Dear colleagues, The first day of RIPE 83 kicked off with 1,036 attendees registered for the meeting. Here are the highlights: - The meeting was opened by Mirjam Kühne, the RIPE Chair, who welcomed attendees to our fourth fully virtual RIPE Meeting. - Presentations throughout the plenary sessions were well attended with over 500 participating on Meetecho and more joining in via the RIPE 83 livestream and YouTube. - We wrapped up the first day with Time to Talk, an online social event where attendees could meet with key RIPE community members and the RIPE NCC Executive Board. You can catch up with what happened on Day One by reading our Daily Meeting Report: https://ripe83.ripe.net/programme/report/ Today, we start with the Working Group sessions: Address Policy, IoT, Routing and Cooperation. You can find the meeting plan at: https://ripe83.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ Also, join the discussion at the BoF on the ‘The Future of Technical Training' scheduled today at 17:30 UTC+1: https://ripe83.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bofs/ -------------------- PC Elections -------------------- Call for nominations is still open until 15:30 (UTC+1) today. You can nominate yourself or someone else by sending an email with a biography, statement of interest and photographs, to pc [at] ripe [dot] net. There are currently two seats up for election to the RIPE Programme Committee. The RIPE PC online voting system will open today at 16:00 (UTC+1) and close on Thursday, 25 November at 17:00 (UTC+1). The results will be announced during the closing plenary on Friday. --- Stay tuned to what’s happening at RIPE 83 by following @RIPEMeeting on Twitter and using the #RIPE83 hashtag. Kind regards, RIPE Meetings Team