Dear fellow Councillors, FYI below is the just-finalised programme for a one-day conference on ICANN and Internet governance to be held in Singapore the Friday before our meeting there starts. All the best, Maria *"ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond"* A conference to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 at the ICANN 49 meeting venue, the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, in the Olivia Room, from 10:00 to 18:00. Organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, with the generous support of ICANN. Logistical information, conference registration (important!) and the program are now online at http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/ We very much want this to be an inclusive cross-community dialogue, so we hope people will consider attending, either in person or remotely, and please do share this with potentially interested colleagues. We are compiling some background materials related to the session topics for addition to the web site, and personal/organizational written inputs would be very much welcome. *Overview of the meeting* 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Overview 10:15-10:45 Update on the Sao Paulo Meeting 10:45-12:00 Panel 1 - Setting the Scene: Overview of Recent Agenda-Setting Initiatives 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-14:15 Panel 2 - Internet Governance Principles 14:15-15:45 Panel 3 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Globalization 15:45-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:30 Panel 4 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Institutional Innovation 17:15-17:45 Keynote Assessment by Larry Strickling, Asst. Secretary of Commerce, Government of the United States 17:45-18:00 Concluding Observations 18:00-19:30 Reception with Fadi Chehadé, CEO of ICANN