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Bevil Wooding Director, CaribNOG, Caribbean Affairs ARIN

Charles Cooper, Roderick Middelhof Minister of Economic Development, Curaçao

Welcome to CaribNOG 32 Curaçao

Speakers: Rodney Taylor Secretary General, CTU

Examination of LEO satellite connectivity, emergency communications, disaster preparedness and recovery planning in Caribbean resilience strategy.

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ARIN: Mark Kosters, Chief Technical Officer

LACNIC: Alejandro Acosta, Research & Development Coordinator

Internet Society: Russel Bean, IXP Development Expert

ICANN Update: Nicholas Antoniello

Concise updates for Caribbean operators. RIR updates cover Internet number resources, IPv6 readiness, routing security and resource autonomy. The ICANN update covers DNS, resilience, DNSSEC, anycast, registry and registrar dependencies and critical service continuity.

Charles Grant IT Manager, Jolly Pharmacy

Practical examination of network autonomy, protected infrastructure sites, faculty security, access controls, and operational continuity for critical network environments.

Giovanni King
Caribbean Datacenter Association / BlueNAP Americas

Evidence-based analysis of submarine cable diversity, landing-site concentration, outage exposure, latency, route paths, measurement tools, interconnection intelligence, and Caribbean resilience planning.

Claire Craig CaribNOG

Reconnecting the morning infrastructure discussions to data center, cloud, edge and power resilience.

Alberto “Beto” Santos Liberty Latin America / FLOW

Operational lessons on energy resilience for data centers, IXPs, and critical network sites, including extended utility outages, backup power, fuel logistics, maintenance protocols and storm season readiness.

Moderator: Lee Singh CaribNOG

Light-hearted debate on localized sovereign cloud nodes, regional data hosting, hyperscale dependency, security, cost, and data resilience. Data center operators, cloud providers, security leaders and infrastructure voices test competing assumptions in the CaribNOG style.

Michel Greijmans Sincere ICT

Examination of how Caribbean edge infrastructure, IPv6 readiness, regional bandwidth capacity and network design must evolve to support AI architecture, automated processing, low latency applications and future digital services.

Speaker: Various Speakers

Five minute technical briefs aligned with CaribNOG community value. Product pitches are outside the format.

Moderator: Claire Craig CaribNOG

Open floor discussion, questions and community reflections.

Claire Craig CaribNOG

Closing reflections on the infrastructure resilience themes, operational priorities and community insights from Day 1.

Social Event

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Claire Craig CaribNOG

Welcome remarks

Speakers: Jordan Emmanuelson ISACA

Executive keynote on how AI, cyber risk, platform dependency, infrastructure concentration, and digital service reliance are changing the responsibilities of boards, executives, regulators and institutional leaders.

Moderator: Raul Henriquez Social & Economic Council of Curaçao

A 15 minute primer based on current CaribNOG research findings and strategic priorities, identifying core resilience issues for institutional leaders.

Moderator: Rejauna Rojer HBN Law & Tax, Curaçao

Bionda Fonseca

Neysa Isenia

Rodney Payne

High-level discussion on the economics of Caribbean network resilience, institutional trust, security, cyber exposure, executive accountability and corporate and public sector governance.

Timothy Smith, Grenada NTRC

Practical executive guide for assessing digital resilience across critical systems, infrastructure dependencies, network governance, incident readiness, data hosting, cloud reliance, vendor exposure and institutional accountability.

BlueNAP

A guided visit to Curaçao’s digital infrastructure sites, including data centres, cable landing stations and other critical IT facilities of regional significance. Participants see the physical infrastructure behind Caribbean digital connectivity and resilience firsthand.

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Claire Craig CaribNOG

Welcome remarks and Day 3 framing

Bevil Wooding Director, CarbNOG, Caribbean Affairs ARIN

Introduction to SOAP as CaribNOG’s practical network hygiene framework: Security, Optimization, Automation and Provisioning. The session establishes network hygiene as a daily resilience discipline.

Mark Kosters CTO, ARIN

Practical primer for students, regulators and practitioners on routing hygiene, route security, resource stewardship, IPv6, and the standards that protect Internet stability.

Alejandro Acosta Research and Development Coordinator, LACNIC

Nicolas Antanellio ICANN

Hands-on technical lab on Resource Public Key Infrastructure, route validation, ROAs and route origin validation in operational environments.

Alejandro Acosta Research and Development Coordinator, LACNIC

Nicolas Antanellio ICANN

Practical toolkit, guardrails, and workflows for using AI in network administration, including configuring review, documentation support, troubleshooting, monitoring, scripting, policy checks, and administrator oversight.

Alejandro Acosta Research and Development Coordinator, LACNIC

Nicolas Antanellio ICANN

Technical lab and guided discussion on LEO connectivity, local IXPs, ASN adoption, routing independence, RPKI, IPv6, local peering, emergency connectivity, terrestrial investment, and regulatory coordination across small island archipelagic environments.

Speaker: Bevil Wooding Director, CaribNOG, Caribbean Affairs ARIN

Network Operators Implementation Guide, priority actions from the labs, operator commitments, and open mic reflections from participants.

Closing Remarks