Nurani is the Head of Global Engagement at the London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the largest Internet exchange points in the world, connecting close to 1000 networks from over 80 countries around the globe. At LINX she oversees the LINX Global Strategy and Global Partnerships. Nurani also serves on the Euro-IX board, the association coordinating all IXPs in Europe and beyond.She is the former Chief Commercial Officer at Asteroid International, which builds IXPs and managed IXP solutions around the world. Before that, she was the Head of Outreach and Communications at Netnod, where she oversaw all external communications, business development, and Internet policy.

Nurani is deeply involved with Internet policy and Internet governance issues globally, and works on a broader level with Internet operational matters, including Internet exchange points, interconnection, and infrastructure. 

Nurani has been an active contributor in the Internet community for two decades, participating in and speaking at international Internet  conferences globally. She has served on several Advisory Councils for Internet  governance and address policy matters, including the UN's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), and has been invited to be part of Swedish government delegations to international UN conferences. She is currently serving on the ICANN ASO Advisory Council and is the chair of the IANA Numbering Services Review Committee. 

For her work in the IANA Transition, Ms Nimpuno received the prestigious ICANN Leadership award in October 2015. Ms. Nimpuno is a frequent expert speaker at various Internet conferences, on matters of Internet infrastructure, interconnectivity, capacity building,peering and traffic exchange, Internet resource policy, and Internet governance.

Ondrej graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague, majoring in Computer Science, and the University of Pittsburgh - Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business (MBA). During his studies at Charles University, he began working at IPEX Inc., where he later worked as a technical director and board member. Since December 2004 Ondrej has been executive director of the association. Besides the performance of his duties in the CZ.NIC he is also active on the boards of the Association NIX.CZ (Neutral Internet Exchange), Euro-IX (European Internet Exchange Association), and DNS OARC (The Domain Name System Analysis and Operations Research Center), of which he is chairman. In the past, Andrew served as an active board member of ccNSO (Country Code Names Supporting Organisation) within ICANN (ICANN); He currently sits in a significant and prestigious Advisory Committee on Safety and Stability (SSAC). Ondrej Filip also worked in the Multistakeholder Advisory Group, an advisory body to the UN Secretary General for Internet Governance Forum. In his spare time he enjoys playing basketball or programs opensource software. Ondrej speaks fluent English, he also speaks German.

Norwegian Internet eXchange / University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Kjetil has worked hands on and in management positions within telephony, VoIP, computers, internet, peering and other network related stuff since the late 1980s. He has worked mainly at the University of Oslo, but also for a few other companies in Norway. In 1991 he was one of 18 co-founders of Oslonett, the first commercial ISP for private customers in Norway. He holds a M.Sc in computer science from University of Oslo.
Norwegian Internet eXchange (NIX) in Oslo started in March 1993 as a part of the University of Oslo. Kjetil has been working with NIX since 1996 and have been involved in all aspects of buildng and running an IXP-
Since 1993 NIX has grown from one site with 3 routers connected by coax-ethernet to a total of 9 sites all over Norway with a total of more than 150 connections. NIX is also acting as the unofficial technical and social meeting-point for Norwegian ISPs and have assisted the startup of the Norwegian NOG (NONOG). Current activities includes building a more resilient internet infrastructure in Norway, and also promoting a ground based infrastructure for time and frequency.
In 2010 the 17th Euro-IX Forum was in Oslo, with NIX as the host IXP and Kjetil as local host. From 2014 to 2016 Kjetil served as one of the Euro-IX Auditors. And from 2016 to 2020 he was on the Euro-IX board, the last of those years as Chair.
Today Kjetil has a part time position at the University of Oslo, and have a special responsibility for developing NIX and working for a better internet. The rest of his time he works for the Norwegian Parliament, supporting one of their committees in technology matters.
He lives in Oslo, Norway.
 

Eileen is the CEO of INEX, leading the team that develops and manages the peering point for the island of Ireland. She has been in the leadership team of INEX for the past 15 years, taking INEX from a local IXP to an internationally respected exchange with a wide and growing membership. Eileen has also been involved in the development and promotion of IXP Manager, the IXP management platform developed and owned by INEX, which is now in use at over 160 internet exchanges worldwide.

A highly effective and experienced communicator and networker, she has invested in and enjoys an excellent reputation in the peering and internet industry in Ireland and around the world. Instrumental in creating and developing the reputation and community of INEX internationally, she has a keen understanding of the dynamics of business and people which enables her to bring disparate groups and individuals together to achieve common goals.

Stefan Wahl was one of the founders of ECIX in 2001 and then CEO for many years. Together with the ECIX team, he built it into the most successful IXP outside of Berlin and Frankfurt. With its five locations, ECIX is still one of the two largest IXPs in Germany. In late 2016, he led the successful sale of the company to Megaport Australia, the most successful NaaS provider in the world. Until mid-2022, Stefan worked as Senior Ambassador for ECIX and MegaIX at Megaport. 

After his time at Megaport, he remained loyal to the Internet Community and the IXP business. Today he is working again as a freelance consultant with focus on Internet based services and offerings and is happy to realize his own projects again and to support others with theirs. Therefore he works for LU-CIX on different topics as a freelance consultant. 

He benefits from the fact that he has been working for City Carrier and Local incumbents for many years on projects in the access and internet area, where he could draw on the know-how from his studies of electrical engineering. Due to the foundation of ECIX he had to interrupt his studies and only graduated in 2019/2020 with a BSC in Computer Engineering with focus on Internet measurement in Layer2 networks at the TU-Berlin.  The most rewarding experience, besides being back on the cutting edge of research, has been working productively with the research community and often much younger students.

Stefan also still regularly attends conferences and events as an active member of the Internet community. 

Actively working with the community and helping to plan, organize and run events like DENOG, Ripe, ISOC or Euro-IX are a big part of this. In the last years he has gained a lot of experience in working groups and program committees. In this way, he has been instrumental in making the Euro-IX Bench Mark Club more effective and meaningful to its members. 

For many years it has been a matter of the heart for him to help new people in the community to quickly find a connection and to be accepted. From his own experience he can only emphasize how important the personal support and the open ear are, so that they can have as much fun in this community for decades as we do.  

I look forward to many more years of collaboration with the community and to what the future will bring in terms of new technologies and possibilities. 

Cristian is a graduate of the Technical Military Academy in Bucharest, class of '92.

He was fortunate to live the fall of communism in East European countries and to witness later the evolution of the telecommunications from none to light speeds.

He started his carreer in IT, later in Telecom, in '98, shortly after leaving the Romanian Air Force.

Cristian started with pure engineering, coding in various programming languages, from Cobol to Java, with various OSes, from CP/M to Windows, Linux, Mac.

Cristian is a member of the Interlan Association since 2004, and since 2005 he was involved on and off, from various positions, in what is the management of this association, along with its community and commercial branches, including Interlan Internet Exchange.

After so many years, the most important aspect in a Association, any Association, is the community. People. Trying to make the best out of this fragile balance which is members wishes and association possibilities. Trying to make the best as to generating those financial and immaterial revenues able to fulfill wishes and expectations.

In 2019, Cristian was invited to revive the Romanian Internet Society Chapter and he was so lucky to identify and convince the right individuals to fulfill this endeavour. In late november 2023, the newly revived ISOC Romania Chapter received the highest recognition, the Gigabit badge.