{"id":2131,"date":"2025-08-04T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdren.net\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:21:49","slug":"tech-day-5-another-successful-mini-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/?p=2131","title":{"rendered":"Tech Day 5 \u2013 Another Successful Mini Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDREN held another successful Tech Day. The June meeting occurred at the Universities at Shady Grove on June 11<sup>th<\/sup>. Sessions included discussing implementing a zero-trust network and adding AI enhancements to your network. Both sessions offered practical strategies and implementation best practices. Special thanks to the Shady Grove IT team and conference services department for hosting the meeting, and our presenters:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving to a zero-trust network<\/strong> \u2013 Mark Addy (UMCP), Ray Soellner (UMBC), Tom Gentile USNA), and Ken Rich (HP-Aruba)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introducing AI to your Network<\/strong> \u2013 Bill Wiltrout (FSU) and Brad Bothun (MDREN)<\/p>\n<p>There were also updates from Tech Day 4 presentations, including migrating from VMWare to MS-Hyper-V, the MDREN Engineering Committee performance survey, and the MDREN network upgrade projects. \u00a0We are already planning Tech Day 6.\u00a0 It will likely take place in late October or early November.\u00a0 More information will be made available soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDREN held another successful Tech Day. The June meeting occurred at the Universities at Shady Grove on June 11th. Sessions included discussing implementing a zero-trust network and adding AI enhancements &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/?p=2131\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdren.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}