Abstract: Described are systems and methods for using a network-control application to dynamically reconfigure a Software Defined Networking (SDN) in response to detected internal or external events. The network-control application can receive, via an SDN controller, an operational status of the SDN network to determine whether a user-configured policy is applicable and should be applied on the SDN network. The network-control application can receive, via one or more data sources external to the SDN network, information including an event and a geographical indicator to determine whether a user-configured policy is applicable and should be applied on the SDN network. Once a policy is selected, the network-control application can be configured to generate and transmit a command to the SDN controller to cause the SDN controller to reconfigure the SDN network in accordance with the policy. Therefore, the SDN network may be preemptively reconfigured before severe degradation occurs.