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Program Schedule for SANOG 35


SANOG 35 - Conference Program Outline - Monday 20th January, 2020

Type Date Time Session
Conference 20th January 09:00 - 11:00 Opening Plenary >> Moderator: Rupesh Shrestha
Welcome by Host: Haris Shamsi (Yottabyte)
Welcome by SANOG: Rupesh Shrestha (SANOG Chair)
Welcome Address by Chief Guest : Mr. Junaid Imam, Member IT - Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom Pakistan
Keynote - "Journey of ISPs and Internet in Pakistan" - Mr. Maroof Shahani, (COO, Cybernet)
Keynote - "IPv4 runout and the future of the Internet for Pakistan" - Paul Wilson, (DG, APNIC)
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Technical Plenary 1 - Technology & Operations >> Chair: Yasir Shamim
"Building the 400G Internet on Merchant Silicon and Open,
Coherent Optical Technologies: Trends and Futures"
- Atif Wasi (Arista)
"IPv4 Internet Routing Table Update" - Dr. Philip Smith (SANOG)
"D/DoS Mitigation Enterprise Security Planning and Strategies" - Asad Ali (Inbox Business Technologies )
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 NOG Updates & Peering Personals >> Chair: Dr. Philip Smith
NOG Updates :-
SANOG Update - Rupesh Shrestha (SANOG Chair)
APNOG & APRICOT - Dr. Philip Smith (APNOG Chair)
IX Updates :
"Presentation on Internet Exchange" - Sherafzal (Afghanistan Ministry of Comms & IT)
"Pakistan Internet Exchange Point" - Ahmed Bakhat Masood (PTA)
Traffic Patterns in Pakistan : - Aftab Siddiqui (ISOC)
NPIX Update - Rupesh Shrestha (NPIX)
Future of IXPs - Marco Brandstätter (DE-CIX)
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Technical Plenary 2 >> Moderator: Rupesh Shrestha
Lightning Talk : Emerging Technology and IP Networks - Bashir Ahmed Zeeshan (CMPAK ZONG)
The impact of an RPKI validator in Bangladesh and Lessons Learned - Dr. Philip Smith (NSRC)
"New gTLDs, IDNs and Domain Name Industry in Pakistan"- Ahmed Bakht Masood (PTA)
20:00-23:00 SANOG 35 Social Event @ Crystal Ballroom, Karachi Marriott Hotel


SANOG 35 - Tutorial Program Outline - 21st January, 2020

Type Date Time ::Track 1:: ::Track 2::
Tutorials 21 January 09:30 - 11:00 Programming and Python for Network Engineers
- Part 1 -
Yasir Shamim & Hafsa Talat
MANRS Tutorial
- Part 1 -
Aftab Siddiqui (ISOC)
Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Programming and Python for Network Engineers
- Part 2 -
Yasir Shamim & Hafsa Talat
MANRS Tutorial
- Part 2 -
Aftab Siddiqui (ISOC)
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30
Virtualisation -
Owais Kazimi (Rapid Compute)
MANRS Tutorial
- Part 3 -
Aftab Siddiqui (ISOC)
Tea/Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Risk Elimination by System Hardening | Being Safe -
Mir Hassan Riaz (Cybernet)
MANRS Tutorial
- Part 4 -
Aftab Siddiqui (ISOC)


Type Date Time Session
Conference 21th January 17:00 - 17:30 Closing Plenary >> Moderator: Rupesh Shrestha
Closing Keynote by Mr. Shabahat Ali, CEO National Information Technology Board Pakistan
Closing Remarks by Host: Haris Shamsi (Yottabyte)
Closing Remarks by SANOG Chair: Rupesh Shrestha
17:30 End of SANOG 35 Conference




SANOG 35 - Workshops Program Outline - 22-25 January, 2020

Track: 1 Track: 2
22-25 January 09:30 - 18:00
(with 3 usual breaks in between)
IPv6 Deployment:
Dr. Philip Smith (APNIC),
Muhammad Yasir Shamim (APNIC Community Trainer)
Workshop Resources
Network Security :
Aftab Siddiqui (ISOC),
Fahad Ali Khan (CyberNet),
Asad Ali (Inbox Business Technologies)
Workshop Resources

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