Schedule and Agenda
At CaribNOG32, we have a packed schedule full of exciting and informative sessions for all attendees.
07.OCTOBER.2026 – DAY 1 – FORTIFYING THE DIGITAL CORE
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Check-in, badges and networking
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speakers: Local Host & CaribNOG Sterering Committee
Welcome to CaribNOG 32 Curaรงao
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Keynote Address: LEOs & Caribbean
Resilience
Speakers: TBA CaribNOG
Examination of LEO satellite connectivity, emergency communications, disaster preparedness and recovery planning in Caribbean resilience strategy.
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Group Photo
Community photo
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break & Networking
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Resilience Through Community: RIR & Internet Organization Lightning Updates
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.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Inside/Out: Network Autonomy, Facility Security and Critical Site Protection
Speakers: TBA
Practical examination of network autonomy, protected infrastructure sites, faculty security, access controls, and operational continuity for critical network environments.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Research Insights: Caribbean Submarine Redundancy
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.
12:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Lunch Break
01:30 PM – 01:40 PM
Afternoon Overview
Speaker: TBA CaribNOG
Reconnecting the morning infrastructure discussions to data center, cloud, edge and power resilience.
01:40 PM – 02:00 PM
Tales from the Trenches: Powering Through the Storms
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.
02:00 PM – 02:50 PM
Network Contention: Sovereign Shields vs Public Cloud: Keeping Critical Caribbean Data Regional
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.
02:50 PM – 03:10 PM
Coffee Break & Networking
03:10 PM – 03:30 PM
Next-Gen Networks: IPv6 Edge Infrastructure and Preparing the Core for AI Traffic
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.
03:30 PM – 03:45 PM
Lightning Presentations
Speaker: Various Speakers
Five minute technical briefs aligned with CaribNOG community value. Product pitches are outside the format.
03:45 PM – 04:00 PM
Day 1 Open Forum
Moderator: Claire Craig CaribNOG
Open floor discussion, questions and community reflections.
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Day 1 Wrap-Up: Key Takeaways and Community Reflections
Speaker: Bevil Wooding CaribNOG / ARIN
Closing reflections on the infrastructure resilience themes, operational priorities and community insights from Day 1.
06:00 PM – 09:00 PM
CaribNOG Lime Time
Social Event
08.OCTOBER.2026 – DAY 2 – DEFENDING THE DIGITAL CORE
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Check-in, badges and networking
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speakers: Claire Craig CaribNOG
Welcome remarks
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Keynote Address: Strategic IT Governance in the Age of AI
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.
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Group Photo
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break & Networking
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Executive Insights: State of Caribbean Digital Resilience
Moderator: Raul Henriquez Social & Economic Council of Curaรงao
A 15 minute primer based on current CaribNOG research findings and strategic priorities, identifying core resilience issues for institutional leaders.
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Leadership Roundtable: Digital Trust, Security and Corporate Governance
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.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Digital Resilience Executive Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessing Digital Resilience
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.
12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Lunch Break
02:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Island Routes: Data Centres, Cable Landing Sites, and Critical Infrastructure Visits
Host: CaribNOG
A guided visit to Curaรงao’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.
05:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Final Stop: Edge Networking
Social Event
Sponsored social stop connecting leaders, operators, partners and sponsors in a relaxed CaribNOG networking format.
09.OCTOBER.2026 – DAY 3 – OPERATING THE DIGITAL CORE
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Check-in, badges and networking
09:00 AM – 09:15 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speakers: CaribNOG Executive
Welcome remarks and Day 3 framing
09:15 AM – 09:30 AM
Keynote Address: The CaribNOG SOAP Framework – Network Hygiene as Resilience Discipline
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.
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Primers: BGP, IPv6, RPKI, MANRS and Routing Hygiene Explained
Speaker: TBA
Practical primer for students, regulators and practitioners on routing hygiene, route security, resource stewardship, IPv6, and the standards that protect Internet stability.
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break & Networking
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Deep Dive Lab I: Implementing RPKI and Validating Routes
Speakers: TBA CaribNOG
Hands-on technical lab on Resource Public Key Infrastructure, route validation, ROAs and route origin validation in operational environments.
11:30 AM – 12:30 AM
Deep Dive Lab II: Applied AI – AI Assisted Network Administration
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.
12:30 PM – 02:00 PM
Lunch Break
02:00 PM – 03:15 PM
Deep Dive Lab III: LEO, Local Interconnection and Caribbean Resilience – Engineering the NExt Connectivity Layer
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.
03:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Coffee Break & Networking
03:30 PM – 04:00 PM
Closing Plenary: Route to Resilience
Speaker: Bevil Wooding CaribNOG / ARIN
Network Operators Implementation Guide, priority actions from the labs, operator commitments, and open mic reflections from participants.
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM
CaribNOG 32 Close
Closing Remarks
