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** Thank you, Program Committee
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The NANOG Program Committee shapes each meeting's agenda, reviewing
submissions, building the technical program, and making sure the
sessions reflect what the network operations community actually needs
to talk about. NANOG wouldn't be NANOG without them.
Want to be part of the program? Presentation proposals are open
through September 21. Submit your idea and draft slides to be
considered for NANOG 98.
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NANOG Community at large,
The NANOG Program Committee (PC) would like to remind you that we are
accepting proposals through Monday, 21 September 2026, for in-person or
live remote presentations at all sessions of NANOG 98 taking place in
Miami, FL on 19-21 October 2026.
Our spotlight topic for NANOG 98 is “Global Connectivity”, but we accept
presentations on all relevant topics. The work you do and the ideas you
have are interesting and important, and we’d love to hear more about it!
Perhaps you’re having trouble figuring out what the NANOG audience would
like to see. During every NANOG Conference, we ask everyone to answer the
surveys and tell us what they want to hear about at a future conference.
Some of the most recent answers are below. If you have a presentation on
any of these general or specific topic areas, your community would love to
hear from you!
AI / Automation Topics
Bite-sized AI-related projects to get started with
How to weather the upcoming AI crash
More case studies and lessons learned
LLM training and inference
AI vs "traditional" datacenter networks
Automation approaches
Designing networks for AI traffic
Details on how to define and build AI agents
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Early-career Professional Development topics
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Getting started with automation
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Basic hands-on tutorial track
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More career development topics
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Moving from service provider to enterprise / enterprise to service
provider
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Emerging technologies topics
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More on net infra evolution and the drivers around it
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New protocols, technologies, IETF work, etc.
Geolocation
Public policy
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Supply chain
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Enterprise / Access Networking Topics
WAN engineering for the enterprise
More enterprise scale conversations vs hyperscaler
Cloud / multi-cloud networking
Datacenters
Enterprises interacting with ISPs and the Internet
Overlays
Traffic engineering
Carrier-grade network design
How to grow a small access network
ISP core router theory
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Performance
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Open source/freely available tools to move data quickly and efficiently
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More information about how to measure and improve network performance
from hosts.
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Routing / BGP Topics
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BGP Route Maps
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Integrating IPv6
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Interplanetary networking
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Traffic engineering
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RPKI, Routing
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Peering
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Residential Broadband
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Segment routing / SRv6
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IP and optical lessons learned
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Researcher / Student Topics
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Opportunity for students to network
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Researcher / operator BoF / forum
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Security Topics
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QUIC
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AI-driven botnets and residential proxies
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DDoS mitigation topics
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Security and IOT
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Patch management w/r/t AI vulnerability-to-exploit timelines
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Service Provider Topics
WAN engineering
Practical Service Provider tips
Scaling Broadband Network Gateways
Segment Routing
Datacenters
LPO vs CPO optics
SONiC
WAN load balancing
Datacenter infrastructure, requirements, job creation
MPLS
Optical
DWDM
Soft skills
More finance for tech talks
Talks for the C-suite
Attracting software developers to network development/engineering
Career development
Computing and internet history
Intro to NANOG mailing list and other operational communities
Risk-based financial decision making
Transitioning from technical roles to management
Future of network engineering
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Troubleshooting and best practices
Troubleshooting and workflow references
Automation for troubleshooting
Business development / DCI strategy
Layer 2 ethernet best practices
Network architecture or on-prem troubleshooting
Provisioning, troubleshooting
Incident response management
CLI tool interpretation
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Workshops and How-Tos
Network Automation and Tools
Routing Protocols - Testing and Troubleshooting
RPKI / ASPA Deployment
IPv6 Deployment
LLM / AI agents integration
Optical / Fiber operations
IP / DNS addressing/naming management
DDoS Mitigation
WiFi management
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Other
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Edge computing
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Hardware topics
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How to start an ISP from scratch
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Starlink / LEO networks
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The deprioritization of multicast support in merchant silicon
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Submit your presentation proposal and abstract via the Program Committee
Tool at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/submit-presentation/
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Sign in with your Profile Account
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Select the type of talk you propose to present, and complete the form
Timeline for submission and proposal review:
NANOG 98 Calendar of Events
Date
Event/Deadline
June 16, 2026
CFP Reminder Announcement
TODAY!
Call for Content Reminder #2
September 21, 2026
Submission Deadline and DRAFT Presentation Slides Due. No new submissions
for NANOG98 after this date
September 28, 2026
Meeting Agenda Published
October 12, 2026
FINAL Slides Due - PC Tool closes to new uploads after this date
October 18, 2026
On-Site Lightning Talk Submissions Open
If you have any questions, please email the PC (nanogpc(a)nanog.org) and a
representative will respond to you in a timely manner. Otherwise, submit
your talk, tutorial, track, or panel proposal to the Program Committee Tool
at your earliest convenience. We look forward to reviewing your submission!
Sincerely,
Adair Thaxton
Program Committee Chair
Sent on behalf of the NANOG PC
