Jess Ward is the Area Vice President for Mist Systems, the AI-Native Wireless, Wired, and Routing portfolio of Juniper Networks. Jess has been in the Networking industry for over 20 years, with a special emphasis on the Education sector. His passion for leveraging technology advances for the benefit of students, faculty, and staff, drives Jess to use his extensive knowledge of WiFi, Networking, AI, and Cloud to help Education environments modernize their IT infrastructure.