EuroCAMP November 2005

Eurocamp 2005 Speakers'Profile

Bart Kerver

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Bart Kerver has is working for SURFnet as Manager Middleware Services. His main responsibilities are to manage the development of the A-Select Middleware and to setup a national educational federation.

Chris Myers

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Chris is Advanced Communications Services Coordinator for GrangeNet, responsible for IPv6 and multicast service deployments, the Distributed Data Centre Mass Storage (DDCMS) Prototype Project and the Access Grid Storage System Project. As well as his involvement with IPv6, Chris is also active in the mobility area and in particular in the deployment of eduroam.

David Orrell

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David is a Technical Architect for Eduserv, who provide the Athens Identity Managment System in the UK. He has worked for Eduserv since 2001 and has been involved with many large projects in the areas of Single Sign-On (SSO), authorisation, and Federated identity. More recently he has been leading work to provide SAML interfaces to the Athens system to facilitate interoperability with a wide range of SAML-compliant products in a Federated environment. David originally received a MPhys in Physics from the University of Bath, UK in 1999.

Diego Lopez

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Diego Lopez received his MS from the University of Granada in 1985, and his PhD degree from the University of Seville in 2001. In 1985, he joined the Conformance Test Division of Telefonica I+D, where he worked in several projects related to the deployment of WANs within Spain and Europe. In 2000, he joined RedIRIS (the Spanish National Research and Educational Network), where he is currently the responsible for the Middleware and Applications Area.

Ingrid Melve

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Ingrid works for UNINETT the Norwegian academic network provider. Ingrid has been actively involved in FEIDE, the project to establish a common electronic ID for all academic users in Norway, especially on what concerned the cross-institutional authentication and authorization.

John Paschoud

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John Paschoud is the Projects Manager and InfoSystems Engineer at the Library of the London School of Economics, and has managed several large externally-funded projects led by LSE including the JISC projects ANGEL, SECURe and PERSEUS which deal with access management and middleware issues. He undertook significant foundation work for JISC in establishing the viability of Shibboleth access management technology and liaising with Shibboleth developers and implementers at Internet2, SWITCH, SURF, RedIRIS and other national and international bodies. He has published articles and given presentations in the UK, USA and several other countries on access management and other topics.

Ken Klingenstein

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Dr. Ken Klingenstein is Project Director of the Internet2 Middleware and Security Initiatives. He coordinates activities intended to build an interoperable middleware infrastructure among I2 members and has recently assumed a similar role in network security. He also serves on the Senior Staff of Internet2. Ken is on loan to Internet2 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was Director of Information Technology Services for 14 years. He has been active in national networking since the beginnings of NSFnet in 1985, serving as a principal in state and regional networking and providing national leadership as Chair of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee, and giving presentations at the House Subcommittee on Technology, the Kennedy School of Government and the National Research Council, among others.

Klaas Wierenga

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Klaas Wierenga's main responsibility within SURFnet is the roll-out of a national infrastructure for (wireless) network roaming. He is an active member of the TERENA taskforce on mobility and was responsible for setting up the European roaming infrastructure.

Lino Santo

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Michael Gettes

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Michael joined Duke in April, 2003. He was with Georgetown from August, 1999 to February 2003 in a leading role for network and compute services development and deployment University-wide. Previously, he played a similar role at Princeton University for over 10 years. Michael has been involved with network technology in Higher Education since 1981 and has played major roles in the development of BITNET & CREN and now works closely with the Internet2 Middleware initiative and is a member of MACE working in the Directory/eduPerson, Shibboleth and HEPKI project areas. Michael is also actively involved in establishing a Bridge Certificate Authority for Higher Education (HEBCA supported by EDUCAUSE) which will interoperate with the Federal Bridge CA (FBCA). Michael has many years of operational experience with LDAP and directory enabled applications such as central e-mail systems, alumni services, white pages and associated security, policy and privacy issues for Higher Education.

Milan Sova

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Milan Sova works for CESNET, where he is responsible for the PKI area, which also includes Cesnet CA. Milan is also very active in the Grid area and the EuGridPMA.

Miroslav Milinovic

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Since 1987 he has been working in University Computing Centre (Srce), University of Zagreb, where he is currently Assistant Director - Head of Information Services and Aplications Department. He has been working as an associate in Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet. Since 1994 Miroslav Milinovic has been participating in establishment and development of information and user support services in CARNet. Currenty he is a project leader of AAI@EduHr project, which has the main goal to establish the authentication and authorisation infrastructure for academic and research community in Croatia. He also served as Program Committee Chair of CARNet Users Conference since 1999 and a member of the Program Committee of the TERENA Networking Conference. Miro holds a B.Sc. degree in mathematics and Mr.Sc. degree in computer science.

Nathan Klingenstein

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Roland Hedberg

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Roland Hedberg has been working with networks and network applications since 1987. He was actively involved in standardising the LDAP protocol within the IETF 1993-2001 and he has extensive experience in designing and implementing middleware components. He is presently employed as IT-architect at Umea University, Sweden.

Thomas Lenggenhager

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Thomas Lenggenhager has a degree in Computer Science of ETH Z�rich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). He is with SWITCH since 1988 working in various fields, currently focused on authentication and authorisation.

Ueli Kienholz

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Ueli Kienholz received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the ETH Zurich in 1988. After many years in R&D and IT of an industrial company, he joined SWITCH in 2001 where he led the SWITCHmobile (mobility) project. Since January 2004 he is responsible for the SWITCHaai project.