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INOG::12 - Dogpatch Labs, Dublin

xxxx — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:18:53 +0100

This evening was “INOG” evening in Dublin, an evening I always look forward to, not least the quite brilliant event venues the meetings seem very often to be held in. INOG:12 was no different as we assembled in the really cool “Dogpatch Labs” located in the “CHQ Building”.

George Ryan - A New Tech Apprenticeship for Ireland - FIT

Following the customary introductions and “Code Of Conduct” was read out by [“Donal (@irldexter)”] (https://twitter.com/irldexter) the first talk this evening was from George Ryan. George is COO of “FIT”. This lightning talk had the sole purpose to make us all aware of the organisation and indeed the fact that they are operating a pay and learn Technical Apprenticeship programme and skills partnership.

RIPE77 and other bits and bobs

xxxx — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:18:53 +0100

This week just gone saw #RIPE77 take place in the home of RIPE and the RIPE NCC - Amsterdam. Even since I attended my first RIPE in Dublin which was RIPE66, I have loved the event. For this reason I really dislike missing it.

With my change of role since 2016, attending the meetings are sadly not a core responsibility of mine for $day_job but that said, who in their right mind that has any involvement in the networking community ignores the meetings (amirite)? At any chance I get during the week, I either remotely participate in the live meeting or failing that, check back on the presentation archives after the fact. A couple of key and to me seminal presentations were;

INEX Meeting - Iveagh Garden Hotel

xxxx — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:18:53 +0100

I’ve been an active member of the INEX community as a result of my employer BT’s membership of INEX for many years now. Even though it’s no longer a direct responsibility of mine to attend on behalf of our Network Engineering team any longer, I feel it’s an extremely good way of keeping in touch with the networking community in Ireland.

So any time the meetings are held and I can work it into my working schedule without having a clash with other customer meetings etc I make it my business to attend. It’s also a really good way to stay embedded with what’s relevant in terms of technologies in use by Service Providers / Peers in the industry.

Cisco Live Europe a Late Review

xxxx — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:45:42 +0100

Well it’s over a month since #CLEUR in Berlin. This was my first time ever attending the event and I have to admit, the sheer scale of the event took me by surprise. It really is colossal! We were told at the Keynote on the Tuesday morning that there are 12k attendees here. The venue is the Messe Buildings in Berlin.

Monday morning we arrived into the Tegel airport at around 10:30 local time (I travelled with Paddy Kelly from our design team) and as neither of us were due for our first session until 2pm, we decided to head for our hotel to get checked in. We had a quick bite to eat and headed up on the S Bahn to the conference. Our hotel was the Hampton by Hilton – which worked out really well and was a great location for getting to either town, conference or airport.