Agenda

• Welcome – Osama Al-Dosary, MENOG Chair
• Welcome – AbdulRahman Al Marzouqi, UAE TRA
• Welcome – Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC
• Middle Eastern Content Hosting in 2015: Jim Cowie (Dyn)
• Domain & Hosting Industry Insight from a UAE hosting company: Munir Badr (AEserver FZE)

• Facilitator: Osama Al-Dosary (MENOG)
• The Flat Earth Theory: Convergence of Prices Around the World: Alan Mauldin (TeleGeography)
• Cable Infrastructure in the Gulf: Georges Jaber (GBI)
• Why is Peering still relevant in the Middle East?: Gael Hernandez (PCH)
• IXP Related Projects at Euro-IX: Bijal Sanghani (Euro-IX)

• Facilitator: Rani Alami (Coolnet)
• An Update on the Internet Exchange Point Federation: Bijal Sanghani (Euro-IX)
• Panel: IXP and Peering Updates from the Middle East:
  – Adel Marzouq (CAIX, Egypt)
  – Shahab Vahabzadeh (Asiatech, Iran)
  – Saleh Mansour (PIX, Palestine)
  – Adel Houas (TUNIX, Tunis)
  – Roger Asmar (BIX, Lebanon)
  – Marco Brandstaetter (UAE-IX, UAE)
  – Ali Al Kaaf (EMIX & SmarthubIX)

• Facilitator: Fahd Batayneh (ICANN)
• Update on the IDN Program: Sarmad Hussain (ICANN)
• The .ir Experience: Alireza Saleh (IRNIC)
• Universal Acceptance of Arabic Script IDNs: Raed Al-Fayez (Saudi NIC)
• Experiences Implementing Open Source Registry: Abdalmonem Tharwat (Dot Masr)

• Facilitator: Philip Smith (NSRC)
• Overview of SDNOG: Samir Abdullatif (SudREN)
• NOG BoF – establishing NOGs in the ME

• Facilitator: Hisham Ibrahim (RIPE NCC)
• Peering Personals BoF

• Facilitator: Philip Smith (NSRC)
• What’s Happening at the IETF?: Chris Grundemann (ISOC)
• IPv4 Transfers in the RIPE Region: Andrew de la Haye (RIPE NCC)
• Introduction to Software Defined Networking: Ahmed Maged (CISCO)

• Facilitator: Osama Al-Dosary (MENOG)
• RIPE NCC Update: Axel Pawlik (RIPE NCC)
• ICANN: The Middle East Strategy: Fahd Batayneh (ICANN)
• The IANA Transition Stewardship Update: Paul Rendek (RIPE NCC)
• ISOC update: Jane Coffin & Michuki Mwangi (Internet Society)
• Updates from the IGF: Salam Yamout

• Facilitator: Yaman Hakmi (Cisco)
• Multiple Generations of Mobile Backhaul Technologies: Khalid Samara (MADA)
• Smart City: Bottom to Top Concept: Rani Alami (Coolnet)
• RIPE Atlas & RIPEstat: Christian Teuschel (RIPE NCC)
• Introduction to OpenStack: Yaman Hakmi (Cisco)

• Facilitator : Ahmed Husain (Reload)
• Online and mobile banking threats, detecting and preventing risks: Asim Azmi, Amr Ismail (Kaspersky)
• Cyber Security – implications of recent breaches: Sebastian Madden (Protection Group International)
• How hot is your network: Simon Forster (Spamhaus Research)

• Facilitator: Fahd Batayneh
• IPv6 Deployment Case of Sudan/SudREN: Samir Saif (SudREN)
• Routing Table Report: Philip Smith (NSRC)
• RIPE NCC technical project update: Kaveh Ranjbar (RIPE NCC)
• SmartHub: Santhosh Kumar (Etisalat)

• Facilitator: Salam Yamout (RIPE NCC Excutive Board Member)
• Internet Governance: Towards a Collaborative Internet Development: Chafic Chaya (Staffordshire University/RIPE NCC)
• RACI presentations
  1. Zakaria Al-Qudah, Mohamed Sarayreh, Yarmouk University, Jordan – “Internet Path Stability: Exploring the Impact of MPLS Deployment”
  2. Marc Ibrahim, Maroun Chamoun, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon – COMIQUAL: “Collaborative Measurement of Internet Quality in Lebanon”

PGP Key Signing

• Facilitator: Nishal Goburdhan (PCH)

• Facilitator: Osama Al-Dosary (MENOG)
• Tagepedia: Ramez Quneibi (Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization)
• Lightning Talks
  1. IPScoring – request for feedback: Elvis Daniel Velea
  2. Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy: Fahd A. Batayneh
  3. Network Operations and Academia: Better Together: Zakaria Al-Qudah
  4. IPv4 Transfers: Elvis Daniel Velea
  5. Internationalized Domain Names: Abdalmonem Tharwat Ibrahim
  6. Deploy360: Chris Grundemann
• Open Mic – MENOG Future
• Closing Remarks: Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC
• Closing Remarks: Osama Al-Dosary, MENOG Chair