Hi all,

The call for presentations for the 10th South African Peering Forum (ZAPF10) is now open.

ZAPF10 takes place on Thursday, 19 November 2026 at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Waterfront, Cape Town. It's a free, one-day technical forum for peering coordinators, network engineers and architects, and anyone who peers or wants to peer at an Internet Exchange, in South Africa and across Africa.

We're looking for talks on anything peering and interconnection related, for example:

IXP operations, growth and new exchange points
Peering strategy and policy, including bilateral vs route-server peering and commercial vs open peering
Routing security: RPKI, route-leak prevention, filtering and MANRS
Traffic engineering, capacity planning and how traffic patterns are changing
Interconnection in Africa: new facilities, cross-border links and remote peering
Operational war stories, outages and lessons learned
Tools, automation and measurement

Talks must be technical and non-commercial; product or sales pitches won't be accepted. Standard slots are 20 to 30 minutes, including questions.

How to submit: visit zapf.africa and follow the link to submit a presentation. Please include a title, a short abstract, and your slides or a draft outline if you have one. You can also say whether you're happy for your talk to be recorded and your slides published.

Submissions close on Friday, 23 October 2026. The programme committee will review proposals as they come in, so the earlier you submit, the better.

If you haven't registered yet, you can also do that at zapf.africa. Registration closes on Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 08:00. Space is limited, so we're asking for no more than two attendees per organisation.

Any questions, just reply to this email.

Looking forward to seeing you in Cape Town.

Shawn Jooste

Chair, ZAPF Programme Committee