The NANOG 95 CFP is open through 08-September-2025

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NANOG Community at large,

The NANOG Program Committee (PC) would like to remind you that we are
accepting proposals through Monday, 08 September 2025,  for in-person or
live remote presentations at all sessions of NANOG 95 taking place in
Arlington, TX on 27-29 October 2025.

Sometimes, we deal with our own projects so regularly that they no longer
seem cool or interesting to us - but they are to other people! Sometimes
you want to present, but don’t know what other people want to learn about.
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

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   AI vs “traditional” datacenter networks
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   Automation approaches
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   Designing networks for AI traffic
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   Details on how to define and build AI agents
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   Network automation technologies
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Early-career Professional Development topics

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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 Topics

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   Enterprises interacting with ISPs and the Internet
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   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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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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   AI-driven botnets and residential proxies
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   DDoS mitigation topics
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   Security and IOT
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Soft skills

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   Attracting software developers to network development/engineering
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   Career development
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   Computing and internet history
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   Intro to NANOG mailing list and other operational communities
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   Risk-based financial decision making
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   Transitioning from technical  roles to management
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Troubleshooting and best practices

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   Layer 2 ethernet best practices
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   Network architecture or on-prem troubleshooting
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   Provisioning, troubleshooting
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Workshops and How-Tos

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   More in-depth how-tos / more in-depth seminars
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   Physical hands on labs
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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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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 95 Calendar of Events

Date

Event/Deadline

September 08, 2025

DRAFT Presentation Slides Due

September 22, 2025

Meeting Agenda Published

October 20, 2025

FINAL Slides Due


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
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