F5 AI Guardrails and Distributed Cloud Roadshow: New York City, NY

Guest Speakers:

Dan Pruett Senior F5 Engineer, WorldTech IT

Dan Pruett is a Senior F5 Engineer at WorldTech IT with more than 14 years of experience at F5. His background spans product management, engineering, professional services, and technical support, with deep expertise in Distributed Cloud, WAAP, DDoS protection, BIG IP, and NGINX. Dan brings a rare combination of hands on technical experience and product insight to help organizations secure applications, APIs, and AI ready infrastructure across complex environments.

Ted Nitka Securing AI Partnership F5

Ted Nitka is a Senior Principal Business Development Manager at F5 focused on Securing AI and is F5’s go to expert on AI security across partnerships, channel, and technology alliances. His career spans AI and cybersecurity, including global partnerships leadership at CalypsoAI, cofounding the AI startup EFFCNT.AI, and strategic partnerships at SpyCloud, along with earlier leadership roles at Spiceworks, Rackspace, and Dell. Ted brings a rare blend of AI security expertise and go to market insight to help organizations put real guardrails around their AI applications and LLMs.

Mickey Woods Principal Solution Engineer F5

Mickey Woods is a dynamic channel professional with extensive experience in sales engineering, technology sales, and account management across enterprise, SMB, and distribution partner environments. He is skilled in strategic planning, customer relationship management, and complex problem solving, with a strong track record of leading and contributing to cross functional teams. Mickey also has experience with promote to production methodologies that support the timely and accurate implementation of technology solutions.