We are pleased to announce the agenda for the Chicago Network Operators Group's 12th annual conference (CHI-NOG 12), taking place on May 15th, 2025, in Chicago, IL. Agenda 1. AI Networking : How networking changed with pre-training, post-training and inference by *Petr Lapukhov (NVIDIA)* 2. Low Latency Networks : Networking at the Speed of Light - A peek at networking inside a high frequency trading firm by *Jeremy Filliben (Jump Trading)* 3. Network Modeling : Feasibility of State Space Models for Network Traffic Generation by *Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)* 4. Network Observability : What a Distributed Network Sees: Internet Observations from All Over by *John Kristoff (dataplane.org/UIC <http://dataplane.org/UIC>)* 5. Network Automation : Building Trustworthy Network Automation, From Principles to Practice by *Damien Garros (Opsmill)* 6. Routing : SRv6 Deployment Strategies by *Mike McBride (Futurewei)* 7. Datacenter Networking : Comfortable Complexity of Overlays by *Sergey Kolobov (Arista)* 8. Routing Security : Fighting Route Leaks at Cloudflare by *Bryton Herdes, Mingwei Zhang (Cloudflare)* 9. Routing Security : The Routing Security Crystal Ball: RPKI Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by *Jon Worley (ARIN)* 10. SD-WAN : SD-WAN is dead, long live SD-WAN! by* Dane Jackson (Catonetworks)* 11. Network Automation : Vendor-Agnostic Automation with Ansible Network Resource Modules by* Brandon Ewing (IMC)* 12. Network Automation : Network Automation Pipelines - From Near-Zero to Hero in 30 Minutes by *Jon Howe Myriad360)* 13. Network Lab Tooling : ContainerLab: Building Multi-vendor labs as code by *Amer Fahar and Mo Zaman (Nokia)* 14. Network Automation : Operation Technology Approach to NetDevOps by *Phillip McGough* (Emerson) Detailed agenda can be found at https://chinog.org/chi-nog-12/agenda-12/ Regular registration is still open, but ending soon. For more details please see https://chinog.org/chi-nog-12/registration/ Thank you Tom Kacprzynski