Nico Vibert is a Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent--the company behind the open-source cloud native solution Cilium. Nico is passionate about "education without the jargon" and presenting complex topics--such as networking--in simple terms. He's previously co-authored two books: VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX Networking and Security, published via VMware Press/Pearson and Kubernetes Networking and Cilium: An Instruction Manual for the Network Engineer, an eBook published on Isovalent.com. Both of these books have been downloaded by thousands of engineers worldwide. Nico has taught Cilium to thousands of engineers through the creation of videos (+200K views), tutorials (+200K views) and hands-on labs (+50K lab runs). Prior to Isovalent, Nico worked in many different roles--operations and support, design and architecture, technical pre-sales--at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware and Cisco. Nico regularly speaks at events, whether on a large scale such as VMworld, Cisco Live or at smaller forums such as VMware and AWS User Groups or virtual events such as HashiCorp HashiTalks. Outside of Isovalent, Nico's passionate about intentional diversity & inclusion initiatives and is Chief DEI Officer at the Open Technology organization OpenUK.