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TNC26: Helsinki, FI | 8-12 June 2026
TNC26: Helsinki, FI | 8-12 June 2026
SIDE MEETINGS
In order to attend the Monday and/or Friday side meeting(s), it is mandatory to purchase a ‘Side Meeting Pass’. This Pass can be purchased alongside the Regular Pass as well as the Speaker Pass. Registration will open on 15 January 2026.
All of the below side meetings do not take place at the TNC26 main venue, but at the Finlandia Hall, which is next door to the Helsinki Music Hall .
The Global Science Network Forum returns at TCN26 with a workshop on the challenges and the impact of the storage on networks and scientific collaborations. While networks have their own direct technological drivers (e.g. router interface speeds, ASIC performance and capabilities, optical system performance and capabilities), there are additional elements in the broader scientific ecosystem that determine the utility of NRENs in scientific workflows.
This session will explore the impact of storage system performance and costs on NRENs from several perspectives and will include a discussion of the broader implications of the information presented, and a call to action for NRENs to gather and analyze information from their constituents.
Join the still growing group of NRENs who are (working towards) using WFO in production, recieve core software feature updates and plans, listen to user implementation updates, and interact in open discussions between current and future users.
The TF-EDU Annual Meeting will explore digital education trends, including identity management, wallets, DC4EU, MyAcademicID, and the role of NRENs. It will highlight open standards, showcase NREN support for education, and address the digitalization of learning guided by HEIF, enabling improved interoperability and mobility for students and educators.
This session brings together the global R&E security community that attend TNC26 and can have high-impact exchange on governance and strategic security management. By focusing on shared frameworks, leadership challenges and collaborative development, SIG-ISM continues strengthening the common approach and supporting NRENs building resilient and compliant security systems.
The SIG-Marcomms side meeting offers a dedicated space for marketing and communications professionals from the global research and education community to come together, exchange experiences, and strengthen collaboration across organisations and continents. Building on the ongoing work of the SIG-Marcomms group, the session provides an opportunity to discuss key trends, challenges, and best practices in promoting the value and impact of NRENs. Participants will explore ways to enhance topics such as visibility, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement, ultimately supporting the shared goal of advancing research and education through effective communication.
The annual Mobility Day is a chance for anyone with an interest in eduroam and other roaming initiatives to come together and discuss developments. Mobility Day covers topics including eduroam, govroam, mobile networks, 4G, 5G, WiFi 6(e), Internet of Things, Low Power WAN, Passpoint/Hotspot 2.0 and other mobility related topics.
Mobility Day is supported by the Global eduroam Governance Committee.
Streaming telemetry is a powerful successor to traditional SNMP, using push technology for far more efficient gathering of a wider variety of finer-grained telemetry data from networked devices in near real-time, while reducing load on devices. Our agenda will include:
* A short introduction to streaming telemetry protocols
* Examples from NRENs who have deployed it, presenting use cases, experiences and lessons learnt.
* Open discussion on the challenges, e.g., handling potentially huge volumes of data
* How the GÉANT and NREN community might develop and share best practices in streaming telemetry.
This session will explore why measuring sustainability impacts matters and how to calculate them across networks, products, and services. We’ll discuss practical steps to address these impacts and hear insights from NRENs actively working on measurement programmes, helping us understand the benefits and approaches for meaningful change.
Collaborate with us on GN5‑2, eduVPN, Firewall‑on‑Demand, NeMo and Protective DNS. We'll discuss future features, integration, and shared support models to accelerate deployment across our institutions.
This is the yearly SIG Procurement meeting for NREN procurement and contract management team members to convene and discuss 1) focal topics in public procurement in general, 2) specific ideas and challenges affecting procurement in the R&E community, and 3) discussing ways to work together towards a more unified procurement model stimulating active knowledge exchange, which could benefit NRENs and GÉANT.
The GNA-G Network Automation Working group is established to collaborate on the transformation of NREN networks through network automation and orchestration. Join this meeting to learn, discuss, and share information about network automation, network orchestration and related topics.
As eduMEET becomes more mature, it will increasingly be perceived as one of many video conferencing systems. This raises questions about how to ensure sustaining eduMEET operations while maintaining its uniqueness for research and teaching purposes. Placement, price, persons, processes, p... - lets talk about making eduMEET a competitive software at saturated market.
SIG-AI and SIG-RED collaborate to address the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and research engagement. The meeting aims to discuss how NRENs can engage researchers and provision key AI-relevant infrastructures (e.g., AI Factories and AI Factory Antennas). Join us to define the service portfolio needed to enable cutting-edge scientific discovery.
Join an action-oriented session: OCRE 2024 Framework update; incubator snapshots shaping sovereign, interoperable Above-the-Net capabilities for Digital Research Environments, object storage and data movement; plus practical guidance and shared experiences to enable Open Science, with clear takeaways and priorities for your organisation and guidance for daily service delivery decisions.
The Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) gathers worldwide network professionals from R&E Networking organisations to support and enhance continent-to-continent interconnectivity and global science collaboration. Motivated by the prior success, the meeting at TNC26 would serve as a platform for knowledge sharing and discussion around GNA-G working groups and relevant topics.
eduGAIN Town Hall is the meeting where new and hot topics related to trust, identity and authentication are presented and discussed with the global research and education community. REFEDS Meeting is the event dedicated to the research and education federations community where you can have an update on the current working groups activities and latest specifications. This year eduGAIN Town Hall and the 50th REFEDS Meeting will join forces and organize a unique event for all the things related to trust, identity and federations.
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