Join us for the Wisconsin VMUG March 2025 meeting being held on March 18th from 8:00am to 2:00pm at the Wisconsin Bar Association
On the schedule, there will be Broadcom, community, and sponsor presentations. We are also having a panel discussion where you can ask your questions. The agenda includes presentations from Bob Plankers from Broadcom covering Security and Security Adjacent News and whatever else you can throw at him 🙂 The community presentations will feature Matt Heldstab discussing his Broadcom Licensing Experience and Professional Development and our very own Mike Nelson going deep on Home Assistant.
Agenda (Subject to change)
- 8:00 Registration
- 8:30 Welcome by Mike Nelson and Nathan Scheunemann
- 8:45 Broadcom Presentation: Security & Security-Adjacent News You Can Use – Bob Plankers, Broadcom Product Management & Marketing
Bob will go through current security news, events, vulnerabilities, things that aren’t vulnerabilities but look like it to your scanner, how we decide to patch and when, and regulatory compliance news, with time for Q&A. - 9:30 Break
- 9:45 Community Presentation: Tales from a Broadcom Customer in 2025 – Architecture, Licensing Renewal Experience and Professional Development Planning by Matt Heldstab
For most Broadcom customers, 2024 was a year of change. This presentation will talk about what a Broadcom customer (who happens to be the Vice President of VMUG) did to prepare for the new normal, tips, tricks and honest tales of how their renewal agreement went down, architecture changes you can make to reduce your cost, and how they used Broadcom and VMUG’s new partnership to assist with Professional Development. - 10:30 Break
- 10:45 Partner Presentation – Commvault
- 11:30 Lunch & Networking
- 12:15 Community Presentation: Automating your life with Home Assistant & Open Source – Mike Nelson
Home Assistant (HASS) is an exceptional open source, open platform automation tool for the home that can be hosted in Docker, on a Single Board Server (like a Raspberry Pi), or on numerous other platforms. We will take a look at some of the more useful and creative ways to integrate HASS into your daily life, with a bit of history, the hardware & software involved, some real-world examples people have built, and a bunch of demonstrations of working automation. - 1:00 Break
- 1:15 Panel Discussion
- 1:45 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings
The Wisconsin Bar Association is located at
5302 Eastpark Blvd.
Madison, WI 53718-2101
Directions to the State Bar Center
