Dear SwiNOG community,
The full program for SwiNOG #42 is online: https://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog42/
The essentials: - When: Tuesday, October 20 (from 12:00) to Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - Where: Enter Technikwelt Solothurn, Gewerbestrasse 4, Derendingen - Fee: CHF 150 to 220 (incl. social event) - Registration closes: Monday, October 12, 09:00
The lineup (single track): - Tobias Bühler (NetFabric): From Lab to Production: The Hard Parts of Agentic NetOps - Gianpaolo Del Matto (The Phintage Collector): Retro Networks - Mischa Diehm (narrowin): On-prem LLM cluster for network and security analyses - Thomas Fritz (Rheintal IX): Rheintal IX Update - Yannick Gautier (Nokia): From Connectivity to Cyber Resilience: Defense in Depth for the Connected Enterprise - Pascal Gloor (/dev/true): Who are you? - Dominik Haenni (Zurich Forensic Science Institute): Reality, Rewritten: AI as Forger and Investigator - Claudio Jeker (RSSF): Beyond RPKI Origin Validation: what do we gain with RFC 9234 (BGP Roles) and ASPA - Remi Locherer (Arista Networks): Networking for AI - Marco Martinez (Swisscom): Managing IP Allocation with an Open-Source DDI - Alexander North (Swisscom): The Cloud-Native Advantage: Intent-based Network Automation - Daniel Schatzmann: Automating Target Discovery in the gNMIc Operator - Simon Schlauri (Ronzani Schlauri Attorneys): Internet Domain Blocking: Current Legal Situation and Outlook on the Current Revision of the Telecommunications Act - Fabian Schulz (Swisscom): The Accidental Platform Team: Kubernetes Operators at Swisscom - Andrew Vieyra (CommunityRack.org): CommunityRack: New focus, new projects, more bits! - Arist Volger (SwissIX): SwissIX: the mandatory 5' update before lunch - Fiona Weber (WDZ / Wobcom): Small BNGs - Martin Winter (NetDEF / FRRouting): FRRouting Open Discussion
Day 1 ends with an apero, followed by dinner, networking and a guided tour of the Enter museum (social event ticket required).
New this time: bilateral meetings on day 2 On the afternoon of the second day, we set aside dedicated time and space for bilateral meetings. To help you make the most of it, SwiNOG is using NIX.CZ Meet for the first time. It's a well-established meeting tool already used at many other industry conferences. You can see who's attending, request meetings and fix your slots in advance, so you arrive with a plan rather than hunting people down in the hallway. All registered participants will receive an invitation email for the tool soon, which is one more reason to register before Monday. Many thanks to NIX.CZ for providing the tool.
Getting there: Solothurn is about an hour from Bern and 1h20 from Zurich. There's a shuttle bus from Solothurn station to the venue (CHF 20, add it during registration; regular public transport tickets aren't valid on it). Parking is available on site.
Thank you to our sponsors SwiNOG is run by volunteers and stays affordable thanks to the support of our sponsors. A big thank you to: - Gold Sponsor: SwissIX - Supporters: Emitec AG, Flexoptix, Nokia - Tool Sponsor: NIX.CZ
If you've been on the fence, now is the time, and bring your colleagues along.
See you in Solothurn! SwiNOG Core Team