BalticNOG News

Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim is Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Arista Networks, where he leads advanced AI, silicon, and optics initiatives. He previously co-founded Sun [...]

Paulius Judickas is Vice President of Strategic Alliances at IPXO and Chairman of the Board at BalticNOG. He leads global growth initiatives and oversees [...]

Vincentas Grinius is co-founder of IPXO and President of BalticNOG. With more than 15 years of experience in internet infrastructure, he has built a [...]

Andrejs Tihanovs is Technical Product Manager at RETN in Riga. He joined RETN four years ago as a network engineer and moved into the [...]

Sander has been involved in the internet since 1995, when he helped a friend start a small ISP. He was a founding board member [...]

Ben Cartwright-Cox is a Systems Engineer by day and a bad-ideas blogger on the side. After building a WAF, helping operate a large CDN, [...]

Braijens Staskevics is a Systems Engineer with hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable, secure SD-WAN solutions. He's skilled in network security and infrastructure optimization, [...]

Thomas Graf is Distinguished Network Engineer and Network Analytics Architect at Swisscom. He's been with service providers since 1997 and rediscovered networks in 2015 [...]

Kaj Kjellgren is Senior Peering Consultant at DE-CIX, focusing on global peering and interconnection, particularly in the Nordic market. He has more than 25 [...]

Mark Coleman is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of NetBox Labs, the company behind NetBox, the widely used open-source network source of truth. He [...]

Aleksi Suhonen first got on the internet in 1987. He started working with ISPs and IXPs in 1997 and founded TREX in 2002. He [...]

Branimir Rajtar is CTO and co-founder of 5x9 Networks, where he focuses on the design and development of software-based broadband networking platforms. He has [...]

Scott Fisher is Senior Principal Engineer at Team Cymru, where he focuses on threat intelligence, DDoS activity, botnets, and abuse of internet infrastructure. His [...]

Mikael Holmberg is one of the few Distinguished Engineers at Extreme Networks and a member of the company's Office of the CTO. He is [...]

Marco Schmidt is Manager of Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. He oversees the registration and maintenance of Internet number resources across the RIPE [...]

Zachary Smith is CEO of Datum, where he builds open, interconnected infrastructure for the next generation of cloud and AI platforms. He has spent [...]

Ieva Muraškienė is Strategy and Policy Officer at NORDUnet and a member of the Polar Connect Executive Team, contributing to one of Europe's most [...]

Steve Crocker is CEO and President of the Edgemoor Research Institute (ERI), which develops and analyses proposed and existing policies around the collection of [...]

Lasse Jarlskov is Peering Manager at Telia Company, a long-time expert on peering and interconnection, and an advocate for BGP routing security. At BalticNOG [...]

Kirils Solovjovs is a privacy activist and Latvia's leading white-hat hacker. He began programming at age 7, and by grade 9 was already writing [...]

Thomas Holterbach is a computer networks researcher currently building bgproutes.io, a platform for collecting, monitoring, and analysing BGP routing data. He received his PhD [...]

Kamil Szczepański leads international wholesale business at Orange Polska S.A. A growth-driven telecom leader with two decades of experience, he combines commercial, operational, and [...]

Yolandi Cloete is Interconnection Community and Academy Manager at DE-CIX, a leading global internet exchange operator. Drawing on more than a decade of experience [...]

Andreas Glatz has worked in optical networking since 2022. He started in pre-sales engineering for DWDM transport systems, spending around two years working with [...]

Alexander Krizhanovsky is CEO of Tempesta Technologies and the architect of Tempesta's open-source, full-stack DDoS protection and bot management platform. That includes Tempesta xFW [...]

Livio Morina is an electronic and computer engineer with nearly two decades of experience in telecommunications. Since 2010, he has led Airbeam, a regional [...]

After an unforgettable debut in Vilnius, the Baltic network operator community is taking its next big step. BalticNOG 2026 will take place on September [...]

Dmytro Shypovalov is a network engineer and founder of Vegvisir Systems. He built Traffic Dictator, a multi-vendor SR-TE controller, and works on practical tools [...]

The BalticNOG 2026 Program Committee is in place and is now reviewing proposals. This is the group that shapes what you will see on [...]

After an unforgettable debut in Vilnius last autumn, BalticNOG is on the move. We're thrilled to announce that BalticNOG 2026 will take place on [...]