Mr. Rubal is Cisco’s US/Canada Federal Partner Systems Engineering Lead. His team is responsible for providing innovative solutions with Federal partners to US Government agencies. An accomplished executive with more than 27 years in telecommunications, technology standardization and complex enterprise architectures, David’s leadership and vision has guided commercial, enterprise, service providers, and Federal government agencies through the challenges of service oriented, multi-layer IP-centric networking. In the industry, Dave played leadership roles in early Internet technology development as a technical contributor to ATM Forum and IETF standards and specifications, published Cisco white papers on Voice signaling, and wrote technical information on ATM, SMDS, and Frame Relay published by M&T Books. He has held notable technology leadership positions with Bell Atlantic, Timeplex, FiberCom, and Fiberlink Communications. An early CCIE at Cisco, David held Systems and Consulting Systems Engineering positions supporting large enterprise customers and service providers, specialized in VoIP and Multi-service WAN switching solutions. As Product Manager, David successfully introduced Cisco’s initial IP Centrex offering to the industry driving key Cisco AVVID ecosystem solution partnerships. Responding to global information security challenges, David achieved CISSP certification in 2006. A thought leader in partner strategies, David is also a leader in Cisco’s Worldwide IPv6 Task Force where he has specific responsbility for US/Canada Channels. He and this team of business, product and technology leaders are guiding Cisco through the global IPv6 opportunity. In the industry, David is recognized as a global thought leader in IPv6 and next generation Internet and communications strategies. He is an active member of the IPv6 Forum as well as the North American and Mid-Atlantic IPv6 Task Force bodies. As a subject matter expert, David is regularly featured as a speaker and panelist in public IPv6 and next generation Internet conferences.