Agenda

Day 0 (2 April)

Meeting room: Promenade (Third floor)

08:30‑09:00	Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00‑10:30	Middle East IXPs Meeting (by invitation only)
10:30‑11:00	Coffee Break
11:00‑12:30	Middle East IXPs Meeting (by invitation only)
12:30‑14:00	Lunch
14:00‑15:30	Middle East Peering Coordinators Meeting (by invitation only)
15:30‑16:00	Coffee Break
16:00‑17:30	Middle East Peering Coordinators Meeting (by invitation only)

Plenary Day 1 (3 April)

Meeting room: Grand Ballroom I (First floor)

08:30‑09:00	Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00‑10:30	Opening Plenary Moderator: Hisham Ibrahim, RIPE NCC 09:00-09:05: Welcome Speech – Khalid Samara, MENOG PC Chair 09:05-09:10: Opening Speech – Imad Kriedieh, Chairman and CEO, OGERO 09:10-09:40: RIPE NCC Update – Axel Pawlik CEO, RIPE NCC 09:40-10:10: A Case of Frostbite in the Desert: Low Latency Videogaming Within the Middle East – Martijn Schmidt, i3D.net 10:10-10:30: Peering Personals
10:30‑11:00	Coffee Break
11:00‑12:30	NOG Plenary Moderator: Mehmet Tik, Facebook 11:00-11:25: Routing Security Update – Job Snijders, NTT Communications 11:25-11:50: The Domain Abuse Activity Reporting System (DAAR) – Fahd A. Batayneh, ICANN 11:50-12:15: Network Protection Using IOC Reputational Blocking – Khaled Fadda, Arbor 12:15-12:30: Peering Personals
12:30‑14:00	Lunch Grand Ballroom II
14:00‑15:30	Peering Forum Plenary Moderator: Nishal Gorburdhan, PCH 14:00-14:25: MENA to Europe Infrastructure Diversification – Giuseppe Valentino, TI Sparkle 14:25-15:20: The Middle East Peering and Interconnection Landscape Panel This panel aims to discuss the following: A. Current Internet Landscape: – Economics of peering – European Hubs / Gateways for the regionB. Different Internet Exchange Point initiatives in the region – Community vs. Regulatory vs. Operator initiated and run – Nationally exclusive vs. Regional / International membership C. Peering Opportunities, Obstacles and Way forward Moderator: Nishal Goburdhan Speakers: Serkan Sevim (Medianova) Giuseppe Valentino (TI Sparkle) Osama Al-Dosary (SA-IX) Fadi Khoneisser (LEBIX) 15:20-15:30: Peering Personals
15:30‑16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	BoF: Network Protection using IOC reputational blocking DEMO – Khaled Fadda, Arbor (Main Room)	Peering Bilaterals Promenade Room (Third floor)

Plenary Day 2 (4 April)

Meeting room: Grand Ballroom I (First floor)

08:30‑09:00	Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00‑10:30	NOG Plenary Moderator: Aftab Siddiqui, ISOC 09:00-09:30: Connecting the Unconnected – Abdalmonem Galila, NTRA Egypt 09:30-10:00: IPv4 Exhaustion: It’s Almost here – What Comes After? – Ingrid Wijte, RIPE NCC 10:00-10:30: Lebanon IPV6 Deployment – Ahmad Itani, Ogero
10:30‑11:00	Coffee Break
11:00‑12:30	Peering Forum Plenary Moderator: Osama Al Dosary, SA-IX 11:00-11:30: Reality and Persepectives of Internet Exchange Points in the Arab Region – Christine Arida, ITU EXPERT 11:30-12:00: Geopolitics of Routing – Louis Pétiniaud, Institut Français de Géopolitique and Loqman Salamatian, Géode 12:00-12:30: How the Sudanese IXP re-invented itself – Moumena Abdalla, SIXP
12:30‑14:00	Lunch Grand Ballroom II
14:00‑15:30	Closing and Lightning Talks Moderator: Salam Yamout, ISOC 14:00-14:30: Peering DB – Arnold Nipper, DE-CIX 14:30-15:00: Bridging the Gap – Rayan Fayed, AUB and Sandra Brás, RIPE NCC 15:00-15:30: Lighting Talks DE-CIX Academy – Marco Brandstaetter Financing Technology & Innovation – Nicolas Rouhana Google in the Middle East – Hossam Ahmed Research at Yarmouk University – Ahmed Aleroud, (RACI) How to Stay Involved – Salam Yamout
15:30‑16:00	Coffee Break
16:00‑17:30	BoF: How to Setup your Local NOG – Sara Alamin, SdNOG (Main Room)	Peering Bilaterals Promenade Room (Third floor)