The RIPE Programme Committee
The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) 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.
Comprised of up to 11 volunteers from different parts of the RIPE community, the RIPE PC plans and develops the programme for each RIPE Meeting.
The current PC members are:
Valerie Aurora
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 91
Valerie Aurora first began working in networking in 2000, writing drivers for obscure supercomputing network interconnects.
Eric Andrei Băleanu
RIPE 91 Host Representative
Eric Andrei Băleanu has been an active member of the Internet and network operators’ community in Romania and Eastern Europe for over 20 years.
Osama Al-Dosary
MENOG Representative
Osama is a seasoned professional with an extensive engineering background, currently serving as an Independent Advisor for organizations and consulting firms in the technology and telecommunications sectors.
Babak Farrokhi
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 93
Babak is the Director of Operations at Quad9, a free and widely trusted Protective Public DNS Resolver that safeguards millions of users globally against cyber threats.
Franziska Lichtblau
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 91
Franziska has a background in Internet measurement research with a focus on interconnection and BGP, and now works at SAP developing and supporting an internal infrastructure as a service cloud platform.
Kevin Meynell
RIPE PC Member
Term Ends: RIPE 92
Kevin is currently working for the SCION Association. He worked for the Internet Society from 2015 until 2023.
Brian Nisbet
PC Vice Chair, RIPE Working Group Chair Representative
Brian Nisbet is the RIPE Programme Committee's Vice Chair and the RIPE Working Group Chairs representative.
Amedeo Beck Peccoz
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 94
Amedeo is currently serving as Head of Strategy at ESpanix, the largest IXP in Iberian Peninsula.
Antonio Prado
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 93
An open source enthusiast, Antonio Prado is currently the Chief Technology Officer at AS59715.
Massimiliano Stucchi
RIPE PC Chair
Term ends: RIPE 92
Massimiliano “Max” Stucchi runs Glevia GmbH, an organisation providing training and consulting related to networking. In his spare time, he also runs AS58280 as a hobby ASN, and participates in both the CH-IX and IXP.ge NOCs.
Clara Wade
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 94
Since 2022, Clara has been helping develop the IP address strategy at AWS, where she is also an inclusion ambassador.
Jan Žorž
PC Vice Chair, SEE Representative, BCOP Task Force Chair
Jan Žorž is a VP of 6connect Labs, working on the development of various protocols and network solutions to accelerate the global deployment of IPv6.