The Festival

The Academic IT Festival is an annual international conference directed especially toward people who show a passionate interest in computer related technology. This event stands out of the crowd because of the fact that it is being organized by students for students and therefore meets their expectations accurately. The Festival is a forum for the exchange of information and experience related to computer technology between experts in the field and auditors. It also serves as a meeting ground for students with similar interests.

Since the very first edition, which took place in 2005, the Festival has been becoming more and more popular. Cracow city had not been offering a similar event that far. Although scientific life has always been thriving at Cracow’s universities, there lacked some substantial contact with what was really going on in computer science both in Poland and in the world. Books and IT magazines ceased to be enough. Our team, consisting of members from academic circles from AGH, PK, UJ and UE, decided to take up the task of arranging an event on a nationwide scale, which was to break the standstill. And as you can see, it has succeeded.

Every year, the Academic IT Festival has been surprising everybody with its momentum. At present, it is the biggest event of its type in Central Europe. The conference deals with a wide range of issues, such as software engineering, operating systems, networking or open source software. It results in the lectures being attended to both by experts and beginners in a given field. The variety of subjects also guarantees that every participant can find something for himself. The conference guests are always people who have something interesting to say: experts from the IT world, representatives of the biggest companies, scientist from leading universities. We had the pleasure to host: prof. Andrew Tanenbaum, prof. Ryszard Tadeusiewcz, Vahe Amirbekyan, Lukas Renggli and others. Their experience perfectly complement the theoretical knowledge that students already acquire at university.

The Festival status is being confirmed by having the honorary patronage of:
- The Mayor of Cracow - Mr. Jacek Majchrowski,
- The Governor of Małopolska – Mr. Maciej Klima,
- His Magnificence Rector of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow,
- His Magnificence Rector of the Cracow University of Technology,
- His Magnificence Rector of the Academy of Economics in Cracow (now University of Economics in Cracow),
- His Magnificence Rector of the Jagiellonian University.

Within the three last editions of the Festival, almost 50 lectures took place, each time gathering several hundred participants from all over Poland.

The conference is being organized by the members of Scientific Circles from four Cracow’s main universities: the Jagiellonian University, the Cracow University of Economics, the AGH University of Science and the Cracow University of Technology.

The Academic IT Festival is a non-profit initiative. Participation is totally free of charge.

We cordially invite you for this year's edition of the Festival!

Photos from Academic IT Festival 2009! Photos from Academic IT Festival 2008 Photos from Academic IT Festival 2007

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