10th Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF)
20 – 22 August 2019
Intercontinental Hotel, Balaclava, Mauritius
| DAY 1: 20 August 2019 | “AfPIF Plenary Day #1” | |
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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
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| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 1a Hibiscus Ballroom (Plenary Room) 9:00 – 10:45 New Comers Session – Hisham Ibrahim 09:45 – 10:30 PeeringDB Tutorial – Arnold Nipper | Session 1b Barracuda Room - Peering Bilaterals #0 |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 – 11:45 | Session 2a: Opening Session - Andrew Sullivan, Internet Society - Kyle Spencer, AF-IX - Dev Hurkoo, Rogers Capital - Rajnish Hawabhay, Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation | Moderator: Manish Rajwani |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Keynote Presentation: The Road to AfPIF-10 – Karen Rose and Michuki Mwangi | Moderator: Manish Rajwani |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Networking & Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3: Interconnection Landscape in Mauritius - Local content & Peering in Mauritius – Ish Sookun (La Sentinelle) - MIXP 2.0 – Ranveer Seetaloo - METISS - Unlocking the Potential of the Indian Ocean – Prakash Bheekhoo (Emtel Ltd) | Moderator: Malcolm Siegel |
| Peering Personals #2 max 10 minutes | Frank Habicht | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
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| 16:00 – 17:15 | Session 4: Policy Panel The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Panelists: - Kyle Spencer (UIXP) - Zina Brahim Mahamat (SOTELTCHAD) - Jane Coffin (Internet Society) | Moderator: Ben Roberts |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Peering Personals #3 | Frank Habicht |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Opening Peering Social – Sponsored by TERACO |
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| DAY 2: 21 August 2019 | “AfPIF Plenary Day #2” | |
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| 08:00 – 08:30 | Registration |
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| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 1a Hibiscus Ballroom (Plenary Room) AFRINIC RIR and RPKI Tutorial: - Routing Security 101 – Amreesh Phokeer - AFRINIC Routing Registry – Keessun Fokeerah | Session 1b Barracuda Room - Peering Bilaterals #1 |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 – 12:20 | Session 2: Infrastructure - The Shifting Connectivity Landscape in Africa and its effect on interconnection hubs – Patrick Christian (TeleGeography) - The African Internet in 2030 – Andrew Alston (Liquid Telecom) - Re-examining Congestion Control notification deployment – Loganaden Velvindron (AFRINIC) | Moderator: Mathew Chigwende |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Peering Personals #4 | Frank Habicht |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Networking & Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3 14:00 – 14:30 Economics of Peering – Susan Forney (Hurricane Electric) 14:30 – 15:30 Plenary Discussion: The Centralized Internet | Moderators: Hisham Ibrahim and Mathieu Paonessa |
| Peering Personals #5 | Frank Habicht | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Group Photo & Coffee Break |
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| 16:00 – 17:30 | Session 4a Hibiscus Ballroom (Plenary Room) - IXP Manager Tutorial – Nick Hilliard | Session 4b Barracuda Room - Peering Bilateral Meetings #2 |
| 18:00 - 22:00 | Gala Dinner Sponsored by Liquid Telecom & Rogers Capital |
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| DAY 3: 22 August 2019 | “AfPIF Plenary Day #3” | |
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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
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| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 1a Hibiscus Ballroom (Plenary Room) - Tutorials Session #3 - TBC | Session 1b Barracuda Room - Peering Bilaterals #3 |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 – 12:30 | Session 2: The Impact of Solving Our Challenges Panelists: - Caglar Dabanoglu (Akamai) - Andrew Owens (NAPAfrica) - Nico Walters (CMC Networks) - Ranjith Cherickel (icolo.io) - Mark Tinka (SEACOM) - Chris George (Google) | Moderator: Patrick Christian |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Networking & Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3: Security - Peering Security – Walt Wollny (Hurricane Electric) - Anatomy of a route leak – Jerome Fleury (Cloudflare) - Route Filtering at the Edge AS15169 – Arturo L. Servin (Google) | Moderator: Simon Mayoye |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
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| 16:00 – 17:30 | - RPKI at IXP Route Servers – Nick Hilliard (INEX) - PeeringDB update – Arnold Nipper (PeeringDB) - France-IX, African traffic and RPKI/IRR validation – Simon Muyal (France-IX) | Moderator: Malcolm Siegel |
| Closing Remarks/Open Mic AfPIF-2020 Host Announcement | Nishal Goburdhan and Kyle Spencer |
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