NetBCN March 2026

Wednesday Mar 4, 2026, 3:00 PM → 8:05 PM Europe/Amsterdam

Edifici C.07 (UOC)

3:00 PM → 3:15 PM Welcome

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM AI embeddings to support Operations

Speaker: Xavi Homs (Palo Alto Networks)

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM The Network Automation Map

Navigate Your Journey with the
NAF Automation Framework

Speaker: Christian Adell (NetBCN)

4:15 PM → 4:25 PM Leveraging VyOS and ContainerLab for computer networks training labs

Speaker: Pere Tuset (UOC)

4:25 PM → 4:55 PM The AVD journey - How Arista built a network automation framework from scratch

Speaker: Xavier Ramon (Arista Networks)

4:55 PM → 5:30 PM Coffee Break Sponsored by Arista Networks

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM 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

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM QoS for real-time packets

Speaker: Akira Tsukamoto

6:30 PM → 7:00 PM NetVibeOps with LLMs, MCP and Network as Code

Speaker: Asier Arlegui (Cisco Systems)

7:00 PM → 7:30 PM MooseFS - The distributed file system

Speaker: Krzysztof Kielak (MooseFS)

7:30 PM → 8:00 PM Coffee Break sponsored by MooseFS