Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for Google. Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet.
Vint Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the British Computer Society, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Tunisian National Medal of Science, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award and eighteen honorary degrees. In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year’s “25 Most Intriguing People.”
His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
Miwa Fujii, Senior IPv6 Program Specialist, APNIC
Miwa Fujii is currently the APNIC Senior IPv6 Program Specialist. Her role is to assist the Asia Pacific Internet community in managing issues related to IPv4 address exhaustion and the transition to IPv6.
She is responsible for various projects that support the smooth transition to IPv6 including outreach activities to multi-stakeholders.
Miwa regularly represents APNICís view on the transition to IPv6 at global IPv6 Summits and Forums, intergovernmental organisations such as APEC, APT, SPC, and other conferences around the Asia Pacific region.
Jeroen Massar, Massar Networking
Jeroen is currently working for his own company Massar Networking performing advanced network research and development for a variety of international customers.Before starting his own company he worked at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in the field of Network Performance Profiling where he created the AURORA system for NetFlow and IPFIX analysis.Jeroen is also one partner of the duo operating the widely used SixXS project, a sparetime project that provides free IPv6 connectivity to thousands of users globally. In this project he developed and deployed the heartbeat, TIC and AYIYA protocols which are supported by the worldwide SixXS PoPs and the AICCU tool. AICCU enables IPv6 connectivity to users without hassle, it being in most important Open Source Operating System distributions and available for a myriad of platforms. To ensure that SixXS users can actually properly use IPv6 he also created the Ghost Route Hunter (GRH)project that monitors IPv6 BGP and over the years helped in debugging IPv6 routing issues.Jeroen tries to keep up with the IETF and IRTF communities participating in IPv6 and routing related working-groups. He also promotes adoption of IPv6 and has added IPv6 support to various tools such as PuTTY and fping
Christian Kaufmann, Director Network Architecture, Akamai Technologies
- Executive Board Member – Secretary at RIPE NCC
- RIPE MAT WG co-chair at RIPE
- Director Network Architecture at Akamai Technologies
14 years of experience in the internet environment as engineer and technical manager in various roles.
Specialties
- Building and maintaining IP peerings on a global scale.
- IP, BGP, MPLS, IPVPN, Peering, CISCO, Juniper, etc.
- Expertise in building and operating NOCs and Second Level Teams for global IP Networks.
- Capacity planning for transit free backbones and large scale CDNs.
- Regular speaker on international conferences, IX meetings and Universities.
Erick Huizer, CTO at SURFnet
I am married and a proud father of three beautiful daughters (Ajiet, Lotus and Dido). I do not drink any alcoholic beverages, so please don’t offer me a beer or wine.I am Managing Director Information Society at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research(TNO). Before that I was Scientific Director also at TNO. I am also a part-time professor Internet Applications at University of Utrecht. Topics I am involved in are: Media developments, Social Media, Digital Video archives, Privacy, Identity, copyright, DNS and the growing root, IPv6, Future Internet and Green ICT.From 2007-2008 I was Vice President for Internet and New Media at Technicolor. From 2000 till 2007 I was Director Strategy, innovation and Business Development with NOB Cross Media Facilities. From 2000 till 2004 I was part-time professor for Internet applications at Twente University. Until 2000 I was managing director of the SURFnet Expertise Center (SURFnet ExpertiseCentrum, SEC). I have been strongly involved with the GigaPort project, the Dutch project for the next generation Internet.Before that I used to work for SURFnet bv on projects that dealt with developing and introducing new services. I also initiated and participated in several EU projects, like the DESIRE 4th framework project. From 1991 till 1995 I was Area Director for the Applications area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as such a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). From 1995-2002 I was a member of the Internet Architecture Board. From 1999 till 2002 I was chairman of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).
Currently I am chairing the Dutch national IPv6 Task Force. I am also chair of the Board of Trustees of Stichting NLnet. I am serving on the Board of Trustees for the Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland, The Board of the Public Interest Registry (.org), the board of ECP , the Advisory board of Bits of Freedom, the board of IIP Create, member of the Kamer van Morgen of Kennisnet and the Advisory Board of Internet Society Nederland.
From 2002 till 2007 I was serving on the board of trustees of the Internet Society, from 2003-2006 I was serving on the Board of Directors of Eurofiber. From the start till mid 2000 I was member (later chairman) of the board of the Amsterdam Digital City (DDS), from 1999 to 2003 I was chairman of the board of The European Internet Seminars Foundation. I was a member of the Dutch Expert Group on Broadband, a member of the commissie Andriessen, a member of the Advisory Board for the Media- and Entertainment management program at the CHN university Netherlands and a pioneer member of the Internet Society. Co-founder of ECP NL and Internet Society Nederland.
Uwe Mühlender, Deutsche Telekom AG, Senior Expert Data/IP
Uwe Mühlender has experience in telecommunication business for over 30 years with Deutsche Telekom and its affiliates.He is responsible in the technology area of transport infrastructure for network nrchitecture, corporate R&D management, management of cross-divisional integration projects and special headquarters affaires including net neutrality, quality of service and IPv6. Furthermore he is involved in the elaboration of mid and long term corporate strategies.His managed project portfolio comprises international ATM and IP network deployments, international network management system and public R&D projects on a national and European scale as well as group internal projects with focus on analyzing NG transport technologies and architectures as future transport layer in Next Generation Networks (NGN) to any extent.As a member of the German IPv6 Council he takes actively part in the shaping of the common interest of industry, research, politics and administration in the IPv6 field in Germany.
He has a degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Telecommunications Engineering from the Moscow Post and Telecommunications Institute.
Christian JACQUENET, Director of Strategic Program Office for IP Networks at France Telecom
Christian JACQUENET graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille. In 1989, he joined the national directorate of France Telecom where he was in charge of the specification and of the technical support related to the deployment of the first internetworking service offerings of France Telecom.
In 1993, he joined the research labs of France Telecom (FTR&D) and, from 1993 to 1997, he has been working as an R&D engineer involved in the specification, the development and the evaluation of ATM-based internetworking service offerings.
From 1997 to 2002, he’s been the head of an R&D team which was in charge of the conception, the specification, the development and the validation of new IP service offerings based upon the use of various techniques including IPv6, IP multicast and dynamic policy enforcement schemes.
From 2002 to 2005, he was the head of the “IP services and architectures” team within the Long Distance Networks directorate of France Telecom. He was involved in the specification and the enforcement of France Telecom’s IP network design strategies.
From 2005 to 2008, Christian JACQUENET was the Director of Standards for France Telecom R&D, and chaired the board of the Home Gateway Initiative (www.homegatewayinitiative.org). He was also a member of the IPsphere Forum’s board of directors (www.ipsphereforum.org), and was also involved in IPTV service standardization activities through his vice-chairmanship within the IPTV Focus Group that was created by ITU- T.
He’s now the Director of the Strategic Program Office for the evolution of the IP backbones operated by France Telecom’s Group, and he’s responsible of the Group-wise IPv6 Program that aims at defining (and driving the enforcement of ) the IPv6 strategy of France Telecom.
He authored and co-authored several Internet drafts and RFCs in the field of dynamic routing protocols and provisioning techniques, as well as several papers and books in the area of (multicast) traffic engineering and automated production of services.
Yanick Pouffary, General Chair, IPv6 Ready & Enable Programs, Distinguished Engineer HP
Yanick Pouffary is a Distinguished Technologist and Chief Architect in the Office of the CTO within HP Services. Yanick draws upon nearly three decades of experience in the development of networking products and technologies. As Chief Architect, Yanick is tasked with developing network strategic vision and technology roadmaps for Network Services and Cloud Services offering. As HP IPv6 Global leader, Yanick is responsible for HP’s IPv6 strategy to adopt and deliver this technology. Yanick represents HP network technology interests in multiple industry standards development organizations and consortia.
Yanick Pouffary is a founding member of the IPv6 Forum (www.ipv6forum.org), an IPv6 Forum Fellow, North American IPv6 Task Force Technology Director (www.nav6tf.org) and General Chairperson for the IPv6 Logo Programs (Ready & Enabled & Education). Yanick is a strategic adviser to government agencies to assist in the deployment of IPv6 around the globe. Yanick is one of the distinguished recipients of the IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award for her technology contributions to support the adoption and deployment of IPv6. In May 2009 Yanick was appointed member of the United Nations Strategy Council of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.
She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Nice, France.
Jordi Palet, CEO/CTO Consulintel
Hisham Ibrahim, IPv6 Program Manager at AfriNIC, Mauritius
Gert Döring, Chairman of the Address Policy working group at RIPE
Gert Döring was born in 1971 in Munich. After studying Physics at the Technical University in Munich, he went into IP networking in 1993, and has done this since then. Gert‘s first contact with IPv6 was in 1997, being curious what this new IP protocol was all about. Since about 2003, Gert is responsible for running the production quality IPv6 network at SpaceNet AG, Munich.
Since January 2003, Gert is chairman of the Address Policy working group at RIPE, the body that forms the policy used in deciding how IPv6 addresses should be distributed in Europe.
Karine Perset, Internet policy analyst at the Information, Computer and Communications Policy Committee , OECD
Karine Perset is an economist and Internet policy analyst at the Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 30 member-country inter-governmental organisation based in Paris, France. She analyzes and monitors trends in information and communication technology, policy and market structure, with a particular focus on Internet infrastructure.
Eric Vyncke, Co-Chairman at IPv6 Council – Belgium, Distinguished System Engineer at Cisco Systems,
Eric graduated from the University of Liege, Belgium, in 1983 with a Master degree in Computer Science.
He worked for a couple of companies like Siemens where he was the architect of the firewall product and of the military message handling system.
Since 1997, he works for Cisco as a Distinguished Engineer reporting to the CTO by helping customers with security designs and since 2005 with IPv6 deployments. He assists product design by advising engineering teams in Cisco. His area of expertise includes the security aspects of LAN switching, IP telephony and IPv6.
He is a guest professor at a couple of Belgian Universities (where he helped the IPv6 deployment), participates regularly at the IETF (author of RFC 3585 & 5514). He is also a respected speaker at several conferences such as RSA Conferences.
He holds a CISSP certification.
He is the main author of ‘LAN Switch Security’ and the co-author of ‘IPv6 Security’. Hiswww.vyncke.org/ipv6status/ is an IPv6-deployment status reference.
Martin Levy, Hurricane Electric
Martin Levy has been involved in the TCP/IP world since the publication of the first TCP/IP RFCs in the early 80’s. Born and educated in England, Martin moved to the United States to work as a software developer at the prestigious Bell Labs. It was at Bell Labs where he ran their first TCP/IP network-enabled UNIX computers. After seven years in New Jersey, Martin moved to California and joined the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial-life to continue his focus on networking software and systems. Since then Martin has been building networks in California, the US, Europe, Latin America and now in Asia. Since joining Hurricane Electric in early 2008, Martin has taken on the role of significantly expanding Hurricane Electric’s IPv6 global connectivity services. Martin Levy’s major contribution to the IPv6 world while at Hurricane Electric has been his tireless pursuit in making IPv6′s global routing on-par or better than the existing Internet routing.
Jacques Babot, IPv6 Team Leader
European Commission – DG INFSO
John Curran President and CEO ARIN
John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception through early 2009.
John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive federal government and commercial applications. Prior to this, he was CTO for XO Communications, and was integral in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company’s nationwide network. Mr. Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was responsible for the organization’s strategic technology direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE.
He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.
Latif Ladid, IPv6 FORUM
- President, IPv6 FORUM (www.ipv6forum.com)
- Chair, European IPv6 Task Force (www.ipv6.eu )
- Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society – ISOC (www.isoc.org)
- IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board (www.ipv6ready.org)
- Senior Researcher @ SnT – University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects:
- 6INIT: First Pioneer IPv6 Research Project
- 6WINIT: Euro6IX – NGNi – Eurov6
- IPv6 Security & Privacy project – Security Expert Initiative (SEINIT)
- European Security Task Force project – SecurIST
- u-2010 Emergency & Disaster and Crisis Management
- Public Safety Communication Forum
- EFIPSANS project
- Secricom Safety & Security Project
- ceFIMS
- OUTSMART
- IoT6
- BUTLER
- LiceCity
- Freesic
- IPv6 Observatory
- Board Member of 3GPP PCG
- Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoc EntNET
- Member of UN Strategy Council GAID
- Member of the Future Internet Forum for Member States
- Board member of WSA
Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
Axel graduated from the University of Dortmund, Germany, with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. He was later employed at the University of Dortmund from 1985 to 1992, where he contributed to the establishment of UNIX networking as a publicly available service in Germany. This institution introduced Internet access services to the business community and general public.
From 1987-1991, he also served as a member of the Board of the German Unix Users Group (GUUG).
Understanding the demand for a commercial operation to provide Internet services, Axel founded EUnet Deutschland GmbH in 1992 and commercialised the operation. Under his leadership, EUnet Deutschland GmbH became the market leader in Germany and one of the strongest EUnet networks in Europe.