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Featured Article, August 25, 2022

Ken Bour is a former consultant for ICANN, where he worked from 2008 through 2017. Over the course of his career, he became a senior executive and had 45 years of experience in all aspects of corporate management, financial accounting/administration, infrastructure/operations, customer service, I/T, software development, and HR/benefits. He sold his company Netvantage in October 2007 to a private equity firm and completed a successful executive transition through July 2008. After 12 years as President/CEO of a software company, he started KBPraxis LLC, a management consulting firm. In August 2008, he became a full-time consultant with ICANN, helping them with a large-scale process re-engineering and organizational change initiative involving the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). His specialties include executive management, organizational design/development, program/project management, and process reengineering.

In the News

• Online and in-person registration for RIPE 85 is now open. The conference will take place in Belgrade, Serbia from October 25 through 28.
• NARALO will hold a General Assembly during ARIN50 from 20–21 October 2022 in Hollywood, California.
• Registration for ICANN 75 Annual General Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is open! ICANN 75 will be a hybrid event from 17–22 September 2022.
• The joint APNIC54 and APrIGF2022 conference will be held virtually and in-person 8–15 September at the Grand Hyatt Singapore.
• NamesCon is happening from August 31 to September 3, 2022, in Austin, TX.
• On August 11, the 2022 Nominating Committee announced its selections for:
  • the ICANN Board (Maarten Botterman, Christopher Chapman, Sajidur Rahman);
  • the Public Technical Identifiers Board of Directors (Tobias Sattler);
  • the At-Large Advisory Committee (Eduardo Díaz, Tommi Karttaavi);
  • the Country Code Names Supporting Organization Council (Olga Cavalli); and
  • the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council (Anne Aikman-Scalese).

Those selected will begin their terms at the conclusion of ICANN 75.

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