Dear SwiNOG community
The Agenda for SwiNOG #41 - Tuesday 28th of April 2026 is published. - https://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog41/
(Very tiny slimy monsters delayed that a bit unexpectedly)
Registration We’re fully booked but working hard to make it possible that we can raise the available seats. If you want to come, have no ticket and did not yet write to the Waiting List - please do so: “Waiting List” core@swinog.ch
Location See details under Location at https://swinog.ch/mettings/swinog41/
Gurtenbahn / Cablecar to Gurten Please note, there is a new way how Gurtenbahn (the Cablecar to the event location) is handling tickets. -> Do not buy a Gurten Ticket yet, we will send you a voucher code (Gurten Ticket is included in the SwiNOG Ticket).
Agenda
08:15 Registration, Coffee & Gipfeli (60 min) 09:15 Welcome & Agenda (5 min)
Morning Session 1 — Network Strategy & Optical Infrastructure
09:20 Wouter Van Renterghem | RETN GmbH — 25 min The Road to Tier-"Something". Rethinking Network Strategy & Building Resilience Through PNIs, Peering and Smart Geographical Expansion.
09:45 Thomas Holterbach | University of Strasbourg — 20 min bgproutes.io: A next-gen BGP data collection platform
10:05 Gerhard Stein | Flexoptix GmbH — 25 min Understanding and optimising transceiver power consumption using internal metrics
10:30 Liam Taylor | EXA Infrastructure — 15 min Shared Spectrum & MOFN
10:45 Morning Break (45 min)
Morning Session 2 — Swiss Internet Heritage
11:30 Arist Volger | SwissIX — 20 min 25 Years of SwissIX – A Quarter Century of Peering in Switzerland
11:50 Arist Volger | SwissIX — 5 min SwissIX Update
11:55 Lunch Break (90 min)
Afternoon Session 1 — AI & Network Architecture
13:25 Tobias Bühler | netfabric.ai — 25 min Toward Agentic Network Operations: What AI Can (and Can't) Do
13:50 Jolly Trivedi | University of Turku — 25 min Ethics and Oversight in AI-Driven Cybersecurity
14:15 Remi Locherer | modus one ag with Arista Networks — 25 min EVPN Unleashed: Scaling Multi-Domain Fabrics with EVPN Gateways
14:40 Tilmann Zäschke | ETH Zürich — 20 min SCION Inter-Domain Routing
15:00 Afternoon Break (45 min)
Afternoon Session 2 — Automation & Community
15:45 Damien Garros | OpsMill — 25 min The Network Automation Map: Navigate Your Journey with the NAF Automation Framework
16:10 Leandro Lerena | Zebbra AG — 15 min Building a Vendor-Agnostic E2E Testing Ecosystem with Netlab
16:25 TBD | Megaport — 15 min TBA
16:40 Andrew Vieyra | CommunityRack.org — 10 min CommunityRack.org - New Projects and Focus!
16:50 Severin Dellsperger | OST University — 10 min CHNUG
17:00 Social Event
Already a big “Thank You” to our Sponsors
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