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On Tuesday – Thursday, 8–10 September 2026, from 09:30 IST (04:00 UTC) daily, APNIC holds the conference days of APNIC 62 in Mumbai, India, hosted locally by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and co-hosted by the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI).

The conference follows workshops and partner meetings on 4–7 September, and concludes  on Thursday 10 September with the Open Policy Meeting (OPM) of the APNIC Policy SIG, running in two sessions. and taking seven proposals to the community: prop-164, prop-165, prop-168, prop-169, prop-170, prop-171 and prop-172.

All times are UTC; Mumbai is UTC +05:30.

TUESDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2026

04:00–05:30 UTC – Newcomers Welcome
MODERATOR
Subha Shamarukh – Senior Community Support Co-ordinator, APNIC
SPEAKERS
Tony Smith – Director – Strategy and Deputy Director General, APNIC – ‘Greetings from APNIC’
Makito Lay – Network Analyst/Technical Trainer, APNIC – ‘APNIC Academy and Training’
Dave Phelan – Policy Manager and Senior Network Analyst, APNIC – ‘APNIC Policy Development Process’
Thy Boskovic – Manager – Community Development Programs, APNIC – ‘Community Participation’
Subha Shamarukh – Senior Community Support Co-ordinator, APNIC – ‘Connecting and Networking’
LOCAL BUDDIES
Manas Joshi – Core Team Member, Internet Society
Vinayak Bharadwaz – Core Team Member, Internet Society India Mumbai Chapter
Valentine Melkudi – Internet Society
Zainab Khambaty – Member, Internet Society – Mumbai Chapter

06:00–07:30 UTC – APNIC Opening Ceremony & Keynotes (YouTube)
OPENING REMARKS
Kenny Huang – Chair, APNIC EC
WELCOME REMARKS
Shri S. Krishnan – Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
Shri Rajesh Aggarwal – Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra
KEYNOTES
Amajit Gupta – Group CEO & MD, Lightstorm – ‘The Autonomous Grid: Driving Zero-Touch Network Operations with Smart Networks’
Yukako Uchida – Manager of Global Coordination Division, Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) – ‘Trust as Infrastructure: The Human Side of Cybersecurity’

09:00–10:30 UTC – Technical Session 1 – Routing and DNS (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Shane Hermoso – Manager – Development, APNIC
SPEAKERS
Marcin Siodelski – Senior Software Engineer, Internet Systems Consortium – ‘ISC Stork – new management tool for Kea DHCP and BIND DNS’
Champika Wijayatunga – Technical Engagement Director – Asia Pacific, ICANN – ‘Root Zone KSK Rollover’
Geoffrey Huston – Chief Scientist, APNIC (remote) – ‘Certificate Revocation’
Ritesh Mukherjee – Product Management Leader – NOS and AI, Nokia – ‘The Good Neighbor Problem: BGP Security Beyond Your Own Prefix’

09:00–10:30 UTC (parallel) – Behind the Pin: The Reality of IP Geolocation – Cooperation SIG (YouTube)
CHAIR
Joy Chan – Deputy CEO, TWNIC
PANEL
Dhruv Dhody – Huawei
Sid Mathur – Founder, Fastah Inc.
Shailesh Gupta – TATA Communications Limited
Luna – Product Owner for GeoIP, MaxMind (remote)

11:00–12:30 UTC – Technical Session 2 – AI in Networks (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Dhruv Dhody – Huawei
SPEAKERS
Lalit Singh Chowdhary – Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Lightstorm Telecom Connectivity Pvt Ltd – ‘From Fat Tree to Jelly Fish: Rewiring India’s Networks for the AI Era’
Akhilesh Thakur – HPE Networking – ‘AI in Network Operations’
Dr Girish Saraph – Vegayan Systems Pvt. Ltd. – ‘AI-based Network Diagnostics & RCA for Broadband Fibre (FTTX) Services’
Sid Mathur – Fastah Inc. – ‘Authoring IP Geofeeds using AI tools and MCP’

11:00–12:30 UTC (parallel) – NIR SIG (YouTube)
CHAIR
Oanh Nguyen – Internet Number Resource Manager, VNNIC
CO-CHAIR
Zhen Yu – Operations Manager, CNNIC
NIR UPDATES
Oanh Nguyen – VNNIC
Muhammad Arif – Chairman, APJII – APJII/IDNIC
Zhen Yu – CNNIC
Nittin Prakash – NIXI – NIXI/IRINN
Tim Wang – Engineer, TWNIC
Koki Nakagawa – JPNIC
NIR MEMBER PRESENTATION
Tony Smith – APNIC – ‘An update on IPv6 transition’
NIR SIG CHARTER REVIEW
Oanh Nguyen – VNNIC
Zhen Yu – CNNIC

12:30–13:30 UTC – NextGen BoF – Plot Your Path (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Valentine Melkudi – Designer/Artist, Internet Society
FACILITATOR
Vinayak Bharadwaz – Core Team Member, Internet Society India Mumbai Chapter
MENTORS
Natasha Rautela Saroha – Director, ISPAI
Thy Boskovic – APNIC
Champika Wijayatunga – ICANN
Dhruv Dhody – Huawei
Warren Finch – IXP Development Expert, Internet Society

12:30–13:30 UTC (parallel) – Operations-to-Research BoF (YouTube)
MODERATORS
Haisheng Yu – Deputy Director of Industry Development Department, China Internet Network Information Center
Anupam Agrawal – India Internet Foundation
SPEAKERS
Tom Harrison – Product and Delivery Manager – Registry Products, APNIC – ‘Operating Registry Data Services: WHOIS/RDAP, Privacy, Abuse Prevention, and Reliability’
Ren Gang – Associate Professor, Tsinghua University – ‘Measurement challenges of IPv6 address space in CERNET’
Kam Sze Yeung – Principal Network Architect, Akamai Technologies – ‘Akamai Security Research and Standards Development’
Anand Raje – India Internet Foundation
Rupesh Shrestha – Chairperson, South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG)
Sumon Ahmed Sabir – Chief Information Officer, Fibre@Home Limited
Akinori Maemura – Chief Policy Officer, JPNIC; APNIC NRO NC Member
Dr. Etuate Cocker – Tango (remote)
Prof Emeritus Sureswaran Ramadass – Professor, RUMC (RCSI and UCD Malaysia Campus); Chair, APAC IPv6 Council (remote)

WEDNESDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2026

04:00–05:30 UTC – INNOG 9 Session (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Pankaj Chaturvedi – Organizing Committee – INNOG, Lightstorm Telecom
SPEAKERS
Rajesh Chharia – President, Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) – ‘Welcome Address’
Devesh Tyagi – CEO, NIXI – ‘Future-Ready Infrastructure: Driving and Scaling with IPv6-First Architecture for Edge and AI Workloads’
Sumon Ahmed Sabir – Chief Information Officer, Fibre@Home Limited – ‘Internet Resilience for country in case Subsea Isolation for Essential Services’
Abhijit Chakravarty – Executive Vice President – Networks & Cybersecurity, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited – ‘Creating a unified security posture: integrating people, technology, and process across the enterprise environment’
Samarjit Biswas – VP Global Emerging CyberSecurity Technologies – Telecom, XELE Labs – ‘Hidden Risk of SPAM’
Ashutosh Zutshi – Sr. Vice President, NEC Corporation India Pvt limited (remote) – ‘Status of Sub-Sea Infrastructure in India’
Harsha Ram – Business Head – Network Services, Sify Technologies Limited – ‘Delivering AI at Scale for Operators: Where Data Centers, Terrestrial Networks and Submarine Cables Converge’
Venkata Ramanan – Secretary, ISPAI; Advisor, NIXI; INNOG WG – ‘Vote of Thanks’

04:30–05:30 UTC (overlapping) – ICP-2 Review (RIR Governance Document) (YouTube)
FACILITATOR
Jeremy Harrison – General Counsel, APNIC
SPEAKERS
Akinori Maemura – Chief Policy Officer, JPNIC; APNIC NRO NC Member
Nicole T.I Chan – Chairperson, Artificial Intelligence Foundation; APNIC NRO NC Member
Devesh Tyagi – CEO, NIXI; APNIC NRO NC Member

06:00–07:30 UTC – Policy 101 – How Internet Number Resource Policies Are Made at APNIC (YouTube)
FACILITATOR
Dave Phelan – Policy Manager and Senior Network Analyst, APNIC

06:00–07:30 UTC (parallel) – Routing Security SIG (YouTube)
CHAIR
Terry Sweetser – Principal Consultant, The Internet Engineering & Infrastructure Strategic Initiative
CO-CHAIR
Taiji Kimura – Researcher, JPNIC
SPEAKERS
Tom Harrison – APNIC – ‘APNIC RPKI Updates’
Gaurav Kansal – Joint Director (IT), National Informatics Centre – ‘Local RPKI Updates’
Anurag Bhatia – Network Researcher, Hurricane Electric – ‘ASPA 101’
Maria Matejka – BIRD Team Leader, CZ.NIC (remote) – ‘You signed your ASPA. Now what?’
Shyam Krishna Khadka – Internet Security Researcher, University of Twente & Nepal Telecom (remote) – ‘Detecting and Characterizing Exposed BGP Routers’

09:00–10:30 UTC – APNIC / FIRST 1 (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Adli Wahid – Senior Internet Security Specialist, APNIC
SPEAKERS
Olivier Caleff – FIRST.org – ‘Empowering Your Constituents and Ecosystem Through Sharing’
Piotr Kijewski – CEO and a Trustee, The Shadowserver Foundation – ‘Indian Cybersecurity Threat Landscape in Shadowserver Data’
Dr. Yudhishthira Sapru – Scientist-E / Additional Director, CERT India – ‘Managing Large-Scale DDoS Attacks at National Scale’

09:00–10:30 UTC (parallel) – IPv6 Deployment (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Kenny Huang – Chair, APNIC EC
SPEAKERS
Haisheng Yu – Deputy Director of Industry Development Department, China Internet Network Information Center – ‘IPv6 Address Planning Optimization Practices’
Dr Yang Guoliang – Director, Future Network Innovation Research Institute in Xiongan New Area (remote) – ‘IPv6 Digital Identification System’
Mohit P. Tahiliani – Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NITK Surathkal – ‘Building an IPv6-Ready Campus Network at NITK Surathkal’
Ren Gang – Associate Professor, Tsinghua University – ‘Lighting Up the Dark in the Global IPv6 Map: A Hybrid Active Address Probing System and Measurement Analysis’
Shane Hermoso – Manager – Development, APNIC – ‘IPv6-mostly’

11:00–12:30 UTC – APNIC / FIRST 2 (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Adli Wahid – APNIC
SPEAKERS
Peter Lowe – Threat Research Lead, ZeroFox and Shoko Nakai – Senior Incident Coordinator, JPCERT/CC – ‘Operational Approaches to DNS Abuse: From Incident Response to Policy and Coordination’
Harshitha H H – Senior Cybersecurity Analyst, Cisco Systems and Avinash Kumar – Software Engineer, Cisco Systems – ‘CoAnalyst: An AI-Driven Framework for Enhanced SOC Triage’
Nur Sarah Jamaludin – Analyst, MyCERT, CyberSecurity Malaysia – ‘Detecting Compromised Identities Through Post-Authentication Behaviour’

11:00–12:30 UTC (parallel) – Joint SIGs session – SIG Guidelines Review (YouTube)
CHAIRS
Terry Sweetser – Principal Consultant, The Internet Engineering & Infrastructure Strategic Initiative
Bikram Shrestha – President, Nepal Internet Foundation
Joy Chan – Deputy CEO, TWNIC
Oanh Nguyen – Internet Number Resource Manager, VNNIC
PRESENTATION
Gaurav Kansal – Joint Director (IT), National Informatics Centre
SECRETARIAT IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Dave Phelan – APNIC

12:30–13:30 UTC – Lightning Talks (YouTube)
MODERATOR
Pankaj Chaturvedi – Lightstorm Telecom
SPEAKERS
Sazan – Docify – ‘Practical PowerDNS Automation for Small & Medium Hosting Providers’
Rajdeep Das – Research Fellow, IEM Kolkata – ‘DNS Resilience Under Siege: What APAC and India can Actually Do Against Terabit-Scale Attacks’
Gopinath Palaniappan – Scientist E, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore – ‘Post Quantum Cryptographic DNS: Preparing Internet Naming Infrastructure for Quantum Threats’
Anupam Agrawal – India Internet Foundation – ‘Engaging with AIORI 3’

12:30–13:30 UTC (parallel) – Community Consultation on Increasing Diversity in Community Leadership (YouTube)
OPENING AND CLOSING REMARKS
Kenny Huang – Chair, APNIC EC
RECAP OF FINDINGS
Siena Perry – Director – Communications and Community Engagement, APNIC
COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Subha Shamarukh – Senior Community Support Co-ordinator, APNIC

THURSDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2026

04:00–05:30 UTC – Open Policy Meeting 1 – Policy SIG (YouTube)
CHAIR
Bikram Shrestha – President, Nepal Internet Foundation
CO-CHAIRS
Shaila Sharmin – Cyber Security Architect, Prime Bank
Ching-Heng Ku – Director of IP Department, TWNIC
SPEAKERS
Bikram Shrestha – Nepal Internet Foundation – ‘Welcome Remarks’
Thy Boskovic – Manager – Community Development Programs, APNIC – ‘NRO NC/SIG Election Procedures’
Ching-Heng Ku – TWNIC – ‘SIG Administration’
Dave Phelan – Policy Manager and Senior Network Analyst, APNIC – ‘APNIC Policy Update’
Saima Nisar – Lecturer, Xiamen University Malaysia (remote) – ‘prop-169: Aligning IPv4 LIR Needs Assessment with Current IPv4 Delegation Policy’
Christopher Hawker – IT Manager – ‘prop-168: Increase to maximum IPv4 delegations’
Tomohiro Fujisaki and Hiroki Kawabata – ‘prop-165: Provision of IPv4 Address Space to IPv6-only Networks for Transitional Purpose’

04:00–05:30 UTC (parallel) – Technical Session 3 – Network Security & Standards (YouTube)

04:00–05:30 UTC (parallel) – Tutorial – KINDNS and DNSSEC

06:00–07:30 UTC – Open Policy Meeting 2 – Policy SIG (YouTube)
CHAIR
Bikram Shrestha – President, Nepal Internet Foundation
CO-CHAIRS
Shaila Sharmin – Cyber Security Architect, Prime Bank
Ching-Heng Ku – Director of IP Department, TWNIC
SPEAKERS
Shaila Sharmin – Prime Bank – ‘SIG Administration’
Christopher Hawker – IT Manager – ‘prop-164: Allocations of IPv6 Resources longer than a /32 with a nibble boundary alignment’
Tsung-Yi Yu – ‘prop-171: Operational Accountability for Abuse Contacts in Sub-Allocated Address Space’
Haisheng Yu – CNNIC – ‘prop-170: Nibble-Boundary Alignment for IPv6 Allocations’
Alban Kwan – Founder and CEO, Trusted Notifier Network – ‘prop-172: Defining Internet Abuse through IP Addresses’

06:00–07:30 UTC (parallel) – Tutorial – Suricata for ISP/IXP Threat Detection (YouTube)

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