Serge Radovcic has accumulated more than 22 years of experience in the Internet Industry. His background is based primarily working for, with and around Internet Exchange Points from not only Europe but throughout the world.
Serge played an integral role in initiating and developing the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) from its very beginning in 2001 and via his nine years as Chief Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC, has been working with numerous other IXP, Peering related and IP community fora around Europe, including the European Peering Forum (EPF), the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG), the Euro Asian Network Operator Group (ENOG) and the South East Europe Regional Initiative (SEE).
His current Senior Strategic role at the Dstream Group has kept him touch with a number of high profile IXPs in Europe and he continues to play a role in assisting the development of interconnection points to fulfil the ever changing demands of both current and future customers that wish to find more efficient and secure solutions to their networking needs.
Peter van Burgel is a passionate professional with more than 20 years of management experience at various ICT and telecom companies. Since 2018 he is CEO AMS-IX, one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world. Before joining AMS-IX, van Burgel worked as Director of Digital Transformation at Westcon. Peter is particularly interested in the topics Global & IT Business Transformation and Change Management.
Ruben proudly joined AMS-IX in 2021. With an academic degree in mathematics, he started his business career in media broadcast IT. He held several management positions at Technicolor and Ericsson, focussing on network and datacenter services. In 2016, Ruben decided to join the SURFnet executive management team, leading the network department. At SURFnet, the Dutch national research and education network, he was responsible for the development and automated deployment of SURFnet8, as well the innovation programme for network services.
Nico Scheper is Business Development Manager for AMS-IX Caribbean
Fuad Mohseni started his career at Batelco in 2004 and has worked in numerous roles gaining valuable experience in international capacity procurement and operations. His continuous innovation and keen eye for details have aided many challenges to become a leader in managing global network infrastructure for the Batelco Global Division as Head of Infrastructure & Projects.
His recent activities include the successful development of Batelco Global Network (BGN) and Batelco GlobalZone Datacenter where his extensive knowledge of the regional infrastructure and strong relationship with partners has enabled them to grow into recognized solutions for Batelco’s clientele.
With more than 28 years of experience within the security and intelligence industry, Fred is currently working as the CEO of Secior. This company specialises in mission-critical infrastructure security, focusing on datacenter cybersecurity and compliance.
Fred started his career in 1988 at the Royal Military Academy (KMA) in the Netherlands and served more than 16 years for the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF). In 2008, he resigned as a Lieutenant Colonel and a military intelligence advisor to the Secretary-General of NATO and moved to the commercial world. In the commercial world, he fulfilled several roles as a consultant, advisor, CISO and CSO for companies such as IBM, Accenture, ENCS, Exact Software, LeaseWeb, Palo Alto Networks and Hikvision.
Fred is a cybersecurity spokesperson and keynote speaker and an advisor for some Members of Parliament. He holds an Executive Master of Security & Defense (EMSD) and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam.
Bert is the founder of PowerDNS, software that powers a significant fraction of the Internet. In addition, Bert co-founded a joint-venture with notable security company Fox-IT. In between he spent several years working for the Dutch government on cyber- and national security. After selling both companies, Bert spent 18 months doing DNA research at TU Delft, leading to a publication in a major science journal. These days, he focuses on open standards, decentralized communications, internet measurements & research (mostly DNA and GNSS). In addition he until recently sat on a government board that regulates the Dutch Intelligence and Security agencies.
Rudolf van der Berg is Partner at Stratix. He has more than twenty years of experience in telecom policy, in both
the private and public sectors. He helped build the Dutch-German Internet Exchange (NDIX) and worked as
regulatory affairs manager at Tele2 Netherlands. He has also worked for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
on telecom policy and law. He worked for five years at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). At Stratix, he advises Dutch municipalities on fibre and 5G.
Rudolf holds an MSc in public administration from Twente University in the Netherlands.
Mehdi’s professional career started in the music industry as a sound engineer which then evolved into film making and video game design development through academia where he oversaw research theses for undergraduate students to eventually represent the educational groups industry relations. After a short stint as an independent consultant for various music and gaming organizations, Mehdi became a video games agent whose mission was to bring in revenue for 12 studios around the world consisting of work for hire, co-development opportunities, as well as publishing and funding of projects. For the past 2 years he has been heading gaming business development at i3D.net, a game hosting company part of the Ubisoft group.
Gina is cybercrime specialist and digital detective. Before this, she was a digital forensic detective at Fox-IT for seven years: she tracked down cyber criminals and worked on digital fraud cases. She recently joined the Cybercrime Team of the Dutch Police, where she investigates complex cybercrime cases, such as CEO fraud and ransomware extortion. She also works as a judicial expert, which means that she gives advice in court about the evidential value of digital evidence.
Gina graduated with a double master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam. After her bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, she specialized during her master’s in Forensic Intelligence and started a second master: Forensic Science.
Michiel Steltman is Managing Director of the Digital infrastructure Association NL (DINL), a coalition of sector organizations representing Internet services such as colocation, networks, cloud, hosting and domain registries. Steltman is the voice of this industry towards government, politics and the media. He has a strong technology and business background, with over 30 years of international experience in the IT and online industry. Other activities include his participation as core team member of various PPP initiatives in the area of cyber security, cybercrime and online abuse mitigation. Steltman is a frequent speaker and panelist and writes and speaks with passion about the ins and outs of the Dutch online sector and it's impact on society and economy.
Oluwasayo Oshadami is a General Manager, Technical Solutions and Managed Networks at MainOne. He is responsible for Product Development, Commercial Solutions, Design Architecture, Vendor Management and Project delivery for customer requirements in West Africa. He has been in MainOne for over 11 years and has extensive Industry experience in Network designs, Planning, and Implementation in West Africa. He is an Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate from the Federal University of Technology Minna.
Melchior Aelmans is a seasoned architect with over 20 years of experience in various operations, engineering, and architecture roles in the Cloud- and Service Provider industry. He is currently part of the Global Service Provider architecture team at Juniper Networks, where he collaborates with Service Providers to design and evolve their networks.
Melchior has a particular interest in the intersection of quantum technology and network security and is focused on exploring ways to apply quantum technology in this area since 2018. Aside from his work in quantum technology, Melchior is passionate about routing protocols standards development, routing security and network architectures.
He is a frequent presenter and attendee at conferences and meetings, including active participation in standardization organizations such as IETF. As a Steering Committee member at MANRS, Melchior is committed to promoting routing security, reliability, and stability of the Internet. He also serves as Internet Society Organization Member Advisory Council co-chair, member of the NANOG Program Committee and a board member at the NLNOG Foundation.
Andreas Polyrakis currently works as a Director of Business Development, Network Service Providers at Digital Realty. Within this role, Andreas leads the formulation of strategy in the areas of network connectivity and Internet peering, aiming to ensure a solid connectivity foundation across all Digital Realty’s datacenters. Prior to that, Andreas served as a Business Development Manager at Digital Realty Hellas (former Lamda Hellix), where he played a key role in shaping the company's strategy with regard to telecoms, carriers, ISPs, internet exchanges, CDNs, OTTs, and clouds. Before joining Digital Realty, Andreas worked for the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET), where he served as the Head of the Greek Internet Exchange (GR-IX) and the as the Technical Head of the engineering & operations department.
In addition to his extensive professional experience, Andreas is a board member of the Greek Network Operators Group (GRNOG) and a passionate promoter of RPKI, MANRS, and IPv6.
Henrik Jensen leads Ciena’s Business Development for Routing and Switching in Central Europe and Scandinavia. With his team he supports network operators, cloud providers and enterprises on the transformation of their business, network operations and infrastructures.
Henrik is an experienced professional with 25 years of experience in various expert and management roles within the telecommunications industry.
Henrik was raised on Ethernet and is an adamant advocate of Converged IP Networks with Pragmatic Optical Expressing
Ronald has over 20 years of experience in the optical communications industry. He is currently working for Adtran since they acquired Adva and is the Go-to person for all Optical Communication projects.
Stefaan has over 25 years of experience in the telecom industry and is EMEA Regional Product Line Manager focusing on hardware within Nokia’s IP Routing and Optical Networks Division. He holds a Master degree in computer science from the University of Louvain (KUL) university. Stefaan is based in Antwerp, Belgium.
Aaron Mirck is a publicist, writer and speaker on technology. He regularly presents on technology and publishes opinion pieces in Dutch quality newspapers NRC, Het Parool and De Telegraaf, among others. He also writes about technology for HP/De Tijd.
Sanne Kanis is the author of De Bubbel and advisor for start-ups and scale-ups. In the past twelve years Sanne held international positions in three different tech companies. She was responsible for the European commercial strategy for Spotify and worked for over four years for Google as an analyst. Furthermore she ran Booking.com’s loyalty program. Currently, Sanne advises start-ups and scale-ups on growth and strategy, her speciality is the optimisation of sales, marketing and partnerships.
Sanne published her debut novel De bubbel with publishing house Prometheus. The novel discusses tech culture, a subculture in which luxury extras are quickly taken for granted and sexism, violation of business ethics and managers with a sudden wealth syndrome form the shadow side.
Vincentas is a business-driven geek with over 15+ years of network, infrastructure and internet policy experience. As a CEO at IPXO, the Internet Protocol platform, Vincentas focuses on helping address complex network management issues, IPv6 adoption and the global IPv4 shortage.
