JOEY, Netriders 2016 Winner from Belgium
After a month of bad sleep and sweaty palms in June 2016 I finally got my first place ticket to cisco HQ in San Jose, CA!
Luckily this was before president Trump so getting travel approval as a Belgian citizen was easy! :)
Our daily agenda of the week was completely filled up with a large range of activities.
We had meet and greets with higher ups in cisco even as high as Fran Katsoudas SVP and lots of the managers running several departments like netacad, corporate responsability.
There was a tour of compliance testing for several cisco hardware products. These included noise output testing, heavy handling (shaking) testing, RF output... the works.
On tuesday we got to meet the technical managers who also served as our judges in the competition and they gave us an intro into IoT.
We had to work on a raspberry pi in combination with an Arduino uno board to see how sensors and actuators work. In the afternoon we had a big visit to the huge campus of Stanford
University and one of it's endless datacenter rooms housing nexus equipment and lots of fiber cabling.
The last day of our visit was a tourist tour of San Francisco.
What I took with me back home was a bunch of new friends, memories, LinkedIn contacts, better self-confidence, possible new opportunities and getting more comfortable in uncomfortable situations.
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