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AI is changing how networks are designed and operated. This session explores how GPU infrastructure, AI workloads, and automation are reshaping enterprise and cloud networking, and what these shifts mean for network architecture and the future role of network engineers. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Roy Chua, Founder and Principal, AvidThink.

Cribl gives security teams control over their data: what they collect, where to send it and how much to keep. The rest of the SecOps stack hasn’t kept pace. Detections, parsers and configurations spread across SIEMs, pipelines and data lakes still change by hand, so every cost cut, migration or new source turns into weeks of manual validation, and plenty of planned changes never happen at all. SecOps as Code closes that gap: every change ships like software, with testing, version control and rollback across the entire infrastructure.

Sentry offers both "Application Metrics" and "Logs", but both can seem pretty similar. Both logs and metrics are just a collection of attributes attached to a name in your code. Both can be counted, visualized, or alerted on. Both are not sampled by default. So how do you know which to choose? In this video, we'll briefly go over a few examples of when to use logs and when to use metrics. TLDR; Logs are designed for debugging and may be temporary or likely to change when problems arise. Metrics on the other hand are stable, purposely placed events used to track user behaviors.

Cloud has transformed networking. This session explores the fundamentals of cloud networking, including software-defined infrastructure, automation, APIs, infrastructure as code, and cloud connectivity, providing a practical foundation for modern network engineers. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Holly Podbielak, Solutions Consultant, Palo Alto Networks.

As infrastructure expands across clouds, data centers, and the edge, complexity grows. This session explores practical strategies for designing secure, scalable multicloud architectures that balance performance, governance, connectivity, and operational simplicity. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Jeremiah Johnson, US Cloud Engineering Manager, Fortinet.

What does it take to build a global hybrid multicloud network? Richard Olson, Tech Lead at Canva, shares the architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons learned scaling infrastructure across clouds, regions, and bare metal at global scale. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Richard Olson, Tech Lead (Networking and Compute), Canva.

What does USD $130M of AI infrastructure look like? 1,024 NVIDIA B300 GPUs. 40,000 strands of fiber. The scale is mind-blowing. And this is just one of our smaller clusters. Need GPU capacity? Reach out to us!