Alexandre Corso Paris , France

Aleksi Suhonen Tampere , Finland

Andy Davidson Sheffield , United Kingdom

Barry O'Donovan Dublin , Ireland

If you want to confuse Barry, ask him where he’s from: born in Cork, spent his formative years in Galway and married into Dublin. He got a honours degree in Maths, his first love, from NUI, Galway in 2001 and went on to do four years research in information theory in UCD’s Computer Science department.

It was 2008 when Nick Hilliard, INEX’s CTO, approached Barry to provide a couple days operational support to INEX. Little did Barry realise what a huge part of his life INEX would become – both here in Ireland supporting INEX’s infrastructure and membership but also as part of the larger European and international IXP community.

Barry is also the lead developer of IXP Manager (www.ixpmanager.org) – a full stack management system for IXPs which includes an administration and customer portal; provides end to end provisioning; and both teaches and implements best practice. INEX is very proud to say that this project is now in use at nearly 100 IXPs.

Benedikt Rudolph Frankfurt , Germany

Bijal Sanghani London , United Kingdom

Bijal Sanghani is the Secretary General at Euro-IX based in London, UK.

Bijal’s experience includes DNS management for DEMON Internet, Provisioning Engineer at Level 3, Senior Operations Engineer at FLAG Telecom and Reliance Globalcom where she was involved from the beginning to build the FLAG IP network. In 2011 Bijal moved from an operational role to the top management role at Euro-IX. Euro-IX is a non-profit membership association for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). In her role she brings the members together to share ideas and experiences on technical, commercial and regulatory matters, and works on other IXP related projects such as the IXPDB (IXP Database) and support programs to help IXPs in need. Bijal has grown the membership by over 90% since she started in 2011.

Bijal has been involved with the Peering and Interconnect Community since 2003, she’s been a RIPE NCC Services Working Group Co-chair since 2005 and served on the UKNOF Program Committee from 2006 until 2014. Bijal was elected on to the PeeringDB Board in 2017 where she currently serves as a Director.

David Murray London , United Kingdom

David is a Systems Engineer with Arista Networks, supporting companies across EMEA on network solutions in both datacenter and service provider networks.

David joined the company as a Software Engineer in 2011, developing routing functionality for Arista's EOS® operating system, including BGP and IPv6. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Imperial College London.

Dirk van den Borne Munich , Germany

Forum Event United Kingdom

Frederic Libotte Brussels , Belgium

Born in 1973, Frédéric has a master in History, a post-master degree in European Policy and a specialization in Business communication & Management. After different experiences in recruitment and in (internet) sales, he has joined Belnet, the Belgian Research & Education Network (NREN), in 2009. As the Account Manager for the Belgian National Internet Exchange (BNIX), Frédéric has been present to most of the Euro-IX fora since then. In 2018, he is the enthusiastic Head of Customer Relations of Belnet/BNIX, managing a Sales team of 9 people.

Greg Hankins Atlanta , United States of America

Harald Michl Vienna , Austria

Henk Steenman Amsterdam , Netherlands

Ignas Bagdonas Reading , United Kingdom

Jan Paul Dekker Den Haag , Netherlands

Kurt Erik Lindqvist London , United Kingdom

Lee Hetherington London , United Kingdom

Miquel Puig Spain

Malcolm Hutty London , United Kingdom

Masataka Mawatari Tokyo , Japan

Nick Hilliard Dublin , Ireland

Ramon Roca

Robert Lister LONDON , United Kingdom

Andrei Robachevsky Amsterdam , Netherlands

Stefan Plug Berlin , Germany

Thomas King Frankfurt , Germany

Tom Bird Sheffield , United Kingdom

Will Hargrave London , United Kingdom