Organizing a 5000 visitor hacker event

Speaker: Attilla de Groot

Abstract

SHA2017 is a non-profit outdoor Hacker camp/conference taking place in The Netherlands from the 4th to 8th of August 2017. It is the successor of a string of similar events happening every four years. These are GHP, HEU, HIP, HAL, WTH, HAR and OHM. Similar events are EMF Camp 2016 in the UK, CCC Camp and congress in Germany. The location is the Scoutinglandgoed in Zeewolde, 55km east of Amsterdam.

This talk will present the upcoming event. We will show what is this camp is all about and what has to be done to organize a 5000 people hacker event.

Biography

Attilla has spent the last 15 years at the cutting edge of networking, having spent time with KPN, Amsterdam Internet Exchange and HP, with exposure to technology from Cisco, HP, Juniper and Huawei. He now works for Cumulus Networks, the creators of open networking, where he is able to continue his interest in open architecture design.

Twitter: @attilladegroot