The RIPE Programme Committee
The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is responsible for ensuring that the RIPE Meeting programme consists of interesting, relevant and inspiring content. We recruit, select and schedule the plenary of the RIPE Meeting.
Comprised of up to 11 volunteers from different parts of the RIPE community, the RIPE PC plans and develops the programme for each RIPE Meeting.
The current PC members are:
Valerie Aurora
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 91
Valerie Aurora first began working in networking in 2000, writing drivers for obscure supercomputing network interconnects.
Doris Hauser
RIPE PC Member, DNS Working Group Chair
Term ends: RIPE 90.
Doris Hauser is currently working at nic.at, the Austrian registry, as a Linux sysadmin
Franziska Lichtblau
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 91
Franziska has a background in Internet measurement research with a focus on interconnection and BGP, and now works at SAP developing and supporting an internal infrastructure as a service cloud platform.
Kevin Meynell
RIPE PC Member
Term Ends: RIPE 92
Kevin worked for the Internet Society from 2015 until 2023, leading the MANRS Routing Security initiative, organising the Network & Distributed Security Symposium (NDSS), and working on IXP and Community Network development in the RIPE NCC service region.
Brian Nisbet
Anti-Abuse Working Group Chair
Brian Nisbet is also the RIPE Programme Committee's Vice Chair and the RIPE Working Group Chairs representative.
Antonio Prado
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 89
An open source enthusiast, Antonio Prado is currently the Chief Technology Officer at AS59715.
Moin Rahman
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 89
Moin is currently pursuing his Masters Degree in Computer Security.
Khalid Samara
MENOG Representative
Khalid is a telecommunications and ISP expert with extensive experience in Internet, mobile, engineering and security technologies.
Massimiliano Stucchi
RIPE PC Chair
Term ends: RIPE 88
Massimiliano “Max” Stucchi joined the Internet Society in 2019 as Technical Advisor for the European Bureau.
Clara Wade
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 90
Since 2022, Clara has been helping develop the IP address strategy at AWS, where she is also an inclusion ambassador.
Jan Žorž
PC Vice Chair, SEE Representative, BCOP Task Force Chair
Jan Žorž is a VP of 6connect Labs, working on the development of various protocols and network solutions to accelerate the global deployment of IPv6.