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 Leadership
Position |
Name |
Term Ends |
Chair |
Cat Gurinsky
Apple Inc.
|
2024 |
Cat Gurinsky is a senior 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.
|
Vice Chair |
Stevan Plote
Plote & Associates |
2025 |
Secretary |
Chris Woodfield
DriveNets |
2024 |
Program Director |
Valerie Wittkop
NANOG |
Staff position |
Current Program Committee Members
Position |
Name |
Term Ends |
Member |
Melchior Aelmans
Juniper |
2024 |
Member |
Kam Agahian
Oracle |
2025 |
Kam Agahian is a Cloud Computing, Networks and Systems leader, Certified Fitness Trainer, and author with over 24 years of experience managing or advising global high-performance teams. Over the years, Kam has worked for Oracle Cloud, Amazon, Cisco Systems and Qualcomm. Among many other certifications, he holds two CCIEs (now emeritus 2X, #25341) in Service provider and Routing and Switching. Over the years Kam has published many blogs on a wide range of topics including Fitness and his most recent project is his book on advanced networking scenarios in the cloud. Furthermore, he has given talks 4 times at NANOG 76, NANOG 77, NANOG 85 and NANOG 87- And still is interested in ideas around those topics including cloud migration/adoption, service provider backbone designs, all the way to bringing fairness to the interview processes for network engineers.
|
Member |
Aaron Atac
Akamai |
2024 |
Member |
Phil Bedard
Cisco |
2025 |
Member |
Jason Bothe
Moody’s Corporation |
2024 |
Member |
Dan Chioreanu
Apple |
2025 |
Member |
Kate Gerry
NetActuate, Inc |
2024 |
Kate Gerry, Director of Networking at NetActuate, balances a thriving career with a fulfilling personal life. With a past interest in horse training, she now enjoys gardening and home improvement projects at her New Hampshire residence, which she shares with her Chihuahua, Abby, the Datacenter Dog. Kate appreciates the lifelong friendships she's formed through the NANOG community. Her dedication to both work and personal growth showcases her well-rounded nature and passion for continuous development.
|
Member |
Mikael Holmberg
Extreme Networks |
2025 |
Mikael Holmberg is a Distinguished Systems Engineer - Chief Architect and member of the CTO office at Extreme Networks. He is an experienced professional in networking architectures and technologies including cloud, who has worked in the industry for over 30 years.
|
Member |
Marcus Holt
JMF Solutions |
2025 |
Member |
Manish Krishnan
Google |
2024 |
Member |
John Kristoff
NETSCOUT |
2024 |
John is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago studying under
the tutelage of Chris Kanich. He is a principal analyst at NETSCOUT on the ATLAS Security
Engineering and Response Team (ASERT). John is also adjunct faculty in the College of Computing
and Digital Media at DePaul University. He currently serves as a research fellow at ICANN, sits
on the NANOG program committee, and operates DataPlane.org.
|
Member |
Nimrod Levy
AT&T |
2025 |
Member |
Marlin Martes
Amazon Web Services |
2025 |
Member |
Fearghas McKay
FLEXOPTIX GmbH |
2024 |
Member |
Sergey Myasoedov
NetArt Group |
2025 |
Member |
Charles Rumford
Deft |
2025 |
Member |
James Shank
SpyCloud |
2024 |
Member |
Mike Starr
trackd |
2024 |
Member |
Adair Thaxton
Internet2 |
2025 |
Member |
Steve Ulrich
Arista Networks |
2024 |
steve ulrich is a senior networking dork in the cloud group at arista networks where for the past 4 years he has spent his days (and nights) working with arista's cloud customers to deploy new (and sometimes not so new) networking technologies and platforms. prior to arista, he spent 4 years at juniper networks in a similarly dorkish capacity within the web services group and prior to that 13 years as yet another dork for cisco working in the web services and service provider groups. steve has been attending NANOGs for nearly 20 years and is serving his first term on the program committee. prior to that he has served on the election committee. he appreciates, high-quality documentation, automating all the things, beer and not having to repeat the same mistakes but having the opportunity to make all new mistakes.
|
Member |
Michael Voity
University of Vermont |
2025 |
Michael Voity is a skilled and dedicated network engineer at the University of Vermont with 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex network infrastructures. With a passion for technology and a strong background in networking protocols and systems, throughout his career, in the private, public and higher education sectors, Michael has demonstrated proficiency in network planning, configuration, and troubleshooting. He possesses in-depth knowledge of routing and switching technologies, firewall and security solutions, and network monitoring tools. He is adept at analyzing network performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing effective solutions to enhance overall efficiency and reliability. Outside of work Michael enjoys spending time with his 3 kids as well as volunteering at a local rescue squad where he is an EMT for the past 23 years. Michael is also a member of the State of Vermont Urban Search and Rescue, VT-TF1, team were he is a squad leader for the Information Technology and communications division of the team.
|
Member |
Les Williams
Amazon Web Services |
2025 |