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2026 Sessions

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APAC Space Session at ICANN85 (Mumbai)

Date: 10 March 2026 (Tue)
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 IST; 05:00 – 06:30 UTC (Time Zone Converter)
Venue: Jio World Convention Centre, Room 204 A/B
Zoom Link: Zoom participation links will be published on the session page 24 hours before the start of session.

Agenda

  • Welcome and Introductions (3 mins), Samiran Gupta, Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director, APAC, ICANN

  • APAC Board Member Sharing (5 mins), Amitabh Singhal, ICANN Board Member

  • Community Sharing

    • Presentation on the Trusted Notifier Network (TNN) (10 mins) - Alban Kwan, Co-Founder and CEO, TNN

    • Updates on UA adoption (10 mins)

      • K. Mohan Raidu, President, ISOC Hyderabad chapter

      • Dr. N. Sudha Bhuvaneshwari, Director, KriVin Academy, Coimbatore & President, ISOC India Chennai Chapter

      • Kasun Tharaka Wickramasuriya, At-Large Member, Senior Community Leader, & National Coordinator for the UN IGF - Sri Lanka and Harsha Wijayawardhana, At-Large Member, Senior Community Leader, & COO/CTO, Theekshana R&D

    • Discussion on the New gTLD Round and the Role of APAC Youth (5 mins) - Om Prakash Sharma, Member, APIGA Nepal & Lead AI/ML Engineer, acAIberry

    • Project Jake Pilot Presentation: DNS Registration Data Disclosure (10 mins)

      • Dr. Steve Crocker, CEO, Edgemoor Research Institute

      • Jo-Fan Yu, Managing Director, Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC)

      • Klaus Stoll, COO, Edgemoor Research Institute

  • AOB: EcoInternet Index 2026: Preview (2 mins), Edmon Chung, CEO, DotAsia Organisation

  • Open Community Discussion (25 mins) - Community Facilitator: Gyan Tripathi, Lawyer and Tech Policy Advisor

  • Group Photo and Networking (20 mins)

 

Questions? Write to ICANN APAC Regional Office

Additional Information (to be updated once available)

For past years' sessions, please refer to the archive.