Bijal is the Managing Director at Euro-IX, a RIPE NCC Services Working Group Co-chair since 2005 and was elected on to the PeeringDB Board in 2017, where she currently serves as a Director.

Mark Daley plays a leading role in identifying and developing Epsilon’s cutting edge cloud and communication strategies, with a focus on market and customer needs.

A veteran telecommunications professional, Mark served 14 years with Telstra and other high profile telecommunication companies such as NTT and eircom. Mark held leading Products and Marketing roles in Telstra’s move into the European market in the mid-1990s and wrote NTT’s European ICT strategy in the mid-2000s which they continue to deliver today. He was also responsible for winning NTT’s first ever World Communications Award.

Mark has also held executive Marketing & Product Director positions at Capgemini UK and spent 8 innovative years in the Mobile Roaming world including at WSI’s first US Roaming Hub and launching Syniverse’s first hosted intelligent network services portfolio. Recently, Mark spent 4 years at NetDev that had developed the next generation of web-based OTT voice, video and WebRTC service functions, as well as developing the leading innovative Audio Conferencing platform at BT, which now includes Spatial Audio.

Barry is part of the management and operations team at INEX, the peering point for the island of Ireland. Barry first began providing a couple days operational support to INEX in 2008 but little did he realise what a huge part of his life INEX would become – both here in Ireland and also as part of the larger European and international IXP community. 

Barry is the lead developer of IXP Manager (www.ixpmanager.org) – the most trusted IXP platform worldwide, free and open source software, supporting over 160 IXPs worldwide.

Michael is Director of Connectivity at Interxion. Michael is responsible for defining the strategy and business development in the Connectivity segment, including a specific focus on Internet Exchanges. Michael has been with Interxion for 4 years, and previously spent 18 years at Cisco Systems.

Eileen is the CEO of INEX, leading the team that develops and manages the peering point for the island of Ireland. She has been in the leadership team of INEX for the past 15 years, taking INEX from a local IXP to an internationally respected exchange with a wide and growing membership. Eileen has also been involved in the development and promotion of IXP Manager, the IXP management platform developed and owned by INEX, which is now in use at over 160 internet exchanges worldwide.

A highly effective and experienced communicator and networker, she has invested in and enjoys an excellent reputation in the peering and internet industry in Ireland and around the world. Instrumental in creating and developing the reputation and community of INEX internationally, she has a keen understanding of the dynamics of business and people which enables her to bring disparate groups and individuals together to achieve common goals.

She was elected to the Euro-IX board by the European IXP community in November 2018, re-elected in 2020 and currently serves as vice-chair of the organisation.

Eileen is very passionate about the positive impact of a well-functioning, respectful and diverse community on the development and success of the peering and internet networking community.

Dr. Thomas King is in the Internet Exchange Point (IXP) industry for more than ten years. As Chief Technology Officer at DE-CIX, he and his team are responsible for building and operating the Interconnection Platform worldwide, designing and introducing new Interconnection products, and keeping customers happy with swift service provisioning executed by a 24/ Customer Service. DE-CIX is operating 28 IXPs on three continents. The world-leading IXP located in Frankfurt, Germany, connects more than 1000 networks and generates peak traffic of more than 10Tbps. The latest product developments include introducing a fully automated Cloud Exchange at DE-CIX, which offers dedicated connections to Cloud Service Providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud.