He has 12 years of experience in electronics, system administration, networking and system security. Gene is best known for his work with the North American IPv6 Task Force, and his work on Fu-King (an IPv6 enabled distribution of Linux), which includes security tools that can be run in
IPv4 or IPv6 environments. He has spoken on IPv6 and other topics at several venues.

When not totally absorbed by system security related issues, Gene can be found wardriving, actively participating as Vice President of the Jacksonville Linux User's Group, and building a successful and dynamic 2600 chapter, of which he is currently president.

Christman is a published IPv6 and network security expert., He leadsing the an engineering team on the development of managed security products, Service Level Agreements, enhanced monitoring, IPv6 access products, L2VPN services, and backbone QoS research. Prior to working at Verio, Christman held systems engineering positions with both American Management Systems and U S WEST Technologies.

Christman earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical Electrical engineering Engineering from Montana State University, and a Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Reneé Esposito
Booz Allen Hamilton

Renée Esposito is an Associate with the Global Resilience Team at Booz Allen Hamilton. She has 8 years of networking experience and has spent the last 4 years developing network security solutions.

She is currently involved with initiatives in the Department of Defense that will result in the implementation of highly reliable network infrastructures that can keep pace with increasing network speeds. She is working to improve the capabilities and the level of security available in commercial network security devices.

Ms. Esposito is a member of the Optical Internetworking Forum where she is focused on developing and defining security guidance for the control plane and management plane. Ms. Esposito is a member of the North American IPv6
Task Force Steering Committee.

Leigh Huang
IPv6 Program Manager
Microsoft

Leigh Huang is a Program Manager for the IPv6 program in the Windows Networking and Device Technologies Group at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Leigh was an entrepreneur and founder of a WiFi solution for service providers and enterprises. Leigh holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

Sameer Jayakar

Sameer Jayakar
Senior Engineering Manager
Network Management Technology Group
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Sameer Jayakar is responsible for the development of several products that help customers manage Cisco networks. He is also responsible for ensuring that these same products help customers transition into the IPv6 world.

Merike Kaeo
Chief Network Security Architect
Double Shot Security

Merike Kaeo is Chief Network Security Architect at Double Shot 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 recently 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. Merike has appeared in such media as Information Security Magazine and is a regular presenter at global ISP conferences including NANOG, APRICOT and SANOG.

Merike is a member of the IEEE and was the co-chair of the IETF IPPM (IP Performance Metrics) working group from 2000-2003. Prior to founder her own company, Merike was employed by Cisco Systems, Inc., where she worked primarily on technical issues relating to router performance, network routing protocols, network design, and network security. Merike started her networking and information security career in 1988 at the National Institute of Health, designing and implementing the original FDDI backbone for the NIH campus using Cisco routers.

Merike received her BSEE from Rutgers University in 1987 and completed her MSEE degree from George Washington University in 1998.

Larry Levine
Program Director
Next Generation Networks

Mr. Levine's is currently the Program Director for Next Generation Networks within the CERDEC Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate. He is the technical lead for the Army IPv6 Transition Plan Working Group and is responsible for planning for the implementation of IPv6 within the Army. He is a member of the IPv6 Forum and a charter member of the North American IPv6 Task Force. Mr. Levine has been involved with IPv6 since the mid 90's and is a leading proponent of IPv6 within the Army.

Previous assignments have included the introduction of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology into current tactical systems as part of the Army's Task Force XXI program. These demonstrations were a critical first step in the Army's efforts to digitize the battlefield and help to demonstrate for the first time how digital technology could be used to support our soldiers. Prior to that Mr. Levine was involved with the introduction of Local Area Network technology to the field.

He is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu Associa­tion, sits on the Board of Directors of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), Ft. Monmouth chapter and is the President of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Ft. Monmouth chapter.

Mr. Larry Levine earned his Bachelor of Electri­cal Engineering Degree from Pratt Institute and a Masters of Electrical Engineering Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson Uni­versity.  

Ciprian Popoviciu
Technical Leader
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Ciprian Popoviciu is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, with over seven years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting large customer networks. As part of Cisco's Network Solution Integration Test organization, Ciprian designed and tested large IPv6 network deployments in direct collaboration with service providers, evaluated IPv6 features, and worked with test tool vendors to integrate them in their products. He has contributed to white papers and IETF draft, and has given several invited talks at IPv6 workshops and training programs for network technology professionals. Ciprian holds a B.S. in Physics fromBabes-Bolyai University, Romania, and M.S. and Doctorate degrees in Physics from the University of Miami.

Yves Poppe also represents Teleglobe at the TERENA General Assembly,   Internet2 and APAN. He   is a frequent presenter on the impact of the telecom recession, the evolution of the internet and the key role of IPv6. His most recent interventions on the topic of IPv6 include    the   ITU organized Arab IPv6 Workshop in Tunis as well as the Brazilian Global IPv6 summit   and the European Commission IPv6 Taskforce .

Previous to his work with these fine organizations Yurie provided educational services in both an academic and vocational setting for several universities and private training companies.

In addition to his role as President of Native6, Mr. Rich also serves on the steering committee of the North American IPv6 Task Force and is an active participant in the IPv6 Forum, and frequent speaker on the subject of IPv6.

As a result of his work, Ben gained voting status in the IEEE 802.1 and IEEE 802.3 committees and made contributions to both sets of specifications. Ben has been the Multiservice Switching Forum interoperability working group chair since Spring of 2000. After a short tour of duty with VoIP, Ben initialized a project to test IPv4 multicast routing. This variety of experiences has given Ben a clear understanding of how networks operate.

John Spence
Director of Technology
Native6

John Spence is Director of Technology at Native6, a provider of IPv6 training and consulting services based in Seattle Washington. John Spence was recruited from Washington Mutual where he was serving as a senior network security engineer on WaMu's network infrastructure and security policy development. John brings over 15 years of IT networking and management experience to his work with IPv6. Before joining WaMu, John was Senior IT Manager and IPv6 Engineer at Zama Networks, an IPv6 backbone and collocation company launched in early 1999. John also spent over seven years at Frank Russell, an investment company serving large enterprise and institutional investors, working on various IT integration projects. Prior to his work at Frank Russell, Mr. Spence worked in the network operations and engineering departments of IBM, TRW, and Northrop Grumman.

Today, John develops and teaches IPv6 networking courses to Native6's customers, consults on IPv6 deployment projects, and writes on IPv6.

With computer security experience dating back to the early 1970s and Unix experience dating back to the early 1980s, Mike is responsible for doing research into security vulnerabilities and intrusion protection techniques for ISS X-Force, the research division of ISS.

Prior to joining ISS, Mike has held positions such as, a UNIX systems engineer, unix consultant, security consultant and network administrator on the Internet. He is one of the resident Unix gurus at the Atlanta
UNIX Users Group and is one of the founding members of the Atlanta Linux
Enthusiasts. He is also an active member of the Samba development team and is a contributor to the Linux Kernel and numerous Open Source Software projects. Mike has published articles on both Samba and on Security and is a respected cryptographer in the Open Source community.

Carl Williams