AfPIF2018@iWeek Agenda

Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF)
21 – 23 August 2018, Westin Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
August 21, 2018 - DAY 1      “Peering Coordinators Day”
08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:30“Session 1a: Welcome Remarks”

Welcome and Introduction – Nishal Goburdhan (AfPIF PC Chair)
09:30 – 10:20“Session 1b: Scalability:

- The Big Case for a Small IXP – Nurani Nimpuno (Asteroid)

- Scalable Fabrics Playbook – Mikael Holmberg (Extreme Networks)

- Edge Fabric: Steering oceans of content to the world – Robel Kitaba (Facebook)
Moderator: Nishal Goburdhan
10:20 – 10:30Peering Personals #0
10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:20“Session 2: Peering and Transit Tutorial #1”

- FENIX: Scaling Peering Routing Security – Michal Halenka (NIX.CZ)

- Protect your peering edge – Riaan Vos (Internet Solutions)

- Moving Objects to AfriNIC’s IRR – Dev Jeenia (AfriNIC)
Moderator: Kyle Spencer
12:20 – 12:30Peering Personals #1
12:30 – 14:00

Networking & Lunch

14:00 – 15:30“Session 3: Peering and Transit Tutorials#2”

- Netflix content distribution and how ISPs can control traffic flows from Netflix – Nina Bargisen (Netflix)

- 1.1.1.1 … cleanup and privacy – Martin J. Levy (Cloudflare)

- Africa Internet: The Globes Right Attention – Mark Tinka (SEACOM)
Moderator: Andrew Owens
15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:15“Session 4: Measurements and Research Panel”

- “World Internet Data Explorer – Amreesh Phokeer (AfriNIC)

- Analyzing Africa’s city-to-city latencies – Josiah Chavula (University of Cape Town)

- BGP Bugs, hiccups and weird stuff: Stuff seen by RT-BGP Toolkit - Martin Winter (HE)
Moderator: Frank Habicht
17:15 – 17:30

Peering Personals #2

19:00 onwardsOpening Peering Social – Sponsored by TERACO
Beer and peer
Venue: Cartel Rooftop Bar
August 22, 2018 - DAY 2 “AfPIF Plenary Day #1”
08:00 – 08:30

Registration

09:00 – 10:30“Pre-Session 1a: New Comers Session” (Plenary Room)

- Introduction and getting the most out of AfPIF – Hisham Ibrahim/Kyle Spencer
“Pre-Session 1b: Peering Bilateral”
Peering Bilateral Rooms: Bartholomew Diaz and Marco Polo
10:30 – 11:00

Group Photo & Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:20Session 2a: Opening Session
Nishal Goburdhan/Kyle Spencer

Keynote Presentations :
- Cape to Cairo and Other Journeys – Ben Roberts (Liquid)

- The Economics of Data Centers, Interconnections and Peering in Africa – Michele McCann (Teraco)
Moderator: Hisham Ibrahim
12:20 – 12:30Peering Personals #3
12:30 – 14:00

Networking & Lunch

14:00 – 15:20 “Session 3: Interconnection Economics"

Speakers:
- International Internet Bandwidth and Pricing Trends in Africa – Patrick Christian (Telegeography)

- Traffic Trends in Africa – Jerome Fleury (Cloudflare)

- Peering Isn’t Free: The UIXP’s Quest for Sustainability and Independence – Kyle Spencer (UIXP)
Moderator: Mathieu Paonessa
15:20 – 15:30Peering Personals #4 (If need be)
15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Peering Bilateral Meetings Session #1

Peering Bilateral Rooms: Bartholomew Diaz and Marco Polo
19:30 - 21:30Super Teacher Gala Dinner Sponsored by ISPA
Venue: LookOut
August 23, 2018 - DAY 3 “AfPIF Plenary Day #2”
08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 10:30Session 1: Dissecting the South African Cloud

Panelists:
- Graham Beneke (ISPA)
- Mike Needham (Amazon)
- Brett Lewan (Microsoft)
- Kervin Pillay (Internet Solutions)
- Willem Marais (Liquid)
Moderator: Andrew Owens
10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30Peering Bilateral Meetings Session #2Peering Bilateral Rooms: Bartholomew Diaz and Marco Polo
12:30 – 14:00

Networking & Lunch

14:00 – 15:30Session 3: Implications of OTT Policy and Regulation

Over-The-Top Services: Understanding the challenges and opportunities – Martin Koyabe (CTO)

Panelists:
- Dominic Cull
- Albert Mucunguzi (ICT Association of Uganda)
- William Stucke
- Prenesh Padayachee
Moderator: Mathew Chigwende
15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30Lightning Talks and Updates

- PeeringDB Updates – Arnold Nipper (PeeringDB)

- IXF: IXPDB Updates – Andy Davidson

- INX-ZA Update – Riaan Vos (Internet Solutions)

- The KINIX Growth Momentum – Nico Tshintu (ISPA-DRC)

- Lessons learnt – Typical African IXP – Emmanuel Kwarteng (GIX)

- Growing a community: The KZNNOG experience - (TBC)
Moderator: Kyle Spencer
Closing Remarks

AfPIF-2019 Host Announcement
Nishal Goburdhan/ Kyle Spencer (AfPIF PC Co-chairs)