2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH 3UGERE@@pretalx.balticnog.org -3UGERE Opening Speech en en 20260923T100000 20260923T101500 0.01500

Opening Speech

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/3UGERE/ ROOM ALFA Vincentas Grinius PUBLISH VE9TUR@@pretalx.balticnog.org -VE9TUR Next generation optics for Scale-Up, Scale-Out and Scale-Across en en 20260923T101500 0.05500

Next generation optics for Scale-Up, Scale-Out and Scale-Across

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/VE9TUR/ ROOM ALFA Andreas Bechtolsheim PUBLISH L73BSR@@pretalx.balticnog.org -L73BSR Project Jake en en 20260923T114500 20260923T124000 0.05500

Project Jake

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/L73BSR/ ROOM ALFA Steve Crocker PUBLISH P9DYEB@@pretalx.balticnog.org -P9DYEB Keeping the Network Honest: Design Models, Drift, and Reconciliation en en 20260923T140000 0.02500

Keeping the Network Honest: Design Models, Drift, and Reconciliation

Intended for network engineers and operators, not just automation specialists. No prior familiarity with any specific tooling is assumed. Examples are drawn from open-source NetBox, but the talk is about the pattern: modelling intent, detecting drift, and reconciling the two, rather than any one product. The final section is a practical framing of how AI-assisted change can be introduced safely on top of a design model. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/P9DYEB/ ROOM ALFA Mark Robert Coleman PUBLISH AW7ZSZ@@pretalx.balticnog.org -AW7ZSZ AI and Operators: Tool, Traffic or Threat? en en 20260923T143000 20260923T152500 0.05500

AI and Operators: Tool, Traffic or Threat?

AI is entering the operator industry from several directions at once. It can assist engineers, troubleshoot networks and increasingly take operational actions. At the same time, AI workloads are reshaping compute, interconnection and traffic demand. Beyond the technical impact lies a larger question: does AI strengthen the position of network operators, or make connectivity an even more invisible commodity? The discussion brings together three different perspectives: Andrian Visnevschi on AI and network operations, Alissa Sõtsjova of Tele2 Eesti on connectivity and interconnection, and Zac Smith on infrastructure built for an increasingly AI-driven Internet. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/AW7ZSZ/ ROOM ALFA Alfredo Giordano Andrian Visnevschi Zachary Smith Alissa Sõtsjova PUBLISH ENWYQA@@pretalx.balticnog.org -ENWYQA Getting 1+ Tbps from an x86 server en en 20260923T160000 20260923T162500 0.02500

Getting 1+ Tbps from an x86 server

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/ENWYQA/ ROOM ALFA Branimir Rajtar PUBLISH MQNBVF@@pretalx.balticnog.org -MQNBVF How IETF and Swisscom transforms Network Operation in the age of AI en en 20260923T163000 20260923T165500 0.02500

How IETF and Swisscom transforms Network Operation in the age of AI

Thomas Graf, Distinguished Network Engineer and Network Analytics Architect at Swisscom. Stuck with service providers since 1997. Rediscovered networks in 2015 with Network Analytics. The backseat driver of the Swisscom Daisy team with network, software and data engineering enthusiasts recently expressed themselves to feel like belonging to a startup. Authoring next generation data collection protocols in NMOP, GROW, OPSAWG and NETCONF working groups at IETF. Chairing IPPM (IP Performance measurement) working group and IP Performance Directorate at IETF. https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/thomas.graf@swisscom.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkanalytics-thomasgraf/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/MQNBVF/ ROOM ALFA Thomas Graf PUBLISH X7ZZUS@@pretalx.balticnog.org -X7ZZUS Expanding Routing Visibility at IXPs with BMP en en 20260923T170000 20260923T172500 0.02500

Expanding Routing Visibility at IXPs with BMP

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/X7ZZUS/ ROOM ALFA Thomas Holterbach PUBLISH ETQ7T7@@pretalx.balticnog.org -ETQ7T7 Overdependence on AI: What could go wrong? en en 20260923T140000 0.02500

Overdependence on AI: What could go wrong?

Overdependence on AI: What could go wrong? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/ETQ7T7/ ROOM BETA Kirils Solovjovs PUBLISH BPWJNX@@pretalx.balticnog.org -BPWJNX The Infinite Ledger: Tracking the Evolution, Politics, and Future of Internet Number Resources en en 20260923T160000 0.02500

The Infinite Ledger: Tracking the Evolution, Politics, and Future of Internet Number Resources

I plan to cover - The origins of the IANA function, early block allocations, and the transition from a single ledger to the distributed RIR framework. - The reality of IPv4 depletion, the emergence of secondary transfer markets, and the administrative shifts required to document legacy space and leasing practices. - The current situation of IPv4 and IPv6 deployment, the critical push for registry data quality, and how transparency safeguards the Internet ecosystem PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/BPWJNX/ ROOM BETA Marco Schmidt PUBLISH GRYMVJ@@pretalx.balticnog.org -GRYMVJ Fortinet Secure SD-WAN with ADVPN 2.0: dynamic and scalable deployments en en 20260923T163000 0.02500

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN with ADVPN 2.0: dynamic and scalable deployments

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/GRYMVJ/ ROOM BETA Braijens Staskevics PUBLISH JQJS8N@@pretalx.balticnog.org -JQJS8N Optical Foundations for IP Engineers: From Fiber Basics to CWDM/DWDM and Link Budgeting en en 20260923T170000 20260923T172500 0.02500

Optical Foundations for IP Engineers: From Fiber Basics to CWDM/DWDM and Link Budgeting

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/JQJS8N/ ROOM BETA Andreas Glatz PUBLISH G7UCNM@@pretalx.balticnog.org -G7UCNM Polar Connect: Opportunities with the New Arctic Connectivity Corridor en en 20260924T093000 20260924T102500 0.05500

Polar Connect: Opportunities with the New Arctic Connectivity Corridor

This Polar Connect Initiative presentation will provide an update on the latest progress, including pre-marine surveys in the Central Arctic Ocean, technical feasibility studies, stakeholder engagement, including building strong international collaboration. Special attention will be given to the opportunities and benefits for network operators, including: - strengthening resilience at the northern edge of European networks; - opportunities for new backbone and backhaul infrastructure in Northern Europe; - the role of carrier-neutral interconnection and open access infrastructure; - evolving traffic patterns driven by AI, hyperscalers, and high-performance computing; - research and education requirements alongside commercial connectivity; - Arctic infrastructure as an enabler both of new route, and future scientific sensing and environmental monitoring. The presentation invites for discussion on how the Baltic and Nordic networking community can help in developing the next generation of resilient, trusted, and globally connected infrastructure for Northern Europe. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/G7UCNM/ ROOM ALFA Ieva Muraškienė PUBLISH RXBWZU@@pretalx.balticnog.org -RXBWZU The Splinternet: Ecosystems, Sovereignty, and the Internet in the Age of AI en en 20260924T110000 20260924T112500 0.02500

The Splinternet: Ecosystems, Sovereignty, and the Internet in the Age of AI

As AI platforms reshape global data, upend economies, disrupt workforces and challenges decades of the neutral, open Internet, a critical tension has emerged between the borderless nature of modern technology and the rising need for regional and sovereign data control. In this session, Zachary Smith, CEO of Datum, explores the role of open-source ecosystems and community-driven interoperability and how they remain critical to infrastructure resilience even while the commercial systems, governments and regulatory frameworks are shifting all around us. We will explore what the Splinternet could and should look like and find out what it means for networks, service providers, builders and technology consumers of all sizes. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/RXBWZU/ ROOM ALFA Zachary Smith PUBLISH LCKLX8@@pretalx.balticnog.org -LCKLX8 Is My Data Center Infrastructure Ready for AI Workloads en en 20260924T113000 20260924T115500 0.02500

Is My Data Center Infrastructure Ready for AI Workloads

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/LCKLX8/ ROOM ALFA Mikael Holmberg PUBLISH KLRJXV@@pretalx.balticnog.org -KLRJXV Beyond the GPU Cluster: Building Networks for Distributed AI Inference en en 20260924T120000 20260924T122500 0.02500

Beyond the GPU Cluster: Building Networks for Distributed AI Inference

Most discussions about AI infrastructure focus on what happens inside the GPU cluster. This talk moves the discussion beyond the data centre and asks what happens when inference becomes distributed across devices, agents, models, tools, data sources, neoclouds and multiple network domains. The central proposition is that an AI task may increasingly resemble a dynamic distributed execution graph rather than a simple request to a single model endpoint. Different parts of that graph may execute at different distances, while model, provider and location choices change during the task. Latency, reachability, compute queues, policy, privacy and existing state may therefore become part of the placement decision—making the network an input to execution rather than passive transport. Using an illustrative five-second AI task, the talk then examines why attributing delay or failure becomes difficult when every participant sees only one part of the transaction. Existing technologies—including OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, inference-server metrics, gNMI/OpenConfig, IPFIX, BMP, STAMP/TWAMP and IOAM—already provide many of the required signals. The unresolved problem is correlating selected evidence across organisational and trust boundaries. The talk introduces FOX, a Federated Observability Exchange, as a deliberately exploratory concept for policy-controlled exchange of such evidence. FOX is not presented as a finished architecture, standard or product, but as a way to stimulate discussion about whether neutral interconnection could help provide cross-domain observability. Finally, the talk connects observability to security and resilience: agentic amplification, inference exhaustion, hidden shared dependencies, stateful failover and the need for local fallback. The objective is not to predict one future, but to give the networking community a practical vocabulary for discussing the architectures now beginning to emerge. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/KLRJXV/ ROOM ALFA Kaj Kjellgren PUBLISH THLKBE@@pretalx.balticnog.org -THLKBE Two years with an AI engineer on shift en en 20260924T123000 20260924T125500 0.02500

Two years with an AI engineer on shift

This session tells the full story of how we built a AI NetOps agent, in the order it actually happened. The early phases were shaped by two hard constraints. Cost, because running large models against every alert on every network gets expensive fast. And speed, because a root cause hypothesis that arrives after the engineer has already found the answer is worthless. Those constraints pushed us to test small models first, and we will show what they could and could not do. From there the system grew in stages: from a read-only helper, to a chat bot engineers could question, to an agent that queries monitoring, logs, flow data, BGP telemetry and the source of truth in parallel, correlates the output and proposes a fix for human approval. We will also cover how we evaluated it along the way: the test cases we built from real incidents, how we ran them against different LLM models, and how those results decided what the agent was allowed to do next. We will close with where the system stands today and the numbers it produces in production. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/THLKBE/ ROOM ALFA Andrian Visnevschi Nicolai Moraru PUBLISH XGGPP9@@pretalx.balticnog.org -XGGPP9 Transit Free, Tier ones, and the hopefuls en en 20260924T140000 20260924T142500 0.02500

Transit Free, Tier ones, and the hopefuls

In this talk will go over some of the bgp.tools data that I have been analysing that will show have some of the T1 peering issues, where gaps exist, and how certain networks are getting closer to becoming a them, and what are the problems they will probably face, and finally does a network even want to be in this situation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/XGGPP9/ ROOM ALFA Ben Cartwright-Cox PUBLISH HYD8KL@@pretalx.balticnog.org -HYD8KL Building Resilient Networks in an Unstable World en en 20260924T143000 20260924T152500 0.05500

Building Resilient Networks in an Unstable World

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/HYD8KL/ ROOM ALFA Theo Voss Kaj Kjellgren Kamil Szczepański Aleksi Suhonen Kārlis Svilans Fredrik Korsbäck PUBLISH JDYQ9N@@pretalx.balticnog.org -JDYQ9N Is the biggest attack always the most dangerous one? en en 20260924T160000 20260924T162500 0.02500

Is the biggest attack always the most dangerous one?

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/JDYQ9N/ ROOM ALFA Andrejs Tihanovs PUBLISH SEWBLF@@pretalx.balticnog.org -SEWBLF Practical Volumetric DDoS Mitigation with Linux and Open Source en en 20260924T163000 0.02500

Practical Volumetric DDoS Mitigation with Linux and Open Source

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/SEWBLF/ ROOM ALFA Alexander Krizhanovsky PUBLISH YZ97TP@@pretalx.balticnog.org -YZ97TP Massive DDOS attacks on ISPs – A look into Kimwolf and Aisuru en en 20260924T170000 20260924T172500 0.02500

Massive DDOS attacks on ISPs – A look into Kimwolf and Aisuru

Massive DDoS Attacks on ISPs: A Look into Kimwolf and Aisuru examines the newest generation of Mirai-descended botnets and the challenges they create for network operators. Using Kimwolf and Aisuru as case studies, the session explores how enormous attacks originating directly from compromised devices can overwhelm not only their intended target but also upstream and peering networks. It covers the evolution and operation of these botnets, their impact on ISP infrastructure, where traditional mitigation techniques break down, and the approaches that have proven most useful—from blocking and null-routing C2 infrastructure to close collaboration between trusted network operators. Ultimately, the presentation asks a larger question: when attacks reach tens of terabits per second, what actually stops them? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/YZ97TP/ ROOM ALFA Scott Fisher PUBLISH W8DXBW@@pretalx.balticnog.org -W8DXBW Closing Speech en en 20260924T173000 20260924T174500 0.01500

Closing Speech

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/W8DXBW/ ROOM ALFA Paulius Judickas PUBLISH LAULQN@@pretalx.balticnog.org -LAULQN Auto-bandwidth for Segment Routing en en 20260924T110000 20260924T112500 0.02500

Auto-bandwidth for Segment Routing

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/LAULQN/ ROOM BETA Dmytro Shypovalov PUBLISH 8PGEKK@@pretalx.balticnog.org -8PGEKK Mission Critical: Addressing the Talent Black Hole in Network Engineering en en 20260924T113000 20260924T115500 0.02500

Mission Critical: Addressing the Talent Black Hole in Network Engineering

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/8PGEKK/ ROOM BETA Yolandi Cloete PUBLISH X8EQJD@@pretalx.balticnog.org -X8EQJD Anatomy of a BGP spoofing attack + BGP Filtering - a quick overview en en 20260924T120000 20260924T122500 0.02500

Anatomy of a BGP spoofing attack + BGP Filtering - a quick overview

A quick look at the details of a BGP spoofing attack on a customer in Lithuania. We take a look at the specifics, try to guess how this might have happened and what could be done to mitigate it. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/X8EQJD/ ROOM BETA Lasse Jarlskov PUBLISH WCGBKA@@pretalx.balticnog.org -WCGBKA Automating DNS Secondaries with Catalog Zones en en 20260924T123000 20260924T125500 0.02500

Automating DNS Secondaries with Catalog Zones

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/WCGBKA/ ROOM BETA Aleksi Suhonen PUBLISH APGWW8@@pretalx.balticnog.org -APGWW8 Global NOG Alliance update en en 20260924T140000 20260924T142500 0.02500

Global NOG Alliance update

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/APGWW8/ ROOM BETA Sander Steffann PUBLISH 39XGTR@@pretalx.balticnog.org -39XGTR When the Law Reaches the DNS: Operating Regulatory Blocking at ISP Scale en en 20260924T160000 0.02500

When the Law Reaches the DNS: Operating Regulatory Blocking at ISP Scale

Last year at BalticNOG, I presented Piracy Shield, Italy's anti-piracy blocking platform. This year, I want to continue that story. **Piracy Shield was only the tip of the iceberg.** Italian ISPs also receive blocking requirements from ADM, separately for gambling and tobacco, AGCOM, CONSOB, IVASS and CNCPO. On top of these administrative mechanisms, blocking can also result from court orders. Each has developed in its own way. Some provide lists, others issue individual orders; publication and notification methods differ, as do update procedures and technical expectations. There is no common interface designed for the operators that ultimately have to implement them. I will map this rather peculiar ecosystem and show how Airbeam brings much of it together at DNS level, from collecting and normalizing the sources to applying and removing restrictions. There will also be some real examples. A few of them are good illustrations of how not to design an operational process involving hundreds of network operators. The Italian case will then provide the starting point for a discussion with the BalticNOG community: what happens in other countries, and can we do this better? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/39XGTR/ ROOM BETA Livio Morina PUBLISH TYBQDZ@@pretalx.balticnog.org -TYBQDZ Poland as a Hub for Eastern Europe Connectivity en en 20260924T163000 20260924T165500 0.02500

Poland as a Hub for Eastern Europe Connectivity

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.balticnog.org/bnog-2026/talk/TYBQDZ/ ROOM BETA Kamil Szczepański