Conveners
Lightning Talks: First Strike: First Strike
- Nicole Harris (GÉANT)
- Renato Furter (Switch)
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.
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.
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...
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...
Showcasing the Jisc (UK) and KENET (Kenya) partnership, this six-month project focuses on knowledge exchange and connecting digitally excluded communities to research and education. We'll share how we have extended eduroam through innovation with mobile data and LEO/GEO satellite technologies.
We'll share our journey, challenges, and successes in enhancing connectivity and educational...
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...
In an era of rising cyber threats, NRENs must continuously strengthen their security posture. But how can organizations that are lacking on time, people or budget rapidly upskill their teams, foster collaboration, and implement best practices effectively? Security Bootcamps !! a proven model, hands-on, high-impact training tailored to the unique needs of NRENs. Our past bootcamps have been...
Passkeys have been around for a few years now, so the biggest question is: why should you consider implementing them if you haven’t already? Passkeys are a username and password replacement, allowing end users to log in using biometrics, among other options. They represent a simpler and more secure solution for those using personal devices.
At Feide (Norway), we deliver the national...
Often times NRENs forget the fact that they are connected to a valuable resource that they don’t use. University students and staff. Some of the best talents are just within reach. How about we start using those connections and use them for making the institutions more secure?
That’s the concept of the one-day event that SURF and Switch carried out. Whether HALON (Hack ALl the EDucation)...
This lightning talk will present real-world deployment scenarios for NRENs and the transformative potential of a solar-powered eduroam node. More than just a green solution, this node provides a resilient, scalable, and inclusive technology that is redefining eduroam's reach. Join us to discover how this innovation is not only growing NRENs and greening eduroam but also changing lives in...
This lightning talk highlights the need for ‘green networking’ through energy efficiency and optimizing network infrastructure and design for sustainability. The topic ‘From Dark to Green’ stems from the recent South Africa (SA) national energy (load-shedding) crisis, the effect it had on the SA National Research and Education Network (SA NREN) infrastructure and its beneficiary community, and...
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...
