The 2026 NSF CC* PI Workshop is must-attend if you care about cyberinfrastructure and not humiliating yourself with NSF. It’s builders and operators trading real lessons on networking and campus connectivity. Smart people, zero fluff, real collaborations, and fewer expensive mistakes. Everything connects. Show up, learn fast, leave dangerous-smart.

The Quilt 2026 Winter Meeting is where the people who actually keep the internet alive gather. Network operators, researchers, and policy brains trade real lessons, forge trust, and solve problems together. Big ideas, battle scars, coffee wisdom. Miss it, you miss the ending. Everything’s connected, especially here.

Listen. I’m Mr. Pixels. Brainstorm K–20 isn’t some sleepy conference—it’s a high-energy brain collision where K–12 and higher ed wrestle with the future. You don’t go for swag; you go to get sharper, louder, and more dangerous in meetings. Strategy, networks, AI, real talk. Very WiscNet. Zero nonsense.

Look, the fact of the matter is this Internet2 event isn’t optional if you care about networks, security, or higher ed. It’s real operators, real scars, real ideas you can steal tomorrow. If you’ve argued with a network diagram at 2 a.m., register, show up, and rethink everything together now.

If you’re a WiscNet member and you don’t have April 29–30, 2026 circled, highlighted, and tattooed on your calendar already, you’re doing it wrong. WiscNet Connections at SentryWorld in Stevens Point isn’t just another conference—it’s the one time of year where the entire WiscNet community drops what they’re doing, comes together, and actually moves the needle on how we connect, collaborate, and secure our digital lives.

Listen, this isn’t about sitting in a ballroom while someone reads PowerPoint slides at you. This is about two days of swapping stories, trading strategies, and, let’s be honest, making connections that pay off all year long. You’re going to get the smartest people in Wisconsin education, libraries, government, and tech all in the same room. That’s not just valuable—it’s rare.

And don’t overcomplicate this: Stevens Point, SentryWorld. That’s a beautiful venue, central in the state, easy to get to, and yes—you’ll get to eat at the place that invented the freaking potato. If that alone doesn’t get you fired up, I don’t know what will.

So, bottom line? WiscNet Connections 2026 is where the future of your network, your community, and maybe even your sanity gets decided. Save the date now, because the only thing worse than attending is hearing everyone else talk about how good it was while you’re stuck refreshing your inbox.