Program Committee

The Program Committee (PC) is responsible for the programs at all NANOG meetings and events. To be eligible to be appointed as a member of the PC, an individual must have attended one NANOG conference within the prior calendar year (12 months), and be a member in good standing.

Broad technical knowledge of Internet operations and familiarity with NANOG meetings are useful attributes. A strong candidate should have experience with NANOG through meeting attendance, meeting presentations, and have been an active member of the NANOG mailing list for a minimum of 3 years. Having constructive opinions and ideas about how NANOG meetings might be improved is of high value. A willingness to recruit presentations for each meeting is required.

Support NANOG strategy/goals:

Build unified branding and messaging in regards to NANOG’s unique position and community.
Develop mutually rewarding agreements with sponsors and presenters.
Maintain a sense of community and accessibility at conferences and in archived materials.
Develop and deploy a portfolio of programs, events, and resources that meet the broad range of members.

Deliverables:

Responsible for recruiting a minimum of 3 talks per calendar year.
Required to attend 75% of all scheduled PC calls.
Expected to attend 66% of all NANOG meetings over the course of their two-year term.
Serve as an agenda moderator twice over the course of their two-year term.
PC members are expected to volunteer up to 10 hours in the 12 weeks leading up to a meeting, and an additional 24 hours all year round.

Measures of success:

Number of talks recruited per year.
Participation in NANOG meeting PC planning calls.
Solicitation and voting of presentation submissions.
Meeting registration.

Current Program Committee Members

Position	Term Ends	Name
Chair	2020-02-28	Vincent Celindro Dell EMC Networking
Vice Chair	2021-02-28	Steve Feldman CBS Interactive Bio Steve Feldman has been involved in computer networking since 1978. He has worked in software development and network engineering for Tymnet and MFS/Worldcom, where he was the principal architect for the MAE Internet exchanges. Since then, he has gone on to work for several startups and acted as an independent consultant, and is now a network engineer for CBS Interactive (formerly CNET Networks). He was also chair of the NANOG Program Committee from 2005 through 2007. Steve received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Secretary	2020-02-28	Cat Gurinsky Apple Bio Cat Gurinsky is a network engineer at Apple working on global large scale datacenter deployments. In previous network engineering roles at Valparaiso University, Switch & Data, and Equinix she has worked on everything from enterprise and wireless deployments to internet exchanges and data centers. She first started working in network engineering in 2007 and began attending NANOG in 2009. Cat has previously served NANOG as part of the Development Committee from 2011-2012. Cat has a passion for BGP, Python, network tools, automation and anything that can help make life easier in large scale networks.
Hackathon Committee	2020-02-28	Michael Costello Netflix
Outreach Committee	2020-02-28	Edward Winstead Internet Systems Consortium
Member	2021-02-28	Jeff Bartig Internet 2 Bio Jeff Bartig is a Senior Network Engineer and Architect in the WAN Engineering group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jeff’s focus since he joined the group in 1995 has been the University’s external connectivity and backbone engineering for WiscNet, Wisconsin’s research and education network. Jeff served as WiscNet’s lead engineer and peering coordinator until earlier this year. Jeff was involved with the creation of Wisconsin’s first peering exchange, MadIX.
Member	2021-02-28	Tom Beecher Yahoo/Verizon Media Group
Member	2020-02-28	Jason Bothe Invesco
Member	2020-02-28	Michaela Clifford Netflix
Member	2021-02-28	Adam Davenport GTT Communications
Member	2021-02-28	Greg Hankins Nokia Bio Greg Hankins has been attending NANOG since 1998, first as a network operator and now as a hardware vendor. He also attends APRICOT, Euro-IX, various Peering Forums, RIPE, and regional operator conferences where he frequently speaks on network technology and operational topics. Greg currently works as a Senior Product Line Manager for Nokia. In this role he works with service providers and Internet exchanges around the world as a product specialist, and he’s an active member of the network operator and peering community. His combined operator, customer, and vendor background give him a unique global view on current issues, topics and trends in the network operator community. In a past life, he organized four Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) conferences, hosted NANOG 21, served on the 1998 FREENIX and 1999 O'Reilly Open Source conference program committees, and served on the Linux Journal magazine advisory board. Term ends October 2013.
Member	2020-02-28	Tom Kacprzynski VidScale
Member	2021-02-28	Alex Latzko ServerCentral Turing Group
Member	2021-02-28	Hossein Lotfi Tesuto
Member	2021-02-28	Steve Meuse Kentik
Member	2020-02-28	Ognian Mitev Charter Communications
Member	2021-02-28	Nagendra Kumar Nainar Cisco
Member	2020-02-28	Chris Pennisi Global Cloud Xchange
Member	2020-02-28	Rekha Rawat Cisco
Member	2021-02-28	Brad Raymo StackPath Bio Brad Raymo is currently the Director of Peering Strategy at StackPath where he is primarily focused on Peering and Interconnection Strategy. Prior to this, Brad was at Yahoo where he was responsible for their Global Interconnection Strategy. His very first NANOG was NANOG52 in Denver and from that meeting he has tried to better the community. He previously served on the Nanog Communications Committee and has been a member of the Program Committee since 2016.
Member	2021-02-28	Matt Ringel Akamai Technologies
Member	2021-02-28	Kat Ronay Microsoft
Member	2020-02-28	Steven Schechter Akamai Technolgies Inc. Bio Steven Schecter is a Senior Network Architect at Akamai Technolgies Inc. Over the past 15 years, Steven has held engineering and architecture roles at Cablevision, Net Access, AboveNet, and Globix. He has extensive experience in ISP/access, Data Center, Eyeball networks, and CDNs. He most recently spent the past 6 years at Cablevision as a Senior Engineer within their strategy and technology (Office of the CTO) group. Steven began attending NANOG meetings in 1999.
Member	2021-02-28	Anna Valsami Telstra

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