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 12 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:
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Milad Afshari Term ends: RIPE 86 |
Milad Afshari is from Iran and has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Networking. He has over 8 years' experience in the network engineering field and has been working for ISPs in Iran. |
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Alexander Asimov Term ends: RIPE 87 |
Alexander Azimov is a Network Expert for Yandex, where he focuses on the network monitoring, routing security and transport layer architecture. |
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Mohamad Boroumand Term ends: RIPE 85 |
Mohamad has more than 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry and the Internet. |
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Fernando García Term ends: RIPE 85 |
Fernando García is a professional with more than 40 years of experience in computing and communications, first as a programmer and later as a network engineer. |
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Dmitry Kohmanyuk Term ends: RIPE 87 |
Dmitry Kohmanyuk graduated in 1992 from the Cybernetics Department of Kiev Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev (then Soviet Union, presently Ukraine), receiving a Masters Degree with honors. |
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Franziska Lichtblau Term ends: RIPE 86 |
Franziska is working as a PhD student in the field of Internet Measurement at TU Berlin. Read more... |
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Brian Nisbet PC Vice Chair RIPE Working Group Chair Representative |
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. Read more... |
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Khalid Samara MENOG Representative |
Khalid is a telecommunications and ISP expert with extensive experience in Internet, mobile, engineering and security technologies. He has acquired over a decade of experience in network planning, operations management, security and telecommunications policy development. |
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Massimiliano Stucchi Term ends: RIPE 88 |
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. |
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Wolfgang Tremmel Term ends: RIPE 88 |
After completing his degree at Karlsruhe University, Wolfgang started working as a network engineer in 1994. He went on to become head of network operations and peering manager at a range of ISPs. |
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Jan Žorž PC Vice Chair |
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. |