Keith, That's a cracking agenda! I'm not due into London on 18th but I am hoping to catch as much as I can of the day online. Is it being streamed?
best Christian Keith Mitchell wrote: > 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) > > >
