09.30 – 10.00
Registration
10.00 – 10.10
Welcome Speech and Opening Remark
Dr.Gothom Arya
Chairman of the THNIC Foundation
After obtaining a Doctoral degree in France, I returned to teach electrical engineering at Chulalongkorn University for 28 years. I then became an Election Commissioner for 4 years and a Registrar for 2 years at the Asian Institute of Technology. Since then I have been working at Mahidol University on Peace Building especially in the Far South of Thailand. I also serve in many civil society organisations including the THNIC Foundation as its chairman.
10.10 – 10.30
Privilege Presentation
- Quick wins in the NetOps journey
Vincent Boon
Sales Engineer
APAC Opengear
Vincent Boon has over 30 years of experience in the IT and networking industry, working with enterprise and data center customers within APJC. For the past 18 years, his focus has been in DCIM, Infrastructure Access and Power Solutions working with clients such as Smart Nation, HCL, FPT Telecom, Equinix and many more. Technology has always been a keen interest of Vincent’s and his previous roles within technology companies have involved him working closely with engineering teams in providing productive solutions to customers. He joined Opengear at the beginning of 2018 and brings his expertise to assist customers on next generation Out-of-Band solutions and Network Automation for managing critical IT and communications infrastructure.
- What are the new data center trends in Thailand for 2023?
Pierre Patris
CEO Asia
ETIX Everywhere
Pierre is CEO Asia for ETIX Everywhere data center network. ETIX Everywhere is a carrier neutral data center company operating 10 data centers in Europe and in Southeast Asia. Pierre is responsible for developing new data centers in Thailand, Vietnam and in the Philippines. In Thailand, ETIX has formed in 2022 a Joint-Venture with Interlink Telecom to operate ETIX Bangkok #1, a 4 MW carrier neutral and sustainable data center.
10.30 – 11.30
Session 1 : Keynote
- A Close Look at Remote Peering
Marinho Barcellos
University of Waikato
Marinho Barcellos is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato, NZ. His research focuses on Internet measurements and network security, some of which include IXPs as vantage points. More broadly, his research has addressed various challenges as network technology evolved, covering the non-functional properties of performance, security and resilience of networked systems and their underlying protocols.
Marinho Barcellos has regularly contributed to the network research community by serving in multiple committees, including the general co-chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2016 and the Program Committee co-chair of ACM CoNEXT 2022. He has been on several TPCs of conferences, including ACM CoNEXT, ACM IMC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, ACM HotNets, and IFIP Networking. He was a member of the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee 2017-2021, and is currently a co-chair of the ACM SIGCOMM CARES committee. In addition, he was a member of the steering committees of ACM CoNEXT and the PAM Conference, and currently chairs the Advisory Board of the ACM PACM-NET journal.
Marinho Barcellos received his PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 1998. While in Brazil, he was a PI of multiple research projects on network security (e.g. P4Sec) and Internet measurements. Before moving to NZ, he worked as an Associate/Adjunct Professor at UFRGS University (2010–2019), UNISINOS University (1993–2008), PUC-RS University (2008–2009), as well as an Invited Adjunct Professor at UNAL, Colombia. In 2003-2004, Marinho worked for the University of Manchester in a joint project with BT Research Labs (2003-2004) for multicasting large volumes of scientific data.
11.30 – 12.20
Session 2 : Connectivity
- Last Mile Connectivity: Addressing the Affordability Frontier
Jonathan Brewer
Consulting Engineer
I design and build innovative networks for broadband, public safety, utilities, and the Internet of Things.
- Connecting Last Mile ISPs to Internet Exchange Points: BKNIX Case Study
Kittinan Sriprasert
Technical Manager
BKNIX
Kittinan Sriprasert is the Technical Manager at Bangkok Neutral Internet Exchange (BKNIX) – First Layer 2 IXP in Thailand. He is also the first engineer who works at BKNIX from the very beginning. He is responsible for developing overall infrastructures including network planning, operational optimization or maintenance and services to enhance the performance and security of internet exchange infrastructures. Before BKNIX, He was a network engineer at Advance Info Services (AIS), Mobile & Broadband Operator in Thailand where his responsibilities were troubleshooting a network problem in various kind of services on different vendors and coordinating with several NOC from other service providers and also field engineers all over the country. He usually contributes to the workshop such as BGP, Network Monitoring etc. with University Network (UniNet) and Thailand Research and Education Network (ThaiREN). He is also a member of Thai Network Operators Group as a steering committee.
12.20 – 12.30
- AIMS Data Centre
- Amazon Web Services
- AMS-IX
- BBIX
- BKNIX
- DE-CIX Asia
- iAIX
- JPIX
- JPNAP
- NTT Global Data Centers
- OneAsia Data Center (Thailand)
- RouteViews
- SUNeVision / iAdvantage
- ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Thailand)
- SYMPHONY COMMUNICATION
- True Money
12.30 – 13.30
Network Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Session 3 : Content & Peering / Technology
- M-Root DNS update : After 6 months deployment
Shinta Sato
General Manager, Research and Development Department
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)
Shinta Sato is currently General Manager of Research and Development Department at Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) in Tokyo, Japan.
In his 20+ years of experience working for JPRS, he has been involved in operation, administration and planning of TLD DNS services and TLD
registry services. During the period, he worked for introducing IPv6, DNSSEC, and IP Anycast technologies to .JP DNS.
In 2005, when JPRS started to jointly operate the M-Root with WIDE Project, he joined the M-Root operation team.
He is a member of ICANN RSSAC Caucus since 2014.
- APNIC Measurement
Wita Laksono
Senior Internet Resource Analyst
APNIC
Wita has been a Senior Internet Resource Analyst at APNIC since 2008. With a degree in Computer Engineering and specialised skills in Networking and as a Systems Administrator, Wita is also fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, Malay and English.
- The SEA-5 – Spotlight on Thailand’s Data Center Market
Vivian Wong
Research Analyst
DC BYTE
Vivian specialises in Southeast Asia market research in the DC Byte Singapore team. She cultivates relationships with data centre operators, conducts on-the-ground market inspection and has attended major ground-breaking ceremonies, visited key industrial sites and over 50 data centre facilities across Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and The Philippines.
As the regional data centre industry experiences accelerated growth, Vivian has been responsible for client briefings and delivered research reports to international data centre operators and investment funds looking at the emerging markets.
Before DC Byte, Vivian had experience in site-suitability analysis in the supply chain industry. Vivian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and China Studies from the National University of Singapore, and is effectively bilingual in Mandarin and English. She is also certified in DCPro Data Centre Design Awareness. Her favourite hobby is photojournalism and she also volunteers with an ASEAN-China focused youth community in her free time.
- Software Defined eXchange Controller for IXPs
Shicong Zhang
Co-founder and Technical Director
NNIX
Shicong Zhang, co-founder and technical director of the National (Hangzhou) Novel Internet Exchange of China (NNIX for short), APIX steering committee member, and the secretary-general of Zhejiang Provincial New Digital Infrastructure Committee, has been engaged in network communication technology for more than 10 years. Before NNIX, he worked for China Mobile as a senior expert, he has rich experience in wireless communication and IP network communication, including network planning, construction, operation, maintenance and management.
- To maintain IX network clean and stable
Masataka Mawatari
Chief Engineer
JPIX
Masataka Mawatari is an Chief Engineer at JPIX. He is in charge of the IX network operation, route server and IPv6 deployment. He contributes to JANOG and the other engineers’ communities.
15.00 – 15.30
Break
15.30 – 16.30
Session 4 : Panel Discussion – “Building the Foundation for Thailand to Become the Digital Hub of Southeast Asia”
Jesada Sivaraks
Head of Government and Industry Relations
Ericsson
Jesada Sivaraks received the B.E. degrees, in Telecommunications Engineering from KMITL, Thailand in 1990. He graduated M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Florida Atlantic University in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Working experience, he joined the military information department of Supreme Command Armed force in 1991-1994. In year 2001, he was the principal Engineer at Protura Wireless, Half Moon Bay, California with 3 patent pending at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). He involved various fields of wireless communication such as designing the antenna for mobile phone and setting the method of hand/head effect to mobile terminal.
He has joined to TOT as engineer of International Telecommunications. Also, he was one of the 3G Strategy Team in 2004-2007 and with the Wireless Business group at TOT. Now, he takes care of the business strategy of TOT’s Wireless business group. Moreover, he has been invited to be the special Guest speaker or instructor in various classes of Graduate students in many universities.
He was the Secretary to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission Vice Chairman. As the regulator role, he is member of variety sub commission such as the sub commission of preparation for 2.1GHz Spectrum auction, the sub commission of preparation for 1800MHz Spectrum, the sub commission of mobile spectrum roadmap, the sub commission of framework of Thailand satellite licensing, etc..
Panelist :
EKACHAI PHAKDURONG
Chief Strategy Officer
Thaicom Public Company Limited
Ekachai is an International and Telecommunications Business and Regulatory Affairs professional with a strong technical background, having worked for the internationally-recognized Thai telecommunications satellite operator, Thaicom Public Company Limited. He is now overseeing the company’s strategy and corporate affairs, business development, and corporate communications.
His career experience covers a wide-range of aspects of an organization. During his more than 20 years of experience in Thaicom, his assignments covered areas from head of business units overlooking Thaicom’s subsidiaries, regulatory & government affairs, business development, engineering, operations, customer service, and corporate communications.
In engineering and operation, he was the head of RF-engineering and frequency management for Thailand’s most advanced satellite program, the THAICOM-4 (or IPSTAR-1). He had also been the head of Thaicom’s satellite TV broadcasting and transponder operations and customer service.
In international affairs, he has represented the company in international organizations such as the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and the APT (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity). He was the head of international affairs and frequency coordination for Thaicom PLC, where he was in charge of securing the rights to satellite orbital slots, landing rights, and licenses in Asia-Pacific countries.
He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Awarded: International Student Academic Achievement) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honors in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
PICHIT SATAPATTAYANONT
CEO
International Gateway
Kempei Fukuda
VP, Services Grand Design
NTT LTD.
Kempei joined NTT in 1989 after getting bachelors degree from International Christian University, Tokyo. Since 1993, has devoted most of the time to global and internet business for NTT. Starting from participating in the buildout and operation of R&E network, moved on to creating NTT’s first global internet backbone in 1997, and now being the head of engineering for internet services offered by NTT Communications. He also participated in some of the submarine cable projects, and was board member of PCLC, owner of PC-1 cable system.
16.30 – 17.00
BPF Quiz
Jirawat Karanwittayakarn
Jirawat is a software developer with over 10 years of experience. He currently works at LINE Thailand, as a Technology Evangelist. Since discovering LINE APIs and Firebase, he has spent most of his time learning about them.
He lives in Bangkok, Thailand where he is actively involved in the local LINE and Firebase communities such as speaking at conferences, writing blog posts and creating code samples all over Thailand. He also founded the largest Thailand Firebase developer group with over 10,000 members.
17.30 – 20.30
Peer and Cocktail