After obtaining a Doctoral degree in France, I returned to teach electrical engineering at Chulalongkorn University for 28 years. I then became an Election Commissioner for 4 years and a Registrar for 2 years at the Asian Institute of Technology. Since then I have been working at Mahidol University on Peace Building especially in the Far South of Thailand. I also serve in many civil society organisations including the THNIC Foundation as its chairman.

Dr.Jumpot Phuritatkul is Chief Technology Officer for Huawei Enterprise Thailand. Previously, he was CTO for Business Development, Ericsson Thailand. He has more than 15-year professional experiences in Technology, R&D, Product, Process, Business and Strategy Development for public and private ICT sectors such as Ericsson, Cisco, DETECON(Deutsche Telekom Consulting), France Telecom R&D Japan, National Institute of Informatics (NII), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Japan, and NECTEC. He obtained his PhD. from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies(Sokendai) in cooperation with National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

Philip Smith has been working in the Internet industry since the early 1990s after catching the Internet bug in the mid 1980s while at University. He runs his own consulting company, PFS Internet Development.

Philip spends some of his time working for the Network Startup Resource Centre as a Senior Network Engineer and Training Coordinator, assisting with Network Operations Groups coordination, and providing network design assistance and training around the Pacific, South and South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

He previously worked at APNIC as Learning and Development Director, where his team's responsibilities ranged from Training, APNIC Conferences and Events, Network Operations Group support, Technical Programmes such as IPv6 Deployment, Internet Exchange Points, and Rootname Server deployments, and the Information Society Innovation Fund grants programme.

Before APNIC, he was a member of the Internet Infrastructure Group in CTO Consulting Engineering of Cisco Systems for more than thirteen years. He also served for 3 years on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.

Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (incorporated into UUNET, and now part of Verizon's global ISP business), the UK's first commercial ISP, where he was Head of Network Engineering. As is common with startups in a rapidly growing marketplace, Philip gained deep experience in all of the engineering roles in an ISP, from support engineer, network operations, engineering, and development, before assuming responsibility for the entire UK network operation. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK, and he helped establish the LINX Internet Exchange Point in London and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Europe.

Over the last decade and a half, Philip has been actively involved in providing consultation and advice to ISPs primarily in the Asia Pacific region, but also to other providers around the world. He concentrates specifically on network strategies, design, technology, and operations, as well as configuration, scaling, and training. He has played a major role in training ISP engineers, co-founding the Cisco ISP/IXP Workshop programme, and providing ISP training and tutorials at many network operations events around the world, including NANOG, RIPE, APNIC, SANOG, MENOG, AfNOG, PacNOG and APRICOT conferences. His other key technology interests include IPv6, BGP, OSPF and IS-IS, and network performance and data analysis.

He has also been working to promote and develop the Internet in the entire Asia Pacific region and has been actively involved in bringing the Internet to some countries in the region. He also is actively involved in establishing Internet Exchange Points around the world, as well as advising on peering and inter-ISP relationships across the industry. He is Chair of the Board Directors of APIA (the Asia Pacific Internet Association), the organisation which organises and manages APRICOT, the region's annual ISP operations and technology conference and co-chair of APOPS (the region's ISP operational forum). Philip is also involved in the organisation committees of MENOG, SANOG and PacNOG, helps out with several country NOGs, and is a past chair and member of the NANOG Steering Committee (now NANOG Board).

Philip also has a particular research interest in the growth of the Internet and provides a detailed daily analysis of the IPv4 routing table, from an Asia Pacific perspective, to the general operator community worldwide.

Philip is a Doctor of Philosophy and has a First Class Honours Degree in Physics. A native of Scotland, he lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Prasong, a former Vice President of the Telecommunication of Thailand Association (under Royal Patronage). He started his careers at the IBM Thailand and was the Executive Director of NTT Communications (Thailand) focusing on New Business Development.

Mr. Martin J. Levy holds the Network Strategy position at Cloudflare, a global company based in San Francisco, California. Mr. Levy has been involved in the operational world of TCP/IP for more than 30 years. He’s also an active participant within the Internet Governance space.

Mr. Levy worked at the prestigious Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 80’s with work revolved around the early days of deploying TCP/IP, DNS and routing protocols. He has since worked on both early TCP/IP application development along with building global IP networks from the mid 90’s to mid 2000’s. Mr. Levy is mainly known for his dedication and pursuit of the unrelenting deployment of IPv6 within the global Internet. This is well documented online. In March 2014 he joined Cloudflare.

Mr. Levy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing and Cybernetics from the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK 1978). He was born in London, England and has traveled extensively throughout his life. He now resides in California and has done so for the nearly 30 years. He’s a dual citizen and holds both a UK & US passport.

Donny Chong, Product Director of Nexusguard. He is responsible for designing the company’s solutions for the enterprise. His broad ten year tenure includes both the technology and telecommunications industries. Chong designed the Nexusguard channel program and built the global product marketing practice. His insight and expertise has led the company to becoming one of the world’s most trusted DDoS defense products and solutions -- suitable for premium clients, SMEs and service providers.

Che-Hoo joins APNIC as Development Director starting April 2017. His responsibilities at APNIC include training, technical assistance, community outreach and engagement, policy development and security awareness.

Before APNIC, he was in charge of the operations of Hong Kong Internet eXchange (HKIX) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 1995 to 2000 and from 2007 to 2017. Besides, he has accumulated over 20 years of experience and knowledge of Internet infrastructure in Asia Pacific through services for APNIC Executive Council, his regional responsibility in Level 3 Asia and FLAG Telecom Asia, and his active participation in other AP Internet activities such as .ASIA TLD (Top Level Domain) application, APIX, APRICOT-APAN 2011 in Hong Kong and APAN 42 in Hong Kong.

Adisak Srinakarin received a M.SC. (GPA. 4.00) from Southern University in 1988. He earned his Ph.D. in Machine Learning in 1998 from Louisiana State University. In 2003, he joined Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. (formerly known as LinuxWorks) as a Senior Software Engineer responsible for integration and test of safety-critical Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) in DO-178B certification process. In 2008, he became the manager of Integration and Test(I/T) department responsible for releasing all Lynx products used in Aerospace & Defense, Avionics, Cyber Security, Industrial Control, Medical, Automotive, and Embedded System Development,. He joined Electronic Government Agency (EGA) in March 2016 as an Executive Vice President, after he had been in the US for 30 years.

Hurricane Electric AS6939 – 3 years
Director Interconnection Strategy – supporting the network to reach to over 33 counties and over 153 Internet Exchanges. Focus on Global connectivity.

Amazon AS16509 – 4 years
Developed IP Transit and Peering on five continents.
Primary focus on Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Philippines, Australia. Over 62 new CDN sites.

Microsoft AS8075 – 13 years
Developed IP Transit and Peering on four continents.
Primary focus on US, UE and South America.

As part of IDC Thailand’s consulting team, Tuang Cheevatadavirut is responsible for the management and delivery of custom research and consulting engagements with ICT end-users, vendors, channel players, and related organizations. He works closely with IDC’s research teams and global account managers on custom research and business intelligence assignments that explore the competitive market for ICT in Thailand and the ASEAN region. Tuang’s focus is on the application of ICT in industry verticals particularly manufacturing, retail, telecommunications and the public sector.

Prior to IDC, Tuang worked as a Systems Engineer responsible for monitoring business-critical systems at Thomson Reuters. After leaving Thomson Reuters, he took up a role of Management Consultant, and was involved in various projects for business process optimization and operations efficiency within several industries in the ASEAN region.

General Manager in infrastructure operations – 2 ​datacenters​ with over ​9,3​ 00 square meters, 3.​5​ Megawatts and ​1,400​ racks capacity

Certified Data Centre Expert​ (CDCE)​ , professional certification based on ANSI/TIA-942-A Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers

Over 10 years of International Telecommunication experience

Technical and operations expertise in two of Thailand’s premium Internet Service Providers – residential broadband and corporate segments

Andrew Sullivan has worked on Internet infrastructure and standards since 2001. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 2013 until 2017, and he was the IAB chair from 2015 to 2017. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa (1995) and an MA in Philosophy from McMaster University (1997). He lives in Toronto.

Andy Davidson is CTO of the Interconnection technology startup ‘Asteroid’. He has a specialist interest in automated network orchestration, and improving performance for end users with internet measurement and good peering decisions. He has built and operated internet exchange points and implemented network interconnection policies for peering networks for more than a decade. In addition to responsibilities at Asteroid, he is on the board of the European Internet Exchange Association, and two IXPs in the UK, LONAP and IXLeeds. He is also on the advisory council of NapAfrica.

Dion Leung is the VP of Business Development at Coriant, where his main focus is to consult and recommend connectivity solutions to data center providers, content and service providers across Asia Pacific region. Prior to Coriant, Dion was the Director of Solutions and Sales Engineering at BTI Systems (now Juniper), and he was responsible for managing regional resources and pre-sales and marketing activities via direct customer interactions. Dion is a frequent presenter at regional conferences such as SGNOG, MYNOG, HKNOG and APRICOT.

In the past, Dion held various roles in solutions management and product marketing at Tellabs, Cramer Systems in USA, and R&D engineering positions at TRLabs, PMC-Sierra and Nortel in Canada. Dion graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computing Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds several patents, was an author of 10+ technical publications in the area of optical networking, and was a technical program committee member of optical networking conferences such as OFC/NFOEC (USA) and DRCN (Europe).

Jesada Sivaraks received the B.E. degrees, in Telecommunications Engineering from KMITL, Thailand in 1990. He graduated M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Florida Atlantic University in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Working experience, he joined the military information department of Supreme Command Armed force in 1991-1994. In year 2001, he was the principal Engineer at Protura Wireless, Half Moon Bay, California with 3 patent pending at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). He involved various fields of wireless communication such as designing the antenna for mobile phone and setting the method of hand/head effect to mobile terminal.

He has joined to TOT as engineer of International Telecommunications. Also, he was one of the 3G Strategy Team in 2004-2007 and with the Wireless Business group at TOT. Now, he takes care of the business strategy of TOT’s Wireless business group. Moreover, he has been invited to be the special Guest speaker or instructor in various classes of Graduate students in many universities.

Now, he is the Secretary to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission Vice Chairman. As the regulator role, he is member of variety sub commission such as the sub commission of preparation for 2.1GHz Spectrum auction, the sub commission of preparation for 1800MHz Spectrum, the sub commission of mobile spectrum roadmap, the sub commission of framework of Thailand satellite licensing, etc..

Fakrul Alam Senior Training Officer Fakrul is responsible for the development and delivery of technical training to the APNIC community and works closely with network operating members in the Asia Pacific region. His specialist training areas include Routing & Switching, Network Architecture, Network Security & Management and Network Forensics. Prior to joining APNIC, Fakrul worked in Bangladesh for an IXP, an ISP and financial organizations. He has strong knowledge of, and operational experience in building and deploying scalable, reliable network infrastructure.

Kohei Kitade joined NTT 2004 after graduate from Kobe university in Japan. Currently he works as a Senior Architect for Network Technology at NTT Communications. He has extensive experience in developing network services for service providers and enterprises as well. He is responsible for developing the Internet backbone and services of global and the domestic IP networks for NTT. Especially in Asia, he has developed some POPs and services. And he worked for lots of Academic network also.

Aftab Siddiqui is associated with Internet Society as Technical Engagement Manager in the Asia Pacific region, he is also part of the Deploy 360 initiative. He role is to engage with network operators, enterprises, governments, developers, manufacturers of consumer electronics, and other diverse users to encourage deployment of new Internet technologies.

Before joining ISOC he was the Cheif Technologist of an Australian System Integrator, Eintellego Networks. He is based in Sydney, Australia. He is an active member of the internet community in the region.

You can reach out to him via email siddiqui@isoc.org or via Twitter @aftabsiddiqui

Mr. Somchai is now the First Senior Vice President Marketing and IMC Division of Symphony Communication Public Company Limited (SYMC), taking care of international business focusing on Southeast Asia region such as Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore etc.

Mr .Somchai has experienced more than 25 years in Telecommunication industry, 13 years in Domestic and 12 years for international business. He has good understanding of the end to end product delivery of international service namely, Data, Internet, and Colocation. Prior to join with SYMC, he was a General Manager, a key person of JasTel Network Co., Ltd and Jasmine Internet Co., Ltd.

In 2014, Mr. Somchai led SYMC to join the MCT Submarine Cable investment (Malaysia –Cambodia – Thailand) which be launched service in April, 2017.