Take active role in AfriNIC Public Policy meetings by joining other presenters in delivering tools, knowledge, and know-how and policy ideas related to Internet Protocol and its Number Resources Management to participants.

If you are interested in presenting:

How to submit:

Please review all information included on this page before submitting your proposal. If you would like to make a presentation or tutorial proposals, deadline dates are provided at the respective meeting website but are generally required no later than 90 days before the event and must be sent to meeting[at]afrinic.net

Your proposal should contain the following information:

• Full Name
• Email Address
• Affiliation
• Short biography
• Title of Talk
• 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)

Guidelines:

• Presentations may cover the following topics:
  • IPv6 deployment
  • Security
  • IDN
  • Mobile & IP
  • Anti-Spam
• Presentations will be fifteen (15) to forty five (45) minutes in length, with approximately 10-15 minutes for Q&A at the end of each presentation. Maximum time allotted per presentation is 60 minutes.
• AfriNIC will provide the space, tea/lunch breaks and projector equipment.
• Presenters will be responsible for any handouts. Typically there are approximately 100-150 delegates.
• All presentations will be delivered with the highest professionalism to maximize the value obtained by the attendee. Any selling (perceived or overt) during the session is deemed unprofessional and is not acceptable.
• Selection decisions will be made by the Meeting Coordination team.
• 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.
• Each presentation will be submitted in PowerPoint by the presenter(s) approximately 2 weeks prior to the event date.
• Tutorials are usually 2 to 4 hour workshops, while presentations may last between 10 and 30 minutes.

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.