The conference is booting for the opening session
The opening session is chaired by Christian Grimm, DFN Director and GÉANT chairman
A welcome speech from the Czech Government: Jan Marek
Jan Gruntorad from CESNET welcomes us all to participate, not only in TNC
but also in the 20th anniversary of the CESNET organization
A word from the platinum sponsor: Rodney Wilson from Ciena
A big thanks to the sponsors that made a lot of this possible. Now in more
categories than ever before.
To ensure that we are all in the right futuristic mood, the
light show is continuing during the speeches, with spotlights
panning and changing colours all the time.
Erik Jan Bos, NORDUnet, welcomes us as head of the programme committee
In the introduction for the double-feature keynote, we see pictures from the
1980's of Kees Neggers...
...and Steve Cotter, just before he joined the marines
Dorte Olesen takes the stage for handing out the
GÉANT Community Award
...to John Dyer. He has really been a driver of many developments in
our community, and naturally, he got the most nominations.
All this knowledge kan be yours on a hire basis, since he starts as
an independent consultant.
...and they take a dance to celebrate
The second award winner is Stanislav Sima from CESNET who built the first
operator-free network and who has been fighting for optical testbed services in GÉANT and everywhere else.
As he died in October 2015, his daughter and wife were there
to collect the award.
Last awardee is Scott Cantor from Ohio State University for his work in
creating SAML and much of Shibboleth in the early days.
This "Oscar" part of the session continues with Valentino Cavalli,
handing out the Vietsch Foundation award to...
Jan Gruntorad, director of CESNET and pioneer of networking in Europe
From a small foundation for a big achievement
Bert van Pinxteren and Dorte Olesen
I'll be back...
Tomi Dolenc from ARNES
Jan Gruntorad posing for the photographers with his Vietsch medal. He certainly deserves it!
A Slovenian moment: Avgust Jauk, Marko Bonac and Tomi Dolenc - all from Arnes
Conference infrastructure: This futuristic animal is the very
important base station
for the wireless microphones
A part of the conference which has grown quite ubiquitous are the
lightning talks.
As animal tamers for this zoo of speakers, we have
Karen O'Donoghue from Internet Society and Chris Phillips from CANARIE
Christian Schmitz from OwnCloud
Milos Liska from CESNET
Domenico Vicinanza from GÉANT talking about what must be his favourite
subject: Sonification
Renato Furter from SWITCH
...about using something called CloudID instead of the regular AAI federation. For instance for their OwnCloud service.
In a sense it goes against all we have fought for, but look at his presentation!
Eduardo Jacob from University of the Basque Country
We love busy slides
Karen O'Donoghue welcoming Alessandra Scicchitano from GÉANT to the stage
Gergana Petrova from RIPE
Vaclav Bartos from CESNET
Sigita Jurkynaitė from GÉANT...
....talking about how to establish trust in the CSIRT community meetings, and
also a bit about herself - ending with a selfie from the stage.
Florence Hudson from Internet2
Ann Harding from SWITCH
Laura Paglione from ORCID
Victor Reijs from Ireland (don't let the dutch accent fool you...)
Jakub Moscicki from CERN (known to most people as Kuba)
Following a great tradition, we have the storytellers from Ireland...
Anna Wilson and Brian Nisbet. This shows you can re-invent yourself
and still retain a tradition.
As there are a few minutes to spare in the programme,
Nicole Harris and Sigita Jurkynaite call for a birthday song...
...in the honour of Brian Nisbet
Petter Kongshaug, director of UNINETT, looking as relaxed as ever
Next, I went to the session on monitoring and management, since I was a speaker there, too.
Chaired by Sergi Figuerola from i2cat
Eduard Grasa, also from i2cat
Brian Tierney from ESnet
The Nordic booth, strategically placed in
the middle of the whole exhibition area
Broadcast Tower in 70-futuristic style
...decorated with huge babies
Checking adminssion cards before being let on the bus
The opening reception takes place at the Brevnov Monastery
A very good quartet playing classical hits. Not dominating, high quality and
contributing to the fantastic atmosphere of the event.
Just the kind of entertainment we like!
NTP of the past - without DDoS amplification attack problems.
A Nordic bunch: Alf Hansen and Øivind Høiem from UNINETT,
Per Nihlén (SUnet) and Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT
In the basement of the monastery, we find this water tank. Has this served as
swimming pool, for laundry or what? Help me if you know!
Back in the center of Prague on the shuttle bus after a truely lovely evening
In Prague they repair the infrastructure like we would never dare to: while
it is in full operation. Between two trams, the rails are welded.
A peek into the Café Imperial
Martin Bech, DeIC, martin.bech@deic.dk
