Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program, which is the largest and fastest growing in the industry, provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information, visit http://www.google.com/.

Google supports the event financially.

For 11 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), security, hybrid and enterprise applications, from 42 Availability Zones (AZs) across 16 geographic regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world monthly – including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies – to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

Cisco enables people to make powerful connections - whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible - providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies.

Today, with more than 67,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company’s core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as Application Networking, Data Center, Digital Media, IPICS, Mobility, Security, Storage Networking, TelePresence, Unified Communications, Video and Virtualization

Cisco provides all of our WLAN hardware and helps us setting up the wireless network.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) will harmonize emerging technologies and foster innovation in container packaged, dynamically scheduled, and microservices based application development and operations. The mission of the CNCF is to create and drive the adoption of a new computing paradigm that is optimized for modern distributed systems environments capable of scaling to tens of thousands of self healing multi-tenant nodes.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) supports the event financially.

Codethink specialises in system-level software engineering to enable advanced technical applications, working across a range of industries including finance, automotive, telecoms and medical. As experts in Free and Open Source Software, they help customers take maximum advantage of the knowledge and technologies developed by the Open Source community. Their customers are international-scale organizations who seek competitive edge through design of enterprise appliances and embedded systems which are faster, smaller, more secure, more up-to-date, or more advanced than their competitors.

Codethink supports the event financially.

Collabora is a leading global consultancy specializing in delivering the benefits of Open Source software to the commercial world. For over 12 years, we’ve helped clients navigate the ever-evolving world of Open Source, enabling them to develop the best solutions – whether writing a line of code or shaping a longer-term strategic software development plan. By harnessing the potential of community-driven Open Source projects, and re-using existing components, we help our clients reduce time to market and focus on creating product differentiation.

To learn more, please visit collabora.com. Follow us on Twitter @Collabora.

Collabora supports the event financially.

Colt provides network, voice, and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure. Customers include 18 of the top 25 banks and diversified financial groups and 19 out of the top 25 companies in both global media and telecoms industries (Forbes 2000 list, 2014). In addition, Colt works with over 50 exchange venues and 13 European central banks.

Colt operates across Europe, Asia and North America with connections into over 200 cities globally. It completed the acquisition of KVH in 2014, an integrated managed communications and IT infrastructure services business, with headquarters in Tokyo and operations in Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore.

Colt sponsors the internet uplink at FOSDEM.

Minio is an AWS S3 compatible, open source, object storage server, written in Go. Consistent S3 API with freedom of deployment on variety of platforms, makes Minio an ideal multi-cloud storage platform. Developers generally deploy Minio in a container and consume storage services. While scaling Minio via platforms like Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.

Join us on slack.minio.io.

Minio supports the event financially.

Once again, we are proud to have O’Reilly as one of our sponsors.

O’Reilly are the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies and communicate the knowledge of experts through books, conferences, and web sites. Their books, sporting the iconic animals on the covers, occupy a treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next generation of software. Their conferences and summits bring innovators together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. From the Internet to the web, Linux, Open Source, and now peer-to-peer networking, O’Reilly puts technologies on the map.

Visit http://oreilly.com/ to learn more.

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Designed and developed in France, Qwant is the first European search engine with its own indexing technology, which protects the privacy of its users by refusing all tracking devices, including for advertising. Contrary to the main search engines on the market, Qwant does not install cookies on the user browser, does not want to know who the user is or what he/she does, and does not keep individual logs of user queries.

Qwant’s friendly interface allows users to find answers efficiently from the Web and social networks. It respects neutrality. Qwant considers all indexed websites and services with no discrimination, without altering the ranking of results according to its own interests.

Founded in 2013 by Eric Leandri, Jean-Manuel Rozan, Alberto Chalon and the Pertimm company, Qwant SAS has offices in Paris, Nice, Rouen, Ajaccio, Milan and Berlin. www.qwant.com

Qwant supports the event financially.

trivago is a global hotel search platform. We are focused on reshaping the way travelers search for and compare hotels, while enabling hotel advertisers to grow their businesses. Our search platform makes sense of a complex, fragmented web of online hotel offerings in a comprehensive way, by aggregating information from a deep supply of hotels and websites. trivago provides access to over 1.8m hotels, including vacation rentals and alternative accommodations, with prices and availability from over 400+ booking sites and hotel chains.

trivago is a place where we take pride in learning from one another. We love what we do but we don’t take ourselves too seriously— we make mistakes, but the drive to continually improve is something we all possess.

Our tech stack:

• Highly modern JavaScript, including Jest, Snapshot testing, Redux, webpack, Rollup and of course ES6+
• PHP and Symfony at their best, running on handmade FreeBSD servers
• node.js in the cloud
• Storage systems: Percona MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached and Varnish
• Big Data” areas: Java, Hadoop, Kafka, Stream processing, Big data analytics

We are big supporters of Open Source and contribute back whenever possible.

Curious? Visit our tech blog! tech.trivago.com

trivago supports the event financially