Agenda

08:30 - 09:30

Registration and Welcome Coffee

09:30 - 10:00

Opening Remarks [30 min]

• Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, RIPE NCC (video message)
• Christopher Mondini, Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement, Europe and Managing Director for Europe, ICANN (video message)
• Vahan Hovsepyan, RIPE NCC, Senior Community and Public Policy Advisor
• Seher Sagiroglu Ayhan, ICANN Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Middle East & Central Asia
• Andrey Bredikin, CEO, Comfortel (Co-Host)
• Oleg Yemelyanov, President, Kazakhstan Association of Network Operators of Kazakhstan (Co-Host)
• Maratbek Gabdullin, Rector, Kazakh-British Technical University, Institutional partner

10:00 - 10:40

Academic and Industry engagement and support

• RIPE Community and how to take a leadership in a changing world, Vahan Hovsepyan, RIPE NCC
• ICANN Stakeholder Journey: Fellowship and NextGen, Seher Sagiroglu Ayhan, ICANN

10:40 – 11:00

Interconnectivity in Central Asia: 2022, 2024, 2026 [20 min]

Alex Semenyaka, RIPE NCC

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 11:50

KINDNS- an Initiative to Promote DNS Operational Best Practices [20 min]

Ulrich Wisser, ICANN

11:50 - 12:10

Analysing Operators’ Routing with RIPEstat and RIS [20 min]

Ties de Kock, RIPE NCC

12:10 - 12:30

Measuring Internet Technology Adoption in Central Asia [20 min]

Anastasiya Pak, RIPE NCC

12:30 - 12.50

ICANN Domain Metrica, OCTO Security, Stability, and Resiliency Research [20 min]

Ulrich Wisser, ICANN

12:50 - 12.55

IMD Almaty Group Photo

12:55 - 14:00

Lunch Break [65 min]

14:00 - 14:30

Internet Mystery Challenge Kahoot [30 min]

14:30 - 14:45

L-root Traffic in Kazakhstan [15 min]

Ulrich Wisser, Technical Engagement Manager, ICANN

14:45 - 15:30

Regional Experience

• Experience of Lithuanian authorities in creating and using an internet speed and quality measurement tool, Dr. Virgilijus Stundžia, Acting Head of the Communications group, Communications Regulatory Authority, Lithuania. (25 min)
• Практический опыт мониторинга интернет-сервисов в Таджикистане на основе RIPE Atlas/ Practical experience of monitoring internet services in Tajikistan based on RIPE Atlas, Nizomi Shonazriyev, Tojiktelecom (20 min)

15:30 - 15:50

Coffee Break

15:50 - 17:25

Measurements in Kazakhstan

• За пределами измерений: как открытые данные помогают понять рынок Интернета / Beyond the measurements-how open data helps to understand Internet, Oleg Yemelyanov, President, Association of Network Operators of Kazakhstan (20 min)
• KBTU Measurement Lab and Student Probe Network, Talgat Nurlybayev, Assistant professor School of IT and Engineering, KBTU (15 min)
• Kazakhstan's Internet Landscape: Measuring Risks, Resilience and Opportunities, Aida Aidarkulova, Co-founder and Executive Director of CAPS Unlock (15 min)
• What does the disguise cost? Separating encapsulation from camouflage in circumvention transports. Askar Oralkhan, MS student, SITE KBTU, (15 min)
• The Role of STS JSC in Inter-Operator Connectivity and Internet Traffic Exchange in Kazakhstan, Vadim Vyushkov, State Technical Service (20 min)

17:25 - 17:35

Closing

19:30 – 22:00

Networking Dinner: The Internet Mystery Challenge

Maroon Restobar

Address: Zhambyl 154