The NANOG 97 CFP is open through 27-April-2026

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

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Early-career Professional Development topics

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   Getting started with automation
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   Basic hands-on tutorial track
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   More career development topics
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Emerging technologies topics

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   More on net infra evolution and the drivers around it
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   New protocols, technologies, IETF work, etc.
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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

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Performance

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   Open source/freely available tools to move data quickly and efficiently
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   More information about how to measure and improve network performance
   from hosts.
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Routing / BGP Topics

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   BGP Route Maps
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   Integrating IPv6
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   Interplanetary networking
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   More on BGP in data centers like the "lightweight traffic engineering"
   talk
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   RPKI, Routing
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   Peering
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   Residential Broadband
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   Segment routing
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   IP and optical lessons learned
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Researcher / Student Topics

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   Opportunity for students to network
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   Researcher / operator BoF / forum
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Security Topics

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   QUIC
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   AI-driven botnets and residential proxies
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   DDoS mitigation topics
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   Security and IOT
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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

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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

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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

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Other

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   Edge computing
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   Hardware topics such as ASIC or specific software oriented network
   engineering
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   How to start an ISP from scratch
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   More cloud network specific topics
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   Starlink
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   The deprioritization of multicast support in merchant silicon
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Submit your presentation proposal and abstract via the Program Committee
Tool at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/submit-presentation/

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   Sign in with your Profile Account
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   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 ([email protected]), 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

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