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Julian Macho

Based in Wiesbaden, Germany

Julian is a working student in the R&D team at DE-CIX. Focusing on internet infrastructure and network technologies, he is on track to finish his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences.

Matthias Wichtlhuber

Based in Frankfurt Germany

Matthias is a computer networks researcher and currently serves as Team Lead for Research and Development at DE-CIX, one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange operators. In this role, he oversees DE-CIX’s research activities on Internet infrastructure measurement, security, and optimization, as well as community engagement and publicly funded projects in collaboration with partners from industry and academia. Over the past years, he has been a regular speaker at RIPE Meetings and other community events.

Seyed Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani

Based in Tehran

Pouria is a FreeBSD Source Committer, specializing in Internet and network protocols. He focuses on improving the quality of Internet connectivity and has spent nearly a decade working across datacenters, ISPs, and network development teams. He regularly contributes to the FreeBSD project, improving operating system's networking stacks, particularly for IPv6, and Routing. As an IRNOG Steering Committee member, he has organized and presented at seven IRNOG meetings, fostering regional technical collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Lukas Tribus

Based in Bolzano, Italy

I'm a network architect and consultant interested in improving routing operations, reliability and security.

Andrew Campling

Based in London

Andrew Campling runs 419 Consulting Ltd, a public policy and public affairs consultancy focused on the tech and telecoms sectors, working with clients on a range of marketing and policy-related projects. He is also a Trustee of the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity which works to eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online, preventing the ongoing victimisation of those abused in childhood and making the Internet safer for all. Andrew is involved in the development of Internet standards and Internet governance, with much of his current activity in this area captured in blogs and podcasts on his company website. He is also working with others on PARCEP, a proposal for an open standard that will make parental controls more effective and easier to operate for parents and carers, improving the protection of children against online harms.

Rehan Syed Muhammad

Based in Amsterdam

Former user Experience Specialist at RIPE NCC

James Kennedy

Former Chief Registry Officer, RIPE NCC

André Grüneberg

Based in Berlin, Germany

André is CTO at BCIX (Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange). He is trying to use IPv6 on everything connected since 2001.

Md.Kamruzzaman Khan

Based in DHAKA,BANGLADESH

Md. Kamruzzaman Khan is Deputy Manager for Network Planning and Implementation at SSD-TECH (AS63526) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has spent eleven years in service provider operations, and his writing draws on that operational vantage point, with research interests in routing resilience, Internet measurement, and rural connectivity models. He is a 2026 Internet Society Mid-Career Fellow and an APNIC Foundation BCAP fellow on the Network Operations Advanced track, attended APNIC 61 as an APNIC Fellow, and presented research on IPv6 deployment trends across the LAC region at LACNIC 44 . His paper on privacy-first approaches to IP geolocation is cited in the IAB IP Geolocation Workshop report, and he is currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at North South University. ORCID: 0009-0007-3826-713X

Marco Schmidt

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Marco Schmidt is the Manager of Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. He is responsible for overseeing the registration and maintenance of Internet number resources in the RIPE NCC's service region. He also manages the implementation of accepted policies in RIPE NCC procedures and operations. Marco first joined the RIPE NCC as an IP Resource Analyst (IPRA) in the Registry Services department, where he worked for five years. In that role, he gained valuable experience in evaluating IPv4, IPv6 and Autonomous System Number requests while providing support to the RIPE NCC membership. Later, he became the RIPE NCC's Policy Development Officer. In this position, he supported and drove the RIPE community's Policy Development Processes (PDP) both externally and internally.