Across research, education and innovation, eduroam quietly keeps people connected wherever they go. Now its creator is coming to New Zealand.
Klaas Wierenga, the creator of eduroam, will keynote APAN62 in Auckland this August. He built the global Wi-Fi roaming service in 2002, which now underpins research and education connectivity in more than 100 countries worldwide. That work earned him a place in the Internet Hall of Fame, alongside visionaries such as Tim Berners‑Lee, creator of the World Wide Web.
Today, as Chief Services Officer at GÉANT, Klaas works on the next generation of federated identity, trust and connectivity technologies that enable international research collaboration.
At APAN62, Klaas will dig into one of the big emerging challenges facing our sector: how to better link high-performance computing centres globally as demand ramps up. He will also speak about eduroam’s role in underpinning student and researcher mobility, as collaboration increasingly spans institutions and national borders.
For New Zealand’s research and innovation community, it’s a rare chance to hear directly from someone whose work underpins everyday research life. We also asked Klaas where researchers really get the most value from eduroam. More on that in the next newsletter.
In the meantime, there’s a lot happening as APAN62 takes shape. Registration is now open, the Call for Proposals is live, and there is also a Call for Papers open for the co-located APANConf event. With speakers, sessions and community contributions coming together, momentum is building quickly for August.
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Questions?
If you have any questions about APAN62, email sec@apan.net.