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NANOG 80 Highlights
The NANOG Program Committee (PC) prepared a solid program for NANOG 80 Virtual, which took place online October 19-21, 2020! The conference featured a variety of presentations, networking sessions, and BoFs on the latest technologies and industry innovation.
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The PC was also pleased to announce the NANOG 80 Virtual Hackathon, which was held online October 17-18 — the weekend before the conference. Many of the brightest minds in our community joined to work individually, or in teams on software passions projects.
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Topics featured:
- Routing Security — “Measuring RPKI,” Geoff Huston
- Security — “Why Do We Still Have DDoS Attacks?” John Kristoff
- Automation — “Building a Network Health Monitoring System: Optics Monitoring Use-Case,” Jeremy Schulman
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NANOG 80 Keynotes, and Community + Members Meetings:
Jezzibell Gilmore of PacketFabric, and Avi Freedman of Kentik delivered our keynotes. We also held the NANOG Community Meeting on Wednesday, and the NANOG Members Meeting on Tuesday, 10/20. The NANOG Board of Directors candidate session was held on Monday, 10/19.
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We welcomed all to further connect and engage with us at the Women In Technology Networking Session held on Tuesday, and BoF sessions on Wednesday.