The practical Peplink day.
Now in more cities.
One day, one router per seat, five hands-on labs on real hardware. Our first Masterclass ran in Birmingham on 1 October 2026. Germany is planned for December, with Chicago and more cities to follow in 2027.
Upcoming dates
Every upcoming date is open for registered interest. Register for a city and you hear first when its date, venue and price are confirmed, before the public announcement.
Birmingham
Proposed2027
Back to Birmingham, planned as two days: the Masterclass, then our first advanced day.
Another US city?
Your call2027
We are considering further US dates beyond Chicago. Tell us where you would travel to, and we will weigh it.
How the first date went
Five modules, each paired with a lab
Every module is hands-on. You leave having done the work, not just watched it. This is deliberately not a certification course and not a replacement for PCSS, PCA or PCE. It sits alongside them as the practical day that shows how the kit actually behaves on a live site.
- 1
InControl2 at scale
Fleets, groups, config templates, and the workflows that stop large estates becoming unmanageable. By the end of this lab your router is on the venue network, broadcasting your own SSID, and enrolled in your own InControl2 organisation.
- 2
Cellular, done right
SIM selection, band locking, signal, antennas, MIMO and placement, then Starlink brought into a hybrid, resilient WAN. The physical layer most deployments get wrong.
- 3
SpeedFusion
Bonding, hot failover, WAN smoothing and FEC, plus PepVPN and FusionHub topologies, built and tested on the bench.
- 4
Outbound and inbound routing
Policy-based routing, outbound rules, port forwarding, inbound access and NAT behaviour. The part that separates a working install from a right one.
- 5
Live troubleshooting
The builds you made in modules one to four get broken on purpose. You diagnose and fix them live, with a repeatable method you take home.
If the day runs ahead and the group can take it, a bonus sixth module on high availability.
Who it is for: Installers, integrators and network engineers already working with Peplink, or about to be. You should be comfortable with basic networking. You do not need to be an expert; that is what the day is for.
Advanced days, shaped by the first cohort
After Birmingham we asked every delegate what they want next. The most requested was an advanced day that goes further than the Masterclass, followed by a SpeedFusion specialist day and a day on broadcast and live events.
One delegate made the point plainly: a single day cannot serve a newcomer and a seasoned engineer equally well. So from 2027 we plan to run two levels. The Masterclass stays the foundation. Advanced days go further, one topic at a time, for engineers who already deploy Peplink.
Advanced configuration
Routing, firewall rules, QoS and bandwidth management, multi-WAN designs beyond the defaults, and Synergy Mode for combining the WANs of several routers.
Register interestSpeedFusion in depth
Bonding, hot failover, WAN smoothing and FEC tuned for real links, FusionHub topologies, and how to prove a tunnel is doing its job.
Register interestBroadcast and live events
Bonded uplinks for live video, venue networks that have to be built in a day, and the failure modes that only appear once the crowd arrives.
Register interestFault finding
A full day of broken builds. Structured diagnosis, the tools on the router, and the evidence to take to a carrier or a vendor.
Register interestWe expect the first two-day date to run in Birmingham in 2027.
Tell us where, and what you want to learn
Two quick questions: which cities you would attend, and which days you would book. Your answers decide where we go next and what we run there. Registering is free and commits you to nothing.
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When a date you registered for is confirmed, you will hear about it before the public announcement.
Written by Adam Steadman. Delivered in Chicago by Alex Rausch.
Adam Steadman
The Tech Factory, course author
Adam wrote the Masterclass, its five labs and every piece of material that goes with it, and taught the first date in Birmingham himself. He is a Peplink Certified Engineer Trainer with twenty-five years in IT and networking, known across the Peplink community as Agent Adam.
Adam Steadman is attending in Chicago.
Alex Rausch
Event ConnectX, delivering in Chicago
Founder of Event ConnectX, with twenty years in live event operations and technology. A founding member of HYROX, Alex built the event technology behind a brand now running more than 110 events a year, and has deployed Peplink, SpeedFusion and FusionHub across venues exceeding 800,000 square feet.
Alex delivers the Chicago Masterclass on behalf of The Tech Factory.
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