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On 1-3 June 2026, the North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) will hold its 97th Meeting in Bellevue, WA. Remote participation is available, at a cost of $150. Videos will be posted later on NANOG YouTube.
AGENDA https://nanog.org/events/nanog-97/agenda/
Grand Ballroom (all times PDT = UTC-7)
Monday, June 1
10:00 AM – NANOG 97 Conference Opening
Jonathan Black – NANOG
Tom Scholl
Adair Thaxton – Internet2
10:30 AM – Keynote: The SRE of AI: Engineering Network Reliability for the Tokenized Era
Dave Schaeffer – Cogent Communications
11:15 AM – Designing for Constrained Resource Environments
Russ White – Nokia
1:30 PM – Lessons from Scaling BPF to Detect RDMA Device Drivers Bugs in Real Time
Prankur Gupta – Meta Platforms, Inc.
2:00 PM – The Hidden Costs of SSH at Scale
Brett Lykins – Amazon
2:30 PM – show me your PRs (Remote Presentation)
steve ulrich – nexthop.ai
3:00 PM – Designing Cloud Workloads for LEO Satellite Internet Users
Sid Mathur – Fastah Inc.
4:00 PM – Channelmania! – Future Proof Your DWDM Network Topology While Keeping It Flexible for 1.6T
Thomas Weible – Flexoptix
4:30 PM – When Photonics Becomes a Network Architecture Constraint in AI Data Centers
Christian Urricariet – Lumentum
Tuesday, June 2
10:00 AM – The State of the Map: Advancing IP Geolocation via Geofeeds and RIR Standards
Matthew Wilder – TELUS
Moderator: Matthew Wilder – TELUS
Oliver Gasser – IPinfo (Panelist)
Marcus Jackson – AWS (Panelist)
Mark Kosters – ARIN (Panelist)
Luna – MaxMind (Panelist)
Tony Tauber – Comcast (Panelist)
11:00 AM – Beyond Geofeeds: Towards a New Standard in Data Sharing
William Stevenson – MaxMind, Inc.
Kevin Phair
11:30 AM – Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption
Sulyab Thottungal Valapu – University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute
1:30 PM – From CLI to AI: A Network Engineer’s Guide to Building Useful Agents
Du’An Lightfoot
2:30 PM – From Metrics to Investigation: How Agentic SRE Could Change Network Operations
Mohibul Mahmud – Microsoft
3:00 PM – ARIN Update
John Sweeting – American Registry for Internet Numbers
4:00 PM – NANOG Community Meeting
4:45 PM – What’s New at the IETF
Yingzhen Qu – Futurewei Technologies
Yaroslav Rosomakho – Zscaler
5:30 PM – Tuesday Lightning Talks
Wednesday, June 3
10:00 AM – 50 Years of Networking
Geoff Huston – APNIC
10:30 AM – Adopting NETCONF on Router Side (Remote Presentation)
Maria Matejka – BIRD | CZ.NIC
11:00 AM – Vendor Independent Network Segmentation
Brian Jemes – University of Idaho
2:00 PM – Fabric is Sexy Again
Navtej Singh – Clockwork
2:30 PM – Network OS Upgrades at Hyperscale
Sujitha Sekar Rajan
3:00 PM – Migrating from Bespoke Hardware to an Open Load Balancing for Kubernetes
Sergey Kolobov – Arista Networks
Marcin Wojciechowski – Arista Networks
4:00 PM – Boring is Good: Removing Emotion from Incident Response
Ryan Hamel – Zayo
4:30 PM – Peering Risk Intelligence (Remote Presentation)
Jay Dave – Amazon
5:00 PM – Crafting Network Configurations at Meta
Santiago Alfonso Munoz Rodriguez – Meta
5:30 PM – Wednesday Lightning Talks
6:00 PM – NANOG 97 Conference Closing
Adair Thaxton – Internet2
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