#tnc26 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tnc26, aggregated by home.social.
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🤔 What kind of human work becomes possible when AI handles what AI is good at?
That's the question our #TNC26 opening keynote speaker, Maria Ritola, wants us to ask, shifting away from AI vs human competition and towards what stays distinctly human.
As she puts it: "Are we building infrastructure for humans, or are we slowly building humans around infrastructure?"
🔗 Read our interview with Maria: https://connect.geant.org/2026/06/09/the-future-of-work-feels-human
🔗 Watch the opening keynote: https://tnc26.geant.org/programme/#Tuesday/all/s1061!sf=recording
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At #TNC26, our CEO Lise Fuhr and Board Chair Gilles Massen announced the GÉANT Association Strategy 2026-2030 on stage, a big moment over a year in the making.
Prior to that, we sat down with them to hear what it means for GÉANT and for the membership, what it took to get here, and what comes next.
The conversation kept returning to one theme: how a strategy like this holds together across a community as diverse as ours, and where it should ultimately lead.
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✨ Inside the Community Hub at #TNC26 ✨
With 20 sessions, 50 speakers, and over 600 people engaging with the space across three days, the Community Hub returned to TNC26 as the informal space our community has come to know and love, and this year it grew even further.
With new "Plugged-in" and "Unplugged sessions, the Open Mic and more, it was a great venue for our community to come together, collaborate and share ideas.
🔗 Read the full recap: https://connect.geant.org/2026/07/27/inside-the-community-hub-at-tnc26
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🧠 Why must we protect how we think?
That was the main thread through Samuli Könönen's closing keynote at #TNC26.
For him, protecting our thinking is one of the most critical skills of the digital age.
He calls it cognitive security: the ability to recognise, resist and respond to attempts to influence how we think, at a time when the information environment has grown faster and noisier than our minds can keep pace with.
🔗 Read our full interview with Samuli: https://connect.geant.org/2026/06/09/cognitive-security-protecting-how-we-think
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🌟 Meet our new SIG on Campus Network as a Service (SIG-CNaaS) 🌟
Bringing together #NRENs exploring how campus networks can move from traditional, locally managed setups to service-oriented, automated infrastructures.
The group just held its first meeting and a BoF at #TNC26, and already brings together @SURF , Belnet, Sikt, RNP, @sunet , RENU, CSC and SWITCH, with more NRENs and institutions warmly encouraged to join the conversation.
Learn more about SIG-CNaaS: https://community.geant.org/sig-cnaas
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Identity governance is often overlooked in research and education. 🎓 In his session at #TNC26 by GÉANT Slávek Licehammer explains why it's time to change that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuNxr4rztnQ
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✨ SIG-Marcomms Meeting Recap ✨
Our communications community gathered in Helsinki right before #TNC26 for a day of discussions and shared learning. One question was on everyone's mind: how do we move from communications as a reactive function to communications as a strategic force?
What followed were discussions on crisis communications, strategic influence and a round of Lightning Talks.
🔗 Read more: https://connect.geant.org/2026/06/17/from-tactical-response-to-strategic-influence-sig-marcomms-meets-at-tnc26
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The official #TNC26 photos and recordings are now online!
From the opening plenary that set the tone for the week, to the Lightning Talks that we all love, to all those conversations that happened in hallways and at the Community Hub — #TNC26 gave us so much, and now you can relive it all.
🔗 Watch the recordings: https://tnc26.geant.org/programme/#Tuesday/all!sf=recording
🔗 Browse the photo gallery: https://tnc26.geant.org/photos/
📷 Photography by Sami Lensu (Kohina Creative)
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Global alliance to support Earth Observation just expanded 🌍🛰️
At #TNC26, TEIN*CC joined the growing coalition during the signature of the Helsinki Declaration.
Building on the foundations of the Katowice Declaration first signed in 2021, they join ASREN, GÉANT, RedCLARA, UbuntuNet Alliance, and WACREN — a truly global partnership of Regional Research and Education Networks (RRENs) committed to advancing Earth Observation for the benefit of society.
🔗 Read more: https://connect.geant.org/2026/06/11/helsinki-declaration-a-growing-global-alliance-to-support-earth-observation
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Last week was #TNC26, the research & education networking conference by @geant and it was a very busy week!
🎤 @restena shared about European HyperConnectivity & played an active role in the side meeting dedicated to the Special Interest Group on Information Security Management.
✍ @restena officially committed to co-hosting #TNC27 with Belnet next year!🙏 Thanks again to @geant and CSC – IT Center for Science for this great TNC! See you in Liège at #TNC27. Restena will definitely be there 😉
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Thank you #TNC26 👏
To our 900+ participants from 70+ countries, to our host CSC, to our Programme Committee, organising teams, and partners — you made this week unforgettable.
Three days of conversations, connections, and collaboration.
Until next year in Liège. 🛫
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🇫🇮 That's a wrap, #TNC26 – thank you, Helsinki!
A week full of insights, connections, and the collaborative spirit that defines our global research and education networking community.
From cybersecurity to resilience, from partnerships to shared progress – this year's theme #DigitalSisu truly came to life. And yes, some of us even proved our sisu on the Morning Run through Helsinki! 🏃
👏 Special thanks to the fantastic @geant Team & the CSC - IT Center for Science for being such a welcoming host! -
After a wonderful, engaging, uplifting #TNC26 it's now time to head home to share with the rest of the team and make the week last longer!
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When we asked what people loved about #TNC26 Day 2, here's what they said 👇
They were about people. About being in the same room. About reconnecting and making new friends, and yes, the good weather. Thanks CSC for delivering on your promise ☀️!
The feeling doesn't disappear today. It only gets stronger.
We still have a full day of sessions, more Lightning Talks, and a closing plenary to send us off — more chances to connect and collaborate with everyone here.
Let's make it count!
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In one of the #TNC26 talks (part of the Rebooting the Old Reliables session) one of the speakers mentioned an article about "Rewilding the internet". It's been around for a few years but is a fascinating and inspiring read…
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
#rewilding #internetdiversity #digitalsovereignty #digitaldiversitity
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Paying tribute to the new Helsinki public library during lunch break.
Such a cool space: Makerspace with various, cutters and printers, sewing machines, musical instruments, meeting rooms co-working spaces, kitchen, music studios, indoor playground, chilling areas, reading areas, a public balcony etc, not to mention books, magazines and newspapers.
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The best part of #TNC26? It’s our community gathering from all corners of the world ❤️
And look at how diverse, fun and wonderful the crowd is.
Where are you joining us from?