Dear Council and SOPC, Once again, the ccNSO Council and SOPC has been invited to participate in the ICANN org Planning Team’s trends session. Invitation email can be viewed below. Please take a moment to complete the Doodle by Monday, 17 April: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/ermmW3Ed As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate contacting me. Best, Kim Dear Chair: As shared in the ICANN Community Leadership Digest, ICANN is kicking off the FY25 Strategic Outlook program. We are reaching out to discuss the opportunity to hold a trend session with your group. Sessions will be held virtually in Zoom, and in English only. We can only accommodate 35 active participants in a session, due to the nature of the exercise, and propose to accept participants on a first come, first serve basis, unless you have other suggestions. A session will take about 120 min, organized as follows: 🞈 Welcome (5’) 🞈 Plenary presentation of Strategic Outlook process (5’) 🞈 Break-out into subgroups; trends identification exercise (50’) 🞈 Break (10’) 🞈 Return to plenary and share results (35’) 🞈 Individual votes for top-3 priorities (10’) 🞈 Adjourn (5’) We are targeting to complete the trend sessions by April. Once complete, ICANN org will conduct a trend analysis and impact assessment, which is scheduled for May-July. This will be followed by an impact assessment in Jul-Sept. We hope that your group will participate in this important discussion on ICANN planning and strategy. Thank you.