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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. 🛫

The most anticipated day has arrived...#TNC26 doors are open!
Welcome to Helsinki 🇫🇮. Welcome to #TNC26!
Whether you're walking through the doors right now or streaming from home, you're part of something special this week. We're so glad you're here with us!
🔗 Explore the…

🎤 #TNC26 Opening Plenary
Filled with music, powerful voices, and and a clear message about what comes next for our community. 
From Ida Elina and Miikka Kallio's opening performance to EU Commissioner Henna Virkkunen's video address to Maria Ritola's keynote — you could feel the momentum building.
At the heart of it all: the new GÉANT Association Strategy 2026-2030.

#TNC26 side meetings were in full swing today. But tomorrow, everything changes.
Tomorrow, the main conference doors open.
Tomorrow, more than 900 people from across our global R&E networking community will come together in Helsinki 🇫🇮.
Tomorrow, the real magic of #TNC26 will begin. …

🌟 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 tog…

Today at #TNC26, we celebrated the people who make our community stronger 🏆
GÉANT Community Awards to Davina Luyten, Christian Panigl, and Lonneke Walk (@… ) for decades of dedication to building & strengthening the networks that connect us all.
Vietsch Medal o…

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?

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 c…

🤔 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?"
🔗 Re…

✨ 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 communi…

We're officially one week away from #TNC26 🎉
Our CEO Lise Fuhr has something to share with the community as we all get ready for Helsinki 🇫🇮
It's her second TNC, and the timing couldn't be more significant. This year, we're launching the GÉANT Association Strategy 2026-2030, and the theme of Digital Sisu feels like exactly what the moment calls for.
Watch the video👇

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.
🔗 Wat…

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 acros…

🧠 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 an…

✨ 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…

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) commi…