Hank Preston
Distinguished Architect, Cisco
Hank Preston is listed as Distinguished Architect, Cisco. Hank is scheduled to speak at Cisco Live 2027 on 9 February 2027.
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About
Hank started his career in network engineering like many, by cracking open a CCNA book and learning all about subnetting, the OSI model, and CLI interfaces. He fell in love with the deceptive simplicity and elegance of network communication and TCP/IP and dove in head first. His journey was one that included many network designs (and debates about designs), miles of copper/fiber cables, late night change windows, and even later night troubleshooting calls (it’s always the network… even when it isn’t :-). Along the way he picked up certifications in routing/switching, wireless, and security, culminating with earning CCIE #38336 in February 2013 and later becoming the first Cisco DevNet Expert #20220001. After spending a couple of years exploring the world of “Cloud”, “DevOps” and “Applications”, the talk of SDN, automation and programmability caught his ears, and he decided it was past time to return to networking full time. By day, Hank's spends his time as Distinguished Architect for
Upcoming
Cisco Live 2027 8 February 2027 – 12 February 2027
- CCNA Lab Lounge: Configure and Troubleshoot Your Way to Network Mastery Speaker · 9 February 2027
- Raw & Real-Time: Q&A With The Titans of Operation and Programmability Speaker · 10 February 2027
- Troubleshooting Like a CCNA - Get Ready for Your 2.0 Exam Speaker · 10 February 2027
- Agents Assemble - Exploring Agentic AI Options for Network Operations Speaker · 11 February 2027
- AI Skills Primer for Network Engineers Speaker · 11 February 2027
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Hank at events on B2DB.
- Frank Brockners Distinguished Engineer · Cisco 1 shared session
- Joe Clarke Distinguished Engineer · Cisco 1 shared session
- Juulia Santala SE for Network Programmability and AgenticOps · Cisco 1 shared session
- Lila Rousseaux Principal Solutions Engineer · Cisco 1 shared session
- Moe Riyami Learning & Development Consultant · Cisco 1 shared session
- Stefan Leemann Head of Enterprise Networking Switzerland · Cisco 1 shared session
Others from Cisco
- Debbie Kaya Senior Director Treasury - Global Cash and Operations 8 sessions
- Alessandro De Prato Technical Marketing Engineer 6 sessions
- Ramses Smeyers Distinguished Engineer CX 6 sessions
- Paul Giralt Distinguished Engineer 5 sessions
- Tim Szigeti Distinguished Engineer 5 sessions
- Ed Novak Technical Marketing Engineer 4 sessions
- Eric Vyncke Distinguished Engineer 4 sessions
- Jason Yang Principal TME 4 sessions
- Nathan Sherrard Sales Engineer 4 sessions
- Omer Ilyas Technical Marketing / PM 4 sessions
- Peter Charpentier Principal Architect 4 sessions
- Przemysław Kania Vice President, Service Provider – EMEA 4 sessions