Speakers

Adiel A. Akplogan is the Chief Executive Officer of AfriNIC, the Internet Numbers Resource Registry for Africa since 2004. With more than 15 years' experience in the Internet Technology environment, he previously worked as the New Technology Director at CAFENet (an IT service company based in Togo and one of the very first private and independent Internet Service Providers in the region - 1994-2000), then as the IT Director of Symbol Technologies in France (2001-2003). He was a member of the UN Secretary General Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisors Group from 2006 to early 2009 and was involved with the setting up of several technical coordination bodies in Africa such as the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) and the African ccTLD Managers Association (AfTLD). Adiel is an Electrical Engineer and holds a M.Sc. in E-Business and New Technology Management.

Hiroyuki Ashida has been in the broadband access technical field for 10 years. He is the access network operation/design engineer and manager of "its communications Inc", the biggest cable TV operator in Japan.

His work activities and interests include evaluation of Internet reachability, quality control of broadband access networks and IPv6 deployment for commercial CATV access network.

Fred Christopher is the manager of the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association and is currently working with communication providers, carriers, and regulators from the Pacific Islands in representing small islands issues, interests, and development in the field of communications.

Fred has been in the telecommunications industry in Fiji for over 20 years, with one year in the Federated States of Micronesia.

Edmon Chung is serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation and as Vice Chair for the Internet Society HK Chapter. Edmon is also an elected member of the Elections Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, an elected councillor of the ICANN GNSO Council, and Secretariat for the ICANN APRALO (Asia Pacific At-Large Organisation).

Since 2002, Edmon played a leadership role in the region-wide .Asia initiative, which brings together an open membership of 26 official country-code top-level domain authorities and regional Internet bodies.  DotAsia is a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote Internet development and adoption in Asia.  Since its launch in 2008, DotAsia has contributed significantly to a variety of community projects in Asia, including for example: OLPC.asia, Relief.Asia, CreativeCommons.Asia, ISIF.Asia, HKFilm100.Asia, NetMission.Asia and others.

Edmon is an inventor of patents underlying technologies for internationalized domain names (IDN) and email addresses on the Internet. He founded Neteka Inc. in partnership with the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation in 1999, and went on to win the Most Innovative Award in the Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurship Award in 2001. In 2000, Edmon was selected by The Globe and Mail as one of the Young Canadian Leaders.

Edmon has a Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Engineering from the University of Toronto, and is a PhD candidate at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Tina serves as Senior Director, IDNs, ICANN where she develops and manages all IDN-related projects. In particular, implementation of processes such as the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process and the new IDN gTLD Program that will enable deployment of internationalized top level domains.

Tina joined ICANN in 2003 as Chief gTLD Registry Liaison, where she was responsible for developing ICANN's gTLD Registry functions including defining, managing, and implementing processes in accordance with consensus policies and ICANN agreements for servicing the gTLD registries.

Prior to ICANN she worked with several companies in the DNS community, including ICANN-accredited registrar, Ascio Technologies (formerly known as SpeedNames) where she oversaw the launches of the .biz, .info, and .name top-level domains, and managed the development of all related internal and external products and product marketing materials. Prior to Ascio, Tina was Systems Architecture Engineer at Navision Software a/s, establishing the architecture design of the company's next generation of products.

Tina holds a Master of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Aalborg University in Denmark and a BBA in Marketing Management and International Trade from Copenhagen Business School.

Roland Dobbins has nearly a quarter-century of operational experience in the service provider (SP) and large enterprise arenas, designing, deploying, operating, securing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and defending many of the highest-visibility networks in the world.  He is a recognized industry leader in the fields of operational security (opsec) and network telemetry, and has an extensive background in security product/feature innovation, devising operational security requirements for network infrastructure devices, and protocol design. His focus is on extending the availability, scalability, and security of the network infrastructure and the applications/services it enables, with an emphasis on flexible and resilient global service delivery capabilities.

Liu Dong is currently CEO and President of the Beijing Internet Institute and BII Group Holdings Ltd. He co-founded the China Internet Society and also serves as a Board member. He also founded and is Chair of the Z-Park NGI (Next Generation Internet) Industry Alliance, and from 2008 was the Chair of the IEEE Green IT Working Group. He is a Board member and Fellow of the IPv6 Forum, Chair of the China IPv6 Council and from 2009, was a member of the Information Industry Development 12th Five Year Program Working Group. He has also held an Advisory position with the ICANN Government Advisory Community of MII (Ministry of Information Industry).

Liu Dong has accumulated numerous awards and professional honours including the IPv6 Internet Pioneer Award, granted by Dr Vint Cerf on behalf of the Global IPv6 Forum in 2004; the Top 100 Elite, granted by SINA.COM (China's largest portal) in 2005; the Z-Park Innovative Enterprise Top 100, granted by the Beijing Municipal Government, China Science and Technology Ministry, China Academy of Science in 2007; the Scientific Olympic Pioneer Award of the IPv6 Surveillance System R&D, granted by the Beijing Olympic Organization Committee in 2008 and the "Most Influential Person in Z-Park 20 Anniversary", awarded by the Beijing Municipal government, also in 2008.

Christian Dwinantyo currently works as a Network Operation Manager in D-NET, an ISP in Jakarta, Indonesia. His job includes managing Network Operations and he is responsible for Infrastructure Development. He started his career as a systems engineer in 2002, and in 2006, he and his team designed and implemented the IPv6 Network at D-NET. He is also a member of the APJII IPv6 Task Force, which provides training about IPv6 transition in Indonesia.

Dr. Hong Xue is a Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for the Internet Policy & Law at Beijing Normal University. She is Research Fellow of Information Society Project of Yale Law School. Previously, she was the Associate Professor of Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Dr. Xue specializes in intellectual property law, information technology law and the Internet governance. Dr. Xue was elected as one of the Ten Nationally Distinguished Young Jurists by the China Law Society and granted the Special Governmental Allowance for prominent contribution to social science by the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. She was also the awardee of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong.

After serving as a founding member of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee for four years (2003-2007), she was appointed on the ICANN Presidents Advisory Committee on Internationalized Domain Names, Nomination Committee and Fellowship Selection Committee. She is one of the founders of the Internet Users Organization in the Asia-Pacific Region. She is the only Asian Scholar in the Executive Committee of the International Association for Promotion of the Advanced Teaching and Research of Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and the Editorial Board of World Intellectual Property Journal.

Bill Huang is the General Manager of China Mobile Research Institute. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and CTO of UTStarcom, Inc.

Bill Huang has been a new technology advocate for the Telecom industry with over 23 years of work experience in the development of key communication technologies. He has in-depth experience and striking thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching system, IP media streaming, GEPON system, Multi-service Softswitch, and Operation Support System, as well as Value Added Services.

Mr. Huang holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois.

Miss Huang has been engaged in large-scale network designing and services carrying. She is currently focused on IPv6 deployment work with China Telecom, including network access, core networks, service platforms and support systems. During the progress of IPv6 evolution, Miss Huang and her colleagues will keep researching and carrying out the policies regarding IPv6 transition.

Geoff Huston is the Chief Scientist at APNIC, where he undertakes research on topics associated with Internet infrastructure, IP technologies and address distribution policies. From 1995 to 2005 Geoff was the Chief Internet Scientist at Telstra, where he provided a leading role in the construction and further development of Telstra's Internet service offerings, both in Australia and as part of Telstra's global operations. Prior to Telstra, Mr Huston worked for the Australian National University, where he lead the initial construction of the Internet in Australia in the late 1980's as the Technical Manager of the Australian Academic and Research Network.

He is the author of a number of books on IP technology and has authored numerous papers and columns. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1999 until 2005 and served as its Executive Director from 2001 to 2005. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force, where he currently chairs two Working Groups. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society from 1992 until 2001, and served a term as Chair of the Board in 1999. He has served on the Board of the Public Internet Registry and also on the Executive Council of APNIC. He chaired the Internet Engineering and Planning Group from 1992 until 2005.

Seiichi Kawamura is a network engineer at NEC BIGLOBE Ltd, an ISP based in Japan. Since 2007 he has served as a Steering Committee member of the Japan Network Operators' Group (JANOG) and is also an active participant in open policy meetings in the JPNIC community.

Dr. John C. Klensin is now an independent consultant following a distinguished career as Internet Architecture Vice President at AT&T, Distinguished Engineering Fellow at MCI WorldCom, and Principal Research Scientist at MIT.

He served on the Internet Architecture Board from 1996-2002 and was its Chair from 2000 until the end of his term. Earlier, he served as IETF Area Director for Applications and was Chair, Co-chair, and/or Editor for IETF Working Groups focused on messaging and IETF process issues.

He was involved in the early procedural and definitional work for domain name system (DNS) administration and top-level domain definitions and was part of the committee that worked out the transition of DNS-related responsibilities between USC-ISI and what became the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He has taken an active role in the design and mechanisms for internationalization of the Domain Name System and email addressing. He also served ICANN as the IETF's Liaison to the Board from 2003-2005, a member of the Nominating Committee in 2006, and in several other capacities.

Prior to coming to MCI in mid-1994, he was INFOODS Project Coordinator for the United Nations University and, before that, was at MIT for nearly 30 years, holding Principal Research Scientist appointments in several departments including Architecture, the Center for International Studies, and the Laboratory of Architecture and Planning.

For most of the years at MIT, he was involved in advanced research and other work in computer applications to the social and policy sciences and in statistical and scientific database management.

Those efforts extended into fields as diverse as contact networks and political communications, especially the reach and influence of international mass media; policy and taxation analysis; computer applications in architecture and city planning including the design of image databases; and research in automatic indexing, text analysis, and other areas of information retrieval.

Dr. Klensin is a Fellow of the ACM, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the American Statistical Association and the International Association for Statistical Computing.

Markus Kummer is the Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat supporting the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Previously he headed the Secretariat of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG).

From 2002 until 2004 he held the position as eEnvoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne. Mr. Kummer was a member of the Swiss delegation during the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) where he chaired several negotiating groups, including the group on Internet governance.

He is a career diplomat who served in several functions in the Swiss Foreign Ministry.

Ji-Young Lee is a systems engineer at KRNIC. She received her B.S. degree in computer science from Ewha Womans University, Korea, in 2003, and her M.S. in computer science from Ewha Womans University, Korea, in 2005. Since 2004, she has worked for the Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC) of the Korea Internet and Security Angency( KISA).

Dr Xiaodong Lee is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC) and is the official technical contact of ".CN". Dr Lee has more than 10 years' experience on the internationalized Internet. After receiving his ?PhD on computer architecture from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he joined CNNIC to be a group leader for the R&D team on Chinese Domain Names (CDN). The CDN system has been one of the leading IDN systems in the world. Dr Lee is also active in the IETF and contributed to RFC3743 and was the co-author RFC4713. He is now the constructor of the IANA ".CN" Chinese character variant table and is the Co-chair of the IETF EAI working group.

Martin Levy has been involved in the TCP/IP world since the publication of those first TCP/IP RFCs. Born and educated in England, Martin moved to the United States to work as a software developer at the prestigious Bell Labs. It was at Bell Labs that he ran their first TCP/IP network-enabled UNIX computers. After seven years in New Jersey, Martin moved to California and joined the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial-life to continue his focus on networking software and systems. When the ISP industry started to take root in the early 1990s, it was a natural industry for Martin move into. Since then, Martin has been building networks in California, the US, Europe and Latin America. Since joining Hurricane Electric in early 2008, Martin has taken on the role of significantly expanding the Hurricane Electric IPv6 commercial offerings, including its expansion into Asia. Martin Levy is a regular speaker at various worldwide Internet-related conferences.

Xing Li received his B.S. degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University, USA in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research activities and interests include statistical signal processing, multimedia communication and compute networks. He has published more than 200 papers in his research areas.

He is the deputy director of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) Center, working on the design and operation of the CERNET and China Next Generation Internet (CNGI-CERNET2) projects. He is also the project director of TEIN2 NOC. He is co-Chair of CCIRN. He was a member of the Communication Expert Committee of the China National '863' High Technology Project. He was a former chairman of the Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) and a former member of Executive Council of APNIC.

Andy Linton has been involved in networking for over 25 years, working at universities in New Zealand, Australia and England and ISPs such as AARNet, connect.com.au, Telstra, Telecom NZ and CityLink. He now works for Victoria University of Wellington teaching Network Engineering.

In the past, Andy has served on the board of Public Interest Registry which manages the .org domain and on the council of InternetNZ. He is currently a Director of the .nz Domain Name Commission that manages and sets the policies for the .nz namespace and a trustee of the NZNOG Trust that oversees the NZ Network Operators Group annual meeting.

Echo Liu is a systems engineer for WANDL Inc, a network management and planning software Solutions Company. Based in Beijing, Echo supports carriers and ISPs in the APAC region.

Her rich, practical experience and insight is a result of handling operations and planning issues for real mixed-vendor network infrastructures deploying the latest in network technology trends. Some of Echo's areas of interest include MPLS Traffic Engineering, MPLS VPN, Fast Reroute, and BGP.

In his career in the United Kingdom and Australia, George Michaelson has pursued academic and government research in computer science, networking, and systems administration including technical group and systems management.

He is currently the senior research and development specialist at APNIC. George has recently been working on long-baseline DNS statistics, services log audit and analysis, and design of the Resource Certification framework. George is a member of the BCS (British Computer Society), and a founding member of the Australian chapter of the Internet Society.

Madame Hu Qiheng is Chairwoman of the ISC, Vice President of the China Association for Science and Technology, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Chair of the Steering Committee for CNNIC. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee for state informatization. Prior to joining ISC, she served as Deputy General and General Secretary, then as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Science. She has worked for the Institute of Automation, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a research assistant, associate research professor, and research professor, then as Director of the Institute for 26 years. Since the 1990s, Madame Hu Qiheng has been in charge of the development and research of a World Bank-Loan Project, NCFC (the National Computing Facility in Zhong Guan Cun Area) and she played an important role in promoting the Internet of China link to the USA. Madame Hu Qiheng graduated from the Department of Automation at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machinery, where she received her associate doctor's degree in 1963. She has been a visiting research professor of Case Western Reserve University, USA, from 1980 to 1982.

James Seng is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore and is recognized as an international expert in the Internet arena. He gave regular speeches at various forums on several Internet issues such as IDNs, VoIP, IPv6, Spam, OSS and Internet governance issues. James also participates actively in several standard organizations (such as ISO/IEC JTC1 and IETF) and also served on the boards/committees of several Internet organizations.

Philip Smith joined Cisco Systems in January 1998. He is a member of the Internet Architectures Group of Consulting Engineering, reporting into the Office of the CTO. His role includes working with many ISPs in the Asia Pacific region and the rest of the world, specifically in network strategies, design, technology, and operations, as well as helping with network configuration and scaling. He is also involved in training ISP engineers, co-founded the Cisco ISP Workshop Program, and provides ISP training at conferences and other networking forums around the world. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (now part of UUNET's global ISP business), the UK's first commercial ISP. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK and played a key role in building the modern Intenet in Europe. Philip holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has a First-Class Honours Degree in Physics. He lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Takeshi Tomochika is a manager of IP network development. He is in charge of engineering and designing OCN, the largest ISP in Japan, operated by NTT Communications Corporation.

After graduating from the Graduate School of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1995, he was involved in the startup of OCN in 1996. From 1997 until 2000, he expanded OCN, developed new services, helped large OCN customers' network development as a consultant, and took part in the startup of the IP-VPN service. He designed the first worldwide commercial IPv6 network from 2001 to 2002. After 16 months study in the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he participated in IPv6 development at the R&D department from 2004 until 2006. Since 2006, he has been at his present post.

Katsuyasu Toyama is general manager of the technology department of JPNAP / INTERNET MULTIFEED CO., an exchange point service operated by the Internet Multifeed Co in Japan. He was involved in the establishment of the company in 1997, and there he designed JPNAP's network and services in 2000. After six years of research activity in NTT Laboratories, he returned to JPNAP again in 2007. His current interests focus on bridging network operations and network research.

Lucy has more than 10 years' experience in the Internet and online marketing industry. While obtaining her BA and MBA degrees, as well as Australian NATII Level Three Translator certificate in Sydney, she worked in the New South Wales Parliament, Australia as a consultant of Asian Affairs to many MPs. In 2000, as one of the key members of the management team in BMCMedia (a publicly-listed company in Australia), Lucy participated, as the sole agent, in the management and promotion of the official site of the Sydney Olympic Games, for which she was also invited to be the online marketing adviser for BOCOG in 2008.

Lucy also has a track record in commercial operations. She has been the CEO of BMCMedia China, General Manager for Sinocredit in CIECC, and the CEO of U-Media etc. She was also one of the founders of Brightmedia, which was consolidated into FrameMedia and was acquired by Focusmedia (publicly-listed in the Nasdaq) in 2005.

Lucy's is also enthusiastically associated with commonwealth and commercial exchange across different cultures. She was elected as the Secretary-general for the Australian-Chinese Business Association. Her auto-biography "Blood Price" was nominated for the "Australian Prize for Human Rights" in 1996. In June 2009, Lucy was assigned as the Co-Secretary-general of the Chinese Domain Name Consortium.

Doctor Mao Wei graduated from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was a visiting scholar at Maryland University in the USA in 2002. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of CNNIC, and Trustee of the 2nd China Communications Standards Association. He also served as Number Council Commissioner for the NRO and Address Council Commissioner for the ASO in 2006. Due to his lead, country-code top level domain ".CN" registration ranks at fourth in the world. He took the lead in extending research into the Internet statistics field, whilst taking part in constituting a number of RFC standards as one of China's pioneers. He also directed a number of national Internet research projects in China.

In October 2006, Registration and Administration Recommendations for Chinese Domain Names, to which Doctor Mao contributed as chief author, was adopted by the IETF, and coded as RFC4713.In July 2005, Doctor Mao was approved to establish the IMA@ietf.org mail-list and successfully sponsored the IETF (EAI WG) conference for Internationalized eMail Addresses in Beijing. In March 2004, Doctor Mao, as chief director, co-established the "Joint Engineering Team Guideline for Internationalized Domain Names Registrations and Administration for Chinese, Japanese and Korean", coded as RFC3743 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

In 2002, Doctor Mao gained a world-wide reputation, for his effort in successfully sponsoring the Shanghai ICANN meeting. Since 2000, Chinese Domain Name services, launched by Doctor Mao, have been benefitting over 100 million Chinese Internet citizens. In 1997, Doctor Mao founded the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) as president of CNNIC. In 1994 Doctor Mao, as chief technician, participated in the establishment of the China Science and Technology Network (CSTNet), which is broadly believed to be the beginning of Chinese Internet development.

Ms. Zhang Jian is Director of International Development department at CNNIC，focusing on International developments on both business and policy research aspects. Since her joining CNNIC, she helped CNNIC to develop a new global channel for .CN domain name and to consolidate members of Chinas IP address allocation alliance.

Ms. Zhang Jian keeps an actively involved in the international community. She was elected as a member of APNIC executive council early this year. Apart from that, she also serves on the APTLD board and ccNSO Council of ICANN. She is an enthusiastic advocate of IDN ccTLD fast-track. Ms. Zhang Jian holds Master degree in Computer Sciences in the USA. Her previous work experiences include GTE Internetworking, Nextel Communications and Cisco Systems in the USA. She is an expert on ICT and also a good cross-cultural communicator.

Zhao Wei received her Master degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Nottingham. Wei Zhao joined China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC) in 2007. Currently she is the leader of IP group. Zhao Wei is in charge of IP address allocation, policy researching and external community liaison.