Miwa has served as an APNIC trainer since 2002. During this period she has provided Internet resource management education and training to many people, countries and regions in the Asia Pacific. Miwa has developed and delivered, with her colleagues, training programs on IPv6, Internet security, and Internet Routing Registry, among other topics.

Before joining the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Miwa worked at IBM Australia as operations manager, them leader and trainer for the IBM Asia Pacific Technical Support Centre. Previously, she served various organisations as a LAN administrator, including Jardine Fleming Securities and Warburg Investment Management. Miwa was educated in Japan and Australia and holds a master degree in eCommerce.

Mr. Ammar Jaffri holds Master's Degrees in Statistics and Computer Sciences and has served more than thirty four years in the areas of Data Processing, Information Technology, and Information Security in different departments of Federal Government that include Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Defense, Intelligence Bureau and Federal Investigation Agency.

Having vast exposure of national and international issues in his areas of expertise, Mr. Jaffri has represented Pakistan in number of National and International Conferences and professionally contributed in number of workshops. Having trained in International training organizations of repute like SANS, Learning Tree USA etc. Mr. Jaffri maintained a smooth pace of professional progress and currently heading number of vital Projects and initiatives having National and International importance as Project Director FIA.

He is an active member of many international organizations related to information security. Currently he is Project Director National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C), Federal Investigation Agency Government of Pakistan. He is also point of contact for number of International initiatives on Cyber Security like 24/7 G-8 Group USA, OIC-CERT, SAARC CERT, APCert, Council of European Union etc. At the national level, he is the Project Director of PISCES (linking all twenty one ports of embarkation / disembarkation), the chairman technical committee of Automated Finger Print Identification System (AFIS) and he has represented Pakistan on number of International Seminars / Workshops on Information Security.

Chris Horsley is an information security analyst working for the Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC), specializing in malware analysis. He previously spent close to three years as a security analyst for the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), involved with all aspects of CERT operations such as vulnerability handling, incident response, malware analysis and intelligence gathering.

Prior to becoming involved in the information security field, Chris spent almost six years involved with web development, system administration and software security. His other professional interests include software development, information gathering and visualization techniques.

ICANN is pleased to announce the promotion of John Crain to Chief Technical Officer. John has been contributing his technical expertise and leadership to ICANN for over three years. In his new role, John has taken on the task of enhancing and improving the professional technical operations of ICANN and will lead the organization's root management, web site development and information services functions. John enjoys an excellent and respected reputation with the global technical community. He will conduct much of ICANN's liaison work with the global technical community in order to facilitate and listen to discussion on the many technical-based issues facing ICANN. The IAB and IETF, along with ICANN's advisory committees, will continue to be ICANN's principal sources of guidance for technical policy development.

John, a native of the United Kingdom and fluent in Dutch and English, spent a significant portion of his professional career working in the Netherlands for the RIPE NCC as part of the senior management team and was responsible for infrastructure, software development and operations. Prior to RIPE NCC, John worked as a design engineer in research, design and development of advanced materials.

Since his initial forays into networking and software development in the early 1990's, most of Ryan Connolly's professional work has been focused on making computer and network systems more secure. Over the years, Ryan's areas of concentration have included network security analysis, computer and network forensics, and software engineering for both large companies, such as Cisco Systems, and a wide variety of smaller ones. Most recently, Ryan has focused on providing security training, spreading awareness, and assisting with collaborative efforts in the service provider security community. Ryan has worked for Team Cymru since 2005 and obtained a computer science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in 2001.