Hello All, I am objecting to this budget request due to the large impact on the BC budget and lack of time to assess the value of spending the BC funds in this manner. Would it be possible to apply for the ICANN funds and then establish a BC planning team to provide more details on how additional funds would be spent? What is the definition of large businesses and High Level Attendees? What will the $40,000 of BC funding be spent on? I am not convinced that large businesses do not attend ICANN meetings due to a lack of travel funding. What are the chances of being able to get a commitment out of senior ICANN staff, Board members and the CEO to participate? I agree business outreach is important but would like to know more about this before I agree. Susan On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Jimson Olufuye <jolufuye@kontemporary.net> wrote:

Excomm,

Marilyn through the Outreach Committee submitted the attached Budget Request for a BC Business Summit during ICANN63.

Kindly peruse and note BC funding counterpart commitment below for your no objection.

The Request will be submitted before cob today as the deadline for all requests to be submitted is 31/1/2018.

Cheers,

JO

--------- Original Message --------- Subject: DRAFT of the Business Summit From: "Marilyn Cade" <marilynscade@hotmail.com> Date: 1/30/18 2:16 pm To: "Jimson Olufuye" <jolufuye@kontemporary.net> Cc: "BC Outreach" <bc-outreach@icann.org>

with apologies for the very short turn around/this is the further elaborated Request for a Business Summit.

I have very strong interest from two associations with significant numbers of business members located in Europe. We already have some BC member associations who undoubtedly could contribute to informing their members about ICANN63.

The Business Summit is based on a program that will focus on two generally interesting business topics, and at least one panel about ICANN, but it is not intended to be a briefing about ICANN gTLD policy positions of the BC, but more about a higher level event, which can attract more senior business executives, both locally, from Europe/Eastern Europe,and with invited representatives from under represented countries in other regions.

It would require some significant funding from the BC’s present resources — estimated at $40,000, with a match from ICANN of $50,000 in cash, and additional in kind support, including possibly the venue/space for the event. We will probably need to also raise some sponsorship for the reception, but I believe that ICANN might also be willing to cost share with us on that, if we focus on the GAC and High level attendees to participate along with the Business summit attendees.

It is urgent that you respond today with questions or comments as we have to submit this. We can modify it if needed…

M

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Thanks very much for consideration. It occurs to me that perhaps there are questions about whether we can make adjustments post submission, and indeed, we can. So, just to assure all that we will have the opportunity to make modifications, and also to note that I have had preliminary discussions with ICANN staff, including Chris Mondini, and with other staff responsible for engagement in Europe and Eastern Europe. I can confirm positive responses to my preliminary discussions, and I did advise that a significant funding support from ICANN would be needed, so this funding request is not a surprise to ICANN. I have also engaged with the Minister of Poland regarding his participation - tentatively - as a possible speaker, if he confirms for the High Level GAC meeting. While tentative, it is presently on his calendar to come to ICANN63 for at least a couple of days. He is a very dynamic and positive leader in Eastern Europe, who comes fairly recently from the business sector into the Minister role. I have also reached out to a Europe/Eastern Europe wide association regarding their participation -- in a very preliminary discussion and received confirmation of interest. Planning something like this for more senior business leaders does take more lead time than we sometimes spend on much smaller outreach events, so I factor into the proposal a serious planning process from approval to delivery, with periodic updates to the BC membership. Fortunately, we do have that time available to us. Of course, we will have our present BC members available to us to contribute to planning, and for associations, also inviting their own business members, which can also further strengthen the BC's value add to existing members. ________________________________ From: Bc-outreach <bc-outreach-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Jimson Olufuye <jolufuye@kontemporary.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 6:18 PM To: bc-excomm@icann.org Cc: bc-outreach@icann.org Subject: [Bc-outreach] FWD: DRAFT of the Business Summit Excomm, Marilyn through the Outreach Committee submitted the attached Budget Request for a BC Business Summit during ICANN63. Kindly peruse and note BC funding counterpart commitment below for your no objection. The Request will be submitted before cob today as the deadline for all requests to be submitted is 31/1/2018. Cheers, JO --------- Original Message --------- Subject: DRAFT of the Business Summit From: "Marilyn Cade" <marilynscade@hotmail.com> Date: 1/30/18 2:16 pm To: "Jimson Olufuye" <jolufuye@kontemporary.net> Cc: "BC Outreach" <bc-outreach@icann.org> with apologies for the very short turn around/this is the further elaborated Request for a Business Summit. I have very strong interest from two associations with significant numbers of business members located in Europe. We already have some BC member associations who undoubtedly could contribute to informing their members about ICANN63. The Business Summit is based on a program that will focus on two generally interesting business topics, and at least one panel about ICANN, but it is not intended to be a briefing about ICANN gTLD policy positions of the BC, but more about a higher level event, which can attract more senior business executives, both locally, from Europe/Eastern Europe,and with invited representatives from under represented countries in other regions. It would require some significant funding from the BC’s present resources — estimated at $40,000, with a match from ICANN of $50,000 in cash, and additional in kind support, including possibly the venue/space for the event. We will probably need to also raise some sponsorship for the reception, but I believe that ICANN might also be willing to cost share with us on that, if we focus on the GAC and High level attendees to participate along with the Business summit attendees. It is urgent that you respond today with questions or comments as we have to submit this. We can modify it if needed… M