Name: NetUK3
Start: 2026-07-06T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-07T17:00:00+01:00
Location: The Brewery

NetUK3

from Monday, 6 July 2026 (09:00) to Tuesday, 7 July 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 6 July 2026

09:00 Workshop Registration: Workshop Registration
Workshop Registration
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Reception (Ground Floor)
09:30 Workshops: Workshops
Workshops
09:30 - 11:30
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

09:30 Workshop: Open Source Data Management Platform - Infrahub - Alex Gittings (OpsMill) Pete Crocker (OpsMill)

09:30 Workshop: An Introduction to Data Centre Networks - Foeh Mannay (Xantaro) Utkarsh Shah (Xantaro)
11:30 Doors Open, Registration & Lunch: In-person attendees
In-person attendees
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Reception (Ground Floor) + King George III (Ground Floor)

11:45 Newcomer Introduction

11:45 - 12:15
Room: Upper Sugar Room (1st Floor)
13:00 NetUK3 Plenary
13:00 - 14:30
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

13:00 NetUK Welcome - Dave Pumford (PTX Technologies / NetUK)

13:15 When UK Traffic Takes an Unplanned Detour: Routing Security for the UK Peering Community - Ritesh Mukherjee (Nokia)

13:45 Understanding and optimising transceiver efficiency using internal metrics for improved power savings - Gerhard Stein (Flexoptix)

14:15 Data Signal-Based Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing - Jasmine Parkes (Comtek Network Systems and Bangor University)
14:30 Sponsor Content
14:30 - 14:50
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

14:30 Agentic AI Network Automation - Gary Taylor (Megaport)
14:50 NetUK3 Plenary
14:50 - 15:20
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

14:50 Hollow Core Fibre - Nothing is better than glass for guiding light - Steve Jones (Huber+Suhner)
15:20 30 Minute Break
30 Minute Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: King George III (Ground Floor)
15:50 NetUK3 Plenary
15:50 - 17:35
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

15:50 Data Centers in Space - The Big Picture - Geoff Bennett (Nokia)

16:20 Telecoms Inventory for GPON using Kuwaiba - Corey Maltby (Solent University) Craig Gallen (Entimoss and Solent University)

16:35 Edge Network Evolution - Ben Ryall (Meta)

17:05 Which in my switch? LPO, CPO, XPO optics. What are they, when to use - Robert Friskney (Arista)
17:35 Social Event

17:35 - 22:30
Room: Brewery Courtyard
Tuesday, 7 July 2026

09:00 Doors Open & Registration: In-person attendees
In-person attendees
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Reception (Ground Floor)
10:00 NetUK3 Plenary
10:00 - 11:15
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

10:00 LON2 Network Refresh - Jan Kayser (LINX)

10:15 Everything is Fine and Our Automation Works Perfectly - Stefan Funke (Inter.link)

10:30 SCION: Secure Path-Aware Internet Routing for Critical Infrastructures - Kevin Meynell (SCION Association)

11:00 Engaging with PeeringDB's Product Committee - Leo Vegoda (PeeringDB)
11:15 30 Minute Break
30 Minute Break
11:15 - 11:45
Room: King George III (Ground Floor)
11:45 NetUK3 Plenary
11:45 - 13:15
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

11:45 Rethinking Network Monitoring - David Flores

12:15 Autonomous System Provider Authorisation - Ralph Smit (RIPE NCC)

12:45 The Network Automation Forum Framework: A vendor-neutral reference model for building automation at scale - Pete Crocker (OpsMill)
13:15 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:15
Room: King George III (Ground Floor)
14:15 Sponsor Content
14:15 - 14:35
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

14:15 The Great Escape from On-Prem - Ed Daniel (Infoblox)
14:35 NetUK3 Plenary
14:35 - 15:15
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

14:35 Building a National NOG Community - Keith Mitchell

15:05 Operators Checklist for the October 11th DNSSEC KSK Rollover - David Groves (Nominet)
15:15 30 Minute Break
30 Minute Break
15:15 - 15:45
Room: King George III (Ground Floor)
15:45 NetUK3 Plenary
15:45 - 16:30
Room: The Porter Tun (1st Floor)
Contributions

15:45 NetUK Update - Nick Wenban-Smith (Nominet)

16:00 Evaluation of BGP Roles (RFC 9234) with the aid of an AI Assistant - Julian Lucek (HPE)

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