01 Feb 2026 – 04 Feb 2026
NANOG 96
Hyatt Regency - San Francisco, CA, United States
Please join us at NANOG 96 to participate in the ongoing advancement of an open, secure, and robust internet.
NANOG is dedicated to the people who power our technical community and who work every day to shape the future of the internet. Their tri‑annual meetings bring together up to 1,500 professionals across network engineering, operations, and architecture. Connect with peers, innovators, and technical experts who are building the internet of tomorrow. You will find us in the following activities:
Sunday February 1st from 5:00PM-6:30PM in the Seacliff Room: Kicking off the week by sponsoring the Women in Tech (WIT) Mixer. We will be welcoming all attendees that identify as female and/or she/her pronouns for an evening of networking with other women in the industry.
Tuesday February 3rd from 4:00PM-4:45PM in the Marina Room (Bay Level): Fireside Chat Session: The Evolution of IXP Services: Layer 3 Services and Beyond. Hosted by Greg Hankins (Nokia) and Matt Peterson (SFMIX)
Register HERE
Tuesday February 3rd from 6:00PM-8:00PM in the Pacific Concourse A-K: Beer & Gear, where you will be able to speak with Nokia’s technical experts across a range of topics such as:
- Our industry-leading IP routing portfolio provides breathtaking speed, incredible performance and space efficiency-proven in the world’s largest and most demanding networks.
- Our cutting edge open optical transport solutions reduce cost and power per bit while increasing network flexibility in high-performance networks across the world.
- Our distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection solution and quantum-safe security capabilities protect your network now and into the future.
- Our AI-ready data center fabric solution is built with ultra reliability, openness, and extensibility, and is optimized for automation to meet today’s modern networking needs.
- Our network automation capabilities operate across both IP and optical layers, while layers, extracting broad and granular network information to maximize operational value..
Our Deepfield Defender and 7750 Defender Mitigation System deliver scalable, high‑throughput, cost‑efficient, and power‑efficient protection to address today’s most pressing network security challenges.
- Wednesday February 4th from 3:00PM-3:45PM in the Bayview Room: The Network of Automation Map: Navigate your journey with the NAF Automation Framework: Hosted by Wim Henderickx & Damien Garros (OpsMill)
If you are unable to attend, each meeting is live streamed and archived. You can join in remotely from where you are in the world giving you a chance to ask the experts your burning questions.
We look forward to seeing you at NANOG 96 in San Francisco!