About MORE-IP

Annual community event hosted by AMS-IX in Amsterdam

Each year, MORE-IP brings together about 300 professionals and decision-makers of the IP interconnection industry. This 2-day event is dedicated to AMS-IX members, customers and business partners, providing a platform for them to establish new connections, strengthen business relations, share insights and learn about the latest market and technology trends.

2024 is special years since AMS-IX celebrates its 30th anniversary. Next to presentations, panel discussions, workshops and networking time, we will take time to commemorate this milestone together. Registration will open soon, so stay tuned!

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MORE IP 2023

MORE IP 2023 in numbers

318 Attended

34 Speakers

135 Companies

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Bert Hubert

Software Engineer

Gina Doekhie

Cybercrime Specialist

Mehdi Benkirane

Vice President of Business Development i3D

Oluwasayo Oshadami

General Manager, Technical Solutions and Managed Networks Mainone

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MORE IP 2022

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293 Attended

25 Speakers

162 Companies

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Robert van der Noordaa

Business development manager Royal HaskoningDHV

Sander Duivestein

Trendwatcher & Author

Olaf Kolkman

Principal - Internet Technology, Policy, and Advocacy ISOC

Andreass Weiss

Head of Digital Business Models eco - Association of Internet Industry eV

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MORE IP 2021

MORE IP 2021 in numbers

176 Attended

23 Speakers

105 Companies

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Arjan Erkel

Motivational Speaker

Julia Jansen

Artist and Entrepreneur

Lucien Engelen

Innovation Strategist

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MORE IP 2019

MORE IP 2019 in numbers

250 Attended

24 Speakers

75 Companies

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Peter van Burgel CEO AMS-IX

Peter is a passionate professional with more than 25 years of management experience at various ICT and telecom companies. Since 2018, he is CEO AMS-IX, one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world. Before joining AMS-IX, van Burgel worked as Director of Digital Transformation at Westcon. Peter is particularly interested in the topics Global & IT Business Transformation and Change Management.

Ruben van den Brink CTO AMS-IX

Ruben proudly joined AMS-IX in 2021. With an academic degree in mathematics, he started his business career in media broadcast IT. He held several management positions at Technicolor and Ericsson, focussing on network and datacenter services. In 2016, Ruben decided to join the SURFnet executive management team, leading the network department. At SURFnet, the Dutch national research and education network, he was responsible for the development and automated deployment of SURFnet8, as well the innovation programme for network services. Ruben: “AMS-IX helped to define the internet and will continue to develop it in the future. I am proud to be working with a team that is so knowledgeable and passionate about connecting everybody and everything!”

Jan van Boesschoten Innovation Manager AMS-IX

Jan van Boesschoten, based in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, is currently a Innovation Manager at AMS-IX, bringing experience from previous roles at VodafoneZiggo. Jan van Boesschoten holds a 1986 – 1992 Master of Science (MSc) in History @ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. With a robust skill set that includes Strategy, Sales, User Interface, Web Applications, Video and more, Jan van Boesschoten contributes valuable insights to the industry. Jan van Boesschoten has 2 emails on RocketReach.

Arjan Erkel Motivational Speaker

Arjan Erkel both inspires, impresses, and touches his audiences with his motivational speeches of how he was kidnapped in Russia working for a charity organization but managed to move on afterward and use the experience to grow as a human being. His personal, authentic, and inspirational approach to telling his dramatic, tragic and brave story certainly makes people wonder about their own situation, their own freedom of choice and freedom of mind. It serves as a lesson in self-reflection, courage and self-esteem, and building rapport. Arjan Erken seeks to use his own story to inspire and empower other people.

Julia Jansen Artist and Entrepreneur

Julia Janssen researches the influence of digitalization on our physical world. She explores gaining more autonomy over our data and digital identity by connecting social, political, and legal issues with art and design. In a variety of media, Janssen provides you with insights to discuss the future of your digital life. How do we deal with fairness, equality, autonomy, freedom and democracy in a data-driven society? Mission: Studio Julia Janssen creates movement. Not towards privacy– but towards a digital society where you can decide who knows what about you.

Lucien Engelen Innovation Strategist

Lucien Engelen is CEO of Transform.Health and Fellow at the Deloitte Center for the Edge, where he works as the Global Strategist Health(care). He is a Faculty member of Singularity University Exponential Medicine and author of the book Augmented Health(care), the end of the beginning. Lucien works at the intersection of innovation and strategy and advises boards, governments, companies and professionals. His advice focuses on how to initiate change.

Robert van der Noordaa Business development manager Royal HaskoningDHV

Robert van der Noordaa is a freelance Dutch investigative journalist and analyst specialising in Ukraine and Russia. He has been writing articles about technical subjects since 1997. He has been following events in Ukraine and Russia since 2004. He has conducted extensive work interviewing Russian dissidents and studying hybrid warfare and propaganda since 2014. He lived Ukraine and Russia for many years. The past three years he has worked on analyzing trolls and troll army’s on Twitter and Facebook.

His articles were published by Volkskrant, Groene Amsterdammer and Stopfake/Integrity Initiative and Atlantic Council. For broadcaster Humanistische Omroep (abbr. HUMAN) he worked on an episode of tv-series Denktank (Eng. Thinktank) on Russian trolls and political influence using social media. For broadcaster VPRO he did research for a documentary on Russian influence in Sweden called “Schimmenspel – Poetins onzichtbare oorlog” (Shadowplay – Putin’s invisible war).

Sander Duivestein Trendwatcher & Author

Sander Duivestein has been researching the impact of new technology on people, businesses, and our society since 2005. On behalf of the Exploration Institute of New Technology, he has written various reports and books over the years, covering topics such as social media, big data, the internet of things, disruption, bitcoin and blockchain, the platform economy, artificial intelligence, and the new generation.

In his presentations, Sander takes you from the past to the present and offers a glimpse into the near future. Sander’s presentations are particularly visual, confrontational, and humorous at the same time. Above all, they are stories with a message. Not flights of fancy, but a critical examination of what technology actually does to us. Bringing Sander into your space means bringing the future inside. And that is crucial because, according to Sander, it’s Digital Darwinism: adapt or disappear!

Olaf Kolkman Principal - Internet Technology, Policy, and Advocacy ISOC

Earlier in his career, Olaf was closely involved in the development of DNSSEC within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the organisation responsible for the standardisation of internet technologies. DNSSEC increases the security of the Domain Name System, one of the internet’s main foundations. Olaf has also chaired the Internet Architecture Board, an IETF committee that additionally advises the Internet Society.

Andreass Weiss Head of Digital Business Models eco - Association of Internet Industry eV

Andreas Weiss is responsible for the eco business unit “Digital Business Models” and member of the Executive Board of eco – Association of the Internet Industry. He is active for eco since 1998, initially for the competence group E-Business & Logistics and further on E-Business. Since 2010 he is assigned as Director EuroCloud Germany and since 2019 Board Member of Trusted Cloud Competence Network. In general he is engaged in various projects for Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and GDPR as well as security and compliance of digital services.

Bert Hubert Software Engineer

Bert Hubert is an entrepreneur & software developer with a passion about Europe, innovation, climate, biology & health. He is a former shareholder of Open-Xchange, the parent company of PowerDNS which he founded in 1999. Nowadays, he is a part-time technical advisor at the Dutch Electoral Council.

Gina Doekhie Cybercrime Specialist

Gina is cybercrime specialist and digital detective. Before this, she was a digital forensic detective at Fox-IT for seven years: she tracked down cyber criminals and worked on digital fraud cases. She recently joined the Cybercrime Team of the Dutch Police, where she investigates complex cybercrime cases, such as CEO fraud and ransomware extortion. She also works as a judicial expert, which means that she gives advice in court about the evidential value of digital evidence. Gina graduated with a double master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam. After her bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, she specialized during her master’s in Forensic Intelligence and started a second master: Forensic Science.

Mehdi Benkirane Vice President of Business Development i3D

Mehdi’s professional career started in the music industry as a sound engineer which then evolved into film making and video game design development through academia where he oversaw research theses for undergraduate students to eventually represent the educational groups industry relations. After a short stint as an independent consultant for various music and gaming organizations, Mehdi became a video games agent whose mission was to bring in revenue for 12 studios around the world consisting of work for hire, co-development opportunities, as well as publishing and funding of projects. For the past 2 years he has been heading gaming business development at i3D.net, a game hosting company part of the Ubisoft group.

Oluwasayo Oshadami General Manager, Technical Solutions and Managed Networks Mainone

Oluwasayo Oshadami is a General Manager, Technical Solutions and Managed Networks at MainOne. He is responsible for Product Development, Commercial Solutions, Design Architecture, Vendor Management and Project delivery for customer requirements in West Africa. He has been in MainOne for over 11 years and has extensive Industry experience in Network designs, Planning, and Implementation in West Africa. He is an Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate from the Federal University of Technology Minna.