Dr. Mehmet ALTUNER, Head of the Telecommunications Authority Sectoral Research and Strategies Department in Turkey
Born in 1958 in Turkey, he received BS and PHD degree at Erciyes University, at years 1983, 1992. He worked 17 years for Dept. of Electronic Engingrneering, Erciyes University, as a lecturer. He joined Telecommunications Authority in 2002. He has published 9 books, written 6 International Scientific Reports and he has published many articles in various international publications.
He prepared some regulations (http://www.tk.gov.tr/eng/duzenmaineng2.html) with his team, which are:

·          Law on Amendment of the Wireless Law, which is for preventing the trade and use of illegal (stolen, clonned or non-
           original) type of Mobile Phones similar in UK & Australia.
·          Regulations for Radiocommunication and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment,
·          Regulations for Notified Bodies,
·          Regulations for Market Surveillance and Inspection,
·          Regulations for Cyriptographic Wireless Systems
·          Communiqué on the Standards Referred to in the Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulation,

 and still working on A New Draft Law for to prevent the use of stolen PC & lab-tops and a computer national database, which holds details of all computers that are lost or stolen within the Turkey.
He just been commissioned by the chairman of the Telecommunications Board to constitute and to coordinate these 3 forums:

Türkiye IPv6 Forum,
Türkiye Next Generation Networks (NGN) Forum,
Türkiye Telematics Forum,

and now a days, he is trying to establish national task forces with his team.
In addition, Dr. Altuner has received 6 awards in recognition of his achievements.

Sébastien BACHOLLET, ISOC FRANCE President
Sebastien Bachollet began his career with Air Inter (French domestic airline) then with SNCF (French National Railways) where he was in charge of major technological and organisational projects (information systems). Based on this experience, he re-launched and accompanied the development of CIO networks (Chief Information Officer) at national level (within Cigref) and at European level (creation of EuroCio). Within this framework, he undertook strategic actions for development and networking.
Today, as CEO of his own company, he acts as a consultant in the area of information systems and Internet governance (BBS International Consulting).
For many years, Sebastien Bachollet has been engaged in community life.

·          Youth organisations:

o         More than 20 years as board member of UCPA (National Union of Outdoors Sports Centers),

o         Parents’ Federation of Pupils - FCPE.

·          In the field of information technology, to make sure all users (large and small companies, non profit organisations and people), have their say on usage and Internet governance questions.

o         Chair of Internet Society French Chapter - www.isoc.fr

o         Board member of FING 

o         Founder with Olivier Iteanu (Lawyer) and chair of EGENI Europe and Africa (annual conferences dealing with naming, addressing and Internet governance - www.egeni.org)

o         Editorial advisor for the monthly newsletter Sociétés de l’Information – www.societesdelinformation.net

Alessandro BASSI, Researcher, Hitachi
Despite being tempted by other disciplines, Alex decided to explore the esoteric world of computer science, mainly because of his tension between creativity and mathematical rigour. He enjoyed his stay in Milan, where he attended its world famous University, and became passionate of artificial intelligence, soft computing and software engineering. After serving his duty in the army, as many of us, he lent his abilities to the private sector, and joined Amadeus in 1997, to become -against his will- an expert of Unisys OS 2200 assembler. He then managed to unchain his spirit again and joined the University of Tennessee in summer 2000, where he was involved in the seminal work and development of the Internet Backplane Protocol. After surviving Tennessee for 18 months, he managed to get back to Europe, and in particular to Lyon, where he had a position as Research Visitor at the Ecole Normale Superieure. For two years, he developed the distributed storage concept further, and in particular the relationship between the novel storage concepts and active networking. He then worked for RIPE NCC, he was then involved in project regarding the whois database, and after one year of rainy A'dam in November 2004 he joined the sunny team of HITACHI Sophia Antipolis Labs, where he got involved in various projects, regarding QoS measurement, Grid (with particular regards to data grids), and Autonomic Communications.

Dr Tayeb BEN MERIEM, Head of France Telecom R&D Division IPv6 Skills Centre
gained his Telecommunications Engineering degree from (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications: ENST) of Paris.
After 5 years in the industry, he joined France Telecom R&D in 1981. Here he was put in charge of the first studies into WDM systems and to participate in the European satellite "Olympus" project. This looked at propagation in 20-30 GHz domains.
He is a Professor in the University of Paris in packet transmission domain, SDH and WDM systems & Networks and the director of Research Lab in the Management of IP/SDH and IP/WD network. He has directed doctorates thesis.
Dr Ben Meriem, has been working in France Telecom’s Network Business Unit and is responsible for equipment transmission policy. He participated in the European ACTS project in optical networks. He also directed France Telecom’s QoS project in transmissions and SDH networks. He also was involved in France Telecom’s synchronization project as the manager of this project..
Since 1999, he returned to France Télécom’s R&D Division, as a manager of IP domain, and for the last 3 years is the head of France Télécom's R&D Division IPv6 Skills Centre. This is a trans-organizational IPv6 structure dedicated to all of the France Telecom Group.
Dr Ben Meriem is France Telecom’s delegate in ITU-T in SDH, WDM, and network management, and has been for the last 10 years He has also published several papers and communications. He has published a book on SDH in 2000 in France Telecom scientific edition with Springer.

• Member of IPv6Forum

• Member of European IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee

• Member of French IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee

• President of French IPv6 Worldwide Summit Programme Committee

Jim BOUND, CTO IPv6 Forum / HP Senior Fellow
 is an HP Senior Fellow, and leads the HP Enterprise Servers and Storage Network Technical Office (NTO) working across HP, Member HP Business Critical Server Technology Office, IPv6 Forum www.ipv6forum.com Chief Technology Officer and Member Board of Directors, North American IPv6 Task Force www.nav6tf.org Chair, and networking subject matter expert to Governments and Industry world wide.  Jim was a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) www.ietf.org IP Next Generation Directorate, who selected IPv6 in 1994 as the Next Generation Internet Protocol, and remains today an active contributor to the IETF standards development efforts. Jim has been focused on networking as an engineer and architect to build products since 1978. Jim is a 21 year member of the IEEE Society, Internet Pioneer member of the Internet Society, and IPv6 Forum recipient of the distinguished IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award as the IPv6 Lead Plumber. Jim is also a member of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) www.ncoic.org and past NCOIC Network Mobility Chair, and the IPsphere Consortium www.ipsphere.org .

John Jason BRZOZOWSKI, Architect and Principal Engineer, Comcast Cable
At Comcast, John leverages his experience and expertise to architect and design the solutions necessary to deliver traditional and next-generation services.  As part of his work on DOCSIS 3.0 and other cable standards, John has and continues to be instrumental in preparing the MSO for its adoption of IPv6.
 Prior to joining Comcast, while at Lucent Technologies, John served in a variety of technical roles.  His innovative thinking was essential to the success of next generation product development efforts, which included IPv6, for the Lucent Technologies' OSS software product suite.  Acting as an IPv6 SME for the firm, John utilized his knowledge and industry contacts to fuel many IPv6 initiatives.  He often worked with large enterprise and service provider customers developing comprehensive solutions and supporting large-scale deployments.
John's work in the technical community currently includes acting as the chair of the MidAtlantic IPv6 Task Force, North American IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee member, and member of the IPv6 Forum.  Through his work with these organization he helps to drive and support critical IPv6 activities regionally and nationally including but not limited to promoting IPv6 education, awareness, and of course adoption.
Finally, John actively collaborates with many organizations and standards bodies, well-known to the industry, including the IPv6 Ready Logo Committee, UNH-IOL, CableLabs, and the IETF.

Chin-Chou CHEN, Senior Researcher Chunghwa Telecom Labs
Chin-Chou CHEN received his Ph. D. from National Taiwan University in 1996. He is a telecommunication and Internet researcher who has been working in advanced technology areas consistently throughout his career.  He is currently a Senior Researcher of Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories as a Project Manager of All IP technology and application R&D. His wide research interest covers the technologies of broadband and wireless Internet, Fixed/Mobile convergence technologies, IPv6 etc. Being a member of NICI IPv6 steering committee, he is in charge of the NICI IPv6 Standard and Testing Lab and leads a team to provide the IPv6 testing and certification services in Taiwan. He is actively participating in the IPv6 Ready Logo program activities and has served quite a number of Taiwan vendors to get their IPv6 Ready Logo’s.

Isabelle CHRISMENT, Professor at ESIAL, Nancy University (France)
Isabelle Chrisment is Professor at ESIAL (Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine), Nancy University (France). She received her PhD in Computer Science in 1996 from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and her HDR (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches) in 2005 from Nancy University. Since 2002, she is vice-head of the MADYNES team, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine whose research domain is the management of dynamic aspects provided by networks and services.
Her research area is related to a specific management service, i.e. the security service in the context of dynamics networks.  She works, more specifically, on new key distribution protocols dedicated to secure flow multicast communications in MANETS (Mobile Ad hoc NETworks).
Another research topic concerns the definition of a self configurable management architecture to make possible an automatic monitoring and management of an IPv6 network renumbering procedure by taking into account the security impacts within the network.

Fu-Kuei CHUNG, Deputy Senior Managing Director, Chunghwa Telecom
Fu-Kuei CHUNG got M.S. degree in computer science from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 1985. He has been working for Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan for more than 25 years. Now, he is the deputy senior managing director of corporate planning department of Chunghwa Telecom. Before promoting to this position, he was the managing director of Internet services department of Chunghwa Telecom Data Communications Business Group, the ISP (HiNet) of Chunghwa Telecom. He has been working on IP network infrastructure for many years. He has good experiences in both IPv4 and IPv6 for network planning, deployment and operation.
 

Benoit CLAISE, Distinguished Engineer, CISCO Systems
attended the industrial superior Gramme institute in Liege (Belgium) and the Louvain-La-Neuve university in Louvain (Belgium). From 1993 to 1996, Benoit worked for AT&T Research/Lucent, focusing on OSI network management researchs. He joined Cisco Systems as a customer support engineer in the Technical Assistance Center network management team, where he passed the CCIE certification (#2868), before becoming an escalation engineer.  Since 1993, he is now a Cisco Distinguished Engineer focusing on IP services architectures. His area of expertise is the network management device instrumentation: accounting, performance, fault management, and so on. Focusing specifically on NetFlow, he is a key contributor to IPFIX and PSAMP IETF standardization efforts. Benoit lives with his wife and children in Belgium.

Patrick Cocquet, CEO of Cap Digital
Patrick Cocquet joined Cap Digital as CEO in March 2006.  He was previously chairman of innovative software company, 6WIND, which he co-founded and through which he largely contributed to the lobbying and promotion of the New Internet technology. 
 Patrick sits on the French government’s strategic advisory board for ICT, under the auspices of the Prime Minister’s Office.  He is also actively involved in the development of European level ICT strategies within ISTAG (Information Society Technology Advisory Group of Europe).  Prior to 6WIND, he led the R&D division in Internet networking and architecture design for Thales (ex-Thomson-CSF).

Nicolas COLLIGNON, Network Security Consultant
Graduate engineer from the Ecole Centrale d'Electronique (ECE) in Paris, Nicolas Collignon works in Hervé Schauer Consultant (HSC). He conducts security audits, penetration tests and gives training courses about Web applications security.
He's been involved with IPv6 since 2003 and realized a security assessment about this protocol focusing on various aspects:
 - protocols threats including attacks and covert channels
 - Networks migration
 - Application-level and implementations vulnerabilities
 - Mobile networks IPv6 migration study and services billing considerations
During 2002, Nicolas was doing research as a security consultant in SecureWave on a software (SecureWave) designed to try to protect Windows operating system from buffer and heap overflow attacks.
In 2004 he ported a VPN solution (SSLTunnel) to Windows as kernel developer in HSC.
Nicolas is Lead Auditor ISO 27001 (LSTI) since September 2006.
His current technical areas of interest include :
  - reverse engineering
  - operating system development and inner-working

Pierre COMBESCURE, Director IP Networks Architecture and Systems, France Telecom Group
Mr. Combescure has been involved in speech processing research at France Telecom Group R&D for more than 20 years. He is one of the inventors of several standards, including wideband, GSM, and voice over IP speech coding algorithms. In 2000 he joined the Networks & Carriers Division as chief technology officer of the IP and ATM long-distance networks . In 2003 he was appointed head of the Engineering, Planning, and Architecture Department of the IP and Transmission Long-Distance Networks.. Mr. Combescure is at present, Director of the IP Networks Architectures and Systems Department within the Corporate Division of  France Telecom Group.

Philippe COUSIN, ETSI Interoperability Service Manager
Philippe COUSIN has 23 years of experience in IT&Telecommunications. Many years at various positions (operational fields, R&D, Standardisation (ETSI, ITU), testing methodologies,..) within a large telecom operator (i.e. France Telecom). Seconded to the European Commission DGXIII (now DG Infosoc) and DG III (1992-1995, now DG Entreprise) as Project officer in the CTS (Conformance Testing Programme) giving support to the establishment of European testing laboratories in all telecom fields (GSM, ISDN, DECT, ..). Developed and launched an EU programme (INTOOL: Infrastructural Tool) supporting horizontal testing methodologies. Project manager (1995-1997) at EOTC (European Organisation for Testing and Certification). European Commission expert in testing and certifications policies for EU and with third countries (e.g. CEEC, China, …) Technical Director and Managing Director (1997-2001) of a test house, CETECOM France part of the CETECOM group leader in Mobile area testing. Design and built two top ten worldwide large radio testing laboratories in China for the State Radio Monitoring centre and China Academy on Telecommunication & research – TMC. Since June 2001, Head of the ETSI Interoperability Service also called Plugtests which has organised more than 70 interoperability events in a broad range of different areas, including regular worldwide IPv6 interoperability events. Member and contributor of the IPv6 Ready logo programme.  Active supporter of the ETSI working groups on IPv6 testing. Technical Director of the EU funded GO4IT project involving 12 partners including three Chinese partners ( CATR, BII, BUPT)

Ulf DAHLSTEN, Director, Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, European Commission, DG Information Society
Mr. Dahlsten, born in 1946 and of Swedish nationality, has recently joined the European Commission as Director of “Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures” at the Directorate-General Information Society and Media.
Prior to joining the Commission, Ulf Dahlsten was Director of SECCOM AG and President and CEO of Icon Medialab International, an internet consultancy offering solutions in ecommerce, ebusiness and internet banking among others.
Previously, from 1988 to 1999, Ulf Dahlsten worked with the Swedish Postal Services, first as Director-General and then as President and CEO of Posten AB.  His transformation of a monopoly-protected authority into a profitable customer and business oriented company earned him the ‘European Hermes Award’.
From 1982 to 1988, Mr. Dahlsten occupied various posts with the Swedish government, including State Secretary for Energy and then for Communications as well as State Secretary and Chief of Cabinet of the Prime Minister’s Office.
From 1977 to 1982, he was City Manager of Sodertalje.  Prior to that, from 1974 to 1977, he worked for the National Price and Cartel Office as Head of the Food and Agriculture Division and then as Head of Department for Consumer Goods and Services.
Before that, he was Advisor to the Mayor of Stockholm from 1970 to 1971 and Head of the Office of the Governor of Stockholm from 1971 to 1974.
Ulf Dahlsten started his career as a teacher in Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology.  He holds a Civil Engineer’s degree from the Royal Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Hemanth DATTATREYA,Vice President, IPv6 Forum India
Hemanth Dattatreya is the Vice President, International Liaisons & Industry Partnerships at IPv6 Forum India and co-founded the forum in the summer of 2000. He served as President of the IPv6 Forum India from 2000 through 2002. He has helped radically alter IPv6 awareness levels in India and contributed to shaping Government’s National Policy on IPv6.  For this work he was awarded IPv6 Forum’s “Internet Pioneer Award” in March 2005. He is part of Government of India’s IPv6 Implementation Group (IPIG) and National Task Force for IPv6 Deployment Working Group. He is a works closely with the Indian government and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Internet matters in general and IPv6 in particular in Government and policy matters.
Hemanth is a member of the Technical Directorate, IPv6 Forum.
He is the co-chair of IPv6 Forum’s OneWorld Working Group that tracks IPv6 deployment worldwide. He is a Member, Steering Committee – AP IPv6 Task Force. He is also a member of the North American IPv6 Task Force. He served as the Chair of the IPv6 Activity Group of IMTC Forum and as a member of its Technical Steering Committee between June 2001 and June 2003. He is a member of the Advisory Committee – South Asia Network Operators Group. He advises IPv6 Forum startup chapters in Asia.
He travels extensively both for HP and the IPv6 Forum.
His current technical areas of interest include IT Consolidation, Internet Exchanges, IP address allocation policy, VoIP applications, QoS mechanisms, WiFi and Billing systems.
 He works for Hewlett Packard – System Technology and Software Division located in Bangalore, India.  He is a Program Lead in a team called R&D Field Engagement that leverages STSD’s large R&D base for winning strategic deals. He manages China and Taiwan for the team and his responsibilities involve business planning and development, relationship management and end-to-end deal management. He also spends time technically involved in technology and platform migrations and works on end-to-end solutions architecture of service providers, financial institutions and enterprise customers.  His current activities include IT assessments and IT strategy planning, data center consolidation and IPv6 transition planning for enterprise customers. He is the recipient of many HP awards – HP Asia Pacific Integrity Champion (Aug 2006, Sales support award), Hewlett Packard Business Excellence Award for Value Innovation (Feb 2005), Individual Initiative award (May 2001) and other notable awards.

Liu DONG, President and CEO of BII Group
• Beijing University, majored in economics. President and CEO of BII Group. In November 1999, he founded BII Group and started his research, development and commercial promotion career in IPv6 industry, devotes in the IPv6 based next internet commercialized promotion in China. He also takes many other duties during his term.
•  Board Member of IPv6 Forum, President of IPv6 Forum of China; Chair of Zhong Guancun Next Generation Internet Industry Association; Chair of IPv6 Special Commission, BITA; Deputy Director and Senior Researcher of BII—BUPT Next Generation Network R&D Center; Deputy Director and Senior Researcher of Next Generation IP Telecommunication Network Lab（6TNet).

Dr. Ralph DROMS, Technical Leader, CISCO Systems
Dr. Ralph Droms is in the CTO office of the Network Management Technology Group (NMTG) at Cisco where he designs network protocols and management systems.  He is coordinating the integration of IPv6 features into Cisco network management products and developing new management tools for IPv6 deployment and operation.  Dr. Droms also manages collaborative IPv6 research initiatives investigating issues in IPv6 deployment, renumbering and security.
One of the co-organizers of the DHC Working Group in the IETF in 1989, Dr. Droms has chaired the Working Group since its inception and is a key contributor to the design and development of DHCP.  He was editor of the DHCPv6 specification and co-author of the DHCPv6 prefix delegation specification.  Ralph is also editor of many other DHCP RFCs and continues to participate in the evolution of DHCP.
Dr. Droms is currently involved with Cablelabs and the development of the DOCSIS 3.0 specification.  DOCSIS 3.0 will include IPv6 for cable modem provisioning and management, as well as for subscriber data service.
Prior to joining Cisco in 2000, Dr. Droms was a member of the computer science department faculty at Bucknell University and co-director of the Computer Center at Bucknell.  Ralph has also been a member of the computer science faculty at Pennsylvania State University, and was on the research staff at IBM and Burroughs (Unisys).  His PhD is in computer science from Purdue University.

Richard DUWIQUET,  Field Support Engineer, AT&T
 Richard Duwiquet has over 20 years experience in the networking industry. He is currently working in the Advanced Technical Support for AT&T, assisting in implementing high technologies insertion. He also provides analysis and resolution of technical problems in the Global Packet Backbone.Prior to this, Richard worked in multiple IP services project and focus on the design, the conception and the validation of network architecture. 
Before joining AT&T, he was leading some Test and Evaluation group in IBM focusing on System test activity and interoperability. His main responsibilities included the validation of new technologies and network design approaches. His main interests include large scale networking, QoS, Fast rerouting, Security, MPLS and IPv6.

Dr. Thierry ERNST, INRIA
Thierry Ernst has been educated in France and UK. He holds a Ph.D. In Networking obtained from University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in October 2001 and prepared simultaneously at INRIA (French National Research Institute in Computer Science and Control http://www.inria.fr, Grenoble) and MOTOROLA Labs (Paris) in France on a joint grant financed by the French government and Motorola. The PhD dissertation was about "Network Mobility in IPv6".
He then worked at Keio University, Japan for four years as a researcher in the Jun Murai Lab and was involved  with the WIDE organization where he set up and still leads the Nautilus Working Group within the WIDE project. Nautilus6 has involved from a WIDE activity toward a  French-Japanese cooperation on IPv6 Mobility.
He is now back to INRIA working as a researcher on several projects related to his past research activities in IPv6 mobility and the automotive industry.
He has setup and currently chairs the NEMO (NEtwork MObility) Working  Group and the MONAMI6
Working Group at the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).  He is also involved with ISO Technical Committee 204 Working Group 16 (TC204 WG16) which is investigating IPv6 communications for vehicles and several related EU-funded projects. At a more academic level, he is member of various conferences, workshops and journals technical committees.

Hiroshi ESAKI, Professor, The University of Tokyo, Board member, WIDE Project,Vice President, JPNIC      Executive director, IPv6 Promotion Council Japan
He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively.  And, he received Ph.D from University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1998.   In 1987, he joined Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, where he engaged in the research of ATM systems. From 1990 to 1991, he has been at Applied Research Laboratory of Bellcore Inc., New Jersey (USA), as a residential researcher.   From 1994 to 1996, he has been at CTR (Center for Telecommunication Research) of Columbia University in New York (USA).  During his staying at Columbia University, he has proposed the CSR architecture, that is the origin of MPLS(Multi-Protocol Label Switching), to the IETF and to the ATM Forum. From 1996 to 1998, he has conducted the CSR project in Toshiba, as a chief architect.  From 1998, he has served as a professor at the University of Tokyo, and as a board member of WIDE Project (www.wide.ad.jp).
From 1997, he has been involved in the IPv6 research and development at the WIDE project. He is a co-founder of series of IPv6 special project in the WIDE project, i.e.,
   (1) KAME project ; IPv6 protocol stack for BSD UNIX
   (2) TAHI project ; IPv6 test and evaluation specification and tools
   (3) USAGI project ; IPv6 protocol stack for Linux

Bosco FERNANDES, Siemens, Vice President for Governemental and Industry Affairs
Bosco Eduardo Fernandes has held various managerial and engineering positions in Infrastructure R&D at Siemens AG. He served as a responsible Manager for a number of GSM projects. He switched on the first GSM Network in the World and the first GSM Network outside Europe. He was former chair of the Mobile and Personal communications Domain of the European Research Programme for three years and was the mandated chairman of the UMTS Task Force that preceded the creation of the UMTS Forum. Mr Fernandes is a member of the Technical Directorate of the IPv6 Forum and supports the close co-operation between the IPv6 Forum and UMTS Forum ICTG. He was a member of the EC IPv6 Task Force Phase I and II and is now heading the EC IPv6 Task Force. He chairs the Mobile TV Group in the UMTSF.
Mr Fernandes received the degree of Dipl. Ing in Electronic engineering in Munich, Germany and holds an Executive MBA. He is a senior member of the IEEE communications society and a member of the International Telecommunications Academy of Russia (ITA). He is also a member of the Executive Board in the ITU. Within Siemens he is currently responsible for Governmental and industry Affairs.

Matthew FORD, Principal Researcher, BT Group CTO
Mat Ford joined BT in 1998 and initially developed network security designs for a range of platforms and conducted collaborative research into a number of emerging security technologies. Mat then spent several years focussed on IPv6 technology research, development, standardisation and deployment. He provided technical leadership to teams developing world-first IPv6 network deployments and chaired the IPv6 Cluster of the European Commission. Mat provided IPv6 technical consultancy to a diverse range of customers in his role as Internet Technology Consultant for BT. Mat recently joined the Group Chief Technology Office of BT where he is Principal Researcher in the Networks Research Centre. As well as working closely with colleagues developing novel QoS mechanisms, Mat chairs a Working Group of the IPsphere Forum, which is an international leadership community comprised of members from key sectors of the telecommunications and IT industries. The IPsphere Forum’s mission is to deliver an enhanced commercial framework - or business layer - for IP services that preserves the fundamental ubiquity of the Internet’s technical framework and is also capable of supporting a full range of business relationships so that participants have true flexibility in how they add value to upstream service outcomes.
Mat holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Glasgow and an MSc (Distinction) from the London School of Economics.

Jørgen FRIIS, Deputy Director-General, ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)
Jørgen Friis was elected as Deputy Director-General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) by the ETSI General Assembly on 6 April 2001.
He is jointly responsible for general management of the ETSI Secretariat based in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE and is an ex-officio member of the ETSI Board.
Previously Vice President of the Network Division of Tele Danmark, Mr. Friis was responsible for access network strategy, norms and policies, systems, planning, design, registration and documentation.
Prior to joining Tele Denmark, he was Manager of the Network Section in Jutland Telephone Company, responsible for deployment of fibre cables in the trunked network and for the development of a quality system under the ISO 9000 concept.
Mr. Friis has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Engineering College of Aarhus (Denmark), has received a diploma in Organisation at Aarhus Business School, and a diploma in leadership and change from the Institute of Danish Engineers. He followed Tele Denmark executive leadership MBA program at INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France.
Mr. Friis is a Danish citizen and a member of the Danish Society of Engineers.

Wolfgang FRITSCHE, Manager Advanced IP Services, IABG
received his Diploma in Electric Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He currently works as manager for Advanced Internet Services at IABG. Wolfgang Fritsche has been responsible for several national and international projects in the Internet and cellular communication field, mainly in the areas of IPv6, IP Security, IP Mobility, IP over Satellite, IP Multicast and 3G cellular networks. Some of his recent activities are leading the ESA studies on “Programmable Active Networks for Next Generation Multimedia Services” and “IPv6 over satellite”, the ESA project for establishing a demonstrator for “IP Security over satellite”, and IABG's involvement in the European Commission funded ENABLE, U-2010, RUNES, SEINIT, 6WINIT and 6INIT projects. He participates in the standardization work of IETF since several years, follows the activities of 3GPP and IEEE concerning the integration of IP in their area, and contributes to the adoption of IPv6 within the NATO project INSC. Wolfgang Fritsche represents IABG as founding member in the Global IPv6-Forum and the German IPv6 Task Force.

Gilles GALIPOT, EDO, Consultant
After having worked 10 years in mechanical engineering, Gilles Galipot created a cabinet-council dedicated to the installation of telecommunications networks to very high flow, optical fibres to the user (FTTH). Based on the Normandy, several networks will be born since 2007: Gonfreville Orcher, and agglomerations. The very high network is an essential action for the economic development. The public collectivities engage them for the realization of this kind of network. Gilles Galipot initiates on these networks a reflexion on the new uses on FTTH : the electronic book, television on demand… This consultant takes part in the Internet 2.0 which constitutes a new manner to be on the web.
His blog http://gigashow.en-normandie.com is the example !

Troy GAU, VP, Advanced Technology Center, ZyXEL Communications Corp.
Troy Gau received an MSEE degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA in 1981.  He is currently the Vice President of Advanced Technology Center of ZyXEL Communications Corp. in HsinChu, Taiwan, engaging in long-term technology development for the company.  He has worked for Hewlett Packard (HP), Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and Cadence Design Systems before joining ZyXEL in 1996.  He was involved in high-speed digital IC design at HP and IDT, and in computer-aided IC design tools while at Cadence.  After joining ZyXEL, he has been working on ZyNOS, ZyXEL’s Network Operating System, especially in the area of system architecture and protocol development.  He was involved in the development of numerous products at ZyXEL, including routers, security appliances, IP DSLAM, xDSL concentrators and Ethernet switches.  His current research interests include IPv6, VoIP, iSCSI, MPLS, VPN and related technologies.

Patrice GUIVARCH, CELAR (Centre D’Electronique de l’Armement), DGA (Délégation Générale pour l’Armement), French MoD
Network Engineer for the French defence procurement agency (DGA), Patrice Guivarch has a 10 years experience in IPv6 technologies. In addition to his expert activities on the main French military telecommunications programs, he is in charge of the technical follow-up of advanced studies in military network architectures, IPv6 and quality of service areas.
He is strongly involved, as technical expert, in the coordination of IPv6 transition in French MoD.
He has been the French technical coordinator for the international project INSC (Interoperable Network for Secure Communications). This project considered the suitability of new technologies to support military requirements for a coalition deployment. In this context, many studies and experimentations were carried out in order to evaluate the impact of the IPv6 transition on the different technical domains involved in a coalition architecture. (e.g.; security, management, quality of service, mobility).

Rob GOODE, Principal Scientist, Transmission & Network Systems RC, CISD NATO C3 Agency
Rob Goode has twenty years experience in network communications for defense systems, split between commercial and NATO positions and has worked on a variety of technology areas including X.25, X.400, secure computing, IP mobility, IP Quality of Service, and IPv6. Rob is a Principal Scientist at the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) where he is leading the team drafting the NATO IPv6 Transition Plan. He is actively involved in multinational activities examining IPv6; such as the Interoperable Networks for Secure Communications (INSC) project, and the Combined Federated Battle Laboratory Network (CFBLNet), for which he is the NATO "National" lead.

Carsten M. R. HATZIG, Systems Engineer, German Armed Forces Technical Center for Information Technology and Electronics (WTD 81)
Carsten Hatzig received his telecommunication engineering degree in Hamburg. After two years in the radio communications industry, he joined the German MoD’s procurement agency, the BWB, in 1997. Being posted in Greding at the WTD 81 in 1998, he was put in charge of or assisted in technical IV&V for a number of evolving military command and control systems (C2I) and weapon control systems.
In 2002, his activities shifted more and more towards military communications ranging from SatCom over IP networking to secure and mobile networking and to edge-technology communication systems such as the SDR (Software Defined Radio). Since three years, he has been involved in NATO’s eight nations’ R&D project INSC (Interoperable Networks for Secure Communications). Since two years, he has been teaming up with the German IPv6 migration working group helping both on the national IPv6 migration framework and the IT Addressing concept. Current activities are in the area of enhancing secure mobile networking and communication support for NEC (Network Enabling Capabilities).

Merike KAEO, Founder and Chief Network Security Architect at Double Shot Security
is a recognized global expert in information security. She is the author of "Designing Network Security", published by Cisco Press, which has been published in eight languages and is being used as a curriculum textbook in a variety of network security courses. The second edition was published in November 2003.
Merike was a lead member of the first Cisco security initiative, has acted as a technical advisor for numerous security start-up companies, and has been an instructor and speaker at a variety of global security-related conferences. She has been an active contributor in the IETF since 1992 and was the co-chair of the IETF IPPM (IP Performance Metrics) working group from 2000-2003.  Merike is a frequent presenter at world-wide ISP conferences including NANOG, RIPE, APNIC, APRICOT and SANOG.  Her most recent work surround security issues and practical solutions for architecting secure IPv6 infrastructures and she was the primary author of the recently published Nav6TF Security Technology Report.

Dimitrios KALOGERAS, Senior Network Engineer, GRNET S.A., Research Associate ICCS-NTUA
Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeras received his Dipl.-Ing. Degree and Ph.D from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1991 and in 1996 respectively. Dr Kalogeras has participated in numerous Greek and European research programs. He has pioneered in the design and development of the NTUA and the GRNET data networks. From 2000 to 2002 served as a member of the Terena Technical Committee.He is member of Technical Chamberof Greece and IEEE.
 

John KING, IPv6 Expert, BT
I joined BT in 1989 and have been involved in a variety of network related activities since then. From about 1998 I started to become involved in IP network research, and in particular the new emerging IP protocol IPv6. During that time I have been involved in a number of leading IPv6 based collaborative projects including 6INIT, Euro6IX and SEINIT. Additionally I have led a number of activities internal to BT aimed at raising the awareness and potential of IPv6. I currently lead a small team of IPv6 experts who operate BT’s non-commercial IPv6 network, the UK6x, and are becoming increasingly active in advising the operational parts of BT on IPv6 deployment. I have given presentations on IPv6 at a number of conferences and I am also a member of the UK IPv6 task force steering committee.

Andreas KOLAR, Director WW-Business Development and Strategy, HP Software, Hewlett-packard company
Andreas KOLAR is the Global Director Business Development and Strategy within the HP Software Business Unit. In this capacity he is currently responsible for the entire HP-SW strategy for mobility computing. Prior to this role he was the Sales and Business Development Director world-wide for the Openview Service Provider segment in the same organization.
He brings more than 16 years of management experience to HP –including oversight of various large teams and virtual organizations. Prior to joining pre-merger Compaq in February 2001, Andreas Kolar was the worldwide Key Account Director for SW-Start-UP Vocalis Group U.K. a speech recognition and IN-solution company. He joined Vocalis coming from Silicon Valley based Premisys Communications where he held a world-wide sales director and marketing role. His successful careers also include a European function as Marketing Manager Enterprise IT solutions with Swedish Telecom Company Ericsson and before that he was Regional Business Development and Account Manager of Siemens Enterprise for Central Europe covering Finance, Insurance and government customers.
Andreas Kolar holds a University Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunications – approx. an equivalent to a PhD - from the Austria Technical University of Vienna, and has a certificate award from Kellogg’s University (Northwestern University) for his achievement in a 3 weeks Executive Development Program. Recently he also achieved the general ITIL certification.

Samuel KYAKILIKA, IPv6 Network Management in the GEANT2 Project
I received my B.Eng degree from the University of Zambia – Great East Road Campus in 1995 and my MSc in Advanced Control from UMIST in Manchester, UK in 2000. I worked for Copperbelt Energy Corporation starting in 1995 as a Telecommunications Engineer working on Voice and Data networks. I later worked as the company’s Telecommunication Projects Engineer. In this role, I was responsible for the design and worked on the implementation of a 520km, 34 site fibre based SDH project. I also worked as an emergency power engineer responsible for instrumentation and control of gas turbine engines. Since January 2005, I have worked for DANTE Ltd as a Network Operations Engineer, where I have been involved in the deployment of PoPs, DWDM and SDH equipment on the GEANT2 Project. I have recently been working on the planning and deployment of high capacity point-to-point circuits across GEANT2 - such as those used on the LHC project at CERN. I am currently responsible for IP multicast and IPv6 in GEANT2.

Latif LADID, President, IPv6 Forum (www.ipv6forum.com)

  -     Chair, European IPv6 Task Force (www.ipv6.eu )
Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC (www.isoc.org)
Independent International Consultant
IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board (www.ipv6ready.org)

Researcher on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects:

·   6INIT: www.6init.org  - First Pioneer IPv6 Research Project
·   6WINIT: www.6winit.org 
·   Euro6IX: www.euro6ix.org 
·   Eurov6 : www.eurov6.org
.   NGNi, http://www.ngni.org
.   Project initiator of the first IPv6 Security & Privacy project called Security Expert Initiative (SEINIT) see www.seinit.org 
.   Project initiator of the first European Security Task Force project called   SecurIST: www.securitytaskforce.org  

Member of 3GPP PCG  (www.3gpp.org)
Member of 3GPP2 PCG (www.3gpp2.org)
Vice Chair,  EntNET  (http://www.comsoc.org/~entnet/EntNet%20Committee.htm )
Member of UN ICT Task Force Policy WG
Member of IEC Executive Committee
Member of the ITU-T Informal Forum Summit       

Gerard LE BIHAN, Senior Architect Mobile solution Division Alcatel-Lannion
received a diploma in telecommunications engineering from the “Ecole Nationale des Télécommunications de Bretagne” in 1980. He joined Alcatel in 1981 as system engineer for the A1000 E10 switching system working on the signaling system number 7 introduction. From 1987, He worked during 10 years on ATM systems first as software development manager and the project manager. In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Switching Routing Division System competence center of Alcatel and in 2001 Project Director for A1000 E10 fixed switching systems. In 2002, He joined the Mobile Communication Group, first as Project Director for New Product & Network Integration focusing on IMS development especially in the domain of network databases and then Circuit Core Network Evolium product line. Since 2004, he has been Senior Architect in the Mobile Services Division in charge of the portfolio renovation for both the circuit and data product lines. Gerard LE BIHAN is distinguished member of the Alcatel Technical Academy.

Hung-Chang(John) LEE, Taiwan IPv6 Development and Deployment Program, Program manager
Born 1961 in Taiwan, He received BS and PHD degree, at National Taiwan University, at years 1973, 1982. Currently he is an associate professor at the Dept. of Information Management, Tamkang University, Taipei country, Taiwan. He was a chairperson of the Dept. of Information Management , Tamkang University, from 1996 to 2000. And he joined  「Taiwan IPv6 Development and Deployment Program」in 2006.

Phil LEQUESNE, ICT senior regional analyst, Normandy TF6 expert, CTN
Born in 1946, Phil LEQUESNE gained, in 1967, an Electrical Engineering degree (ESEO Angers France).  In 1969 he got a MBA from ESSEC Paris and a PhD in “Organisation systems, Technological forecasting” from Paris-Dauphine University in 1971.
Prior to join IBM France for 8 years as Systems Engineer, he worked as analyst in technological forecasting for governmental agencies and consultant for the European Commission.
After IBM, he served 14 years as regional MIS Manager for AFPA (the national French agency for adults lifelong training) and expert in ICT strategies analysis and technology watch for various  companies, France Telecom R&D (SEPT), EDF…
He is now, inside CTN (The regional public ICT development agency) , senior regional analyst for the development of ICT services for the Basse-Normandie Region. He co-organises numerous high-level regional ICT seminars for MIS executives and especially 2 national conferences on Ipv6 (June 2003, “v6day” June 6th 2006)
In Sept 2003, He has created with Yvon Noel, from the regional Council, the Normandy Ipv6 Task force.
Nov 2004, he created with Olivier Lamirault (Ingenium) the first DVD book on “Ipv6 the new Internet”, an e-learning tool to train executives.
Phil collaborates to ARISTOTE, French Ipv6 TF, and FING and belongs to IEEE.

Benoit LOURDELET, Product Manager,  Cisco Systems
Benoit Lourdelet is a Product Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. He reports to the Network Software and Systems Technology Group where he works for IPv6. In this position, he helps identifying market opportunities and requirements for Cisco products that support IPv6. He has 10 years of experience in designing and operating telecommunications networks.  He also worked for both Manufacturers and Service Providers on the development of Internet Exchange points and International backbones. He has presented on IPv6 topics at both Cisco events and IPv6 international conferences.

Le Ricky LU - Technical Director, Global Strategy Executive Director, BII Group Holdings Ltd (BII Group)
Born in Shanghai, China; graduated from KEIO University, Japan
1988                 joined China Invention Society
1989-92           worked for DRC (Develop & Research Center), the State Council of P.R.C
1993-98           joined Dr. Jun Murai Lab (SFC, Keio University, Japan)
1993                 joined WIDE Project, APNG, and other initial Internet study groups in Asia.
1993-97           worked for APNIC as an initiator member (Asia Pacific Network Information Center)
1997                 joined AIP (Asia Internet Plaza)
1999                 joined BII Group 
Now live with my wife and 2 sons

Krysztof ŁYSEK Ph. D.  - born in 1965 at Żywiec, Poland. Graduated from Electronics Faculty of The Military University of Technology, Ph.D of technical sciences in telecommunications (2002); Deputy Director of Research and Development Plane at Military Communications Institute in Poland since 2006 (www.wil.waw.pl). System Engineer and Principal Engineer at TACOMS Post 2000 Program International Project Office (2003-2006).
Mainly interested in - quality of service (QoS) and standardization of military communication systems.

Mr.Yan MA, Professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China.
He is teaching and doing research in the field of computer network and telecommunications in BUPT. He is responsible for the planning, construction and operation of computer campus network of BUPT since 1994. He is the Technical Committee member of CERNET, a nation-wide network with 1200 universities in China. He is also the Technical Committee CNGI-CERNET2, with a backbone of pure IPv6 covering 20 cities in China. His team focus on IPv6 related research work, built IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack network management, NTP system, IDS, MIPv6 testing etc. He has been promoting IPv6 technology in China and in the Asia and Pacific region.
 In the presentation, He will give an introduction to Go4IT project first, then present the IPv6 test technology, activities and research works in China.

Duncan MARTIN, CEO of Tertiary Education Network of South Africa (TENET)
 is CEO of Tertiary Education Network of South Africa (short name: TENET), the de facto South African NREN. TENET provides general Internet access and has connection agreements with Géant and Abilene.
Duncan, and a colleague from each of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Rwanda, are the founder members of the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking, the embryonic regional REN that will interconnect the emerging NRENs of Eastern and Southern Africa and connect them to Géant and the Internet generally. The Alliance's focus is on promoting NREN's access to optical fibre connectivity regionally and internationally.

Shin MIYAKAWA, Director, IPv6
Shin Miyakawa got his BS, MS and PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990, 1992 and 1995 respectively.  He has been working as a researcher about advanced Internet technologies since he joined to NTT Lab back in 1995. In 1997, he moved to a lab called NTT Multimedia Communication Laboratories in the Silicon Valley - Palo Alto, California and has lead NTT’s IPv6 technology development and business incubation. He returned to Tokyo HQ in 2002 and now belongs to NTT Communications’ R&D - Innovative IP Architecture Center – and Corporate Planning Department simultaneously  as a director of R&D activities related not only IPv6  but all advanced IP technologies and business incubation related to them.

Hiroshi MIYATA, Manager, R & D center, Network and Software development Div., Yokogawa Electric Corporation
He graduated from the Faculty of Science, the Hokkaido University in 1988. He joined Yokogawa Electric Corporation in 2001. He has been working for TAHI Project since 1998 to research the testing technology for IPv6 by both side interoperability and Conformance. He leads the TAHI Project. He also has been working for IPv6 Ready Logo Committee(v6LC) running the IPv6 Ready Logo Program, as the Technical leader and Asian officer since 2002. Through above mentioned activities, he has been working for smooth deployment of IPv6 for eight years since 1998. 
 

- Leader of TAHI Project
- Technical Leader of v6LC
- Asian Officer of v6LC

Olof NORDLING, Manager Policy Development Coordination, ICANN
Joining ICANN in March 2005, Olof is currently Manager, Policy Development Coordination and Branch Manager of the ICANN Brussels office. He was previously President of the TeliaSonera office in Brussels and before then Counsellor at the Swedish Embassy in Paris, France. Earlier jobs include postings for the Swedish Trade Council in Los Angeles and The Hague, and as systems analyst for Bull in France and Sweden. Olof has an MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm as well as degrees in physics, business administration and economy. He is married and has two grown-up children.

Eun Kyoung PAIK, Principal Researcher, Advanced Research Lab. KT
Eun Kyoung PAIK is a Principal researcher at Advanced Research Lab. in KT. She has been working on Multimedia Communications since 1992. She is a chair on Mobility WG in IPv6 Forum Korea and co-chair of WiBro6 (IPv6 over WiBro) WG in TTA. She Received B.S. and M.S in Computer Science from EWHA WOMANS University, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, in 1990, 1992, and 2004 respectively. She was a visiting scientist to IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for the year 1994. She was also a visiting scienstist to WIDE-and-Keio University and ENST-B, for the year 2003-2004 and 2004-2005, respectively. She has been working on a French-Korean collaboration Project, STAR (Science and Technology Amical Relationships) since 2005, which is titled EASY6. Her research interest lies in the field of IPv6 Mobility and Ubiquitous computing.

Nikolay PAKULIN, Researcher
I received B.Sc and M.Sc from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1998 and 2000 respectively. In 2000 I joined Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences. My main research interests are formal methods, specification-based testing, networking, conformance testing of Internet protocols.

Mr. Carlos PEREZ RUIZ, Development Engineer at Projects Division CETECOM
joined CETECOM (www.cetecom.es) in 2004. His present position is Development Engineer at Projects Division, where he is nowadays responsible for roaming wireless development activities and IPv6 protocol integration in wireless technologies by means of using formal language test specifications such as TTCN-3.
He is involved mainly in the areas of IPv6 Core protocols and IPv6 Mobility testing and participates actively in research and development activities for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, WiMAX and UWB technologies. Furthermore, he has also collaborated as a test operator in different plugfests for WLAN roaming and DLNA technologies.
He is currently participating in EC projects such as CERTECS and Go4IT. This last project will provide a generic low cost test environment and associated test services, together with free of charge executable test suites, targeting IPv6 focused protocol testing.
Carlos Pérez Ruiz holds a Ingeniero de Telecomunicación (Telecommunication Engineering) degree from the Universidad de Málaga (Spain).

Yves POPPE, Director Business Development IP Services, VSNL International
 has spent his more than 35 years career in data communications with both manufacturers and telecom carriers.  His  involvement in Next Generation Internet  includes the first transatlantic STM-1 connection in 1994 and the first  gigabit level transcontinental wavelength connection in 2001. Representing Teleglobe on the Canarie (Canadian R&E network) Policy Board, Yves supported the  early IPv6 efforts  including the creation of 6TAP in Chicago. Teleglobe, now part of VSNL,  became a founding member of the IPv6 Forum . Yves Poppe  represents the Corporation at the IPv6 Forum and is steering committee member of the North American IPv6 taskforce (NAV6TF).
Yves Poppe  represents VSNL in TERENA,  Internet2, Canarie and APAN.  He  is a frequent presenter on the evolution of telecommunications and the internet and the key role of IPv6. His most recent interventions on the IPv6 topic include   IPv6 summits in Egypt, Malaysia and India.  He  regularly covers the  evolution of international telecommunications  at sessions of TEMIC (Telecommunications Executive Management Institute of Canada) and APT (Asia Pacific Telecommunity).

Yanick Pouffary, IPv6 Forum Fellow, HP
 is an IPv6 Forum Fellow www.ipv6forum.com, Technology Director North American IPv6 Task Force www.nav6tf.org, Member of the IPv6 Forum CTO Executive Committee.
Yanick is a Hewlett Packard Distinguished Technologist Member of Enterprise Servers and Storage Division Network Technical Office (NTO).
Yanick has been working on networking software products since 1985. Yanick has been involved with IPv6 since 1996, and is an active Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) participant.
Yanick is one of the distinguished recipients of the IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award for her technology contributions within the IPv6 Forum to support the adoption and deployment of IPv6.
Yanick is a Subject Matter Expert for networking supporting the IPv6 Forum world wide and the NAv6TF within the U.S.
Yanick earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nice, France and a M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. 

Yurie RICH, Director, IPV6 Services
Mr. Yurie Rich currently holds the position of Director, IPv6 Services at Command Information.  His primary responsibilities at Command include overseeing delivery of Command’s IPv6 integration services and advancing Command’s IPv6 education programs.  Yurie joined Command from Native6, where he was the founder and President.  Native6 Inc. is the world’s leading provider of IPv6 education.  Prior to founding Native6, Yurie served as both Program Director for the professional service group and program manager for VoIP services at Zama Networks, Inc., an IPv6 ISP startup. 
Mr. Rich is an active member of the IPv6 community and serves on the IPv6 Business Council and the NAv6TF Advisory Board.   Yurie is a member of the IPv6 Forum and frequent speaker on the subject of IPv6, and holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. from Washington State University.

Carlo ROATTA,  Lt. Col., General Directorate for Naval Armaments, TLC Division
After completion of the Naval Academy Curriculum and graduating in Electronic Engineering at Pisa University with a laurea magistralis, Carlo Roatta served for several years on board of first-line naval units (Maestrale Class, Vittorio Veneto Destroyer) as Chief Engineer responsible for the Combat System Department. His ashore assignments have been spent primarily in Mariteleradar, the research institute of the Italian Navy, serving as Head of Radar Department and, later, as Head of Telecommunications Department. After gaining the Higher Military Master in Applied Electronics in Rome, he returned to research and evaluation tasks in Mariteleradar, working in the area of Telecommunications Systems and at the same time teaching as a Visiting Professor in the Naval Academy. He was subsequently assigned to cutting-edge technology programs developed by the Italian MoD.
Carlo Roatta is currently working at the Italian Navy Directorate in Rome, where he evaluates  specific programs and naval procurement for the Telecommunications Division of NAVARM (the General Directorate for Naval Armament).
Thanks to his involvement in the IPv6 arena, he was nominated Technical Co-ordinator for the Italian teams committed to the INSC (Interoperable Networks for Secure Communications) initiative. In the international program, he served also as Task Leader for the Task 5 Group (WAN and IPv4/IPv6 interworking.

Nezar SAMI,  Manager of the Computer Support Department, Egyptian National S&T Network (ENSTINET)
As manager of the Computer Support Department, Egyptian National S&T Network (ENSTINET), Mr. Nezar Sami is involved in setting technologies strategies for ENSTINET and S&T community in Egypt as well as managing and operating the Egyptian Research Centers Network. Mr. Sami provides technical consultations for different Egyptian Research Centers and other institutions and acts as the technical coordinator between ENSTINET and international organizations such as Internet2, RIPE NCC, AfriNIC and others.
Mr. Sami represents the Academy of Scientific Research & Technology in a number of activities such as the Egyptian IPv6 Task Force, Internet Society of Egypt, E-Commerce Committee and E-Learning Committee.
Mr. Sami graduated from Communications & Electronics Engineering Dept, Cairo University and later obtained several certificates in the field of management, including Executive Management Diploma, Total Quality Management Diploma, and Project Management Professional Certificate, all from the American University in Cairo (AUC). He also holds several international technical certifications in fields of Networking, Video Conferencing and Project Management and is recipient of a number of local and national awards in recognition of his work.

Akio SATO, Senior Consultant, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.  Secretariat, IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan
Akio Sato joined the Secretariat for IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan in 2005.  Serving as an administrator for IPv6 Ready Logo Committee (v6LC), he helps run the IPv6 Ready Logo Program in Japan. 
In his current position at Mitsubishi Research Institute as Senior Consultant in Information Security Research Group under Social Information and Communication Research Division, Akio is responsible for promoting IPv6 for medical and healthcare applications.  Prior to this, he was involved in projects related to information security, network systems, wireless broadband and mobile technologies as well as medical / healthcare services such as wearable medical application systems and dementia detection systems.                                                                                                            
Akio received his Master’s degree in Physics and Applied Physics from the Graduate School of Waseda University.  During his undergraduate studies at Waseda, he also studied at Denison University in Ohio, the United States, as an exchange student.  He joined Mitsubishi Research Institute in 1993, and from 2000-2002, he was seconded to Information Promotion Agency, a semi-government organization under the administration of Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry. 

Gérard SEGARRA, Renault, Telematics Research Unit Manager
Born on June 1st, 1945 in Paris, France.
Obtained an Engineer diploma from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in 1975 and a Master in Research from the University of Paris 6 in 1976.
After working during 17 years in the PHILIPS Group successively in advanced electronics for military systems, then in industrial minicomputers R&D, joined the RENAULT group to manage telecommunication systems and take the responsibility of Information Technology Research. Is currently manager of telematics Research, Renault and EC expert. 

Myung-Ki SHIN, senior researcher, ETRI, IPv6 Forum Korea

Bruce SINCLAIR – Chief Executive Officer, Hexago
Bruce has over 20 years of programming, marketing, sales and management experience in high technology. He has held executive positions in leading software/hardware companies including: Avid, Microsoft, SGI and Wavefront (now Autodesk). He has experience in various acquisitions and a public offering on the NASDAQ as well as developing emerging and growth phase companies. Bruce holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of British Columbia.

Laurent TOUTAIN, Associate Professor at ENST Bretagne in the Network and Multimedia Department
His main research topics are IPv6, high-speed networking and network metrology. His main focus in the IPv6 area is on the transition mechanism. He is co-author of the IPv4/IPv6 transition mechanism DSTM (Dual Stack Transition Mechanism). Laurent Toutain works on network auto-configuration with IPv6, especially for home networking environments. He has participated to the study of the impact of IPv6 in the ROHC (Robust Header Compression) protocol, which will be used in 3G networks to compress IPv6 headers. He is the author of several books on networking and editor of the O'Reilly book entitled IPv6: Théorie et Pratique" (http://livre.point6.net) He is a founding member of the G6 group, which regroups, since 1995, the French-speaking researchers on IPv6. He is a member of the IPv6 Task Force and he also participates in the organization of the ETSI plugtest on IPv6. He has given several tutorials on IPv6. Since 2005, he works in the promotion of IPv6 applications in the Point6 skill center located in Brittany.

Bernard TUY, Manager IP Advanced Services and prospective at RENATER
Bernard Tuy is research engineer at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Networking Department (UREC - http://www.urec.cnrs.fr) since 1993. He is involved since the very beginning in the deployment of the Academic and Research French network, RENATER (http://www.renater.fr)
He was Renater’s representative in the Ebone Operation and Action teams to coordinate the international connections with European countries and North America.
He is an active member of  RIPE WGs (http://www.ripe.net) among which Routing, Internet exchange points and IPv6.
He is involved in IPv6 standardization and deployment since 1995 and cofounder of the G6 group, gathering people from the industry and academic worlds experimenting with the new IP version.
He has joined RENATER’s team since Jan. 2000 where he is SIPA (Advanced IP services and Prospective) team’s manager in charge of the native IPv6 backbone deployment of Renater and IPv6 services to the regional networks and users. SIPA (http://www.renater.fr/spip.php?rubrique13&lang=en) addresses and coordinates also Network Management Applications, IP multicast related services and applications (video conferencing), optical technologies and Telephony over IP, among others.
The SIPA team contributes to European IST projects like 6NET (http://www.6net.org/), 6DISS (http://www.6diss.org) and Géant-2 (http://www.geant2.net/). The former two being related to IPv6 deployment at large scale and IPv6 teaching in developing countries. SIPA engineers have contributed to the IPv6 book “IPv6 : Théorie & Pratique”, 4^th edition, O’Reilly ed. (Nov. 2005).

César VIHO, Professor, IRISA/IFSIC-Université de Rennes 1
César Viho is Professor in the Computer Science departement (IFSIC) of the University de Rennes I. He is responsible of the Master track in “Computer Network Engineering”. Within the Armor team of the IRISA research laboratory, he is responsible of the sub-group dedicated to “Conformance and Interoperability testing” since 1999, with a specific focus on distributed and formal approach for testing applied to NGN (New Generation Networks), mainly IPv6 technologies. He has several contributions (papers) to different conferences and journals dedicated to Networks testing. Since 2000, he collaborates with the Plugtest Service of the ETSI (European Telecommunication Standardization Institute) in the organisation of IPv6 Interoperability Events. His team also participates to the TAHI IPv6 interoperability events since 2002. He is involved in several European initiatives regarding IPv6 interoperability testing (NGNI, ETSI/STFs, Point6, Breizhv6, Go4IT, Anemone, projects, etc.). He is the European representative in the technical committee of the IPv6 ready Logo Program.

Laurent VRECK, ETSI PTCC Officer
 has been working for the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) for 8 years. Currently he is leading within ETSI the EC funded project in charge of writing IPv6 Interoperability and Conformance test suites (focussing this year on mobility, security, and 4-to-6 transitioning). He is also in charge of the Technical Support for ETSI Technical Committee "Methods for Testing and Specification" (MTS), and was formerly in charge of several other Technical Committees: "Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Networks (TIPHON), "Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications" (DECT), "Environmental Engineering" (EE).
Prior to that he worked at the IBM Research Laboratory of La Gaude (France) where he was successively involved as Tester, Technical Support Engineer, and Product Engineer for the IBM 2220 ATM Switch.

Emmanuel WALGER , Colonel, French Ministry of Defense
Colonel Emmanuel WALGER joined the French Army Academy in 1979 and chose to serve in the Signal branch. After his course at the Signal Corps Branch School in 1981, he received different appointments in battalions, until 1988 where he was appointed for two years as Commanding officer of a signal company in the south of France. 
Then, he attempted four years of studies, leading to an engineering graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (SUPELEC) and then became an officer graduate of the War College.
Serving in different appointments until 2003, he took at this date command of a signal regiment  in the centre of France for two years.
Appointed in the French MoD since 2005, he is now in charge of the whole French infrastructure communication system (Satcom, HF Radio, LOS, Optic Fibre, ….) . In this respect, he assures the adaptation of the existing systems and is also part of the evaluation of the new ones before their implementation.

 Mathieu WEILL, CEO, AFNIC
Telecommunications Engineer and graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Mathieu Weill is currently CEO of AFNIC, the registry of the.fr (France) and .re (Reunion Island) Internet extensions. AFNIC is a non-profit organization employing around 40 people and managing more than 650 000 domains.
He previously was working since februrary 2000 for the French ministry in charge of industry and telecoms, in the Service of Technologies and Information Society. For three years, he has been in charge of the Réseau National de Recherche en télécommunications, supporting and monitoring R&D projects in telecommunications.
Then in 2003, he was appointed head of the ICT economic studies office, a team of 4 persons. The main topics were related to frequency license fees for telecommunications operators, setting up frequency trading in French law, administrative monitoring of Agence nationale des fréquences and conducting economic studies on ICT impact on productivity, employment or growth.
He was also acting as representative of the minister in charge of telecoms at the board of AFNIC and did lecture about the telecommunications regulatory framework at Télécom Paris.

Erica WILLIAMSEN, UNH-IOL Senior Manager
Erica Williamsen began working for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in May of 1999. Erica quickly advanced to managing the IPv6 Consortium and coordinating high profile Moonv6 testing events. She is currently the technical representative for the U.S. on the IPv6Ready Logo Committee.
She has co-authored many IPv6 white papers and test suites including the IPv6 Ready Logo Base Specification, UNH-IOL DHCPv6 Conformance, Moonv6 Firewall Access Policy and IPv6 Ready MLD Conformance.
Presently she maintains operations for all IPv4 Routing and IPv6 testing at UNH-IOL and is in constant search for new business partnerships and projects.
Erica continues to work with many Industry Forums including the North American IPv6 Task Force, IPv6Forum and the IPv6Ready Logo Committee.  This allows her to design real-world and worst-case test scenarios with respect to IPv6 technologies and work along side commercial services providers, network equipment vendors and the U.S. Department of Defense.
 

Dr. XIAOHONG Huang, BUPT
Dr. Xiaohong Huang received her BE degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2000 and Ph.D degree from the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2005. Since 2005, Dr. Huang has joined the school of computer science and technology at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications as a lecturer. Dr. Huang has published more than 15 academic papers in the area of WDM optical networks, IP networks, Grid computing and other relevant fields. She is now an active research staff in the IPv6 research team in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, led by Prof. Yan Ma. She has involved in several research projects, including Eu FP6-GO4IT, CNGI-CERNET2, CNGI-Access Grid, and so on. Her current research interests are performance analysis of computer networks, testing technologies, grid computing and so on.