Wi-Co Utrecht, NL
Bringing the Herd Together
VENUE
11th Nov 2026
9:00 - 17:00
Hogeschool Utrecht
Koningsbergerstraat 9, 3531 AJ Utrecht, Netherlands
SPONSORS
SPEAKERS
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Language is important. The words we use carry meaning.
I believe we need to stop using the term CCI as it is damaging our industry. In this session I will explain why.
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Most wireless networks are designed backwards, starting with coverage heatmaps and hoping good RF means good experience. My new approach inverts it: start with the outcome you need to deliver, then work downward to derive every design decision. Every design choice traces back to measurable user experience, and justification.
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Strengthening the Signal: Why Women Matter in Network Engineering
Wireless networking is invisible by nature, yet the impact of good or poor engineering is felt everywhere. Building reliable Wi-Fi requires balancing RF behavior, client diversity, security models, and real human usage patterns. Despite the technical complexity and growing importance of wireless networks, women remain significantly underrepresented in network engineering roles, particularly in Wi-Fi.
This presentation shifts the conversation about women in tech away from representation alone and toward measurable technical outcomes. Using real-world Wi-Fi engineering examples; including roaming behavior, RF design, and troubleshooting, the talk demonstrates how female engineering perspectives lead to stronger problem analysis, more resilient designs, and more effective troubleshooting.
Beyond the technical content, the session examines why women are still missing from networking roles. Factors such as limited early hands-on exposure, low visibility of female technical role models, impostor syndrome, and subtle cultural barriers all play a role. Rather than placing responsibility solely on individuals, this talk highlights how the wireless community, employers, and conference platforms can actively strengthen and sustain the talent pipeline.
Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of why women are essential to the future of Wi-Fi engineering, along with practical, actionable steps they can apply immediately—through mentorship, inclusive technical collaboration, and community engagement. The goal is not only to amplify women’s voices, but to improve the quality, resilience, and innovation of the wireless networks we all rely on.
Key Takeaways
Why diversity in network engineering directly affects Wi-Fi design quality
Technical examples showing how perspective impacts troubleshooting and architecture
Practical ways individuals and organizations can attract and support women in networking
How community visibility influences who enters and stays in the field
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Think you know what’s going on with your Wi-Fi? Think again. The 7SIGNAL agent is packed with powerful features that give you deep visibility into the client experience — from connection health to roaming behavior and everything in between. In this session, we’ll pop the hood and show off all the cool things the agent can do to help you troubleshoot faster, design smarter, and sleep better at night. Warning: after this talk, you may never look at Wi-Fi the same way again.
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Spatial streams? Antenna diversity? MIMO gain? Do we actually know what we mean when we use these terms?
I thought I did-until I tried to define exactly what “MIMO Gain” was. What I found is a sloppy catch-all term for several very different technologies, each working in a different way, affecting a different part of the connection, and delivering a different benefit.
That makes saying “we’re designing for MIMO Gain” almost meaningless. So, in this session, we’ll take a look under the “MIMO Gain” umbrella, separate out the technologies hiding beneath it, and hopefully leave with a more precise way to talk about and design for the benefits of MIMO.
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Designing for Great Capacity, Great Roaming, and Great performance has always been a game of compromise. Now it doesn’t have to be!
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E.ON Group is a large energy business based in Germany and operating in 15 countries within Europe. Around 70,000 people work in a hybrid manner from our corporate offices and our industrial locations. In this discussion I'll explain how we do WiFi at E.ON. The scale of operations, the design criteria, how we manage capacity, how we manage the network, the challenges we have faced and how the landscape has changed and continues to evolve for E.ON in 2026.
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Based on the conversations online if it should be CCI and CCC i wanted to figure out how big the actual effect is of a Wi-Fi co-channel plan.
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In this presentation I explain the principles behind Channel State Information (CSI) which Huawei uses within their WiFi-7 portfolio. CSI is used to detect movement of objects and people within a defines parameter. This ability allows system integrators to use the WiFi-7 network to design interesting usecases for example within the hospitality industry where hotel owners can turn on/off their HVAC systems based on the presence of people.
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By the time most wireless engineers get involved in a building project, the decisions that matter most have already been made. This talk is about being in the conference calls where those decisions are being made in real time: architect meetings, design reviews, material selections, all the conversations that seem unrelated to Wi-Fi until you hear that a ceiling detail or a wall assembly just killed off your best AP location. I'll walk through how to listen for those moments before they become permanent, and what to do when the AP location you want gets overruled. Concrete gets poured. Conduit doesn't get run. The building doesn't wait for RF to catch up. I'll cover how to negotiate for access earlier in the process, what to do when compromise is the only option left, and how to get a usable network out of a space that was never designed with one in mind. No theory, no vendor pitch. Just what actually happens on these jobs.