Cisco User Group Meetup

The Cisco User Group was created in early 2016 by local enthusiastic IT professionals. Its purpose is to create a unique and friendly environment where IT professionals can meet up once a month and get to know each other, share knowledge, experiences, skills, learn about careers and much more in a completely relaxed and social environment along with plenty of drinks and great food!

The group is free and open to anyone who enjoys socialising and talking about any IT technology topic.

While the group is officially supported by Cisco Systems, don’t expect any sales pitches!

What to expect: Fantastic friendly people, great presentations, Free drinks & food and sometimes even free books with cool Cisco give-away prizes!!

Presenters for 3rd March 2020

1. "Machine Learning applications on Cisco HyperFlex" -Chris Gascoigne

This demonstration will introduce some machine learning frameworks and platforms such as Tensorflow and Kubeflow and how they can be run on Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure using Kubernetes.

Chris Gascoigne is a Technical Solutions Architect with Cisco working in the Australia/New Zealand data centre team. Chris has been with Cisco for thirteen years and specialises in next generation data centre networking and automation technologies such as Nexus 9000, Application Centric Infrastructure, Tetration Analytics, Kubernetes and CloudCenter. Prior to joining Cisco, Chris spent the previous 7 years working for a system integrator focusing on Unified Communications, Security and Routing and Switching. Chris holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering and a CCIE certification since 2005.

2."Cisco Meraki: The Good and the Bad" - By Philip D'Ath

Philip D'Ath is a Cisco Designated VIP member in Cisco community and Cisco Meraki Master. A brief summary of Philip D’Ath:
• Based in New Zealand, but do Cisco Meraki jobs all over the world.
• Started life as a C developer.
• Been working with Cisco products for a bit over 20 years.
• I am a former Cisco VIP on the Cisco Enterprise forums.
• Most months I am voted the #1 Cisco Meraki engineer - globally - by customers and engineers from the Meraki community.
• Was invited to join the global Cisco Influencers program.
• The highest qualification Cisco Meraki give out is a Meraki Master. There are around 300 globally. To the best of my knowledge there are 3 in Australia and 2 in New Zealand. I am one of them.
• I am a reasonably well recognised person globally in the Cisco Meraki space.
• Other major Cisco qualifications I hold are CCNP and CCDP.
• I also hold qualifications with VMWare, Amazon AWS, NetApp, LPI Linux and Microsoft.
• I love playing with technology, trying things out, building things, and experimenting.

Meetups run on the first Tuesday of every month at 18:00 (6pm) sharp!