NANOG Community at large,
The NANOG Program Committee (PC) would like to remind you that we are accepting proposals through Monday, 05 January 2026, for in-person or live remote presentations at all sessions of NANOG 96 taking place in San Francisco, CA on 02-04 February 2026.
Our spotlight topic for NANOG 96 is “AI and network infrastructure”, 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
AI vs “traditional” datacenter networks
Automation approaches
Designing networks for AI traffic
Details on how to define and build AI agents
Network automation technologies
Early-career Professional Development topics
Basic hands-on tutorial track
More career development topics
Emerging technologies topics
More on net infra evolution and the drivers around it
New protocols, technologies, IETF work, etc.
Enterprise Networking Topics
Enterprises interacting with ISPs and the Internet
Overlays
Performance
Open source/freely available tools to move data quickly and efficiently
More information about how to measure and improve network performance from hosts.
Routing / BGP Topics
BGP Route Maps
Integrating IPv6
Interplanetary networking
More on BGP in data centers like the "lightweight traffic engineering" talk
RPKI, Routing
Peering
Residential Broadband
Segment routing
Researcher / Student Topics
Opportunity for students to network
Researcher / operator BoF / forum
Security Topics
AI-driven botnets and residential proxies
DDoS mitigation topics
Security and IOT
Soft skills
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
Troubleshooting and best practices
Layer 2 ethernet best practices
Network architecture or on-prem troubleshooting
Provisioning, troubleshooting
Workshops and How-Tos
More in-depth how-tos / more in-depth seminars
Physical hands on labs
Other
Edge computing
Hardware topics such as ASIC or specific software oriented network engineering
How to start an ISP from scratch
More cloud network specific topics
Starlink
Submit your presentation proposal and abstract via the Program Committee Tool at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/submit-presentation/
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Select the type of talk you propose to present, and complete the form
Timeline for submission and proposal review:
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!
Sincerely,
Adair Thaxton
Program Committee Chair
Sent on behalf of the NANOG PC