Meetings and Events

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.
• CEO Update– Eileen Gallagher
• Ops Update– Nick Hilliard

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).

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

The next INEX Member Meeting will take place on Thursday the 30th of March at 13:00 Irish time at the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin.

A light lunch will be served from 12:00 noon, so please come along a bit earlier to catch up with other community members while you enjoy a bite to eat.

Here are some of the talks/speakers to look forward to, we hope you will be able to join us:

• The EU debate on an Internet traffic tax – Rudolf Van der Berg, Stratix Consulting
• Upcoming ECSMs regulations – Brendan Ring – National Cyber Security Centre
• The Halifax explosion of 1917 and what we can learn about dealing with crises – Anna Wilson, Technical Architect, HEAnet
• Security Scorecard for .ie domains – Sebastian Castro – Data Scientist and Researcher .ie
• EuroQCI initiative update – Dr Deirdre Kilbane, Director of Research, Walton Institute, WIT
• Recent developments in RPKI –Mikhail Puzanov – Senior Software engineer, RIPE NCC.
• CEO Update– Eileen Gallagher
• Ops Update– Nick Hilliard

For the evening social we have booked the upstairs room at Against the Grain (11 Wexford St) for food and drinks (and we have advised the kitchen staff to pre prepare plenty of their delectable buttermilk chicken!).

To register for the meeting please email me at rsvp@inex.ie

The next INEX Member Meeting will take place on Thursday the 15th of December at 13:00 Irish time at the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin.

A light lunch will be served from 12:00 noon, so please come along a bit earlier to catch up with other community members while you enjoy a bite to eat.

While the full schedule is yet to be finalised, our talks currently planned are:

• Bulk cable interception law and intelligence oversight in Norway – Kjetil Otter Olsen, Oslo University
• Evolution of network of subsea fibres between oil platforms – Carol Browne, Tampnet
• Implementing automation on network deployments – Irene Lalioti, Restena/LUCIX
• A national timing grid for Ireland – David Flemming, NSAI and Zdenek Chaloupka, Timing Solutions
• CEO Update– Eileen Gallagher
• Ops Update– Nick Hilliard
• Update from the INEX Board – Annemette Broch, chairperson of the INEX Board

For the evening social we have booked the upstairs room at Against the Grain (11 Wexford St) for food, drinks and and live craic.

To register please email rsvp@inex.ie

Our INEX September Meeting  will take place at the Hotel Riu Plaza/The Gresham Dublin (On O’Connell Street) on Thursday the 22^nd of September from 10 am. The meeting will be followed by a very special social event at the  AXE Club in Dublin which is walking distance from the hotel and will include some pizza and drinks (but not while throwing axes).

We have booked a very spacious event room to provide adequate space for everyone and hope that you will come and join us.

Here’s a flavour of what to expect on the day:

10am – 15:00 – Join us for some great talks, networking and a light lunch

Annemette Broch (INEX Board Chairperson) – INEX Board update

Tom Strickx (Cloudflare) – Incident Management at scale

Deryck Fay (author of “Connecting a nation”) – The urban/rural connectivity divide

Jerry Sweeney (CloudCIX Limited) – Data centres and energy

Nick Hilliard (INEX CTO) – Ops update

CEO Update – Eileen Gallagher

Solas Photo competition finale – Patricia Soria

15:00 – AXE throwing fun. Short walk to the AXE club where after a basic safety introduction you will have plenty of time to practice axe throwing with a coach. Naturally we will run a competition to see who the axe champ is! Your axe throwing efforts will be rewarded with some delicious wood fire pizza at the venue followed by drinks at Urban Brewing (CHQ).

Please note that there’s no dedicated parking at the club, street parking only.

To register please email me at rsvp@inex.ie before Monday the 12^th of September as numbers at the AXE club are limited to ensure everybody’s safety.