Please forward me to whomever you think should know about our community and the upcoming event.

This is the official Call for Paper email. Please submit your proposal via https://cfp.swinog.ch

The 42nd meeting of the Swiss Network Operators Group (SwiNOG) will be held at ENTER Technikwelt Solothurn (Gewerbestrasse 4, 4552 Derendingen) on Tuesday November 20^th and Wednesday November 21^st, 2026.

Location: https://www.enter.ch/en/arrival/

Important Dates for

20.07.2026 Registration opens -> https://register.swinog.ch/

24.07.2026 Call for Papers

30.09.2026 Publication of preliminary agenda

09.10.2026 Registration closes

18.10.2026 Deadline for all slides

20.10.2026 Meeting Day 1

21.10.2026 Meeting Day 2

Topics for Presentations/Talks

Please re-submit your paper if you're still up with a topic which you have submitted earlier.

The number and length of presentations per session is not fixed, although we prefer it to be between 5 to 30 minutes.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of typical SwiNOG meeting topics:

Security, DDOS Mitigation,
IPv6
Open-Source- / GitHub projects
International view of the internet (incidents, outages, measurements)
Routing & Peering
Applications (DNS, Web, Network Virtualization, Orchestration, Monitoring etc.)
Takeaways from your projects / troubleshooting-sessions
Legal issues (BÜPF, etc.)
Telecommunication politics (Net Neutrality, Incumbent monopoly, etc.)
Off-Topic if you think the audience will enjoy

Feel free to talk to us about any kind of topic and collaboration! Or you can always start a discussion on the list - I'm sure people join in. Or join our telegram group at https://t.me/SWINOG

Language of Slides and Talks

The whole day will be hold in English, therefore we kindly ask you to produce your presentation in English.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must have a strong technical bias and must not be promotional.
We also welcome lightning talks (5 Minutes). If entertaining – they can also be completely off-topic.
Presentations should be suitable for a target audience of technicians from varied backgrounds, working for companies whose sizes may vary considerably.
Presentation will be published (PDF) on the SwiNOG website after the event (if confirmed/permitted by the speaker).
On request we publish modified slides (removed confidential content, etc.)
Presentations should be suitable for a target audience of technicians from varied backgrounds, working for companies whose sizes may vary considerably.

To submit a proposal for a presentation, please go to https://cfp.swinog.ch/

We also welcome suggestions for specific presentations which you feel would be valuable to the SwiNOG community and we try to chase a speaker for it.

Greetings,

Simon

SwiNOG Core Team

swinog-core@swinog.ch

General Information (SwiNOG Community)

The Swiss Network Operators Group (SwiNOG) is an informal group of people who are concerned with engineering and operation of the Swiss Internet.

SwiNOG exists to enhance the quality of Internet services available in Switzerland. It does this by fostering the free exchange of technical ideas and information between different companies and organisations.

SwiNOG is a community for professionals who are operating, designing, or researching the Internet. It provides a technical forum where those working on, with and for the Internet can come together to solve problems with every aspect of their (net)work.

The meeting is designed to provide an opportunity for the exchange of information among network operators, engineers, researchers, and other professionals close to the network community.

More information about SwiNOG can be found at https://www.swinog.ch/

Information about the meeting will be published at https://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog42/

General Information (SwiNOG Organisation)

The SwiNOG Organisation Association is a non-profit association under article 60 and further of the swiss civil law. It manages the SwiNOG community ressources (domain, web, mailing-lists, etc..) and organises SwiNOG meetings.

Contact:

SwiNOG Organisation

8000 Zurich

Switzerland