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Agenda

Day #1 Monday 19th May 2025, 09:30 - 22:30 @ Ex Gam

09:30 - 10:00 Registrations open
10:00 - 12:00 Trainings
12:00 - 13:00 Light lunch (for trainees only)
13:00 - 15:00 Trainings
14:30 - 18:30 Vendor workshops
19:00 - 20:00 Aperitif
20:00 - 22:30 Social dinner

Day #2 Tuesday 20th May 2025, 09:30 - 17:00 @ Ex Gam

09:30 - 13:00 Morning session
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 17:00 Afternoon session

Location

Ex Gam
Piazza della Costituzione,3
Bologna

Please account for the following traveling times:

From the railway station (Bologna Centrale) to the venue: 25 minutes (walk)
From the airport (BLQ) to the venue: 20 minutes (taxi)

Bilateral meetings

Bilateral meeting room available during the entire event. Meetings can be arranged via Meetingtool
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Trainings

Trainings are scheduled to take place on Day #1 during the morning.

Start	End	Topic	Teacher	Slides
10:00	15:00	Networking dei Data Center: dai DC L2 ai DC per l'AI	Tiziano Tofoni

Workshops

Sponsored workshops are scheduled to take place on Day #1 during the afternoon.

Start	End	Title	Sponsor
14:30	15:20	sFlow on Smartwall one	Corero
15:30	16:20	Secure your IXPs data and network: protect with Next-Gen DDoS Protection Advanced Strategies and Secure Transport solution.	Nokia
16:30	17:20	Unlock your network (Fiber broadband)	Harmonic
17:30	18:20	How optics can improve the quality of your WISP business	Flexoptix

Presentations

The presentations are scheduled to take place on Day #2.

Start	End	Title	Speakers
9:30	9:45	Welcome
9:45	10:00	ITNOG updates and local NOGs	Various
10:00	10:20	Power Consumption Considerations in Optical Metro Transport Networks	Steve Jones
10:20	10:40	Analyzing network reliability up to 800G - Impact of SNR thresholds on BER for Coherent (16QAM) and Non-Coherent (PAM4) high speed transceivers under environmental variations	Thomas Weible
10:40	11:05	From Clicks to Code: Optical Network Automation Journey in GARR	Matteo Colantonio
11:05	11:30	Break
11:30	11:40	ISDN - Protocol Wars	Leonardo Rizzi
11:40	12:00	Quality of Experience in an application first world: giving networks the tools to maintain value in an increasingly OTT controlled environment	Roberta Maglione
12:00	12:30	EVPN/VxLAN outside the data center	Nicola Modena
12:30	12:50	KINDNS	Ulrich Wisser
12:50	13:00	PeeringDB updates	Livio Morina
13:00	14:30	Lunch
14:30	14:40	Costruire un ambiente di test sicuro per un IXP	Marta Burocchi
14:40	14:55	Automating a Service Provider Network: A Practical Introduction	Elia Aielli
14:55	15:20	PACMAN: Automazione della configurazione di rete in GARR, tra sfide tecnologiche e cambiamento culturale	Francesco Lombardo
15:20	15:30	Routing Security	Marco Paesani
15:30	15:50	Whats new in Ripe	Riccardo Stagni
15:50	16:10	Break
16:10	16:40	Networking for AI and Ultra Ethernet	Massimo Magnani
16:40	17:00	IXP updates	Various

~~Have something to present? Please take a look at our Call for Papers~~.

Registration fee

Registration is free for all network, netdev and netdevops engineers, and students up to a maximum limit of 400 attendees. For all the other roles, the fee is 200€. Exceptions may be considered for executives based on their roles and the availability of registration slots. Sponsors receive complementary passes as part of their sponsorship package.