[ripe-list] RIPE 81 Highlights Day 1

Dear colleagues,

The first day of RIPE 81 kicked off with 1173 attendees registered for 
the meeting.

Here are the highlights.
The meeting was opened by Mirjam Kuhne, the RIPE Chair, who welcomed 
attendees for our second fully virtual RIPE Meeting.

Presentations throughout the plenary sessions were well attended with 
over 680 participating on Meetecho and more joining in via the RIPE 81 
livestream.

We faced a few technical problems at the beginning, but those were 
resolved by the afternoon sessions. Thank you to all our speakers and 
participants for your patience and support yesterday!

We wrapped up the first day with informal sessions to meet the new RIPE 
Chair Mirjam Kuhne and Vice Chair Niall O'Reilly and the RIPE NCC 
Executive Board. You can catch up with what happened on Day One by 
reading our Daily Meeting Report:
https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/report/

Today we start with the working group sessions: Address Policies, DNS, 
Connect, Cooperation, MAT and RIPE NCC Services.
You can find the meeting plan here:
https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/

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PC Elections
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Voting is open for two seats on the RIPE Programme Committee, and we 
have four nominees. Vote for your preferred candidates before the 
deadline tomorrow at 17:30 CET (UTC+1).

Results will be announced during the closing plenary on Friday.

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Kind regards,
Martina de Mas
RIPE Meetings Team