NANOG Community at large, The NANOG Program Committee (PC) would like to remind you that we are accepting proposals through Monday, 27 April 2026, for in-person or live remote presentations at all sessions of NANOG 97 taking place in Bellevue, WA on 01-03 June 2026. Our spotlight topic for NANOG 97 is “Reliability Engineering”, 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 - Emerging technologies topics - More on net infra evolution and the drivers around it - New protocols, technologies, IETF work, etc. - Enterprise Networking Topics WAN engineering for the enterprise More enterprise scale conversations vs hyperscaler Cloud networking Datacenters 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 - 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 - Service Provider Topics WAN engineering Practical Service Provider tips Scaling Broadband Network Gateways Segment Routing Datacenters LPO vs CPO optics SONiC 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 - Troubleshooting and best practices Troubleshooting and workflow references Business development / DCI strategy Layer 2 ethernet best practices Network architecture or on-prem troubleshooting Provisioning, troubleshooting - Workshops and How-Tos Network Automation and Tools Routing Protocols - Testing and Troubleshooting RPKI Deployment IPv6 Deployment LLM / AI agents integration Optical / Fiber operations IP / DNS addressing/naming management DDoS Mitigation WiFi management - 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 - 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/ - Sign in with your Profile Account - Select the type of talk you propose to present, and complete the form Timeline for submission and proposal review: NANOG 97 Calendar of Events Date Event/Deadline February 20, 2026 CFP Reminder Announcement TODAY! Call for Content Reminder #2 April 20, 2026 Topics List Published April 27, 2026 DRAFT Presentation Slides Due for Consideration for NANOG97 May 04, 2026 Meeting Agenda Published May 22, 2026 FINAL Slides Due May 31, 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! Sincerely, Adair Thaxton Program Committee Chair Sent on behalf of the NANOG PC