Speaker biographies

NETNOD SPRING MEETING 2014
SPEAKER INFORMATION
(in order of appearance)
NURANI NIMPUNO
Head of Outreach and Communications, Netnod
Nurani is the Head of Outreach and Communications Netnod. She
manages all outreach, external relations and communications, as
well as all external Internet policy and Internet governance matters.
Nurani is also a member of the ISOC-SE board.
She is deeply involved with Internet policy and Internet governance
issues nationally as well as globally, and works on a broader level
with Internet operational matters, including Internet exchange
points, DNS and DNS root servers.
Nurani has been active in the Internet community for over a decade, participating in
international Internet conferences globally. She is a frequent speaker at various Internet
conferences, where she talks about Internet infrastructure, interconnectivity, peering and
traffic exchange, DNS, (including DNS anycast services, DNS root servers), Internet resource
policy and Internet governance.
Nurani served on the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for the UN Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) 2009-2013 and represented the technical community on the UN
CSTD working group on the improvement of the IGF. She previously worked as the External
Relations manager at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region.
KURTIS LINDQVIST
CEO of Netnod.
Kurt Erik has a background in engineering and business
development of ISP and world-wide carrier networks. He has been
the CEO of Netnod since 2002. Kurt Erik has worked actively as a
WG chair in RIPE and the IETF, served as a member of the Internet
Architecture Board 2005-2009, as a board member of Euro-IX, the
Internet Exchange business association since 2002. In 2003 he
became the chairman of the same association. He has participated
actively in development, standardisation and deployment of IPv6 in
the IETF and various operational forums. In addition, Kurt Erik
serves as an adviser to the Swedish Minister for Information Technology and Energy.
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CARL FREDRIK WETTERMARK
Advisor at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Carl Fredrik Wettermark is the internet and development Advisor at
the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2007 and 2009 he
worked with ICT capacity building projects for UNDP and Sida in
Rwanda, before joining the Ministry for Enterprise, Energy
and Communications in 2009 to work on national and EU
information society policy issues. He worked as a security policy
analyst at the Swedish Armed Force before joining the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs in 2012 to focus on Internet freedom and
development issues.
ROB EVANS
Chief Technical Adviser at Janet
Rob Evans is the Chief Technical Adviser at Janet. Having previously
worked within the senior engineering team in Janet Operations, and
before that the University of London Computer Centre, on operating
Janet and for a time TEN-155, the pan-European predecessor to
GEANT, Rob is now leading the architectural design of Janet6. He is
also involved in Janet's relations with other networks, both
commercial and Research & Education, within the GEANT project
and in RIPE, LINX and UKNOF.
MIKAEL ABRAHAMSSON
Deutsche Telekom
Mikael Abrahamsson - works as routing guy at Deutsche
Telekom in their Terastream project, primarily with HOMENET
related topics related to architecture and standardization.
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TOBIAS AHL
CEO and owner at Rala
Tobias Ahl is CEO and owner of Rala a system integrator on the
passive component network layer only focusing on pure fibre
networks. With deep technical expertise, he sets existing models to
the test and challenge conceptual solutions with new innovative
ideas and perspectives. Rala is among the leading companies in the
Swedish market for fibre solutions and turnkey systems for their
customers reaching over the small rural project up to national
carriers and operators. Tobias has a degree in MSc, Electrical
engineering, theoretical physics and TQM from the University of Linköping. h
MICHELE NEYLON
Founder, owner and CEO of Blacknight
Michele Neylon is the founder, owner and CEO of Blacknight,
Ireland’s largest domain registrar and hosting provider. An active
and often outspoken member of the Internet industry, he currently
serves as the Chair of both the ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group
and the Eurid Registrar Advisory Board. Michele is actively involved
in Internet policy development, currently serving as a member of
several working groups within the ICANN GNSO. Michele focuses
primarily on European Internet issues and policy and has presented
at numerous Internet industry events, covering a range of topics
including policy, security, ICANN, Nominet, the Internet Governance Forum and
Investment/First Tuesday. In his spare time, Michele is an award winning social media
evangelist, blogger and film buff who speaks four languages.
STEFAN WALLIN
Director of Product strategy at Tail-f-systems
Mr. Wallin contributes more than 20 years of network and service
management experience to Tail-f, specializing in OSS and NMS
systems, and network management standards. He has presented at
a wide variety of international network engineering and
management conferences. Before Tail-f, he worked as a OSS
solutions architect at DataDuctus. Mr. Wallin also served as a
network management specialist at Ericsson and a research engineer
at the University of Linköping. He holds a M Sc degree in Computer
Science from Linköping University and received his doctorate in
network management from Luleå University of Technology.
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LEIF JOHANSSON
SUNET
My day job is spent working on identity management, strategy
and business development for SUNET and various identity
federations including SWAMID.se. I am actively engaged in
several organizations that work for the good of the Internet
including IETF, Kantara Initiative & OASIS. I serve on the
board of directors for Netnod - the operator of i-root and the
leading IX in northern Europe. My goal is to learn something
new every day. Most days I meet my goal.
JAN FLODIN
ISOC-SE
Jan Flodin is a member of the Internet Society and the Internet
Society Sweden Chapter. He served at the board of the Internet
Society Sweden Chapter for six years. After one year off the board, he
returned for one year as interim chairman for 2013. He is currently
also a policy adviser to the .SE Registry (the Internet Infrastructure
Foundation). He is an active supporter of the preservation of the
open end-to-end model of the Internet as a constant enabler for
permission-free innovation, open usage of the Internet and Free
Speech.
In the 90s he was project manager for the transition to “TCP/IP”, with an encrypted router
network for the Swedish Nation-wide Strategic Defence Communications Network, soon to be
followed with a tactical router network. He highly appreciated to work with some of the
leading global IP experts that designed the whole thing and made it work..
LINDA SANDBERG
Owner at Copylinda, chair GGM IF, board member DFRI
Owner at Copylinda (IT-consultant), Chair GGM IF (Our goal is to
create new networks and elevate female role models in the
industry. And have fun of course.) board member DFRI (We work
against censorship, limitations on freedom of speech and privacy.
Our goal is a society with the absolute minimum of surveillance,
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tracking and wiretapping). The biggest project as an consult was to help to build up the
network Digidel 2013 (working for digital inclusion) – the goal was to get 500 000 people
online and together we succeed.
ANDERS SUNDMAN
Hacker, programmer and engineer, Sparvnäster
Anders '4ZM' Sundman is a hacker, programmer and
engineer. He is active in the hackerspace Sparvnästet where he
builds drones, 3D-printers and writes free software. Anders
also teaches computer security and OPSEC to human rights
activists and lectures on topics related to mass surveillance.
PATRIK FÄLTSTRÖM
Head of Research and Development at Netnod
Leads Netnod's long term projects, specifically concerning the investigation of and
implementation of new services. Patrik specializes in CSR and Human Rights, as well as in
more technical issues related to directory services and DNS. He is the chair of ICANN
Security and Stability Advisory Committee and was appointed adviser to the Swedish
Government on IT related issues in 2003.
LARS-JOHAN LIMAN
Senior Systems Specialist, Netnod
In 1996, Lars-Johan was one of the co-founders of Netnod – or
Autonomica as the company was originally called – and he has
worked there ever since. He holds a MSc in Engineering Physics
from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm where
he has also worked as a Senior Systems Specialist, focusing on the
operation of IP networks and Unix systems. Lars-Johan is an expert
in DNS and an experienced speaker. He works globally with
protocol specifications and management of the DNS system, and
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he has held and holds positions in several of the central organisations such as the IETF and
ICANN. Lars-Johan currently serves as chair of the Root Server System Advisory Committee
(RSSAC) at ICANN. At a more local level he works with the planning of Netnod operations of
infrastructure systems. In addition to the work he does for Netnod, Lars-Johan gives courses
in DNS and how the Internet works all over the world.
MÅNS NILSSON
SR, Sveriges Radio
Måns works with network strategy, operations and design at
Sveriges Radio.
PAMELA DAVIDSSON
Senior Advisor at SABO
Director Internet statistics, .SE (The Internet Infrastructure
Foundation) since April 2013. Previous: PTS (The Swedish Post
and Telecom Authority) for 15 år (1997-2013), Senior Market
Analyst, responsible for The Swedish Telecommunications
Market reports and Broadband surveys. Was involved in the
3G licence process in 2000. Product manager at Ericsson
1993-1997, Intelligent mobile network services. Systems
engineer at Telesoft 1990-1993, Fixed and mobile network
services. Education: Master of Science in Applied Computer Science, Uppsala
University 1990
STEFAN LINDEBERG
Fatshark
With a M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Linköping
as a foundation, he figured out his first subnet mask in the 80s
and worked in the data communications industry for 15 years
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focusing on introduction, marketing and sales of new products and technologies for IBM,
Network System and then Cisco. Since 2000 he has been an active investor in and advisor to
startups, primarily in Nordics, both as a business angel and as a venture capitalist after cofounding venture capital firm Creandum in 2003. Currently Mr Lindeberg is an independent
board member and advisor to startups, to investors in startups and other parties active in the
ecosystem around startups.
In his role as an active board member of Fatshark, he focuses on business development
where he combines his experience from startups, large corporations and love for computer
games.
WIM DEGEZELLE
CENTR
Wim Degezelle is Senior Policy Analyst at CENTR, the European
organization for ccTLD registries (www.centr.org). He joined
CENTR in 2006 after working as an Assistant in the European
Parliament and serving as Policy Advisor for a European lobby
organization for Engineering Consultancy Associations.
At CENTR Wim follows a wide range of DNS and Internet related topics
on both the European and International level, including the EU’s cyber
security Strategy and Internet Governance related discussions.
For CENTR Wim attended all eight IGF meetings since Athens and was actively involved in
organizing joint workshops on behalf of the 4 regional ccTLD organizations, AfTLD for the African
region, APTLD for the Asia-Pacific region, LACTLD for the Latin-American and Caribbean region
and CENTR for Europe.
As Chair of the CENTR Administrative workshop and the CENTR Marketing workshop Wim brings
together specialist form the ccTLD registries to discuss their day-to-day business and future plans
in an atmosphere of best practice sharing and mutual learning.
Wim studied at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where he obtained a Master’s degree in
Political Sciences.
STEVE JONES
Cube Optics
Steve has over 30 years experience in the Telecom / Internet field across a diverse set
of business disciplines.
Having worked for many vendors over the years, from TDM, Voice, Wireless and
Wireline, SBC’s and Softswitches, IP-PBX’s, network security and now Optics, Steve
has developed a very broad overview of many aspects of networking and
understands that there are no such things as ‘virgin’ networks.
Steve’s talk will look at the challenges ahead when moving from 10G to 100G and
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beyond and will present an alternative way to cost effectively use n*100G in Metro networks.
ERIKA HERSAEUS
Erika is project manager at Post- och Telestyrelsen.
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