LACNOG
2021 - Call for Presentations
LACNOG, the
Latin American and Caribbean Network Operators Group, will
hold its LACNOG 2021 conference from 11 to 15 October 2021
together with the LACNIC 36 event.
This meeting is scheduled to be held in person in the
city of Cali, Colombia (if the evolution of the
epidemiological situation in the region allows). Otherwise, this conference
will be held online.
The
LACNOG 2021 Program Committee invites the Internet community
to submit their presentation proposals for the event.
In
line with the spirit of LACNOG, proposed topics must be
geared towards Internet development in the region. The
following is a non-exhaustive list of some of the topics of
interest for the LACNOG 2021 meeting:
● Network
operation and professional experiences, success stories
● Internet
of Things
● MANRS
● Community
Networks
● IPv6
integration and deployment
● Experiences
involving botnets, malware, spam, viruses, denial of service
attacks and exploit techniques
● IP
network architecture, sizing, configuration and
administration
● Routing
and switching protocols, including unicast, multicast,
anycast, SDN, etc.
● End-user
applications (e.g., e-mail, HTTP, DNS, NFVs)
● Value-added
services such as VPNs, distributed systems, cloud computing,
etc.
● Peering,
Internet traffic exchange, IXPs
● Network
data security and management, attack mitigation
● Network
monitoring, performance, measurements and telemetry
● Network
automation, evolution and convergence
● Infrastructure
and physical transport, including optical and wireless
networks
● Legislation,
regulations and Internet governance issues
● Research
and education
Possible
presentation formats include:
● Lightning
talk: brief, 10-minute presentation (including a space for
Q&A)
● Presentation:
20-minute presentation (including a space for Q&A)
● Posters:
includes a single-page PDF (A2 or smaller) with the basic
information of the presentation plus a 2- to 5-minute
video with the presentation
Deadlines
for the 2021 call for proposals will be as follows:
● Reception
of proposals: 24 June to 23 July 2021
● Proposals
will be accepted until: 23 July 2021 at 23:59 UTC-3 (Uruguay
time)
● Evaluation
by the Program Committee: 26 July to 8 August 2021
● Announcement
of results: 10 August 2021
● Deadline
for submitting the final presentation: 10 August - 17
September 2021
● Final
presentations will be accepted until: 17 September 2021 at
23:59 UTC-3 (Uruguay time)
● Event
date: 11 to 15 October 2021
Applicants
must submit a summary and a draft of the slides of their
proposed presentation along with a brief biography, for
which they must use the form available at https://eventos.nog.lat/e/lacnog2021
If
your work is selected, you authorize LACNOG and LACNIC to
publish your name, photograph, biography and final work in
the event program.
Speakers
presenting their work at the LACNOG 2021 conference will
receive a certificate acknowledging their participation.
Guidelines
for Submitting a Presentation for LACNOG have been prepared
that contain a description of the criteria that will be
considered when evaluating each proposal, presentation
format details and other information. These Guidelines are
available at https://www.lacnog.org/guiapresentaciones/.
Communications
with the Program Committee will be handled through pc@lacnog.org.
We thank
you in advance for your attention and look forward to
receiving your proposals for LACNOG 2021.
The
Program Committee