PacketFest is a two-day technical event that convenes the ntop and Wireshark communities to discuss network traffic monitoring, visibility, cybersecurity, and open source technologies. The event's primary objective is to demonstrate how contemporary traffic monitoring challenges can be effectively addressed utilizing preferred tools. Additionally, attendees will gain insights into monitoring challenges and gain a comprehensive understanding of the latest advancements in ntop and Wireshark.

Day 1: Thursday May 8th

• 9:00

  Welcome to PacketFest

• 9:15

  Kelley Misata - OISF

  Beyond the Code: The Expansive Role of Open Source in Building Stronger Communities and Driving Innovation
  Open Source Suricata IDS

• 10:00

  Pierre Sarda - Nagravision

  Using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) To Fight Against Content Privacy
  Deep Packet Inspection High-Speed Traffic Analysis

• 10:30

  Coffee Break

• 11:00

  Adrian Ruoss - Alabus

  Active response system with ntopng+AbuseIP DB+Alabus
  Cybersecurity ntopng

• 11:20

  Alfredo Cardigliano - ntop

  Squeezing Network Adapters: Tips and Tricks to Offload and Scale Up
  High-Speed Traffic Monitoring PF_RING

• 12:00

  Fabio Zambrino - CSCS

  400 Gbps Observability
  High-Speed Traffic Monitoring SmartNICs

• 12:30

  Lunch Break

• 14:00

  Walter Hofstetter - AnyWeb

  Decoding Cyber Threats: Wireshark Tips and Tricks for Analyzing Suspicious Traffic Patterns
  Cyberecurity Wireshark

• 14:45

  Thomas Graf - Swisscom

  Transform and Innovate Network Operations with Network Analytics
  Network Anomaly Detection Network Telemetry

• 15:15

  Ahmed Elhassany - Swisscom

  NetGauze: the open-source blocks for building resilient and scalable network telemetry platforms
  IPFIX/NetFlow Network Telemetry

• 15:30

  Coffee Break

• 16:00

  Walter Hofstetter - AnyWeb, Luca Deri - ntop

  How AI Will Improve Network Traffic Analysis?
  Artificial Intelligence

• 16:45

  Gerald Combs, Wireshark Foundation

  Wiresharchaeology: How it started and where we're headed
  Wireshark

• 17:30

  End of Day 1

• Day 2: Friday May 9th

  • 9:00

    Rolf Leutert - Leutert NetServices

    Wireshark, the 7 Senses Packet Detective
    Wireshark TCP/IP Profiles

  • 9:45

    Mischa Diehm - Narrowin

    Building Digital Twins with Containerlab: Using ntop Tools and Wireshark for Advanced Network Traffic Analysis
    ntopng Wireshark

  • 10:15

    Coffee Break

  • 10:45

    Ivan Nardi - AI2M

    First Packet Classification, Fingerprints and Obfuscated Flows Detection in nDPI
    Traffic Classification nDPI

  • 11:20

    Martin Scheu - Switch

    Unfold the OT Network Jungle
    OT/SCADA

  • 11:50

    Raphael Vallazza - Endian

    Building a Unified Cybersecurity Platform for IT & OT
    OT Cybersecurity

  • 12:20

    Lunch Break

  • 13:20

    Pim van Pelt - IPng Networks

    High speed sFlow with VPP
    DPDK/VPP sFlow

  • 13:50

    Rolf Leutert - Leutert NetServices

    What if Packets are not Enough ?
    Stratoshark System Monitoring

  • 14:20

    Matteo Biscosi - ntop

    Advanced Network Analysis Using ntopng
    ntopng

  • 14:50

    Luca Deri - ntop

    25+ Years of Open Source: ntop past and future plans
    Open Source ntop

  • 15:20

    Coffee Break

  • 15:50

    Roundtable/Panel

    Panelists: Criznic Petru Ciprian - Sunrise, Giordano Zambelli - VerXo, Mischa Diehm - Narrowin, Ahmed Elhassany - Swisscom

    What's Next in Traffic Monitoring and Packet Analysis ? Open Issues and Future Opportunities.
    Community Discussion

  • 16:50

    Closing Remarks