Agenda

09:00-09:45

Registration and Welcome Coffee

09:45-10:30

Official Opening and Welcome Addresses

• Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, RIPE NCC
• Bakhtovar Abdusattorzoda, CEO, Tajiktelecom OJSC
• Isfandiyori Sadullo, Head, Communication Service under the Government of Tajikistan
• Natalya Mochu, Head, ITU CIS

10:30-12:00

High-Level Connectivity Panel

A high-level panel featuring leading telecom providers from the region, focused on national priorities, infrastructure investment and future interconnection.

• Siope Vakataki Ofa, Economic Affairs Officer, UN ESCAP
• Bakhtovar Abdusattorov, General Manager, Tojiktelecom, Regional Peering
• Aybek Bakanov, Director on Interconnection, Elcat, Kyrgyzstan
• Paulius Vaina, Connectivity for Central Asia, ICT Policy Component Coordinator at the Team Europe Initiative project “Connectivity for Central Asia"
• Akhmedov Makhmudjon Shavkat ugli, First Deputy Director of the Specialised Technical Division, Uztelecom

Moderator: Murad Ibragimov, CAPIF 5 PC member

12:00

CAPIF 5 Group Picture

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Regional Digital Connectivity in Central Asia

• A History of Internet Routing in Central Asia as seen from RIPE RIS - Ties de Kock, RIPE NCC (20 min)
• Analysis of Interconnectivity in Central Asia Using RIPE Atlas - Alex Semenyaka, RIPE NCC (20 min)
• The Future of Digital Connectivity in Central Asia: Building a Sovereign East-West Corridor - Thomas Mazejian, Smart Rapid Growth (20 min)
• Peering and Interconnection in Kazakhstan: Recent Legislative Developments- Oleg Yemelyanov, President, Kazakhstan Association of Network Operators (20 min)
• Q&A (10 min)

Moderator: Vahan Hovsepyan, RIPE NCC, CAPIF 5 PC Member

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-16:50

Emerging Internet Infrastructure

This session will examine emerging space and content-delivery infrastructure and their role in the next generation of connectivity.

• Open Fibre Data Standard - Robbie Mitchel, ISOC (20 min)
• Building CDN Infrastructure at ISP Scale: Lessons from a Regional Cloud Provider - Sepideh Tajik, Pishgaman Rayan (20 min)
• Edge Computing at Telecom Scale: Architecture, Standards and Real-World Deployment - Amir Soleimani, EdgeSimplify (20 min)
• Dissecting the cost of peering - Robbie Mitchel, ISOC (20 min)

Moderator: Milad Afshari, CAPIF 5 PC Member, IRNOG

16:50-18:30

IPv6 Deployment and Operations

This session will focus on operational experience, implementation guidance and regional practices for deploying IPv6.

• RPKI and IPv6 Uptake in the region: an Update from CAPIF 4 - Anastasiya Pak, RIPE NCC (10 min)
• IPv6 Mostly - Is It Coming? - Dmitriy Melnik, RIPE NCC (30 min)
• Where does Central Asian traffic actually go? - Berik Ashimov, Independent Researcher (30 min)
• Q&A (20 min)

Moderator: Firdavs Murodov, RIPE NCC

20:00-00:00

Social Dinner

09:00-09:30

Networking Coffee

09:30-09:35

IXP and Community Day: Opening and Introduction

• Vahan Hovsepyan, RIPE NCC

09:35-10:00

Peering Personals

10:00-11:20

Network Measurement, Privacy and Automation

This session will present measurement and operational research on network performance, privacy-preserving transport and automated traffic.

• Analysis of RTT Variability Toward an Anycast Service Using RIPE Atlas Measurements in Kazakhstan, Yeva Litvinova, Viktoriya Kalashnikova, Kazakh-British Technical University (25 min)
• The Machine Majority, What 57% bot traffic means for our networks, Saber Mesgari, ArvanCloud (25 min)
• Enhancing the Security and Resilience of Submarine Cable Infrastructures: Key Findings and Recommendations of the EU Expert Group - Virgilijus Stundžia, Senior Expert, e-Communications Regulatory Group (30 min)

Moderator: Lia Hestina, RIPE NCC

11:20-13:00

IXP Panel

Two perspectives on IXP development, interconnection and network measurement across Central Asia.

• IXP in Kazakhstan: where are we and where are we going? -Maxat Nessipbekov, STS (30 min)
• IXP and IPv6 in Central Asia, Anton Tarassov, JanaNet (30 min)
• Learnings from 15 Years building peering at UAE-IX - From a networking problem to an ecosystem - Bernd Spiess, Senior Interconnection Consultant, DE-CIX; Bülent Şen, Regional Director, DE-CIX, ME (20 min)
• IXP in Kyrgyzstan - Sergey Mazurov, KG-IX (20 min)
• Telecommunications Network Management in Uzbekistan - Shakhobiddin Khayitboev, Deputy Director, Republican Telecommunications Management Center of Uzbekistan (20 min)

Moderator: Bakhrom Nasirjanov, CAPIF 5 PC Member

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:30

ASPA and Routing Security

This session brings together ASPA deployment, path validation and routing-security practices for more secure and predictable interconnection.

• ASPA - RPKI for Path Validation, Anurag Bhatia, Hurricane Electric (20 min)
• ASPA: The path to securing BGP, Ehsan Ghazizadeh, Sotoon Cloud (20 min)
• The Routes That Never Leave..., Milad Afshari, MTN Irancell (20 min)

Moderator: Firdavs Murodov, RIPE NCC

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

History of the Internet

Combining data-driven research with local knowledge, this panel explores how countries first came online. Panellists will discuss the infrastructure, institutions, technical challenges, and key developments that shaped their national Internet histories.

• How AI Tools are Changing the Way We Study Internet History - Jim Cowie, Internet History Initiative (20 min)

Moderator: Mikhail Anisimov, CAPIF 5 PC Member

17:00-18:00

RIPE Community Talk

An open session for questions and suggestions to the RIPE Chair, RIPE NCC Executive Board and RIPE NCC Executive Team.

• RIPE Community Update, Ulka Athale, Manager Community Development, RIPE NCC
• RIPE NCC Update, Hans Petter Holen, Managing Director and CEO, RIPE NCC

Moderator: Vahan Hovsepyan, RIPE NCC

18:00-18:10

Closing Ceremony

• Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, RIPE NCC (10 min)

18:10-20:30

Closing Reception