Sep 18 – 21, 2023
Protea Hotel Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Meetings and Training

As is common with events of this nature, ZA·REN Week colocates several separate meetings and training events. Many of these require a separate registration, details of which you'll find below.

TRANSITS I Training (Fully Booked)

TRANSITS I training will take place on the 18-20 September 2023.

TRANSITS I training is aimed at new or potential CSIRT personnel who wish to understand the main aspects of working in an incident handling and response team. It offers experience and expertise in Operational, Organisational, Legal and Technical areas, which form the knowledge basis for CSIRT personnel.

Please register separately, as spaces are limited.


South African ORCID Workshop 2023

The annual SA ORCID workshop will take place on 18 September 2023

This workshop is primarily aimed at members of the South African ORCID Consortium, but is open to anyone interested in ORCID adoption in South Africa. It will provide consortium and ORCID updates, and community stories.

Please register separately, as spaces are limited.


Introductory DNS Course

DNS training will take place on 18 September 2023 at the Protea Hotel,

This course is aimed at systems administrators responsible who've assumed responsibility for hosting AC.ZA DNS but who do not have a strong DNS background. It will cover the basic concepts of DNS, including how a domain name is resolved, the various types of DNS resource records, editing and managing zone files, and debugging and testing DNS.

Please register separately, as spaces are limited.


SLA Reference Group

TENET's SLA Reference Group is a standing committee of TENET's Board that will take place on 21 September 2023.

Its mandate is to advise the Board on all aspects of the contractual relationship with TENET, assessment of TENET's service delivery performance, and other related matters. Each institution that has signed TENET's REN Services Agreement is entitled to designate two individuals to act as members of the Reference Group. 

This side meeting requires separate registration, and is limited to those nominees or otherwise by invitation.


SAFIRE Participants' Forum

A SAFIRE Participants' Forum meeting will take place on 21 September 2023.

SAFIRE's Participants' Forum is the primary means by which South African Identity Federation participants drive the federation's technology and direction. It has formal terms of reference, which include voting for the SAFIRE Steering Committee. However, both bodies have not met for some time, and this Forum meeting will focus on possible futures that streamline the federation's governance.

This side meeting requires separate registration, and is limited to representatives of SAFIRE participants.