KEYNOTES

Robert Lloyd, President EMEA Operations at Cisco Systems, will open the keynote sessions at Networkers Next Generation. On day two, Vinton Cerf, one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet’ will be taking the stage. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and we are delighted to have him present at Networkers this year.

Vinton Cerf would like to spend 15 minutes of his hour presentation answering questions from our Networkers delegates. As soon as you have registered for the event, please feel free to pose your question to him via the Post Registration Facility.

The overall event will be hosted by Nick Earle, Vice President of Planning and Operations EMEA at Cisco Systems.

Robert Lloyd is President of Cisco's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), a position he has held since February 2001.

With responsibility for overseeing Cisco System's operations in these regions, Lloyd's remit comprises overall leadership for sales, marketing, business development and systems engineering in a region encompassing approximately 5000 employees. He is also responsible for Cisco's investment in strategic alliances and acquisitions throughout EMEA.

Since his appointment, Lloyd has helped transform the region into a flatter and more customer focused structure linked with key vertical markets, enabling the company to meet the needs of emerging markets and high growth industry segments most effectively. The EMEA region now accounts for approximately 30 percent of Cisco's world-wide revenues (Q3 FY04).

Lloyd has held a number of senior sales and management positions at Cisco, most recently serving as Group Vice President, EMEA, for Cisco's Enterprise, Service Provider and Small, Medium Lines of Business. He joined Cisco in 1994 as General Manager of Cisco's Canadian subsidiary where he grew the Canadian business by more than 500 percent in four years.

Prior to Cisco, Lloyd was Vice President, Corporate Sales, for a leading Canadian Systems Integrator. In 1982, he founded his own business focusing on the IT needs of major corporations, government and education, growing it to over 400 employees during his nine year tenure.

He is a frequent speaker at industry symposia and is a regular commentator in print and broadcast business media on topical IT, telecoms networking and Internet issues affecting organisations and governments.

Born in Montreal, Canada, Robert Lloyd is a graduate of the University of Manitoba where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree. He currently resides in London, England, with his family.

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Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, Cerf is responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. In the fast moving world of telecommunications and Internet technology development, technical capabilities can have a critical impact on the success of corporate business strategies including product and service development, infrastructure investment and strategic acquisitions and partnerships.

Previously, Cerf served as senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.

During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.

Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry committees focused on cyber-security. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University, the MarcoPolo Foundation, Digex, Incorporated, Avanex Corporation, Nuance Corporation, and the Hynomics Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."

In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict." and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.

Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.

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Nick Earle, Vice President of Planning and Operations for Cisco Systems in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a position he has held since February 2004.

Earle is responsible for coordinating and driving consistency across Cisco’s business planning, operational models and business processes throughout EMEA, key to Cisco’s growth and productivity in this complex region. EMEA accounts for approximately 30 per cent of Cisco’s world-wide revenues.

With 25 years IT industry experience, he has held a number of senior management positions, most recently serving as CEO at StreamServe Inc, one of Europe’s largest privately held software companies and President of EMEA Operations at Ariba, a leading e-procurement company.

Previously, Earle spent 18 years at Hewlett Packard, where he held several high profile roles in Europe and the US, rising to Chief Marketing Officer for HP’s $35 billion enterprise computing business. He also served as President of HP’s Internet business, one of only two pan-HP business units.

Earle is a recognised expert in emerging business models and the role e-business plays in delivering value and profit. He co-authored the best selling book “From dot.com to dot.profit”, published in 2000.

Earle has an honorary doctorate in computing science and is an honorary visiting fellow at Bradford University. He is married with two daughters and currently resides in Surrey, England. He is an avid supporter of his ‘local’ football team, Liverpool FC.

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