Meetings and Events

The 2025 INEX AGM will take place on Thursday, 29 May 2025 at 17:00hrs Irish Standard Time (16:00 UTC). This is going to be a hybrid meeting to be held in-person at the Temple Bar Hotel in Dublin and via Zoom.

The AGM will be followed by the INEX summer social a short walk downstairs in the Hotel, at the Buskers On The Ball bar from 18:00hrs (Irish Time). Come along and enjoy this great sports bar for food drinks and games (chose from the bar’s 3 Ping Pong Tables, 7 Pool Tables, 2 Outrun, 2 Superbikes, 1 PacMan, 1 Street Fighter, 1 American Pool Table, 2 Shuffle Board Tables, 2 Foo’s Ball Tables, 1 Air hockey table). You don’t need to attend the AGM to join us for the summer social, simply let us know what you want to do by emailing rsvp@inex.ie

The first INEX member meeting of 2025 will take place on the 20^th of March at the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin.  Please join us from 12:15pm Dublin time for an informal networking lunch. Talks will start at 1pm.

Confirmed Speakers and Talks

Computer Networking for Research in the 1980’s – Dennis Jennings, Internet Pioneer

Fighting DDoS attacks @ AMS-IX: A story of pain and tears – Stavros Konstantaras, Sr. Network Engineer at AMS-IX

NIS2 and other regulation and compliance updates you should know about – Ian Travers , INEX ISMS Manager (contractor)

HEAnet provisioning system, Mick O’Donovan – Senior Network Engineer at HEAnet

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 – Dr. Gerhard Stein and Thomas Weible CTO, Flexoptix

BGP.he.net – Walt Wollny, Director, Interconnection Strategy at Hurricane Electric

INEX updates by the Team

18:00 – Drinks and food at The Jar (Wexford Street) – We have reserved the Second Floor Top Terrace as it’s ideal for a private party and has its own bar . Please note that access to the terrace is via two flights of stairs. Members who can’t attend the meeting are very welcome to join us at the social.

Our next INEX member meeting will take place on the the 12^th of December at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin City Centre.  

Please note that our meeting room is located at the Conference Centre of the hotel which is easier to access via Ship Street Great rather than the main hotel entrance on Golden Lane (check venue map to the right of this text).

Our Agenda for the day (please note all in Dublin time):

12:15 – Please join us for some light lunch and networking before the meeting starts.

13:05 – 13:10 – Introduction
13:10 – 13: 30 – CEO update – Eileen Gallagher, INEX
13:30 – 13:45 – Membership and Community update – Patricia Soria, INEX
13:45 – 14:15 – Where the !*! Are the Packets Going – Luca Sani, Catchpoint – Luca will discuss how the team at Catchpoint enhanced Linux traceroute (using open source) in order to get: support for QUIC,  ECN bleaching detection, path MTU discovery speedup and a new style of TCP traceroute called “InSession” aimed at bypassing firewalls.
14:15 – 14:45 – Deploying IPv6-mostly access networks – Ondřej Caletka – RIPE NCC. In this talk, Ondřej will present how to run a network with as little IPv4 as possible yet still working properly for the most of devices. He will also share his experience of running such a network during RIPE meetings.
14:45 – 15:15 – Ho Ho Home Automation – Denis Nolan, INEX – Denis will discuss and demonstrate his own exciting journey from monitoring power in the home to building helpful automatons for other things around the house.

15:15 – 16:15 – Coffee break

16:15 – 16:45 – Staying at the Roach Motel: Cross-Country Analysis of Manipulative Subscription and Cancellation Flows – David Malone, Maynooth University.Sometimes it feels like it can be a lot easier to subscribe to an online service than subsequently cancel this subscription. Is this true and do regulations make any difference?
16:45 – 17:00 – Evaluating the Impact of UEFA CL Matches on Internet Traffic – Gianluca Sironi, Piacenza Internet Exchange (PCIX)
17:00 – 17:30 – Ops Update – Nick Hilliard, INEX

17:30 – End

18:00 – Drinks and food at Bar Rua – Members who can’t attend the meeting are very welcome to join us at the social.

INEX presents… “The Internet’s Past: Gateway to the Future”

Tuesday, 5th November 2024, Dublin, Ireland.

Join us for an engaging discussion with a panel of distinguished experts exploring how key moments in the internet’s history offer insights into its future.

Visit the event page for full details on the event and star panellists.

Our next INEX member meeting and AGM will take place on the the 12^th of September at the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin.  

Our Agenda for the day (please note all in Dublin time):

10 am – 12pm – Eolas workshop: Libre NMS with Neil Lathwood. This training is a separate event to the main member meeting, if interested you must register for this workshop in advance via eolas@inex.ie as spots are limited.

12:15 – Light lunch and catch up – With the added bonus of a show and tell of historical artefacts (telegraph equipment and cable samples) brought to us by Derek Cassidy from BT. 

13:00 – 18:00 – INEX Member Meeting and AGM

“The transatlantic cable – the wire that changed the world, a Valentia story“ – Leonard Hobbs, Government Affairs Leader, Intel Ireland

“Journey from the heart of Europe”, NIX.CZ migration and expansion from one city to 4 countries – Marian Rychtecky, CTO at NIX.CZ

“Open Submarine Cables and SLTE – What Does That Mean, and Why Should You Care?“ – Geoff Bennett, Infinera Director of Solutions and Technology

“RIPE Community & the RIPE NCC: What You Can Do & Why It Matters“ – Fergal Cunningham, Head of Membership Engagement at RIPE NCC and Brian Nisbet, Service Operations Manager at HEAnet

From manual to machine: The automation revolution in internet peering – Antonio Faria, Technical Consultant, Nomios

INEX Update

AGM

18:00 til late – Social and BBQ at the Harcourt Bar & Garden.

We hope you can join us!

Dear INEX Members,

With fond memories of School Tours, it is our great pleasure to announce that our 2024 INEX Summer Field Trip and social will include an excellent tour to Ardnacrusha Power Station in Co Clare followed by food and drinks locally.

We are delighted to have arranged this trip working with the team at ESB Telecoms who made it happen – Gareth Winders and Aoife MacMahon.

The tour which will be given by an expert guide at the power station will give an insight to the history and operations of Ardnacrusha.

Our next INEX member meeting will take place on Thursday the 7th of March at the Camden Court Hotel from 13:00 hrs Dublin time (12:15 for a light lunch).

A big thank you to Digital Realty that will be sponsoring this meeting.

Our speakers and talks for the day:

• Machine Learning, Large Language Models and Chatbots– Jerry Sweeney, CloudCIX Limited
• Quantum Communication in Ireland – Dr Deirdre Kilbane, Director of Research, Walton Institute
• Is IPv6 the next or the last thing you’ll see as an engineer – Stefan Wahl, ROUTE 128 GmbH
• 176 minutes without power; a datacentre nightmare– John Ronan, Walton Institute
• Unleashing the Power of Connectivity into Private Cloud and AI Innovations – Darren Chan, Digital Realty
• Board and INEX updates content will be shared in the members list post meeting.

• INEX Board Update– Annemette Broch, INEX Board Chairperson
• CEO Update– Eileen Gallagher, INEX CEO
• Financial Update  – Kate Bleakley, INEX Financial Controller
• Ops Update– Nick Hilliard, INEX CTO

18:00 – Social

Our agenda for the day:

• NCSC work update – Brendan Ring, National Cyber Security Centre, Ireland (NCSC-IE)
• 25 years of Network Automation – Nat Morris, Principal Software Engineer at Netbox Labs
• BGP, DNS and routing in Ireland; a current snapshot – Massimiliano Stucchi, AS58280.net
• Experience Antarctica – Michal Krzysztofowicz, Agile Networks.
• Coherent optical transceivers – current capabilities and future possibilities. Thomas Weible (CTO) and Dr. Gerhard Stein (Head of Product Development).Flexoptix
• CEO Update– Eileen Gallagher
• Ops Update– Barry O’Donovan

Many thanks to Flexoptix and the team there for their sponsorship of this INEX meeting, your support is very much appreciated.

For the evening social we have booked the upper lounge area of the much loved Paddy Cullens (14 Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4).

See below for location of the Minerva Suite within the RDS:

Our next INEX member meeting will take place on Thursday the 7th of September at the Camden Court Hotel from 11am Dublin time.

We are delighted to say that we have a longer than typical line up of great speakers, hence the earlier start.

Our agenda for the day:

11:00 – Chris Mondini and Adam Peake, ICANN -The world of DNS, regulation and geopolitics meets the Internet

Lunch

Quick community round up – Patricia Soria

INEX CEO Update – Eileen Gallagher

Noel Fitzpatrick – United Weather Centres project

Alana Hayes – An analysis of routing algorithms in electronic design.

Axel Pawlik, Chocolate and the Internet

Coffee break

Steve Jones – Introduction to WDM

Maria Isabel Gandia – Network eAcademy – GÉANT

Nick Hilliard – Ops update

18:00 – Social in Against the Grain sponsored by ICANN

Looking forward to catching up with you all

Join us for a very relaxed summer celebration of our wonderful community.

For this event we have exclusively booked Opium Botanical garden, which not only is beautiful but will work well for whatever the Irish summer has planned for us!

Enjoy some chilled socialising with easy summer music, Opium’s unique from Dublin to Bangkok BBQ menu and your favourite tipple.

Exact location: Opium, 26 Wexford St. To access the Botanical Summer Social, please come through the back entrance: 13-14, Liberty Ln, Portobello, Dublin, D08 NF86

When: Thursday, 8th June 2023 from 6 pm till late

Please RSVP as soon as possible by emailing  rsvp@inex.ie or clicking in the button below

Thank you,

Patricia Soria