The following individuals are the current members of the UKNOF Programme Committee:
Andy is a freelance consultant engineer and director of the LONAP internet exchange. He has had overall responsibility for the design and operational success of a number of enterprise IP networks, and unix network services for around ten years.
I am the Systems Administration Manager at Nominet where I have worked since May 2000. Nominet is the .uk Domain Name Registry, and is a member of several UK internet exchange points including LINX and LONAP. My role is to manage the team which develops, deploys and maintains the registry systems. These include the authoritative DNS nameservers for .uk.
I am regularly seen at industry meetings including UKNOF, LINX and RIPE, where I have recently become the co-chair of the Test Traffic Working Group.
John Lyons is an ISP Design Engineer for Thus PLC. He is part of a small team responsible for the design of the ISP network for Thus PLC / Demon Internet (AS2529, AS8546 and AS5587).
John has been working in the ISP industry since 1999 and has worked in various network engineering roles for ISPs in both the UK and Ireland. He co-founded the Irish Network Operators Group (IE-NOG) in 2005 and during his time at Magnet Networks represented the company as a board member of the Irish Neutral Internet Exchange (INEX).
Mike Hughes is Chief Technical Officer for London Internet Exchange (LINX), where he is responsible for the organisation's overall technical strategy, core infrastructure, and operational performance, specialising in high-speed metro ethernet platforms.
With over 10 years of industry experience, Mike has become involved in activities within the community as a regular participant at industry fora (such as NANOG and RIPE meetings), and is a co-chair of the RIPE European Internet Exchange Working Group, as well as being a member of the UKNOF programme committee. He also sits on the Customer Technical Advisory Council of Extreme Networks.
Mike holds a BSc in Transport Management from Aston University, Birmingham (where he first got his hands on IP and didn't look back).
Since graduating in Software Engineering I have been employed by various ISP and Telecommunication companies in the UK and I have also carried out some contracting work for some US based Internet Service Providers. For the past 10 years I worked at COLT Telecom Group PLC in a number of roles including Director of Network Architecture responsible for Network Engineering and Product Development for COLT's services. I have also been an elected Non-Executive director of the London Internet Exchange Ltd for the past 5 years. I am currently also studying at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rob Evans is a Principal Network Engineer with the JANET NOSC at ULCC in London. He is part of the team responsible for the operation, management and development of JANET, the network linking the academic institutions in the UK to each other and the internet.
Prior roles have involved the management of TEN-155, which connected the research and education networks of Europe to each other and the wider world. Before that he was involved with management of campus networks, email, and UNIX systems since SunOS 3 and AIX 2.
I am currently a consultant (NetTek Ltd) specialising in Internet and telecoms strategy. I was in full-time employment with THUS until March 2005 (from March 1995) as Head of Product Futures with overall responsibility for evaluating and providing technical insight into future technologies (both in the Internet and voice/data areas) and how they could be utilised in the development of new products and services. I also owned THUS's product roadmap.
Prior to joining THUS, I held the position of Internet Consultant at Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd (BT Cellnet/O2). I hold a BSc in Microelectronics and Information Processing, and am a member of the IEE, BCS, IEEE (US), and a Fellow of the Royal Institution.
The Programme Committee's remit is to solicit interesting speakers and presentations, and to oversee the governance and secretariat of UKNOF.