Welcome & Introductions

L Sean Kennedy, NANOG PC Chair and Director of Network Engineering, XO Communications

L Sean Kennedy is an active member of the Internet Engineering community and a Director of Network Engineering at XO Communications. He has been a member of the NANOG Program Committee since 2013.

Alan Mauldin, Research Director, TeleGeography

Alan Mauldin is a Research Director at TeleGeography. He manages the company’s infrastructure research group, focusing primarily on submarine cables, terrestrial networks, international Internet infrastructure, and bandwidth demand modeling. He also advises clients with due diligence analysis, feasibility studies, and business plan development for projects around the world. Alan speaks frequently about the global network industry at a wide range of conferences, including PTC, Submarine Networks World, and SubOptic.

Robert DeVita, Chief Sales Officer, AlohaNAP

Mr. DeVita leads the sales and marketing strategy for the firm. He has an extensive background in management, direct and indirect sales, and development for datacenter technology. Mr. DeVita has presented at many new technologies and applications top tier conferences, with sessions including “Cloud and Mobility” at 7×24 Exchange; “Patriot Act & NSA: Protecting Your Data” at HostingCon; and “Connectivity Challenges & Opportunities in 2014, including Adoption of the Open IX Model in the U.S.”; at CRE’s Texas Data Center Summit & Peer 2.0 Conference. He has been a panelist at many IMN events as well.
• Paul Emmons, Founder, Executive Director Aloha-IX.

Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, APNIC

GEOFF HUSTON is the Chief Scientist at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry serving the Asia Pacific region. He has been closely involved with the development of the Internet for many year. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1999 until 2005, and continues as an active participant in the IETF. He has worked as a research scientist, as an ISP systems architect and a network operator at various times.

Tutorial: Optics

Richard Steenbergen, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, PacketFabric

Richard Steenbergen is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of PacketFabric, a next-generation Network-as-a-Service interconnection and transport solutions provider. Prior to starting PacketFabric, Richard served as CTO of GTT Communications, a leading global IP/MPLS backbone and Tier 1 network operator in over 80 countries. Richard was also the founder and CTO of nLayer Communications for 11 years, served as a Sr Network Architect for various large NSPs, and served as a Sr Software Engineer helping developed advanced optimized routing techniques. Richard has been attending NANOG since 1999, and is a frequent speaker and contributor.

Tutorial: Traceroute

Dani Roisman, NANOG PC Vice Chair, and Vice President of Network Operations, SoftLayer Technologies

Dani Roisman is currently the VP of Network Operations at SoftLayer Technologies (merged with The Planet Internet Services in Nov 2010), where he oversees the teams that run the network supporting over 80,000 managed servers across 11 datacenters. Prior to SoftLayer/The Planet, he was the Senior Network Architect and Network Engineering Team Lead at Peak Web Consulting, and prior to that Director of Network Engineering and Facilities Architecture at Sony Online Entertainment. Dani has specialized in large content datacenters and networks, with a focus on peering and multi-homing to reduce costs, improve customer negotiating stance, as well as increased network capacity, performance, and fault-tolerance. His network design and implementation accomplishments include massively-multiplayer games (EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, and PlanetSide) and social networking deployments hosting over 5,000 servers across 9 datacenters with Internet bandwidth capacities reaching 250Gbps.

Betty Burke, NANOG Executive Director

Currently serving as the NANOG Executive Director, responsible for all aspects of NANOG, reporting to the Board of Directors. Previous 37 years of experience serving in technology, business, and management within the Michigan Information Technology Services, University of Michigan, and Merit Network. Proven leadership and experience in development of strategic and operational plans, creation and implementation of marketing campaign for conference center and high tech facilities including a data center, conference and office building, library and campus fiber assets. Proven operational success through project management, along with leadership through community and team building.

L Sean Kennedy, NANOG PC Chair and Director of Network Engineering, XO Communications

L Sean Kennedy is an active member of the Internet Engineering community and a Director of Network Engineering at XO Communications. He has been a member of the NANOG Program Committee since 2013.