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.
RIPE Programme Committee
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Osama I. Al-Dosary |
Osama, formally a consultant at Cisco Systems, is currently an independent ICT consultant. He is also part of the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG), an international forum dedicated to the education and raising awareness of Internet best practices. |
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Cristóbal López Cañas |
I have been the manager of ESpanix for the past 15 years, taking the organization from an informal group of about 20 friends (of whom five disappeared during the post 2001 techno bubble bust) to a working organization with more than 75 members and four Points of Presence (PoPs). |
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Leslie Carr |
Leslie Carr is a Devops Engineer at Clover Health and a Board Member of SFMIX. |
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João Damas |
I am a member of the RIPE 73 Programme Committee as ESNOG’s host representative. |
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Peter Hessler |
Peter Hessler currently works as a Network Administrator for Hostserver GmbH. He is also a developer with the OpenBSD project, and is involved with OpenBGPD. |
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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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Jelte Jansen |
Jelte Jansen is a research engineer at SIDN Labs, the R&D team of SIDN. His research and development topics include the domain name system, Internet protocols, and privacy/identity management. |
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Shane Kerr |
Shane Kerr is the Chief Architect at the BII (Beijing Internet Institute) Lab. Shane started his involvement with Internet organisations when he worked at ARIN as a Software Engineer. |
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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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Alex Semenyaka |
Alex has more than 20 years of industry experience, from extra large operators to startups. He currently operates as Global Network Strategist for Qrator Labs, in addition to being External Relations Officer for the RIPE NCC with a mandate to focus specifically on the former Soviet Republics. |
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Marcus Stoegbauer |
Marcus is a network architect and CEO at man-da.de GmbH which operates a small regional research and education network in Germany. |
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Ondřej Surý |
Ondřej Surý is a Technical Fellow at CZ.NIC, the .CZ domain registry. He focuses on the domain name system, Internet protocols and security. He is currently responsible for Knot DNS and Knot Resolver projects (free-software DNS servers). |
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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. |
