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    SReXperts Americas 2026 - Agenda

SReXperts Americas

14-16 September, 2026
San Diego, CA, USA

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SReXperts 26 Americas

14 Sep 2026

09:00 PDT

US, CA, San Diego, Sheraton San Diego Resort

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Monday, 14 Sep

Hackathon

Knowledge primer | Network Operating Systems (NOS) stream

09:00 - 12:00 PDT
Coral 3

Nokia’s Network Operating Systems, SR OS and SR Linux, lead the way in model-driven management and automation, but have you been using them to their full potential?  This knowledge primer will expose engineers of all experience to programmability and automation of the Network Operating Systems using model-driven interfaces, on and off-box interfaces and associated tools and programming languages.

This session is designed to prepare participants for the afternoon hands-on session.

Panel
  • James Cumming
    Senior Product Line Manager, SROS and SR Linux Platform, Programmability and Virtualization, Nokia
  • Saju Salahudeen
    Principal Consulting Engineer, Nokia
Hackathon

Knowledge primer | Network Services Platform (NSP) stream

09:00 - 12:00 PDT
Coral 2

Nokia’s Network Services Platform (NSP) has been managing networks at the centre of the internet and critical infrastructure for years but there is more to it than red/green network management.  This primer will focus on using the programmability and automation functions of the NSP to automate configuration, manage path control, provide event driven management and visualize streaming data.

This session is designed to prepare participants for the afternoon hands-on session.

Panel
  • Siva Sivakumar
    Product Experience Technical Lead, Nokia
  • Conar McGill
    Senior Network Automation Developer, Nokia
Hackathon

Knowledge primer | Event-Driven Automation (EDA) stream

09:00 - 12:00 PDT
Coral 1

Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation (EDA) is a modern infrastructure automation platform for the data-center that combines speed with reliability and simplicity. It makes network automation more trustworthy and easier to use, from small edge clouds to the largest AI fabrics. This knowledge primer will focus on the programmability and automation functions of EDA to provide configuration management, telemetry and observability.

This session is designed to prepare participants for the afternoon hands-on session.

Panel
  • Zeno Dhaene
    Product Line Manager, Nokia
  • Louis Van Eeckhoudt
    Central NPI Engineer, Nokia
Masterclass

Real-time BGP routing security and observability for network oerators

09:00 - 12:00 PDT
Silver Pearl Ballroom 1

BGP hijacks and route leaks aren't hypothetical anymore — they're front-page incidents, they're driving regulatory attention, and they're increasingly a question your customers and auditors are asking you to answer. The good news: the tools to stop them have matured fast. RPKI Route Origin Validation is production-ready, ASPA is landing at the major RIRs to close the route-leak gap that ROV alone can't cover, and BMP-based observability is finally making it possible to see your routing security posture in real time instead of finding out about problems after the fact. This workshop is a practical, live-demo-driven deep dive into deploying these controls on Nokia SR OS and SR Linux, using a fully containerized lab environment throughout. We'll start with RPKI Route Origin Validation on SR OS, watching a live hijack get caught and invalidated as we change ROAs in real time. From there, we move to route leaks — the class of attack ROV can't stop — and show how ASPA path validation closes that gap, using BMP telemetry to get that visibility today, even ahead of full router-side enforcement. That BMP feed becomes the foundation for the workshop's centerpiece: RAVEN, Nokia's new open-source BGP routing security observability tool, which correlates BMP, RPKI, and ASPA data into a single real-time security posture view — including catching stealthy hijacks that control-plane checks alone would miss. We'll round things out by closing the loop from detection to action with FlowSpec-based mitigation and take a look at what's coming next for RPKI and BMP support on SR Linux.

We'll close with a practical best-practices checklist you can take back and start applying immediately — no lab required. Whether you're just starting your RPKI rollout or already running ROV in production and wondering what's next, you'll leave with working configs, a reusable containerlab topology, and a clear view of where BGP routing security is headed.

Panel
  • Ritesh Mukherjee
    Product Manager Leader, Nokia
  • Adam Simpson
    Senior Product Line Manager, Nokia
Masterclass

Inside the shadow army of Android TV botnets

09:00 - 12:00 PDT
Coral 4

The most active DDoS botnets today are built from millions of compromised Android TV boxes, consumer devices, and other IoT equipment — with a growing number of these devices located inside your networks or your customers' networks. This army of devices forms a shadow infrastructure that remains largely invisible to conventional scanning and monitoring.

In this session, we lift the hood on how attackers gain control over these devices, how they manage and coordinate them at scale, and how they are used not only for massive DDoS attacks, but also for other malicious activities.

We will then walk through how Deepfield researchers infiltrate and analyze botnet families, to uncover how they operate and how this intelligence is used in Secure Genome and the Deepfield solution to help you protect your network from attacks and to neutralize infected bots within your access networks.

This workshop is intended for Network Engineers, Security Engineers, and anybody interested to learn how botnets work and are used for launching DDoS attacks or other activities, and what you can do about it. 

This is an interactive session. Bring your questions. Bring your war stories.

Speaker
Jerome Meyer
Deepfield Security Researcher and ERTS Lead
Nokia
Workshop

Hands-on IP/MPLS service provisioning with Segment Routing and EVPN (Option 1)

09:00 - 12:30 PDT
Seaglass

Develop practical service provisioning skills on the Nokia 7750 SR in this 3.5-hour, expert-guided, hands-on workshop from the Nokia Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program. Through a series of guided lab exercises, participants will configure transport tunnels and services at their own pace, with live support and best-practice guidance from a Nokia expert. Exercises include:

  • Segment routing tunnels with traffic engineering constraints
  • Segment routing tunnels with secondary paths
  • Segment routing fast re-route
  • Layer 2 EVPN services (VPWS, ELAN)
  • Layer 3 EVPN services
  • EVPN multi-homing

This workshop is intended for network engineers or professionals with an IP/MPLS background who want to apply their knowledge in a real-world environment.

Participants must bring a laptop to take part.

Speaker
Jose Gallardo
SRC Program IP/MPLS Subject Matter Expert
Nokia
Networking

Lunch and exhibition

12:00 - 14:00 PDT
Eventide

Join us for lunch in the exhibition. Take a break, explore the demos, and recharge for an action-packed afternoon of sessions.

User group

LATAM focus group (in Spanish only)

14:00 - 17:00 PDT
Coral 4

In this session we’ll focus on LAT's trends and Nokia’s innovations blending customer testimonials and deep-dive technical sessions tailored for Latin America.

Panel
  • Ricardo Caine
    Business Development Director, Nokia
  • Luis Palma
    Consulting IP Manager Engineer, Nokia
  • Alfredo Ramos
    IP Director, Nokia
  • Flavio De Moraes
    CSP Business Development Manager, Nokia
  • Roberto Oya Luengo
    Deepfield Business Development Leader, Nokia
  • Adriano Silverira
    Verticals Business Development Manager, Nokia
User group

Power utilities forum

14:00 - 17:30 PDT
Coral 3

Hear directly from leading utilities as they share real-world use cases and lessons learned from their network modernization and digital transformation initiatives. This interactive forum will showcase how utilities are leveraging secure, resilient, and mission-critical communications networks to support grid modernization, digital substations, advanced automation, AI-driven operations, and enhanced reliability. Nokia specialists, partners and your fellow utilities will provide insights on the communications infrastructure, expertise, and services that help design, deploy, and manage the critical networks enabling these initiatives. Connect with your peers, exchange ideas, and explore the latest trends shaping the future of utility communications.

Speaker
Dominique Verhulst
Energy Segment Lead
Nokia
Workshop

Hands-on IP/MPLS service provisioning with Segment Routing and EVPN (Option 2)

14:00 - 17:30 PDT
Seaglass

Develop practical service provisioning skills on the Nokia 7750 SR in this 3.5-hour, expert-guided, hands-on workshop from the Nokia Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program. Through a series of guided lab exercises, participants will configure transport tunnels and services at their own pace, with live support and best-practice guidance from a Nokia expert. Exercises include:

  • Segment routing tunnels with traffic engineering constraints
  • Segment routing tunnels with secondary paths
  • Segment routing fast re-route
  • Layer 2 EVPN services (VPWS, ELAN)
  • Layer 3 EVPN services
  • EVPN multi-homing

This workshop is intended for network engineers or professionals with an IP/MPLS background who want to apply their knowledge in a real-world environment.

Participants must bring a laptop to take part.

Speaker
Jose Gallardo
SRC Program IP/MPLS Subject Matter Expert
Nokia
Hackathon

Hackathon main event (Hands-on session)

14:00 - 18:00 PDT
Coral 1

Having completed the mornings primer session and with your trusty laptop in hand, you’re ready to leap into the SReXperts Hackathon. No matter your experience level, no matter your interest area, no matter whether you want a structured activity to follow or have your own project in mind the Hackathon is for you.

Speaker
James Cumming
Senior Product Line Manager, SROS and SR Linux Platform, Programmability and Virtualization
Nokia
Networking

Welcome reception

18:00 - 20:00 PDT
Eventide

After a full day of hackathons, masterclasses and user groups, we invite you to join us for our welcome reception in the exhibition.  Explore the many demonstrations prepared for you, forge connections and embrace the spirit of the SReXperts community.  Join us for an evening filled with great conversations, delicious food, and opportunities to connect with fellow professionals.

Tuesday, 15 Sep

Wednesday, 16 Sep

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