SM - Nordic Trust & Identity
- Lake Garda
- Monday, Sep 08 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Nordic T&I
Description
This is a closed meeting by invitation only meeting will run from 15:00 - 17:30
Talks
Lightning Talks 2
- Everest 1
- Thursday, Sep 11 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Plenary
Description
2nd part of the Lightning Talks experience. Feel free to submit a proposal for a 5-minute talk. ncw2025@nordu.net
Talks
Network 1 -Clocks are ticking
- Everest 1
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Track 1
Description
Time distribution has traditionally relied on satellite-based synchronization via GNSS. Over the past decade, dedicated optical links have been deployed, enabling ultra-precise time and frequency transfer over fiber. In today’s evolving security landscape, the need for resilient and independent timing infrastructure is more critical than ever. This session explores the development of national R&E time and frequency networks and efforts to interconnect the Nordic region—and eventually the rest of Europe. We also present the future outlook of the ongoing incubator project driving this initiative forward. Agenda - T&F ideas/feedback from the Monday's workshop (Lars Fischer, NORDUnet and Jani Myyry, CSC) 30 min - T&F incubator project & Nordic T&F network (Raimena Veisllari, SIKT) 30 min - Nation-wide T&F network (Harald Hauglin, JV) 30 min
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Network 2 -Future-proof NREN and campus networks
- Everest 1
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 15:30 - 17:00
- Track
- Track 1
Description
Automation is a cornerstone for operating modern backbone and campus networks at scale. This session explores how NRENs are collaboratively addressing this challenge to reduce the burden of manual work. We will also hear updates from campus development teams and discuss the potential establishment of a new forum to fostercloser collaboration. Agenda Clixon network automation (Dennis Wallberg, SUNET, Olof Hagsand, SUNET and Markus Krogh, NORDUnet) 30 min - Latest developments from CSC (Henri Leinonen, CSC) 15 min - Latest developments from SUNET (Mikael Ottosson, SUNET) 15 min - Latest developments from SIKT and SIG CNaaS kicking off - where do we see mutual ground (Vidar Stokke, SIKT) 30 min
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Trust & Identity 1 -The building blocks of eduroam: Wi-Fi and geteduroam
- Everest 2
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Track 2
Description
This session will start from exploring the Wi-Fi world, and then will move on to the T&I infrastructure at the heart of eduroam. The session will also explore the latest developments related to the Wi-Fi standard - Wi-Fi 7 and WPA3 - and then dive into the geteduroam portal which will be presented, including related piloting experiences.
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Network 5 -Nordic collaboration
- Everest 1
- Thursday, Sep 11 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Track 1
Description
Collaboration has been the cornerstone of the NORDUnet community since the very beginning, and this long history is still reflected in some of the systems we use today. Over the past two years, the Nordic NRENs have worked together to modernize monitoring systems, enabling cross-domain visibility across both optical and packet layers. This includes the collaborative support provided between NRENs, especially when resources are scarce. Agenda NORDUnet monitoring WP1 & WP2 status (Morten Brekkevold, SIKT & Jonas Hagström, SUNET) 30 min - NORDUnet monitoring WP3 future plans (Jonas Hagström, SUNET) 30 min - RHNet & NORDUnet operations in Iceland (Ingimar Jónsson, HI) 30 min
Talks
Operations Forum
- Everest 1
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Side meeting T1
Description
Operations Forum - closed meeting
Talks
Education 1 - Exploring the future of education through foresight and scenario building
- Everest 3
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Track 3
Description
What will the future of education look like, and how can we prepare for it today? In this session, Tonje Evanger and Hildegunn Vada will share how Sikt has applied foresight and scenario building to shape a future-oriented product strategy for Campusnet and Feide. Vegard Moen will highlight key trends expected to shape the education landscape in the years ahead. The session will then move into an interactive workshop where participants explore future scenarios and trends together.
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NRENS4Education – improving student interoperability in Europe
- Everest 3
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 11:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Track 3
Description
How can NRENS contribute to student mobility in Europe? European students face a stark contradiction: while policy frameworks promote a borderless European Education Area, the digital reality creates significant barriers to mobility. NRENs, embedded in the national education ecosystem in each EU country, are uniquely positioned to bridge the gap between European policy and local implementation. They are experienced in delivering interoperable, secure, and scalable digital services for the research and education sector and understand the needs of the HEI’s as well as students. NRENs can validate the developed solutions on a national level. By leveraging their existing infrastructure and expertise, NRENs can provide a federated approach that respects national diversity and institutional autonomy while enabling seamless, cross-border collaboration. This approach is more efficient and less risky than developing new solutions from scratch. A group of European NRENs will start with addressing three urgent use cases from the Higher Education Interoperability Framework (HEIF): Discover: Enabling students to easily find learning opportunities that suit their specific needs across Europe. User Identity: Ensuring seamless and secure identity management for students and staff. Apply and Get Recognition: Simplifying the application and recognition process for courses taken abroad.
Talks
Welcome & Lightning Talks 1
- Everest 1
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 11:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Plenary
Description
Welcome by NORDUnet CEO Valter Nordh followed by a session of Lightning Talks The order of presentations will be published once it has been finally confirmed
Talks
SM - Nordic Network monitoring WG
- Loch Ness
- Monday, Sep 08 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Nordic Monitoring
Description
By invitation only from 14:00 - 18:00
Talks
Network 6 -Security is not binary
- Everest 1
- Thursday, Sep 11 2025 11:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Track 1
Description
Security has become increasingly important in backbone networks. While protecting our infrastructure from attacks is part of daily operations, we are also preparing for the new technologies that the quantum era will introduce. This collaboration will extend across the Baltic Sea, as EuroQCI cross-border projects are set to begin. Agenda: DDoS mitigations (Rikard Johansson, SUNET and Jani Sirpoma, CSC) 30 min - EuroQCI EE-FI-SE cross-border project (Johan Laxen, Erillisverkot) 30 min - EuroQCI DK-PL-SE cross-border project (Tobias Gehring, DTU and Martin Bech, DeiC) 30 min
Talks
EOSC 2 - State of Play
- Everest 2
- Thursday, Sep 11 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Track 2
Description
This session will focus on providing an overview on the latest developments in the EOSC area. The session will provide an overview about the EOSC EU node and the build up of the EOSC Federation. Representatives of the Nordic NRENs will provide an overview about national driven initiatives and strategies related to FAIR/EOSC.
Talks
Media Services “strategy” BOF -NRENs only
- Everest 2
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Side meeting T2
Description
Background The Nordic Media Group (NMG) currently serves an important function in the operational coordination of media services across the Nordic NRENs. The group meets weekly and focuses on technical operations, troubleshooting and immediate issues. However, there is currently no structured forum for strategic coordination between NRENs and NORDUnet concerning long-term planning, roadmaps and development of media services. The Feather We propose the creation of a strategic forum under the name NMG-S (NMG Strategic Forum), as a complement to the existing operational NMG structure. The purpose is to enable long-term, Nordic-level coordination around media services development, sector needs, and strategic alignment. The Bird The scope of the BOF is to discuss the proposal and see if we can agree a scope and mandate that will allow us to progress the establishment of a NMG-S (NMG Strategic Forum)
Talks
Security 1: Emergency exercise experiences
- Everest 3
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 15:30 - 17:00
- Track
- Track 3
Description
Exercises among security people in the research and education sector are mandatory. The single NREN Cert does their own exercises on a regular basis, but are they also conducted in bilateral or multilateral corporation between universities and eventually in participation with the relevant CSIRT/CERT? Are we ready to coordinate an incident with sister universities in our country? In this workshop we will share experiences and knowledge how to organize, plan and execute exercises in our sector. DKCERT will facilitate the workshop based on a presentation of two years of table top exercises with participation of the CISOs of all 8 universities in Denmark and we will discuss the relevance of having cross nordic NREN CERT-exercises. In order to make this workshop valuable: As a Nordic NREN CERT, please bring your own EEE – emergency exercise experiences - and prepare a 5 minutes talk about your recent learnings.
Talks
SM Joint SIG-AI and TF-EDU
- Loire
- Monday, Sep 08 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- SIG-AI and TF-EDU
Description
N/A
Talks
SM Joint SIG-AI and TF-EDU
- Loire
- Monday, Sep 08 2025 09:00 - 12:30
- Track
- SIG-AI and TF-EDU
- Register
- https://wiki.geant.org/x/F4AcPw
Description
N/A
Register at https://wiki.geant.org/x/F4AcPw
Talks
AI 1 AI for Higher Education and NRENs
- Everest 3
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Track 3
Description
3:30 – 13:40 Welcome & Framing Workshop Host NORDUnet - Erik Kikkenborg 13:40 – 14:00 BDREN Creating AI Learning & Teaching tools - Abu Naser Md. Nafew BDREN 14:05 – 14:30 SIKT Case Study - Jardar Leira Sikt 14:35 – 14:55 AI in Network Operations NREN NORDUnet – Martin Juniper and Erik Kikkenborg
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AI 2 AI for Higher Education and NRENs cont'd
- Everest 3
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 15:30 - 17:00
- Track
- Track 3
Description
5:30 – 15:55 Using Graph Neural Networks for scientific traffic categorisation Daniela Brauner GÉANT 16:00 – 16:20 Policy, Ethics, and Trust in AI Licia 16:25 – 17:00 The Future Role of NRENs in AI NREN ALL open discussion
Talks
Communication
- Everest 3
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Track 3
Description
Storytelling is essential for showing the value of NRENs beyond the technical details. In this session, Åshild Berg-Tesdal from Sikt and Tiia Pulli from CSC will share how they discover, shape, and deliver stories that make their organisations’ work visible and meaningful. The second part of the session will focus on why it is crucial to know your audience and how to write for them.
Talks
SM - Nordic Time and Frequency cont'd
- Lake Geneva
- Monday, Sep 08 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Time & Frequency
- Register
- https://nordunet.nemtilmeld.dk/134/
Description
Distribution of high-precision time signals over wide area networks is an area of growing importance, and has seen significant technology evolution in recent years.
In this workshop, we will discuss two key aspects of high-precision time distribution:
synchronisation of national time sources ("atom clocks") of dedicated optical fibre networks
Provision of high-precision time services, a matter if significant important for both research instruments and national security
The focus will be on
reports on activities in the nordic countries from NRENs, National Metrology Institutes (NMIs), and other stakeholders
discussion of opportunities, goals, and strategies for Nordic collaborations and alignment with and connection to similar activities in the EU.
The workshop is primarily intended for staff from NRENs, NMIs, and other providers, as well as technology experts from the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
A program will be published towards the end of August.
This meeting will run from 10:00 - 16:00
Register at https://nordunet.nemtilmeld.dk/134/
Talks
Storage / Compute Platforms 2
- Everest 1
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 15:30 - 17:00
- Track
- Track 1
Description
We take a closer look at above the network services. Sharing experiences of running both compute and storage platforms in the community. We will hear about both the good, the bad and everything in between.
Talks
Please click to get more info about side meetings
- TBD
- Monday, Sep 08 2025 08:00 - 08:30
- Track
- Info on side meetings
Description
Side meetings do not necessarily follow the same time slots during Monday. Please check the individual side meeting for specific timing in the description.
Talks
Security 2: New and old tools to manage security, detecting threats and prevent compromises.
- Everest 3
- Thursday, Sep 11 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Track 3
Description
Representatives of "NREN Certs" in Denmark, Norway and Finland respectively show how they use new and old tools to manage security, detecting threats and prevent compromises.
Talks
Storage / Compute Platforms 1
- Everest 1
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Track 1
Description
We take a closer look at above the network services. Sharing experiences of running both compute and storage platforms in the community. We will hear about both the good, the bad and everything in between.
Talks
Network 3 - Feel the vibrations
- Everest 1
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Track 1
Description
Research networks have developed expertise in optical networking since the early 2000s. Light properties such as phase and scattering have traditionally supported data transport and fiber monitoring, but these phenomena can also be harnessed to extract environmental changes. Over the past five years, fiber optic sensing has rapidly evolved from concept to practice, with multiple NRENs now actively engaged in the field. This session presents researchers' experiences, outlines requirements for NREN network planning, and explores data analysis approaches using machine learning and AI. Agenda Bornholm cable monitoring with DAS, seismology (Aurelien Mordret, GEUS, online presentation) 30 min - Preparing NREN network for sensing (Kurosh Bozorgebrahimi, SIKT and Magnus Bergroth, SUNET) 30 min - Sensing data analysis & AI (Witold Taisner, PSNC and Kajetan Kubic, PSNC) 30 min
Talks
SM -Nordic Time and Frequency
- Lake Geneva
- Monday, Sep 08 2025 09:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Time & Frequency
- Register
- https://nordunet.nemtilmeld.dk/134/
Description
Distribution of high-precision time signals over wide area networks is an area of growing importance, and has seen significant technology evolution in recent years.
In this workshop, we will discuss two key aspects of high-precision time distribution:
synchronisation of national time sources ("atom clocks") of dedicated optical fibre networks
Provision of high-precision time services, a matter if significant important for both research instruments and national security
The focus will be on
reports on activities in the nordic countries from NRENs, National Metrology Institutes (NMIs), and other stakeholders
discussion of opportunities, goals, and strategies for Nordic collaborations and alignment with and connection to similar activities in the EU.
The workshop is primarily intended for staff from NRENs, NMIs, and other providers, as well as technology experts from the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
A program will be published towards the end of August.
This meeting will run from 10:00 - 16:00
Register at https://nordunet.nemtilmeld.dk/134/
Talks
CERT - closed meeting
- Everest 3
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 09:00 - 10:30
- Track
- Side meeting T3
Description
This meeting is by invitation only
Talks
Trust & Identity 2 - From national federations to wallets
- Everest 2
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 11:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Track 2
Description
As the large-scale pilots on wallets are coming to an end, it would be valuable to understand which infrastructure is needed to use ID wallets in parallel to what is needed for research and education. The aim is to start a Nordic pilot to reuse as much as possible what is being used in the large scale pilot. The first aspect of the pilot would be to design an architecture; this architecture should allow each Nordic country to use their ‘preferred’ wallets. The main output of the pilot would be: - give NRENs an understanding on how the the wallets will work - assess how to use national infra for research - understand how much synergy there could be with the gov wallets - understand what kind of credential we can be used - start to look at interop aspects across countries from the wallet perspective and credential perspective. - agree on a timeline for the pilot.
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Trust & Identity 3 -Federating via OpenID Federation
- Everest 2
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Track 2
Description
For over two decades, SAML has been a cornerstone of our community, and it will continue to serve us for some time. However, as the protocol is now considered legacy, it's time to explore its successor. OpenID Connect and OAuth2 have dominated discussions for the past decade, yet they have primarily relied on bilateral configurations rather than the federated approach our community is accustomed to. With the introduction of OpenID Federation (OIDF), this is set to change, enabling scalable implementations of OpenID Connect and OAuth2. This session will introduce the new kid on the block and explore how we might integrate it into eduGAIN as a parallel solution, coexisting with the established SAML federation.
Talks
Security 3
- Everest 3
- Thursday, Sep 11 2025 11:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Track 3
Description
Abstract: What’s going on in the world of certificates? This session will cover the evolution of the GÉANT TCS service after 20 years of existence. It takes place in a context where the validity period of TLS certificates is being shortened, which requires an automation strategy for all TLS certificates (including for internal domains). The session will also address new uses of certificates in our environment for digital identity wallets or in OIDC federations. Talk 1: Next Generation Certificates Services (Nicole Harris / TCS PMA) Talk 2: It’s All About ACME (Leif OR Giuseppe di Marco OR John Bradley) Talk 3: ACME-DNS (Nicolai Brunvoll Ernst / DeiC)
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Network 4 - Nordic terabit networks
- Everest 1
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 11:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Track 1
Description
The terabit era is approaching fast—and it's better to be prepared than caught off guard. While initiatives like EuroHPC AI Factories and Hyperconnectivity are driving this shift, it's essential not to overlook traditional user communities such as high-energy physics. This session explores how NRENs are evolving toward next-generation networks, and examines the requirements, implementations, and strategies needed to step confidently into the terabit era. Agenda Drivers for network traffic to support the LHC science (Mattias Wadenstein, NT1) 30 min - NORDUnet 2030 network strategy on Terabit level & hyperconnectivity (Lars Lange Bjørn, NORDUnet) 30 min - SIKT next-gen network (Olaf Schjelderup, SIKT) 30 min
Talks
EOSC/Data 1
- Everest 2
- Wednesday, Sep 10 2025 15:30 - 17:00
- Track
- Track 2
Description
This session focuses on presenting NREN strategies on data and cloud related activities. Attendees are invited to present updates on related activities ongoing in the GÉANT project (GN5), OCRE as well as national projects.
Talks
Media Services 2
- Everest 2
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 15:30 - 17:00
- Track
- Track 2
Description
Open source video conference alternatives, Thorkild Jensen, DeiC. 20 min The Nordic NRENs are looking onto alternatives to commercial video conferencing services. We have been testing BigBlueButton, eduMeet, Element/Matrix and more Zoom Monitoring Tool, Roope Määttä, CSC. 20 min Roope at CSC has been working on a tool for monitoring Zoom simulating a human. Open Source Video Content Management System Work Group, Thorkild Jensen, DeiC. 30 min Deic and other Nordic NRENs are working on an open source MediaCMS as an alternative to commercial services. Sunet Transcriber, Erik Lundberg, Sunet. 20 min During 2025 Sunet, in co-operation with the other Nordic NRENs, is replacing Amberscript Speech-To-Text with a Whisper based service integrated with Kaltura, NextCloud and as a stand-alone portal.
Talks
Media Services 1
- Everest 2
- Tuesday, Sep 09 2025 13:30 - 15:00
- Track
- Track 2
Description
Zoom Hybrid, Erik Kikkenborg, NORDUnet, TBA, Zoom, 30 min A presentation of Zoom Hybrid for NORDUnet Zoom. Kaltura Development, Joerg Eggink, Kaltura, 30 min Next steps, roadmap. Panopto Development, Neil Burdess, Panopto, 30 min Next steps, roadmap.
Talks
EOSC/Data 3 -The Role of NRENs in EOSC: Nordic Perspective
- Everest 2
- Thursday, Sep 11 2025 11:00 - 12:30
- Track
- Track 2
Description
This session will focus on the role of (Nordic) NREN in EOSC. It will offer an opportunity for all attendees to discuss "what can we do", "what is unique", "what is the Nordic angle if any", "what can we do together" to align strategies and support each other.