APAN59: Full Schedule

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9:00am JST

TEINCC Meeting

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST

413

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST
413 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Meeting

9:00am JST

SIG : Emerging NRENs: Flagship Achievements/Enhancement of Collaborations

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST

417

Speakers

Rajan Parajuli

Executive Director, Nepal Research and Education Network

Md Ariful Islam

Manager (Data & Transmission), Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN)

A dynamic IT professional with 16+ years of experience in IT Service Delivery, Data Center and Cloud System Implementation and Operations, Converged Network Design. He has started his career as a Data Center Operations Manager at a Leading Telecom Operator in Bangladesh in 2005. Apart... Read More →

Karma Jamyang

Dy. Chief ICTO, DrukREN, GovTech Agency

Professor Jamil Ahmad

Member IT, Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan

Professor Jamil Ahmad (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in information Technology from the University of Warwick, U.K., the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Peshawar, and the Ph.D. degree in Artificial Neural Network from the Department of Electrical... Read More →

Muhammad Tawrit

Chief Executive Officer, Bangladesh Research and Education Network

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST
417 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Special Interest Group (SIG)

9:00am JST

SIG : Network Engineering - NRENs Updates

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST

416

Moderators

Alexander van den Hil

International Policy & Strategy, SURF

Speakers

Francis Bu Sung Lee

Associate Professor, Singapore Research and Education Network

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST
416 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Special Interest Group (SIG)

9:00am JST

Workshop : The crucial role of NRENs in data management and Open Science (RDA)

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST

418

The role of NRENS in accelerating the achievement of the global Open Science goals should not be underestimated. The NRENs, as providers of the main digital research infrastructure to institutions, through network connection and trust and identity services (e.g. eduroam) are perfectly positioned to support researchers with their need to access, store, publish, share research and scientific data. In collaboration with dedicated university and institutional support services, NRENs can offer data services e.g. Researchdrive, Data Management Planning (DMP) tools, Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) etc., as well as help to broker service contracts.
This 90-minute session will outline the value of NRENs to the global Open Science goals, with concrete illustrations of use cases, and opportunities for global collaborations. Furthermore, it will outline the value of the global Research Data Alliance (RDA) community in developing guidelines, best practices and standards to support research data management for Open Science.

Guest presentations:

"RAID - a new PID service in Europe", Giacomo Cannizzaro, Technical Advisor, SURF (Netherlands)

"The crucial role of NRENs in data management and Open Science: Philippine perspective", Jelina Tetangco, Supervising Science Research Specialist, DOST Advanced Science and Technology Institute (Philippines)

"HEAnet supporting Open Science", Jenny O'Neil, Research Engagement Officer, HEAnet (Ireland)

"REANNZ Update", Amber McEwan, CEO, Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (New Zealand)

"Introduction to NII Research Data Cloud", Prof Kazu Yamaji, NII Director of Research Centre for Open Science and Data Platform, and

Mikiko Tanifujii, Deputy Director of Research Centre for Open Science and Data Platform, National Institute of Informatics (NII) (Japan)

Moderators

Hilary Hanahoe

Secretary General, Research Data Alliance

I am the Secretary General of the global Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international, non-profit, volunteer organisation addressing the need for open and interoperable sharing and re-use of research data and building the social, technical and cross-disciplinary links to enable... Read More →

Trish Radotic

RDA Regional Community Manager (Oceania and East Asia), Research Data Alliance (RDA)

Trish Radotic is the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Regional Community Manager for Oceania and East Asia at Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). With over 20 years' experience in IT, marketing and international business, Trish holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance... Read More →

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST
418 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Training/Workshop

9:00am JST

Agriculture Working Group (AgWG) & Rural Hybridization

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST

415

This session combines the efforts of the Agriculture Working Group (AgWG) & Rural Hybridization, focusing on agricultural and rural information research, such as IoT, networking, Web Services, and other relevant technologies, shared through the APAN network. This session aims to expand development, innovation, and collaborative activities with other related working groups in agriculture, fostering partnerships and initiating new cooperation opportunities for the future. The session will be held in 3 slots: 2 coordinated by the Japanese side (MAFFIN, supported by Dr. Ninomiya) and 1 coordinated by HII, Thailand, as usual. Presentations will include activities by Japanese research institutions related to ICT and private sector projects applying ICT technologies to agricultural production.

Moderators

Sumy Puengpo

International Collaborations Officer, HII

Dr. Royboon Rassameethes

Director, Hydro-Informatics Institute

Speakers

Mr. Yuki Furuta

Chief Technology Officer, Happy Quality Co., Ltd.Japan

Dr. Takashi TOGAMI

Representative Director and CEO, Greein Inc.Japan

Dr. Daisuke HORYU

senior researcher, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)Japan

Aiko YAMAMOTO

Section Chief for Planning System, Information Systems Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Network (MAFFIN)Japan

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST
415 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Working Group

9:00am JST

ORCID and PIDs Presentations and discussion (IAM)

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST

414

This session will deliver presentations on ORCID and PIDs.

- PIDs - An Introduction by Dalia Abraham from Australian Access Federation

- PIDs and NRENs: ORCID in the Landscape by Chieh-Chih Estelle Cheng from ORCID

- Beyond identity: NRENS serving as ORCID community representatives by Brian Minihan from ORCID

This session will conclude with a PIDs discussion focusing on how your NREN can begin a PIDs program to enhance research in your nation.

Moderators

Terry Smith

Head of Support, Australian Access Federation

Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am JST
414 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Working Group

10:30am JST

Tea Break

Tuesday March 4, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am JST

Breaks

11:00am JST

TEINCC Meeting

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST

413

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST
413 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Meeting

11:00am JST

SIG : Emerging NRENs: Flagship Achievements/Enhancement of Collaborations

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST

417

The first session will be on "Flagship Achievements":
In this session the emerging NRENs will unfold their achievements within last one (1) year time specially focusing on the standout activities since the last APAN event that could earn acclaims from the member institutions. Revealing such achievements is crucial for the community with the consideration that it might be a learning example for other NRENs to adopt and implement in their respective countries. The achievements can be in the form of any special connectivity, acquisition of significant number of members, application of technology which seems to be prospective, installation of infrastructure which might prove to boost revenue earning or member satisfaction, implementation of any specific project, awarding with any grants to accomplish any project or on similar other issues.
The second session will be on "Enhancement of Collaboration"
This session will be kind of "panel discussion" type where the lead panelist will figure out the challenges that the emerging NRENs are encountering and the opportunities which NRENs might be allured to grab. A pre-survey will be conducted by discussing with the participating NRENs to figure out the faced encumbrances and the looming opportunities and the floor will be open for discussion.

Moderators

Muhammad Tawrit

Chief Executive Officer, Bangladesh Research and Education Network

Speakers

Rajan Parajuli

Executive Director, Nepal Research and Education Network

Md Ariful Islam

Manager (Data & Transmission), Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN)

Khandakar Rashedul Arefin

Manager, Data Center, BdREN

Karma Jamyang

Dy. Chief ICTO, DrukREN, GovTech Agency

Professor Jamil Ahmad

Member IT, Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST
417 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Special Interest Group (SIG)

11:00am JST

SIG : Network Engineering - International Connectivity

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST

416

THe regional and global NREN network have grown in leaps and bounce of the past few years. The session cover topics of interest to practitioners as well as researchers. It covers a wide area of interest(not limited to):

-   Updates on the NRENs, new connectivity and POPs
-   Network Technology , eg. 400/800G, Network segmentation
-   Routing, eg Routing WG
-   AI in Network
- Network resilience
- Securing the network , eg. MANRS, “AS-Net”

Moderators

Francis Bu Sung Lee

Associate Professor, Singapore Research and Education Network

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST
416 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Special Interest Group (SIG)

11:00am JST

Agriculture Working Group (AgWG) & Rural Hybridization

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST

415

Moderators

Sumy Puengpo

International Collaborations Officer, HII

Dr. Royboon Rassameethes

Director, Hydro-Informatics Institute

Speakers

Supakhinee Thummanee

Technology Developer, Hydro – Informatics Institute (HII)Thailand

Warini Nanta

Project Management Officer, Hydro – Informatics Institute (HII)Thailand

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST
415 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Working Group

11:00am JST

Eduroam presentations and discussions (IAM)

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST

414

This session will deliver presentations on eduroam.

Eduroam: Telegram Bot Monitoring by Nurulfaizal M Shukeri from Universiti Sains Malaysia

Eduroam as a Federation service by Farhan SJAUGI from SIFULAN.

Cityroam/OpenRoaming by Hideaki Goto

Privacy-Aware Inter-Regional Data Sharing of Local User Information in OpenRoaming by SAKANE, Eisaku, OKABE, Yasuo, GOTO, Hideaki, and HIROSE, Takenori,

This session will conclude with a eduroam discussion focusing on how your NRENs can improve their service to their subscribers and ensure visitors are able to get the most out of eduroam.

Moderators

Terry Smith

Head of Support, Australian Access Federation

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST
414 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Working Group

11:00am JST

Medical--Dentistry

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST

419

https://med-hok.kyushu-u.ac.jp/program/2079
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Recent Advances in Dental Radiology

Moderators

Dr Aqsa Sjuhada

Associate Professor, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Universitas Airlangga ,Indonesia

Developing learning innovation trough telemedicine is my greatest interest. Under the sustained collaboration with TEMDEC, I have conducted Asia-Pacific dental teleconference sessions in APAN meetings, as well as some distanced learning with many overseas stations. I also promote... Read More →

Tuesday March 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm JST
419 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Working Group

12:30pm JST

Lunch Break

Tuesday March 4, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm JST

TBA

Tuesday March 4, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm JST
TBA

Breaks

1:30pm JST

Opening Ceremony

Tuesday March 4, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm JST

404

Opening Plenary 1330-1530

1330-1335 Welcoming Remarks by LOC and APAN Chair, Shinji Shimojo
1335 - 1400 Mr. David Wilde, CTO of AARNET
1400 - 1425 Invited Guest speaker 1, Leila Dekkar, Senior International Relations Project Manager - AfricaConnect3, GEANT
1425 - 1440 Kim Waldgrave, Head of Asia, INSPERA - APAN's 1st Industry Member
1435 - 1450 Keiko Okawa, Director, SOI-Asia
1450 - 1500 MOU Signing
-SOI-ASIA, (School on Internet Asia), Japan
-ASREN, Arab region National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)
-Hydro Informatics Institute, Thailand

1500 - 1515 Enhancing the power of connect by Toshiyuki Tamura / Managing Executive Officer, Core Technology Sector, KDDI
In modern society, with telecommunications being integrated into everything, telecommunications are playing an increasingly important social role. We KDDI aims to create a society in which anyone can make their dreams a reality. To make such future society, we are driving the life transformation by enhancing our power to connect. This presentation will introduce our activities on connecting daily lives, unusual case and future for the life transformation. In addition, we have been supporting the research and education for many years. The presentation also includes this activity.

1515 - 1530 AI-Driven Self Driving Networking: Next Decade IT Infrastructure by Masahiro Ueta, Sales Engineering Director, Juniper Networks K.K.
In recent years, the use of AI in IT infrastructure management has gained significant attention. This presentation will explore the practical impacts and benefits of AI-driven solutions from a vendor's perspective. Unlike traditional on-premises solutions, achieving true AI capabilities requires highly scalable, cloud-native environments. I will talk about real-world implementation cases, highlighting the successes and challenges faced. Additionally, we will delve into the essential elements for future Self Driving Networking, emphasizing the need for AI-native solutions to realize autonomous network management for next decade infrastructure

Speakers

Keiko Okawa

Professor, Keio University, SOI Asia

I've been working on the SOI Asia project since 2021 to foster collaboration in research and education among universities since 2001 to enhance resiliency in the Asia Pacific. I am also in charge of online course development at Keio University, delivered twelve courses, and am enjoying... Read More →

Leila Dekkar

Senior International Relations Manager, GEANT

Leïla Dekkar is an International Relations Project Manager at GÉANT, focusing on the the AfricaConnect3 and the Emerging NREN programme.AfricaConnect3 (AC3) is the third phase of the AfricaConnect project. It builds on the success of its predecessor projects, AfricaConnect and AfricaConnect2... Read More →

Shinji Shimojo

Professor, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

David Wilde

CTO, AARNet

David Wilde is the Chief Technology Officer of AARNet, Australia’s Academic and Research Network. AARNet connects more than two million end users, interconnecting Australian universities, the CSIRO, research institutes, scientific instruments, schools, colleges, libraries, archives... Read More →

Kim Waldgrave

Head of Asia, INSPERA

Kim James Waldgrave is the Head of Asia for Inspera, a global leader in digital assessment solutions. With extensive experience in education technology and market development across the region, Kim leads Inspera’s strategic growth and partnerships in Asia. His expertise spans digital... Read More →

Toshiyuki Tamura

Managing Executive Officer, Core Technology Sector, KDDI

I began my career as a network engineer at a telecommunications company, with experience in development, operations, and systems engineering. I worked on IoT and data center technologies, contributing to application services like mobile payments. Now, I lead efforts to automate and... Read More →

Masahiro Ueta

Sales Engineering Director, Juniper Networks K.K.

Tuesday March 4, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm JST
404 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Opening

3:30pm JST

Tea Break

Tuesday March 4, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm JST

Breaks

4:00pm JST

BOF : Omics Data Security

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST

418

Omics technologies including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics are thought to be the most important enablers for precision medicine and comprehension of biological systems. However, omics data is sensitive and immutable which raises significant security and ethical issues about data ownership and access control. This proposal highlights the
vulnerability of this unique data and the need to secure it through an innovative method that combines cutting-edge encryption, privacy-preserving protocols and blockchain technology. This work focuses on robust encryption to safeguard patient DNA, secure data-sharing platforms for collaboration, and blockchain-based solutions for transparency and regulatory compliance. The
noise addition technique is one of the privacy-enhancing methods that securely analyze the data without violating individual privacy. Blockchain technologies ensure the immutability of data management, active tracking of patient consent in a dynamic manner, and higher levels of encryption techniques in data storage and transmission. Interdisciplinary approaches have been sought that bring together bioinformaticians, IT professionals, and healthcare providers to
collaboratively deliver omics data security solutions. This BOF group will involve researchers, bioinformaticians and software developers working together. It ensures that sensitive biological data is handled responsibly and ethically, thereby building trust and fostering innovation in healthcare and research.

Moderators

Sugandima Vidanagamachchi

Senior Lecturer/ Head of the Department, Department of Computer Science, University of Ruhuna

Department of Computer Science, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST
418 PACIFICO Yokohama North

BoF

4:00pm JST

Asi@Connect Governor's Meeting (Closed)

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST

414

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST
414 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Meeting

4:00pm JST

GNA-G Meeting

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST

416

The Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) gathers worldwide network professionals from the Research & Education (Networking) organisations to support and enhance continent-to-continent interconnectivity and global science collaboration.
GNA-G organises its work in working groups around topics of multi-national and multi-domain interest and importance. Some of the working groups include, but are not limited to Data Intensive Science, Routing, AutoGOLE/SENSE, GREN map, Network Automation, Global LEOSat, GREN Resilience and GREN Engineering Advancement. Network engineers from operational teams and research groups from several continents are contributing in these groups.
This meeting will give an opportunity to the community to discuss topics of interest such as international connectivity, network renewal, network engineering, orchestration and automation, security and other topics.
Moderator: Dr. Buseung Cho
Director of KREONET Center, KISTI
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology
GNA-G Leadership Team(LT) Member
APAN Board of Directors, Chair of APAN-KR

<Agenda>

5 min, Welcome - Buseung Cho, KISTI/KREONET
10 min, GNA-G LT and WG updates - Buseung Cho, KISTI/KREONET
5 min, Network automation WG - Warrick Mitchell, Director of Architecture, AARNet & Migiel de Vos, Team Lead Network Development, SURF
5 min, GREN risk review WG - Steve Maddocks, Director International, AARNet (TBD)
15 min, Open and Sharing Data in Agriculture and Disaster Mitigation in Asia - Veerachai Tanpipat, Hydro-Informatics Institute (HII) & APAN Agriculture WG Co-Chair & APAN Disaster Mitigation Co-Chair
15 min, ESnet QUANTNET - Chin Guok, CTO, ESnet
15 min, LHCOPN/LHCONE and SKA network – Vincenzo Capone, GEANT Head of Research Engagement and Support, GEANT
20 min, discussion

Moderators

Buseung Cho

Director, KISTI/KREONET

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST
416 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Meeting

4:00pm JST

TEINCC Meeting

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST

413

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST
413 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Meeting

4:00pm JST

Panel : Agree to Agree: Enabling Global Research Collaboration through Identity Federations (GARR)

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST

417

This session highlights the role of National Research and Educational Networks (NRENs) as local trust anchors in identity federations. As trusted third parties, Identity federations support both local and cross-border inter-federation use cases. At the international level, eduGAIN provides an inter-federation service built on top of the trust layer provided by identity federations, and it allows students and researchers to access global services and resources for research and education. We will showcase advanced use cases enabled by eduGAIN, such as MyAcademicID, a service that supports student mobility all across Europe, and MyAccessID, a service dedicated to give access to HPC systems. Finally we will discuss the policy and technological evolution of eduGAIN as trust infrastructure, with a focus on the implementation of the OpenID Federation standard for eduGAIN, and the support for wallets and digital credentials.

Panels participants/speakers:
- Pål Axelsson (SUNET) eduGAIN Steering Committee Chair
- Maarten Kremers (SURF) GEANT Project Trust and Identity Work Package leader
- Davide Vaghetti (GARR) eduGAIN Service Owner

Moderators

Davide Vaghetti

eduGAIN Service Owner, GARR

Speakers

Pål Axelsson

Operation Manager, Swedish Research Council / SUNET

Maarten Kremers

GN Project Workpackage Leader Trust & Identity and Technical Product Manager, SURF

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST
417 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Panel

4:00pm JST

Agriculture Working Group (AgWG) & Rural Hybridization

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST

415

Moderators

Sumy Puengpo

International Collaborations Officer, HII

Dr. Royboon Rassameethes

Director, Hydro-Informatics Institute

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST
415 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Working Group

4:00pm JST

Medical--RMU-Pakistan

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST

419

https://med-hok.kyushu-u.ac.jp/program/2078
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The 59th APAN Meeting -Rawalpindi Medical University, Rawalpindi
Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education and Diagnostics

Moderators

Dr. Saira Karimi

Tuesday March 4, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm JST
419 PACIFICO Yokohama North

Working Group

5:30pm JST

Medical-- JIPMER /GI Surgery

Tuesday March 4, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm JST

Virtual

https://med-hok.kyushu-u.ac.jp/program/2070
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Advanced GI surgery

Speakers

Kalayarasan R

Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER)

Dr. Kalayarasan has been working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) since July 2017. In addition to the clinical work, he is actively involved in research and teaching... Read More →

JIPMER APAN59 pdf

Tuesday March 4, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm JST
Virtual

Working Group

6:00pm JST

Welcome Dinner

Tuesday March 4, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm JST

303 & 304 (Level 3 ) Pacifico North Convention Centre

Tuesday March 4, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm JST
303 & 304 (Level 3 ) Pacifico North Convention Centre