Wi-Co Toronto, Canada
Bringing the Herd Together
VENUE
April 22nd 2026
9:00 - 17:00
Steam Whistle Brewing Inc
255 Bremner Boulevard Toronto, ON, M5V 3M9 Canada
Toronto, Canada
SPONSORS
SPEAKERS
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Co-channel contention (CCC) is a common industry/practitioner term, and many Wi-Fi experts prefer it because same-channel 802.11 devices that can hear and decode each other will usually defer through CSMA/CA rather than interfere in the destructive adjacent-channel sense. Listen to the other side of story and why calling it CCC is bad for the industry.
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Examine whether 3D design tools genuinely impact RF propagation modeling and coverage design, or if they primarily enhance client communication and reporting. We'll compare 2D versus 3D approaches, evaluate practical implications for design accuracy, and determine where dimensional modeling adds real value.
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Designing Wi-Fi for a live sporting event sounds simple: one gig circuit, firewall, switches, access points, and 150 expected users.
Reality?
Circuit delays. Equipment shortages. Missing SFPs. Mixed AP models. Legacy fiber with ST connectors. Spectrum congestion. Press box overload. 400+ actual clients. Media pushing 100+ GB per day. And a network that had to overlay an existing production environment without breaking it.
This session walks through the real-world deployment of a temporary, air-gapped network inside a large arena for a national curling tournament in Toronto. Instead of focusing on theory, we explore what actually happened — the miscalculations, the bottlenecks, the unexpected RF conditions, the ISP no-show, and the creative workarounds that kept the event online.
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A summary of my first ever project in Wi-Fi, troubleshooting a network with no specialized tools to help.
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Come share a journey of discovery… to sometimes wild and crazy places we’ve been asked to design Wi-Fi. From above the Arctic Circle, to Antartica. From mountain tops to thousands of feet underground. Poor shanty towns, to billionaire homes. Wi-Fi holds the entire world together. Knowing how Wi-Fi works, and the fundamentals help in all possible situations.
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While Wi-Fi 7 prioritized raw throughput, Wi-Fi 8 marks a fundamental pivot toward deterministic performance. This session dives into the PHY/MAC engineering behind the 25% reduction in 95th-percentile latency and the new High-Priority EDCA (HIP EDCA). We will discuss how these enhancements facilitate "wired-grade" reliability for mission-critical, real-time applications in congested environments.
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The 5GHz spectrum is more open now in Canada. The three DFS channe;s in UNII-2E band are usable both indoor/outdoor now.
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Gathering data from Wi-Fi networks may seem like a simple task, but what is different when collecting data from a Wi-Fi HaLow network? I will discuss the considerations when performing such task and I will share how I accomplished a Wi-Fi HaLow survey using the Wavelify application.
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Wi-Fi has evolved from autonomous APs to controllers to the cloud, but the next leap is even bigger. The Agentic Age is defined by open data, AI flexibility, and a shift of intelligence and portions of the control plane toward the edge, where decisions can happen faster and closer to the moment of need. This session explores how Wi-Fi is becoming a platform not just for connectivity, but for operational insight, automation, and real business advantage.
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This presentation will cover development of two box wi-fi CPE with banana PiR4 and OpenWrt which also hosts Solace Power's wireless power through glass technology.
It will present concept of window mount 5G CPE , Wirelessly powering it with an indoor window mount CPE and using Wi-fi to transfer data upto 6 Gbps.
Discuss OpenWrt, antenna design , thermals ,CAD design and wireless power tech and benefits of outdoor 5G receiver.
Application for residential and SMB enterprise wifi without complex installations.