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
Early-career Professional Development topics
Getting started with automation
Basic hands-on tutorial track
More career development topics
Moving from service provider to enterprise / enterprise to service provider
Emerging technologies topics
More on net infra evolution and the drivers around it
New protocols, technologies, IETF work, etc.
Geolocation
Public policy
Supply chain
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
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
Traffic engineering
RPKI, Routing
Peering
Residential Broadband
Segment routing / SRv6
IP and optical lessons learned
Researcher / Student Topics
Opportunity for students to network
Researcher / operator BoF / forum
Security Topics
QUIC
AI-driven botnets and residential proxies
DDoS mitigation topics
Security and IOT
Patch management w/r/t AI vulnerability-to-exploit timelines
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
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
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
Other
Edge computing
Hardware topics
How to start an ISP from scratch
Starlink / LEO networks
The deprioritization of multicast support in merchant silicon
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