Schedule

Sunday, November 6

14:00 - 19:00 Panoramic tour of Sofia, visit to the National Museum of History
and the Boyana Church (depending on weather conditions) for speakers and guests. (Request an invitation)
Shuttles will be available at 14:00 in from of the venue hotel.
20:00 - 23:30 Informal traditional Bulgarian dinner for speakers and guests at "Vodenitsata" (The Watermill) restaurant. (Request an invitation)
Shuttles will be available at 19:15 in from of the venue hotel.

Monday, November 7

08:00 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 09:15 Opening
09:15 - 09:45 Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO of ICANN
09:45 - 10:15 An introduction to ICANN's new gTLD program
Stéphane Van Gelder, NetNames / Indom
10:15 - 10:45 ICANN and Internet governance: "governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles"
Avri Doria
10:45 - 11:15 System for registration of domain names in .BG
Dragomir Slavov, Register.BG
11:15 - 11:35 How to apply for a new gTLD
Ben Crawford, Centralnic
11:35 - 12:00 Why companies should apply for a dot brand TLD
Andreas Soll, Key-Systems
12:00 - 12:30 Discussion: Intellectual property in the new gTLDs

Panelists:
Dr. George Dimitrov, Law Firm Dimitrov, Petrov & Co
Nickolay V. Kiskinov, Law Firm Penkov, Markov & Partners
12:30 - 13:00 Dispute committee to "Register.bg" - procedure and practice
Marin Marinov and Ivayla Dimitrova
13:00 - 13:30 The Equivalent of Urban Planning in Community TLDs: Why and How
Werner Staub, CORE
13:30 - 14:15 Lunch break
14:15 - 14:45 Discussion: IDN experiences from the region

Moderator:
Julian Borislavov, ICN.Bg / UNINET

Panelists:
Nelly Stoyanova, Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications
Nenad Orlić, RNIDS
George Papapavlou
14:45 - 15:10 IDN Update [1], [2]
Veni Markovski, ICANN
15:10 - 15:30 .MOSCOW: the perspectives of city TLD implementation for Russian capital
Sergey Gorbunov, RU-CENTER
15:30 - 15:45 Two strings within one Registry: Multilingual solutions for brandTLDs with IDN and ASCII
Elisei Rotaru, TANGO REGISTRY SERVICES ®
15:45 - 16:15 The new role of registrars in the new gTLD world
Thosten Smeets, Key-Systems
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:15 Discussion: new gTLDs from registrar point of view

Moderator:
Lyubomir Rusanov, SuperHosting.BG / UNINET

Panelists:
Stéphane Van Gelder, NetNames / Indom
Michele Neylon, Blacknight
17:15 - 17:45 IPv4 Depletion and IPv6 Deployment in the RIPE NCC Service Region
Nathalie Trenaman, RIPE
17:45 – 18:15 Increasing the Internet security through DNSSEC
Daniel Kalchev, Register.BG
18:15 – 18:45 Dealing with cybersecurity threats: role of Registrars
Dr. Andrzej Bartosiewicz, Yonita
19:45 - 23:00 Informal evening reception

Tuesday, November 8

10:00 - 12:00 Private meetings

The schedule and the timing are subject to change.