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CHI-NOG 13

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 8:00 AM to Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM CDT

Voco Chicago, 350 West Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 8:00 AM to Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM CDT

Voco Chicago, 350 West Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States.

May 27th - Workshops

May 28th - Conference

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https://chinog.org

Founded by network engineers, architects, and Internet professionals, CHI-NOG was created to foster a strong, local technical community centered on collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and professional growth.

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Speakers

Tom Kacprzynski is the co-founder and Program Committee Chair of the Chicago Network Operators Group (CHI-NOG), which he helped establish in 2013 to foster community and knowledge exchange among network engineers across the Midwest. What started as a local gathering has grown into one of the region's premier networking events and Tom has been at the helm of its program committee ever since.

By day, Tom is a Sr. Manager of Network Engineering at Akamai Technologies, leading the team responsible for Akamai's global backbone. Over his 20+ year career he has architected networks for Meta, Oracle, Rackspace, and Ericsson Edge Gravity. He holds a CCIE certifications and also serves on the NANOG Program Committee.

About Tom Kacprzynski
Organizer
CHI-NOG
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About Tyler Conrad
Systems Engineering Principal Engineer
Arista Networks
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About Bryton Herdes
Principal Network Engineer
CloudFlare
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About Rob Martin
Manager, Advisory Systems Engineering
Arista Networks
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About Taran Deshpande
Technical Marketing Engineer
Cisco
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About Joaquin Chung
Communications Network Architect
Argonne National Laboratory
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About Steve Ulrich
Network Engineer
nexthop.ai
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