NetBCN March 2026

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

UOC

15:00 → 15:15 Welcome

15:15 → 15:45 Session 1

15:45 → 16:15 AI embeddings to support Operations

Speaker: Xavi Homs (Palo Alto Networks)

16:15 → 16:45 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

16:45 → 16:55 Lighting Talk 1

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

17:30 → 18:00 The AVD journey - How Arista built a network automation framework from scratch

Speaker: Xavier Ramon (Arista Networks)

18:00 → 18:30 To be defined

Speaker: Akira Tsukamoto

18:30 → 19:00 Session 6

19:00 → 19:10 Lighting Talk 2

19:10 → 19:20 Lighting Talk 3

19:20 → 20:00 Coffee Break 2