Name: GAC Strategic Planning and Operating Matters Discussion and Communique Review
Start: 2025-06-10T15:30:00+0200
End: 2025-06-10T17:00:00+0200

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ICANN83 Policy Forum will be held in Prague, Czech Republic at the Prague Congress Centre from 9-12 June 2025.
This will be a hybrid meeting with both in-person and virtual participation.
All sessions will be conducted during regular working hours in Prague, Czech Republic, (Central European Summer Time, CEST / UTC +2).

Prep Week will be conducted on 27 & 28 May 2025. The Prep Week schedule will be published on 5 May 2025.
The comprehensive schedule will be published on 19 May 2025.
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Tuesday June 10, 2025 15:30 - 17:00 CEST

Forum Hall (GAC)

15:30 CEST (UTC+2), 10 June 2025
13:30 UTC, 10 June 2025
Forum Hall (GAC)
ID# 16972

Session Details
15:30-16:30 - GAC Strategic Planning and Operating Matters DiscussionStrategic Planning:The GAC Leadership will discuss a revised timeline for developing the next GAC Annual Plan 2025/2026 in implementation of the GAC Strategic Plan 2024-2028 endorsed in the GAC ICANN80 Kigali Communiqué. GAC Leadership “caretakers” are planning to highlight envisioned updates in Expected Outcomes for relevant Strategic Objectives in the new Annual Plan 2025/2026. Operating Matters:GAC Members will conduct discussion and the final "deciding vote” to determine whether to approve a proposal agreed to by GAC Members during ICANN82 to revise the GAC Operating Principles regarding the timing of annual committee leadership elections and the terms of the GAC Chair and the GAC Vice Chairs.
16:30-17:00 - GAC Communique ReviewReview of the GAC Communique in preparation for the drafting sessions

Session Leader: Robert Hoggarth
Staff Facilitator: Julia Charvolen

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