Daniel Wagner
Researcher - DE-CIX
Daniel Wagner holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and is currently a doctoral student at Max Planck Institute, University of Saarland. He focuses on network measurement, traffic classification and software defined networking (SDN) using novel programming languages. He joined DE-CIX in 2019 as a researcher and has published multiple peer-reviewed papers since then. Besides his scientific work, he is involved in an EU-funded project and development of new products and solutions for IXPs.
Frederic Libotte
Head of Customer Relations Unit - Belnet
With a Master in History and two Post-Masters, one in European Studies and the last one in Management & Communication, Frédéric Libotte can talk about a lot of subjects. Even networks and peering? Yes! After several experiences in ICT recruitment, he has been working for Belnet, the Belgian research & education network, since June 2009. He has started his career there as an Account Manager for BNIX, the Belgian Internet Exchange managed by Belnet, and is at the Head of their Customer Relations department since 2018. Frédéric suffers from several addictions: one of them is taking selfies, especially during the Euro-IX forums. You have been warned…
Flavio Luciani
CTO - Namex
Flavio Luciani was born in Rome in 1981 and graduated in Computer Engineering at 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.
Patricia Soria
Marketing and Community Development - INEX
Patricia has more than 15 years of experience working in communication, event organising and producing content for the Web. At INEX, Patricia leads the Marketing and Community Development. She previously worked with HEAnet and Irish Life in Ireland and various media outlets in Spain.
You will find Patricia developing and delivering INEX events and marketing activity and engaging and working with members. Patricia also produces content for the website and social media channels and generally supports the team and community whenever they need it. She also represents INEX at many international industry conferences and meetings and is part of the of Euro-IX group responsible for producing video content that explains the world of IXs to the general public .
Massimiliano Stucchi
Regional Technical Advisor - Internet Society
I joined the Internet Society in 2019 as Regional Technical Advisor in Europe. My work focuses on helping new Internet exchange points and community networks come to life in Europe and Central Asia, along with a lot of advocacy for MANRS and related data measurements.
My previous experiences are as a trainer and IPv6 program manager at the RIPE NCC, and before that I was the founder and technical director of a small Internet service provider and wireless Internet service provider in Northern Italy.
I am a long time Unix fellow, with a specific love for FreeBSD and OpenBSD, which I’ve been using for more than 20 years now. My interests cover BGP, Routing Security, RPKI, DNS, and of course, IPv6. When possible, I try to contribute to the development of these technologies by participating in the IETF.
Irene Lalioti
Network Engineer - LU-CIX
Irene was born and raised in Patra, Greece. She is working as Network Engineer for Restena Foundation and LU-CIX since 2016. Coming from Private TELCO Industry, she worked as Technical Support Engineer for Sonus (Ribbon) in Prague, Czechia for a couple of years. Her first job was at Linuxbox.cz Ostrava, Czechia. Irene has been involved in several IT (WSN, Electrical Engineering) Projects in Detroit,MI and Greece. Her studies were primarily in Greece University of Peloponnese Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Denmark Odense Syddansk Universitet Software Engineering Department. Irene speaks English,Greek, French and basic Luxembourgish.
Greg Hankins
Senior Product Manager - Nokia
Greg Hankins is Senior Product Manager at Nokia, where he works with service providers and internet exchanges around the world to deliver innovative internetworking solutions. Greg has been an active member of the network operator and peering community for nearly 20 years, and frequently speaks at network operator conferences on network technology and operational topics.
Innocenzo Genna
EU Legal and Policy Advisor - Namex
Innocenzo Genna is the EU legal and policy advisor for Namex, the Internet Exchange of Rome. With respect to his general professional background, he is a legal and strategy consultant advising on European telecoms and Internet regulations. He also provides comments as a tech expert for various newpapers and for his professional blog RadioBruxellesLibera (https://radiobruxelleslibera.com). He held (and sometimes continue to hold) executive tasks in various European trade organizations dealing with telecoms and Internet, such as Euroispa (the European ISP Association), MVNO Europe (the European Association of MVNO), ECTA (the European Competitive Telecommunications Association) and the European Internet Forum (the main European foundation for Internet and telecoms). He’s currently member of the Advisory Board of Iliad Italia, while he also served as General Counsel for Tiscali S.p.A.
