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




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