Dear All, With ICANN84 just around the corner, we would like to share with you the list of Next Round related sessions that have been confirmed so far. Date Time UTC Name Link 25-Oct-25 08:00-09:00 SubPro IRT Work Session (1 of 6) Community Briefing Session: Applicant Journey | Community Input, Objections, and Appeals https://sched.co/29QHF 25-Oct-25 12:15-13:30 GAC Capacity Development Session on New gTLD Program (1 of 2) https://sched.co/29QGT 25-Oct-25 14:00-15:00 SubPro IRT Work Session (2 of 6) Community Briefing Session: Application Evaluation https://sched.co/29QHI 25-Oct-25 14:00-15:00 GAC Capacity Development Session on New gTLD Program (2 of 2) https://sched.co/29QGZ 25-Oct-25 15:30-16:30 SubPro IRT Work Session (3 of 6) Community Briefing Session: Contention Set Resolution https://sched.co/29QHL 25-Oct-25 15:30-16:30 GAC Discussion on New gTLDs Program Next Round (1 of 2) https://sched.co/29QGL 26-Oct-25 09:00-10:00 GAC Discussion on New gTLDs Program Next Round (2 of 2) https://sched.co/29QJ0 26-Oct-25 15:00-16:00 SubPro IRT Work Session (4 of 6) Community Briefing Session: Application and Applicant Evaluation https://sched.co/29QKY 27-Oct-25 15:00-16:00 GNSO: RySG BRG Community Outreach & Next Round for dotBrands https://sched.co/29QJT 28-Oct-25 10:30-12:00 String Evaluation in the Next Round: DNS Stability, String Similarity, and IDN Variant Justification https://sched.co/29QOD 28-Oct-25 15:00-16:00 GNSO: BC Membership Work Session (1 of 2) https://sched.co/29QOb 29-Oct-25 09:00-10:00 SubPro IRT Work Session (5 of 6) Outreach, Engagement, and Communications https://sched.co/29QN7 29-Oct-25 16:30-17:30 SubPro IRT Work Session (6 of 6) Base Registry Agreement https://sched.co/29QOQ 30-Oct-25 15:00-16:00 GNSO: NCSG Wrap-up https://sched.co/29QP5 As Lars mentioned in yesterday’s IRT call, although we had originally scheduled six IRT meetings, with the IRT's work on the AGB now mostly complete, we are repurposing these sessions to brief the community on key Applicant Guidebook topics and allow for questions and answers. As a result, these sessions will not be run as IRT meetings but as open community sessions. In addition to the repurposed IRT sessions and the topics that will be covered during each of those sessions, as noted in the table above, there will also be a session that will cover DNS stability, String Similarity and IDN Variant Justification. This session will follow the same format as the repurposed IRT sessions. Should you be interested in any specific topics that are not covered in the sessions above, please let us know so we can plan these for future meetings and/or webinars. Best, Elisa