With a great pleasure we would like to inform you that we have 500 registered attendees for the 8th PLNOG Meeting. At the same time – we have only 100-120 entries left, we would like to encourage everyone who wants to attend to register as soon as possible. Registration form available here.
If you would like to go back with your memories to the Last March Meeting, then I invite you to watch movies, which present the work crowning half year of preparations.
Before it comes to the training/conference, or whatever you organize, there are plenty of preparations. Each edition of the PLNOG conference requires great commitment of many people working under the name of PLNOG Conference Organizing Committee . A very large contribution to the PLNOG Initiative (especially from the developmental and educational side) had the members of PLNOG Committee and Program Board.
Below is a video of the preparations to the last edition of the PLNOG conference.
PLNOG is not only a conference, this is also an evening After Party. This traditional event gives the attendees an oportunity to talk with their partners, potential clients, or people with the same interests, in a more relaxed atmosphere. The upper movie shows the After Party, which was held during the last PLNOG Conference.
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 
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. 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.
