DENOG Programme Committe (PC)

Get in touch: pc @ lists.denog.de

Name	Affiliation
Florian Hibler	DENOG e.V. / Arista
Franziska Lichtblau [Co-Chair]	SAP SE
Kay Rechthien	Fastly Inc.
Moritz Frenzel	DENOG e.V. / Zayo Europe
Richard Hartmann	Grafana
Sebastian Becker [Co-Chair]	Deutsche Telekom
Stefan Wahl
Theo Voss	Inter.link
Tim Kleefass	DENOG e.V. / DE-CIX
Wolfgang Tremmel	DE-CIX

PC elections

Candidates

Jan Walzer

With over 15 years of network consulting experience, Jan Walzer has been an active member of the DENOG community since its inaugural conference in 2008. In 2011, he led and implemented a project for Worldwide IPv6 Day in the area of frontend servers at 1&1 Internet. For the past eight years, he has worked as a Cloud Architect with OpenStack and is currently at Red Hat advising large enterprise clients; his extensive experience enables him to analyze problems from outside the typical network sphere and offer fresh perspectives.

Theo Voss

I am interested in continuing my role in the DENOG Program Committee. Since 2019, I have been part of the PC and event team, and since 2022, I’ve taken on organizing the DENOG conference socials. I have been active in the Internet Community for over 10 years, co-founding “Community-IX,” a non-profit supporting Internet initiatives, and presenting at several industry conferences. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Inter.link, I focus on providing sustainable and innovative connectivity, pushing our community towards unchartered waters. I’d like to keep contributing to DENOG by supporting its events and programs with my experience and dedication to the community.

Arnold Nipper

Short Bio is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoldnipper/. And I want to make DENOG diverse in respect of older and impaired people.

Nico von Thadden

I’m Nicola von Thadden and also known as nicoduck. I build and run networks for fun and (not only) profit, I have been active at DENOG for many years now and also help with various other events like CCC Congress and multiple camps.

Sebastian Klamt

I’m currently working as a network architect at the GWDG, which is the university computing center for the University of Göttingen and a computing and IT competence center for the Max Planck Society. My work consists of planning, operating and automating data center and access networks, a small WAN and other network-related services, covering a wide range of topics.

Since attending DENOG 11 for the first time in 2019, I have really enjoyed the conferences and would like to contribute by working in the PC.

Alice Boeddinghaus

Alice is a Computer Science and Business student studying at the HTW Berlin. She is currently in the 5th Semester. She has been a part of the Network Community for two years having attended the last 4 RIPE meetings and many other community meetings in Berlin. The DENOG16 Meeting being her first DENOG Meeting. She enjoys hearing interesting talks and would like give back to the community by serving on the DENOG PC.

Expectations for PC members

What does the PC work entail? Essentially, the Denog Programme Committee (PC) is responsible for compiling the agenda of the upcoming Denog meeting and MeetUps to ensure an interesting, engaging, and a diverse programme. As a PC member you directly contribute to the success of the event.

1) Motivate others to contribute to DENOG As a PC member you should actively use your personal and professional networks to engage with potential presenters and bring great content to the next event. Often many people do not realize they could have interesting content to present or stories to share!

2) Rate and review presentation proposals After the call for presentations (CfP) is opened talk proposals start to arrive in our submission system (Pretalx). Every PC member is expected to review all proposals and leave a rating and comment to help us decide what to accept.

3) Participate in the PC calls After the first CfP deadline (about two months before the upcoming event) the PC chairs schedule a call in which the whole PC goes through all submissions and decides which ones to accept, which speakers to reach out to, etc. Depending of the number and quality of submissions there may be multiple calls. As a rough estimation you should make time for three calls of about 90 minutes.

4) Ideally, attend the upcoming DENOG Of course, as an active contributor to the upcoming event you should try to attend. Still, your plans may not allow you to join which is totally acceptable. Attending DENOG is not mandatory for being on the PC - you just miss the opportunity to see the agenda you’ve been helping to compile in action.

5) Help out as Video- or Stage Herald We are always looking for ‘Heralds’ to moderate and guide through the sessions during DENOG. If you don’t feel comfortable on stage you can also help as a Video Herald - please reach out the PC chairs and they will let you know the details.

Execution of the elections

Everyone has the opportunity to participate in voting for the DENOG PC. Each member of DENOG e.V. and each checked-in onsite attendee (excluding sponsors) will have three votes to distribute across all available candidates (up to one vote per candidate). Voting will open on DENOG Day 2 (Tuesday, November 19th 9am) and close after the conference on Friday, November 22nd 23:59. The elected PC members will be announced on the DENOG list the following week.

We will use the Voting tool OpaVote. You will receive the email from “OpaVote Voting Link noreply@opavote.com” with the subject “Vote for DENOG PC”.

Volunteering for the DENOG PC

If you are interested in helping to create the great programm for the upcoming DENOG events then you can do that by running for a seat on the PC. Please send an email with a picture and a short bio to pc@lists.denog.de. You can run for the PC until Monday November 18th 20:00 CET.