Speakers

Arnold Nipper, PeeringDB

Arnold Nipper is the Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE) and Co-Founder of DE-CIX. Before that, he served as DE-CIX’ CTO/COO for more than 15 years and is also on the Board of Directors of SwissIX since 02/2022. Since 12/2008, Arnold has worked for PeeringDB. Since PeeringDB became an association, he has also been a Director of PeeringDB. Until 11/2016, Arnold was also a Director of Euro-IX.

Arnold Nipper is one of the Internet pioneers in Germany and has 30+
years of work experience. He was instrumental in setting up one of the first commercial ISP in Germany, was involved in setting up the DE-NIC, and co-founded RIPE in 1989.

Bruno Banelli, Novarq

Focused on delivering results, empowering teams, and improving the processes by leveraging extraordinary people skills. Utilizing mathematical background, versatile in both business and technological environments. Future-oriented with lessons learnt in the past, attentive to details without losing highl level overview. Determined on reaching designated goals.

Owing to the success with a personal project and investment in OTL, where I have been able to create a product and fully participate in ISO/IEC 19790 compliance process, linking Governmental institutions in charge and providing services to highest Governmental bodies, I feel up to new professional challenges utilizing my skills to achieve impact within global organizations, especially in ones focused on open-source paradigms.

Fredrik Korsback, AWS

Gerhard Stein, Flexoptix

Jac Kloots, Kentik

Janos Gergely, BIX

Janos is the Peering Manager of BIX – Budapest Internet Exchange. He has more than 20+ years of work experience in Telecommunications at various international Tier1 IP and infrastructure providers.

Since 2022 his main role is to increase the total peering traffic of BIX (AS5507) and to maintain members satisfaction by launching new services with attractive pricing models.

He is an enthusiastic member of the Peering Days organizers team, and a happy workforce of ISZT (Council of Hungarian Internet Providers): the owner of Budapest Internet Exchange and the founder of HUNOG conferences.

Kaj Kjellgren, Netnod

Kaj Kjellgren is a seasoned expert in network architecture and interconnection, with over two decades of experience in the field. Since 2002, he has been working as a Senior Network Architect at Netnod, a leading Internet infrastructure organization in the Nordics. His primary focus is on peering and operations, and he is a regular speaker at international conferences, sharing insights on technical developments and the evolving landscape of global interconnection.

Marian Rychtecky, NIX.CZ

Network specialist focused on multi vendor (Cisco, Juniper, CheckPoint, NetApp) routers, switches, firewalls, Cyber Security and network technology with 15+ years’ experience for data, voice and video

Deep knowledge of ISO/OSI, L2, TCP/IP, MPLS, DOCSIS, DWDM, VoIP, ISDN and routing protocols OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, xSTP and QoS data flow and prioritization

Troubleshooting of all infrastructure layers

Mark Coleman, NetBox Labs

Mark Coleman is co-founder and Chief Evangelist at NetBox Labs, the commercial stewards of the NetBox project. Mark started his career as a software engineer and has spent the last 15 years automating all layers of infrastructure. When Mark isn't working he enjoys snowboarding and learning new languages.

Massimiliano Stucchi

Massimiliano “Max” Stucchi joined the Internet Society in 2019 as Technical Advisor for the European Bureau. His previous experiences are as a trainer and IPv6 Programme Manager at the RIPE NCC, and before that he was the founder and technical director of a small Internet Service
Provider and Wireless Internet Service Provider in Northern Italy. Max is a long time Unix fellow, with a specific love for FreeBSD and OpenBSD, which he’s been using for around 20 years now. His interest also cover BGP, Routing Security, DNS and of course, IPv6. If possible, he tries to contribute to the development of these technologies by participating in the IETF.

In his past, Max used to be an official football referee for the Italian Football Federation, but he quit when he moved to the Netherlands for work. Now, when he’s not in front of a keyboard, you can find him trying to get back in shape by running or mountain biking in the woods around his
house.
Max speaks Italian, English, French, and is trying to improve his German. He is based near Zurich, Switzerland.

Monika Schneider, VIX

Monika joined Vienna University Computer Center (VUCC) in 2000. In 2010 she changed into the apartment running the Austrian Academic Computer Network “ACOnet” and the Vienna Internet eXchange “VIX” and has been working in their networking team ever since.

Patrick Prangl, Arista Networks

Patrick is working as an Advanced Services Engineer for Arista Networks. He is based in Austria and is passionate about networking and automation. He has more than 10 years of experience in the networking industry mostly working at or with various Service Providers.

Peter Gyorgy, BENOCS

Péter earned a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership while simultaneously gaining valuable experience in the telecommunications industry across various companies. Since 2022, he has been helping peering managers leverage BENOCS to maximize the value of their network analytics.

Tomas Weible, Flexoptix

Thomas Weible is the creative brain of FLEXOPTIX. A real rebel who dreams up innovations such as the FLEXBOX. He dives deep into the inner life of optics and loves experimenting on real-life problems with our customers. For more than 15 years he has been part of the internet community and has specialized in optical networking.

Yurii Polovyi, RETN