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Join us in Atlanta for our first Interim Member Meeting in 2025!  

The Interim Meeting will focus on cross-project work, planning, and coordination. The new topic oriented sessions will combine committees in sessions designed to allow members to contribute to the projects related to their business.

Agenda at a Glance

Tuesday, 11 February - The Opening Plenary will cover MEF plans for 2025, the new MEF membership model, certification and committee updates.  We will combine  
The plenary will be followed by combined committee sessions to discuss details on cross-committee topics (projects that affect work in other committees), certification planning, and rules and procedures updates.

Wednesday, 12 February and Thursday, 13 February will feature two tracks; Business, focusing on Use Cases, Certification, and Technical, focusing on Services and APIs. Technical???

Thursday will host combined sessions to discuss progress and upcoming projects discussed during the week, followed by a meeting summary in the Closing Plenary.

have two tracks each of which will facilitate detailed discussions between two committees on continuity of work between them in different areas including NaaS, cybersecurity, L1-L3 connectivity and LSO automation.

Below needs inputEach committee will provide readouts in the Closing Plenary midday Thursday on the progress of work during the course of the members meeting.

As MEF continues to progress our important industry work, this year's Interim Member Meeting agenda will center around three key areas:

• Progressing our member-led committee projects and announcing new initiatives particularly in the areas of SASE standards and certifications, LSO APIs and supporting programs, NaaS accelerator projects and much more
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• Re-orienting member work around topic areas rather than siloing them in each committee
• Maximizing coordination between committees on work that can impact other committees' work
• Identifying where gaps exist and need to be addressed in the 'development lifecycle' of a given work area

Who Attends

• Committee chairs, project leaders, top subject matter experts and MEF executive staff
• Commercial, product, and technical contributors from service, cloud and technology providers, aggregators, systems integrators

Why Attend.  BELOW NEEDS INPUT

• Get the latest MEF work roadmaps and participate in interactive workshops on the topics of LSO API strategies and the new SASE Certification Program
• Engage in project works that relate to your business objectives and success
• Network with a formidable mix of networking professionals

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learn about work in specific topic areas

• Influence the direction and accelerate progress of work that impacts your company's strategic plans
• Bring yourself up to speed on MEF work that can impact your company's future revenues and network with the relevant subject matter experts and other leading networking industry professionals in the work areas of interest to your company
  
• Maximize the opportunities of your company to position itself as an industry, global and regional leader by familiarizing yourself with the various MEF programs like certification, marketing and NaaS federation

Meeting Registration

Wiki & WiFi Access and Assistance

Members need a Wiki account to access agendas and materials. Signup here or contact tom@mef.net for assistance. Non-members may register for the Opening Plenary which will be available to all via Zoom.

Committee meetings will be conducted face-to-face with Zoom and recordings for remote attendees – attendee links will be found on the committee agenda pages.

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