Zhenbin Li is in charge of the research and standard promotion work of IP protocols. Before that he had been the Chief IP/MPLS Service Architect and the Chief Architect of SDN controller to be responsible for the service and architecture design of IP software platform and SDN controller.   Zhenbin Li and his team are taking an active part in the IP/MPLS/SDN standardization work in IETF and promote the innovation of SR, BGP/VPN, PCE, SBI/NBI, Telemetry, etc.

Michael is Vice President and CTO of the Cisco Networking Group leading technical direction, architectural transition, solution architecture and roadmap planning for Cisco’s SP networking portfolio.  He drives Cisco’s leadership position in core, edge, aggregation and access routing, mobility, cable, optics and optical networking and automation software solutions in collaboration with partners, customers, internal cross-functional leaders and the industry in reinventing the mass-scale networks of the future.   Prior to rejoining Cisco in February 2018, Michael was co-founder and CTO of Skyport Systems, developing cloud managed, on premise, virtualized compute platforms with security, ease of use, and always-on analytics built in. Before Skyport, Michael served as engineering CTO at Juniper Networks, leading new architectures, embedded software evolution and silicon roadmap development across the router, switch and Wi-Fi portfolios.   Michael has held many senior technical leadership roles at both Cisco and Juniper and was a key contributor to many successful product lines and technology including C7200, C12000, M40, T640, JUNOS, ASR1K and IOS-XE. Michael holds CS and Math degrees from Trinity College, Dublin, is a named inventor on many networking related patents, is a frequent speaker at industry events, and often shares his thoughts through Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs.

Gautam Billa is a senior business leader with 20+ years of experience in the telecom industry. In his current role at Ciena, he is responsible for all Sales Engineering activities across EMEA, APAC, Japan and India regions.   Sales Engineering is a team of highly skilled subject matter experts with deep understanding of telecom network architectures and designs. Gautam’s role involves driving business priorities, key initiatives, and keeping up with ever changing trends in technology and outcomes across the international region.   To Gautam, values-driven, empathetic leadership is incredibly important. Working in a collaborative culture, providing direction, motivation, and development ensures the team remains passionate, enthusiastic and empowered by their work.   Prior to joining Ciena, Gautam has worked for companies including Cisco, Nortel and Reliance and has served multiple roles including domains like vendor evaluation, technical support, R&D environment, solution design and network architecture, pre-sales, business development, GTM strategy and deal structuring.   Based out of Singapore, Gautam has received his B.E. in Electronics from Mumbai University. He has also completed a short course on Negotiation and Deal Making from Harvard Business School.

Roy Chua is Founder and Principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service formed in 2018 out of SDxCentral's research group. Prior to co-founding SDxCentral and running its research and product teams, Roy was a management consultant working with both Fortune 500 and startup technology companies on go-to-market and product consulting.   As an early proponent of the software-defined infrastructure movement, Roy is a frequent speaker at technology events in the telco and cloud space and a regular contributor to leading online publications. A graduate of UC Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science program and MIT's Sloan School of Business, Roy has 20+ years of experience in telco and enterprise cloud computing, networking and security, including founding several Silicon Valley startups.

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.

Bart Janssens is a Senior Specialist Packet Network Architect for Colt Technology Services. During his 22 years career at Colt Bart has always been part of engineering defining and building various network generations following closely the latest industry innovations including driving early proof of concepts.   Bart is also working on various next generation performance, fault and orchestration OSS platforms supporting Colt’s Digital Infrastructure rapid evolutions.

Gyan Mishra is Lead Core & DC architect, R&D on NG Core & DC innovations & technological advancements for Verizon.   IT Technologist & Innovations specialist with over three decades of experience in Business Development in Network Engineering & Design with a focus on R&D innovations in protocol design & solutions patents for Global Enterprise & Service Provider networks that will transform the marketplace.   Over three decades of business development, business analysis, trending, forecasting of Next Generation emerging technologies and industry direction, planning, procurement, budgeting, accounting and financial strategies, ROI, Business Modeling & EBITA.   Leader and innovator in emerging network engineering technologies such as Segment Routing, SR-MPLS, SRv6 and 5G development and integration of IETF Network Slicing architecture into the mobile core using Segment Routing and Flex Algo to provide 3GPP UPF Cloud RAN network slicing capabilities.   Active Member of the 52 IETF Working Groups, 70 Active drafts, 3 patent filed, 30 patents in progress, 74 IETF presentations given to a worldwide audience of developers.

Carsten Rossenhövel is Managing Director and Co-Founder of EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center). Based in Berlin, Germany, EANTC is a test lab specializing in telecommunication technologies and offers vendor-neutral network testing services for manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise customers.   In this role, Carsten has over 20 years of experience in telecommunication networks testing and is responsible for EANTC's business development and marketing. His technical areas of expertise include Network Functions Virtualization and transport network solutions.

Jérémie Leguay is Chief Expert for routing algorithms and Director of the Datacom Dijkstra Lab at Huawei Technologies. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris, France).  In 2014, he joined at Huawei Technologies as leader of the network and traffic optimization team. His current activities cover the planning and control of IP networks using optimization and machine learning tools.

Wanting Du received her M.Sc degree in Telecommunications from INSA Lyon, France, in 2021. Currently working as an AI engineer at Swisscom. Developing MPLS-SR/SRv6 Layer 3 VPN network anomaly detection.  She contributes to IETF and has interest in network modeling and closed-loop automation.

Latif Ladid is the founder and president of the IPv6 Forum. He is Chair of the IEEE COMSOC IoT subcommittee, chair of IEEE COMSOC 5G subcommittee, co-chair of IEEE COMSOC SDN-NFV subcommittee, Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC; IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board and Chair of ETSI IPv6 ISG.

Passionate about technology since he was a child, in 1997, while still a student, together with his mathematics and philosophy professors and some classmates, he created a state-of-the-art computer room, with one of the first high-speed lines, a CDN 256 run directly from primary Telco Room by SIP (Now Telecom Italia), and sets up a data processing center with web and mail server.   After high school, he enrolled in the degree course in Telecommunications Engineering in Florence. Riccardo's dream has always been to create an open, scalable, secure and shareable network; in fact Riccardo in the first years of university, to amortize the high costs of the first ADSL lines, shared the network with the neighbours. During his university studies, he meets Simone and coincidentally Simone, in Quarrata (a little city near Florence), shares the connection with his friends; it is precisely this coincidence that prompts them to transform, together, a passion into business (hence the "noi" translated into English in US which closes the name Si (Simone) Ri (Riccardo) US). In 2007 they founded Sirius Technology in Simone's garage in Quarrata and began to create the Toscana radio network.   Since 2016 they have also extended coverage in Sardinia starting from the "Nugoro amada", Riccardo's birthplace, creating a new generation radio and fiber network in Sardinia. Using artificial intelligence and IOT sensor technologies aided by new generation protocols on IPv6, they have built an intelligent infrastructure capable of predicting, with the trend of the perturbation, the degradation of the links or the saturation of the radio and fiber optic links and anticipate the traffic engineering, conveying the priority traffic on privileged segments through the use of the SRv6 protocol. Not only WiFi, Sirius has a business unit for the design of fiber access networks and has started to wire entire industrial areas and towns in both Sardinia and Tuscany.

Tayeb BEN MERIEM holds an Engineering degree in Telecommunications from ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) of Paris, now IMT (Institut des Mines Telecom), a Master degree in Quantum Optic and PhD on Optical Networks, University of Paris (France).   With more than 35 years’ experience in Telecom and IT industry, he possesses a broad experience across most technologies. Tayeb was Co-Founder and Vice-President of the French IPv6 Task Force, and Board member of the European Commission IPv6 Task Force and participated in the creation of numerous IPv6 Task Forces in different Countries (Asia, MEA).   Currently, Tayeb is Vice-Chair of the IPv6 Forum and Coordinator of the IPv6 Enhanced Council, member of France IPv6 Task Force and co-chair of WG 4 at WBBA (World Broadband Association)

Xing Li is a Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University and deputy director of China Education and Research Network Center. He is Senior Network Architect of CERNET, CERNET2 and FITI (CERNET3). He published more than 200+ papers.  He is co-author of 11 IETF RFCs, including the IPv4/IPv6 transition specifications (RFC6052, RFC6145, RFC7599, etc). He was a member of IAB (Internet Architecture Board), co-chair of CCIRN (Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking), Chair of APNG (Asia pacific Network Group) and a member of APNIC Executive Council.

Dr. Xipeng Xiao has been with Huawei Datacom since 2006. He is currently team lead of European Datacom SID, and previously, Chief Engineer of the Network Solution Sales. In these roles,   he works extensively with European operators. Prior to Huawei, he was Director of Product Management at Riverstone Networks (now part of Nokia) and Redback Networks (part of Ericsson) in Santa Clara USA. He was Senior Manager at Global Crossing where he deployed and managed the MPLS network. Dr. Xiao is author of 4 RFCs and 1 book.   Dr. Xiao is co-chair of IETF v6ops (IPv6 Operations) WG. He also serves as steering committee member of the MPLS World Congress.

Eric currently works at Cisco in the Global Technology Standards group where he focuses on IETF standards, IPv6, and security. He joined Cisco in 1997. Since 2019, he is Internet Area Director at the IETF. Éric was Belgian IPv6 Council since 2012 co-chair and is now the Chief Technology Officer.   His previous work at the IETF were around IPv6, and information model, he is also the co-author of two network security books about layer-2 and IPv6. Finally, Éric is an associated professor at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he graduated with a M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1983.

Jean-Charles has been working on designing corporate network for a few years, giving him the opportunity to work on IPv6 integration far beyond network. His knowledge about system interdependency inspired him to write and maintain a handbook on the topic.