Agenda

27 November 2025 – MENOG 25 Plenary Day 1

09:00-09:05 Meeting Kick-Off
– Khalid Samara
09:05-09:10 Host Welcome Speech
– Mahmoud Yousif Albannay and Mohamed Moussa
09:10-09:15 Opening Speech
– Hisham Ibrahim
09:15-09:30 Mapping Internet Resilience: Insights from RIPE Atlas on Cable Breakages and Outages
– Michela Galante and James Cowie
09:30-10:30 Panel Discussion: “Mitigating the risk of Sea Cable Breaks”
Panelists: Marco Brandstaetter, Mehmet Tik, Taha Hussain, Halil Kama, Huda Al Ghabshi and Jad El Cham
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 RIPE NCC Updates
– Hans Petter Holen
11:30-12:00 WHEREIS: IP Address Registration Geo-Consistency
– Amreesh Phokeer
12:00-12:30 IPv4 and the Evolving Transfer Landscape
– Anastasiya Pak
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Lightning Talk: RPKI Signed Checklist - what?how?why?
– Aftab Siddiqui
14:30-15:00 Dynamic DDoS Trends in the Middle East
– Emad Fahmy
15:00-15:30 A comprehensive analysis of the IRR landscape
– Stavros Konstantaras
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Channelmania! – future proof your DWDM network topology while keeping it flexible for 1.6T
– Thomas Weible and Gerhard Stein
16:30-17:00 SONiC: Disaggregated, Open, Multi-Vendor Network Operating System
– Ahmed Abdelsalam
17:00-17:30 Improving QoE for Real Time Calling
– Bhartendu Chaurasia

28 November 2025 – MENOG 25 Plenary Day 2

09:00-09:30 Modernise your IP Address Strategy for 2025 and Beyond
– James Kennedy
09:30-10:00 Why move to EVPN and SRv6 ?
– Ramy Hashem and Dominique Schaeffer
10:00-10:30 SRv6 uSID: Deterministic AI Backend Networking and Unified DC Frontend Design
– Ahmed Abdelsalam
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Review of IXPs in the Middle East
– Amreesh Phokeer
11:30-12:00 From Beirut-IX to Leb-IX
– Fadi Khoneisser
12:00-12:30 Chatbots to AgentOps: From Conversational Tools to Autonomous NOC Agents
– Dade Aderemi
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Let's Measure IPv6
– Aftab Siddiqui
14:30-15:00 Accelerating IPv6 Adoption: A New Paradigm with AI
– Yasir Zamir Shah Sajjad M Hazrat Shah A Shah
15:00-15:15 Lightning Talk: Expanding Internet Routing Visibility with BMP
– Thomas Holterbach
15:15-15:25 Closing Speech
– Hisham Ibrahim
15:25-15:30 Closing Remarks