Presentations & Radio

I love to do presentations & talks, so if you need a speaker on anything that I'm involved with, please contact me (bert@hubertnet.nl). You can also hire me for employee or corporate events. Presentations that are suitable for such events are highlighted in red.

Note: I do not charge anything for presentations for non-profits or government departments and agencies.

• 2024
  • 11 november, Universiteit Leiden, De enorm bedroevende toestand van cybersecurity
  • 10th of October, TU Delft, The terrible state of cyber security, and how we got here
  • 12 september, een software-organisatie, Een leven lang leren
  • 7th of June, PublicSpaces 2024, Digitale Autonomie: wat is het en willen we het wel
  • 14th of May, NCSC-NL, Surf, ACCSS symposium, Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check
  • 15th of March, Webdevcon. In praise of sub-million line of code. Slides with copious notes and links
  • 29th of February, Hogeschool Leiden, Opleiding tot Verpleegkundige. AI: Goed of slecht, het gaat nooit meer weg
  • 23rd of January, Licensing Executives Society Benelux talk on 2024 software licensing realities, including audits and due diligence
• 2023
  • 3rd of October, One Conference presentation: EU and you
  • 27th of September, Software and Source Code, Licensing Executives Society Benelux
  • 4th of September, Data-analyse die er toe doet, Open Huis IT & IV @Rijksoverheid
  • 31st of August, Scientists, politics, government, public sector and non-technical management, COMPASS summer school / Beta in Bestuur en Beleid
  • 30th of June, SURF security conference, Wie bestuurt het internet?
  • 28th of June, Met Nerds Om Tafel podcast, De nostalgie van inbellen en het wilde westen van internet in de jaren ’90 met Bert Hubert & Dave Aaldering
  • 27th of June, GOTO Amsterdam, Privacy, crime, national security, human rights: and you in the middle
  • 27th of June, GOTO Amsterdam, Hello Deep Learning
  • 24th of June, GroenLinks, technosolutionism en surveillance
  • 22nd of June, BNR Nexus, Wat als AI leert van eigen output, EU versus VS en digitale slachthuizen
  • 31st of May, More-IP, upcoming EU regulation
  • 18th of May, Qualcomm Security Summit, upcoming EU regulation
  • 11th of May, NLUUG, Hello Deep Learning
  • 13th of January, BNR Ochtendspits, over ICT en de belastingdienst
  • 12th of January, RTL-Z Nieuws, over zeekabels
• 2022
  • 3rd of December, EenVandaag: Oud-toezichthouder niet blij met meer bevoegdheden geheime diensten: 'Kan eng uitpakken'
  • 28th November, Digital Society Conference 2022, The Digital Society of the Dutch Universities, panel with Prof. dr. Bart Jacobs and Dr. Bernold Nieuwesteeg
  • 3rd of November, Cyber and Information Security: have we all gone mad?, TU Delft, department of Technology, Policy & Management.
  • 7th of October, The Nerd Whisperer & the Toaster, reflecting on how technical and non-technical people need to work together to innovate, and how hard this is.
  • 3rd of October, De wantrouwende overheid #2: Een verkenning van de verzameldrang naar data, De Rode Hoed
  • 30th of September, Business for Geeks, part 3 of an NLNOG trilogy on work and business. Includes link to video
  • 30th of September, "Bestuur, beleid, weten, denken, doen", presentatie voor Rijkstrainees bij de Rijksacademie
  • 26th of July, How do GPS/Galileo/etc really work & how the galmon.eu project monitors all navigation satellites (slides), (video), MCH2022.
  • 22th of July, Hacking the Genome. How does it work? And should we be? (slides), (video), MCH2022.
  • 3/4 July, Er zijn te weinig nerdfluisteraars bij bedrijven en overheden, vindt ict-expert Bert Hubert, Kustaw Bessems / Volkskrant.
  • 24th of May, Cybersecurity & Energy, European Energy Law Seminar, (text)
  • 22nd of May, Podcast Stuurloos, Waarom je nerdfluisteraars nodig hebt bij de overheid, Kustaw Bessems / Volkskrant.
  • 3rd of May, "Who controls the internet? And should they?", RIPE Student Day (Video, slides)
  • 6th of April, SkewDB: an open database of GC and other microbial skews, Scientific Spring Meeting KNVM / NVMM 2022 (Video)
  • 30th of March, BNR Nieuwsradio on the EU Digital Markets Act
  • 26th of January, Hackparadijs Nederland, De Balie. Met Sanne Maasakkers, Michiel Steltman en Lokke Moerel.
• 2021
  • 2nd of November, "Who controls the internet? And should they?". Keynote at NANOG 83. Transcript
  • 20th of October, BNR Nieuwsradio, on GitLab and Google
  • 28th of May, "Podcast over Media", over de machteloosheid van Europa, en hoe we onszelf technologisch weer zouden kunnen gaan redden. (origineel, backup)
  • 15th of January, "Cyberhelden podcast", with Ronald Prins. Spotify
  • 12th of January, European Microwave Week, How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents -and- What to do about it
• 2020
  • 25th of November, BNR Digitaal, over (Google) RCS
  • 18th of November, Licensing Executives Society Benelux, session with Maurits Westerik on software licensing practices & open source
  • 7th of November, Tweakers / DPG Event Privacy & Security, DNS is alles: Verhuist het nu ook naar de (buitenlandse) cloud?, YouTube, Local copy
  • 14th of October, BNR Digitaal, Trickbot botnet, IBM splitup, the cloud
  • 4th of September, NLNOG Live, Career Development & Money, slides, video
  • 2nd of September, BNR Digitaal, Corona app, discussie over (overheids-)aanbestedingen
  • 6th of August, INNOG 3, DNS over HTTPS: A protocol and a change of control
  • 15th of July, BNR Ochtendspits, Het grote Microsoft DNS beveiligingslek. Nieuwsbericht
  • 8th of July, BNR Digitaal (Dutch Radio), on Huawei and the EU 5G toolkit, and also on the privacy of Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Assistant
  • 19th of June, BNR Ochtendspits (Dutch Radio), on the various Corona contact tracing apps and their privacy
  • 3rd of June, BNR Digitaal (Dutch Radio), on SpaceX Starlink satellite, and its implications
  • 18th of February, European Parliament, European Internet Forum, Encryption, data protection and law enforcement (video, alternate)
• 2019
  • 31st of October, Infosecurity Utrecht, Modern DNS Security & Privacy
  • 10th of October, 7th Europol/INTERPOL Cybercrime Conference. Presentation available on request.
  • 2nd of October, Dutch National Cyber Security Centre "One" Conference, "Current State and Development of DNS Security and Privacy".
  • 12th of September, NL-IX Interconnect Days, Scheveningen, "DNS Security (DoH)". Slides
  • 10th of September, UKNOF44, Belfast, "Panel: Operational Considerations of DoH Deployment". Video
  • 6th of September, NLNOG Day 2019, "DNS over HTTPS considerations". Slides, Video
  • 23rd of May, NLUUG Spring Conference in Utrecht, "DNS, SNI, TLS, HTTPS: Modern DNS & Privacy". Slides & provisional audio
  • 3rd of February, FOSDEM Brussels, "DNS Privacy Panel". Blog post with links to video
• 2018
  • 13th of October, DNS-OARC 29 in Amsterdam, "Welcome to DNS, or, Saving the DNS Camel". Slides, Video
  • 19th of September, BNR Radio, on Linus Torvalds stepping down. Audio.
  • 13th of June, BNR Radio, on Microsoft acquiring GitHub. Audio
  • 9th of June, Yes!Delft Students startup weekend, "Assumptions & Riskiest Assumptions"
  • 4th of April, BNR Radio, on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1. Audio
  • 20th of March, IETF 101, DNSOP WG, London, The DNS Camel, or, how many features can we add to this protocol before it breaks? (video, slides)
  • 18th of February, NDSS DNS Privacy Workshop Programme, ipcipher: Encrypting IP Addresses, San Diego, California, USA (delivered remotely)
  • 8th of February, SURF Security- en Privacyconferentie ‘Crisis? Business as Usual!’, Meltdown & Spectre: Past, Present & Future, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
• 2017
  • 21st of September, Trusted Email Services meeting, Zürich
  • 12th of September, UKNOF38, Sheffield, "Kolmo: configuration management primitives library & support infrastructure"
  • 6th of August, Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), 'DNA: More greatest hits'. Slides, audio (gets better after a few minutes). Video.
  • 5th of August, Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), 'DNA: The Code of Life'. High quality video, slides
  • 2nd of June, 'Yes!Delft' 1•2•Startup, Delft University of Technology, with Floor van de Pavert, 'Marketing, Market Research & “The Mom Test”'.
  • 19th of May, Deloitte, “Reporting live from the Backbone, the 13 root servers & the 7 keys to the internet”. Presentation available on request.
  • 14th of May, DNS-OARC, “HyperLogLog inspired three-minute scan of DNSSEC delegations worldwide”.
• 2016
  • 17th of November, a defence research institute, "Internet & DNS from an Electronic Warfare perspective". Presentation available on request (if you too are a defence research institute)
  • 20th of May, 'Yes!Delft' 1•2•Startup, Delft University of Technology, 'Marketing, Market research, Market trends'. Slides, mostly good audio.
  • 21st of April, 'dnsdist: DNS, latency and DoS-aware load balancing', UKNOF 34, Manchester. Slides, Video version 1, version 2
  • 21st of April, 'Implementing "safe browsing" cost effectively using open source DNS', UKNOF 34, Manchester. Slides, Video version 1, version 2.
  • 15th of March, 'Three Building Blocks for Trusted Internet Services: Openness, Privacy and Security', World Hosting Days, Rust, Germany
• 2015
  • 19th of November, 'dnsdist - DNS, latency and DoS-aware load balancing', NLUUG conference.
  • 12th of November, 'Using DNS for fun and profit', Black Hat Europe 2015, Dark Reading Presentations, Amsterdam
  • 4th of November, Startup Grind Rotterdam, on business, startups and innovation
  • 8th of October, 'DNS Matters - Why Subscribers are leaving You: Not Measuring your Customer Experience (video)', Open-Xchange Summit 2015, Berlin
  • 18th of September, 'Escaping the data center - tales from a recovering manager', NLNOG Day 2015. Video, slides
  • 7th of June, 'Startups and -downs', Yes!Delft Students 1.2.Startup weekend
  • 5th of June, Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology - Programming workshop for physics students: skipping the first 20 years
  • 3rd of June, TN1661-BN 'Orientation to Physics Research', TU Delft, "How industry looks at physics and bionano students"
  • 10th of May, DNS-OARC Spring 2015, Amsterdam - dnsdist - DNS, latency and DoS-aware load balancing. Video.
• 2014
  • 23rd of June, ICANN50, London - PowerDNS in 2014 - DNS round table
  • 18th of June, Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology - Programming workshop for physics students: skipping the first 20 years
  • 15th of June, Yes!Delft, 1•2•Startup closing speech, presentation available on request
  • 4th of June, Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology - Computer Programming & Physics
• 2013
  • 2nd of August, OHM2013 conference, "Feed the hacker, hack the business! Or, how to make money with open source"
  • 31st of July, OHM2013 conference, "What you need to know about what you eat: health & weight"
  • June, "How to give a good presentation for hackers, engineers, geeks & scientists", includes video
  • 15th of May, RIPE66, Dublin, Ireland. “Implementing Full IPv6 Support: More than Binding to an AF_INET6 Socket”, Video! (Update: but also see A surprising discovery on converting IPv6 addresses: we no longer prefer getaddrinfo())
  • 22nd of March, Fox-IT. Eten, hoe werkt het & hoe beïnvloedt het mijn gezondheid. Video
• 2012
  • 29th of November, SIDN Relatiedag 2012. Van 27 tot 1.342.465 domeinnamen met DNSSEC in Nederland: hoe dat komt en wat hebben we geleerd
  • 20th of November, Dutch Police / Netherlands Forensic Institute Conference. Presentation available on request
  • 23rd of October, Swedish Internet Days, PowerDNS Large Scale DNSSEC Deployments
  • 25th of September, DENIC Internet Days, PowerDNS Large Scale DNSSEC Deployments
  • 27th of June, ICANN44 in Prague, 'DNSSEC & PowerDNS Large Scale DNSSEC Deployments' (includes audio)
  • 14th of June, VvTP, Physics student body of Delft University of Technology, 'From engineer to entrepreneur, or, "I mastered Quantum Mechanics, but do I have what it takes to start my own company?"'
  • 25th of May, Thalia, Computer Science student body of Radboud University, 'Modern operating systems'. How we lost the trusted computing base
  • 4th of April, Madison Gurkha, Black Hat Sessions Anniversary Edition, On the end of secure computing on general purpose hardware. Partial movie can be found on YouTube.
• 2011
  • 15th of November, Govcert cybersecurity congress, "DNSSEC: Reality & Utility - what problems does it solve today"
  • 8th of June, World IPv6 day Amsterdam, "Security Aspects of IPv6"
  • 27th of May, Eindhoven University, Keynote of the Symposium 50 years of Mathematics & Computer Science, "Science in Software innovation"
  • 20th of May, Hack In The Box, "DNSSEC the good, the bad and the ugly"
  • 19th of May, SIDN Relatiedag, "DNSSEC zonder (al) te veel moeite", in Dutch, includes video recording
• 2010
  • 4th of February, Surfcert/Surfnet Security Conference, on DNS security
• 2009
  • 14th of August, Hacking at Random, "DNS Security in the Broadest sense"
• 2008
  • 8th of July, Radio Online on Dutch Radio 1, on DNS security
• 2007
  • ISOC.NL: The Future of VoIP, "DNS as a carrier of ENUM and other VoIP routing information"
• 2006
  • 5th of October, RIPE-53, Amsterdam, "Progress report on the PowerDNS Recursor"
• 2005
  • 28th of September, DENIC Technical Meeting, "All about the PowerDNS Nameserver"
  • Ottawa Linux Symposium, "On faster application startup times: Cache stuffing, seek profiling and adaptive preloading"
• 2003
  • 5th of September, Swiss Unix Conference, "Quality of Service under Linux: Theory and Use"
• 2002
  • Ottawa Linux Symposium, "Traffic Control for the User and Developer"
• 2001
  • Linux Kongress 2001, "on CBQ/HTB"