<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><strong style="color:rgb(87,87,87);font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">CHI-NOG 10 – (Chicago Network Operators Group)</strong><br></div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(87,87,87)"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">October 6th, 2022 in Chicago, IL</strong><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit">The Chicago Network Operators Group (CHI-NOG) is a vendor neutral<br style="box-sizing:inherit">organization. Our goal is to create a regional community of network<br style="box-sizing:inherit">professionals by presenting the latest technology trends, enabling<br style="box-sizing:inherit">collaboration and providing networking opportunities. CHI-NOG will be<br style="box-sizing:inherit">hosting its tenth annual conference on October 6th, 2022 in downtown Chicago.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">For more information on the conference please see the event's page (<a href="http://chinog.org/chi-nog-10/" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration:none;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,102,204)" target="_blank">http://chinog.org/chi-nog-10/</a>).</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(87,87,87)">The CHI-NOG Program Committee is seeking proposals for presentations on<br style="box-sizing:inherit">relevant networking technologies with the <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">focus on the following topics</strong>:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:inside;color:rgb(87,87,87)"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Network Automation / DevOps / CI-CD / Python </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Edge Computing and Edge Networking </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Interconnection/Peering</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">5G Mobile Networks</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">BGP Security (RPKI)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Open Networking</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Overlay Networking Technologies</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Low Latency Networks / Financial Networks</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Network Security / DDoS</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Academic Research in Networking and Related Infrastructure Fields</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Network Verification</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Internet Monitoring</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">AI in Network Analytics</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Advanced BGP/MPLS Technologies</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Optical Networking/Data Center Interconnect</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Software Defined Networking (SDN)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Network Traffic Engineering (TE)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Data Center Fabric</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Tutorials </li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(87,87,87)"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Session Format</strong><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Each presentation is 30 minutes, which includes a question and answer time.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">The duration can be extended per individual request to 60 minutes and will<br style="box-sizing:inherit">be considered by the program committee. Presentations should not contain<br style="box-sizing:inherit">any marketing material and should avoid discussion of commercial products<br style="box-sizing:inherit">but rather focus on the underlying technology in a vendor neutral matter. <br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Key Dates</strong><br style="box-sizing:inherit">2022-07-07 – Call For Presentation (CFP) <br style="box-sizing:inherit">2022-08-16 – Presentation Abstract Submission Deadline<br style="box-sizing:inherit">2022-08-27 – Program Committee’s Selection Decision and Agenda Published<br style="box-sizing:inherit">2022-09-26 – Full Presentation Slides Submission Deadline <br style="box-sizing:inherit">2022-10-06 – Conference<br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Submission</strong><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Please submit presentation’s abstract proposal by filling out the<br style="box-sizing:inherit">submission form at <a href="http://chinog.org/chi-nog-10/abstract-submission/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration:none;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,102,204)" target="_blank">http://chinog.org/chi-nog-10/abstract-submission/</a> . </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(87,87,87)">Once your presentation is selected please provide the program committee with<br style="box-sizing:inherit">your photo and a short bio for web publication. All accepted speakers will<br style="box-sizing:inherit">receive complimentary tickets to the conference. For past presentation<br style="box-sizing:inherit">please see the archives at<a href="http://chinog.org/presentation-archive/" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration:none;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,102,204)" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/chicagonog/videos" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration:none;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,102,204)" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/chicagonog/videos</a><a href="http://chinog.org/presentation-archive/" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration:none;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,102,204)" target="_blank"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"></a>The program committee is looking forward to your submission and attendance.</p>
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