The LINX118 member meeting will take place on Monday 27th – Tuesday 28th February 2023 at the Park Plaza, Victoria & online.
Webcast for LINX Members
If you are unable to make the conference in person we provide a webcast service. Members will be able to access the webcast via the ‘events’ section in the LINX Member Portal (log-in required).
LINX has been webcasting its member meetings since LINX41 in May 2003. The service is an excellent way for LINX’s global membership to follow conference proceedings if they are unable to make the event in person.
View our example footage Access our member portal stream
LINX Social
After the first day of the LINX Meeting, LINX invite all attendees to join us at a pub or bar close by. We will have a range of drinks and food on offer free of charge to all attendees. To gain access to the social, you must be wearing your badge (collected at event reception prior to the social) and have your social ticket (attached to your badge) on hand ready to give to our team at the door.
Connectivity
We provide wireless connectivity (ssid=linx) during the event. Search for the ‘linx’ network and key the password ‘linx-meeting’. Please don’t hack, snoop, or otherwise do anything that would detrimental to other users
Attendee List
The LINX118 attendee list for this event will be viewable on the LINX member portal. Please note that a member log-in to the portal is required to gain access.
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Agenda
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| Monday 27th February | ||
| 13:00 | Event opens with a welcome lunch | |
| 14:00 | LINX Meeting to begin: Day 1
| Chair: Jez Orbell, Marketing & Communications, LINX
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| 14:15 | LINX Technology Update
| Richard Petrie, Chief Technical Officer, LINX
Anne Bates, Head of Exchange Platforms, LINX
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| 14:45 | RIPE Policy Update
| Nigel Titley
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| 14:55 | LINX Board Election: “Expectations of being on the LINX Board”
| Pete Stevens, Mythic Beasts and LINX Board member
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| 15:15 | Peering / Network Security and Why Enterprises Should Peer at Internet Exchanges John Brown is a Senior Security Evangelist and member of the Team Cymru Outreach team. Prior to joining Team Cymru, he was CTO of a regional ISP that provided Internet and Voice services via fiber optic and microwave technologies. Mr. Brown has actively been involved with Internet technologies since 1984, when as a high school student he connected via the local University’s UNIX systems. He has held senior technical training and customer support engineering roles at various companies in Silicon Valley. He is an active entrepreneur, having founded several successful technology companies. Mr. Brown was the principal networking and technical engineer for ICANN’s L-Root DNS server, part of the global critical DNS infrastructure. He is passionate about protecting the Internet from cyber criminals, teaching and passing on knowledge to others so that the Internet remains an open and safe system. | John Brown, Team Cymru
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| 15:45 | 30 minute coffee & networking Break | |
| 16:15 | Euro-IX and PeeringDB update: Don’t forget the peers! In this talk Bijal Sanghani of Euro-IX (European Association for Internet Exchange Points) will give a brief introduction to the Euro-IX membership, followed by an interactive session. The interactive session will focus on the attendees experience on tools and data they use to help make peering decisions. What’s useful and what more can we do. | Bijal Sanghani, Euro-IX
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| 16:35 | Contingency plans for network service providers: how to survive the major crisis and keep going We all still harvest the effect of the global supply chain crisis, that began with Covid-19. New challenges arose because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Many companies throughout all industries have learnt the hard lesson of being unprepared to function in the event of a crisis of this scale. The recent tragic events of natural force in Turkey and Syria have again pointed out that there is a force beyond human control and business needs to show its resiliency to the utmost scale. Internet is already built on principles of redundancy and is used to mitigate disruptions, but what happens when there are multiple problems or damages? Are you ready to operate under the circumstances of blackouts, lack of diesel, curfew, and critical equipment shortage, when all these factors coincided? RETN team has a unique experience of dealing with the constantly multiplied network and operational damages within the last full year. It has a list of tips and tricks for overcoming multi-layer challenges under the most extreme circumstances. We’ll speak of how RETN minimises the impact of disruptions, reduces the risk of financial losses due to outages, and keeps ensuring the continuity of the services. | Elena Lutsenko, Director of RETN Black Sea region
Andrey Gazizov, COO of RETN
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| 17:00 | Sending Party Network Pays (SPNP)
| Rudolf van der Berg, Stratix Consulting
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| 17:40 | ConneXions Reseller Partner Awards
| Lynsey Buckingham, Marketing & Communications, LINX
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| 18:00 | End of Day One of LINX118 | |
| 18:15 | Networking Social @ The Victoria Taps 27 Gillingham St, Pimlico, London SW1V 1HP 2 Minute walk from the Park Plaza | |
| Tuesday 28th February | ||
| 09:30 | Registration Opens – Refreshments Available | |
| 10:00 | LINX Meeting to begin: Day 2
| Chair: Jez Orbell, Marketing & Communications, LINX
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| 10:10 | LINX CEO Quarterly Update
| Kurtis Lindqvist, Chief Executive Officer, LINX
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| 10:25 | Guest IXP: Netnod
| Emil Palm, Netnod
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| 10:45 | Silver Sponsor: Kentik
| Jac Kloots, Solutions Engineer, Kentik
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| 11:00 | Member Consultation: Proposed MoU changes to be voted on at the May AGM
| Jennifer Holmes, Chief Commercial Officer, LINX
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| 11:15 | 30 minute coffee & networking Break | |
| 11:45 | Fibre in Pipe Technology
| Greg Whitton, Managing Director, CloudNet Marek Isalski, Technical Direct, Faelix Limited |
| 12:15 | Training at RIPE NCC
| Jad el Cham, RIPE NCC
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| 12:25 | Public Affairs Update
| Malcolm Hutty, Head of Legal & Policy, LINX
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| 13:00 | 60 minute lunch & networking break | |
| 14:00 | Simplifying Peering with Open Source
| Guillaume Mazoyer, Backbone Network Engineer & OpenSource Software Developer
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| 14:20 | Bulk cable interception
| Kjetil Olsen, Norwegian Internet eXchange
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| 14:45 | LINX Engineering Internships
| Richard Petrie, Chief Technical Officer, LINX
Anne Bates, Head of Exchange Platforms, LINX
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| 14:55 | LINX Product Update
| Mike Hellers, Product Manager, LINX
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| 15:10 | Wrap Up and Closing Remarks | |
| 15:15 | End of LINX118 | |
