April 2 – 5, 2023 San Diego, CA
GPF 2023
Global Peering Forum | San Diego, CA

Welcome to the 2023
Global Peering Forum
The Global Peering Forum is a yearly networking event where decision makers from global ISPs, CDNs, cloud and interconnection service providers, will join together for three days of meetings, presentations, and networking events.
We are ecstatic to invite attendees to our upcoming in-person event, GPF 2023, April 2 – 5 in San Diego California.



Primary Sponsors for the 2023 Global peering forum
We greatly appreciate the support of our present and past sponsors who enable GPF to provide an exceptional experience!
If you are interested in learning more about our Sponsorship Opportunities, please visit here.
Introducing
GPF Board of Directors

Ben Hedges
President

Ben Hedges
President
Ben Hedges has been a member of the Global Peering Forum organizing committee since 2011 during his role as CMO of the London Internet Exchange (LINX), and is a founding board member of Global Peering Forum Inc, established in 2015 and was appointed President of the organization in 2020.
From 2019-2022 Ben was interim Executive Director of the IND-DCA, and worked for Hurricane Electric (AS6939). Since 2022 Ben has been Vice President of Interconnection and Peering at data center operator Cyxtera.

Petra Wensing
Vice-President

Petra Wensing
Vice-President
Petra Wensing is working as Marketing, Communication and Events Manager at AMS-IX for nearly 10 years. She has been a GPF Board member for almost 5 years and she is also one of the organisers for EPF.
Petra fulfilled in the past roles in the fields of Sponsorship, CSR, PR and Communications mostly at mobile Telecom operators. She studied Dutch Language and Literature at the university in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Ester Paal
Board Secretary

Ester Paal
Board Secretary
Ester recently joined the Flexoptix’ Evangelical Optician team and she is the lead for the CEE region. She previously worked at the NIX.CZ Association from 2013-2022, as an Accounts and Communication Manager/Peering Coordinator. She was responsible for communication with the Association's members and customers, and also the main organiser of the annual Peering Days conference. She also represented the Association at domestic and international fora and conferences. Prior to joining the Czech Neutral Internet Exchange, she worked as a Liaison Manager for EURid, the registry of the .eu top-level domain.
Ester has joined the GPF board in 2021 and is currently the board secretary.

Michele McCann
Board Member

Michele McCann
Board Member
Michele McCann is the Head of Platforms and Interconnection at Teraco. She is a key member
of the Teraco executive and the team responsible for developing and growing the NAPAfrica
Internet Exchange into the largest IXP in Africa, focused on servicing sub-Saharan
Africa. Michele has a passion for peering, content and carrier aggregation in Africa and has a
fundamental understanding of the opportunities and challenges within the African market and
experience with diversification for a global market.
Before Teraco McCann served as Commercial Director at Arc Telecoms. Her role included the development of new infrastructures focusing on delivering ISP products and services to the market. Currently, a key strategic focus for her is on relationship development with new and existing Teraco enterprise clients and cloud and content providers to grow future opportunities locally and internationally.
Before Teraco McCann served as Commercial Director at Arc Telecoms. Her role included the development of new infrastructures focusing on delivering ISP products and services to the market. Currently, a key strategic focus for her is on relationship development with new and existing Teraco enterprise clients and cloud and content providers to grow future opportunities locally and internationally.

Katsuyasu Toyama
Board Member

Katsuyasu Toyama
Board Member
Working for the internet industry for approximately 30 years, such as JPNAP, OCN(AS4713), GIN(AS2914), and Internet Data center (MULTIFEED) business. Not only to the businesses, but also he is trying to contribute to peering/interconnection communities through the activities like a leader of Peering Asia, and Chairperson of APIX (Asia Pacific Internet Exchange association), as well as a board member of GPF.

Josh Snowhorn
Board Member

Josh Snowhorn
Board Member
Founder and CEO of Quantum Loophole, Inc.
Josh values approachability, accessibility, collaboration, innovation and growth. These qualities guided Josh’s leadership in the interconnection industry over the last 20 years and building over $10B of value along the way. He has pretty much seen and done it all through key founding and executive positions at Terremark, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Cincinnati Bell, and CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE). Josh co-founded the Global Peering Forum, the annual meeting for the Internet interconnection and peering community where he serves on the board of directors. Josh serves on the advisory board of Telescent, the finest automated interconnection machine on the planet. He is an avid speaker at conferences globally including networking, data centers, real estate, edge networking, and quantum computing. He has been a surfer for 39 years and a snowboarder for 25 years, traveling the globe in pursuit of experiences. Josh loves cars and racing. He founded TrackRats, LLC, the premier car club for track enthusiasts.
Auto racing enthusiast. Industry leader and innovator. Surfer and snowboarder. Peering expert. Public speaker. Founder and CEO of Quantum Loophole.
Josh values approachability, accessibility, collaboration, innovation and growth. These qualities guided Josh’s leadership in the interconnection industry over the last 20 years and building over $10B of value along the way. He has pretty much seen and done it all through key founding and executive positions at Terremark, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Cincinnati Bell, and CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE). Josh co-founded the Global Peering Forum, the annual meeting for the Internet interconnection and peering community where he serves on the board of directors. Josh serves on the advisory board of Telescent, the finest automated interconnection machine on the planet. He is an avid speaker at conferences globally including networking, data centers, real estate, edge networking, and quantum computing. He has been a surfer for 39 years and a snowboarder for 25 years, traveling the globe in pursuit of experiences. Josh loves cars and racing. He founded TrackRats, LLC, the premier car club for track enthusiasts.
Auto racing enthusiast. Industry leader and innovator. Surfer and snowboarder. Peering expert. Public speaker. Founder and CEO of Quantum Loophole.

- One table in the exhibition area during the entire event to provide giveaways to attendees and use for bilateral meetings. Ability to display two pull-up banners
- Inclusion of extra-large organization logo on all event signage that contains logos, potentially including registration, receptions, meals, breaks, and social activities. Final signage to be determined approximately five weeks in advance of GPF
- Prominent inclusion of organization logo on www.globalpeeringforum.org with other sponsor logos, and inclusion with any related social media activity including logos
- Prominent inclusion of logo on any event material such as bags, t-shirts, or printed material, should these be produced
- Recognition at Closing Plenary