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Behnam Shariati (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.) is the Deputy Head of Data Analytics and Digital Signal Processing Group of the Photonic Networks and Systems department at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin, Germany. Behnam is (co)author of 60+ peer-reviewed articles that appeared in top journals and conference proceedings of his field of expertise. In addition to his technical expertise, he is involved in the management and coordination of several research projects. He is currently leading the work package “AI-assisted Network Control and Service Automation” of AI-NET PROTECT, a Celtic Next project with 39 partners across Europe and a budget exceeding 22 Million €. Behnam has also a broad understanding of the landscape of open source networking as well as standardization bodies, specifically focusing on the topic of optical network and service automation. He is one of the Fraunhofer HHI’s contributor to ETSI Fifth Generation Fixed Network (F5G) standardization group, primarily on the topic of AI and ML for the automation of F5G network fabric. He is a member of IEEE and OPTICA.

Currently driving business growth as a Technical Presales at Waystream in Germany, leveraging my deep knowledge of networking solutions and strong communication skills. Skilled in understanding customer requirements, developing tailored solutions, and delivering persuasive presentations. Committed to building strong client relationships and exceeding expectations. Excited to contribute my expertise to drive innovation and contribute to Waystream's continued success.

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Christian Giese is a Senior Software Engineer with a demonstrated history in the networking industry. At RtBrick he is working on Access Protocols for their BNG software and Test Tools such as the BNG Blaster. As a former employee of Deutsche Telekom AG and Juniper Networks, he gained experience in how to build, operate and automate large-scaled service provider networks.

As Vice President Technology Christian Kaufmann leads the Technology department which is responsible for driving the technical evolution of the Akamai Edge platform, including a wide set of responsibilities like hardware engineering, datacenter architecture, network architecture and engineering, and software and systems development.
Christian has gained extensive board experience including hiring CEOs and handling M&A, during his 15+ years on various boards in the Internet ecosystem.
Currently he serves as a board member at ICANN and the Tor Project.
Before joining Akamai, Christian worked at several ISPs and Carriers like Telia Sonera, Easynet and Cable & Wireless, in various technical and managerial roles.
Christian has a Master of Science in Advanced Networking from The Open University in the UK. He also holds various technical certifications, including both a CCIE & JCNIE.

Chris is a DevOps Engineer building Das SCHIFF at Deutsche Telekom. His main focus is the machine side of the network fabric and how it integrates into Kubernetes. He joined DTAG in the middle of 2021 and quickly became the leader for Das SCHIFFs bare metal networking journey.

In 2007, I joined Telekom as a product manager. In the national wholesale business, I was responsible for value added services. Over the years I was able to expand my know-how in the areas of voice interconnection and fibre access. Since 2022, I have been working for Telekom Global Carrier in the area of Internet and Content. My focus is on IP transit and especially TimeSynchronisation.

Dr. David Hock is the Director of Research at Infosim®.With the solution StableNet®, Infosim® is a leading manufacturer of automated Service Fulfillment and Service Assurance solutions. StableNet® incorporates Fault, Performance, Configuration, and Services Management on a single platform.

At Infosim®, Dr. Hock is coordinating the research activities across all business areas, including among others Automated Network & Service Management, 5G/6G, Quantum Communication/QKD as well as many activities related to AI and Machine Learning. Since the very first day when starting as a spin off of the University of Würzburg, Infosim has always been very actively participating in different research activities and conducted numerous funded research projects together with other industry partners as well as Research institutes and academia. This is a very good driver for innovation and helps to bring together both the theoretical/methodological research work and the practical applications of it.

Prior to Infosim®, Dr. Hock was working as a Research Assistant and Post Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Communication Networks at the Institute of Computer Science in Würzburg where he finished his Dr. rer. nat. degree in 2014.

Dr. Gerhard Stein is Head of Product Development at FLEXOPTIX, ensuring that innovative and amazing products are brought into the market.

Back in the 1990s, when he was still living in Mexico, he wrote small programs and assembled computers and network systems for customers. After his arrival in Germany, he began studying mechanical and process engineering at the TU Darmstadt, continued this at the Ruhr University Bochum, specialising computational engineering and received his doctorate in the field of simulation technology.

He also develops open source software such as the Commander Genius game engine.

IT-solutions expert with more than 20 years in IT in total including 5 years of Network Engineer experience, 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform/FinOps experience and 10+ years of
hands-on experience in maintenance and development of fault-tolerant high-volume web systems.

With the current role as Sr. Software Engineer in Grafana Labs my goal is to deliver observability and capacity management practices all over the world.

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In 2017 Florian joined Arista and is leading the Systems Engineering team in Germany since 2021. Before his time at Arista he held technical and management positions at SPs and IXPs over the past 17 years, so his knowledge stretches from Engineering over Architecture and Strategic topics. Since the very beginning he has been engaged with the global internet community. In addition to his day job Florian also has been elected to the Board of DENOG e.V.

In his free time Florian likes to spend time with (e)biking, home automation, new/experimental technologies and video games.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florianhibler/

Frank Krämer serves as the Head of Sales for the DACH region at EPSGlobal, a position he has held for over 17 years. His extensive experience encompasses sales leadership, technical support, and direct engagement with service provider, data center and fiber optical solutions. Based in Darmstadt, Germany, Frank has a strong technical background, with previous roles in technical support and sales at Aphona, Kapsch AG, and Syscom Emirates LLC in Dubai.

He is a strong advocate of Open Networking and disaggregation, facilitating communication across diverse technical teams and networks. Frank holds an educational background from Deutsche Telekom AG, underpinning his expertise in telecommunications and technology.

Hari heads the sales and strategy activities at BENOCS, which encompasses all aspects of business development and customer communications. His interest in the telco industry and the internet ecosystem as a whole drives him to constantly deepen his understanding of BENOCS users and their business needs.

In 2012, Holger Metschulat joined Deutsche Telekom. As an expert in IPv6 and mobile broadband technologies, he led the design and transition of the mobile internet access at DT from IPv4 based to an IPv6-only access. Currently, areas of occupation are fixed line access and disaggregating things via Kubernetes.

Before starting his work at Deutsche Telekom, Holger was working in presales and postsales engineering at Nortel Networks and Juniper Networks.

Jens is a freelance consultant specialized in IPv6, Linux, Networking, Automation. He is also
organizing https://www.flarp.de, a monthly admin meetup in Berlin and remote.

Currently, he mainly works on implementing IPv6 for a large customer.

Johan Sandell is the CTO at Waystream. He has broad experience from the IT and telecommunications industry with a focus on fiber optical systems. Johan's background includes start-up companies such as Transmode Systems and Xelerated, as well as innovation organizations within large multinational organizations including Ericsson and GfK. A common thread in Johan's career is to understand and utilize innovative technologies in a business-driven way to address real needs. Johan has a master's degree in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology and leadership training from the Swedish National Defense College.
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Lara works as System Security Engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH and is currently studying for her master's degree. In her free time, she's volunteering at Selfnet e.V.

Luiz works as a Network Engineer for AS208058 (InnoGames GmbH).

In my free-time I am working for Selfnet e.V. as a volunteer and we bring Internet to students in Stuttgart.
Additionally I try to keep up with my garden.

During working-hours I bring proper networking concepts into the cloud-native world to fullfill the basic needs for Deutsche Telekoms Kubernetes platform called "Das SCHIFF".
For the past years I was also involved in monitoring of network devices with prometheus.

Projects:
* https://github.com/telekom/das-schiff
* https://github.com/telekom/netplanner
* https://github.com/Cellebyte/wichtelit
* https://github.com/Selfnet/prometheus-network-exporter

Contributions:
* https://github.com/STORDIS/monsoon
* https://github.com/telekom/das-schiff-network-operator

Markus graduated with a diploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen University. Since 2008, he has worked for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) as a technical officer. In his job, he is engaged in various Internet-related topics on an everyday basis.

Currently he serves as co-chair for the Anti-Abuse Working Group at RIPE and is a regular participant in the IETF as well as a member of the ISOC German Chapter.

I hold the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dresden. My research and teaching focus on scalable, reliable, and secure Internet communication. This includes the design and evaluation of networking protocols and architectures, as well as Internet measurements and analysis. My efforts are driven by the hope of improving Internet communication based on sound research. I'm actively involved in the IETF since 2005 and co-founded multiple successful open source projects such as RIOT and RTRlib. I am a member of the Board of Advisors of BCIX and co-founded the DD-IX.

By day, Moritz is currently acting as CEO of Globalways GmbH, a national ISP with a core network in Stuttgart, Germany.
By night, he is Vice Chairman of the DENOG e.V. board, chairing the DENOG program committee, contributing to C3NOC, running Stuttgart-IX, and working as a freelance network architect.
He is passionate about interconnecting networks and, more importantly, humans.

Moritz is looking back on 10 years of industry experience in various technical and managerial roles at local ISPs, global CDNs, and global cloud providers.

I am responsible for the operation and technological development of the data network at the Ruhr University in Bochum, which is one of the largest universities in Germany.

I'm also a fan of everything around IPv6 and tirelessly encourage people to finally use it.

I have been with Deutsche Telekom since January 2002. I worked my way through the 24/7 shift NOC, last-level support and configurations to engineering for AS3320. In 2019, after developing configurations and improving our BGP policy for AS3320, as well as taking on the role of Juniper Systems Engineer for our backbone, I took the next step and took on a role in product management. And here I am, the one and only Peering Manager for AS3320.

Basti is Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labse. Before that he was a Senior IT Architect at a local ISP in Munich, building robust and resilient B2B Solutions since 2007. Before that, he spent 10 years in InfoSec at a german bank, taking care of all the Unix things between the Uplinks and the Mainframe.

His prometheus journey started 2016 and has been a hell of a ride since then. Currently he's taking care of the implementation of the modbus exporter.

Stefan has been in the network industry for 23+ years. Currently, he is with Inter.link as Head of Infrastructure, building a global carrier and backbone.

Thomas is a professer for computer networks and Internet technologies at HAW Hamburg. His
continued interests lie in the development, measurement, and analysis of large-scale distributed systems like the Internet. He serves as co-editor and technical expert in many occasions and is actively involved in the work of IETF and IRTF. Together with his group he pioneered work on an information-centric Industrial IoT and the emerging data-centric Web of Things. Thomas is a co-founder of several large open source projects and coordinator of the community developing the RIOT operating system - the friendly OS for the Internet of Things.

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. Since more than 15 years he has been part of the internet community and has specialized in optical networking.

Tim Kleefass started with DENOG2 conference and is engaged in the DENOG conference and meetup organisation since years. In his professional live, in his last role he planned a german wide critical infrastructure network as director technologie.

I am working at Monogon SE as a Systems Engineer. In my free time i mostly write high performance tools in Go to create open source DDoS mitigation tools.

Solutions Architect working for a System Integrator (Xantaro)
Doing all kind of IP/MPLS and Datacenter things with various networks and customers

Tobias is operating the Germany-wide network for the IPTV platform waipu.tv.
He specializes in improving network infrastructure by implementing, orchestrating and fine-tuning automation tools around real-world problems.

Senior Information Security Consultant with nGENn GmbH since 2022, after five years as inhouse CISO for two Berlin-based companies. Further down the timeline: 2005-2017 political advisor to members of the German Bundestag. Former managing director at nGENn upon return return from five years in Japan as representative for European ISPs and software development businesses. Roots in the Internet industry extend back to 1995. Pre-IP data communications provider for newspapers and correspondents from 1988. Journalist by training.

My name is Vincentz Petzholtz and I am working in the Network Industry since 2006. I always have been a Network Engineer and Architect through different positions and companies (Interoute/GTT/SysEleven/Inter.link). Main area’s of expertise have been BGP (Routing, Policies etc.), MPLS/Traffic Engineering, Network Security (especially DDoS Detection and Mitigation) and overall network design and architecture (Backbone and DataCenter fabrics).

Since 2017 I moved on to be the Head of Network at SysEleven (now Inter.link). Since 2020, I also spend more time contributing to the Berlin Internet Community for the BCIX (Berlin Internet Exchange) as member of the advisory board. Shortly I will join Arista Networks as Solution Engineer/Architect.

The community needs and is based on participation from its members. I’ve benefited and enjoyed community driven and organized events and services. I want to give as much time as I can to contribute back to the community.

My linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentz-berlin/

Vince Schuele is the Director of Technical Solutions for Partners in EMEA at IP Infusion. He began his career in the US military, where he helped build NATO networks in Europe and spent eight years as a Signal Officer. His experience includes working as a systems engineer, a network architect with IP Architechs, and managing satellite communication nodes for US Army Europe. Schuele has also worked on large scale MPLS deployments, secure Data Center deployments, and coalition networking. His time in service concluded with advising on and deploying security strategy for the United States European Command. Vince is passionate about open and disaggregated networking space and is excited to be a leader in the field with IP Infusion.

Interested in FOSS, NixOS, Rust, and - of course - networking!

Currently working for Wobcom / AS9136

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