NANOG Community at large,


It’s still hot outside, and hopefully your presentation ideas are baking too! We wanted to send one more reminder 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, Florida 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! We have had repeated requests for presentations from and about enterprise (stub) networks.


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 - plus signs (+) mean repeated requests!


AI ++++++++++++++

Automation ++++++++

Security ++++++++

SR / SRv6 ++++

NOC +++

Access / enterprise networks +++

BGP and peering ++

Optical ++

Academic topics ++

Cloud and multi-cloud ++

Traffic engineering +

Carrier-grade network design +

How to grow a small access network +

RPKI +

Geolocation +

Beginner-level tutorials / workshops +

Certifications +

Amazon's network innovations

MPLS

Incident response management

ASPA

DWDM

Protocol deep-dives

Troubleshooting complex outages, potentially with help from automation

Grep presentation from N88

Network expansion to APAC and peering with Asian companies

WAN load balancing

Datacenter infrastructure, requirements, job creation

Supply chain

IETF

Public policy

Patch management w/r/t AI vulnerability-to-exploit timelines

Hackathon

IPv6

Social skills

ISP core router theory

Network engineer future

Network operations

Moving from SP to enterprise / enterprise to SP

Career development

Traceroute interpretation

Submit your presentation proposal and abstract via the Program Committee Tool at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/submit-presentation/  


Timeline for submission and proposal review:

NANOG 98 Calendar of Events

Date

Event/Deadline

June 16, 2026

CFP Reminder Announcement

July 13, 2026

Call for Content Reminder #2

August 24, 2026

Call for Content Reminder #3

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@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!


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Sincerely,


Adair Thaxton

Program Committee Chair

Sent on behalf of the NANOG PC