Biographies

 

Osama I. Al-Dosary – MENOG Representative

Osama, formally a Consultant at Cisco Systems, is currently an Independent ICT Consultant. He also serves as the Chair of the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG), which is a volunteering group dedicated to the education and raising awareness of Internet best practices. Additionally he serves in the RIPE Program Committee. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Networks from the University of Southern California. He has over 14 years of industry experience across various roles in the field of Computer Networking and Communications.

The roles he has undertaken during his career have ranged from Business Development; Research and Development; Network Engineering and Administration; System Administration; Service Provider Network Operations and Network Planning; to Technical Marketing.

Osama is also affiliated with many industry institutes and associations such as the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers); ISOC (Internet Society); APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association); COMPSOC (Computer Society); SANOF (Saudi Arabian Network Operators Forum).

Łukasz Bromirski

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Łukasz begun his networking career in 1997 working with various telecommunication areas. In 2006 moved to Cisco, and while reaching for his double CCIE (Routing&Switching and Service Providers) and CCDE, was responsible for Partners and projects spanning various technologies and types of customers.

Actively engaged in various networking projects outside of his work at Cisco, focused on education and best practices sharing.

Creator of BGP Blackholing project; author of self-developed IPv6, MPLS, QoS, multicast, IGP and BGP, SP Security and CCIE bootcamp hands-on trainings; Co-creator of PLNOG and active speaker on other conferences, also leader of Cisco ISP SWAT team, coordinating efforts to help defend Service Provider networks under active attack around the world.

Will Hargrave

Will Hargrave

Will is a director at LONAP, the U.K.’s second largest internet exchange. Will also works as a U.K.-based network consultant, providing technical and commercial advice to network operators.

He has been a part of programme committees at Euro-IX and UKNOF, and previously built networks at Imperial College, London.

Mike Hughes

mike_hughes122x165Mike is a freelance consultant with over 15 years of industry experience, specialising in areas of multi-stakeholder relations, peering and interconnect, and technical evangelism.

Despite having a degree which has nothing to do with computing, Mike’s technical skills were forged in the fires of dial-up ISP tech support and network ops in the mid- to late-1990s, having to do mighty hacks to make things work, and the power of asking someone to /”Reboot and if it
still doesn’t work, phone back”/.

Mike also serves on the Board of Directors and Programme Committee of UKNOF, and is Chair of the Board of Trustees of University of Greenwich Student’s Union.

Shane Kerr – PC Vice Chair

Shane Kerr is the Director of DNS Software at the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), which is best known for making the BIND DNS server. Shane started his involvement with Internet organizations when he worked at ARIN as a software engineer. While there he helped implement ARIN’s first IPv6 registry.

Since then he moved to the RIPE NCC, working on the RIPE Database and eventually managed the RIPE NCC software engineering department. Shane started at ISC working on the ISC team that added DHCPv6 support to the ISC DHCP server.

In addition to his ISC role, he is currently one of the RIPE IPv6 working group co-chairs and part of the RIPE program committee.

Brian Nisbet – RIPE Working Group Chair Representative

Brian Nisbet is the RIPE Working Group Chairs representative on the RIPE Programme Committee. He has been active in the RIPE community since RIPE 48 and he currently co-chairs the Anti-Abuse Working Group. His day job is Network Operations Manager for HEAnet, the Irish NREN, where he mostly makes sure the packets are flowing in the right direction.

Benno Overeinder – PC Vice Chair

Benno Overeinder is a Senior Research Engineer at NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs is a non-profit research lab whose mission is to build a bridge between academic results and practical deployment of new technology in our networks. As a research engineer, Benno is particularly interested how results from research have practical and operational implications on how we run our networks.

Before joining NLnet Labs in 2007, Benno obtained his MSc. and PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Until 2001, he was a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and from 2001 to 2007, he worked as an assistant professor at the VU University Amsterdam. His topics of interest were parallel & distributed computing, run-time support and middleware systems, grid computing and resource management, intelligent autonomous systems and autonomic computing.

At NLnet Labs, Benno’s topics of interest are inter-domain routing (BGP dynamics, stability, and scalability – measurement and analysis), routing control plane configuration and management, inter-domain routing security, IPv6 deployment, and Internet measurements at large. He is also active in a number of IETF working groups.

Andrei Robachevsky – ENOG Representative

Andrei Robachevsky joined the Internet Society’s Standards & Technology Department in March 2011.

Prior to joining ISOC, Andrei was Chief Technical Officer of the RIPE NCC, leading the development of company’s IT strategy, external and internal IT services, and work of the engineering departments. He was responsible for the deployment of DNSSEC for the reverse DNS tree and deployment of anycast instances of the K-root DNS server.

Andrei brings to the Internet Society more than 10 years of experience in the Internet technical community. For more than a decade, he is actively following Regional Internet Registry (RIR) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) activities. He was Chair of the Number Resource Organization’s (NRO) Engineering Coordination Group (ECG), which is responsible for various technical inter-RIR activities and projects. Since 2010, Andrei has been a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

Andrei is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Job Snijders

Job is actively involved in the Internet community both in an operational capacity and as a founder of cooperation efforts such as the NLNOG RING.

He has taught service providers in the Middle East how to deploy IPv6 and is involved in the IETF LISP Working Group.

He currently holds a senior engineering position at Atrato IP Networks.

Filiz Yilmaz – PC Chair

Filiz Yilmaz is currently an independent Internet Governance and Policy Consultant.

She previously held the position of Senior Director, Participation and Engagement at ICANN, where she developed engagement, participation and outreach programs and strategies to bring new participants into the ICANN Community and increase the participation and engagement level of all stakeholders within the multi-stakeholder environment of ICANN.

From 2001 to 2010, Filiz worked at the RIPE NCC – a Regional Internet Registry based in Amsterdam – where she initially held positions in Internet number resource registration and management, and delivering training courses on Internet number resource policy, DNSSEC and Routing Registry. Filiz later acted as Policy Development Manager, where she continued working with the RIPE community in policy development, documentation of the proposal and policies, analysing and tracking policy proposals, and supporting policy implementation internally within the RIPE NCC itself.

After receiving her BSc Degree in Mathematics in 1996, Filiz worked at the Middle East Technical University Computer Center – the institution that played a key role in bringing Internet access and IT services to Turkey. She managed the development of a university-wide net ethics program and led training courses on newly-introduced UNIX and Internet applications.

On moving to the Informatics Institute, she took part in research projects and, in 2001, received her MSc Degree in Cognitive Science. Her thesis – A Computational Analysis of Information Structure in Turkish – was recognized as Thesis of the Year. She is still participating in TRNOG and is among the leading team to establish an ISOC Chapter in Turkey.

Jan Žorž

Jan Žorž started his professional career in the RS-232/VAX VMS world in 1992 and continued through Novell and Windows environments all the way to Solaris and other UNIX derivatives that represent the native environment for the majority of his projects.

Jan is one of the pioneers of SiOL, the Slovenian national ISP, and has been involved in the organisation from the beginning. Among other activities, he began experimenting in 1997 with Internet streaming multimedia content. Based on these experiments, he successfully accomplished projects such as “Dhaulagiri ’99 Live” (an Internet multimedia transmission of Tomaz Humar’s solo climb of the south wall of Dhaulagiri (called Death Zone) in the Himalayas), “Ski Everest Live 2000″ (an Internet live-video transmission and monitoring of extreme skiing from the summit of Mt. Everest by Davo Karnicar) and other similar projects. Together with two other members of team “Dhaulagiri ’99 Live”, Jan received a media award/statue “Victor” for special achievement.

For the last seven years, Jan has been working as a consultant in the IT field, specialising in IPv6. He co-founded the Go6 Institute (not-for-profit), a Slovenian IPv6 initiative whose main objective is to raise IPv6 awareness in Slovenia and alert the community to the fact that we are approaching extensive changes on the Internet.

Due to the Go6 Institute, Slovenia is currently leading the EU as the country most prepared for IPv6 (according to the RIPE NCC’s IPv6 RIPEness study). Jan has been invited to present around the world on his work, the model of the Go6 platform, and IPv6 awareness raising and deployment at the national level. These speaking engagements have included conferences such as many RIPE Meetings and the Google IPv6 Implementors Conference 2010, Internet Governance Forum meetings, World IPv6 Congresses in Paris and London as well as national forums in Germany, Greece, Norway, Macedonia and many others.

Jan is also primary co-author of very successful procurement (specification) paper, published as an official RIPE Best Current Practice document RIPE-501, entitled “Requirements For IPv6 in ICT Equipment”. This document is translated into more than 10 languages and is used around the world by enterprises and governments when requesting IPv6 in ICT equipment purchases. RIPE-501 was recently replaced by RIPE-554, also co-authored by Merike Kaeo and Sander Steffann.

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