NetBCN March 2026

Wednesday 4 Mar 2026, 15:00 → 20:05 Europe/Amsterdam

Edifici C.07 (UOC)

15:00 → 15:15 Welcome

15:15 → 15:45 AI embeddings to support Operations

Speaker: Xavi Homs (Palo Alto Networks)

15:45 → 16:15 The Network Automation Map

Navigate Your Journey with the
NAF Automation Framework

Speaker: Christian Adell (NetBCN)

16:15 → 16:25 Leveraging VyOS and ContainerLab for computer networks training labs

Speaker: Pere Tuset (UOC)

16:25 → 16:55 The AVD journey - How Arista built a network automation framework from scratch

Speaker: Xavier Ramon (Arista Networks)

16:55 → 17:30 Coffee Break Sponsored by Arista Networks

17:30 → 18:00 netlab: Making Labbing Great Again

The presentation will introduce netlab, a free, open-source intent-based digital twin orchestration tool (in case you want to win a Bullshit Bingo), and focus on how network engineers use it for training, pilot implementations, feature and software testing, setting up demos, and even arguing with non-responsive vendor TAC.

Speaker: Ivan Pepelnjak

18:00 → 18:30 QoS for real-time packets

Speaker: Akira Tsukamoto

18:30 → 19:00 NetVibeOps with LLMs, MCP and Network as Code

Speaker: Asier Arlegui (Cisco Systems)

19:00 → 19:30 MooseFS - The distributed file system

Speaker: Krzysztof Kielak (MooseFS)

19:30 → 20:00 Coffee Break sponsored by MooseFS