Francesco was born in Roma in 1977 and took his master degree in Computer Engineering from Tor Vergata University in 2004, he started working with NAMEX in the same year and since then he has supervised the technical and infrastructural development of the exchange point, firstly as a member of the technical staff and then, starting from 2008, serving as Chief Technology Officer.

Beside networking, his main interests reside in software and systems engineering, object oriented software design and programming, web and automation tools development. He has collaborated with the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in a joint project with INRIA/France in the field of software engineering applied to financial systems. He has also served has an assistant professor in Operating Systems Programming courses at Sapienza University in Roma.

Massimo Carboni holds a degree in Physics from La Sapienza University of Rome. He has been working in the field of computing and computer networks for over 20 years. He has been working on the transition from proprietary programming environments to open-source (Unix), since the 90’s. In the same period, he also focused on experimental nuclear and subnuclear physics, contributing to the development of Monte Carlo simulation software (HEMAS, FLUKA).

Since the late 90’s, he has been working in the field of networking, acquiring a notable experience in the area of optical networking and network packets and other infrastructural aspects of digital encoding and transmission. He was the project manager of GARR-G network, in 2002, and GARR-X network, in 2009, and the Chief Technical Officer of GARR-X Progress (2013-16). He is part of the team of experts who developed GÈANT, the pan-European data network for education and research. He currently is GARR network infrastructure manager and he coordinates the network innovation task force (ELISA project).

Giuseppe Di Battista is a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Engineering of the Third University of Rome. His research interests include Computer networks and Information Visualization. He has published more than 200 papers in the above areas and has given several invited lectures worldwide. His research has been funded by the Italian National Research Council, by the EU, and by several industrial sponsors. He has been national and/or local coordinator of many Projects of Relevant Italian National Interest (PRIN) of the MIUR.

Florence Lavroff is a Peering Manager at Google, responsible for content delivery optimisation, peering and peering infrastructure strategies, ISP and Internet Exchange relationship management in EMEA.

Her journey in the Internet industry and technology started in 2005 at Cable & Wireless. She then specialised in content delivery from 2009 whilst working for CDNs, such as Akamai and Google, that made the Internet as it is today.

Armed with solid analytical, organisational skills and proficiency in foreign languages, Florence develops strategic partnerships and negotiates peering agreements with ISPs and Internet Exchanges of her region of expertise, i.e EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa).

Firm believer in the impact of community work and mentoring, Florence is a true team player enjoying getting involved in various organisations such as RIPE and Toastmaster International.

Flavio Luciani is a network engineer with over 10 years of experience in the operational management of telecommunications technologies and services. He started working with NAMEX in 2008 and today as a senior network engineer he is working on the development of the exchange point.

Augusto started as network engineer in Sip company (aka Telecom Italia) from 1992. In 2000 moved as network director for a regional ISP in Catania (T Net aka Cities on Line). In 2004 data center manager for ITTelecom. Since 2005 starting as consultant engineer in Lottomatica group. Focused on technical and strategic development of domestic and international infrastructures.

Luca Rea took his degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2005 from the University of Roma “La Sapienza”. He soon joined FUB to work in research activities related to broadband access, serving as Network Planning Manager, Strategy Analyst and Telecommunications Architect.

He developed knowledge of network planning, design and creation processes in TELCO organisations. He gained experience in business planning and management of complex projects. He carries out his activities within national and international projects sponsored by the EU; he has also acted with coordinating roles.

Since 2009, he is the Project Leader of a nation-scoped project on “Quality of Service of Internet access”   commissioned by AGCOM. Since 2012, he participates as an appointed expert of the Italian Administration, to international standard committees and working groups of TLC networks, particularly to ITU SG13. Currently, he is head of the “Transport Information Technologies” department.

Giampaolo Rossini is the Chief Technical Officer at Unidata S.p.A. since 2002. He joined the company in 1997 as system engineer.

From 1999 to 2002 he worked for Cable & Wireless as responsible for network development and engineering. He joined Unidata again in 2002 with the role of head of network management and service assurance. He has expertise on the Internet Protocol since 1994 and knowledge of many routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, ISIS, OLSR) for IPv4 and IPv6. In 2008 he started the creation a wireless network in the 5 GHz free spectrum in order to mitigate the digital divide in the Rome area, reaching more than 3,000 users connected to 158 POPs.

Giampaolo is now involved in building the new optical metropolitan area network of Unidata with the goal of providing 1Gbps FTTH services and in building a LoRaWAN wireless network for Internet Of Things.

Mr Gianpaolo Scassellati currently holds the position as Head of IP Networking and Fixed Transformation at VEON Ltd* in Amsterdam, company he joined in March 2013 as Manager Technical Architecture. He reports to the Group Director Architecture and Security. Mr Scassellati has more than 20 years of experience in the telecom industry mostly at mobile and fixed operator Wind Italy, now Wind 3, and at the Milan Stock Exchange telecommunication department (now part of SIA.eu SpA). Mr Scassellati has been involved in international activities in NGMN, GSMA, IETF and joined the NAMEX Technical Committee since 2004. Mr Scassellati holds a Master degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Perugia, Italy.

* VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON) a leading global provider of connectivity and internet services headquartered in Amsterdam and serving over 235 million customer. The company operates under the Beeline, Jazz, Djezzy, Kyivstar and Banglalink brands and owns 50% of a joint venture in Italy which operates under the WIND and 3 brands.