My morning session is on sustainability, presented by Claire Casey from Jisc

Governance is complicated

The progress of HEAnet in this field is presented by Dónai Cunningham

Anke Friedrich from GÉANT talks about what they are doing

Raising awareness for the relatively new SIG-Sustainability

The photo both

A coffee with Carlos Guzman from CEDIA in Ecuador

Lightning Talks - second strike. Starting with Ariela Herček from Arnes who has brought her Ukulele to the stage

And she ends he talk by singing a song. A bold move which is very popular with the audience.

Richard Freytag from Sunet has a slide deck of 20 slides for his 5 minute presentation - but he is a pro and ends the whole thing in perfect timing

Evelien Renders

A new development of the lightning talk format is this McPanel where each speaker answers to questions from the moderator.

...and this is actually a nice addition that helps the audience recapture and remember what messages the speakers had

Brian Nisbet (HEAnet) is moderating a round of student contributions

Abdalla Alfaramawi from GÉANT

Oliver Gurka (CESNET)

It still takes a while to get used to...

In teh break, at the exchange theater with headphones, Lars Fischer from NORDUnet is talking about ...

... NORDUnet

Valter Nordh, CEO of NORDUnet, together with the CEO of REANNZ, Amber McEwen

Valter and me

Eli Shmueli from IUCC

Olga Popcova (RENAM) together Tetiana Preobrazhenska from URAN in Ukraine

She is the only representative from her country in the conference. We must continue to support Ukraine and the hard-working colleagues in URAN as long as the war goes on!

Niall O'Reilly from RIPE and - again - Olga

Ann Harding from Switch - another long-standing member of our community standing in the long queue for the good coffee

Caroline Tuhwezaine and her coleagues from RENU in Uganda

Evelien Renders from SURF is - yet again - peddling her flyer about interopability and mobility between universities

A relaxing moment in the park

Bu Sung Lee from SingAREN

One of the people from the Sunet/NORDUnet NOC in Sweden they only rarely let out of the building: Salu Upadhyay

Toby Rodwell (GÉANT)

Representatives of the many people behind the organization of the conference, whom we owe so much whitout even being aware: Jessie Brockhoff and Steffie Bosman from GÉANT

Yet again Champagne at the GÉANT booth - this time to celebrate the ISO27001 certification

Per Nihlén from Sunet and Ed Moynihan from Indiana University

More freinds from the US: Yatish Kumar (ESnet) and James Daeton (Internet2)

The closing session

Presented by Lise Fuhr

A slide like this gives me perspective. One country is so insignificant is has to be at the bottom right slide: My country

Another novelty at this TNC: The closing keynote is replaced by a panel on global networking

which turns out to be a refreshing novelty.

Inder Monga (ESnet)

Cathrin Stöver doing...

...an epitaph over Boubakar Barry (WACREN) who died at the young age of 65

Head of the TNC25 programme committee Ieva Muraskiene (NORDUnet) thanks the speakers and the programme committee for their contributions

And finally comes what we have all been waiting for: The location of the next TNC:

Helsinki 8th to 12th of June 2026

The very good introductory film is accompanied by a few words from Kimmo Koski, CEO of CSC.

And as tradition has it, a baton is passed from this year's organiser (Heidi Krauss from Jisc) in the form of a rainbow-coloured umbrella from Brighton

Afterwards, Kimmo Koski is looking forward to the prospect of hosting TNC and relieved that he doesn't have to get the umbrella through airport security, as he has given it to Juha Oinonen.

Leaving the Brighton Dome for the last time

Dinner with colleagues on the last night in Brighton