Technology and Innovation

Maarten Aertsen

Based in Amsterdam

Maarten work as senior internet technologist at NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs is a not-for-profit foundation with the mission to develop open source software and open standards for the benefit of the Internet, particularly in the area of DNS and (BGP) routing. Maarten's role is to bring Labs' expertise to policy making bodies, including governments, regulators and multi-stakeholder forums.

Karla White

I am a Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC with a background in public sector communications and public relations. I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2021.

Thijs van den Hout

Based in Utrecht, The Netherlands

Thijs van den Hout is a research engineer at SIDN Labs, the R&D department of the .nl ccTLD registry. He has a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence. His focus is the application of machine learning techniques to increase the safety of the internet, for example through abuse detection.

Qasim Lone

I am a research engineer in the R&D department at RIPE NCC. I am interested in internet measurements, internet outages, data analysis, and cybersecurity. Prior to joining RIPE NCC, I defended my Ph.D. in cyber-security at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands.

Max Schulze

Based in Haarlem, Netherlands

I have a background as a software engineer and cloud expert, using my experience from working on the IT infrastructure within startups and corporates to transform the digital economy, making it future-proof and sustainable. My focus is on the success of the SDIA Roadmap and activating our community to work towards a sustainable digital economy. I firmly believe in sustainability as a positive opportunity to make the world better and hope to contribute to it with my work.

Simone Basso

Based in Italy

Simone leads the development of network experiments and the measurement engine at the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI).