Agenda

• 09:00-09:05: Meeting Kick-Off
  – Khalid Samara, MENOG, PC Chair
• 09:00-09:10: Opening Speech
  – TBD
• 09:10-09:15: Host Welcome Speech
  – TBD
• 09:15-09:30: Mapping Internet Resilience: Insights from RIPE Atlas on Cable Breakages and Outages
  – Michela Galante, RIPE NCC
• 09:30-10:30: Panel Discussion: Mitigating the Risk of Sea Cable Breaks

Panelists:

• Mehmet Tik (META)
• Huda Al Ghabshi (ZOI)
• Taha Hussain (AMS-IX)
• Marco Brandstaetter (DE-CIX)

Moderator:

• Halil Kama (Linx)

• 11:00-11:30: RIPE NCC Updates
  – TBD
• 11:30-12:00: WHEREIS: IP Address Registration Geo-Consistency
  – Dr. Amreesh Phokeer, Internet Society, ISOC
• 12:00-12:30: IPv4 and the Evolving Transfer Landscape
  – Anastasiya Pak, RIPE NCC

• 14:00-14:30: RPKI Signed Checklist – What? How? Why?
  – Aftab Siddiqui, APNIC
• 14:30-15:00: Dynamic DDoS Trends in the Middle East
  – Dr.Emad Fahmy, NETSCOUT
• 15:00-15:30: A Comprehensive Analysis of the IRR landscape
  – Stavros Konstantaras, AMS-IX

• 16:00-16:30: Channelmania! – Futureproof your DWDM network topology while keeping it flexible for 1.6T
  – Dr. Gerhard Stein, FLEXOPTIX
• 16:30-17:00: SONiC: Disaggregated, Open, Multi-Vendor Network Operating System
  – Ahmed Abdelsalam, Cisco Systems
• 17:00-17:30: META VAMOS: Improving QoE for Real Time Calling
  – Bhartendu Chaurasia, Meta

• 09:00-09:30: Modernise your IP Address Strategy for 2025 and Beyond
  – James Kennedy, KIPA Global
• 09:30-10:00: Why Move to EVPN and SRv6?
  – Dom Schaeffer, Nokia Networks
• 10:00-10:30: SRv6 uSID: Deterministic AI Backend Networking and Unified DC Frontend Design
  – Clarence Filsfils, Cisco Systems

• 11:00-11:30: Review of IXPs in the Middle East
  – Hanna Kreitem, Internet Society ISOC
• 11:30-12:00: From Beirut-IX to Leb-IX
  – Fadi Khoneisser, Beirut-IX
• 12:00-12:30: ChatBots to AgentOps: From Conversational Tools to Autonomous NOC Agents
  – Dade Aderemi, DedaTech

• 14:00-14:30: Lets Measure IPv6
  – Aftab Siddiqui, APNIC
• 14:30-15:00: Accelerating IPv6 Adoption: A New Paradigm with AI
  – Yasir Zamir Shah, INFONAS
• 15:00-15:15: Expanding Internet Routing Visibility with BMP
  – Thomas Holterbach, University of Strasbourg
• 15:15-15:30: Closing Remarks