Dear Jonathan, all, hi, Due the fact the recruitment of the ICANN85 planning committee has been announced recently, I would share my POV and ideas to improve our collective, very important work on scheduling the public meeting: *1. Meetings with newcomers (NextGen and Fellows)* - our intro session with newcomers can be much better (and we will get positive feedback instead of the ones we received) - I suggest we consider an interactive format (we really can inside of this IT roll-), an interesting dialogue for participants (not a monologue about how each of us joined the community), an infographic or a video to present our capabilities. We must take into account the factor of knowledge already gained in the newcomers` sessions and from mentors. And it might be better for At-Large speakers to know in advance they have slot for speaking. We had an issues. *2. At-Large plenary sessions*. I suggest to get a broader view/feedback on the choice of topics (community voting for the discussion areas/exact topics?). And it is necessary to set up a clean voting system for selected topics (our last attempt to select topics was a fiasco, but the results were accepted). 3. We are end users` advocates (our main task and opportunities in preparing sessions are to gain knowledge from the fields and put on the table). During the EURALO readout Olivier raised a whole range of issues that deserve a cross-institutional session by At-Large - *the new round of gTLD and the interests of users* https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/giXe4rJu_MEL7EWestu-6kZ4aVFzQBPgp00bjKr6Uyw-A... I suggested this topic for Dublin`s meeting, but it was rejected. I respectfully disagree with the approach – "It was to late to discuss it". Is this really not our focus? But this is both a promo for the new round and a focus on important things – access, security, pricing, equality, developing local markets etc and undesrtanding how and what we can improve. 4. Again the idea –* to set up a dialogue with the business community,* not for promotional purposes of course, but to understand what is happening, how the interests of business and end users meet and where they contradict each other. A set of questions – from prices, accessibility, data protection, and so on. 5. It`s important for any public event to have *a proactive approach to choosing topics*. A year ago, when the Afrinic crisis was in full swing, the proposal to hold a session on RIR`s and issues of numbers, capacity, and deployment, issues was rejected. We had a chance to give an impulse to new approaches, to give expertise and probably to help find a solution to the crisis together – we are the voice of the regions with such a capacity! Instead, we pick up this extremely important topic a year later. *Why the building a public meeting`s agenda on the best way is so important?* No matter what region we are in - for us it's a show, outreach, capacity building and the formation of a pioneering, visionary and practical approach to work, engagement, mobilization, and further work and reputation. Throughout the year we spend a tremendous amount of time and effort as volunteers. We cannot afford to be ineffective at public meetings, we have great potential. I am in favor of using it and showing the best sides of our work - support of the ICANN strategic plans, policy input, discussions, broad end-user issues, outreach and engagement, cross-community collaboration. Please consider my opinion as an expression of both personal expertise, excitement for our best representation, and as conveying the views of many community members who`ve lost hope of being heard here. With big respect to all efforts of our community members in all streams of work. Feedback is more than welcomed 🩵 better with copy to all-) Sincerely, Natalia Filina Secretary of EURALO https://atlarge.icann.org/alses/euralo IGF Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things, member DotDucky <https://dotducky.com/> owner 🐣 +7 906 722 54 61 Moscow, Russia