DENOG Programme Committee (PC)
Get in touch with the Programme Committee (PC): pc @ lists.denog.de
Table of contents:
Members of the Programme Committee
| Name | Affiliation | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Alice Boeddinghaus | Student | 2024 - 2027 |
| Florian Hibler | DENOG e.V. / Arista | 2025 - 2028 |
| Franziska Lichtblau [Co-Chair] | SAP SE | TBD |
| Nico von Thadden | PFALZKOM GmbH | 2024 - 2027 |
| Sebastian Becker [Co-Chair] | Deutsche Telekom | TBD |
| Stefan Wahl | route128 | TBD |
| Theo Voss | Inter.link | 2024 - 2027 |
| Tim Kleefass | DENOG e.V. / DE-CIX | TBD |
| Vanessa Gaube | DB Fernverkehr | 2025 - 2028 |
| Wolfgang Tremmel | DE-CIX | 2025 - 2028 |
Biographies
Alice Boeddinghaus (Student)
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Alice is a Computer Science and Business student studying at the HTW Berlin. She is currently in the
5th Semester. She has been a part of the Network Community for two years having attended the last 4
RIPE meetings and many other community meetings in Berlin. The DENOG16 Meeting being her first
DENOG Meeting. She enjoys hearing interesting talks and would like give back to the community by serving on the DENOG PC. |
Florian Hibler (DENOG e.V. / Arista)
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Florian is a seasoned professional in the internet industry, with over
two decades of experience spanning technical and leadership roles. He
currently serves as the Manager of Systems Engineering for Germany,
Austria, and Switzerland at Arista Networks, a position he has held
since 2021. Florian joined Arista in 2017, bringing with him a wealth
of knowledge from his previous 17 years in technical and management
positions at various service providers and internet exchange points
(IXPs), where he focused on engineering, architecture, and strategic
initiatives. Beyond his corporate responsibilities, Florian has been deeply involved in the internet community. He is engaged with DENOG since the very beginning. Further he is an elected founding board member of DENOG e.V., where he continues to contribute to the group's mission of fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among network operators. |
Franziska Lichtblau [Co-Chair] (SAP SE)
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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. She joined the DENOG community years ago and is serving the DENOG Programme Committee since two years as chair. Other community activities include the RIPE Programme Committee and RIPE Code of Conduct Team. |
Nico von Thadden (PFALZKOM GmbH)
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Nicola is also known as nicoduck. He builds and runs networks for fun and (not only) profit, he has been active at DENOG for many years now and also helps with various other events like CCC Congress and multiple camps. |
Sebastian Becker [Co-Chair] (Deutsche Telekom)
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Sebastian joined Deutsche Telekom in January 2002. He worked his way through the 24/7
shift NOC, last level support and configurations to engineering for AS3320 IP
backbone. In 2019, after developing configurations and improving the BGP policy
for AS3320 and taking on the role of Juniper Systems Engineer for the backbone,
he took the next step and took on a role in product management. And here he is,
the only Peering Manager for AS3320. He has been with DENOG since 2019, mostly behind the scenes, helping to organise the conferences and meetings. He is also co-chair of the RIPE Routing Working Group since 2025. |
Stefan Wahl (route128)
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Stefan has been supporting the DENOG community for many years with his
experience and contacts and helped with the organisation and planning of the
event. Professionally, he is CTO at route128 and, with his own company, an international consultant specialising in IT, data centres, networks, IX and the Internet. He is an active member of the Internet community and regularly attends conferences and events. He is also active in Euro-IX as a board member, IXPDB and is co-chair of the RIPE Service Working Group. He is also a regular speaker at current affairs events. |
Theo Voss (Inter.link)
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Since 2019, THeo has been part of the PC and event team, and since 2022, he's
taken on organizing the DENOG conference socials. He has been active in the
Internet Community for over 10 years, co-founding "Community-IX", a non-profit
supporting Internet initiatives, and presenting at several industry
conferences. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Inter.link, he focus on providing
sustainable and innovative connectivity, pushing our community towards
unchartered waters. He’d like to keep contributing to DENOG by supporting its events and programs with his experience and dedication to the community. |
Tim Kleefass (DENOG e.V. / DE-CIX)
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Tim first got involved with the DENOG community at the DENOG2 conference and
has been actively engaged in organizing DENOG conferences and meetups for many
years. He has been a member of the Program Committee since 2019 and has served
as the board’s treasurer since the end of 2023. In addition to his involvement with Stuttgart-IX, Tim’s professional journey has taken him through roles at BelWü, SWITCH, EXARING (waipu.tv), and OneFiber Interconnect. Since February 2024, he has been working at DE-CIX as Head of Global Network Design. |
Vanessa Gaube (DB Fernverkehr)
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Pronouns: she/her Vanessa is 27 years old and has been active in the networking industry since her studies, both in a professional and community context. In the past, she worked as a network engineer. In her current role as an infrastructure architect, she is responsible e.g. for the network architecture of trains. As a hobby, she also runs experimental IPv6-only infrastructure, testing the practical usability and documenting the experiences. As a young member of the community, knowledge transfer is particularly important to her. For example, she gives lectures on network technology at a local university, introducing young engineers to the practical aspects of how networks and the internet work. |
Wolfgang Tremmel (DE-CIX)
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After completing his degree at Karlsruhe University, Wolfgang started working
as a network engineer in 1994. He went on to become head of network operations
and peering manager at a range of ISPs. In 2006, Wolfgang joined DE-CIX as Director Customer Support, a position he held for ten years. Since 2016, Wolfgang has been head of the DE-CIX Academy, making sure customers understand how BGP and other routing protocols work. |
Expectations for PC members
What does the PC work entail? Essentially, the Denog Programme Committee (PC) is responsible for compiling the agenda of the upcoming Denog meeting and MeetUps to ensure an interesting, engaging, and a diverse programme. As a PC member you directly contribute to the success of the event.
1) Motivate others to contribute to DENOG As a PC member you should actively use your personal and professional networks to engage with potential presenters and bring great content to the next event. Often many people do not realize they could have interesting content to present or stories to share!
2) Rate and review presentation proposals After the call for presentations (CfP) is opened talk proposals start to arrive in our submission system (Pretalx). Every PC member is expected to review all proposals and leave a rating and comment to help us decide what to accept.
3) Participate in the PC calls After the first CfP deadline (about two months before the upcoming event) the PC chairs schedule a call in which the whole PC goes through all submissions and decides which ones to accept, which speakers to reach out to, etc. Depending of the number and quality of submissions there may be multiple calls. As a rough estimation you should make time for three calls of about 90 minutes.
4) Ideally, attend the upcoming DENOG Of course, as an active contributor to the upcoming event you should try to attend. Still, your plans may not allow you to join which is totally acceptable. Attending DENOG is not mandatory for being on the PC - you just miss the opportunity to see the agenda you’ve been helping to compile in action.
5) Help out as Video- or Stage Herald We are always looking for ‘Heralds’ to moderate and guide through the sessions during DENOG. If you don’t feel comfortable on stage you can also help as a Video Herald - please reach out the PC chairs and they will let you know the details.