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/ - 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 96 Calendar of Events Date Event/Deadline December 15, 2025 Topics List Published January 05, 2026 DRAFT Presentation Slides Due January 12, 2026 Meeting Agenda Published January 26, 2026 FINAL Slides Due February 01, 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