Mr. John Spiegel

John Spiegel is Director of Strategy / Field CTO for HPE/Aruba networks and has 25 years of experiennce running global networks and managing infrastructure. He is an industry pioneer in software defined networking (SDN) and software defined WANs (SD-WAN). John has spoken on the topic network transformation at industry conferences such as Gartner, InterOp, VMWorld, Palo Alto Networks Ignite as well as executive roundtable discussions. He has also been a customer advisor to companies like VMware, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Systems. Disruptive startups have also leveraged John's knowledge to bring products to market resulting in successful exits. John also co-founded the SSE Forum which is a vendor neutral organization dedicated to promoting the SASE/SSE framework. He hosts a podcast called 'The Edge'. When not helping companies on their journey to modernize and secure their networks, John can be found cycling on the backroads of Oregon.