Devin Akin

@DevinAkin

Devin Akin has over 15 years in the WLAN market and over 20 years in Information Technology, co-founding CWNP, the defacto global standard for vendor-neutral Wi-Fi training and certification, and Peachtree Wireless Solutions, a vendorspecific training and services company. Akin served as CTO for both companies until 2009, authoring many study guides,
exams, whitepapers, and courseware as the principal subject matter expert. He served as the primary speaker, instructor, blogger, and consultant for CWNP. He regularly assisted a wide variety of Wi-Fi manufacturers with product and marketing strategy, business development, quality assurance, workforce education, and executive and team leadership coaching. He regularly keynoted vendor summits and wireless user conferences.

Mr. Akin moved to Aerohive Networks in late 2009, where he served as Chief WiFi Architect and Evangelist for 4 years and championed Cloud and Controller-less technologies leading to industry transformation. He was instrumental in Aerohive’s hyper growth through evangelism, channel expansion, business development, and technology strategy. In late 2013, Akin moved to AirTight Networks to champion Managed Services in the Wi-Fi industry via a variety of new cloud-based software services citing, “Wi-Fi is no longer just about connectivity, but rather what you can do with that connectivity to make your organization successful.” In early 2014, seeing an opportunity to seize a poll position in the market as a leading Wi-Fi services provider, Mr. Akin founded his own venture,Divergent Dynamics, a Wi-Fi centric Systems Integrator and Training organization, specializing in next generation solutions for Healthcare, Education, and Sports (Arenas & Stadiums). Mr. Akin was recently named to theTWW Top 100 Wireless Technology Experts list for 2014.

Mr. Akin’s background previous to Wi-Fi includes working as a network design engineer for EarthLink, AT&T/BellSouth, Foundry Networks, and Sentinel Technologies as well as working as an RF engineer in the U.S. Army. He has authored and edited several books with Wiley-Sybex and McGraw-Hill and holds some of the industry’s most esteemed certifications, including CWNE. He is considered an authority on Wi-Fi technology and the Enterprise Wi-Fi market at large.