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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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.
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Antonio Prado Term ends: RIPE 89 |
An open source enthusiast, Antonio Prado is currently the Chief Technology Officer at AS59715, a local government body in Italy. He has been active in IT since 1993 and was an early adopter of IPv6. |
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Moin Rahman Tern ends: RIPE 89 |
Moin is currently pursuing his Masters Degree in Computer Security. He has 16+ years of professional experience running Network Operators in the Asia Pacific region. |
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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 Zorz is a VP of 6connect Labs, working on development of various protocols and network solutions to accelerate the global deployment of IPv6. |