Agenda

Jiankang Yao received his master degree of Computer Science in National University of Singapore and joined CNNIC in 2003 as a research engineer. In CNNIC, he had a further study and received his Ph.D. degree of Computer Software and Theory in CNIC, CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences). His main research interests include but not limit to EAI, IDN, DNS, and Internet naming.

Since the 62nd IETF meeting in 2005, he has been active in the IETF and has experience in working as the IETF WG co-chair and secretary. Especially, he made a lot of contribution to EAI BOF and WG. In order to help to move EAI documents from experimental RFCs to Standards Track RFCs, he did a lot of EAI implementation and testing. Moreover, he got the APEC funding for EAI deployment as the overseer.  

Currently he serves as the Co-Secretary of the Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC). He is also the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) member, and ICANN ccNSO council member.

Maria Kolesnikova has been working for Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ as a head of marketing, external relations and projects since 2007. Maria has a wide range of experience in information technologies, communications and marketing.

Since 2007 Maria is involved in IDN and UA Programs, participated in Fast Track Process for delegation of the Cyrillic ccTLD .РФ. In 2012-2013 she worked on delegation of several gTLDs during the first round of New gTLD Program. She is also a Chair of UASG Communications Working Group (for 2021) and a Chair of CIS-EE UA Local Initiative since 2019.

Maria has been a speaker/presenter at numerous conferences, including ICANN meetings, CENTR and APTLD workshops, regional and global IGF forums, Eastern European DNS Forum, Eurasia Network Operators’ Group conferences, TLDCON, etc. She has also managed regional and local Internet industry and Internet Governance events in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Stojičević has been a member of the Board of Governors of the The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) from 2011 - 2016, and was Chairman of the Board of Governors (2013-2016). He was also the coordinator or member of the several Registries Working Groups (2011-2016). He was directly involved in launching Serbia's IDN ccTLD, .срб.

At ICANN community, he was the Chairman of Cyrillic Generation Panel (LGR) and the Vice-chair of Universal Acceptance Steering Group.

From 2014 - 2017, he was member of Executive Committee of SEEDIG (South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance) and from 2015-2017 a member of Program Committee of RIPE SEE meetings.

He has a background in editing, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the computer magazine, "Svet kompjutera", which is the oldest computer magazine from the countries of the former Yugoslavia. He started as a contributing author in the magazine in 1987, became a section editor in 2003, and Editor-In-Chief in 2005. Dušan Stojičević studied Electronic Engineering and is a member of Serbian Society of Engineers.

Have started his professional activity as an engineer in field of solid state electronics in Technological Institute of Microelectronics in Yerevan in 1977, was post graduate student in Moscow Institute of Electronics, Ph.D in 1989.

In 1992 have founded  Arminco company, which was the  first Internet service provider in Armenia. In 1994 was among founders of Internet Society of Armenia, .am ccTLD registry.

In 2000-2004 was the deputy head of General Department on telecommunications and Informatization of Armenia. In 2014 Grigori Saghyan was appointed by prime minister to the post of Secretary of Internet Governance Council  of Armenia.

 Currently Grigori Saghyan is the vice-president of Internet Society of Armenia and is involved  in various scientific and  educational programs.

 Grigori Saghyan is  an Associate Professor of Russian-Armenian University, Armenia, manager of Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT.AM), ITU expert on network security, member of Internet Society (ISOC.ORG) scince 1997. 

Ms. Manal Ismail is Chief Expert, Internet Policies at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt.  She has been working in areas of Internet development and related public policies for over 20 years, and was among the team who first introduced the Internet to Egypt.  Ms. Ismail is chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN and non‐voting liaison to ICANN Board.  She represented Egypt on the GAC for more than 15 years and served as one of its vice chairs in 2009 and 2017.

Ms. Ismail has contributed to early Arabic script community efforts through the Arabic Script IDN Working Group (ASIWG), co-chaired the IDNC Working Group on Fast Track Process for IDN ccTLDs in 2008, participated to ccNSO IDN ccPDP Working Group for the selection and delegation of IDN ccTLDs (2009-2013), was member of ICANN’s Arabic Script Team on IDN Variants in 2011, and has led GAC input on IDNs until its successful introduction.  Her efforts have led to the delegation and launch of Egypt’s Arabic ccTLD within the first batch in 2010.

Ms. Ismail holds M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from University of Louisville (UofL), Kentucky, USA.

Emily Taylor is CEO of Oxford Information Labs. She is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, Editor of the Journal of Cyber Policy and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford Internet Institute. She is a founder of ICANN accredited registrar, Netistrar Limited.

A lawyer by training, Emily has worked in the Internet sector for more than 20 years. Emily’s research papers cover a wide range of Internet policy issues and is lead author of the World Report. Volunteer roles include membership of the ICANN EPDP team, Chair of ICANN WHOIS Review Team, UN Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group, a researcher for the Global Commission on Internet Governance, Director of Legal and Policy for Nominet.

Emily has written for the Guardian, Wired, Ars Technica, the New Statesman and the Slate, and is a regular commentator on technology issues in news and broadcast media including the BBC and Sky News.

Aman Masjide currently leads the Anti-Abuse and Universal Acceptance (UA) efforts at Radix in India, and has 14 years of experience in the anti-abuse field of the domain name industry. Prior to joining Radix, Masjide led the abuse mitigation and compliance efforts for LogicBoxes, a domain registrar automation platform and consulting business, which was later acquired by Endurance International Group. He has also contributed his expertise in anti-abuse mitigation at Resellerclub and BigRock.

At Radix, Masjide has been leading an internal project testing UA readiness of website signup and contact forms. The objective is to ensure that a user of new TLD should have the same experience across various online portals and services as they would experience using any other legacy TLD.