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/ -------------------- PC Elections -------------------- 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. --- Stay tuned to what’s happening at RIPE 81 by following @RIPEMeeting on Twitter and using the #RIPE81 hashtag. Kind regards, Martina de Mas RIPE Meetings Team