VMware Explore returns to the Venetian Convention and Expo Center August 25 – 28, 2025 in Las Vegas. Get up to date on the Industry’s first software-defined load balancer, Avi— load balancing for the cloud and AI Era.
Gain expertise and a competitive edge, learning what Avi has to offer in today’s dynamic and rapidly changing landscape. Catch the sessions below at VMware Explore 2025 and embrace the seamless and secure app delivery experience to chart your organization’s future, and save your team from IT chaos.
Breakout Sessions
[NSLB1756LV] Ransomware Protection And App Delivery For The Cloud And AI Era
Organizations increasingly demand the cloud operating model enhanced with AI/GenAI for rapid operationalization of lateral security and application delivery. VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer together with VCF private cloud provide a cohesive solution to infrastructure admins and developers based on distributed and software-defined principles. vDefend and Avi provide plug-and-play integrations with VCF that offer comprehensive application and threat visibility, zero-trust and web application security to combat ransomware, and leveraging AI/GenAI to boost operational efficiency and productivity. Join us to hear about our latest innovations and strategic direction in multi-terabit performance and scale, extending “as code” and “as self-service” to VCF virtual private cloud (VPC), and use cases for Private AI and agentic workloads.
Umesh Mahajan, VP & GM, Application Networking and Security, Broadcom
Bradley LaChance, Director, Infrastructure Engineer, CIBC
Gillon Helman, Chief Technology Officer, Cole Engineering
[NSLP2051LV] Securing Private AI Workloads: Combating The New Attack Surface
Generative AI applications are taking the application world by storm. From streamlining day-to-day operations to accelerating developer productivity, the use cases for Generative AI can be extremely diverse. However, all these applications have characteristics in common—from huge data storage and processing needs, to model governance workflows, to large language models (LLMs), and more. The bottom line is that these demanding applications have very unique technical and data requirements. This panel discussion with senior technology and industry luminaries will cover how customers are addressing technical, legal, and organizational challenges related to security and application resiliency needs.
Prashant Gandhi, Head of Products, Broadcom
Ranga Rajagopalan, CTO – ANS Division, Broadcom
Mark Fournier, CIO/CTO, US Senate Federal Credit Union
Gillon Helman, Chief Technology Officer, Cole Engineering
Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist AI, Broadcom
[INVB1864LV] Accelerating Firewall And Load Balancer Operations And Troubleshooting With GenAI Innovations
In this session, we will provide a tech preview of how new innovations in GenAI can help accelerate the day-to-day operations and troubleshooting of firewalls and load balancers in the data center. By utilizing a chat-style interface with natural language queries, security and load balancing administrators can get immediate answers to AI-generated explanations of firewall and load balancer alerts, AI-generated operational insights based on current firewall and load balancer configurations, and AI-generated code samples for automating firewall and load balancer configurations.
Ranga Rajagopalan, CTO – ANS Division, Broadcom
Catherine Fan, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
[NSLB1723LV] Avi Load Balancer Integration With VCF 9: Driving Private Cloud To New Heights
In this breakout session, we’ll dive into the powerful integration between VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 and the VMware Avi Load Balancer, highlighting the operational efficiency and agility it brings to infrastructure & APP teams. We’ll explore how AI-Capable analytics and visibility simplify application troubleshooting, accelerate root cause analysis, and boost day-to-day productivity. Additionally, you’ll hear from Nigel Wright from Ensono, who has successfully deployed Avi, sharing real-world insights into the operational gains and business value realized.
Arif Altalib, Product Management, Broadcom
Nigel Wright, Senior Director Infrastructure Architecture, Ensono
[NSLB1857LV] Architecting Private AI With Elastic And Secure Ingress
In a world racing toward AI-driven everything, it’s tempting to believe technology will solve its own challenges. Successful AI applications don’t just emerge; they are architected with intent. This session shows how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Private AI foundation (PAIF) and Avi Load Balancer empowers enterprises to design AI deployments that withstand outages and safeguard business operations. We’ll explore how to design resilient infrastructures for both AI-native and traditional applications, and unveil a layered architecture purpose-built for unstoppable AI resilience with Multi-Tenancy. Don’t leave your AI future to chance. Build it to endure.
Aziz Mohammed, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom
[NSLB1677LV] Avi, AKO, and AMKO: Easy Way to Build Load Balancer Services for Kubernetes Clusters
Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) is used to simplify Avi-specific functions in a Kubernetes environment with the VMware® Avi™ Load Balancer (formerly VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer). AMKO is an operator for Kubernetes/OpenShift that facilitates application delivery across multiple clusters. AMKO runs as a pod in one of the clusters and provides DNS-based Global Server Load Balancing for an application that is deployed across multiple clusters. AMKO automates the GSLB configuration and operations on the Avi Load Balancer platform. Together with the Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) in each cluster, AKO and AMKO provide application deployment and operations through familiar Kubernetes/OpenShift objects and Avi Load Balancer CRDs.
Ebrahim Aldesoulky ElMehsnawy, Cloud and Solutions Architect, SDAIA
Chris Grice, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom
[NSLB1194LV] Self-Service Automation With VMware Avi Load Balancer
Automation is crucial for every product, but the true test is in creating a seamless experience that fosters its implementation. Join us for an enlightening session where we will explore how the VMware® Avi™ Load Balancer built-in capabilities simplify the process of automation initiation. Throughout our discussion, we will examine industry-leading practices and toolkits from Ansible, Terraform, and VMware Cloud Foundation® Automation, and explore methodologies like CI/CD and automated testing. We will also delve into real-world case studies, revealing how Avi Load Balancer empowers customers to effortlessly tackle extensive automation tasks.
Matt Adam, Product Manager, Broadcom
Nick Robbins, Technical Product Line Manager, ANS, Broadcom
Meet The Expert
[NSLM2241LVS] Enhancing Scale and Performance of VMware Avi Load Balancer and Intel QuickAssist Technology
Sponsor Company Name: Intel
Enterprises continue to deploy VMware Avi Load Balancer – the next-gen software-defined load balancer – to deliver their critical applications and container workloads at cloud speed and ease. VMware Avi Load Balancer version 31.1.1 introduces support for Intel® Quick Assist Technology(QAT) on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to improve the scale of SSL transactions. Avi Load Balancer and Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) work together to offload SSL/TLS encryption and decryption workloads, improving CPU performance, efficiency, and scalability. Explore the IA goodness with AVI to accelerate the crypto use cases.
Aziz Mohammed, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom
Kannan Mani, Global Technologist, Intel
Hands-on Labs
[ELW-HOL-2671-01] Get Started with VMware Avi Load Balancer – VCF Architecture
VMware Avi Load Balancer is an integral component of the modern application delivery stack within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). In this Expert-led Workshop, developed by the same team that builds and validates VCF/Avi lab environments, you’ll dive deep into Avi’s architecture, automated application delivery, and controller deployment workflows tailored for VCF deployments. Explore how Avi integrates seamlessly with the VCF 9 stack to provide scalable, automated load balancing for both virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters. You’ll build load balanced applications using the modern VCF-A cloud-like experience, and along the way we’ll show application visibility and validate NSX-T VPC placement.
Nick Robbins, Technical Product Line Manager, ANS, Broadcom
Brandon Andersen, Staff Solution Architect, Broadcom
Registration is now open! Check out the content catalog or our Avi Targeted Agenda to find the sessions you’re interested in!
