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LINX Regional Meeting – Scotland
1st December 2014 @ 1:30 pm - 4:45 pm
FREEIXScotland is staging another regional meeting on Monday 1st December 2014 at St Leonards Hall.
This event is an excellent opportunity to hear about what's happening at IXScotland exchange while offering the opportunity to network with other interested parties and industry professionals.
LINX launched IXManchester in 2012 and in addition to IXScotland in Edinburgh, it has since opened a further location in North Virginia, USA called LINX NoVA with IXCardiff in Wales due to go live this autumn. It is planning to establish further exchange points in the future in a number of other regions where there is significant Internet traffic.
Wifi will be available, so please bring your laptop or tablet if you wish.
The meeting is planned just for the afternoon, and there will be a social event in the early evening afterwards. All LINX members are invited, as are any on the IXScotland mailing list. Prospective members are also very welcome.
The registration page is here, and registration is now open:
https://www.linx.net/events/regional/Scotland/M4/Scotland.html
LINX/IXScotland want to use this opportunity to foster the local 'community of interest', so the meeting is open to anyone having an interest in or wanting to support IXScotland. They also want to hear the thoughts of the network operator community, so they will have space in the agenda for lightning talks or 'peering personals' (promoting peering with your network). Please contact Katrina Smith katrina@linx.net if you would like to do this.
Agenda
The agenda consists of a number of presentations by LINX staff, IXScotland steering committee members and other interested parties. We also want to use this opportunity to foster the local 'community of interest', so the meeting is open to anyone having an interest in or wanting to support IXScotland. We also want to hear the thoughts of the network operator community, so we will have space in the agenda for lightning talks or 'peering personals' (promoting peering with your network).
The event agenda is as follows:
| Agenda topic |
Speaker
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13.00
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Registration Opens |
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13.30
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Keynote Speaker: Setting the Scene |
Michael Fourman,
University of Edinburgh |
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13.55
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The vision for IXScotland |
John Souter,
LINX CEO |
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14.20
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How do we achieve the vision? |
Charlie Boisseau,
Fluency Communications |
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14.40
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Sponsor Presentations - Imtech: 'SDN/NFV Myth Busters!' - Pulsant update |
Stuart Bates
Chris Shields |
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15.00
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15 minute refreshment break |
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15.15
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Panel Session: How do we improve connectivity in Scotland Panel will consist of representatives of Scottish government, commercial and community broadband access provision in Scotland, content provision in Scotland |
Panel Chaired by
Richard Morrell |
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16.05
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LINX Update Presentation: Updates on LINX Engineering and Public Affairs |
LINX Staff TBC
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16.35
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Wrap-up session: Summary of the day and details of how people can get involved |
John Souter,
LINX CEO |
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16.45
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Event Close - a post-meeting social and networking event will also held nearby with details given to those registered on the day. |