Cameron Smith is a cyber security engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with a focus on developing secure and robust software solutions.

Like you, Chris likes digging into packet captures to figure out how things work. When he is not teaching people the art of packet analysis in live courses, YouTube videos, or at conference seminars, you can find him in the packet trenches with clients from all over the world. Chris has been attending and speaking at Sharkfest since 2011 and enjoys learning new things right alongside attendees of all experience levels.

Daniel Lopez is a dedicated professional currently serving as a Lead Integration & Automation Engineer at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. In this role, Daniel works in the R&D forensics group, where they analyze field failures to determine root cause and provide recommendations to customers.

Daniel graduated from LeTourneau University in 2020 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. During his time in the forensics group, he discovered Wireshark and quickly became captivated by its capabilities. This newfound interest led him to pursue the WCNA certification, further enhancing his expertise in network analysis.

I'm a geek and not afraid to wear my propeller hat in public. Started programming at age 12 (1976) taking a community college course on Fortran IV programming punching cards and found I just 'got it' ... to the point I was spending a lot of time helping the other "kids" in the course with their machine problems. At one point I asked my professor "Do they actually pay people to do this?" to which he replied "Oh yes!"... "I'm going to do this for the rest of my life!" and have.

D.J. Eshelman started working in IT Services in 1997.
He's traveled the world as a leading Consultant for companies like Citrix, where he served as an Independent Resident Consulting Architect from 2011 to 2023, serving dozens of Top 100 companies.
He is the author of "Just Do THIS: A Simpler Way to Succeed in I.T." as well as "Be a Citrix Hero"
He's the founder of the Thrive-IT and Citrix Hero YouTube/Podcasts.
He is a Coach, Speaker, Trainer/Facilitator, and DISC Consultant as an Independent Executive Director with Maxwell Leadership - John C Maxwell's team of over 60,000 certified coaches.
Based out of Nashville, TN - he is working on an epic novel about the life (and traumas) faced by a Network Engineer in a Healthcare company who's been Voluentold to take on leadership. In the meantime, he speaks to audiences worldwide about how to be better not just in technology, but in life!

Eva Santos is a Support Engineer at Meter, specialising in enterprise Wi-Fi troubleshooting. Her roles have varied from wireless design/consulting to product support. She’s passionate about demystifying Wi-Fi through social media. Outside of the support desk, she's a presenter at events like WLPC and has written guest blogs for CWNP and Informa TechTarget.

Jasper is the Head of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) at G Data CyberDefense in Bochum, Germany. In that role he is running a team of computer/network/memory forensics experts as well as a couple of malware reverse engineers and a number of Incident Handlers. The CSIRT helps customers that have been compromised (A.K.A. "hacked"), mostly with the attacker's intent of preparing/performing a ransomware extortion.

Jasper's official role at the G Data CSIRT is "Principal Network Security Specialist". He has over 20 years of experience in computer network analysis and network forensics, and has forgotten more about network protocols than most people will ever learn (Token Ring, ATM, some serial stuff). In previous employments he wrote and taught a number of Ethereal & Wireshark 3-5 day classes as well as official VMware classes, and Hacking courses.

Jasper is a Wireshark Certified Analyst (WCA #2) and member of the board of directors of the Wireshark Foundation.

As a Performance Management Strategist, John helps his customers develop and execute strategies for integrating Performance Management as an IT discipline across the organization. He has been actively focused on Performance Engineering and Analysis for networks, systems, and applications since the early 90s; performance troubleshooting is his passion and joy. His packet analysis toolbox includes Wireshark (of course), as well as NetShark, AppResponse, Packet Analyzer, and Transaction Analyzer.

Josh has both academic and real-world experience in the world of protocol analysis. He holds an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering with a focus in network engineering and has spent the past 8 years designing, troubleshooting, and optimizing networks and applications. He is a Wireshark Certified Analyst.

Kevin Tobin has 40 years of experience in the IT industry and has worked with Wireshark from its inception. Kevin has twenty years of public speaking experience and has presented at several IBM conferences worldwide. He is currently employed as Chief Engineer at Westpac Bank in Australia and regularly called upon by the NOC to lead root cause analysis of incidents and outages. Wireshark is his first-choice troubleshooting tool when dealing with hard to find, intermittent failures.

Currently working on 5G feature development and support, while bringing over 14 years of experience supporting LTE infrastructure.

Megumi Takeshita, packet otaku, runs a packet company, ikeriri network service in Japan. Ikeriri offers services such as packet analysis for troubleshooting, debugging, security inspection. Ikeriri is also a reseller of wired/wireless capture and analysis products. Megumi has authored 10+ books about Wireshark and packet analysis. She also instructs Wireshark for Japanese companies, including the Japan Self-Defence Forces and Chuo University, as a lecturer. She is one of contributors to the Wireshark projects including Japanese localization.

Mike is the author of Kismet, an open-source Wi-Fi and general radio sniffer and IDS tool, and works for Hak5 developing the WiFi Pineapple and other security related tools.

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Peter is a Distinguished Engineer in Cisco’s Networking Hardware team, chairs the Ethernet Alliance, and is active in IEEE 802.3 lower speed (<100Gb/) projects.

Peter works on system architecture and wired standards across Cisco’s networking portfolio and was deeply involved in development of the Catalyst 9000 switches and the UADP family of ASICs.

Peter started in networking in the mid-1980s before PCs took over, when RS232 was the media of choice and 64Kb/s was super-fast. Peter is passionate about Network Evolution, Adoptable Technology and Mentoring.

Principal Network Engineer | Low-Latency Infrastructure | Global Datacenter Architecture

With extensive experience in network architecture and infrastructure, I currently serve as a Principal Consultant at Kyberis Networks. My work focuses on leveraging expertise in Networks, Systems, and Security to address complex challenges and deliver innovative technical solutions tailored to organizational needs.

Previously, I contributed to high-speed, low-latency network design and operations at a financial trading company, where I applied advanced knowledge of IP network architectures and datacenter technologies. My passion lies in enabling secure, scalable, and efficient systems that support mission-critical business objectives.

Ross has had a diverse career in engineering, beginning as a structural engineer, then project engineer for a gas utility, Ross was always quickly
assigned the de-facto network administrator, typically after no one else was brave enough to break, and later fix, the network. This lead to working as a network engineer designing and implementing enterprise networks for a major university hospital. Here he worked with
Extreme Networks, HP, Cisco, Tipping Point, among other network technology, as well as honed his Wireshark and protocol analysis skills. Ross
spent 7 years teaching data networking at Madison College, and in 2017 started authoring and producing IT training videos in Wireshark/Protocol
Analysis, Cisco, and general networking topics for www.Pluralsight.com. In his free time, you'll find Ross and his dog at the beach swimming and
surfing, traveling, hiking, or snowboarding somewhere in the western US.

Ross Bagurdes is a IT engineer and educator working with and teaching networking for more than 25 years. He has authored dozens of training coures about CCNA, Network +, Wireshark, Firewalls, and more at Pluralsight, and has helped more than 1,000,000 people get education in network technology. Today Ross works with the Wireshark Foundation to manage the Wireshark Certified Analyst program, as well as teaching courses on how to use Wireshark to successfully troubleshoot protocols and networks. In his personal time, you'll find Ross and his dog Dory walking along the beaches in San Diego, CA.

Ryan Younger is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Olivet Nazarene University, specialising in cybersecurity, network analysis, and applied AI. He has 30 years of industry experience, having worked at companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Cisco, and eBay on large-scale systems, security, and user-facing technologies.

Scott Robohn is co-founder and CEO of Solutional, where he leads consulting, training, and technical marketing in next-gen networking, automation, and AI. With 35+ years of experience building, guiding, and scaling technical teams and solutions, Scott helps IT organizations evolve into software-centric, resilient, and intelligent network operations teams. Scott is a frequent event speaker, a co-founder of the Network Automation Forum (NAF), host of the Total Network Operations podcast, and a leader of the (VA)NUG chapter of USNUA.

30 years of experience in IT, focusing on Performance Engineering and troubleshooting as my primary disciplines.
I've also worked on jet engines, done IT training, taught high school math, taught elementary school, and still remember how to throw hay bales around as I did in my youth.

The Open Markets Initiative. CTO at Scaled Sources.