Conveners
Lightning Talks: Second Strike
- Charlie van Genuchten (SURF)
- Nicole Harris (GÉANT)
Description
Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations focusing on one key point. This can be an idea, successful project, a cautionary story, collaboration invitation, quick tip or demonstration. This session is an opportunity for ideas to get the attention they deserve.
The rules for this session are easy: five minutes and only five minutes to get your message heard by the audience.
Will/should we as NRENs take on additional contractual and financial risks if we can, by doing so, provide additional value and lower the risks for R&E institutes? How do we “sell” this to our members? Or are we risk averse, and do we let each institutes take these risks?
In this lightning talk I will use recent examples within SURF demonstrating this is more complex than you might think.
Most organisations in our community have been created between 20 and 30 years ago as bottom-up community driven activities. However, they also mainly rely on ministerial/governmental top-down funding. At a time when funding for digital is simultaneously "everywhere" but "increasingly competitive" - how do organisations in our community achieve top-down recognition by the funding bodies? How do...
This lightning talk offers a brief narrative of the Zino network monitor's success story, and its ongoing modernization: Its feature set, how it has been used successfully for monitoring research networks for more than 25 years by Uninett, NORDUnet and SUNET, and the ongoing collaborative endeavor by NORDUnet to reimplement Zino's state monitor component to ensure it remains a compelling...
While the journey of NRENs is often centred on reaching maturity, little attention is given to the pitfalls of regression and what causes it. The presentation will delve into why maintaining the status quo might not be enough to sustain maturity and growth and it will highlight the conditions under which an NREN is likely to experience regression and decline. The presentation will also...
Nowadays, user tracking is pervasive in the Internet. Most websites try to identify their users and gather as much information as possible from them in order to customize their experience and maximice company's revenues. However, the collected information has been found to be used for many other purposes such as price discrimination, financial assessment, phishing or even identity theft. In...
In an era defined by rapid technological development, it’s crucial to reflect on the evolution of universities. The integration of 5G technology within university campuses holds a profound opportunity to reshape the educational experience. This lightning talk aims to explore the transformative potential of 5G, where boundaries blur, and innovation thrives. Drawing insights from leading Finnish...
In our network engineering study, we utilize the GNS3 simulation tool to replicate real-world scenarios and optimize network performance. Our approach includes intensive traffic simulations to fine-tune operations and identify potential improvements. We propose an Advisory Service leveraging GNS3 and cloud solutions to provide tailored recommendations for seamless equipment integration. This...
This lightning talk will draw parallels between cybersecurity and climate change communication, highlighting the topics shared complexity and the importance of innovative communication strategies to inspire action. Reflecting on past struggles in communicating climate change, the talk will emphasise the approach of evidence-based message framing to convey clear and compelling narratives. Using...
This presentation will provide an overview of the EUDAT data management services and how collaboration with NREN can be beneficial to further support Open Science in Europe.
One critical success factor of large-scale IT infrastructure deployment is rigorous and automated testing. Strategic test automation where tests are continuously adapted and executed based on requirements complements traditional IT monitoring solutions, and provides a viable strategy for testing in an industrial-grade DevOps project.
We will guide the audience through a whole test automation...
This summer, Sean Cummings and Chris Cummings developed a proof of concept SIIT-DC NAT64 translator using the ESnet SmartNIC framework and DPDK. In this lightning talk, I'll explore the advantages of this framework for rapidly developing high-performance hardware network functions. I'll provide an overview of the ESnet SmartNIC framework and discuss how we utilized P4 and DPDK to achieve 100G...
It is not often we see a government department deviate from a state entity mandated by law to oversee their ICT affairs, due to dissatisfaction from alleged low quality of service, at least not in South Africa. This talk takes the audience through a short anecdote of what happens when an instrumental government department finally approaches an NREN to "solve" their ICT systems problems.
New eduMEET with new architecture, scalability and independence.
Ready for an interactive, dynamic and substantive LT presentation with audience
participation?
An interesting and technically challenging combination of a traditional presentation and a live demonstration will draw those in the audience into being part of the presentation!
In 2024, InCommon is hosting its third annual Cyber Security Cooperation Exercise for federation member organizations, focused on using the REFEDS Sirtfi framework. Past years have highlighted that some organizations’ security teams are unaware of Sirtfi or have not updated their internal procedures to fully institutionalize federation cooperation when security incidents involve external...
In out lightning talk, we explore the enigma that is quantum entanglement, both in science and philosophy. In an era where data security is paramount, we unravel the practical tool that is quantum cryptography and its role in transforming secure communication in critical sectors like banking and defense.
We will also delve into the philosophical implication of quantum entanglement and how...
Can a lightning talk about the production of the conference opening program be technical? What if the initial performance is packed with interesting technologies that are worth discovering, showing and explaining? For example - a ticking atomic clock, or drones that not only fly, but also create sound? Or the artificial intelligence that we harnessed to cooperate? In a word - a mix of old and...
