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We rounded off this year’s IAA Convergent event series strongly with in-person events in Adelaide and Canberra and an exciting online hypothetical crisis scenario, ‘It’s DOWN!!!’
IAA Convergent Adelaide
NEXTDC graciously gave us a sneak preview with a tour of our newest PoP location and we can tell you, it’s A1! The evening continued at The Elephant for drinks and nibbles. Big thanks to NEXTDC for the tour and all the Members who joined us for a memorable night!
IAA Convergent Canberra
IAA Convergent Online
If you missed our IAA Convergent online event, ‘It’s DOWN!!’ here’s your second chance!
Watch as our expert team tackles a live, spontaneous role-play simulating a network outage. Guided by facilitator Narelle Clark, our seasoned expert panel: Elise Davidson, Matthew Kobayashi, Anne Mikita, Holly Raiche, and Aftab Siddiqui—navigated through technical and organisational challenges, showcasing the tools and strategies used during a crisis, and even the human impact involved.
Whether you’re a seasoned network engineer or just curious, this session is packed with insights that can help in real-world situations.
Watch now on IAA’s YouTube channel.
Planning for IAASysters 2023 is well underway! We’re excited by the program we have in store. This year’s theme ‘Future Heroes of the Internet’ has been chosen to celebrate all the super women we have in our industry. We’re also proud to announce that this year’s conference will be held at Sea World Resort on the Gold Coast. If you’ve not heard of our Systers program before or just want to know more be sure to check our short video.
The successful participants were selected from a record number of strong applications. The sponsored attendees will enjoy:
- Ticket to attend the IAASysters Workshop (6 September 2023)
- Ticket to the AusNOG Conference (7-8 September 2023)
- Economy airfares to Gold Coast and accommodation
- One-year complimentary Professional Membership to IAA (subject to board approval)
We could not host such an amazing three-day program without the generous support of our sponsors. We like to thank this year’s Sponsors including:
If you would like to support the next generation of women in the Internet industry, it’s not too late to be a part of the Systers program. Head over to the Systers page on our website to find out how to sponsor!
This June NSW-IX will have been in operation for 10 years!
We invite you to join our CEO, Narelle Clark and IAA Team and Board Members as we celebrate with drinks and canapés as the sun sets over Darling Harbour.
IAA Members are welcome to invite guests. Corporate Members can register themselves and an additional 7 guests, either internal or external to their organisation. Professional Members are able to invite one additional guest. All registrations need to be completed via the IAA Portal by the inviting Member.
Details
When: Wednesday 21 June | 5.30pm – 9.00pm AEST
Where: Helm Bar & Bistro, Sydney
Register via the IAA Portal now!
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
View this presentation now on the IAA YouTube Channel.
Join us for this Online Convergent Event
Title: Can I trust my clock? Why NTP is a fail.
Date: Thursday 1 June 2023
Time: 12pm AEST/ 10am AWST
Venue: FREE Online Convergent Event, hosted on Zoom
Registration: Open to all via the IAA Portal
Register now for your chance to see Darryl Veitch’s brilliant presentation on Network Time Protocols, just how bad they can be and some new ways forward.
Professor Veitch is based at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney, and is a member of the GBDTC (Global Big Data Technology Centre) where he runs the timing laboratory.
Darryl gave this presentation at our recent Melbourne Convergent Event and has kindly offered to represent it for you at this live, online event. Registration is free and open to both IAA Members and non-members via the IAA Portal. Tell your friends and colleagues!
Member registration Non-member registration
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
Title: RPKI/ROV Tutorial & Social Adelaide, in partnership with APNIC
Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Time: Tutorial 1:00pm – 5:30 ACST | Social 6:00pm ACST
Venues:
Tutorial – Barr Smith South 2032 (RM), University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, 250 North Terrace, Adelaide
Social – The Howling Owl, The Monocle room (accessed through an arch door beside the main bar on the ground level within the venue) 10 Vaughan Place, Adelaide. IAA Members are welcome to bring friends.
Cost: Hurry! The first ten IAA Members to register attend for FREE
Standard fees: $40 APNIC Member (plus GST) or $80 Standard (plus GST)
Register for tutorial Register for social
A has partnered with APNIC to bring our members this important tutorial on RPKI and ROV. The tutorial will be followed by a social event. If you’re an IAA member and can’t make the tutorial, we’d still love to see you for a drink and some nibbles, so be sure to register now.
Course outline
- Recent routing incidents
- Current BGP filtering techniques
- Resource PKI fundamentals
- Installation and configuration of RPKI validators
- BGP filtering with ROA (Route Origin Validation)
Why do we keep seeing news headlines about major networks not being reachable because traffic got rerouted to somewhere else? BGP mishaps are very common and frighteningly easy. Examples are malicious route hijacking, mis-origination (fat fingers), and bad filters (route leaks). We need better mechanism(s) to ensure no one can inject false information into the global routing system that easily. This tutorial will look at current route filtering tools/techniques, how RPKI is just a piece in the puzzle, and what we should do to secure the internet routing.
Course requirements
- This workshop is for those with a working knowledge of IP Routing (esp BGP), how to use a router command line interface and backing Linux command line skills.
- Participants are advised to bring their own laptop or desktop computers with high-speed internet access and administrative access to system.
- It is also recommended that computers have Intel i5 or i7 processor, >=8GB of RAM and 30GB of free hard disk space.
- Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client, VirtualBox/VMware
- Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure. Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh rviews@route-views.routeviews.org.
Trainers
Terry Sweetser
APNIC’s Training Delivery Manager (South Asia and Oceania)
Dave Phelan
APNIC’s Senior Network Analyst / Technical Trainer
HOW TO REGISTER
Tutorial Registration (first 10 go for free).
All attendees must use their APNIC Academy account. If you don’t have an account, it’s free and easy to get your own APNIC Login. Get started APNIC’s website. Once you have your login (or if you already have an account) you can register for the tutorial from the link below.
The first ten IAA Members to register for the tutorial are FREE! To access this offer you must be an IAA Member and use this code in APIC’s payment portal: IAARPKIROA2023
Social Event Registration
We’re hosting a post-event social at The Howling Owl that’s FREE to all IAA Members, starting 6pm. Even if you can’t make the tutorial, we’d love to see you there. Corporate members can register themselves and an additional 7 guests, either internal or external to their organisation. Professional members are able to invite one additional guest. All registrations need to be completed via the IAA portal by the inviting member.
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
Details
Date: Tuesday 9 May 2023
Time: 5:30pm AEST Registration Opens | 6:00pm AEST Presentation | 7:00pm AEST Social
Location: Garden State Hotel | The Observatory | 101 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC
Join us for our in-person Convergent 2023 Melbourne event! We’ll hear from Dr Darryl Veitch who is set to discuss Network Time Protocol and its worthiness as a synchronisation tool for equipment and services. Garden State Hotel’s premier function space, The Observatory, will provide the backdrop as Dr Veitch details his extensive measurements, taken over many years, that demonstrate just how bad Network Time Protocol is, and proposes a new way forward.
Registrations open at 5:30pm. Enjoy complimentary beverages and canapes before Dr Veitch’s talk, taking place from 6pm to 7pm, and at the IAA social event that immediately follows.
IAA members are welcome to invite guests. Corporate members can register themselves and an additional 7 guests, either internal or external to their organisation. Professional members are able to invite one additional guest. All registrations need to be completed via the IAA portal by the inviting member.
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events
ACCESS NOTES: The Observatory is accessible through a lift located inside the hotel’s restaurant Tippy Tay. There will be a functions bollard sign positioned outside the venue and guests will be escorted to the lift area by host.