Friends and Colleagues, For those interested in ICANN’s preparation week around an ICANN meeting (ICANN prep-week), the prep-week for ICANN68 Virtual is happening 8-18 June according to the below schedule. If you are interested, please read on and do register by Friday 5 June. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 1:37 AM Subject: ICANN News Alert -- Register for ICANN68 Prep Sessions (Update) Register for ICANN68 Prep Sessions (Update) 02 June 2020 This Announcement is an update to a previous Announcement published on 28 May 2020. LOS ANGELES – 2 June 2020 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced live interpretation for multiple ICANN68 Prep Sessions. To attend any of the webinars, please register here by Friday 5 June 2020 to receive instructions on how to join. You may also submit questions during the registration process. The ICANN Open Data Program Update scheduled for Tuesday 16 June 2020 has been cancelled. Q&A with ICANN Org Executive Team on Thursday 18 June 2020 has been moved from 18:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC. The revised schedule is as follows: Date / TimeTitleLanguage Monday, 8 June 202012:00-13:00 and 22:00-23:00 UTCInterpretation Platform Kick-off WebinarSix U.N. languages Tuesday, 9 June 202016:00-17:00 UTCICANN Org Operations Planning Team UpdateEnglish Thursday, 11 June 202016:00-17:00 UTCUniversal Acceptance Annual Strategic Action Plan WebinarEnglish Monday, 15 June 202016:00-17:00 UTCEnhancing the Effectiveness of ICANN's Multistakeholder Model – Next StepsSix U.N. languages Tuesday, 16 June 202007:00-08:30 UTCICANN Policy Development (PDP) Working Group Roleplay for Fellows (for ICANN68 Fellows only)English Wednesday, 17 June 202012:00-13:30 UTCPre-ICANN68 GNSO WebinarEnglish Wednesday, 17 June 202016:00-17:00 UTCNomCom Review: Implementation MilestonesEnglish Thursday, 18 June 202016:00-17:00 UTCPolicy WebinarSix U.N. languages Thursday 18 June 202019:00-20:00 UTCQ&A with ICANN Org Executive TeamSix U.N. languages (The U.N. six languages includes the following: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.) We recommend that community members attend one of the Interpretation Platform Kick-off Webinars. This will allow participants to familiarize themselves with the remote simultaneous interpretation platform that will be used during ICANN68. Instructions on how to use the interpretation service and access to recordings, presentation materials, and a pre-recorded webinar from the Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives (MSSI) team will be posted here. If you have trouble accessing the registration link and you are using Chrome, try the following: Clear your browser cookies and caches. Enable third-party cookies. If issues still persist, please try using a different browser, such as Safari. 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 not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.