Luca Deri is the leader of the ntop project (http://www.ntop.org/) aimed at developing an open-source monitoring platform for high-speed traffic analysis. He worked for University College of London and IBM Research, prior to receiving his PhD at the University of Berne with a thesis about software components for traffic monitoring applications. Well known in the open-source and Linux community as well in the industry where he has been appointed in the technical advisory board of several leading companies, he currently shares his time between the ntop project and the University of Pisa where he has been appointed as lecturer at the CS department. His home page is http://luca.ntop.org/.