automation#
170 picked talks tagged automation, newest conference first.
RIPE 93#
- Embracing NETCONF
- InterLAN IX Lighthouse - Yet Another Network Automation Tool
- Multi-Layer Routing Domain Protection at Hyperscale: From Route Leak to Automated Enforcement
LACNIC 46#
NANOG 98#
- Auto-bandwidth for Segment Routing
- Keynote: Why Do We Have Self-Driving Cars, But Not Autonomous Networks?
- Your Change Deserves a Dress Rehearsal: Digital Twins from Production State with Containerlab and OTG
PyTorch Conference 2026#
SwiNOG #42#
- Automating Target Discovery in the gNMIc Operator
- From Lab to Production: The Hard Parts of Agentic NetOps
- The Accidental Platform Team: Kubernetes Operators at Swisscom
- The Cloud-Native Advantage: Intent-based Network Automation
Capacity Europe 2026#
OPI Summit on DPUs/IPUs 2026#
AI Engineer New York 2026#
Netnod Tech Meeting 2026#
AusNOG 2026#
- ...because copy+paste isn't a network configuration strategy - automation for amateurs
- Rural Fibre Co
CHNUG #4#
@Scale: Networking 2026#
Netdev 0x1A (Rome, 13-16 July 2026)#
NetUK3 (The Brewery)#
- Everything is Fine and Our Automation Works Perfectly
- Rethinking Network Monitoring
- The Network Automation Forum Framework: A vendor-neutral reference model for building automation at scale
- Workshop: Open Source Data Management Platform - Infrahub
GRNOG 20#
- Agentic AI in Networking
- Infrahub: Next-gen data management platform for Design-Driven Automation
- WebPKI, automation and the push for more agility
@Scale: Systems & Reliability 2026#
- Our Journey to Safely Unleash Agents at Meta Scale
- The Agentic Infrastructure Gap: In-Distribution Languages Make It a Coding Problem
@Scale: AI & Data 2026#
- Agentic Data Flywheel: A Multi-Agent System for Scalable Multimodal Training Data Production
- Agentic Inference Optimization for RecSys ML models
- ASEA: Autonomous Agents for ML Serving Efficiency at Scale
- Cache the Session, Not the Data: 40x Faster ML Iteration with a Shared Sidecar at Meta
- Citrine: Catching Million-Dollar ML Anti-Patterns Before They Ship
- Meta-ML: Supercharging ML Productivity at Scale with AI-Native Infrastructure
- SparkSentry: Autonomous Error Detection, Triage, and Repair for Spark at Scale
nog.fi meeting 2026.06#
- A deep-dive into NLNOGs tools
- Knowledge is the power - Network Automation beyond the vendor
- NAF Framework
AutoCon 5 (Munich)#
- "A Computer Must Never Make a Management Decision." Can We Let AI Run Our Infrastructure?
- Architecting Network Automation with Software Engineering Principles
- Automating firewall rule deployment in a highly regulated environment
- Automation at Scale Across Domains: DC, Campus, and WAN
- From Data to Decisions: Real-Time Network Context
- GitOps the Hard Way: Rebuilding a Source of Truth (Three Times)
- How NetOps Can Embrace AI to Lead Enterprise Innovation
- How Workflow-Driven Automation Becomes Operable Under Air Gap & Compliance Constraints
- Lessons Learned Testing Network Automation Solutions
- Migrating the GÉANT Network to a new vendor
- Modernizing Workflows as Old as the Railways: Operationalizing Network Automation
- NAF Framework — Deep Dive (Parts 1 & 2)
- Network Operations Automation at DE-CIX
- Reaching Fully Automated Backbone Networks: A Network Developer's Journey
- Ten Years of Network Automation at LINX
TNC26 (GÉANT research networking conference)#
- Distributed Active Network Monitoring with nmaas – Insights from an NREN production deployment
- Exploring nmaas Platform Use Cases – Beyond network and service monitoring (Plugged-in)
- Instant Data Structures via Shared Memory
- Saz: Engineering Safe Agentic Workflows for Real-World Operations
- Streamlining Multi-Vendor Automation: Auto-generated RESTCONF Clients from YANG Models
- This is the end of the network as we know it, and we feel fine
- Time Travels in the L-Band: Deploying a National White Rabbit Infrastructure over Active DWDM Networks
NANOG 97#
- Crafting Network Configurations at Meta
- Network OS Upgrades at Hyperscale
- The Hidden Costs of SSH at Scale (Remote Presentation)
- Versioned Services for Network Automation
CHNUG #3#
LACNIC 45#
- Automating Technical Support at ISPs Using AI Agents and TR-369 (USP)
- Automation and Telemetry applied to BGP Routing Policies
- BGP Optimization for Medium-Sized ISPs: Technical and Financial Decisions Using Open-Source Tools
MORE-IP 2026#
MLSys 2026#
RIPE 92 (Edinburgh)#
NSDI '26#
SwiNOG #41#
- Building a Vendor-Agnostic E2E Testing Ecosystem with Netlab
- The Network Automation Map: Navigate Your Journey with the NAF Automation Framework
- Toward Agentic Network Operations: What AI Can (and Can’t) Do
ZANOG@iWeek 2026#
ITNOG10#
- Semplificare l'automazione multi-vendor: Client RESTCONF auto-generati dai moduli YANG
- Transforming BGP operations to serve the best prefix out of 26 million
MCP Dev Summit North America 2026#
- From One MCP Server To an Ecosystem: When MCP Stops Being a Server and Becomes a Platform - Vaibhav Tupe, Equinix
- Keynote: MCP @ Amazon Scale - James Hood, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
NZNOG 2026#
- Automated Network State Checking: Insights from the Field
- Designing a Mikrotik CGNAT Solution that Scales
- Rethinking NetOps with Open-Source LLMs & RAG
- The Evolution of Network Configuration Management
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026#
- Evolving Baremetal-as-a-Service: Secure Multi-Cluster Networking and Service Identity Automation
- Kubernetes Network Driver Unpacked: Modularity, Trade-offs and the Road Ahead
Peering Days 2026#
IETF 125 (Shenzhen)#
GTC 2026#
CHNUG #2#
- Leveraging an Open Source NetOps-Stack: A Practical Approach for Orchestration and Observability
- Network Configuration in the Real World: Standards, Surprises and 'Creative' Implementations
DKNOG16#
- Auto-bandwidth for SR-TE
- Automate what makes sense: Data, principles and practice
- Command-Line to Codebase: Learning Software to Expand Your Engineering Toolkit
- Introduction to Design-Driven Network Automation
- Network Automation in the Modern Age
Cisco Live Europe 2026 (Amsterdam)#
APRICOT 2026 (Jakarta)#
CfgMgmtCamp Ghent 2026#
- AI Native Infrastructure Automation: how I learned to stop worrying and love Claude
- Automating Config Deployment with NetBox
- Beyond SHA Pinning: Security for CI/CD Pipelines
- Reliable Network Backups & Restore with Ansible: Idempotent, Vendor-Neutral, — with AI/ML Diff Severity
- The Day Two Problem: Examining Decades of Infrastructure Automation Evolution
- We Built for Predictability; the Workloads Didn't Care
NANOG 96#
FOSDEM 2026#
AutoCon 4 (Austin)#
- 2025 State of Network Automation Survey Results
- Bridging Infrastructure and Data
- ESnet's new Micro-Service based Discovery Service
- From Band-Aids to Best Practices: USAA's Network Automation Journey
- From CLI to Model: Building a Foundational Source of Truth for Brownfield Networks
- From Manual to Marathon: My Automation Journey at HEB
- Kubernetes Network Emulation, a standard interface to design and validate networks
- Overhauling Data Center Network Automation: Intel's Data-Centric Journey
- Scaling Network Operations with Modular Ansible: A Multi-Environment Automation Framework
- Spectron: network orchestration in practice at scale; what works, what hurts
- The NetDevOps Journey: Manual Firefighting to Agentic Autonomy
- The Secret to Network Config & Security Compliance at Scale
OVS + OVN 2025 Fall Conference (Prague)#
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025#
- Fast and the Furious: CICD Pipeline for eBPF Programs at Meta Scale
- From Bespoke To Bulletproof: SPIFFE/SPIRE With ESO for Enterprise Zero Trust
DENOG 17 (Essen)#
- Containerlab: A guide to building your own virtual datacenter and monitoring it
- Containerlab: A guide to building your own virtual datacenter and monitoring it
- Inventing the wheel - Network Orchestration at scale
- Inventing the wheel - Network Orchestration at scale
- You can’t just model a train in Netbox: About Architecting and running modern IT Infrastructure in Trains
- You can’t just model a train in Netbox: About Architecting and running modern IT Infrastructure in Trains
IETF 124 (Montreal)#
hack.lu 2025#
RIPE 91 (Bucharest)#
Netnod Tech Meeting 2025#
SIGCOMM 2025#
IETF 123 (Madrid)#
AutoCon 3 (Prague)#
- A Marathon and Not a Sprint: Lessons Learnt from Trying (and sometimes succeeding!) to Automate Enterprise Campus Networks
- An Epic Journey: Automating networks with Terraform
- Automation Transforms $70 APs into Enterprise-Grade Networks
- Building Trustworthy Network Automation, From Principles to Practice
- Coding for infrastructure is just coding, on how we moved from a script based model to an object oriented architecture
- From Clicks to Code: Optical Network Automation Journey at GARR
- Mastering Network Operations: The Power of Abstraction
- Pls stop exposing your... secrets
- Start at the Beginning; Automating Network Design
- Taking Automation to next level: Drive your network with Microservices
- The Road to EVPN: Automated Service Migrations
- The Why, What, and How about Design-Driven Automation
- Transforming Network Automation with Temporal
- Using a SONiC Abstraction API (for fun and profit)
ITNOG9#
- Automating a Service Provider Network: A Practical Introduction
- From Clicks to Code: Optical Network Automation Journey in GARR
- PACMAN: Automazione della configurazione di rete in GARR, tra sfide tecnologiche e cambiamento culturale
MLSys 2025#
- AI Metropolis: Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Simulation with Out-of-order Execution
- Extreme PyTorch: Inside the Most Demanding ML Workloads—and the Open Challenges in Building AI Agents to Democratize Them
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 (London)#
- A Cloud Native Workflow for Hardware-in-the-Loop Software Development
- Uncharted Waters: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Networking
- Zero Trust at Shopify Scale: Automating MTLS Across Thousands of Services
Open Networking & Edge Summit 2025#
- A Journey Towards Automated Telco Cloud
- An Industry Analyst's Perspective on Telco Cloud
- SONiC: The Global Networking Operating System for All
SREcon25 Americas#
- Fully Automated HW SKU Selection System to Optimize Apache Pinot's Cost-to-Serve at LinkedIn
- Improving the SRE Experience for 10 Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority
ONE Summit 2024#
- Embracing a Data-Driven Approach to Network Automation - Jason Edelman, Network to Code
- How Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Improves Portability of Cloud & Data Center Applications - Paul Pindell, F5
- Lessons Learned from Using Nephio to Manage a Real-World 5G Core - István Kispál, Nokia
- Overcoming Challenges for AI-Fabric with SONiC - Madhu Paluru, Aviz Networks