Speakers

Nina has 20+ years experience of the global internet community. She recently joined network observability company Kentik, where she focuses on supporting the company’s service providers users. Nina has served on program committees and IXP boards, she is an active industry speaker, and she is co-chair of RIPE’s MAT Working Group.

 
Ben Cartwright-Cox is a systems engineer in the day, and
bad-ideas-blogger on the side. After building a WAF, Countless
protocols, and rejigging a Bank’s payment gateways. Ben is currently
focused on making day to day BGP operations less awful at his
self-owned company bgp.tools.
 
bgp.tools is at the core a BGP route collection project. Until now it
has been using eBGP multihop with no IXP presence, however is now
expanding into IXPs. Since building low bandwidth applications on IXP
is expensive, learn in this talk about the creative ways I am reducing
the cost of doing so!

Florian leads the Systems Engineering team at Arista Networks in Germany. Before joining Arista in 2017, he held technical and management positions at Service Providers and IXPs for 17 years, deepening his knowledge across Engineering, Architectural and Strategic subjects. Since the beginning of his career, Florian has been an active member of the global internet community and continues to contribute to the community.

József is responsible for the network and the central IT services of the
Wigner Research Centre for Physics (https://wigner.hu/en). He is also an
active open source developer: longstanding Netfilter coreteam member
(https://netfilter.org/) and author, maintainer of the ipset subsystem
and tool.

Alex Kozlov is a writer at Qrator Labs – cybersecurity company providing DDoS attacks mitigation and BGP analytics services.

Network engineer who has shifted his focus on networking research, while recently became a founder/entrepreneur.
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Code BGP (https://www.codebgp.com/).
Prior to founding Code BGP, Lefteris has worked at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) as a research engineer, and a member of the INSPIRE research group.
For more info, please check his personal web page: https://manassakis.net/

Harald is in charge of the operational coordination of the Austrian Academic Computer Network ACOnet (www.aco.net) and the Vienna Internet eXchange VIX (www.vix.at). Harald is also an active participant of international working groups within RIPE and Euro-IX and the community of NREN operators. He has been a board member of Euro-IX since October 2013 and also one of the co-authors of the IXP-wishlist (www.euro-ix.net/ixp-wishlist), a document that defines features that should be supported by network-equipment for running an IXP.

Arnold Nipper is the Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE) and Co-Founder of DE-CIX. Before that, he served as DE-CIX’ CTO/COO for more than 15 years and is also on the Board of Directors of SwissIX since 02/2022. Since 12/2008, Arnold has worked for PeeringDB. Since PeeringDB became an association, he has also been a Director of PeeringDB. Until 11/2016, Arnold was also a Director of Euro-IX.

Arnold Nipper is one of the Internet pioneers in Germany and has 30+
years of work experience. He was instrumental in setting up one of the first commercial ISP in Germany, was involved in setting up the DE-NIC, and co-founded RIPE in 1989.

Massimiliano “Max” Stucchi joined the Internet Society in 2019 as
Technical Advisor for the European Bureau. His previous experiences are
as a trainer and IPv6 Programme Manager at the RIPE NCC, and before that
he was the founder and technical director of a small Internet Service
Provider and Wireless Internet Service Provider in Northern Italy.
Max is a long time Unix fellow, with a specific love for FreeBSD and
OpenBSD, which he’s been using for around 20 years now. His interest
also cover BGP, Routing Security, DNS and of course, IPv6. If possible,
he tries to contribute to the development of these technologies by
participating in the IETF.
In his past, Max used to be an official football referee for the Italian
Football Federation, but he quit when he moved to the Netherlands for work.
Now, when he’s not in front of a keyboard, you can find him trying to
get back in shape by running or mountain biking in the woods around his
house.
Max speaks Italian, English, French, and is trying to improve his
German. He is based near Zurich, Switzerland.