GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026: Grid

Welcome to the GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026 schedule. Use this page to browse sessions, view speaker and session details, and build your personal agenda for June 22–24 in Rogers, Arkansas. Check back through May as additional sessions and details are added.

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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador A & B	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Grand Ballroom I - IV	NWACC Shewmaker Center For Global Business Development-Enactus Lab	NWACC Shewmaker Center For Global Business Development-Lobby	NWACC Shewmaker Center For Global Business Development-Peterson Auditorium	NWACC Shewmaker Center For Global Business Development-Room 2047	NWACC Shewmaker Center For Global Business Development-Room 2048

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*Tour: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Self-Guided (SHUTTLE) 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Opening Night Reception 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Sponsor Check-In and Booth Setup Begins 1:00pm - 4:00pm

GPN NPC/EC Meeting - Closed Meeting 12:30pm - 3:00pm

Conference Registration Opens 9:00am - 4:00pm

Refreshment Break

*Tour: C‑TEC - (Cycling and Trails Education Center) at NWACC 4:00pm - 5:30pm

*Workshop: Setting Up and Maintaining a Science DMZ - Part I 9:30am - 11:30am

Networking Lunch 11:30am - 12:30pm

Welcome

*Workshop: Setting Up and Maintaining a Science DMZ - Part II 12:30pm - 2:30pm

GPN NTAC Meeting 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Keynote: GPN and the National Research Platform 3:15pm - 4:00pm

*Tabletop Exercise: CMMC NIST 800-171 with special invitation by the GPN Security Committee 12:30pm - 3:00pm

GPN Cyber Infrastructure Program Meeting 12:30pm - 3:00pm

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Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador A & B	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador C	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Grand Ballroom I - IV	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Grand Ballroom V	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Grand Lobby	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Salon F-G-H	Embassy Suites Hotel - Spa Tower Atrium

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Beyond the Campus: Securing Student Data Across... 8:45am - 9:30am

GlobalNOC Gateway Overview & Announcement of Rel... 11:00am - 11:45am

Leveraging Layered Storage Architectures for Sca... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Building Collaborations Using No... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Campus Under Pressure: Practical DDoS and Applic... 8:45am - 9:30am

Phantoms in the Portal: Ghost Students and Finan... 11:00am - 11:45am

M365 A3 vs. A5: Making Informed Decisions Around... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Coherent Optics Transforming Reg... 4:30pm - 5:00pm

Sponsor Booth Setup 7:00am - 8:00am

Sponsor Showcase & Peer Networki... 9:30am - 10:00am

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Conference Breakfast 7:00am - 8:00am

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Keynote: The State of Fiber with... 8:15am - 8:45am

Gary Bolton Q&A: How Will Advances in Broadband... 8:45am - 9:30am

Blueprint for Collective Defense: Scaling Threat... 10:00am - 10:45am

Moving Beyond Pain Points in the University Data... 11:00am - 11:45am

Lunch & Sponsor Showcase 11:45am - 12:45pm

State of ARE-ON: B...

Keynote: Internet2's Support for State Networks 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Securing the AI Era: Infrastructure Evolution an... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

AMD Empowering the Future of HPC and AI Datacent... 3:15pm - 4:00pm

ARE-ON Technical Updates 4:00pm - 4:30pm

GPN Statewide Initiatives in Qua... 4:30pm - 5:00pm

Conference Registration 7:00am - 4:00pm

B.E.E.R.Net — Building Energy Efficient Research Networks 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Networking Reception 5:00pm - 6:30pm

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Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador A & B	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador C	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Grand Ballroom I - IV	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Grand Ballroom V	Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Grand Lobby	University of Arkansas — I3R Facility

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Data-Ready Research: Leveraging Library Expertis... 9:00am - 9:45am

Designing Networks for Student Housing 9:45am - 10:30am

Resilient IT: Winning with People and Process 10:45am - 11:30am

Birds of a Feather: Resources and Funding to Sup... 11:30am - 12:15pm

*Workshop: perfSONAR Workshop 1:15pm - 5:00pm

Infrastructure Engineering for Efficiency and Pe... 9:45am - 10:30am

OAK Supercomputing Center: Resources Overview 10:45am - 11:30am

*Workshop: Introduction to Deploying and Scaling Data-Intensive Workloads with Docker and Kubernetes on the National Research Platform 1:15pm - 4:15pm

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Keynote: Transform IT, Transform Everything in t... 8:00am - 8:45am

IT Leadership Across Arkansas: Challenges and Pr... 9:00am - 9:45am

State of Research Cyberinfrastructure 9:45am - 10:30am

State of the State Networks 10:45am - 11:30am

State of Higher Ed Cybersecurity 11:30am - 12:15pm

Lunch & Final Sponsor Showcase 12:15pm - 12:45pm

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****CANCELLED*****Workshop: Designing Secure by Default Learning Environments 1:15pm - 3:30pm

Conference Registration 7:00am - 2:00pm

*Tour (I³R) — University of Arkansas (SHUTTLE) 1:15pm - 3:45pm

GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026

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