European research and education networks call for participation: "Building the Internet of People"

The TNC16 Networking Conference is the largest and most prestigious European research networking conference, with more than 650 participants attending this annual event. TNC brings together decision makers, managers, networking and collaboration specialists, and identity and access management experts from all major European networking and research organisations, universities, worldwide sister institutions, as well as industry representatives.

TNC16, its 32nd edition, will be held in the city of Prague in Czech Republic between 12-16 June 2016.

Pioneers of the Internet

From the start of the Internet, well over 30 years ago, NRENs have been in the business of building network infrastructure, not only to connect campuses to each other and to the rest of the Internet, but also to connect people belonging to many different communities worldwide.

Not only do NRENs provide the basic network infrastructure on which research and education, big science and big data are built, they also address the requirements of ever increasing and diverse communities of end users in areas as diverse as trust, security, identity, and a wide range of tools for collaboration.

Call for papers due by 15 April - also a student contest!

With the TNC16 Call for Proposals we invite you to explore the challenges that the research and education networking community faces while continuing to build the Internet of people. The Call for Papers, Posters and Lightning talks is open and poster proposals are due by 15 April.

Student are invited to participate as well. The TNC16 student competition is centered around the question "How would you improve the internet of people?". In order to pitch their ideas, participants should submit a 3 minute video with a supporting description. A group of finalists will receive fee waivers to attend the conference and to showcase their ideas during a plenary session in front of a panel of experts at TNC16 in Prague.

More information

https://tnc16.geant.org
#TNC16

Student contest:
https://tnc16.geant.org/web/participate/student

Harri Kuusisto
Funet development manager
mobile: +358 50 3819 800
harri.kuusisto@csc.fi