AusNOG 2026 Schedule & Program

Pre Conference - Wednesday 2nd September

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15:00 - 17:00    

Beer, Gear and Peer session (BGP)
Level 1, Lyon Room (Top of Escalator) Sofitel Brisbane Central

After you've check into your hotel, come and walk through the Beer Gear and Peer session to meet some of the companies participating at AusNOG 2026. Enjoy a complimentary beverage and grab some conference swag from the BGP participants. For those who aren't familiar with these sessions, while the BGP session is open for 2 hours it is not intended to be a social event. Space is limited so please just pop up to level 1 and enjoy a beverage while engaging with the participants (and collecting swag!) as you walk through the space.  Make sure it's part of your AusNOG experience.

 
17:30 - 20:30    

The Official Pre Conference Social, hosted by Vocus

Information on this event will be released closer to the event.

 

Conference Day 1 - Thursday 3rd September

09:00 - 09:10     Welcome to AusNOG 2026
David Hughes - AusNOG
09:10 - 09:40     Rethinking Address Reality: IPv4 Utilisation and Proxy Network Exposure in Australia
Aftab Siddiqui - APNIC Foundation
09:40 - 10:10     Mission Possible: Disabling IPv4 on Google Enterprise Network
Jen Linkova - Google
10:10 - 10:40     Revocation
Geoff Huston - APNIC
10:40 - 11:10     Coffee
11:10 - 11:40     Rolling Out a Distributed BNG: Lessons in Scale, Addressing, and Observability
Tom Snibson - Telstra Limited
11:40 - 12:10     Migrating a Large Telco Networks IGP from OSPF/OSPFv3 to ISIS
Sam Faunt - Aussie Broadband
12:10 - 13:10     Lunch
13:10 - 13:55     Keynote Presentation : Will Australia be all at sea on national sovereign AI connectivity by 2030?
Bevan Slattery - SUBCO
13:55 - 14:25     From Human‑Centric to AI‑Assisted Operations
Tim Raphael - Nokia
14:25 - 14:55     Assurance on a budget
Tim Warnock - Superloop
14:55 - 15:20     Coffee
15:20 - 15:50     Return loss problems associated with faster optical networks
Takaya Nakagawa - NTT Advanced Technology Corporation
15:50 - 16:20     Channelmania! – future proof your DWDM network topology while keeping it flexible for 1.6T
Thomas Weible - Flexoptix
16:20 - 17:00     Lightning Talks
Various Speakers
17:30 - 20:30     AusNOG Social
Level 1, Lyon Room (Top of Escalator) Sofitel Brisbane Central

 

Conference Day 2 - Friday 4th September

09:15 - 09:45     Optimizing Traffic Flow with Akamai
Kams Yeung - Akamai
09:45 - 10:15     Our journey on "how we are modernising our network"
Richard Vander Reyden - Optus
10:15 - 10:45     How nbn co manages large scale emergency events prior, during and post.
Alan Pendrigh - NBN co
10:45 - 11:15     Coffee
11:15 - 11:45     Securing modern telco networks
Patrick Ohearn - AARNet Pty Ltd
11:45 - 12:15     Lessons from the State-Sponsored Siege on Core Telecom Infrastructure
Taylor Reed - Palo Alto Unit 42
12:15 - 13:15     Lunch
13:15 - 13:45     Rural Fibre Co
Phil Britt - Rural Fibre Co
13:45 - 14:15     BGP EVPN. A view from the field
Alexander Mitev - Cisco System
14:15 - 14:45     ...because copy+paste isn’t a network configuration strategy - automation for amateurs
James Morgan - VERNet
14:45 - 15:15     Coffee
15:15 - 15:45     The CDN Landscape Revisited: Static, Live, and AI
Steve Meuse - Kentik
15:45 - 15:50     Conference Close
David Hughes - AusNOG