Andreas Diedrich

since 1990 working in the IT - starting with network technology, network analysis and monitoring platforms a la spectrum
1996 founder of Interview Company - focus on network analysis, service monitoring
2015 starting developing software - bridging the gaps between existing solution and user demands
since 2018 working one sharkmon - the solution to monitor on wireshark level

  • Sharkmon - Packet Monitoring using Tshark
Chris Greer

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.

  • Pre-conference class I: Essential Wireshark Skills: Practical Packet Analysis (2-day class)
  • Pre-conference class I: Essential Wireshark Skills: Practical Packet Analysis (2-day class)
Eva Santos

Eva has been a wireless professional for over 5 years and currently resides in Northern Virginia. Her experience includes deploying Wi-Fi as a consultant. Most recently, she has worked at Cisco Meraki troubleshooting potential product issues with wireless products. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and traveling.

  • How do you know Wi-Fi Device is the Problem?
George Cragg

Network Engineer who has worked in the Industrial Control and Medical Device industries

  • Wireshark Packet Capture is like Real Estate: Location Matters
Jasper Bongertz

Jasper Bongertz is a network security expert with focus on network forensics and incident response at Airbus Defence and Space CyberSecurity. He started working freelance in 1992 while he was studying computer science at the Technical University of Aachen. In 2009, Jasper became a Senior Consultant and Trainer for Fast Lane, where he created a large training portfolio with a special focus on Wireshark and network hacking. In 2013, he joined Airbus Defence and Space CyberSecurity, before moving on to G Data Advanced Analytics in 2019 where he is now the head of the CyberSecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT).

Jasper is the creator of the packet analysis tool TraceWrangler, which can be used to convert, edit and sanitize PCAP files. His blog regarding network analysis, network forensics and general security topics can be found at blog.packet-foo.com.

  • Pre-conference class II: TCP Analysis Masterclass
John Capobianco

John Capobianco is a visionary leader, author, and evangelist at the forefront of IT operations, artificial intelligence, and automation. With over 25 years of experience in IT Operations across public and private sectors, John has served as a Technical Leader in AI at Cisco and is currently a Product Marketing Evangelist at Selector AI. His career blends deep technical expertise with a passion for innovation, helping bridge the gap between technology and business value.

John is the author of several influential works, including Automate Your Network and Cisco pyATS: Network Test and Automation Solution. A recognized thought leader, he frequently speaks at global conferences on topics such as AIOps, network automation, and the transformative impact of AI. His engaging style and real-world insights inspire professionals to embrace the future of IT operations.

  • Talk with Your Packets: AI-Powered Natural Language Interaction with Packet Captures
Josh Clark

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.

  • Tales of a System Call Spelunker - Using sysdig and Stratoshark to examine system internals
Megumi Takeshita

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 Japan Self Defense Forces and Chuo university as lecturer. She is one of contributors to the Wireshark projects including Japanese localization.

  • Chase the latency
Mike Kershaw

Mike Kershaw is the creator and maintainer of Kismet, a wireless discovery and IDS system. He has worked on enterprise Wi-Fi security, Android phones, radio protocol manipulation, and now works for Hak5 on the WiFi Pineapple and other red-team tools.

  • pcap-NG, packets, and packet-like objects
Patrick Kinnison

More to Come....

  • Troubleshooting QoS Using Wireshark
Roland Knall

I am a Wireshark Core Developer since 2016 and interested in all things Wireshark

  • Capturing in unusual places
Ross Bagurdes

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.

  • Pre-conference class I: Essential Wireshark Skills: Practical Packet Analysis (2-day class)
  • Pre-conference class I: Essential Wireshark Skills: Practical Packet Analysis (2-day class)
Saju Salahudeen

Saju Salahudeen is a Principal Consulting Engineer for IP Networks at Nokia and a member of NANOG Education Committee. He has 19 years of experience in the industry with 13 years in IP Networking and Multi-Vendor Network Automation. In his current role, his focus area is to help Webscale networks adapt to the current and future demands of the industry. Prior to this, he was a Senior Sales Engineer for IP and Network Automation at Nokia.

  • Containerlab - a Modern way to Design, Deploy, and Test Network Labs
Sake Blok

Sake has been analyzing packets for over 20 years. During his work, Sake started developing functionality for Wireshark while working with the analyzer in his day-to-day job. He also enhanced multiple protocol dissectors. In 2007, Sake joined the Wireshark Core Development team. In 2009, After working for a reseller of networking equipment for 8 years, he started the company SYN-bit to provide network analysis and training services to enterprises across Europe.

  • Pre-conference class III: SSL/TLS Troubleshooting with Wireshark
Vint Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, Emeritus Chairman of the Marconi Society and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, US Navy, JPL and NRO. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the IEEE Medal of Honor, and the Legion d’Honneur.

  • Vint Cerf Keynote: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Internet from 2025 on...