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VMware Explore Mind Map 2025 – 2026

Short answer: this is the study map of the VMware Explore sessions from the two most recent Las Vegas conferences, 2025 (VCF 9.0 launch) and 2026 (VCF 9.1, VCF Management Services, AI Factory). All 404 breakout sessions are grouped into topics in the order they build on each other, platform first. In addition, every session opens a panel with the study summary, the speakers, views and Top 10 rank, the link to the public deck, the on-demand recording (2026) or catalog page (2025) and related sessions. Finally, you can search across titles, speakers and summaries, keep only sessions with a deck or a video, tick off what you have studied and copy the selection as Markdown.

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How to use the VMware Explore sessions map

  • Topics in study order. Each year splits into 12 or 13 topics, numbered from platform architecture through lifecycle, compute, storage, networking and security to operations, automation, Kubernetes, resilience, private AI and edge. Inside a topic, the Top 10 sessions come first, and then the rest follow by views.
  • Decks. “Open deck” links to Broadcom’s public presentation PDF; the “Jump to PDF page” box opens it at a given page where the browser’s PDF viewer supports it. However, where Broadcom did not publish a deck, the panel points to a substitute deck on the same subject and says so.
  • Video. Explore 2026 recordings are public and linked directly. In contrast, Explore 2025 recordings sit in the video library for registered attendees. Therefore, 2025 sessions link to their public catalog page instead.
  • Study list. “Mark studied” is kept in your browser only. The “Not studied” filter and the Markdown export (with checkboxes) turn the map into a reading plan. Also, “Copy link” gives a URL that opens the map on that session.

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