MDNOG 1 - Programme

Thursday

8 October · Day 1

Full technical day at Digital Park, then a social in the building.

08:30

Registration and coffee

09:00

Welcome

Sven WieseMDNOG

09:15

Greeting

Sergiu GaibuGeneral Director, ARCOM

09:30

Beyond ROA: ASPA, BGP Roles and the Next Layer of BGP Security

Oleksiy SemenyakaCommunity Development Officer, Technical Advisor, RIPE NCC

10:00

You control the announcement, not the decision: practical inbound BGP engineering

Oleg AndronicDevOps Engineer, Noction

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Digital Resilience in Practice: Keeping Network Running when Disruption Hits

Olena LutsenkoDirector of Business Development, RETN

11:25

DDoS Attacks in 2026: Emerging Trends, New Records and Practical Mitigation

Virgil TruicaDDoS Security Specialist, FastNetMon

11:50

Destruction in Plain Sight: How Modern DDoS Botnets Weaponize Publicly Available Cryptocurrency Blockchains for Immutable C2 Infrastructure

Chase ClowserGlobal Network Intelligence Lead, Recorded Future

12:15

Lightning talk: KIVIX: status, members and roadmap of the Chișinău Internet Exchange

Vladimir FilatovCTO, Trabia

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Latest DDoS trends and how to MITIGATE

Serkan GencelConsulting IP Engineer, Nokia

14:00

Network Resilience in the Real World: How regional conflict is shaping the threat of Distributed Denial of Service to our networks.

Paul BergerCorero

14:30

Channelmania! Future-proof your DWDM network topology while keeping it flexible for 1.6T

Thomas WeibleCTO, FLEXOPTIX

15:00

Coffee break

15:30

InterLAN-IX as a Regional Interconnection Platform: Connecting Moldova to the Romanian Internet Ecosystem

Eric Andrei BăleanuPresident, InterLAN

15:55

Unlocking the power of SpiderWeb Ribbon® (SWR®) for scalable, fast-track deployment of Telecom networks

Paco Cabeza LopezSales and Business Development Manager, European Rail Market, FUJIKURA

16:20

Day 1 closing session

16:30–17:30

Social at Digital Park

Champagne in the hall, which stays open until 17:30 for conversations.

Friday

9 October · Day 2

Morning talks and a panel, then socials at Digital Park and Mojito Terrace.

09:00

Morning coffee

09:30

Your leaf is not the edge anymore: EVPN-VXLAN to the host

Andrian VisnevschiCEO & CTO, ITcare

10:00

Data Center Interconnect: Challenges and Solutions

Matvey AlexandrovSenior System Engineer, HPE Juniper Networking

10:30

AI-driven networking: agentic networking

Andrii KulilovPresales Team Lead, Elcore Distribution

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

We Crashed Routers So You Don't Have To: Telemetry, BMP and the AI Data Pipeline

Nicolai MoraruDirector of Software Engineering, ITcare

11:55

RoNIX – a community story

Tiberiu GinduRoNIX

12:20

How can PeeringDB help me interconnect

Livio MorinaPresident, PeeringDB

12:45

Lightning talk: How a Forgotten Bill Interrupted Global Science | The 2015 DOI Outage

Moritz BodeDonauconnect

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Panel: Blocking on demand: what gets requested, what is possible, what comes next (EN)

Ruslan BrumaLivio MorinaEugeniu CroitorovAndrian VisnevschiModerator

Operators in Moldova receive requests to block websites and online resources from courts, regulators and state institutions, often with short deadlines and little technical detail. This panel brings together local ISPs, hosting providers and a European ISP association to discuss what actually happens once such a request arrives.

15:00

Closing: MDNOG, what's next

Andrian VisnevschiMDNOG

15:15–16:30

Social at Digital Park

Champagne in the hall, which stays open until 16:30 for conversations.

17:00–00:00

Social at Mojito Terrace & Restaurant

Mojito Terrace, Bulevardul Moscova 11/5, Chișinău

The MDNOG 1 agenda.

Thursday

Friday

The people who choose, design and run the networks.

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