions with other telecommunications equipment manufacturers, systems integrators as well as with Telstra. He has held several roles in the telecommunications industry including management, strategic planning, marketing, sales, systems engineering and technology development. His expertise covers the fields of internet technologies and architectures, narrowband and broadband access, transmission and switching.

Kevin holds a B.Sc (Computer Science) and a B.E. (Engineering Hons) from the University of New South Wales and is the author of several notable publications and technical reference books.

Richard Dodsworth
Richard Dodsworth joined Cisco in the UK in 1996 before transferring to Singapore in 2001. His 20+ years of experience in the telecommunications industry has included time with UB Networks and as a civil servant in the Australian Government. As the CTO for Unified Communications and Collaboration in Asia–Pacific he provides guidance and technology direction to Cisco's sales teams and customers in the Asia Pacific region.

He certified as a CCIE in 1995, and is the holder of a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia. When not travelling for work, or more commonly nowadays meeting people on a TelePresence call, he enjoys going to the theatre and movies with his wife and being beaten in the latest online game one of his 3 children has discovered on the Internet.

Lincoln Dale
Lincoln is a Distinguished Engineer (Technical Marketing Engineering) within Cisco’s Data Centre Switching Technology Group. His role encompasses development, marketing, engineering, simulation, prototyping, validation and testing of Cisco’s current and future flagship “Nexus” LAN & SAN data centre switch products and technologies, server and network virtualisation, and the evolution of Ethernet within the data centre.

Lincoln holds several US patents and patent submissions, is a regular speaker at industry events, is a regular participant in standards body activities, and is regularly consulted on network designs for some of the most well known sites on the Internet.

In 10+ years at Cisco, Lincoln has covered numerous technologies. Originally hired into the ‘Content Networking’ Business Unit, Lincoln worked on web scaling and acceleration, caching, streaming media and L4—7 switching. Seeking new challenges, he moved into the Storage Area Network (SAN) space, tied with Cisco’s entry into the Fibre Channel switching market with the Cisco MDS 9000 family of switches. Over the last 5 years he has been focussed on ethernet, ethernet evolution, data centre switching, network and server virtualisation.

Adam Radford
Adam has spent the last twenty years in the Computer Networking industry in a variety of roles, from research, implementation, design and architecture.

For the last nine years he has been with Cisco firstly as a Systems Engineer, then as a Consulting Systems Engineer.

Two years ago, he was appointed to the role of Consulting Systems Architect, working with Cisco’s largest customers across the ANZ region on strategy and direction. Adam has a breadth and depth of technology interests and enjoys staying abreast of Cisco’s rapid technology expansion.

Adam is no stranger to public presentations, having presented at many Cisco and industry events for the past eight years. In addition, he was the technology lead for both Cisco Networkers and Technology Solutions Roadshow for the past four years. In his limited spare time, Adam enjoys both coaching and participating in triathlon.

Adam Mulcahy
Adam has been in the Networking industry for 19 years. For the last 14 years he has been working on packet voice technologies. In 1997 he designed and implemented the first VoFR Qsig network.

For the last 10 years he has been with Cisco. He spent his first 5 years as a Systems Engineer in Australia working with Cisco’s voice technologies first in the enterprise and then later with the Service Provider team. During this time he worked with the first adopters of directly connected SS7 packet networks. Following this, he took up an Asia Pacific regional role as a Consulting Engineer with the Cisco Core Technology Group. During this time he worked with many Asian Regional customers consulting on packet voice technology and network design. As a product Manager for the SS7 packet technologies he also toured much of Asia speaking at various events.

He now works in the Australia and New Zealand Service Provider technology team as a Consulting Systems Engineer. Adam has an Associate Diploma of Computer Data Processing. He is married with 3 children. When not designing Service Provider packet voice networks he flies rockets.

Technology Panel: Cisco Data Centre
Wednesday 30 September 2009, 7:45am — 8:45am
Session ID:BRKGENPNL-1011
Join our datacenter experts from around the world in a lively panel discussion focusing in Data Centre futures.

Topics to be covered will include Virtualisation, Unified Fabric, Beyond 10Gbps Ethernet and Layer 2 Multipathing.

Adam Radford
Adam has spent the last twenty years in the Computer Networking industry in a variety of roles, from research, implementation, design and architecture. For the last nine years he has been with Cisco firstly as a Systems Engineer, then as a Consulting Systems Engineer.

Two years ago, he was appointed to the role of Consulting Systems Architect, working with Cisco’s largest customers across the ANZ region on strategy and direction. Adam has a breadth and depth of technology interests and enjoys staying abreast of Cisco's rapid technology expansion.

Adam is no stranger to public presentations, having presented at many Cisco and industry events for the past eight years. In addition, he was the technology lead for both Cisco Networkers and Technology Solutions Roadshow for the past four years. In his limited spare time, Adam enjoys both coaching and participating in triathlon.

Mike Herbert
Mike Herbert (CCIE 8479) is a Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco’s Server Access and Virtualisation BU focusing on Data Centre virtualisation and switching architectures. Prior to this he was a member of the Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE) group at Cisco focusing on Switching Architectures and together with his colleagues was responsible for development and verification of best practice switching designs.

Mike was also at one time a member of the ESE team that developed the Cisco Unified Communications and Call Centre Design Guides. Before his work on the ESE solutions team Mike worked with Cisco Advanced Services providing design guidance and technical support for large Enterprise customers. He is a Routing and Switching CCIE.

Bradley Wong
Bradley Wong is a Product Manager with the Server Access Virtualisation Business Unit (SAVBU) in Cisco, responsible for the Nexus and Unified Computing System (UCS) product lines. Prior to his current role, Bradley was a Technical Marketing Engineer on the Catalyst 6500 product line, specialising in Data Centre technologies.

Bradley was also a Routing & Switching Consulting Systems Engineer for the Asia Pacific region as well as an Escalation Engineer for Cisco’s Asia Pacific TAC located in Sydney, Australia. Bradley is a Routing & Switching CCIE.

Andrew Smallridge
Andrew Smallridge, a fifteen year veteran of Cisco, is a Data Centre Technology Systems Architect. Andrew joined Cisco in Switzerland in 1994 as a Business Development Consultant focusing on the introduction of Cisco's future LAN switching platform, the Catalyst 5000. In the time Andrew has been with Cisco, his positions have included Consulting Engineer, Product Marketing Manager for Cisco Enterprise LAN and ATM switching products and technical lead for Storage Networking.

Andrew spent the last two years in New York working closely with Cisco’s Enterprise and Financial accounts and Cisco partners designing next generation virtualised Data Centre architectures incorporating Unified Fabric technologies and Cisco's Unified Computing System. Andrew has since moved back to Australia to support partners and customers designing solutions utilising Cisco's Unified Computing System in the Asia Pacific Region.

Bill Dufresne
Bill joined Cisco in 1996 from a successful integrator where he was a Lead Consulting Engineer specialising in Network and Server/Application integration and designs. He held certifications from Novell, Banyan, and Microsoft as well as Cisco. When Bill started at Cisco, it was as a Field Systems Engineer covering many accounts in the state of Florida, which included Commercial, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Service Providers.

Bill became focused on Applications and Rich Media solutions with the acquisitions of ArrowPoint and SightPath, which became the Cisco Content Services Switch and Application Content Networking Solutions. He quickly became recognised as a “Go To” person within the US for these technologies and being able to integrate them as complete solutions within Cisco Infrastructures.

Some of the most notable work Bill has completed with Cisco customers included IP–enabled SCADA networks for Power and Water Utilities, High–Performance Computing for Higher Education, and a High-Performance Multi–service Optical and MPLS network for research and Higher Education known as a Lambda Rail. He has always been a proponent of Solution Designs and uses a holistic philosophy in his customer conversations.