Check-in, badges and networking

Speakers: Local Host & CaribNOG Sterering Committee

Welcome to CaribNOG 32 Curaçao

Speakers: TBA CaribNOG

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

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Speakers: Albert Daniels ICANN

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.

Speakers: TBA

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

Speakers: 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.

Speaker: TBA CaribNOG

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

Speakers: Erik Levitt 0Wire Communications

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.

Speaker: TBA 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.

Speaker: TBA CaribNOG

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.

Speaker: Bevil Wooding CaribNOG / ARIN

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

Social Event

Check-in, badges and networking

Speakers: Claire Craig CaribNOG

Welcome remarks

Speakers: Emmanuel Jordan 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: TBA

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

Speaker: TBA

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.

Host: CaribNOG

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.

Social Event

Sponsored social stop connecting leaders, operators, partners and sponsors in a relaxed CaribNOG networking format.

Check-in, badges and networking

Speakers: CaribNOG Executive

Welcome remarks and Day 3 framing

Speakers: TBA

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.

Speaker: TBA

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

Speakers: TBA CaribNOG

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

Speakers: TBA

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

Speakers: TBA

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 CaribNOG / ARIN

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

Closing Remarks