She is also the CEO and Founder of Inside Products, Inc.  Nalini is a recognized leader in the field of computer performance measurement and analysis. In addition to being an experienced software product designer, developer, and planner, she is a formidable businesswoman. She has been the founder or co-founder of three start-ups in the high-tech arena.

Nalini started her career doing network design and monitoring for the Chevron network.  She specializes in network performance analysis, measurement, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting of large enterprise networks.  One of her specialties is training and network design for IPv6 migration for large enterprises.  Many of the Fortune 1000 level companies as well as the large US government organizations have taken her classes on various networking topics. She has developed network monitoring and diagnostic products which were later marketed by IBM and other software companies.   She received the A.A. Michelson award from the Computer Measurement Group for her contributions to the field.   Nalini is on the Advisory Board of the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc).

Dhruv Dhody is the Principal Engineer at Huawei-India. They have been with Huawei for more than 20 years. They are currently working on research & standards for various technologies such as Path Computation Element (PCE), Segment Routing (SR), Network Slicing and SDN technologies. They have been an active IETF contributor since 2010 in the Routing area with a focus on Path Computation, Traffic Engineering and SDN. They serve on the Internet Architecture Board as a board member and an IAB liaison to the IESG as well as the IAB Outreach Coordinator. They also co-chair the PCE WG and EO-DIR. They are part of the Routing and Operations Directorate. In the past, they also served on the IETF list moderator’s team.

Apart from the technical work, they also focus on increasing IETF participation from the Asia/Pacific and other under-represented regions and advancing diversity and inclusion in the Industry.

Cathy is currently serving as the chair of the board of INTC.

Cathy began her networking career in 1988 at Merit Network as an engineer on the NSFNet and a regional network called CICNet. She was later responsible for routing and addressing at @Home Network, a startup that provided Internet over the cable TV network. She helped develop innovative network management tools at Packet Design and was VP of Architecture at NetVMG.

Cathy served on the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Advisory Council from June 1998-December 2016. Cathy continues to participate in ARIN and was the ARIN IETF Reporter from 2011-2020. In the IETF reporter role, Cathy worked to make sure that the ARIN community was informed about what was going happening at the IETF especially things that would affect the RIR system or Internet Number policy.

Cathy is co-founder of net-grrls, a group that supports women in the Internet industry by creating space for women to gather at Industry events and online to discuss and exchange ideas. She is also active in the IETF Systers, a similar gathering of women participants at the IETF.

Cathy is also on the board of Honoring Our Veterans, a non-profit organization, and works with combat wounded veterans. 

Michael Ackermann is the lead Network Engineer of the System Management and Monitoring Team, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

He is responsible for all aspects of planning, engineering, deployment and administration for all enterprise wide Management, Monitoring and Diagnostic activities.

Mike also serves as a chief architect for all Plan related IT issues. He has been a member of the BluesNet and Network Advisory Group committees since their inception and has served as committee and subcommittee chair on numerous occasions. Mike has also been a member of several advisory boards and is currently active in the IETF.​

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Russ White is a well-known voice in computer networking, where he advocates for simplicity, privacy, and the decentralized Internet. He co-hosts the Hedge podcast and serves in a leadership role in the FR Routing open-source community. Russ has created forty-eight software patents, sixteen books, and many hours of video training. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Southeast Baptist Theological Seminary, an MACM from Shepherds Theological Seminary, and an MSIT from Capella University.

Russ’s most recent books are the CCST Official Study Guide, Problems and Solutions in Computer Networks, and Unintended Dystopia.

Mohit is a faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore, India. He is a Member of the Advisory Board of ns-3 Consortium, and is a co-maintainer of TCP and traffic-control modules in ns-3. He works on TCP optimisations, Linux queue disciplines, Data plane optimizations and Wi-Fi rate adaptation.

Igor Lubashev is a Director of Engineering at Akamai Technologies, where he leads teams focused on Linux kernel and operating systems, load balancing, and Edge Virtualization systems. He has played a key role in launching Akamai’s anycast CDN and Distributed Linode cloud products.

Active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Igor has contributed to the development of the QUIC protocol, innovative loss measurement techniques in QUIC, and advancements in source address validation. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including IETF and Networking at Scale, where he shares insights on networking, performance, and systems architecture.

Prior to Akamai, Igor worked at Oracle, contributing to the low-level architecture of the Oracle RDBMS. He also played a pivotal role at a startup developing a mobile operating system. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Igor has a deep technical background in networking and distributed systems.