We are pleased to announce that the "Call for Presentations, Tutorials, and Demonstrations" for the AfriNIC-13 Public Policy meeting to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-26 November 2010 is now open.

This is your call to present at this event and join other presenters to deliver tools, knowledge, and know-how or policy ideas related to Internet Number Resource Management or IP networking operations to participants.

Your contribution can be in the form of a presentation during a session, a tutorial or a live technical demonstration. If you are interested in presenting, please follow the submission instructions below.

How to submit:

Please review all information included on this page before submitting your proposal. Your submission should be sent to: meeting at afrinic.net

Your proposal should contain the following information:
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* Full Name
* Email Address
* Affiliation
* Short biography
* Title of Presentation
* A detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation
* Draft slides for the presentation (if ready/available)
* Length of talk (minutes/hours/days)
* Need (or not) for sponsorship or assistance to attend the meeting
(travel and/or accommodation, etc)

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Important Dates:

* Meeting Registration opens – 01 September 2010
* Deadline for submissions - 20 September 2010
* Notification of Acceptance - 01 October 2010

Guidelines:

Presentation topics can range from but are not exclusive to:

- IPv6 deployment
- Security
- IDN
- Mobile IP
- IXP
- DNSSEC

* Presentations will be fifteen (15) to thirty (30) minutes in length, with approximately 10-15 minutes for Q&A at the end of each presentation. The maximum time allotted per presentation will not exceed is 45 minutes. The presenter(s) will be required to submit
their presentation in PowerPoint 2 weeks prior to the event date.

* Tutorials can range from 90 minutes to half a day in length. A full course outline is required.

* Demonstration facilities will need to be agreed based on available resources on-site.

* AfriNIC will provide the space, tea/lunch breaks and projector equipment.

* Presenters will be responsible for any handouts. There are typically approximately 100-150 delegates.

* All presentations will be delivered with the highest professionalism to maximize the value obtained by the attendee.

* The Meeting Coordination team and the program Committee will make the selection decisions.

* Selected presenters will be contacted by the Events Coordinator to coordinate logistics and details

* Note that proposals are reviewed and accepted on an on-going basis and that presentation slots may be filled prior to this date.

The audience at AfriNIC meetings is mainly composed of technical network operators and engineers with a wide range of experience levels from beginners to seasoned professionals.

Presentations that contain any sort of marketing and commercial content are usually not encouraged at such meetings.