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Oliver Hohlfeld

Based in Kassel

Oliver Hohlfeld is a professor at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research focuses on Internet Measurement with a focus on understanding and improving network operation and Internet Resilience.

Remco van Mook

Based in The Netherlands

Technology executive with a passion for Internet and how the pieces come together - going down that rabbit hole for 25+ years. Prolific policy author, former chair of the Connect working group in the RIPE community and board member of RIPE NCC from 2010 to 2025.

Greg Wood

Greg Wood is Senior Director of Communications and Operations for the IETF Administration LLC. He previously served as Director of Communications at the Internet Society (ISOC) and, before joining ISOC, was the Director of Communications for Internet2. Greg first encountered the Internet in 1992 while working at start up university in Lithuania. He currently is based in the Washington, D.C. area.

Gergana Petrova

Gergana Petrova is the Specialist Community Development Officer at the RIPE NCC. She is responsible for RIPE NCC's engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, network operators, academia, government, law enforcement, and other Internet stakeholders.

Kjerstin Burdiek

Kjerstin Burdiek is a Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. Prior to joining the RIPE NCC in 2021, she contributed to policy research and strategic communications at a think tank. In her educational background, she explored the intersection of linguistics and political science. She currently focuses on communications around Internet governance and developments in the technical community.

Flavio Luciani

Flavio Luciani was born in Rome in 1981 and graduated in Computer Engineering from the University of Roma Tre in 2005. Since 2008 he has been in the team of Namex, the Internet eXchange Point in Rome, first as a member of the technical staff and since 2020 as Chief Technology Officer. He is currently involved in several initiatives in the Internet Community: he collaborates with the RIPE NCC organisation, with the association of European eXchange points EURO-IX and holds a role in the Steering Committee, within the Internet Society (ISOC) initiative, Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security. Through workshops, courses and in-depth articles, it promotes greater attention to the topic of routing security.

Jordi Palet Martinez

Based in Spain

Jordi Palet Martínez has been working with computers, networking and technology since he was 8 years old. The last 30 years, as CEO/CTO at "The IPv6 Company", devoted most of his time to IPv6 R&D, standardization, training and consultancy, having worked already with hundreds of IPv6 customers in more than 150 countries in the world. He has co-authored a number of RFCs and books related to IPv6 and contributed to IPv6 training and policy making in all the RIRs.

Alastair Strachan

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Alastair Strachan is Community Development Officer at the RIPE NCC. In this role, he works to strengthen the RIPE NCC's engagement with the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, government, law enforcement and other Internet stakeholders.

Ritesh Mukherjee

Based in Boston, United States

Ritesh Mukherjee is an accomplished leader focused on global communications and technology. Ritesh leads Nokia's network infrastructure product strategy, focusing on pioneering network transformations and harnessing the potential of AI in networking. Significant roles at industry giants mark Ritesh's journey. As Head of Product Strategy and Innovation at DriveNets, he led product management and the deployment of core routers and networking for AI data centers for operators and hyperscalers worldwide. As Senior Vice President and General Manager at Inseego, he oversaw product design, solutions engineering, technical marketing, and customer success. His tenure at Reliance Jio involved managing a global portfolio of market-leading enterprise solutions. As Vice President of Product Management at 128 Technology (acquired by Juniper Networks), he led the development of SD-WAN and cloud solutions. Previously, he served as a Product Management Leader at Cisco, where he led the software operating systems group. Ritesh's leadership has been pivotal in engineering some of the largest deployments of enterprise and operator networks globally. In addition to his professional roles, Ritesh is a dedicated educator. He shares his expertise in Computer Networks and Security as an Adjunct Faculty Member at Northeastern University and the Benjamin Franklin Cummins Institute of Technology. Ritesh holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal.

Sasha Romijn

Based in Amsterdam, NL

Sasha is an independent developer and internet infrastructure specialist, with broad experience in software and standards fundamental to the internet, and other complex software systems. Sasha is the author and maintainer of IRRD, the routing registry daemon used by many of the major IRR registries worldwide. She is also the lead developer of Internet.nl on a freelance basis, a standards compliance testing platform run by the Dutch internet community and government, which runs around 9 million tests annually. Sasha regularly speaks at internet infrastructure and developer community events. She's also passionate about inclusive communities and technical events, and is actively involved in conference organising and community management for Write the Docs. Previously, she was a committer and conference organiser for the Django web framework.