https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann80-prep-week-schedule-no... ICANN80 Prep Week Schedule Now Available 13 May 2024 ________________________________ In addition to the U.N. six languages, this content is also available in * Português<https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann80-prep-week-schedule-no...> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the ICANN80 Prep Week schedule<https://icann80.sched.com/> today. The schedule consists of nine sessions to prepare the ICANN community for the ICANN80 Policy Forum taking place 10–13 June 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda. ICANN80 Prep Week will be held from Tuesday, 28 May to Thursday, 30 May. Sessions will be conducted in English and will feature remote simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. To attend any of the sessions, please register<https://meetings.icann.org/en/meetings/icann80/> for the ICANN80 Policy Forum. After registering, you will receive an email confirmation. Please visit the ICANN80 website<https://meetings.icann.org/en/meetings/icann80/> to view the Prep Week schedule information. Remote participation details will be posted 24 hours before the start time of each session. Session materials and recordings will be posted on the website as they become available. Date Time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) ICANN80 Prep Week Session Tuesday, 28 May 15:00–16:00 UTC Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Updates 16:30–17:30 UTC Global Academic Plan Update 18:00–19:30 UTC New gTLD Program: Next Round – Implementation Status Update Wednesday, 29 May 15:00–16:00 UTC Universal Acceptance (UA) Community Update 16:30–17:30 UTC Registration Data Request Service (RDRS) Update 18:00–19:30 UTC FY26–30 Strategic Plan and Operating Plan: Draft Strategies Thursday, 30 May 15:00–16:00 UTC Policy and Advice Update 16:30–17:30 UTC Finance and Planning Update 18:00–19:30 UTC ICANN Reviews Update About ICANN ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a nonprofit public benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.