Presentation by Che-Hoo Cheng at APRICOT 2017 on Thursday, 2 March 2017.

1. HKNOG
Hong Kong
Network Operators’ Group
02 MAR 2017
www.hknog.net

2. Positioning
• Mini-APRICOT for local participants
• New technologies and BCOPs
• Networking
• Conducted in English
• Attracting overseas speakers and participants
• To leverage other events such as APRICOT, APNIC,
APF and etc
• Free registration
• Low-cost / grass-root operations
– Keep it simple and small
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3. People
• To organize the activities, to determine the programs and to find
speakers, sponsors, venues and so on, plus to do other admin
work such as managing website and mailing lists
• Event Committee / Program Committee:
– Che-Hoo CHENG (CH)
– Howard CHEUNG
– Wai-Kay SHIU (WK)
– Kam-Sze YEUNG (Kams)
– Raphael HO (Raf)
– Eric FAN
– Chris TUNG
– Welthia CHUNG
– Kenneth CHO
– Connie CHAN
– No formal Chair…
• We need more volunteers and helpers!!!
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4. Previous HKNOG Events
• 1st: HKNOG 0.1 (half-day) – 02 SEP 2013 (Mon)
• 2nd: HKNOG 0.2 (half-day) – 14 APR 2014 (Mon)
• 3rd: HKNOG 1.0 (full-day) – 01 SEP 2014 (Mon)
• 4th: HKNOG 1.1 (half-day) – 17 APR 2015 (Fri)
• 5th: HKNOG 2.0 (full-day) – 14 SEP 2015 (Mon)
• 6th: HKNOG 2.1 (half-day) – 18 MAR 2016 (Fri)
• 7th: HKNOG 3.0 (full-day) – 09 SEP 2016 (Fri)
• 8th: HKNOG 4.0 (full-day) – 24 FEB 2017 (Fri)
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5. Agenda of HKNOG 4.0 (1/3)
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Topics
09:30-09:35 Welcome by HKNOG
09:35-10:05
Keynote: An Introduction to the World of Things
– by Geoff Huston, APNIC
10:05-10:35
TKO Express – Undersea Cable System
– by Bevan Slattery, Superloop
10:35-11:05 Tea Break
11:05-11:35
IoT: the Next Wave of DDoS Threat Landscape?
– by C F Chui, Arbor Networks
11:35-12:00
What we’ve learned from LPWAN roll-outs on four continents
– by Kinson Chan, Actility
12:00-12:25
Smart & Connected Facilities 2017
– by Raymond Poon, Cisco Systems
12:25-13:40 Lunch Break

6. Agenda of HKNOG 4.0 (2/3)
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Topics
13:40-14:10
How Corporate IT Transform through Cloud Adoption – A Microsoft Internal
Story
– by Bremen Lee, Microsoft
14:10-14:40
4K and Beyond – Is Your Network Ready?
– by Addison Chi, Arista Networks
14:40-15:10
SD-WAN 2.0 – All are Welcome
– by Eric Choi, VeloCloud
15:10-15:40 Tea Break
15:40-16:10
A Case Study of the Facebook Backbone
-by Sri Bala, Facebook

7. Agenda of HKNOG 4.0 (3/3)
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Lightning Talks
16:10-16:25
Life of Cloudflare’s Operation
-by Frankie Hui, Cloudflare
16:25-16:40
BGP Table Report
– by Anurag Bhatia, Hurricane Electric
16:40-16:55
Let’s Encrypt
– by Panda Chan, UDomain
16:55-17:10
More than Glimpse of Internet
– by Wallis Choi, Dyn
17:10-17:25
HKIX Updates
– by Kenneth Chan, HKIX
17:25-17:30 Closing Remarks

8. Trends
• Full Day Program
• Not much extra effort than half-day event
• Friday mostly
• Coffee Sponsor
• After-Event Social Sponsor
• Lunch provided
• Pre-event APNIC Training
• Never had a loss for any single event
• Relying on sponsorship money starting HKNOG
1.0
• A bit of reserve is being built up
• 150 to 200 participants and growing
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9. Issues
• Finding good speakers
• Marketing Content
• More speakers from vendors than network
operators
• Venue size
– Business Centre -> Hotel???
• Not incorporated yet
• Relying on HKISPA for liability, billing, accounting
& keeping the reserve
• Website updates and information distribution
• Special thanks to APNIC and HKISPA for their
continuous support
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10. Thank You!