V6 WORLD CONGRESS 2012

Tore Anderson REDPILL LINPRO AS

Tore Anderson designs and maintains the data center infrastructure and the network backbone that supports open-source company Redpill Linpro's hosting and application management platforms throughout the Nordics. He has worked on IPv6 deployment since 2008.
In mid-2009, in collaboration with his customers APDM and VG, two or Norway's largest web sites, he initiated a project that attempted to quantify the so-called «IPv6 Brokenness» problem, pinpoint any underlying causes, and most importantly: getting them fixed. By late 2010, the situation had significantly improved, and both APDM and VG agreed to dual-stack their services. They have not looked back since;
IPv6 service remains in full production for both sites.
With the IPv6 brokenness problem solved, at least in the Nordics, his focus has changed from turning on IPv6 to turning off IPv4, with the aim to both reduce the network complexity that comes with dual-stack operation, and to preserve precious IPv4 addresses.
His web page, which includes contact information and links to the IPv6 brokenness measurement pages, is available at http://www.fud.no/

Eddie Arrage Market Development Manager IXIA

Eddie has held senior positions in marketing, engineering, and business development in the test and measurement industry for ten years. He has worked on test methodologies in a diverse set of technologies including security, web infrastructure, multicast, IPv6, routing, and switching. At Ixia, Eddie has a market development role, defining and driving marketing plans for the L2/3 business segment, which covers broadband access, mobile backhaul, core network, and data center. In his prior work, he led a “spin-in” to develop a WiMAX/LTE, RF base station test platform. At Spirent, he worked in a variety of senior roles, defining next generation software platforms and automation environments. Eddie holds a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.

Jacques Babot
IPV6 Team Leader
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - DG INFSO

Javier Benitez Senior Network Architect & Strategy COLT

Javier lives in Barcelona, Spain, and is currently member of the Network Strategy & Architecture team responsible for defining the mid to long term target architecture for Colt. His main areas of responsibility and research are IP, MPLS, Ethernet & Optical. Previous to his current position, he worked for 10 years in Colt’s Network Engineering team designing its IP/MPLS Network and Services. Javier holds a Telecommunications Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain, 1996) and a MSEE Degree from Stanford University (CA, USA, 1999).

Wilhelm Boeddinghaus Head of Network STRATO

Wilhelm Boeddinghaus, born 1968, graduated from University of Applied Sciences Berlin. He started his career as founder and CEO of an ISP in Berlin. Starting in 2002, he became Head of Network at Strato AG, a hosting provider in Berlin, who offers services to more than 1.4 million customers. Wilhelm was involved in the design and implementation of IPv6 in the Strato network. Today IPv6 is offered in most products, including the shared hosting platform for many million domains.

Ron Broersma, Chief Engineer of the Defense Research and Engineering Network DREN

John Brzozowski COMCAST

At Comcast, John provides technical leadership and guidance for our deployment of IPv6 across all of our services. He leverages his expertise and experience to drive the adoption and implementation of IPv6 in the real world and at scale, ensuring that innovative solutions are in place to support traditional and next generation services. John has contributed significantly to many standards and technologies critical to the adoption of IPv6 globally, across voice, video, and Internet networks and services. He works closely with CableLabs on DOCSIS and PacketCable specifications, and is very involved with the IETF, where he is co-chair of the DHC working group. John also is chair of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) IPv6 Working Group and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) IPv6 Deployment Working Group as well as an active contributor on a range of IPv6 issues globally.

Jeffrey Carrell NETWORK CONVERSIONS

Jeff Carrell is a frequent industry speaker, freelance writer, and technical lead and co-author on Guide to TCP/IP 4th edition (target release date in spring 2012). Jeff focuses on IPv6 systems interoperability, and delivers lectures and IPv6 hands-on labs at technical conferences worldwide.
Jeff is also a long-time network systems and security instructor, and course developer to HP Networking, and also provides network consulting services with an emphasis in security on wired, wireless and VoIP networks.
His involvement in the computer industry for 33 years has culminated in the concentration of his endeavors in the internetworking portion of the industry for over 26 of those years. Jeff has enjoyed successful career advancements with several network equipment manufacturers, ie., Foundry Networks (acquired by Brocade Networks) and HP Networking, as a pre-sales consulting engineer and technical instructor. In an end-user position he has designed mission-critical/high-availability networks.

Claire Cheng Senior Product Planner D-LINK CORP
Claire Cheng (Hsiu-Ju, Cheng) is a Senior Product Planner at D-Link Corporation/HQ based in Taipei, Taiwan.
She Joined D-Link in 2008 as a product planner in Wireless & Router Product Division.
Solid background in product design and product planning, with strong emphasis in marketing research analysis and project management.
Claire is currently responsible for IPv6 research in D-Link Corporation. In this role, she also helps to define IPv6 wireless product specifications as well as IPv6 product strategy. She is active in global IPv6 activities that aim at delivering D-Link IPv6 readiness to the industry.

Dean Cheng Principle Engineer HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES

Expert in IP routing, MPLS, IPv6, and control protocols
Co-editor of WT-242 (IPv6 transition technology) at Broadband Forum since 2010
Worked at Burroughs Corporation, Quotron Systems, Retix Systems, Polaris Networks, Stratacom and Cisco Systems since 1983 with totally 28 years experiences in data communication and networking industry
Participant of IETF (since 1991), ITU-T (editor of G.7715.2), ATM/MPLS/Broadband Forum, OIF with many contributions

Suman Choudhary Chief Engineer of Network Product Line HUAWEI

B.E. in Wireless Communication, Mysore University, India
Currently responsible for IPv6 solution planning for European operators.
Previous work experience in product development for core and access product lines in Huawei

Wouter Cloetens Architect Core Gateway SOFTATHOME

Wouter Cloetens has a long history as an embedded systems software architect on open source operating systems. Among other achievements, he developed Newtec's Sat3Play two-way satellite broadband modem, deployed globally.
He is currently the architect of SoftAtHome's residential triple play broadband (mainly DSL, FTTH) modem software stack, and has been since the company was founded in 2008 by France Telecom, Sagem communications and Thomson (now Technicolor).
He puts his twenty years of networking experience to daily use, driving the development of IPv6 functionality on the gateway since 2009, and acting as the company's internal IPv6 advocate. He works in close cooperation with various vendors of integrated DSL gateway SoC's. A bit of his spare time is dedicated to contributing to the IETF's HomeNet Working Group and the Belgian IPv6 Council.
Would you like to know where the IPv6 ready CPE has been all this time?
Wouter is the right person to ask.

John Curran President and CEO ARIN

John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception through early 2009.
John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive federal government and commercial applications. Prior to this, he was CTO for XO Communications, and was integral in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company’s nationwide network. Mr. Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was responsible for the organization’s strategic technology direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE.
He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.

Dr. Ralph Droms Distinguished Engineer CISCO

Dr. Ralph Droms is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer in Research and Advanced Development and an Internet Area Director in the IETF. The newly formed IETF homenet Working Group, which is focusing on the evolution of small residential networks with the deployment of IPv6, is one of the Working Groups he is responsible for. Prior to his appointment as Internet Area Director, Dr. Droms organized the IETF dhc Working Group in 1989 and chaired the Working Group until 2009. He has acted as editor for many of the DHCP specifications and has authored more than 20 RFCs as well as "The DHCP Handbook". In addition to his work in the IETF, he was editor for the IPv6 requirements in the CableLabs DOCSIS 3.0 specification and has contributed to other standards bodies. At Cisco, he is currently contributing to the development of protocol standards for Smart Grid, as well as the design and development of IPv6-capable SOHO and home routers. Before he came to Cisco, Dr. Droms was on the faculty at Bucknell and Penn State universities. He has also been on the research staff at both IBM and Burroughs (Unisys).

Alain Durand
IETF Softwires Co-chair
JUNIPER NETWORKS

Johannes Endres Editor In Chief HEISE ONLINE

A trained physicist Johannes started his networking career at a university data center. After joining the editorial staff of Germany's most influential IT magazine c't in 1997 his main interest was to spread knowledge on computer networks. Since 2006 he's the editor in chief of heise online's networking technology portal "heise Netze". Johannes was the driving force behind www.heise.de becoming a dual stack site in 2009

Jason Fesler Senior Principal Architect YAHOO!

Jason Fesler is a Distinguished Architect at Yahoo!, leading the efforts on "IP Survivability". His focus is on providing the technical leadership on moving Yahoo! towards IPv6, as well as evangelical efforts promoting IPv6 both within the company and beyond. Most recently, he successful drove Yahoo's participation in World IPv6 Day.
Jason is a 12 year veteran of large scale production operations roles, and 15 year veteran in internet software development. He has been with Yahoo! since 2003. Jason additionally authors and maintains the "test-ipv6.com" web site, where people can validate and debug their system's compatibility with the next generation Internet protocol.

Karsten Fleischhauer DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG DTNP GMBH

Mr. Fleischhauer joined Deutsche Telekom in the early 1990ties where he - amongst several other positions - analyzed emerging technologies and markets - such as IP-Multicast, IMS, Naming, Numbering & Addressing and IPv6 - from a technology management perspective regarding a potential usage by Deutsche Telekom.
From 2008 to end of 2011 Mr. Fleischhauer served as a project lead of the department Fixed Mobile Engineering Germany within the project IPv6 introduction fixed network Germany”. Here he faced all aspects of IPv6 introduction and migration within a carrier environment as backbone and access network, service platforms and network management as well as advising the IPv6 architecture activities in the mobile network part of DT.
In his current position Mr. Fleischhauer act as a Senior Expert NGN in the department Internet Access Platforms.
Mr. Fleischhauer presented already IPv6 related topics several times in different conferences and meetings (e.g. IPv6 Kongress Germany 2009, 2010, 2011; Packet Transport Conference 2010; ETSI TISPAN WG4, IETF).

Dr. Walter Haeffner Head Service Engineering and Enterprise Solutions
Vodafone Germany

He studied physics and earned a doctorate in quantum field theory and mathematical physics.
He started his professional career at Alcatel Germany as a software developer for expert systems supporting the design and layout of electronic boards and ASICs.
In 1989 he was a guest business fellow at Digital Equipment Corporation in Marlboro, Mass. and after coming back to Alcatel Germany Dr. Haeffner became head of a department beeing in charge of the complete design and manufacturing infrastructure. He later occupied different engineering management positions in the Switching and Advanced Networks Division and did much work also on Alcatel corporate level.
In more depth he came in touch with the Internet and advanced telecommunication services when he led an international team of engineers in Mountain View, California to develop one of the very first IPTV and Video on Demand platforms.
In 1997 Mr. Haeffner came to Arcor (which by now is fully integrated inro Vodafone Germany) where he first took over the responsibility for the development of network and operation support systems. Since 2000 he is in charge for all service networks and service platforms. He pushed Vodafone-Arcor in the direction of Voice over IP and IPTV.
Currently Walter Haeffner is head of access services and enterprise solutions at Vodafone Germany.

Silvia Hagen President/CEO SWISS IPV6 COUNCIL/SUNNY CONNECTION AG

Silvia Hagen has been working in the networking industry since 1990. Today she is CEO of Sunny Connection AG in Switzerland and works as a professional consultant and analyst for many mid-size and large sized companies. Her expertise is in Identity Management, Protocol and Performance Analysis and IPv6. She is the author of several successful books including 'IPv6 Essentials' published by O'Reilly. Her latest book is “Planning for IPv6” and was published by O’Reilly in September 2011. She also presents internationally at technical conferences such as IPv6 Summits, Cisco Conferences, Burton Catalyst, Novell's Brainshare, NetWare Users International Conferences and Universities, She has developed several specialized courses on different topics, including IPv6 and offers them as customized corporate presentations and public courses. She was a founding member of the Swiss IPv6 Task Force and is the president of the Swiss IPv6 Council.

Bart Hanssens BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNEMENT

Bart Hanssens is Interoperability Expert at the Belgian Federal Public Service ICT (Fedict).
Fedict provides e-gov building blocks like FedMAN, the network that connects various federal government services while providing them with central access to the Internet.
Bart is mainly working on open standards, open source and open data. He is a member of The IPv6 Working group within the Belgian federal public services, and is involved in testing the IPv6-support of software and services.

Susan Hares Distiguished Engineer HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES

IETF IDR Chair, co-author of BGP, participant of IETF since 1987
Senior member of team that started the Internet (NSFNet and Routing Arbiter)
Led efforts to start NANOG (North America Network Operators Group)
Distinguished Engineer and senior director of IP Standard in Huawei
The founder and CTO and member of BoD of NextHop Technologies
Prior to NextHop, she was the manager of GateD project in Merit Network
Since 1970s, she worked at Allen-Bradley, ADP, and Ford Motor on packet networking technology

Bob Hinden CHECKPOINT SOFTWARE FELLOW

Bob Hinden is the co-inventor of IPv6. He is a Check Point Fellow at Check Point Software, and co-chairs the IETF IPv6 working group and is chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.
Previously at Nokia where he was a Nokia Fellow, Chief Internet Technologist at Nokia Networks, and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at the Nokia IP Routing Group.
Bob Hinden was one of the early employees (i.e., employee number 4) of Ipsilon Networks, Inc. Ipsilon was acquired by Nokia on December 31, 1997. He was previously employed at Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for the Internet Engineering group that implements internet protocols for Sun's operating systems. Prior to this he worked at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. on a variety of internetwork related projects including the first operational internet router and one of the first TCP/IP implementations.
Bob Hinden was co-recipient of the 2008 IEEE Internet Award for pioneering work in the development of the first Internet routers.
Bob Hinden has been active in the IETF since 1985 and is is the author of thirty-six RFCs. He is the chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) and co-chairs the 6man working group. Prior to this he served on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), was Area Director for Routing in the Internet Engineering Steering group from 1987 to 1994, and chaired the IPv6, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Simple Internet Protocol Plus, IPAE, the IP over ATM, and the Open Routing working groups. He is also a member of the RFC Editorial Board.
Bob Hinden holds an B.S.E.E., and a M.S. in Computer Science from Union College, Schenectady, New York.

Anton Holleman, Senior Consulting SE , Infoblox

Andrew Hug Vice President Sales Engineering EMEA POLYCOM

Andrew is Vice President Sales Engineering for Polycom in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and heads up the EMEA pre-sales technical team.
Andrew is a long-standing industry veteran with extensive experience in the conferencing and collaboration industry. He joined Polycom via Accord Networks where he was the Support Director covering EMEA & Asia and responsible for both pre- and post sales support. Previously, he served as Support Director for VideoServer (now Ezenia).
Before joining VideoServer, Andrew was Support Director at Chipcom, a data communications manufacturer for three years. His previous roles include pre-sales manager at data communications manufacturer UB Networks and R&D project manager at BICC Data Networks.
Andrew has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Sheffield University and a Diploma in Accounting & Finance. He is based at Polycom’s EMEA headquarters in Slough, near London in the UK.

Christian Kaufmann Director Network Architecture AKAMAÏ TECHNOLOGY

Christian Kaufmann is a Director Network Architecture at Akamai Technologies, the world's largest CDN.
Christian has responsibilities covering, among other things, peering and capacity planning. He also serves as a RIPE WG co-chair, a RIPE NCC Executive Board Member and as the Chairman of the AMSIX Executive Board.
Before Akamai, Christian was Peering Manager at TeliaSonera, and Technical Operations Manager at Cable & Wireless. He is also holding various technical certifications, including both a CCIE & JCNIE.

Latif Ladid IPV6 Forum

- President, IPv6 FORUM (www.ipv6forum.com)
- Chair, European IPv6 Task Force (www.ipv6.eu )
- Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC (www.isoc.org)
- IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board (www.ipv6ready.org)
- Senior Researcher @ SnT - University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects:
• 6INIT: First Pioneer IPv6 Research Project
• 6WINIT: Euro6IX - NGNi - Eurov6
.IPv6 Security & Privacy project - Security Expert Initiative (SEINIT)
.European Security Task Force project - SecurIST
.u-2010 Emergency & Disaster and Crisis Management
.Public Safety Communication Forum
.EFIPSANS project
.Secricom Safety & Security Project
.ceFIMS
. OUTSMART
- Member of 3GPP PCG
- Member of 3GPP2 PCG
- Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoc EntNET
- Member of UN Strategy Council GAID
- Member of the Future Internet Forum for Member States
- Board member of WSA

Donn Lee Network Engineer FACEBOOK INC.

Donn Lee joined Facebook in 2007. As a Sr. Network Engineer, his duties include designing networks, evaluating products, optimizing performance, and performing escalation troubleshooting. Previous to Facebook, Donn worked in Google's Network Architecture group for four years and during rapid growth of Google's backbone, optical, and datacenter networks. While working as a Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems (CCIE #3262) he worked on large global networks and wrote his book, Enhanced IP Services for Cisco Networks, that is published by Cisco Press. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA

Martin Levy HURRICANE ELECTRIC

Martin Levy has been involved in the TCP/IP world since the publication of the first TCP/IP RFCs in the early 80’s. Born and educated in England, Martin moved to the United States to work as a software developer at the prestigious Bell Labs. It was at Bell Labs where he ran their first TCP/IP network-enabled UNIX computers. After seven years in New Jersey, Martin moved to California and joined the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial-life to continue his focus on networking software and systems. Since then Martin has been building networks in California, the US, Europe, Latin America and now in Asia. Since joining Hurricane Electric in early 2008, Martin has taken on the role of significantly expanding Hurricane Electric’s IPv6 global connectivity services. Martin Levy's major contribution to the IPv6 world while at Hurricane Electric has been his tireless pursuit in making IPv6's global routing on-par or better than the existing Internet routing.

Bruno Mairlot
MAEHDROS

Edoardo Martelli Responsible for IPv6 deployment CERN

Edoardo Martelli works at CERN as network expert in the Communication Systems group. He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from University of Bologna, Italy in 1994. He has joined CERN in 2002 after some years working in the Internet industry. Currently he is the head of the Network Enginering team, he is responsible for the deployment of IPv6 at CERN, and member of the team designing the new network for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG).

Jordi Palet Martinez CONSULINTEL

Jordi Palet Martínez has been working in computers, networking, and telecomm business during the past 20 years. His experience includes programming in several languages, OS porting, electronic and microcomputer circuit design, consultancy and network design and implementation, among others. He has been involved with technical, marketing and product management in several companies, and nowadays is working as CEO/CTO at Consulintel, Madrid.
Jordi frequently writes articles, white papers, and presentations about most of the high-end technologies. He is involved in many forums, such as: ISOC, IETF, RIPE, the European Commission IPv6 Task Force. He has co-authored numerous IETF documents.
Over the past 3-4 years, he has been involved in the RIRs policy making process, having actively participated and presented in all the meeting in all the regions, and volunteers his time to assist all the RIRs in training activities, mainly related to IPv6. Jordi also maintains a web site for IPv6 news and information The IPv6 Portal. Also part of its relevant work on this field is IPv6day, and in Spanish 6SOS.
Jordi has had considerable experience working in the development, promotion and deployment of IPv6, including the IPv6 Forum, the IPv6 Logo Committee, European IPv6 Task Force, Spanish IPv6 Task Force (among others in many countries), IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee, 6POWER, 6QM, Eurov6, IPv6 Cluster, ENABLE, RiNG, and the Eureka project PlaNetS. He was the designer of Euro6IX and its Scientific Project Coordinator.
Jordi is also working in other areas, including new security architecture for Internet (Distributed Security), Mobility beyond MIPv6, Routing in Next Generation, and Power Line Communications (PLC/BPL/PLT).
He also participates in the OCCAID project to provide free (time-limited) IPv6 transit to ISPs when their existing upstream providers don’t support yet IPv6 transit by their own (mainly in Africa, LAC and AP).

Manuel Martinez Systems Engineer A10 Networks

Manuel Martinez is Systems Engineer with A10 Networks and has been an expert in IP Networks for 15 years. After studying at the University of Nice, he began his career in IP networks security with top international companies such as Dimension Data and McAfee, working on network security projects for large national and international groups in the finance and automotive business. His knowledge has evolved with the emergence of Web Applications and the need to optimize them, and he has thus acquired a vast experience in this subject, with companies such as F5 or currently A10 Networks. A10 Networks being positioned as pioneer in the field of IP transition technologies, he has seized the opportunity to become one of the experts in these domains and has worked with many of the carriers in their IP transition programs.

Satoru Matsushima
SOFTBANK

Michael Melloul JUNIPER NETWORKS

Michael Melloul is Sr. Systems Engineer for Service Provider Sector in Juniper Networks. Prior to this, Michael worked for both Telecom industry as well as Service Provider in companies such as Redback Ericsson, SFR-CEGETEL and Cisco Systems where he started his career in 2000. He holds an Engineering degree from ENST and an MBA in Marketing and Management from IAE Pantheon Sorbonne

Chiara Moriondo Data Network Innovation
Telecom Italia

Chiara Moriondo received her MSc in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Torino and joined Telecom Italia in 2001. Since the beginning, she was part of the Research and Development group based in Turin. She has been involved in the evolution of the domestic IP/MPLS Backbone for several years. Starting from 2006, she has been responsible for International projects in Europe, South America and East Asia. From 2010 she attends as speaker in several international telecommunication conferences in Europe and South America about technical issues such as Mobile Backhauling and IPv6. From 2009 she is part of the project team in charge of the IPv6 introduction in TI domestic network.

Irena Nikolova Network Engineer GOOGLE

Irena Nikolova is a Network Engineer at Google. She has been involved in most of the enterprise IPv6 initiatives in the company up to present, more specifically designing and deploying IPv6-only networks. Along with that she's responsible for designing different network solutions, testing new products and platforms, optimizing performance, and escalation troubleshooting.
Irena is currently earning a Ph.D. degree in the field of Distributed Systems and Networks at Sofia University.

Ludwig Paßen GENERALI DEUTSCHLAND

After a professional education in software development Passen started his IT-career within applied sw-research at technical university of Aachen in Germany.
Since 1980 he is working for Generali Group, currently at Generali Deutschland Informatik Ser-vices GmbH Aachen, a great IT-service-provider delivering IT- and communication-services to Generali insurance and finance companies in 12 countries.
Passen is co-responsible for design of the international network-infrastructure Generali Global Network GG.NET and consultant/driver of several projects to enhance communication-environment for Generali-Group. Besides his job at Generali Informatik Services Passen is member of several interest groups to develop and enhance communication-infrastructure in Germany.

Mischa Peters, Team Lead Systems Engineering EMEA, A10 Networks

Mischa Peters is Team Lead Systems Engineering EMEA with A10 Networks and has been an expert in IP Networks for more then 17 years. He began his career at one of the leading Internet Service Providers in the Netherlands, XS4ALL. After XS4ALL he worked for companies like Livingston/Lucent, BlueCoat and Brocade. His knowledge has evolved with the emergence of the Web and Web Applications and the need to handle them on a large scale, and he gained vast experience in this subject, with companies such as Foundry Networks and currently A10 Networks. A10 Networks being positioned as pioneer in the field of IPv6 transition technologies, he became one of the resident experts in this domain and has worked with many carriers in the EMEA on their IPv6 transition strategies and programs.

Dr Ciprian Popoviciu CEO and Founder of Nephos6

Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu, President/CEO and co-founder, brings to Nephos6 over 13 years of experience working for Cisco in various technical and leadership roles. Prior to starting Nephos6, Ciprian managed the architecture team of Cisco’s Engineering Infrastructure Services organization where he defined the strategy and led the execution of the internal DC consolidation and transition to cloud. He is an industry recognized domain expert in IPv6 who, over the past 10 years worked on the strategy, architecture, implementation and validation of IPv6 adoption by large service providers and enterprises Worldwide. Ciprian worked with various governments on defining national level and agency level IPv6 strategies and standards. He also worked with product and test teams on specific IPv6 features and roadmaps towards IPv6 readiness. Ciprian authored two IPv6 books: “Deploying IPv6 Networks” and “Global IPv6 Strategies”. He co-authored 5 IPv6 related IETF RFCs and multiple IPv6 related patents. Ciprian is a frequent speaker to industry events and conferences and he is an active contributor to various technology and scientific publications. He taught IPv6 classes at several Universities and leads IPv6 training events for both executives and technologists.

Yanick Pouffary Global IPV6 Development HP

Yanick Pouffary is a Distinguished Technologist and Chief Architect in the Office of the CTO within HP Services. Yanick draws upon nearly three decades of experience in the development of networking products and technologies. As Chief Architect, Yanick is tasked with developing network strategic vision and technology roadmaps for Network Services and Cloud Services offering. As HP IPv6 Global leader, Yanick is responsible for HP’s IPv6 strategy to adopt and deliver this technology. Yanick represents HP network technology interests in multiple industry standards development organizations and consortia.
Yanick Pouffary is a founding member of the IPv6 Forum (www.ipv6forum.org), an IPv6 Forum Fellow, North American IPv6 Task Force Technology Director (www.nav6tf.org) and General Chairperson for the IPv6 Logo Programs (Ready & Enabled & Education). Yanick is a strategic adviser to government agencies to assist in the deployment of IPv6 around the globe. Yanick is one of the distinguished recipients of the IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award for her technology contributions to support the adoption and deployment of IPv6. In May 2009 Yanick was appointed member of the United Nations Strategy Council of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.
She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Nice, France.

Mark Richter, Head of Infrastructure Network & Voice, Continental Automotive GmbH

Phil Roberts Technology Program Manager ISOC

Phil Roberts joined the Internet Society's Standards & Technology Department in April 2008. As Technology Program Manager, organizes and leads aspects of the Internet Society's work in advancing the development and deployment of open standards and promoting the Internet's collaborative development and operational management model.
Phil has been active in the IETF for over a decade, with roles including working group chair, nominating committee chair, and executive director of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). During that time, his technical focus has been integrating Internet technologies into cellular telecommunications systems. He has promoted the use of IETF-standardized mobile networking technologies for delivery of data across cellular networks, which is now becoming the basis of networking technology for all cellular applications.
His background ranges from core development in software, operating systems, and management systems; research in platforms and networks for cellular networks; to business development and marketing. His research experience includes both AT&T Bell Laboratories and Motorola Laboratories and he held the position of Director of Network Architecture for Megisto Systems, Inc.

Behcet Sarikaya Senior Research Engineer HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES

Previously worked on protocol testing, interoperability, test machines and test case, test suite design
Previously worked 2+ years as Mobile Networking Team leader in Alcatel USA
10+ years of IETF participation on IPv6 mobility
Holding leadership positions in IETF and in IEEE 802
Made 100+ contributions to IETF, Broadband Forum, IEEE 802, WiMAX Forum
Expert in mobility, IPv6 migration , Machine-to-Machine and fixed mobile convergence

Thomas Scheffler Beuth Hochschule

Prof. Thomas Scheffler has been teaching Data Communication and Network Engineering at Beuth Hochschule für Technik in Berlin, Germany since April 2008.
Previously he worked for more than ten years as Senior Research Engineer in the department of ‘Packet-based Carrier Transport Networks’ at T-Systems Enterprise Services, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. There he was responsible for a number of European research projects in the area of Next Generation Networking, IPv6 Transition and Deployment.
He is currently heading several research projects that investigate IPv6 security and transition issues.
He gives speeches at national and international conferences mainly about IPv6 and Network Security topics.

Mohsen Souissi Head of R&D AFNIC

Mohsen SOUISSI has been the head of R&D at AFNIC, the French domain name registry (.fr), since 2007. He had joined AFNIC in 2000 as a network engineer/researcher after receiving a PhD in Computer Networks from the Université of Versailles (host laboratory INRIA-Rocquencourt
1996-2000) and a MSc in Computer Systems & Networks from the Université d'Evry. He has actively contributed to several R&D projects and debates, notably related to topics such as IPv6, DNS(SEC), Internet of Things, Future Internet and Internet Resilience. More specifically, he led a project of full integration of IPv6 in AFNIC's production infrastructure and services from 2000 to 2003.
As an active member of the French G6 Group-Association (since 1996), he has participated in IPv6-related training sessions, workshops, seminars, conferences and academic classes at both national and international levels.

Bala Thekkedath Sr. Strategic Product Marketing Manager ERICSSON

Bala Thekkedath is a seasoned product management professional with more than 17 years’ experience in conceptualizing, launching, managing and positioning telecom products and solutions. He is part of Product Marketing team within Ericsson’s Business Unit Networks and is responsible for promoting and positioning cross-product solutions. Bala is an evangelist for emerging technologies and innovative business models for telecom services. He holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Management from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from MS University of Baroda, India.

Todd Thorson MICROSOFT

Todd Thorson has more than 20 years of networking experience, the past thirteen of which have been with Microsoft. Todd is the network architect lead for the Microsoft corporate worldwide network. He has developed and planned for the next-generation Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network at Microsoft, and he leads the introduction of new network technologies, like ipv6, into the Microsoft network to improve overall performance. Todd also designed and supported the international Internet datacenter networks at Microsoft. Previously, Todd was the lead network engineer for Eddie Bauer, where he designed, installed, and supported the corporate network.

Mark Townsley CISCO Fellow

An industry-recognized Internet Engineering and Broadband Architecture expert, Mark Townsley joined Cisco in 1997 and is one of sixteen Cisco Fellows.
Mark has been actively involved in Internet industry forums since 1995. His leadership appointments have included: two terms as Internet Area Director of the IETF from 2005-2009, IETF L2TP Working Group Chair from 1999-2005, IESG Liaison to the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), IETF Pseudowire WG Technical Advisor, and co-Chair of the newly formed IETF Home Networking Working Group (Homenet). Mark also serves as an Ambassador of the Broadband Forum, and was invited to speak to the FCC on IPv4 Exhaustion and IPv6 in June 2011.
Mark is currently focused on the effects of IPv4 exhaustion and on removing barriers to IPv6 deployment for Cisco customers and the industry at large. He regularly updates Cisco’s most senior executives about this crucial topic and meets often with Cisco’s Enterprise and Service Provider customers about their IPv6 deployment strategy and IPv4 exhaustion mitigation. In 2010, he co-authored “IPv6 Rapid Deployment” (RFC 5969) which is responsible for the majority of production-grade broadband IPv6 connectivity today. Additionally, Mark is recognized as the primary force behind the Broadband Forum’s recent push to incorporate IPv6 in all of its Technical Reports, and co-authored “IPv6 for PPP Broadband Access”(TR-187).
Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, home of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Mark had access to computer systems and communications technology at an early age. In the 1980s, his first experience with data communications was running pre-Internet dial-up “BBS” Bulletin Board Systems and University mainframes and workstations. Mark then moved to Washington, D.C., to complete his Master’s degree while working at the University of Maryland Institute for Systems Research and Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communications.
After a short stint at IBM, Mark finally joined Cisco in 1997 where he led the scaling of Cisco’s IOS software to support the rapid growth of dial-up and broadband connectivity during the “dot-com” boom. During this period, Mark also designed, developed, and standardized L2TP (RFC 2661), a cornerstone technology enabling handoff of dial-up and broadband Internet connectivity between wholesale access and retail Internet service providers.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University and a Master’s degree in Computer Science (magna cum laude) from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
In addition to his industry appointments and work at Cisco, Mark is currently teaching and developing courses on Internet Protocols for École Polytechnique. Mark lives with his family in Paris, France.

Nathalie Tranaman Trainer RIPE NETWORK

Nathalie Trenaman is a Trainer at the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC). She travels throughout the RIPE NCC service region (Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia) to give training courses on a number of topics, including: Local Internet Registry (LIR), IPv6, and the Routing Registry. Nathalie is also responsible for the ongoing development of the IPv6 for LIRs training course material.
Prior to joining the RIPE NCC, Nathalie spent eight years working for LIRs. To date, she has over ten years' experience in technical roles such as IPv4 and IPv6, DNS, domain names and network engineering.
Nathalie Trenaman joined the RIPE NCC in 2007 as an IP Resource Analyst in the Registration Services Department. Much of her work was focused on the area of Registration Data Quality (RDQ).

Ole Troan CISCO

Ole Trøan is a 14 year cisco veteran. Currently based in Norway, he is working on IPv6 architecture, standardization and deployment. He is active in the IETF and the Broadband forum. He has authored a number of RFCs on IPv6. Previously he led cisco's Japan Development Centre in Tokyo and prior to that he worked in the UK as a software engineer where Ole worked on all aspects of cisco's IOS IPv6 implementation

Wim Vandersmissen KULeuven University

Gunter Van De Velde Technical Leader CISCO

MsC Gunter Van de Velde, CCIE No.3741 is a senior Technical Leader at Cisco Systems Network Operations and Systems Technology Group, and has been working in the field of core network design since 1995. Gunter has been active with IPv6 for more than a decade, and was the lead design architect for the well recognized EU sponsored 6NET project, the first international native IPv6 backbone infrastructure.
Gunter is a frequent speaker at IPv6 conferences. He is an active contributor to IETF, and has been technical reviewer of the Cisco Press book "Deploying IPv6 Networks". At Cisco Systems he is a key technical advisor for Cisco’s global IPv6 enterprise strategy and since recently focusses upon IPv6 and IPv4 backbone technologies (BGP, MPLS and ISIS/OSPF).
Gunter is since June 2010 the chair of the Belgian IPv6 Task-Force and since September 2011 the co-chair of IETF OPSEC Working Group.

Eric Vyncke CISCO

Eric graduated from the University of Liege, Belgium, in 1983 with a Master degree in Computer Science.
He worked for a couple of companies like Siemens where he was the architect of the firewall product and of the military message handling system.
Since 1997, he works for Cisco as a Distinguished Engineer reporting to the CTO by helping customers with security designs and since 2005 with IPv6 deployments. He assists product design by advising engineering teams in Cisco. His area of expertise includes the security aspects of LAN switching, IP telephony and IPv6.
He is a guest professor at a couple of Belgian Universities (where he helped the IPv6 deployment), participates regularly at the IETF (author of RFC 3585 & 5514). He is also a respected speaker at several conferences such as RSA Conferences.
He holds a CISSP certification.
He is the main author of 'LAN Switch Security' and the co-author of 'IPv6 Security'. His www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/ is an IPv6-deployment status reference.

Geriet Wendler Senior Solution Architect Packet Networks
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS

Geriet Wendler, Senior Solution Architect, Packet and IP/MPLS Networks. Geriet is in charge of defining end-to-end carrier grade packet network architectures and solutions for fixed, mobile and hybrid operators. He is currently engaged with many key operators in consulting for IPv6 introduction. He is Nokia Siemens Networks representative at the National German IPv6 council. Geriet joined Nokia Siemens Networks as Head of Solution Sales Management for packet connectivity solutions. Prior to this Geriet worked in Siemens Communications for Broadband Access and Optical Networks in different positions at Munich/Germany and Riyadh/Saudi-Arabia where he was involved in building the nation wide SDH, DWDM and Microwave transport network. He holds a degree in electrical engineering, with a focus on telecommunications technology.

Dan Wing Distinguished Engineer CISCO

Dan Wing is currently working on IPv6 transition technologies, especially
IPv6/IPv4 translation, and has co-chaired the IETF's BEHAVE working group since 2006. He has co-authored 15 RFCs related to SIP, VoIP encryption, and NAT, and has over 30 patents issued or pending.
Dan is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco.

Thimoty Winters Executive Manager UNH-IOL

Timothy Winters is a senior manager at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). He works with companies from all over the world to develop broad-based, flexible testing strategies to cost effectively meet network interoperability requirements for the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and routing communities.
Timothy is the United States Government IPv6 (USGv6) and IPv6 Ready Logo technical lead for the UNH-IOL. In this role, he oversees various aspects in testing of IPv6 technology, deals with various multi-vendor IPv6 testing scenarios and acts as a liaison between students and vendors during device testing and development.
His ongoing collaboration with standards bodies and industry forums including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IPv6 Forum and IPv6 Ready Logo Committee demonstrates his dedication and persistence in developing new standards, as well as assisting commercial services providers, network equipment vendors and government agencies cost effectively speed go-to-market time for products.

Carl Wuyts GCD Architect Networking, Connect Division TECHNICOLOR

Carl Wuyts, System Architect Networking @ Technicolor with key focus on introducing IPv6 (and its surrounding protocols) in CPE devices.
+20 year of experience in IP Networking

Andrew Yourtchenko Technical Leader CISCO

Andrew Yourtchenko, CCIE No.5423 is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems Network Operating Systems Technology Group, and has been involved in networking since 1995, specializing in the areas of applications and network security. He spent a significant portion of his career at Cisco TAC, driving the resolution of complex technical problems.
He contributes to IETF, and is a frequent speaker at IPv6 conferences. He actively engages with Cisco customers and partners in the areas of IPv6 transition, focusing on the transport and application levels.
He has been an active member of the EU-wide 6deploy project (http://www.6deploy.eu/) by providing the IPv6-related training courses to organizations in various EU member states.

Paul Zawacki Sr. Principal Network Engineer ORACLE

Paul Zawacki has been in the networking industry for over 25 years and is currently an Enterprise Architect in the IT organization at Oracle where he is responsible for the global networks technical strategy. Prior to Oracle, he was in the Network Engineering Design team at MCI where he played a leading role in the early R&D work for VoIP, resulting in a partnership with a major equipment manufacturer on the industry's first commercial product to use SIP.
He is a member of several industry advisory boards where he strives to improve standards based product offerings and drive adoption of IPv6. Paul holds a BSBA degree from the University of Colorado and has authored or co-authored nine articles and one book on various topics in IT.

Jan Zorz GO6 INSTITUTE

Jan Zorz started his professional career in RS-232/VAX VMS world in 1992 and continued through Novell and Windows environments all the way to Solaris and other UNIX derivatives, that represents native environment for majority of his projects.
Jan is one of the pioneers of SiOL, the Slovenian national ISP, and has been involved in the organization from the beginning. Among other activities, he began experimenting in 1997 with Internet streaming multimedia content. Based on these experiments, he successfully accomplished projects such as "Dhaulagiri '99 Live" (an Internet multimedia transmission of Tomaz Humar's solo climb of the south wall of Dhaulagiri (called Death Zone) in the Himalayas), "Ski Everest Live 2000" (an Internet live-video transmission and monitoring of extreme skiing from the summit of Mt. Everest by Davo Karnicar) and other similar projects. Together with two other members of the team "Dhaulagiri '99 Live", Jan received a media award/statue "Victor" for special achievement.
For the last seven years Jan has been working as a consultant in the IT field, specializing in IPv6. He co-founded the Go6 institute (not-for-profit), a Slovenian IPv6 initiative whose main objective is to raise IPv6 awareness in Slovenia and alert the community to the fact that we are approaching extensive changes on the Internet.
Due to Go6 Institute, Slovenia is currently leading the EU as country most prepared for IPv6 (according to the RIPE NCC's IPv6 RIPEness study). Jan has been invited to present around the world on his work, the model of the Go6 platform, IPv6 awareness raising and deployment at the national level. These speaking engagement have include conferences such as many RIPE Meetings and Google IPv6 Implementors Conference 2010, Internet Governance Forum meetings, World IPv6 Congresses in Paris and London as well as national forums in Germany, Greece, Norway, Macedonia and many others.
Jan is also primary co-author of very successful procurement (specification) paper, published as official RIPE Best Current Practice document RIPE-501, titled "Requirements For IPv6 in ICT Equipment". This document is translated to more than 10 languages and is used around the world by enterprises and governments, when requesting IPv6 in ICT equipment purchases.