What motivates Identity Providers (IdPs) and Service Providers (SPs) to join CARSI (China CERNET Identity Federation)? And what challenges and opportunities arise for the federation as a result? CARSI provides federated identity management and global academic resource access services to Chinese universities, currently serving over 700 Identity Providers (IdPs) and 290 Service Providers...
Learn about the results of the Digital Credentials for EU (DC4EU) large scale pilot. I will demonstrate the EU digital identity wallet (EUDIW) that we have built and the use cases within higher education and research. I will first show how the wallet can be used and demo the functionality, then assist the participants to actually use the wallet themselves to give them a better understanding of...
This is a community hub for all Procurement related professionals in the community with the aim to organise, coordinate, and discuss various topics for a very turbulent and eventful 2025 in Procurement.
This session will give an overview of how Google is empowering students, educators & researchers with Technology & AI to enhance meaningful learning & development.
With support from our partner SoftwareOne, we will explore use cases that improve student content quality, enable more time for teaching and stretch precious budgets further.
This talk uses the physical infrastructure of the Internet as an entry point for a discussion of how contemporary knowledge infrastructure shapes imagination and possibilities. Considering the geopolitics at play in every level of network architecture, it explores the implications of thousands of small technical decisions for what is thinkable in the contemporary knowledge environment. Drawing...
Presentation of the Annual GÉANT Community award for outstanding contributions to collaborative work and the development of services and technologies within the GÉANT Community.
Presentation of the Annual Vietsch Award. The Medal of the Vietsch Foundation is awarded annually to honour people whose initiatives led to a lasting organisational set-up or a service that is of great value to the research and education community.
This interactive session will offer attendees an engaging opportunity to discover the GEM mentoring programme, hear firsthand experiences, and view the GEM platform in action. By connecting available mentors and mentees with new programme participants the session will support the growth of the GEM platform. The session will showcase how GEM supports professional and personal development...
Join us at the Exchange Theatre for Microsoft’s General Manager, Kate Maxwell's keynote, 'Education in the AI Era,' to explore the transformative impact of AI on education, highlighting our partnership with GEANT, showcase investments being made in academic research, and Microsoft's commitment to empowering individuals and organizations worldwide
Recent changes in the Federal and R&E landscape have required organizations in the US to make adjustments to community-facing programming, particularly those programs that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many institutions are crafting new opportunities for professional growth and development within our communities that comply with new restrictions but continue to align...
Overview of how the University of Nottingham have embraced Microsoft Azure as a central research tool to drive research output and impact. Walkthrough of the current engagement and service model implemented and the challenges faced along the way in offering researchers digital freedom whilst retaining appropriate governance and control.
A Network Digital Twin is a clone of a real network that replicates, as far as it is feasible, the functioning of devices and links (control plane, data plane, and management plane) so that you can play out scenarios that are impossible, cost-prohibitive, disruptive or too damn hard to perform in the real network.
One might ask, what caused yesterday's outage? What would this BGP policy...
The AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (AI4LAM) community is an international, participatory network dedicated to advancing the use of artificial intelligence within the cultural heritage sector. The community is at the forefront of developing and maintaining cutting-edge AI tools and services tailored for heritage institutions to better provide access, management and (re)use of digitized...
Following on from her highly successful TNC24 presentation where Teresa addressed the headline issues of leadership and culture, this TNC25 presentation will take delegates deeper into the leadership equation and consider how the critical elements of diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and social conscience intersect to ensure ongoing cultural success within our NREN community. This...
As digitalization accelerates, so do cyber threats, highlighting the need for diverse talent in cybersecurity. ZoomIn4PinkHats - ZI4PH project, funded by the GÉANT Innovation Programme 2024, addressed these challenges through gamification, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning methods. This presentation will highlight activities, research and project results conducted over six months in...
When the digital products we buy are accessible, they can be used by everyone including people who are disabled, or who have other access requirements. Covering the current legal context for digital accessibility in the UK and the EU, this presentation will also consider:
- the use of AI in tools to support accessibility
- factors impacting the procurement of digital products
- how the...
Machine Learning (ML) has seen limited adoption within large-scale networks (e.g. NRENs). Organisations are reluctant to share their data in fear of compromising end-user privacy, thus representative datasets to train accurate ML classifiers are usually not available. Moreover, complex black-box ML classifiers are not intrinsically explainable, hence network engineers are reluctant to deploy...
EaP NRENs (ASNET-AM, GRENA, AzScienceNet, URAN and RENAM) invite you to a dialogue and a thinking space about GÉANT Community as a living entity, the entity that evolves in response to the technological, financial, and socio-political changes around us.
With all the changes that impact NRENs (and their constituents) how can the GÉANT Community programme be optimised to support all NRENs?
HAWAT (Heuristic Analysis With Adaptive Troubleshooting) is an agentic AI assistant for network troubleshooting. This presentation explores the development of a chatbot system designed to interface with network hardware, leveraging recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Reasoning and Acting (ReAct) agentic frameworks. Our system demonstrates...
It's 2025. Switch is 38 years old. Teams have grown with a lot of autonomy, unique processes, and tools. While this structure basically works, delivering across boundaries is hard as complexity expands and the need for clearly demonstrated compliance increases. IT Service Management is not a topic to set pulses racing with excitement yet it became a surprising useful approach to build bridges...
Global Connectivity has grown in term of bandwidth as well as diversity. This has not come about by chance but more of a deliberate and concerted effort by multiple NRENs to ensure the demands of the research and education community are met both in terms of bandwidth, resilience and trust with the increase in global collaboration. In 2024, the resilience in connectivity and backup plans was...
For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine it has become possible for URAN to attend the TNC in person. Come and meet Tetiana Preobrazhenska (URAN) to learn first-hand about the impact of the GEANT Community support for the survival and resilience R&E community in Ukraine.
The experience of the continued community support and the troublesome events in other parts of the world...
Our presentation will provide an insider's view of the efforts required to built a nearly 9,000-kilometer-long submarine Internet cable with 21 landing points in the Mediterranean.This non-technical session will delve into the multifaceted process of constructing a submarine cable, providing an insider's view of the efforts required to create the digital infrastructure we use daily.
What do you need to think about when building and operating a research and education network? This will be a quick jaunt through some of the many factors that make up a network architecture, and how it fits into the environment that we operate in, from the fibre in the ground to the services we offer our customers and the regulatory environment we have to work in, both now and perhaps a bit of...
Submarine cable systems are essential to global digital infrastructure, enabling connectivity and international collaboration. Polar Connect is a bold and transformative initiative aimed at establishing vital connectivity between Europe and East Asia, across the central Arctic Ocean. This presentation will examine the pivotal role of Research and Education Networks (RENs) and public funding in...
The talk showcases how NRENs can enhance their effectiveness by integrating their technical expertise with other disciplines. We provide a concrete example with Feide, the Norwegian identity federation, illustrating how the application of design principles and expertise contributed to the creation of its product strategy. This cross-disciplinary approach can offer valuable insights and...
Overview of the process which Manchester Metropolitan University have followed in assessing their research community's digital needs and how to cater for them. MMU identified a HPC service as being integral to drive their research ambitions following community consultation. We will share how we adopted a researcher-led approach to shape the new Microsoft Azure-based service currently being...
Many NRENs are in the process of expanding their service portfolio with precise time transfer, or stable optical frequency distribution. As an update of its network, CESNET is currently deploying a large-scale infrastructure for time distribution. Offering coverage at more than 20 sites within its network, the rollout is heavily based on the SDN and DevOps paradigms, with SDN control of...
The presentation "A Bright Future in the Cloud – Unique Collaboration on Cloud Procurement" at TNC25 will showcase GÉANT’s OCRE2024 initiative, a pan-European cloud procurement framework. Launched in February 2025, it unites 39 NRENs and approximately 25,000 institutions, securing cloud services worth up to €1.7 billion. With 416 framework agreements, it simplifies procurement, ensuring...
NRENs have come a long way as individual organisations and as a collective acting through GÉANT, and we’ve figured out how to achieve good and tangible results together. However, what served us well in the past may not be sufficient for the future. In this talk I aim to present a holistic and easy-to-understand overview of the challenges facing the GÉANT collaboration, possible paths forward...
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an international collaboration of 11 telescopes and two correlator sites capturing groundbreaking images of black holes. Traditionally, data collected during observations is stored on physical disks and shipped to processing facilities, causing delays in confirming telescope configurations. This new precheck demonstration leverages high-speed research and...
Fibre Optic Sensing (FOS) exploits fibres’ exceptional sensitivity to subtle changes in acoustics, strain, pressure, and temperature. Integrator instruments, AI assisted signal analytics and event fingerprinting, can monitor earthquakes, tsunamis, global environment, marine health, critical infrastructure, ocean vessels movements and more, in real time. The massive volumes of nontrivial...
AARNet (Australia) and Cybera (Alberta, Canada) are in close collaboration, taking the AARNet recipe of building and operating a Managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) Service and implementing it in Alberta. The benefits are multiple: Cybera have been able to stand up this complex service more quickly than if they had started from scratch, benefitting from AARNet’s hard-won experience over...
The NREN community excels in technical innovation. True impact requires more than technical expertise though. Safeguarding autonomy, fostering public values, and embracing the benefits of collaboration must be part of a NREN’s DNA.
In this talk, we explore SURF’s journey to develop a shared story and common purpose as key drivers for growth and resilience. We show how this process became...
Given the increasing frequency of severe weather events globally, the need for accurate and reliable weather forecasts, relying on Near Real-Time (NRT) data, has become more critical than ever. This presentation explores EUMETSAT's EUMETCast Terrestrial service, delivered over GÉANT networks, providing high-quality NRT meteorological data. It highlights the technical implementation of...
EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE and PRACE recently announced the establishment of the e-Infrastructure Assembly. By joining this collaborative effort, EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE and PRACE seek to promote e-Infrastructures in the European Research Area (ERA) and its changing landscape.
Are you working with or are you directly involved in one or more of the e-infrastructures? Are you using...
Wi-Fi is evolving, and there is a parallel universe developing besides eduroam. Come in and discover the basics of OpenRoaming!
As proactive NRENs start to play a crucial role in supporting research communities in open science, exchanging best practices and addressing their evolving needs in research data management (RDM) is essential. This showcase, organised by EUDAT, provides an informal and interactive space for NREN representatives to learn more about how they can benefit from EUDAT services, but also an...
National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) have played a crucial role in fostering collaboration, innovation, and connectivity in research and education. However, the question remains: does the world need more NRENs, or should efforts focus on optimizing existing ones? What have we done, what have we not done and what do we need to do? This presentation critically examines the current...
Join us for an insightful presentation on the risks of distributed digital identity in research and education wallet. We will explore financial, legal, strategic, and security challenges, analyze market trends, regulatory hurdles, governance complexities, and data security concerns, and discuss effective risk assessment and mitigation strategies. Designed for professionals shaping the future...
How to change a balance on a slack chord towards a brighter, safer future together? How can we bring our community together to have enough leverage in a big tech ruled world? We are striving for a brighter, safer, privacy-friendly future together and using the newest tech, with the lowest price, public values and a good feeling to top it. Companies are pushing and our members are challenging...
A look at the culture of NRENs from the perspective of how it can interact with and affect personal life. By looking into personal stories of emotion and trauma this talk brings to life how a good organisational culture can play out in daily life, how it affects individuals performance and wellbeing, and why NRENs are exemplars for simply getting these things right.
SURF Research Cloud is a national portal in the Netherlands where you can easily build a virtual or digital research environment (DRE). You can use pre-configured workspaces and datasets or add them yourself. Institutions, research communities, and suppliers can contribute to Research Cloud's functionality and catalogue by integrating their computing and data services. The portal abstracts...
The FileSender Board invites all interested persons to the annual meeting of FileSender service providers, users and developers to discuss the strategic roadmap, experiences with new versions, requirements, data mobility infrastructures, an NREN FileSender federation and whatever else is relevant!
Please register if you plan to participate...
The EOSC Community within NRENs has continued to evolve and thrive - most recently with the EOSC procurement and EOSC EU / EOSC Node initiatives, as well as ongoing interactions by NRENs through EOSC Association membership and EOSC project participation. What more can we do together as NRENs and how can we holistically evolve our EOSC participation? This will be the focus of this community hub...
The GÉANT Innovation Programme highlights the need for quick and accessible seed funding to support exploratory projects, testbeds, and studies. The Vietsch Foundation operates a complementary programme for research and education networking, providing funding for proposals requesting €30,000 or less with six-month duration or less. Learn more about this funding opportunity with a...
Innovate with Cloud! Jisc is driving flexibility, security, and access across research and education. In this lightning talk, we'll outline our approach to:
- Building hybrid cloud infrastructure that integrates public cloud with our on-premises systems.
- Creating trusted environments to secure sensitive research data for collaboration and discovery.
- Leveraging cloud identity to...
The Business Platform for OpenStack Clouds (BP-OSC) project is an innovative SaaS solution built to empower Cloud Service Providers using OpenStack technology. This platform is a unified toolkit, called the OpenStack Solution Kit, comprising four main components: the FlexoStack Configuration Portal, OpenStack Admin UI, OpenStack Customer UI, and the OpenStack Billing System. Each component is...
The ZoomIn4PinkHats project aimed to promote cybersecurity among women and girls by empowering educators as mentors. Through an intensive bootcamp, teachers received hands-on training in Capture The Flag (CTF) categories, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to guide their students in small cybersecurity projects. By fostering mentorship, the initiative created a ripple effect,...
The DUxDi project aims to develop truly inclusive digital identity solutions that address the unique challenges faced by users with disabilities. By focusing on both accessibility and usability, DUxDi targets groups with visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive impairments. The project emphasizes adherence to accessibility standards such as W3C WCAG and seeks to enhance key digital identity...
Machine Learning (ML) adoption within large-scale networks is limited. Organisations hesitate to share data in fear of compromising end-user privacy, thus representative datasets to train accurate ML classifiers are usually not available. Moreover, black-box classifiers are not intrinsically explainable, hence engineers are reluctant to deploy them. FedXAI4DNS employs ML, Federated Learning...
We will introduce a concept of satellite-airborne backhauling using multiple-laser-beam transmission, supported by a theoretical framework for its design and analysis. By leveraging multiple laser beams, this backhauling offers an innovative solution to the growing demand for high-speed connectivity and network availability. The solution could bridge connectivity gaps in underserved regions,...
This session will discuss why and how cloud enables the research community to innovate and progress with their work.
End-users of mobile applications hardly know which enterprises and countries are involved in their online activities, and the implied rights and risks. Researchers and regulators need actual usage data to verify data sovereignty compliance. MANANA aims at providing the former with understandable characterisations of infrastructure usage, and the latter with a monitoring system of actual mobile...
This is a get-together for the members of the GEANT community, the international R&E Networks and vendors, working on quantum networking, quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communication.
We will also kick-off the newly born SIG-Quantum, a special interest group that provides a forum for the community working on quantum technologies within the R&E landscape. The SIG will gather...
Come join SIG-NOC to brainstorm ideas for the evolution of the SIG. The GÉANT SIG–NOC (Special Interest Group for Network Operations Centres) is a group in the GÉANT community formed by members of Network Operation Centres (NOCs) as well as network engineers involved in the integration and optimization of NOC tools and processes. It offers a forum for exchanging and promoting ideas, experience...
This presentation explores how AWS AI services can be effectively integrated into educational environments to enhance both teaching and learning experiences. We will examine practical applications of AWS AI tools such as Amazon Bedrock, to create more engaging, accessible, and personalized learning content while improving instructional efficiency and student engagement.
In this TNC Talk, a technical solution is presented for the automatic enrollment of European exchange students in their selected courses at a host institution. The speakers will demonstrate how a student logs in to their home institution via eduGAIN and how OAuth tokens, issued by MyAcademicID, enable and secure the communication between institutions.
HL-LHC, the upgrade of the LHC accelerator coming on-line in 2030, will generate a much larger amount of data then today, which will heavily impact the load of the R&E networks. This presentation will describe the computing model, how data will move in the R&E networks, the major challenges that the R&E community will face and how we are preparing to tackle them.
In security, a blackhole is a place in the infrastructure where incoming traffic is silently discarded without informing the source, therefore the traffic does not reach its destination. The blackhole traffic, or otherwise called unwanted traffic, can be considered as worthless traffic - trash. However, this is far from being the case. That traffic may include interesting attack indicators or...
With a lot of investment going into time and frequency services, the question is being posed: Could the time service be done at a lower cost using legacy systems?
Raimena will talk about what is precision time and frequency and its importance for NRENs, low-cost deployments of these services by sharing existing optical data links with White Rabbit, and the work inside GN5-2 to prepare this...
RNP provides internet connectivity across Brazil and generates vast monitoring and performance data. To support research, RNP has developed tools to make this data accessible accessible. This presentation will address two central questions: (i) In what ways can monitoring data from NRENs drive scientific research? and (ii) What actions can we take to foster scientific research using this data?...
In today’s competitive landscape, recruiting and retaining top network talent is more critical than ever. This session explores strategies like internal competence shifting, student outreach, university partnerships, and targeted recruitment campaigns that boosted our team by over 20%. Learn how fostering adaptability, lifelong learning, and youth engagement can build a thriving talent pool....
Fibre Sensing is one of the newest and rapidly growing area of interest for our community. One of the biggest challenges is around how data can be generated and shared in a Find-able, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) way, while at the same time keeping sensitive data secure. There are many challenges to this but one thing is understood: NRENs are a key stakeholder in each...
The Technology Training for Non-Traditionals (TNTs) taps into talent with unconventional paths to expand the cyberinfrastructure workforce. This session highlights the journeys of two early-career participants at SC24 in Atlanta. Hear how their unique experiences defied traditional career routes and led to thriving tech roles. Their stories offer bold insights into building a more innovative workforce.
National identity schemes are often incompatible across borders, complicating access to essential services when moving internationally. IT systems struggle with verifying identities using localized attributes, causing inefficiencies, manual workarounds, and loss of student access. This is particularly problematic in education, where long-term access to academic records is necessary. Efforts...
The evolution of the digital infrastructures is a never-ending journey, aimed to better and better serve their users, and whenever possible to pre-empt their needs. But what are the current and future scenarios that the NREN community is facing? What are the factors that are playing a role in shaping our environment, when seen from the point of view of someone that deals with our user...
Fibre optic sensing (FOS) is one of the newest and rapidly growing areas of interest for our community. It offers enormous potential for scientific research, earth monitoring, infrastructure, security, and beyond. But with these new opportunities come complex questions—how do we manage data, navigate evolving legal and governance challenges, and ensure open collaboration? One thing is clear:...
There is a lot of focus on IT- security measures in all organisations, but do we pay
sufficient attention to the people who navigate the organisation’s data and systems? The speaker believes more could and should be done to improve how we handle access rights and the quality of data about access rights. This presentation will discuss the rationales behind and experiences with the...
This session will unpack the EU AI Act and its critical role in shaping the future of AI in education, offering the TNC25 community actionable insights into navigating this regulatory landscape. As AI becomes essential to educational technology, compliance with the Act’s high-risk classifications and ethical standards is crucial for building trust and protecting learners. We’ll discuss how...
Struggling to keep talent or boost engagement? Want a simple, fun tool to help you motivate your team and improve retention? This session, inspired by the Centre for Talent Retention, introduces a hands-on tool that reveals why people join, engage, and stay. Exceptional leaders know their people’s individual motivators and leverage them to improve morale and results. Walk away with actionable...
Sikt and GÉANT invite you to a live demonstration of the GEANT-Argus Dashboard, a powerful tool designed to aggregate incidents from multiple monitoring systems into a single, unified interface. Built using open-source software from our community, this dashboard enhances network monitoring and incident management.
During this demo, we will showcase the latest GÉANT NOC Dashboard, highlighting...
ENET (Kenya) and Jisc (UK) have joined forces through the GEANT Twinning Programme. Find out more about what we learned from each other, and how we're going to keep working together in the future.
Jisc has launched a Security Operations Centre (SOC) for UK research and education. Find out more about how cyber attacks affect our members and how SOC will support our sectors.
A brief look behind the curtain of web-based federated Single Sign On to uncover some of the reasons what Trust means, where it can go wrong, and why it's so important that everyone involved understands and holds up their end of the arrangement.
This talk will provide a brief overview of key quantum technology initiatives across Europe, highlighting how they are shaping the broader research landscape. It will focus on the importance of aligning these efforts with the activities of the NREN community, showcasing opportunities for collaboration, strategic synergies, and the role of GEANT in supporting a coherent European approach.
In this presentation, a simple phrase sets the stage: networks are like bad roommates — they let the wrong people in and don’t notice until it’s too late. For many institutions, especially NRENs, that’s not far from reality. Openness and collaboration come at a cost: complexity, risk, and growing pressure to stay secure and compliant.
This talk explores how combining Zero Trust with AI can...
As we approach the day when quantum computers could potentially decrypt our communications in an instant, securing our data transmissions against such attacks becomes crucial. This presentation will demonstrate how BeQCI, a consortium of which Belnet is a key member, plans to leverage the latest advancements in MDI-QKD to deliver on-demand quantum-secure keys across a star network, but also...
This lightning talk introduces RNP's innovative digital document signing service that addresses longstanding challenges in digital signature adoption. Traditional digital signature solutions often require complex key management, expensive hardware tokens, and complicated verification processes. Our approach generates unique signing certificates for each document, eliminating key storage...
Silos in IT (where teams work in isolation) slow down innovation, create inefficiencies, and hinder collaboration. These silos often emerge when developers, operations, and security teams work independently, leading to misalignment, bottlenecks, and friction. As a result, software delivery is delayed, system reliability suffers, and security is often an afterthought rather than an integral...
When we start a relationship with a new research institution, we are often met with skepticism by the IT manager and the researchers. The first believes that there is no one better than him to understand his own institution, after all he is the local security hero who needs to protect his kingdom from intruders. The researchers, on the other hand, are extremely independent and creative in...
This presentation focuses on the deployment of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) within the infrastructure of national research and education networks (NRENs), addressing the growing need for quantum-safe communication as quantum computing advances. It highlights the integration of QKD technologies, including DV and MDI-QKD solutions from various vendors, into a real-world testbed to assess...
As long-term GEANT partners (Latnet/Sigmanet), the authors present a new complementary initiative quantum communications. An experimental QKD technology and its integration into conventional communication networks, including PQC, have been developed and tested. Authors present/discuss the experience of national QKD backbone deployment at the conference. The project is realized in collaboration...
Nepal’s Himalayas are experiencing rapid glacier retreat, rising temperatures, and increasing climate risks like glacial lake outburst floods, making them highly vulnerable to climate change. Despite its critical role in climate research, Nepal’s Research and Education Network (REN) remains largely underutilized, limiting its contribution to global climate studies.
This talk presents an...
There has been exceptional interest in the GEANT Security Bootcamp training for NRENs programme. Come learn more about how your organisation can take part and also share what you need from a Security Bootcamp trainings programme so it can be further customised for the Security Community. Former Bootcamp participants will be present to share their experiences.
This session will kick off a discussion on NREN’s Mail Abusemanagement services on a European level. DFN (Germany's NREN) has such a service ("DFN-MailSupport") in place for our institutions since 2013. We see new methods and technologies arising while others are in question to keep pace with modern spam technologies. There may be potential for a collaboration on a European level, e. g. by...
Learn about how you can take part in the GÉANT Twinning Programme, designed to foster impactful collaborations between National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) worldwide. Gain an updated overview of the programme's objectives, benefits, and eligibility criteria. We'll explore recent developments and discuss successful case studies from previous Twinning projects. We will also provide...
This talk is about three interlinked stories about how a community was formed within our midst. The stories concern the SUBMERSE project, a novel EC funded research project which aims to turn our network from a data mover to a data generator. The project didn't start as a solid concept, rather is was an evolution of an idea, iterated over time, through the hard work and dedication of...
We all want a more secure Internet, but what if our best security practices are silently breaking connectivity? As NRENs and providers implement MANRS, an unintended consequence is emerging—hidden routes that go unnoticed until they disrupt traffic and drive up costs. How can we fix this without compromising security?
My talk will highlight the issues GÉANT faced in identifying and...
In the depths of our oceans, a technological revolution is unfolding. Fiber optic submarine cables are evolving from mere data highways to dynamic environmental sensors, unlocking unprecedented scientific opportunities. SUBMERSE harnesses Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) to monitor marine life, seismic activity, and vessel traffic in real-time, enhancing research and infrastructure security....
The development of AI is transforming all the core activities of higher education institutions (HEIs), with its risks and opportunities manifesting at different scales depending on the context. As AI evolves rapidly, understanding its impacts is also constantly developing, yet discussions can be challenging due to the overlap of technological, ethical, societal, economic, and practical...
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Cernter has been involved in supporting cultural heritage and digital humanities sector for more than 20 years now. One of the recent developments, in collaboration with the Poznań City Hall and Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), is an online platform for supporting activities of various institutions in the plain language context. The main goal of the...
Emerging technologies utilizing fiber optic submarine cables present novel research opportunities across diverse scientific fields. Studies have also shown considerable operational and security advantages, not only for the cable itself, but also in its vicinity. This presentation will provide a review of several relevant technologies and their uses, particularly highlighting their significance...
In this session, we invite participants to discuss how we can characterize our https://dadosderede.rnp.br/ data repository as a disciplinary one for the computer network area. As a disciplinary repository, it should propose its own domain ontology, defining concepts and variables/metadata of the computer network area. We also intend to present the metadata defined in the datasets mentioned in...
NORDUnet is the regional collaboration of the five Nordic National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), working together to accelerate digitalisation in the Nordic research and education (R&E) ecosystem. Aligned with its strategic goal to be recognised as a key collaborator both within the Nordic region and internationally, NORDUnet supports the strategic objectives of the Nordic NRENs by...
This session is an open meeting for anyone looking to make optimal use of their research and education (R&E) network connectivity to share experiences, challenges, success stories or problems associated with getting their applications to perform to the level required for their use cases.
Researchers, scientists, GÉANT and national research and education network (NREN) operators, and campus...
The GÉANT Orchestration and Automation Team (GOAT) presents 2 of its tools, aimed primarily at network operators, but also suitable for academic environments: Containerlab-as-a-Service, a management stack to easily replicate production-like networking environments; and Moodi, a real-time telemetry tool that provides on-demand telemetry with dynamic dashboards and custom metrics.
You are doing amazing work, but are you communicating it effectively? Many ICT professionals focus on their projects without prioritising how to share their results and achievements. This presentation challenges the “work in silence” mindset and demonstrates the value of strategic communication.
NREN sustainability relies on effective stakeholder engagement. Drawing from RENU’s experiences, this presentation explores strategies to build trust, secure partnerships, and expand impact. Aligned with TNC's 'Brighter Together' theme, it offers actionable insights to strengthen relationships, ensure sustainability, and drive inclusive digital transformation in an evolving, competitive environment.
This session celebrates the 10th anniversary of In The Field Stories, a platform that has united the global Research and Education Network community through stories of collaboration and innovation. Reflecting on a decade of impact, the session will explore the blog’s journey and future potential. Attendees will gain insights into its evolution, practical storytelling techniques, and a shared...
R&E federations are evolving to meet increasing demands for both strong authentication and verifiable identity assurance. This session will provide an update on the REFEDS MFA Profile Working Group’s efforts to refine authentication assurance, including defining “phishing-resistant MFA.” We’ll also highlight InCommon’s work to align the REFEDS Assurance Framework with evolving research and...
Luxembourg Cybersecurity 4 Research & Education (LuCySe4RE) or LuCy in short, is a two-fold cybersecurity project funded by the European commission and is a perfect example how practical cybersecurity and (cyber-)security education join forces to provide a new security education service to the Luxembourgish research and education community (and beyond). In this presentation we will show the...
Although there are security services, guided by well-established policies and procedures; Risks is a hard process to implement and use. In view of this, the RNP created a project to standardize the way cybersecurity risks are assessed and improving the cyber protection is provided for corporate system components and for the research and education environment. This proposal aims to share the...
This presentation explores how the Australian Access Federation (AAF) worked with the CADRE project to streamline access to over 1,000 social science datasets. The project used REMS and CILogon to implement workflows based around the 5-Safes principles to manage access to sensitive datasets. Attendees will learn how leveraging federations and authoritative attribute sources (e.g. ORCiD) can...
Join us at TNC25 to explore the critical role of policy in shaping the future of NRENs in a rapidly changing world. At a time of increasing geopolitical complexity, NRENs face a dynamic policy landscape. The policy challenges facing NRENs are diverse and interconnected, ranging from dealing with evolving EU regulations and country-specific public policy issues, to working with multinational...
Authentication and authorisation for the High Energy Physics computing grid infrastructure has been based on X.509 certificates since its inception in the early 2000s. In recent years an emphasis has been placed on modernising the stack, facilitating integration with external cloud infrastructure and improving usability and security - all of which have naturally led to a transition to JWT...
Are you curious about specific legislations, policies, the workings of the EU, and the Member States’ role therein? This is your chance to ask your questions to the EU Liaison Team!
The European Union's legal framework determines not only the future of GÉANT and the NRENs based in the European Union, but also that of the Candidate Countries and the Neighbourhood. While the European Union...
Our presentation will highlight the procedural changes made at GÉANT to enable the packet layer migration of all routing equipment in the GÉANT backbone network. We will highlight the importance of working in cross-disciplinary teams, the challenges that come with this and how we have overcome them. We will present how both backbone and NREN-facing services are migrated via the GÉANT...
SURF has fully orchestrated its network and is now advancing NOC efficiency by integrating real-time data and automating daily operations. In 2025, SURF will begin migrating its fully orchestrated SURFnet8 to SURFnet ∞, facing challenges in leveraging growing telemetry data and AI-driven network management. This talk explores the evolution of SURF's orchestration stack, how the number of...
To address GÉANT’s strategic goal of meeting user communities’ ever-growing international data transfer demands, the connectivity between GÉANT and RENs in other world regions will need to grow, adapt and remain highly resilient to disruptions.
In this Community Hub session, the GÉANT GN5-IC1 team will set out how GÉANT is approaching the various elements of our approach to securing the R&E...
For two decades, perfSONAR has served as a robust platform for network performance measurement and analysis, built and maintained by a vibrant open-source community from various R&E organisations. This presentation will celebrate 20 years of collaboration, recap the recent changes, briefly describe the current feature set and the roadmap ahead. We'll invite you to participate by showing...
This presentation will reflect on the evolving identity and strategic direction of the GÉANT community. It will showcase success stories, anticipate future challenges, and emphasise the community’s role in enabling a secure, inclusive, and innovative digital ecosystem for research and education in Europe.
What should our interconnected world of research and education look like from 2025 and beyond? This panel discussion in the closing plenary will explore how shared principles of our community can be preserved amid rapid technological and social change across the globe. It will also examine the evolving role of public R&E, and how diverse world regions can shape their digital futures in...
Ladok, Sweden's national student information system, has reached two key milestones that we wish to share: implementing mandatory account confirmation in accordance with the REFEDS Assurance Framework and introducing Account Linking, which enables international students to retain access to Ladok after returning home and losing access to their Swedish university account. In this presentation,...
The EOSC Community within NRENs has continued to evolve and thrive - most recently with the EOSC procurement and EOSC EU / EOSC Node initiatives, as well as ongoing interactions by NRENs through EOSC Association membership and EOSC project participation. What more can we do together as NRENs and how can we holistically evolve our EOSC participation? This will be the focus of this community...
My presentation outlines on how National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) can effectively manage communication during crises such as network outages, cybersecurity incidents, and service disruptions by using Marketing and Communications (Marcom) strategies. It emphasizes the importance of timely, strategic messaging to maintain stakeholder trust and minimize reputational damage,...
End-users of mobile applications hardly know which enterprises and countries are involved in their online activities, and the implied rights and risks. Researchers and regulators need actual usage data to verify data sovereignty compliance. MANANA aims at providing the former with understandable characterisations of infrastructure usage, and the latter with a monitoring system of actual mobile...
Ever wondered why your wristwatch isn’t quite enough for cutting-edge science? Time and Frequency Transfer (TFT) is the invisible force behind everything from radio telescopes to subatomic particle physics—but what is it, really? In this accessible, jargon-free talk, we’ll break down time, frequency, and how they’re transferred over fiber—without the technical deep dive. Whether you’re curious...
