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Agenda

Location: Technical University Sofia, 8 Kliment Ohridski Blvd., 1000,Sofia, Bulgaria

Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026

(Time is listed in Sofia Time, UTC+03:00)

11:00 - 11:20

Opening Remarks [20 min]

  • Representative of Technical University of Sofia (Host)
  • 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

11:20 – 11:50

Measuring DNS in the Region with RIPE Atlas (TBC), 30 min Gergana Petrova, RIPE NCC

11:50 - 12:10

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

Ulrich Wisser, ICANN

12:10 - 12:40

Analysing Operators’ Routing with RIPEstat and RIS [30 min] (TBC)

Ties de Kock, RIPE NCC

12:40 - 13:00

Advancing Internet Technologies in SEE: RPKI and IPv6 Uptake [30 min]

Anastasiya Pak, RIPE NCC

13:00 - 14:20

Lunch Break [80 min]

14:20 - 14:40

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

Ulrich Wisser, ICANN

14:40 - 15:10

Reviewing SEE Internet Resilience [30 min] (TBC)

Robbie Mitchell, Hanna Kreitem, Internet Society

15:10 - 15:30

L-root Tajikistan Traffic in Bulgaria [20 min]

Ulrich Wisser, ICANN

15:30 - 16:30

Local Presentations 60 minutes (TBD)

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00

Academic and Industry engagement and support

  • RIPE Fellowship, RACI, RIPE Academy, Certified Professionals, Gergana Petrova, RIPE NCC
  • ICANN NextGen, ICANN Fellowship, Ulrich Wisser, ICANN
  • ISOC (Early Career, Mid Career, IETF, Youth Ambassador, Community, Peering, NDSS, Pulse Research Fellowships, Hanna Kreitem, Robert Mitchell, ISOC