Upcoming keynotes and program highlights at APRICOT 2026

APRICOT 2026, in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 4 to 12 February, is shaping up to be the premier network operations summit in the Asia Pacific region. The diverse program includes workshops, tutorials, presentations by industry experts, and professional networking opportunities.

You can expect to gain new operational skills and insights, meet like-minded peers, and help shape the Internet. This post shares some of what you can look forward to at the conference.

A strong lineup of keynotes

We are looking forward to hearing from leading Internet experts and practitioners, each focused on a different but important topic.

Cybersecurity and AI Challenges - Budi Rahardjo: Budi is many things - the Founder and the Chairperson of the Indonesia Computer Emergency Response Team (ID-CERT), a Researcher and Lecturer with the School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, a blogger, an entrepreneur, and a musician. In this talk, he will explore the intersection between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, providing insights into the risks facing operators and what can be done to mitigate them.

Internet History Initiative: Preserving Our Collective Data Legacy - Jim Cowie: Jim last visited Jakarta for APNIC 40 in 2015. Today, he is a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, looking at Internet measurement as a global digital heritage. He sees lessons from the worlds of library science and digital preservation that are relevant to the network operator community. Jim thinks network operators are the most important custodians of the history of the Internet, and we owe it to future researchers to be good archivists who preserve as much Internet measurement data as we can.

IPv6 in Enterprise Networks - Jen Linkova: Jen is a Network Engineer at Google, Australia. She is a recognized protocol expert, including of the 'IPv6-mostly' concept, which enables the incremental migration towards IPv6-only enterprise networks. Her keynote will look at the current state of transition technologies, with a focus on the 'why, how, and what to expect' based on real-world success stories.

Diverse technical sessions

The APRICOT 2026 sessions include tutorials and technical deep dives on a range of topics.

• DNS resolvers and nameservers - Geoff Huston: In the past, some studies have looked at how a set of implementations perform authoritative server selection and re-evaluate their choices over time. Other studies have leveraged the RIPE Atlas infrastructure. This presentation extends and complements these studies by using APNIC's distributed ad system to observe the performance of the Domain Name System (DNS) server selection process by recursive resolvers.
• IP networking in deep space - Marc Blanchet: This presentation describes the use of the Internet Protocol stack to implement a network in deep space. Applications and network services are also discussed. Finally, thebenefits of using the Internet Protocol suite are described.
• What's new at the IETF? - Dhruv Dhody: Whether you're tracking standards adoption, involved in deployments and operations, or just curious about emerging protocol trends, this talk will offer a concise, operator-focused view of what's brewing at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
• Routing at scale: Challenges in Indonesia's multi-IXP ecosystem - Michael Takeuchi: This presentation highlights real operational issues faced by Indonesian network operators, including congestion, asymmetric routing, and manual policy management caused by the absence of shared standards and unified monitoring systems. The discussion emphasizes that multi-Internet Exchange Provider (IXP) routing problems are not only technical but also organizational.
• Interconnecting with CDNs - Nina Bargisen: The large Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) of the world are the source of a large amount of traffic for many access network operators. They offer different connectivity solutions.It is important for the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to understand how the CDNs work and how to route traffic to and from the CDNs. They do not all work the same way. This tutorial goes over the basics of the most common CDNs and what to think about when connecting.

This is just a small sampling of the program; now is a great time to start planning for what you'll do and who you'll see at APRICOT 2026.

Register now

It isn't too late to register for APRICOT 2026 and gain operational insight by participating in technical deep dives and community-led discussions. APNIC Members get a 30% discount.

If you can't make it to Jakarta from 4 to 12 February, you can participate for free online (but you'll still have to register).

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