Speakers

Philip is Director of Learning and Development at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia & Pacific region. Philip has been working in the Internet Service Provider industry around the world since the early 90s. His role has involved network design, routing, configuration, scaling, operations and since 2006 IPv6 deployment. He is involved in many training activities in all parts of the world, especially within the regional and country Network Operations Groups.

Philip is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society. His industry responsibilities include being chair of the Board of Directors of APIA (the non-profit organisation that is responsible for the annual APRICOT conference), member of the SANOG core committee, PacNOG organising committee, MENOG coordination team, AfNOG programme committee and the APOPS chair.

Philip has been involved in Internet Exchange Point development since the early 90s, being one of the team setting up LINX in London, and he has helped establish many IXPs in many parts of the world. He is also spending more time helping SPs understand the impact of IPv4 run out for them and their businesses, as well as providing guidance and training on the IPv6 transition strategies and technologies available.

Prior to joining APNIC, he spent 13 years as a Consulting Engineer in Cisco's CTO Consulting Engineering group; and prior to Cisco he spent five years at PIPEX (now part of UUNET's global ISP business), the UK's first commercial Internet Service Provider.

Randy Bush is a Senior Researcher and Network Operator at Internet Initiative Japan, the first commercial IPv6 deployment in the world. He specializes in IPv6 deployment, network security, protocols, and network measurement especially routing. Randy has been in computing for 45 years, and has a few decades of Internet operations experience. He was the engineering founder of Verio, which is now NTT/Verio. He has been heavily involved in transferring Internet technologies to developing economies for over 20 years.

He was a chair of the IETF WG on the DNS for a decade and served as a member of the IESG, as co-chair of the IETF Operations and Management Area for six years. Randy was the first Chair of the NANOG Steering Committee, a co-founder of AfNOG, on the founding Board of Directors of ARIN, helped start AfriNIC, and has participated in APNIC, RIPE, et alia since each was founded.