GÉANT TNC17 Conference in Linz

"The Networking Conference" (TNC) is the leading networking conference for research and education in Europe. It is annually organised by GÉANT, the umbrella organization of Europe's national research and education networks (NRENs).

TNC17 was held from 29 May, 2017 - 2 June, 2017 at Design Center Linz and hosted by ACOnet, the Austrian Academic Computer Network.

TNC17 in figures

• 721 participants from 69 countries
• 2485 livestream views from 40 countries
• 124 speakers and session chairs
• 24 sessions and 5 plenary sessions
• 33 side events (workshops, meetings, etc.)
• 30+ lightning talks (6 of these from students)
• 824 simultaneously connected WiFi clients (incl. eduroam)
• 30 Gbps bandwidth used

TNC17 in retrospect

• Conference website
• Presentations
• Streams
• Photos on Instragram and from Martin Bech
• Videos
• Tweets, tags
• GÉANT Community Awards

Austrian contributions

Review by ACOnet (in German), published in ACOnet's Annual Report 2017:

• ACOnet JB-2017 TNC17.pdf(383 kB)

Other information:

• TV report (local station LT1, in German)
• net:art | near in the distance 3
• Austrian Presentations
• Local Host Events
• Local Host Hints

The TNC17 Local Host Events were supported by:

Logo Ars Electronica Logo University of Art and Design Linz Logo Stadtwerkstatt Logo Upper Austrian Research GmbH Logo RISC Software GmbH Logo ACOnet Logo VIX