Donald Jolley – ZANOG

Born and bred in Durban South Africa with a passion for technology and the city of Durban. Don has helped build the internet community by encouraging the formation of KZNNOG (KwaZulu Natal Network Operator Group), one of the first local Network Operator Groups (NOGs)...

Jim Cowie

Jim Cowie is a serial entrepreneur and data scientist, with experience as a data storyteller in both the Internet measurement and financial industries. He holds a B.S in computer science from Yale University. After an early career in DARPA-sponsored high performance...

Sara Alamin Hassan – PCH

Sara Alamin Mohammed Hassan is the Outreach Manager at Packet Clearing House (PCH), a leading international organisation responsible for supporting Internet exchange point (IXP) development and providing global DNS infrastructure. She brings over a decade of...

Hendrik Visage

Hendrik describes himself as a server jockey in a network world. His first introduction to Unix and TheInternet was in 1992 at Univ of Pretoria on a IBM RS6000 AIX server which was used for downloading the Linux installation floppies. His first network security teeth...

Mark Tinka – TransmissionCo

With nearly a quarter-century of immersion in the Internet engineering sector, my journey has led to co-founding TransmissionCo, where we specialize in high-capacity DWDM optical transmission services. At the helm as Managing Director, I channel my expertise in DWDM...