Eric Vyncke, beside his job at Cisco as a Distinguished Engineer, is also the co-chair of the IPv6 Council of Belgium where he helped the deployment of IPv6 in Belgium, operates a well-known server collecting IPv6 deployment statistics and invented the basis mechanism to secure SRv6. He is also the Internet Area director at the IETF.   Eric is the author of two books about Link-Layer security and IPv6 security, as well as several RFC (3585, 7381, 7404, ...).   Eric is a regular speaker at industry events as well as scientific collaborator at University of Liège and Mons in Belgium. He holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from University of Liège.  

Gunter Van De Velde is a networking technologist with more than 20 years of experience with the implementation, architecture and operation of technologies involving routing, IPv6 and SDN driven network services.   He was a founding co-chairman of the Belgian IPv6 Task-Force in 2010, Secretary of the IETF Operational Directorate since 2013, and Chair at the IETF for the OPSEC (Operational Security) working group from 2011-2018. Most recently, he became Chair for the LSVR (Link State Vector Routing) working group to focus around Hyperscale Datacenter routing.   Gunter holds a Master’s degree from the University of Antwerp, is a Cisco Certified Internet Expert, and has written seven RFCs and holds several patents. He is a Product Line Manager for Nokia’s IP & SDN technologies with global responsibility for IGPs (OSPF & ISIS) and for routing extensions regarding Traffic Steering, Segment Routing and Routing Analytics.

Clarence Filsfils, a Cisco Systems Fellow, has a 20-year expertise leading innovation, productization, marketing and deployment for Cisco Systems.   Trusted and respected by key decision makers across major WEB/OTT, SP’s and large Enterprises, Clarence enjoys working with these operators to listen to their needs and requirements, and then get things done from product design to deployment.   He invented the Segment Routing Technology (over 40 patents) and is leading its productization, marketing and deployment at record execution speed. For this contribution, he received the Pioneer Award - Cisco's most prestigious award honoring innovative engineering. The award celebrates engineering contribution that brings growth in new markets, redefines current markets, and provides game-changing improvements to engineering productivity.   Previously, Clarence invented and led the Fast Routing Convergence Technology (over 30 patents) and was the lead designer for Cisco System’s QoS (20 patents) and large-scale IP/MPLS deployments.   Clarence is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences. He holds over 130 patents and is a prolific writer, either in academic circle (Sigcomm 2015), or standard (8 RFC’s, 20 drafts on standard’s track) or books.   Clarence holds a Masters in Management from Solvay Business School and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Liege.

Rizwan has more than 18 years of comprehensive experience spanning Network operations, DC/SP and Enterprise Architecture & designing, Escalations & Vendor evaluation and relationship management.   Rizwan hold dual CCIE Certification (# 23989) in Service Provider and Data Center track.   During professional career lead various projects includes CLOS fabric design, SDN, DCI solutions, Enterprise wireless, Network Security, DDOS mitigation platforms & QOS.

Mark Ferreira brings 25 years in the telecommunication industry. He is technical fellow for business data networking and virtual network services at Bell Canada.  Mark was a key contributor to developing Bell Virtual Network Services, Bell's platform for edge network services and SD-WAN. His interests are in evolving enterprise services with automation, virtualization, orchestration, rich analytics, API interfaces, and AI/ML.  Mark has held roles supporting Service Providers as systems engineering, core network architecture, large scale enterprise network design, network security, datacentre virtualization and product development.

Rohan Naggi leads Technical Product Management at VeloCloud, now part of VMware. Rohan’s focus and expertise is in developing material and enabling service provider/telco market and large enterprise deployments.  He has extensive experience in the WAN and general networking industry, with an over 10 year tenure at Cisco Systems on WAN optimization and other solutions ranging from routing, security and IWAN. Rohan is a co-author of the number one SD-WAN book “SD-WAN – The Network Blueprint for Modern Businesses.”  Follow Rohan on Twitter at @Lifeboy.

Melchior Aelmans works at Juniper Networks, where he focusses on Internet Routing Security, Peering and Cloud. He works with many operators on the design, security and evolution of their networks.   He has over 10 years of experience in various architecture, design, engineering, and sales engineering positions with enterprises, data centers and Service Provider.   Before joining Juniper Networks, he worked with eBay, LGI, KPN, etc.   Melchior enjoys evangelizing and discussing topics like BGP, peering, routing security and internet routing. He also participates in IETF and is a board member of the NLNOG foundation.

Nav Chander is responsible for leading service provider marketing. Prior to joining Silver Peak Chander served as the research manager for enterprise, telecommunications and networking at IDC where he led the managed network services and worldwide networking infrastructure research programs.  Nav has had extensive years of experience in driving new products at leading telecom, networking and managed service vendors throughout his career.

Hector Avalos has over 25 years of experience in the computing, networking and telecommunications industries. He currently holds the position of VP EMEA Sales and Business Development at Versa Networks. His current activities are focused on “virtual CPE”, “Software-Defined WAN” and “Software-Defined Security” solutions for Service Providers and Enterprises.   Prior to Versa, Hector worked 4 years at Ericsson as “Head of technology, architectures, solutions and strategy”, and 9 years at Juniper Networks as “Technical Director”.   Hector possesses a BSc. in Computing Science from ‘UDLA’ Mexico.

− Co-chair of IETF I2NSF (Interface to Network Security Functions) WG. I2NSF WG is to standardize interface for clients to dynamically specify/monitor/verify their security policies, providing a tool to achieve Software Defined Security Services.   − Lead network technology and architecture development for dynamic cloud VPN solution that intelligently integrates SD-WAN with MPLS based VPN so that enterprises can use their existing MPLS based VPN to connect to dynamic workloads instantiated in various cloud data centers reliably and securely.   − Lead Network Security initiative for securing workloads hosted in cloud data centers  − Secretary to ONUG SD-WAN Exchange Working Group  − Member of Technical Advisory Committee for NIA (New IP Agency) which focuses on interoperability testing of NFV & SDN.   Active Contributing to: ONUG (SD-WAN Exchange WG & Software Defined Security Services WG), IETF Routing, Internet, Transport Area, and OpArea. IETF OpArea Directorate, IETF Gen-Art Area Directorate.

Rami has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry as a technology leader. Currently Rami serves as an advisor for few telecommunication companies.   He is also a member of the Board of Directors of MEF where he co-chairs the Global Marketing & Education Committee as well as the 5G Focus Group. Previously, Rami held various senior leadership positions in architecture, product strategy, and business development at NEC, Telco Systems, DragonWave, Axerra Networks, Carrier Access, and Paragon Networks.   Rami holds an MS in Computer Science and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Haven.