NetBCN March 2026

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

Edifici C.07 (UOC)

1 Welcome

2 AI embeddings to support Operations

Speaker: Xavi Homs (Palo Alto Networks)

3 The Network Automation Map

Navigate Your Journey with the
NAF Automation Framework

Speaker: Christian Adell (NetBCN)

4 Leveraging VyOS and ContainerLab for computer networks training labs

Speaker: Pere Tuset (UOC)

5 The AVD journey - How Arista built a network automation framework from scratch

Speaker: Xavier Ramon (Arista Networks)

16:55 Coffee Break Sponsored by Arista Networks

6 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

7 QoS for real-time packets

Speaker: Akira Tsukamoto

8 NetVibeOps with LLMs, MCP and Network as Code

Speaker: Asier Arlegui (Cisco Systems)

9 MooseFS - The distributed file system

Speaker: Krzysztof Kielak (MooseFS)

19:30 Coffee Break sponsored by MooseFS