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NSRC Personnel Activities Around the World

2026 Upcoming Activities

February

Feb 4-12: NSRC staff and contractors will teach workshops, a tutorial, and give a presentation at APRICOT 2026, alongside the APNIC 61 conference. Hervey Allen, Brian Candler, and Carlos Armas will teach the Practical Virtualization with Hybrid Strategies Workshop, while Philip Paeps and Tashi Phuntsho will lead the Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators Workshop. Philip Paeps will lead a Git for everyone Tutorial and Nina Bargisen will present a Routeviews Update.

Feb 21-27 : Steve Huter, Hans Kuhn, Owen Conway from NSRC will attend AIMS-19 , including the Hackathon (Feb 21-22) and the Meeting (Feb 23-27).

March

Mar 23-27 : At NZNOG 2026 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Philip Smith of the NSRC will lead the Advanced BGP MasterClass.

April

Apr 27-May : NSRC will teach a Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop and will also provide Direct Engineering Assistance to support Nepal Research and Education Network - NREN.

May

May 18-22 : NSRC will attend the RIPE 92 Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.

May 20-30 : NSRC will take part in BKNIX Peering Forum - ThaiNOG Day (May 25-26). NSRC will also teach two workshops as part of the event. Philip Smith from NSRC will deliver a BGP Deployment and Operations Workshop (May 20–23), as well as the BGP Peering and IXP Workshop (May 27–30).

2025 Completed Activities

December

Dec 8-12 : NSRC will participate in the 2025 Internet2 Technology Exchange to be held in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Dec 8-11 : NSRC will attend the Pulse Research Week that will take place in Barcelona, Spain.

Dec 1-5 : NSRC and TERNET organized a Network Monitoring and Security Management Workshop that will take place in Arusha, Tanzania.

November

Nov 24-28 : NSRC instructors Philip Paeps, Philip Smith, and Tashi Phuntsho will teach a workshop on Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators (PCIO) during PacNOG 36 that will take place in the Cook Islands. Philip Smith, Philip Paeps, Tashi Phuntsho will also give presentations during the conference plenary.

Nov 16-21 : NSRC will be present at Supercomputing 25 (SC25) that will be hosted in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

Nov 10-14 : NSRC's instructors Antonio Lobo, Carlos Armas, and Hervey Allen will teach a two-day Network Monitoring and Management Workshop during WALC 2025.

Nov 1-7 : NSRC will participate in IETF 124 that will take place in Montreal, Canada.

October

Oct 20-24: NSRC/RouteViews Peering Coordinator, Nina Bargisen will attend the RIPE 91 to be held in Bucharest, Romania.

Oct 13-16: NSRC will teach the Internet Routing & BGP Workshop (more details here ) during NGNOG 2025 that will take place in Abuja, Nigeria. During the NGNOG Conference Day, NSRC will presentat on DNS Best Practices by Patrick Okui, an update on the RouteViews project by Nina Bargisen and a presentation on Prometheus for Network Monitoring by Brian Candler.

Oct 6-10: Hervey Allen, Carlos Armas and Antonio Lobo from NSRC will participate in LACNIC 44 / LACNOG 2025 that will take place in San Salvador, El Salvador. Hervey Allen will give the keynote presentation and Carlos Armas will provide a RouteViews Update and Summary session .

Sep 29-Oct 3: NSRC will participate in MNNOG 7 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, delivering a keynote at the conference. The team will provide workshops, including a Network Management and Monitoring Workshop led by Philip Paeps, Hervey Allen and Owen Conway and a BGP Deployment Operations Workshop conducted by Philip Smith and Tashi Phuntsho. Tashi Phuntsho will also give a presentation during a technical session.

September

Sep 22-Oct 3: NSRC will participate in Afnog 2025, that will take place from September 22–26, where NSRC instructors Hervey Allen and Cleven Mmari will deliver a Network Monitoring Essentials Tutorial as part of the program. NSRC volunteers from Nigeria and Ghana will lead much of the teaching of this tutorial. NSRC will provide a virtual training platform that will be used to support access to labs for hands-on exercises as part of the tutorial sessions.

Sep 29 : Philip Smith of NSRC will give an opening keynote to the 2025 Africa Internet Summit that will take place from September 29 through October 3rd, both online and in person at the Alisa Hotel in Accra, Ghana.

Sep 1-5 : NSRC will conduct a Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop as well as an Internet Routing & BGP Workshop during ZAMREN Week that will be hosted in Livingstone, Zambia.

August

Aug 25-29: NSRC will provide Direct Engineering Assistance to ZAMREN in Lusaka, Zambia.

Aug 19-21: NSRC staff will participate in AfPIF 2025 and will deliver a RouteViews Update Presentation during the event.

Aug 17-23: At btNOG 12 (Aug 17-21), NSRC will be teaching the BGP Deployment Operations Workshop, Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop and the Practical Virtualisation with Hybrid Strategies Workshop. NSRC will also participate in SANOG 43 (Aug 22-23), co-located with btNOG12. Both events will be held in Thimphu, Bhutan.

July

Jul 22-23: Philip Paeps will lead a workshop on Securing the Resource Naming with KINDNS Framework and will give a presentation about KINDNS during LKNOG 9 .

Jul 19-25: Hans Kuhn from NSRC will participate in IETF 123 as a NOC volunteer and will also join the DNS, V6 and BGP working groups. The event will be held in Madrid, Spain.

Jul 4: Edwin Sandys of The University of the South Pacific, Fiji (USP) will provide a report during the Pacific IGF 2025 Meeting to be held in Apia, Samoa on NSRC ccTLD work in DNSSEC, root-servers and BGP Routing.

June

Jun 26: NSRC staff will attend the Link Oregon 2025 Annual Member Meeting that will take place in Wilsonville, Oregon at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) Portland Metro Campus.

Jun 23-27: NSRC will deliver workshops on Cybersecurity, DNS, KINDNS, Routing Security during PacNOG 35 that will be held in Suva, Fiji.

Jun 9-13: NSRC staff and contractors will take part in TNC25 meeting that will be conducted in Brighton, UK. Discussion about the RouteViews project will be part of the meeting agenda.

May

May 24: NSRC will take part in the bdNOG 19 Conference Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where Philip Paeps, on behalf of NSRC will deliver a tutorial on DNS & DNSSEC operational best practices.

May 19-21: NSRC contractor Philip Paeps will lead the "Mastering DNSSEC: Building a Trusted DNS Infrastructure Workshop" during the Phoenix Summit 2025 that will take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

May 18-23: NSRC staff will attend BKNIX Peering Forum that will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. As part of the event, NSRC will teach a BKNIX Workshop (May 18-21), followed by a technical update on RouteViews (May 22). Finally, NSRC will participate in ThaiNOG Day (May 23) and will present a BGP Routing Table Update.

May 12-16: NSRC staff and contractors will take part in the RIPE 90 meeting to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Nina Bargisen from NSRC will discuss the RouteViews project and current updates, as well as participate in the Measurements and Tools (MAT) Working Group.

April

Apr 22-24: Steve Huter and Philip Paeps from NSRC will participate in the TWNIC Engagement Forum that will be conducted in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Apr 18: Philip Paeps of the NSRC will give a RouteViews Project Update as well as a Tutorial on DNS & DNSSEC operational best practices during TWNOG 6 to be held in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Apr 10-11: NSRC contractors Anna Secka Saine, Alain Aina and Khoudia Gueye Ndoye will participate and represent NSRC in the WACREN 2025 conference to be held in Dakar, Senegal. The conference will include a remembrance of Dr. Boubakar Barry.

Apr 7-9: NSRC in conjunction with snRER (Réseau pour l’Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche du Sénégal) will teach a 3-day Internet Routing & BGP Workshop to be held at Université Amadou Mahtar in Dakar, Senegal.

March

Mar 24-27: NSRC and GARNET organized a four-day CNDO Workshop bringing together participants for hands-on training that will take place in Accra, Ghana.

Mar 15-21: Hans Kuhn of the NSRC will join the IETF 122 meeting that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. Hans will assist with meeting setup and IETF NOC operations during the meeting.

Mar 10-15: NSRC's instructors Anna Secka Saine, Brian Candler and Patrick Okui will teach a CNDO Workshop from March 10-13 for The Sierra Leone Research and Education Network - SLREN. They will also provide Direct Engineering Assistance from March 14 to 15 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Mar 8-13: NSRC staff will join the ICANN 82 meeting to be held in Seattle, Washington.

Mar 7: On behalf of NSRC, Nina Bargisen will present a RouteViews Update during DKNOG 15 that will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark.

February

Feb 19-27 NSRC staff, contractors, and partners will assist with the organization of the APRICOT 2025 workshops and conference that will be held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. NSRC will lead two new APRICOT MasterClasses in Practical Virtualisation with Hybrid Strategies as well as KINDNS: DNS & DNSSEC operational best practices to improve the DNS Ecosystem. NSRC will also give a Peering IXP and LiveNOG tutorial during the event.

Feb 10-13 NSRC contractor Philip Paeps will train on "Kinds of KINDNS as part of the APTLD 87 meeting to be held in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. In addition, Philip will be part of the "Business Continuity Protocols session on day 2 of the event.

Feb 8-14 NSRC staff will give a "RouteViews Update" during GMI AIMS 5 Workshop that will take place at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.

Feb 6 Hans Kuhn of the NSRC will give a presentation on "RIPE RIS and RouteViews on evolving data collection infrastructure" during Georgia Tech Routing Security Workshop 2025 to be conducted online.

January

Jan 19-22 NSRC staff will take part in the Pacific Telecommunications Council PTC25 meeting that will be hosted in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Jan 17-18 Steve Huter and Philip Smith of the NSRC will participate in TPRE 2025 to be conducted in Honolulu, Hawaii.