Jamie Gillespie chairing the Security Working Group at APAN 59
APNIC supported and participated in 59th Meeting of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN 59), held in Yokohama, Japan from 3 to 7 March 2025.
The five-day event comprised working groups, workshops, panel discussions, and conference sessions on topics including IPv6, AI, disaster mitigation and security. View the agenda for more information.
APNIC activities:
- Peter Blee gave an update from APNIC, including an overview of APNIC’s engagement with the NREN community.
- Jamie Gillespie delivered two 90-minute ‘You Choose What to Learn in Security’ tutorials with 12 participants in each. Participants voted on the topics they were most interested in, and the topics delivered were Email Security and Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing.
- Imtiaz Sajid delivered three tutorials on the following topics:
- ‘BGP Best Practices and Policy Design‘, a 90-minute tutorial for 9 participants.
- ‘Introduction to Network Automation‘, a 90-minute tutorial for 11 participants.
- ‘Segment Routing over IPv6 Data Plane (SRv6)‘, delivered over two 90-minute sessions for 16 participants.
- Jamie also served as the Chair of the Security Working Group and the Technical Committee.
- In parallel to APAN 59, TEIN*CC held a series of meetings at which Jamie presented on the APNIC Academy workshops that were held in 2024 in partnership with the Asi@Connect Project.
- While in Yokohama, Peter, Imtiaz and Jamie also attended the 59th SOI Asia Meeting along with Raj Singh, Ann Kerrison-Liu and Marcos Maekawa from the APNIC Foundation:
- Raj delivered the opening address.
- Peter spoke as a panellist during the ‘Internet Engineering Education collaboration in Asia Pacific’ panel discussion.
- Marcos was the MC at the opening ceremony of the SOI Asia Haneda Campus.
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