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Eleonora Petridou

Eleonora is Chief Information Security Officer at the RIPE NCC and is responsible for ensuring that the RIPE NCC maintains necessary levels of Information security and compliance with best practices and applicable regulations.

Gael Hernandez

Based in Dublin

Experienced Internet interconnection strategist (IXP, CDN, transit, peering, edge and caching, policy and regulatory) with a passion for understanding markets, perspectives and people. Independent consultant at Atlas Peering. Admin Committee member at PeeringDB.

Anastasiya Pak

Based in Amsterdam

Anastasiya Pak is a Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. Before joining the RIPE NCC, Anastasiya led the Communications Department at an international NGO and worked as a TV journalist in Uzbekistan, covering international politics, diplomacy, and global affairs. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and a Joint Master's in Journalism, Media, and Globalisation from the University of Amsterdam and Aarhus University.

Alena Muravska

Based in The Netherlands

Alena Muravska is Senior Public Policy & Internet Governance Advisor at the RIPE NCC. In this role, she engages with a broad range of stakeholders, including EU institutions, national authorities, intergovernmental organisations, industry and academia. With a background in engineering and public affairs, she brings both technical insight and policy expertise to global discussions on Internet governance. A committed advocate for capacity building, Alena actively contributes to Internet governance schools and industry events. Her professional experience spans investigations, audits, and compliance through to programme management, cross-functional coordination, and leadership. Alongside her role at the RIPE NCC, she serves as Chair of the Global Internet Standards Testing Community, where she focuses on strengthening and expending the international users of the internet.nl testing platform, the initiative from Dutch Internet Standards Platform. Alena holds an engineering degree from the National Technical University of Ukraine and a Master’s in Policy and Public Affairs from Leiden University. Fluent in English, Dutch, and Ukrainian, she is a sought-after speaker at international forums.

Fredrik Lindeberg

Based in Sweden

Fredrik is currently working as Chief Information Security Officer at Netnod. His role is focused on internal processes, public policy development and the implications of policy on Netnod’s services. In 2021, Fredrik defended his PhD-thesis, Coordinating the Internet: Thought styles, technology and coordination. Prior to that, he worked as a systems engineer in the financial services sector with a focus on systems integration and replacement of dedicated communications networks and services for financial services over the Internet. Fredrik has a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management with specialisation in Economic Information Systems and an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering.

Kathleen Moriarty

Kathleen Moriarty, founder of SecurityBiaS is technology strategist and board advisor, working with SaaS providers on security to Build-in at Scale benefiting both the provider and their customer base. Adjunct Professor at Georgetown SCS, teaching Security Architecture and Design and Cyber Threat Intelligence. Formerly as the Chief Technology Officer, Center for Internet Security Kathleen defined and led the technology strategy, integrating emerging technologies working with under resourced organisations. Prior to CIS, Kathleen held a range of positions over 13 years at Dell Technologies, including the Security Innovations Principal in Dell Technologies Office of the CTO and Global Lead Security Architect for EMC Office of the CTO working on ecosystems, standards, risk management and strategy. In her early days with RSA/EMC, she led consulting engagements interfacing with hundreds of organisations on security and risk management, gaining valuable insights, managing risk to business needs. During her tenure in the Dell EMC Office of the CTO, Kathleen had the honor of being appointed and serving two terms as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Security Area Director and as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from March 2014-2018. Named in CyberSecurity Ventures, Top 100 Women Fighting Cybercrime. She is a 2020 Tropaia Award Winner, Outstanding Faculty, Georgetown SCS. Keynote speaker, podcast guest, frequent blogger bridging a translation gap for technical content, conference committee member, and quoted on publications such as CNBC and Wired. Kathleen achieved over twenty five years of experience driving positive outcomes across Information Technology Leadership, short and long-term IT Strategy and Vision, Information Security, Risk Management, Incident Handling, Project Management, Large Teams, Process Improvement, and Operations Management in multiple roles with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Hudson Williams, FactSet Research Systems, and PSINet. Kathleen holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from Siena College. Published Work: - Transforming Information Security: Optimizing Five Concurrent Trends to Reduce Resource Drain, July 2020.

Virgile Uytterhaegen

Based in Amsterdam

Hi, I'm Virgile, working as a Security Engineer at the RIPE NCC.

Malte Tashiro

Based in Tokyo

I am a researcher at the IIJ Research Laboratory. The focus of my work is analyzing the resilience of the Internet topology with the help of active and passive measurements. I am a proponent of open data and want to share my research with the world.

Arman Obosyan

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia

I lead SkyTel, a telecommunications operator based in Tbilisi, Georgia. My focus is on telecom infrastructure, IP networks, cloud connectivity, and the strategic development of regional digital infrastructure in the South Caucasus and other emerging markets.

Jonas Mücke

Jonas Mücke is a PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden. His research focuses on active and passive measurements to better understand complex Web infrastructures. He is particularly interested in additional insights gained from the emerging transport protocol QUIC.