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NDN Conf 2026 logistics and meetup
by Jonny Lundin 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

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Summer is approaching and so is a complete programme for NDN2026
by Josva Kleist 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

Dear PC members This week has proven very productive and thanks to you, I have been able to significantly shorten our todo list. The latest version of the programme at https://portal.nordu.net/spaces/NDN2026/pages/294715428/Sessions shows a mostly yellow page which signifies that the session is complete at least to the point where we have all speakers confirmed, which is right now the most important. We still have a few items which needs setteling, Josva: - Quantum and T&F: Follow up with Inder on last speaker, if unsuccessful drop the 3rd (the other two presentations are two speaker presentations). - Sustainability: Get name of speaker on sustainability and software. We have commitment, just don’t know who from the group will come Bruno: - Digital twins: Keep hunting down potential speaker from DE-IX Jonny: - The community we serve: Contact speaker from Royal SE Lib to talk about “whisper collaboration” - Lightning talks: Contact speakers from Karlstad and tell them that we unfortunately only had a slot for them in the LT session. Have a pleasent weekend, Josva -- Josva Kleist, Ph.D. NORDUnet A/S Kastruplundgade 22, 1, DK-2770 Kastrup Cell phone: +45 3162 1403, Email: kleist(a)nordu.net Data Protection Policy - https://nordu.net/privacy-policy/ Legal Notice - https://nordu.net/legal-notice/

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This week's (shrinking) todo list
by Josva Kleist 15 Jun '26

15 Jun '26

Dear programme committee Our todo list continues to shrink and we are really down to the last few bits and pieces - if your name is not on the list, just sit back and enjoy that you have done your deal for now. And some of the things may already have happened, if so, please let Susanne and me know. For those who worry about the state speaker registration, check out our portal page - Susanne keeps it updated as things happen. Licia: - Find the last speaker for the Enabling Access Session to talk about enabling access for EOSC and EuroHPC - Contact speaker from University Alliance for presenting in the Educational Interop Session Anne Sofie: - Inform Bo Bai that we are in the happy situation that our programme is full, which means that we unfortunately only can offer him a lightning talk Ingimar - Invite Gudmundur to join the happy gang at the Future of NRENs panel Jonny: - Follow up on a speaker from the Royal SE Lib to present in The Community we Serve Session - Inform Hossein and Jörg from Karlstad that we are in the happy situation that our programme is full, which means that we unfortunately only can offer them a lightning talk Josva: - Contact Inder and ask if he is made progress on finding a speaker on quantum networks. If he hasn’t, we will instead have two long presentation in the T&F + Quantum session (the two presentations are two person presentations each). - Ask Stefan Schmidt about presenting in the digital twins session. If he fails the ball goes back to Bruno which has yet another idea. Cheers, Josva -- Josva Kleist, Ph.D. NORDUnet A/S Kastruplundgade 22, 1, DK-2770 Kastrup Cell phone: +45 3162 1403, Email: kleist(a)nordu.net Data Protection Policy - https://nordu.net/privacy-policy/ Legal Notice - https://nordu.net/legal-notice/

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Lastest update
by Josva Kleist 10 Jun '26

10 Jun '26

Dear Programme Committee Jonny and I did our weekly walkover of the status on the conference programme. We are happy to report that progress towards a final programme continues, but there are still some bits and pieces missing here and there. I have added a page for lightning talks (https://portal.nordu.net/spaces/NDN2026/pages/328368130/Lightning+Talks) and I suggest we keep track of them there when they come in. Susanne: - What is the status regarding registration of the speakers that we have confirmed? It seems that some of our speakers are getting back to the person who invited them asking about registration. I can see you have made additions to the session pages, so actually all the information may be available there. Licia: - Find the last speaker for the Enabling Access Session to talk about enabling access for EOSC and EuroHPC - Contact speaker from University Alliance for presenting in the Educational Interop Session Bruno: - Follow up on the possibility of persuading Neha Manjunath to present Anne Sofie: - Follow up on the possibility of having Jeanette Nilsson to present in the Data Demands Session - Inform Bo Bai that we are in the happy situation that our programme is full, which means that we unfortunately only can offer him a lightning talk Ingimar - Invite Gudmundur to join the happy gang at the Future of NRENs panel Jonny: - Follow up on a speaker from the Royal SE Lib to present in The Community we Serve Session - Inform Hossein and Jörg from Karlstad that we are in the happy situation that our programme is full, which means that we unfortunately only can offer them a lightning talk Josva: - Contact Inder and ask if he is made progress on finding a speaker on quantum networks. If he hasn’t, we will instead have two long presentation in the T&F + Quantum session (the two presentations are two person presentations each). - Contact Bent Thomsen and see if he or one of his colleagues are willing and able to come and present at the Sustainability session about energy considerations when writing code. - Contact Martin regarding his participation in The Future of NRENs panel All the best, Josva -- Josva Kleist, Ph.D. NORDUnet A/S Kastruplundgade 22, 1, DK-2770 Kastrup Cell phone: +45 3162 1403, Email: kleist(a)nordu.net Data Protection Policy - https://nordu.net/privacy-policy/ Legal Notice - https://nordu.net/legal-notice/

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PC Dinner at Restaurang CG - Luleå
by Susanne Michelsen 29 May '26

29 May '26

Subject: PC Dinner at Restaurang CG - Luleå When: Mon 07/09/2026 16:30 - 20:30 (4.0 hours) (GMT +00:00) Where: Storgatan 9, 972 38 Luleå Required: ndn2026pc(a)lists.nordu.net Your reservation at Restaurang CG for 11 . https://public.zenchef.com/en/restaurants/385600/bookings/174e2d3b-6045-499…

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Recap from yesterday
by Josva Kleist 29 May '26

29 May '26

Dear PC members At our meeting yesterday we made good progress on the final major outstanding items. I will try to summarize what we agreed on below, so that we are all back in sync. I may call some of you out below, so please read it all Submitted presentations - we have received a proposal from JISC for a panel session titled “Bridging Borders: Geopolitics, Collaboration, and the Evolving Role of NRENs”. After some discussion back and forth there was consensus among those present that this panel could be used to set the scene for the “Future of NRENs” panel and we therefore did some reshuffling of the sessions to make everything. Susanne will let you all know when the programme has been updated accordingly so that you can double check if we inadvertently have created some clashes. Panel on the future of NRENs - We have made good progress with the panelists. Gitte is fine with letting Martin join as DeiC rep. Jonny will talk to Pelle/Maria and Ingimar will contact Gudmundur. We agreed that the chair should not be associated with a Nordic NREN and we will ask Sabine Jaume if she is willing to take the job. Jonny takes the responsibility of coordinating chair, moderators and panelists. Jonny distributed to all of you the submitted proposal “Building lightweight digital-sovereign AI Chatbots for Higher Education: Connecting the dots of openness”. We think it is highly relevant and would like to include it in the programme. The immediate idea of having the presentation in the “How AI is changing education” is not viable as we consciously decided it was a 2 presentations session because the time needed. If Licia and Anne Sofie agree that they think it can work, we could put it into the “Data Demands” session, where we currently miss a presentation. It will then most likely require some tweaking of the title and session description. In addition to that my walkthrough our session pages in portal indicates the following outstanding items (organized per session this time). Quantum and Time & Frequency Nets Josva: Work with Inder on a speaker. If unsuccessful, consider dropping the additional speaker as we already have 4 people presenting Enabling Access Licia: Get confirmation from Johan Sörmling that he is willing and able to present Educational Interop Licia (and Vegard): Find speaker from a university alliance ! Data demands for sharing, re-use and training Licia and Anne Sofie: Consider the proposal for putting in the submitted presentation. Sustainability Maria Isabel: Continue working on finding the final speaker Digital Twins Bruno: Investigate alternatives to Alexander Krentsel. Talk to Josva about Stefan Schmid from Berlin, he may be an option The Community we serve Jonny: Find speaker from SE Royal Lib Stakeholder Mgmt Josva: Get proper confirmation from Jacob Steen All the best, Josva Sent from my iPad

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Building lightweight digital-sovereign AI Chatbots for Higher Education: Connecting the dots of openness
by Jonny Lundin 22 May '26

22 May '26

Hi all, got another call for proposal from Jörg Paraeigis, see below, Vegard what’s you thoughts on the below? Building lightweight digital-sovereign AI Chatbots for Higher Education: Connecting the dots of openness Hossein Erfani (Karlstad University), Jörg Pareigis (Karlstad University) Generative AI is rapidly entering higher education, yet most institutions rely on commercial, opaque systems that undermine autonomy, privacy, and pedagogical control. Karlstad University has developed a system for digitally sovereign AI chatbots built on open standards, open-source technologies, and institutionally governed infrastructure. Integrated via LTI and using WordPress as a modular knowledge layer, the system ensures universities retain control over data, governance, and educational use. A key innovation is structured ingestion of Open Educational Resources and course syllabi, improving accuracy and pedagogical alignment. The project demonstrates how European universities and NRENs can collaboratively build transparent, sustainable AI aligned with public-sector values.

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NDN conference speaker updates
by Jonny Lundin 22 May '26

22 May '26

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Outstanding items
by Josva Kleist 19 May '26

19 May '26

Dear Programme Committee I have been over the programme and double checked what I think is currently missing and created a list grouped by person. We don’t have a lot of big outstanding items and some of them just need time. I will not be joining you today, and most likely Susanne will also be occupied. As the wiki is now read only for the rest of you, make sure to have a note taker and mail any updates to Susanne and me. I think there are two major items to consider for your call. 1) Licia has discovered that there is an EOSC federation meeting at the week of the conference and is investigating what that means to us. 2) Listed as ALL. We should decide on who do what on the Panel: The future of NRENs. I am willing to take that task, but we should agree first. And here home the total list Outstanding items per person: Bruno - Network Arch to support AI: Verda speakererName etc missing - Digital Twins: Poll Alexander Krentsel Jonny - Campus Networks: Speaker from a Swedish University to talk about experiences be identified - Educational interop: Help Vegard find Ladok speaker - The community we serve: Identify speaker from Royal SE Lib to talk about the collab on SE language model for transcription Josva: - Q and T&F: Poll Inder for potential speaker on quantum communication (done 260512) - Stakeholder mgmt: Poll Jacob Steen (done 260512) Licia: - Several sessions: Clarify what the fallout is of the EOSC federation meeting that is apparently scheduled for the week of the conference is. - Enabling Access: Clarify who will step in instead of Esther Makaay or if she will present herself - Educational interop: Help Vegard identify speaker from a university alliance, preferably from Luleå - Data demands: Identify speaker on the topic of data in relation to AI factories together with Anne Sofie - The community we serve: Poll Peter Szegedi (related to 1st item) Kristina - How AI is changing edu: Identify actual speaker on EST secondary schools and AI Vegard: - Educational interop: Find speaker from Ladok, ask Jonny for help if needed - Educational interop: Together with Licia identify speaker from a university alliance, preferably from Luleå Anne Sofie: - Data demands: Identify speaker on the topic of data in relation to AI factories together with Licia Maria Isabel - Sustainability: Find out if we can get a JISC speaker or need to look elsewhere Jani: - Digital Twins: Poll Vittorio Curri ALL: - Panel: The Future of NRENs: I have deliberately left this session without any responsible or chair. To ensure some level of neutrality from the panelists I will suggest that we use a person who is not affiliated with a Nordic NREN as chair. SMI and I checked and since Sabine is combining for the conference, she would be a good suggestion. In addition to agreeing on the chair, we should decide who talks to the panelists and the moderators to set the scene. I will be happy to do it, but if anyone has a strong desire to volunteer, please step forward. Cheers, Josva -- Josva Kleist, Ph.D. NORDUnet A/S Kastruplundgade 22, 1, DK-2770 Kastrup Cell phone: +45 3162 1403, Zoom: josva Email: kleist(a)nordu.net Data Protection Policy - https://nordu.net/privacy-policy/ Legal Notice - https://nordu.net/legal-notice/

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Sustainability session
by Maria Isabel Gandia Carriedo 14 May '26

14 May '26

Dear all, Abdullah Qaban from JISC has finally declined our invitation to speak at the Sustainability session, as he has another meeting on the same dates. We already have Andy from Asiera and a combined presentation with Juha from CSC and Börje from SUNET. With no speakers from JISC, I was thinking on inviting Geoff Bennett from Nokia, who has a good presentation around power usage in AI (https://nluug.nl/evenementen/nluug/voorjaarsconferentie-2025/talks/geoff-be…). Does this sound like a good option for you, or are there any constraints I should know about before inviting him, or any other ideas that you would like to prioritise? Best regards, Maria Isabel Gandia Carriedo Cap de Comunicacions Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) Gran Capità, 2 (Edifici LEIA UPC) | 08034 Barcelona T. 93 205 1115 | mariaisabel.gandia(a)csuc.cat<mailto:mariaisabel.gandia@csuc.cat> www.csuc.cat<http://www.csuc.cat/> | Segueix-nos a X @CSUC_info<https://twitter.com/CSUC_info> | Bluesky @csuc.cat<https://bsky.app/profile/csuc.cat> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/csuc/> Subscriu-te al butlletí (www.csuc.cat/butlleti<http://www.csuc.cat/butlleti>) Si rebeu aquest missatge fora de l'horari laboral, i requereix resposta, no l'espero fins que reprengueu l'activitat dins del vostre horari laboral

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