The APRICOT 2025 Program Committee (PC) is seeking contributions for presentations and tutorials for APRICOT 2025, to be held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, from 19 to 27 February 2025.
The PC is looking for presenters who can:
- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker
- Convene and chair panel sessions on relevant topics
- Lead informal Birds of Feather (BoF) breakout sessions
Conference milestones
| Call for Presentations opens | Now |
| Outline program published | As presentations are confirmed |
| Final deadline for submissions | 27 January 2025 |
| Final program published | 3 February 2025 |
| Final slides received | 17 February 2025 |
Please note, slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, regardless of published deadlines.
Program content
The APRICOT conference program comprises three parts — the Peering Forum, tutorials, and conference tracks. Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet operations and technologies:
- IPv4 / IPv6 routing and operations
- Routing security, including RPKI and MANRS
- Internet backbone operations
- Peering, interconnects, and IXPs
- Content Distribution Network (CDN) technology and operations
- Research on Internet operations and deployment
- Network virtualization
- Network automation / programming
- Network infrastructure security
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and wireless / cellular networks
- DNS, DNSSEC, and KINDNS
- Access and transport technologies
- Technical application of Web 3.0, public blockchains and cryptocurrency
- Content and service delivery and ‘cloud computing’
- 400G / 800G / 1.6T ZR, ZR+, OpenZR, OpenROADM, and OpenXR
- OpenRAN
- Submarine cables
Peering Forum
Peering Personal submissions must be of a single slide listing the operator’s PeeringDB entry. Please refer to this information on how to create a successful Peering Personal presentation.
Call for Presentations (CFP) submission
Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided with CFP submissions otherwise the submission will be rejected immediately. For work in progress, the most current information available at the time of submission is acceptable.
All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only. Slides must be of original work, with all company confidential marks removed.
Any marketing, sales, and vendor proprietary content in a presentation is against the spirit of APRICOT and is strictly prohibited.
Note that proper credit must be given for all content taken from other sources. Evidence of plagiarism is grounds for rejection.
Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for publication on the APRICOT 2025 website.
Prospective presenters should note that most speaking slots will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may, at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely, important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn away submissions, due to all available program slots being filled before the deadline. Presenters should try to get material into the PC Chairs sooner rather than later.
Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the PC by email.
We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.
Mark Tinka is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at TransmissionCo with 24 years’ experience as a network engineer building ISP networks and Internet Exchange Points across Africa and the Asia Pacific.
Achie Atienza and Mark Duffell contributed to this post. Achie is Globe Telecom’s head of peering, interconnection, and strategy, and Mark Duffell is a Senior Network Engineer for Telstra’s Transport and IP Core Engineering.
They are also all Chairs of the APRICOT 2025 Program Committee.
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