(TX)NUG - DALLAS SPRING EVENT 2026
MAY 21st, 2026
5 - 8PM
BankHead Brewing Company
13090 Bee Street
Farmers Branch, TX 75234 9
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*AGENDA*
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Check In / Open Mingle
5:30pm - 6:15pm
Keynote Presentation
TBD
6:15pm - 6:30pm
Break
6:30pm - 7:15pm
Panel Discussion
Emerging Networking Ideas & Trends
7:15pm - 8:00pm
Open Mingle
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Participants
Event Host:
Craig Johnsons
Group Leader
Craig Johnson needs no introduction. Ever since he won the Meadowcreek Elementary spelling bee championship in 1988, he's never left the spotlight. What many fans don't know is that he has since earned 3 CCIE titles: Routing & Switching, Storage Networking, and Data Center. When he's not flawlessly spelling words like aglet and orangutan, he's hard at work as a Senior Technical Solutions Architect at Forward Networks.
Keynote Speaker:
TBD
Bio Coming Soon!
Panelist:
Steve Rodriguez
Cisco
I’ve spent close to 30 years doing something technical and over 20 years focusing to wireless. I’ve worked in TAC (wireless of course!) as a lead, a Solutions Architect and a deployment engineer. I am currently a Technical Marketing Engineer for the Wireless Business Unit for Cisco Systems helping to drive product and features as well as a member of the IEEE 802.11 standard working group.
Panelist:
Amy Arnold
Fortinet
Amy Arnold is a security and networking engineer, award winning blogger, and dedicated advocate of community and mentorship. She has been working in and for public sector for 15+ yrs, she tweets/skeets/threads/posts as @amyengineer, and she is best known for combining tech, snark, and terrible puns to contribute and share knowledge, support community members, and bring networking and security folks together. Currently, a Senior Systems Engineer, SLED at Fortinet.
Panelist:
Brad Floyd
Southern Methodist University
Panelist:
TBD
Bio Coming Soon!