I'm pleased to announce that the agenda for UKNOF25 is now available at:
http://indico.uknof.org.uk/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=27
UKNOF25 will take place at 15Hatfields, Southwark, London
on Thu 18th April.
Our Platinum meeting sponsor is Ericsson, with additional Bronze
sponsorship by Ciena.
We have a packed, high-quality agenda, with a number of talks on LTE and
White Space wireless networks, together with the latest high-speed fibre
technologies in the data centre, local loop, and rural locations.
We also have a follow-up from the UKNOF21 talk on the cure for
Bufferbloat, and a special presentation from Akamai's Network Architect,
Patrick Gilmore. Finally, we're planning some late-breaking material on
DDoS reflection attack prevention in the light of recent incidents.
At previous London meetings, we unfortunately had to turn people away
due to lack of space at the venues. We've been working to address this,
which is why we've switched to a much bigger venue, and it's great to
see we now have a record 135 attendees registered :-)
This success has however caused us to hit a different capacity limit two
weeks ahead of time, namely the number of attendees we can admit for no
fee from the sponsorship money we have raised. This is why we closed off
free "early bird" registration today, even though the venue can
accommodate more.
So, between now and the 18th, we're going to experiment with having late
registration (only) attendees pay their way via a registration fee.
This will be:
- £50 (+admin, VAT) = £63.65 between now and 12th April
- £100 (+admin, VAT) = £126.65 between 13th and 17th April,
and for walk-ins on the day.
If you didn't register early, and still want to attend, please now
register at:
http://uknof25.eventbrite.co.uk/
I'd like to emphasise that we very much prefer UKNOF to stick to the
model of using sponsorship to keep attendance free for the majority of
attendees, this charging is an experiment for now, and we don't at this
point have any plans to do so for all attendees. We hope you understand,
but we are of course open to feedback as always.
If you or your organisation are interested in becoming an additional
UKNOF25 sponsor so we don't need to do this, slots are still available,
please do talk to us !
Getting back to the meeting:
Things will kick off Wednesday evening with the regular pre-meeting
Curry Social, sponsored by IXreach.
For those of you unable to attend in person, we will once again webcast
proceedings, with thanks to our webcast sponsors Bogons and Portfast.
At the end of the day there will be social drinks, sponsored by
hardware.com.
Look forward to seeing you all on the 18th !
Keith
(UKNOF Chair)
