Event Summary
This event was the first Internet Society conference in Lebanon and the first INET conference in the Middle East. Organised by the Internet Society in association with the Internet Society Lebanon Chapter, it was aimed at a wide spectrum of Internet users hailing mainly from Lebanon.
Main themes were:
- Doing Business in the Social Networking Era
- Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
- Child Safety on the Internet
Speakers and panellists included:
Nabil Bukhalid, ISOC Lebanon Chapter, Presentation
His Excellency Dr Charbel Nahas, Minister of Telecommunications, Lebanon
Dawit Bekele, Manager, ISOC African Regional Bureau
Maroun Chammas, Executive Director, IDM, Presentation
Jon McNerney, Internet Society
Gaby Deek, President of PCA, General Manager of Omnisystems
Melodie Tao, Marketing Melodie
Jad Melki and Michael Oghia, ICMPA
Ayman Itani, Director Telephone.com
Samer Karam, Founder & CEO of Seeqnce
Bassam Tueni, CEO of Naharnet.com and CEO of PowerMe Mobile.
Fares F. Kikano, Manager, Solution Center, NavLink
Elie Habib, Sr Investment Manager Riyada Enterprise development
Ihsan Anabtawi, Microsoft, Information Worker Business Group Manager for North Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and Pakistan
Ali Zgheib, Sales Manager, Cyberia
Mirna El-Hajj Barbar, Information and Communication Technology Officer, ICT Policies Section, UN ESCWA
Parry Aftab, Executive Director of WiredTrust, Presentation
Nevine Tewfik, Director of the Cyber Peace Initiative, Egypt Presentation
Christine Runnegar, Senior Manager for Public Policy, Internet Society,
Henri Asseily, Director of ADF solutions, Presentation (PDF)
Elie Mikhael: Secretary General of Lebanese Higher Council for Childhood
Corine Feghaly, Consumer Affairs and Public Consultations Senior Expert, TRA
Routing Security Workshop
Location: Grand Habtoor Hotel
Date: 14 October 2010
Time: 2:00-5:00 pm
Room: to be announced
Trainer: Randy Bush, Research Fellow and Network Operator, Internet Initiative, Japan.
Participant are encouraged to bring their portables to the training room starting 11:00 am to make sure that they are set for the workshop
Workshop Syllabus:
Routing Security and Route Origin Validation (no more YouTube incidents)
Introduction to the Resource Private Key Infrastructure being deployed by IANA, RIRs, and large ISPs
Using the RPKI for Origin Validation and other things
Introduction to the Open Source Toolkit for the RPKI
Prerequisites for participants:
Unix System Administration
Good Understanding of bgp
Portable Computer with linux partition