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/ - 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 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@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