The RIPE Programme Committee is responsible for ensuring that the RIPE Meeting programme consists of interesting, relevant and inspiring content. We recruit, select and schedule the plenary of the RIPE Meeting.
Contact the RIPE Programme Committee: pc [at] ripe [dot] net.
Join the RIPE Programme Committee
The RIPE PC is adding new members. Consider joining at RIPE 67 in Athens.
RIPE Programme Committee
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Osama I. Al-Dosary |
Osama is a Consulting Systems Engineer working for Cisco’s Emerging Technology Group, supporting Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe for Physical Security. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Networks from the University of Southern California. |
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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. |
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Mike Hughes |
Mike is a freelance consultant with over 15 years of industry experience, specialising in areas of multi-stakeholder relations, peering and interconnect, and technical evangelism. |
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Elisa Jasinska |
Elisa Jasinska started her Internet career as a Network Engineer at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange in 2005. After 5 years at AMS-IX and two years as a Senior Packet Herder at Limelight Networks, Elisa joined Microsoft as a Senior Network Toolsmith in 2012. |
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Shane Kerr |
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. |
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Brian Nisbet |
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. |
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Benno Overeinder |
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. |
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Andreas Polyrakis |
Andreas Polyrakis is the NOC Technical Manager at the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET). GRNET provides connectivity and advanced networking, computing and storage services to the Greek educational, academic and research community. GRNET also operates the Greek Internet Exchange (GR-IX). |
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Andrei Robachevsky |
Andrei Robachevsky joined the Internet Society’s Standards & Technology Department in March 2011. |
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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. |
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Filiz Yilmaz |
Filiz Yilmaz is currently an independent Internet Governance and Policy Consultant. |
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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. |
