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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Osama I. Al-Dosary MENOG Representative |
Osama Al-Dosary has 18 years of local and international industry experience. He currently works for VMware’s Networking and Security Business Unit covering MENA. Read more... |
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Maria Isabel Gandía began working with networks in 1997. She began as a trainee at a non-profit organization called CESCA and evolved to a Network Technician, a Network Expert, a Technical Leader and finally the Head of the Networking Unit at CSUC, the Consortium for University Services in Catalonia. |
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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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Dmitry Kohmanyuk |
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 |
Franziska is working as a PhD student in the field of Internet Measurement at TU Berlin. Read more... |
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Pavel Lunin ENOG Representative |
Pavel is Network Product Manager at Scaleway, based in Paris. He has been engineering networks since 2003 and leading teams and projects since 2009. Before moving to France in 2015, he was CTO and co-founder at Senetsy, based in Moscow, Russia. |
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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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Benno Overeinder |
Benno Overeinder is managing director of 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. In this context, Benno is particularly interested how results from research have practical and operational implications on how we run our networks. |
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Khalid Samara |
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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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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Alireza Vaziri |
In 2003, Alireza Vaziri stepped into the Internet industry as the technical support of an ISP. It was around 2006 that he found his interest in network and system engineering. He worked with different ISPs and organisations as a System/Network Administrator until 2016 before going into cybersecurity. |
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Jan Žorž SEE Representative |
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. |