Jane Coffin

Jane Coffin (Director, Development Strategy of Internet Society) is responsible for development strategy at the Internet Society, where her work focuses on coordination of collaborative strategies for expanding Internet infrastructure, access, and related capacities in emerging economies

Prior to joining ISOC, Jane worked on Internet and telecommunications policy issues for the Office of International Affairs at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration – U.S. Department of Commerce. She was an active participant in Internet discussions in the ITU, OAS-CITEL, and OECD, working closely with the five regional Internet registries (RIRs) and other Internet technical community stakeholders. She was very involved in policy discussions on open Internet standards and issues related to BGP, IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS. While at NTIA, Jane was an advocate for the deployment of Internet exchange points (IXPs) to increase international Internet connectivity (IIC), and was an ITU-T SG-3 IIC co-Rapporteur and an IIC coordinator in CITEL’s PCC.I. She was Vice-Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, and a Vice-Chair of the ITU Council Child Online Protection Working Group,

From 2002-2006, she served as Chief of Party, and Deputy Chief of Party on two separate USAID projects in Moldova and Armenia. Jane worked closely with regulators, policy-makers, senior officials and parliamentarians, Internet service providers, and stakeholders on regulatory strengthening, market access and competition, and liberalization and privatization activities in Moldova and Armenia.

Jane worked for AT&T as a Director of International Affairs/Government Affairs, where she worked on international telecommunications issues, including VOIP, ENUM, and ICAIS, and was a Rapporteur in ITU-D Study Group 1 for universal access/universal service in rural and remote areas.

She holds a BA in Classics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, attended the College Year in Athens program in Athens, Greece, and was an AFS exchange student in Falun, Sweden (1985-86).

Jane is based in Reston, United States

The CEE Peering Day Vienna 2014 conference was once again hosted by NIX.CZ and VIX.at. The conference was geared toward all network engineers, peering coordinators, Internet providers, cloud administrators, and data centre operators in Central and Eastern Europe. The programme included presentations by partners and sponsors of the conference, once again dedicating a sizeable space to social networks and peering.

New in 2014: the unique opportunity to visit the RIPE workshop free of charge the day before the beginning of the CEE Peering Day Vienna 2014 conference. The official commencement of the CEE Peering Day Vienna 2014 conference begun on Monday evening in the Palais Niederösterreich main hall with a Social Evening and accompanying programme.

The hosts, partners and sponsors of the conference are very pleased for your visit and they are looking forward to meeting you again at the next year’s CEE Peering Day.