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.
Babak Farrokhi
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 93
Babak is the Director of Operations at Quad9, a free and widely trusted Protective Public DNS Resolver that safeguards millions of users globally against cyber threats.
Doris Hauser
RIPE PC Member
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 is currently working for the SCION Association. He worked for the Internet Society from 2015 until 2023.
Brian Nisbet
Security Working Group Chair
Brian Nisbet is also the RIPE Programme Committee's Vice Chair and the RIPE Working Group Chairs representative.
Eugénio Pinto
RIPE 90 Host Representative
Eugénio Pinto is .PT's Director of Innovation and Technology.
Antonio Prado
RIPE PC Member
Term ends: RIPE 93
An open source enthusiast, Antonio Prado is currently the Chief Technology Officer at AS59715.
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 92
Massimiliano “Max” Stucchi runs Glevia GmbH, an organisation providing training and consulting related to networking. In his spare time, he also runs AS58280 as a hobby ASN, and participates in both the CH-IX and IXP.ge NOCs.
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.