Upcoming talks and workshops, plus a growing archive of the conversations and live builds that got us here.
18 events
Schedules checked September 24, 2026. Use the linked organizer agenda for the latest session details.
University of Toronto Conference Centre · Toronto, Canada
A practical look at building and operating NetClaw with MCP, pyATS, structured skills, and agent federation.
The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa · Tucson, Arizona
Hands-on work with agent loops and GitHub SpecKit, followed by a conference appearance exploring agentic networking.
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Munich, Germany
A hands-on workshop with William Collins and Joksan Flores, building agents against live networking use cases.
Las Vegas, Nevada
My field notes from Cisco Live, with NetClaw demonstrations and conversations about putting agents to work.
MaRS Centre · Toronto, Canada
Sharing the practical path from network engineering to building with AI at the Toronto Network Operators Group.
Austin, Texas
A conference talk and a workshop exploring RAG, MCP, and practical network automation with William Collins.
New York, New York
Workshops, protocol discussions, and a Selector MCP demonstration across the Fall summit program.
Civic Hall · New York City & online
Selector’s inaugural summit, with sessions on building RAG applications and using Selector MCP. My pre-event Packet Pushers conversation introduces the event and my sessions.
Dallas, Texas
Practical sessions on agent protocols and retrieval-augmented generation for network engineers.
New York, New York
A Selector technical demonstration and summit hosting, preserved in the ONUG event archive.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
With Dave Zacks, exploring how AI and LLMs can help engineers understand and operate their networks.
Online
Connecting network automation and conversational AI in a Cisco Developer Days demonstration.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A practical approach to repeatable network testing and automation, with the original presentation available from Cisco.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A lab with Palmer Sample and Juulia Santala, plus my Cisco U. Theatre introduction to testing network state with pyATS.
Las Vegas, Nevada
My first Cisco Live as a presenter, teaching with Palmer Sample, Juulia Santala, and Joe Rinehart.
Online · global broadcasts
A Start Now channel conversation with DuAn Lightfoot about tools, getting started, and the journey behind Merlin.
Online
My 30-minute breakout on modern enterprise network management. The original deck survives in my GitHub repository; the historic recording catalogue has not been verified as accessible today.
Online · Americas broadcast
A conversation about a practical roadmap into network automation, preserved in the official Cisco DevNet broadcast.
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