(FL)NUG - SPRING EVENT 2026
April 23rd, 2026
5:30 - 8:30PM
Aardwolf Brewing Company
1461 Hendricks Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32207
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*AGENDA*
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Check In / Open Mingle
6:00pm - 6:50pm
Keynote Presentation
"Personal Branding without the Cringe"
by Mike Lossmann
6:50pm - 7:00pm
Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Panel Discussion
Emerging Networking Ideas & Trends
8:00pm - 8:30pm
Open Mingle
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Participants
Event Host:
Michael Wynston
Group Leader
Bio Coming Soon!
Keynote Speaker:
Mike Lossmann
Forward Networks
Mike is an experienced IT professional with more than 15 years of expertise in Wide Area Networking and SD-WAN. Mike has seen it all in the industry, from working for a “big four” consulting company as a technology consulting manager, an SD-WAN Solutions Architect, and a Network Architect for several Fortune 150 companies. Currently, he holds the position of Technical Product Marketing Manager at Forward Networks.
Panelist:
Michael Wynston
Bio Coming Soon!
Panelist:
Bill Deluca
Bill DeLuca is a Principal IT Infrastructure Architect driving enterprise infrastructure strategy, cloud modernization, and shared services transformation. He brings a governance‑focused, results‑oriented approach to building resilient IT platforms. His work emphasizes standardization, scalability, and executive‑level alignment across the enterprise.
Panelist:
Nicholas Calcutti
Ryan Specialty Group
Nick Calcutti has spent his career breaking things in production and then teaching other people how not to. An infrastructure expert, professor, and doctoral researcher at USF, he's studying what actually happens when beginners sit down with AI coding tools and try to build real software. His work bridges hands-on systems engineering with empirical research on how novices adopt AI-assisted development tools.
Panelist:
Matthew Belcher
Metric Engineering
Bio Coming Soon!