During PLNOG8 meeting, workshops will take place. The topics cover various telecom networks issues.

Advanced Utilization of BGP Protocol – Lukasz Bromirski, 03.03.2012, Warszawa

MPLS Network Basics – Lukasz Bromirski, 04.03.2012, Warszawa

Designing IP/MPLS networks – Piotr Jablonski, 07.03.2012, Warszawa

Site-to-site VPN – Michal Stachon, 07.03.2012, Warsaw

Extended MPLS Workshop – Piotr Jablonski, 08.03.2012, Warszawa

Configuration of broadband services on the Cisco devices – Krzysztof Mazepa, 08.03.2012, Warszawa

Dynamic Multipoint VPN and QoS in DMVPN networks – Michal Stachon, 08.03.2012, Warsaw

Troubleshooting IP/MPLS routing protocols – Piotr Jabłoński, 09.03.2012, Warszawa

We encourage all interested people to use this unique chance to gain new skills.

If one person decides to attend more workshops or more people from one company decide to attend workshops, then we will give a special discount. In order to get the discount code please contact jakub.koziol@plnog.pl.

We are extremely pleased to inform you that at the eight PLNOG Meeting we will have a chance to meet:

Jan Zorz started his professional career in RS-232/VAX VMS world in 1992 and continued through Novell and Windows environments all the way to Solaris and other UNIX derivatives, that represent the native environment for the majority of his projects. For the last seven years Jan has been working as a consultant in the IT field, specializing in IPv6. He co-founded the Go6 institute (non-profit), a Slovenian IPv6 initiative whose main objective is to raise IPv6 awareness in Slovenia and alert the community to the fact that we are approaching extensive changes on the Internet.

Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354, CCSI#93012) has been designing, installing, troubleshooting, and operating large service provider and enterprise WAN and LAN networks since 1990 and is currently chief technology advisor at NIL Data Communications, focusing on advanced IP-based networks and web technologies. He wrote several books published by Cisco Press and is a renowned blogger and author of numerous vendor-independent advanced technical webinars.

Merike Kaeo (CCIE#1287) is a consultant focusing primarily on security-related products and network design solutions. She has been in the networking industry more than 15 years, starting out at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, from 1988 to 1993, designing and implementing the original FDDI backbone for the NIH campus using Cisco routers. From 1993 to 2000, Merike was employed by Cisco Systems, Inc., where she worked primarily on technical issues relating to router performance, network routing protocols, network design, and network security. She was a lead member of the Cisco security initiative, has acted as a technical advisor for security start-up companies, and has been an instructor and speaker at a variety of security-related conferences. Merike received her BSEE from Rutgers University in 1987 and completed her MSEE degree from George Washington University in 1998.

We got a new record! 350 registered attendees 2 months before the conference!
Thank you and feel free to register

Registration

For PLNOG attendees we got special accommodation prices from 4th to 6th of March, 2012. There are two ways of reservation:
1. To book a room by Internet for 400PLN without TAX/single room or 440PLN without TAX/double room, click here.
2. To book a room by phone for 611PLN without TAX per night, you have to call the reception (48-22-6306306) or send an e-mail and use a password: “PLNOG”.

Number of rooms is limited!

PROIDEA Foundation for Supporting IT Education was founded in 2004 as a response to the growing demand for organizations sharing ICT knowledge. Since the early beginning, PROIDEA implements its statutory goals, not only through diversified training activities (among others, we have status of the Cisco Academy), but also by organization of specialized, national and international conferences and workshops.

With satisfaction, we can conclude that our previous projects ended with great success and became motivation to create a new department of PROIDEA Foundation, which organizes the external conferences for commercial customers. We believe that our seven years of experience, backed up by organizing almost 50 Polish and international conferences, attended by over 15,000 participants, will provide services at the highest level.

The PLNOG4EDU project has achieved first successes – we were able to help kids from Lesser Poland, Grosser Poland and Subcarpathian region, but it’s still not enough! We need your support! Send us information about schools, children’s homes and other establishments that are struggling with a lack of funds or equipment – we will try to help If you have office equipment (such as notebooks, pens, etc.) or hardware (monitors, printers, computers, etc.) that you want to get rid of – let us know, we will take it and effectively split between those who need it.

In November, we finished another conference season. It’s a good moment to summarize what we have managed to achieve during this year and think about our plans for 2012.

In 2011 PROIDEA Foundation team managed to successfully complete its annual projects. Two editions of PLNOG – a conference concerning networks, gathered even more attendees than last year. What’s more, during autumn edition, for the first time, we organized EuroNOG (European Network Operators’ Group) – a conference for all European implementing companies and operators, where we managed to gather over 150 attendees. We are aware of the fact that gaining more and more qualifications, meeting people and exchanging experience are the most important factors for our attendees, that’s why we are planning to continue our projects in the coming year of 2012. 8th edition of PLNOG will be held on 5-6 March 2012 in Warsaw, next EuroNOG will be held in June 2012 in Lubljana.

Without a doubt, we have to mention our CONFidence conference in May which this year took place in extraordinary surroundings of historic water pumping station in Krakow Bielany. As always, CONFidence had many world-class IT security specialists who came to share their knowledge and experience. We haven’t forgotten about developers, to whom we dedicated to events – JDD (two-day, renowned conference created for Java developers and 4Developers – professional, one-day conference divided into 4 independent paths concerning technologies and issues which we can observe in modern software-producing companies.

In 2011 we started organizing events for external clients. For the second time for Allegro Group, we organized the biggest Polish conference on e-commerce. New face of e-nnovation conference gathered in Poznan over 700 attendees, including e-commerce celebrities. Amongst speakers we got Don Dodge, Jeff Tylor or Eric Ly. What is more, we managed to organize few smaller projects for companies like Cisco and Fortinet.

Focusing on plans for 2012 – we are even more motivated to satisfy expectations of  IT industry, we want to continue our ongoing events. Additionally, we decided to broaden our area of activity and focus a little bit more on new technologies – that’s why we are organizing first Startup Weekend Krakow, which will be held on 20-22 January 2012.

We are glad, that conferences organized by PROIDEA Foundation are very popular in IT industry in Poland. That is why we want to continuously  develop our event calendar, also with external orders. Every  time, we focus on professional presentations and efficient organization. Knowing IT industry’s needs, and having many years of experience, we believe that we can provide you with top quality services.

If you are interested in cooperation, please contact us via e-mail: jakub.koziol@proidea.org.pl or via phone +48504172327.

Registration for the conference is now open!

Registration form is available here.

We would like to kindly inform, that the next PLNOG Meeting will take place on the 5-6 March, 2011 in Marriott Hotel in Warsaw (Poland). As in previous years, we have invited several foreign guests, who will share their experience. If you have any suggestions what we should talk about, what should we focus on, we encourage you to send your remarks to jakub.koziol {@} proidea.org.pl or andrzej.targosz {@} proidea.org.pl. We would also like to invite for the unique workshops, which will be held in the days before and following conference.

All volunteers are welcome to submit their own proposals for CfP.

We would like to invite you to participate in the new meeting organized by Proidea Foundation. IT specialist will meet again at Deadline, a project management conference that takes place on December 1-2, 2011 in Zakopane. The schedule includes:

searching solutions to common problems that Project Managers face in they everyday work (Pecha Kucha session),

ways to shorten the duration of the project with Critical Chain Method,

tips on how to save a project from failure,

innovative methods of management such as Visual Management,

transforming the team managing large-scale projects with The Why Method,

tips how to make geeks and business specialists to cooperate with each other without tension,

cooperation with the client in IT projects (discussion panel),

hands-on trainings in small groups during the conference.

You can find detailed conference schedule on: http://deadlinecon.pl/

Join us in the luxury Grand Nosalowy Dwór**** Hotel, at the foot of the Tatra Mountains in Zakopane. This meeting is a great chance for Project Managers to share their experience and gain new skills.