2026 program

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Sunday, March 29

12:30 - 4:30 pm

Workshop

Regency Grand Ballroom

Framework Overload to Oversight: Regaining Control with the CIS Controls

Phil White

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California UniversityCalifornia Community CollegeCalifornia K-12California Library
CybersecurityWorkshop

3:00 - 5:30 pm

Regency Foyer

Attendee Check-in

Welcome

Monday, March 30

7:30 - 8:30 am

Regency Foyer

Monday Breakfast

Meal/Break/Reception

7:30 - 8:30 am

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

8:30 - 8:40 am

Regency Grand Ballroom

Announcements

Welcome

8:40 - 9:40 am

Keynote

Regency Grand Ballroom

AI Infrastructure for All

Frank Würthwein

Future network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

9:45 - 10:30 am

Plenary

Regency Grand Ballroom

Beyond Connectivity and Access: Operationalizing Networks and Platforms as AI Innovation Infrastructure

İlkay Altıntaş

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Future network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

10:30 - 11:00 am

Plenary

Regency Grand Ballroom

Meet the Speakers

Future network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

11:00 - 11:15 am

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

11:00 - 11:15 am

Regency Foyer

Break

Meal/Break/Reception

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Lecture

Regency Grand Ballroom

Case Studies of Research Areas that Helped with the Adoption of AI Software Using CENIC AIR

Larry Smarr

California University
Innovative applications

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 1-3

MS-ISAC in Action: How Schools Are Building Real Cyber Resilience

Geoff Belleau

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California K-12California LibraryGovernment
Cybersecurity

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Panel

Regency Rooms 4-6

Building an Interoperable Private Cellular Future Together for Science: How can we leverage neutral host and new technology?

Brian Ladrido Jonathan Polly Andrew Wiedlea

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GovernmentCross-Segment
Future network and wireless technologies

12:20 - 12:50 pm

Lecture

Regency Grand Ballroom

Bridging the Digital Divide: Strategic Partnerships Between State Government and Telecom Geeks

Erik Hunsinger

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Cross-Segment
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluency

12:20 - 12:50 pm

Lecture Panel

Regency Rooms 1-3

How Ventura County Library enhanced Community Connection with eduroam

Amanda Armitage Nancy Schram Mike Zawacki

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California UniversityCalifornia Library
Community EngagementCybersecurityEquitable access / digital literacy and fluencyFuture network and wireless technologiesStatewide, national, and global collaborations

12:20 - 12:50 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

Creating a Secure Science DMZ on your campus for NRP/CENIC AIR

Scott Claverie

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California UniversityCalifornia Community CollegeGovernmentCorporateNationalInternational
CybersecurityFuture network and wireless technologiesStatewide, national, and global collaborations

12:50 - 1:55 pm

Regency Foyer

Monday Lunch

Meal/Break/Reception

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Panel

Regency Grand Ballroom

CSU’s OpenAI Rollout Experience

Kendra Ard Ed Clark Matt Hughes Felix Zuniga

California University
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluencyInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Panel

Regency Rooms 1-3

Inside E-Rate Category 2 Success: Strategic Lessons for 2026 and Beyond

Cathy Benham Jarrid Keller Kevin Nelson Donna Ohr Beverly Sutherland

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California LibraryGovernment
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluencyFuture network and wireless technologiesWorkshop

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Workshop

Regency Rooms 4-6

Email Authentication with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC

James Pahng Logan Turner, CISSP

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California UniversityCalifornia Community CollegeCalifornia K-12California Library
CybersecurityWorkshop

3:05 - 4:05 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 1-3

Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI are Here to Stay, and Public Libraries Must Thoughtfully Address Their Use

Mike Dawe

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California Library
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluency

3:05 - 4:05 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

Lessons Learning: Building a Shared Cyberinfrastructure Across the CSU with TIDE

Gerard Au Mike Farley

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California University
Innovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

4:05 - 4:25 pm

Regency Foyer

Break

Meal/Break/Reception

4:05 - 4:25 pm

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

4:30 - 5:00 pm

Lecture

Regency Grand Ballroom

Minds in the Vines: Technology of the CENIC-Empowered Drones, Cameras, and LoRaWAN Sensors at the Iron Horse Vineyards Testbed

Thomas DeFanti John Graham

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California University
Future network and wireless technologiesInnovative applications

4:30 - 5:00 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 1-3

CENIC: Campus Network as a Service

Robert Kwon

Future network and wireless technologies

4:30 - 5:00 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

AI, American Science Cloud, and the Genesis Mission

Chin Guok

GovernmentCross-Segment
Statewide, national, and global collaborations

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Monterey Ballroom

Cocktails, Dinner & Networking

Meal/Break/Reception

Tuesday, March 31

7:30 - 8:30 am

Regency Foyer

Tuesday Breakfast

Meal/Break/Reception

7:30 - 8:30 am

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

8:30 - 8:40 am

Regency Grand Ballroom

Announcements

Welcome

8:40 - 9:40 am

Panel Plenary

Regency Grand Ballroom

Disaster Backup, Resiliency, and Emergency Response

İlkay Altıntaş Roger Blake Louis Fox Marla Meehl Tony Naughtin Garret Yoshimi

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GovernmentNationalCross-Segment
Community EngagementFuture network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

9:45 - 10:45 am

Panel

Regency Grand Ballroom

Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Youth for a Digital Future

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California K-12Cross-Segment
Community EngagementEquitable access / digital literacy and fluency

10:45 - 11:00 am

Regency Foyer

Break

Meal/Break/Reception

10:45 - 11:00 am

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

10:45 - 11:00 am

Regency Grand Ballroom

Meet the Speakers

Community Engagement

11:00 - 11:30 am

Lecture Panel

Regency Rooms 1-3

Supporting HL-LHC Networking Operations

Eli Dart

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California UniversityGovernmentNationalInternational
Community EngagementFuture network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

11:00 - 11:30 am

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

The Quantum Shift: Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Readiness

Anita Nikolich

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California UniversityNationalCross-Segment
Cybersecurity

11:05 am - 12:05 pm

Lecture Plenary

Regency Grand Ballroom

Building The Future of California's Responsible AI Workforce: Digital Literacy Beyond Technical Skills

Deb Donig

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Cross-Segment
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluency

11:35 am - 12:05 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 1-3

SCinet Unites at SC26: Community and Innovation in Chicago, IL

Jennifer Kim Jason Zurawski

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California UniversityGovernmentCorporateNationalInternational
Community EngagementCybersecurityFuture network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

11:35 am - 12:05 pm

Demonstration Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

The Stanford Wi-Fi Transformation: From Legacy to Learning AI

Rowell Dionicio

California University
Future network and wireless technologies

12:05 - 2:15 pm

Regency Foyer

Innovations in Networking Awards Luncheon

Meal/Break/Reception

2:20 - 3:05 pm

Panel

Regency Grand Ballroom

Enabling Data-Driven Agriculture at Iron Horse Vineyards

Thomas DeFanti Joy Sterling

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California University
Community EngagementInnovative applications

2:20 - 3:05 pm

Lecture Roundtable discussion

Regency Rooms 1-3

Trust & Transparency: 
Start a Conversation, not an Accusation

Mike Lawrence

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California K-12National
Community EngagementInnovative applications

2:20 - 3:05 pm

Lecture Roundtable discussion

Regency Rooms 4-6

Networking and Cybersecurity Virtual Training Labs: A Collaboration Supporting MSIs

Elie Kfoury Jennifer Kim

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California UniversityCalifornia Community CollegeCalifornia LibraryCultural OrganizationNational
Community EngagementEquitable access / digital literacy and fluencyStatewide, national, and global collaborations

3:10 - 3:55 pm

Panel

Regency Grand Ballroom

2030 and Beyond: A Collaborative Vision for California’s Digital Future

Geoff Belleau

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California K-12California LibraryGovernmentCross-Segment
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluencyFuture network and wireless technologiesInnovative applications

3:10 - 3:55 pm

Demonstration

Regency Rooms 1-3

Establishing Continuous Automated Penetration Testing

David Han Philip Romero

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California UniversityCalifornia Community CollegeCalifornia K-12California Library
CybersecurityDemo

3:10 - 3:55 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

A Tale of Two Industroyers: An Overview of the Security of Physical Critical Infrastructure Systems

Alvaro Cardenas

California University
Cybersecurity

3:55 - 4:15 pm

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

3:55 - 4:15 pm

Regency Foyer

Break

Meal/Break/Reception

4:20 - 4:50 pm

Demonstration Lecture

Regency Rooms 1-3

Human Bandwidth in a Hyper-Connected World

Roy Sims

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California UniversityCalifornia Community CollegeCalifornia K-12California LibraryCultural OrganizationGovernmentCorporateNationalInternationalCross-Segment
Community EngagementStatewide, national, and global collaborations

4:20 - 4:50 pm

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

Home-Grown Science DMZs: From Zero to 800G

Anthony Harris

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California University
Future network and wireless technologiesInnovative applications

4:55 - 5:25 pm

Windjammer 1-4

TBD: C2TAG Meeting

Community Engagement

5:30 - 7:00 pm

Regency Foyer

Reception

Meal/Break/Reception

Wednesday, April 1

7:00 - 8:00 am

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

7:00 - 8:00 am

Regency Foyer

Wednesday Breakfast

Meal/Break/Reception

8:00 - 8:10 am

Regency Grand Ballroom

Announcements

Welcome

8:10 - 9:10 am

Panel Plenary

Regency Grand Ballroom

Federal Regulatory Update: E-Rate, School Bus WiFi/Hotspots, Universal Service Reform

Rachelle Chong Kristen Corra Philip Neufeld Beverly Sutherland Luis Wong

California K-12California LibraryGovernmentNational
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluencyStatewide, national, and global collaborations

9:10 - 9:00 am

Plenary

Regency Grand Ballroom

Meet the Speakers

California K-12California LibraryGovernmentNational
Equitable access / digital literacy and fluencyStatewide, national, and global collaborations

9:30 - 10:30 am

Panel

Regency Grand Ballroom

CENIC AIR and the CSUs: Case Studies and Lessons Learned

Thomas DeFanti Dhusdee Chandswang Mike Farley Willie Peng Dung Vu

California University
Innovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

9:30 - 10:00 am

Lecture

Regency Rooms 1-3

CENIC Systems: Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI)

Dennis Cagampan

Cross-Segment
Future network and wireless technologies

9:30 - 10:00 am

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

High-Scale Routing and WAN Performance Evaluation on 400G Servers and 800G Switching Platforms

Hani Sadjadi

California UniversityCorporateNationalInternational
Future network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

10:05 - 10:35 am

Lecture

Regency Rooms 1-3

CENIC Falcon: Event Correlation Engine for NetOps

Bryan Barnett Erick Sizelove

Cross-Segment
Innovative applications

10:05 - 10:35 am

Lecture

Regency Rooms 4-6

The Global Network Advancement Group: A Next Generation System for Data Intensive Sciences and R&E Networks Across World Regions

Harvey Newman

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Cross-Segment
Community EngagementFuture network and wireless technologiesInnovative applicationsStatewide, national, and global collaborations

10:35 - 10:50 am

Regency Foyer

Break

Meal/Break/Reception

10:35 - 10:50 am

Regency Foyer

Ask a CENIC Engineer

Community Engagement

10:55 - 11:55 am

Lecture Panel Roundtable discussion

Regency Rooms 1-3

SDSC Secure: Powering Discovery, Protecting Data

Sandeep Chandra Subhashini Sivagnanam Frank Würthwein

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California UniversityGovernmentCorporateNational
Cybersecurity

10:55 - 11:55 am

Panel

Regency Rooms 4-6

AI-Powered Network Troubleshooting: Building the Next Generation of Operational Tools

Karl Newell Marc Koerner Erick Sizelove

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NationalInternationalCross-Segment
Future network and wireless technologiesInnovative applications

12:00 - 12:45 pm

Lecture

Regency Grand Ballroom

From A Single Dot, Bringing High-Performance Computing Across Disciplines in Education

Dhusdee Chandswang Willie Peng

California University
Community EngagementEquitable access / digital literacy and fluency

12:00 - 12:45 pm

Panel

Regency Rooms 1-3

10+ Years of Makerspaces

Jarrid Keller

California Library
Community EngagementEquitable access / digital literacy and fluencyInnovative applications

12:00 - 12:45 pm

Demonstration

Regency Rooms 4-6

Moving Forward with the National Distributed Network Telescope

Pierrette Dagg Shereen Ismail

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International
CybersecurityFuture network and wireless technologies

12:50 - 1:00 pm

Regency Grand Ballroom

Closing Remarks

Closing Remarks

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Regency Foyer

Wednesday Lunch

Meal/Break/Reception