Mina Iscandar
Speaker
As a seasoned Executive Leader with 18 years of experience, I drive results for global Fortune companies in the cloud, telecommunications, and technology sectors. I am a people-focused leader who excels at fostering relationships with customers, business leaders, and partners to deliver on key initiatives. I’ve led diverse teams across Project Management, Engineering, Operations, and Customer-Facing organizations, overseeing projects and initiatives with budgets in the hundreds of millions. By leveraging automation and process efficiency, I’m able to increase delivery speed and reduce human error. My passion lies in mentoring and developing the next generation of leaders, helping them grow and succeed.
Joachim Opdenakker
Speaker
I am dedicated to designing and deploying carrier-grade infrastructure. Currently steering network engineering and architecture at SURF. My expertise in Peering, MPLS, Ethernet VPN and automation drives the development of the robust IP backbone. The team’s success is powered by collaborative efforts in engineering, change management and automation, which are essential components of our cutting-edge services. During my QA Internship at Nokia, I acquired a solid foundation in network monitoring tools and a hands-on approach to network operating system quality assurance. My prior role as a Network Development Engineer at AWS honed my competencies in change management and working with deployment pipelines. My current focus remains on leveraging open-source solutions and advanced networking protocols to ensure superior connectivity and security.
Edet Nkposong
Speaker
Edet Nkposong is a Partner Engineering Manager at Microsoft Azure, where he leads the Azure Networking Device Health team. With over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and operating networks, Edet is a recognized expert in data center networking, with specialized skills spanning network automation, network security implementation, performance optimization, and technical infrastructure design. He actively leverages AI-driven approaches to enhance network performance and reliability across Azure’s global infrastructure. His core responsibility is ensuring the health and availability of Microsoft’s hyperscale data center network. Edet’s technical work focuses on network observability, anomaly detection, and automated mitigation at scale.
Christophe Diot
organizer
Christophe Diot received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from INP Grenoble in 1991. Diot pioneered diffserv, single source multicast, epidemic communication, peer-to-peer online games, and most importantly Internet measurements. After INRIA (years 93-98 in Sophia Antipolis), Diot spent his career in industry, building R&D labs at Sprint (Bay area), INTEL Research (Cambridge), and Technicolor (Paris and Palo Alto). He was the Chief Scientist at Technicolor between 2009 and 2015. He helped launch Safran Analytics as their CTO before joining GOOGLE in june 2018 as Principal Engineer in the Network Architecture team. At GOOGLE, Diot deals with telemetry at scale in the cloud infrastructure. Since January 2020, Diot is the Technical Lead of the Network Analytics team in the Google Global Networks organization. Diot has around 40 patents and more than 300 publications in major conferences and journals. He is an ACM fellow.
Cristel Pelsser
organizer
Cristel Pelsser holds a chair in critical embedded systems at UCLouvain. From 2015 to 2022 she was a full professor at the University of Strasbourg (France) where she led a team of researchers focusing on core Internet technologies. She spent nine years as a researcher working for ISPs in Japan. Her aim is to facilitate network operations, to avoid network disruptions and, when they occur, pinpoint the failures precisely in order to quickly fix the issues, understand them in order to design solutions to prevent recurrence. Cristel received the PhD degree from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium.