Event name: OpenInfra Summit + PTG Vancouver 2023 Event Dates: June 13-15, 2023 When our long-term partner, the OpenInfra Foundation (formerly OpenStack Foundation), said they wanted to return to our favorite city in Canada, Vancouver, we were all in! The OpenInfra Summit allows industry vets and newbies alike to collaborate directly with the people…
Event name: Camp Strava Event Dates: May 16-17, 2023 Part tech giant conference, part hip Hollywood party, Camp Strava 2023 is an annual event that gathers the global Strava community in one place for a chance to connect, learn from each other, and move together. Bringing 300 of the world’s most inspiring athletes, explorers,…
Event name: Open Compute Project Regional Summit Event Dates: April 19-20, 2022 Held in picturesque Prague, Czech Republic, the 2023 OCP Regional Summit brought together nearly 600 industry leaders, researchers, and pioneers from the open-source community. Easy to get to and set near the main artery road through central Prague, the Prague Congress Centre…
Event name: The Voyagers Scholarship Fall Summit 2022 Dates: November 18, 2022 An increasingly globalized world needs young leaders who can bridge divides and help solve our biggest challenges together. The Obamas and Brian Chesky (Airbnb Co-founder and CEO) created The Voyager Scholarship to help shape such leaders. The program gives college students financial…
Event name: Open Compute Project Global Summit Dates: October 18-20, 2022 By all accounts, the 2022 OCP Global Summit was a huge success, with more than 3,500 participants and 80 sponsors attending the San Jose, CA event! Empowering Open was the theme for the annual Summit, and it couldn’t have been more fitting. The…
Event name: Roblox Developer Conference Dates: September 9-10, 2022 The annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC) is a special invite-only event for the best artists, game developers, designers, storytellers, and coders from the Roblox community. Held at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, this year’s event was a great time for Roblox to share…
Event name: OpenInfra Summit Dates: June 7-9, 2022 OpenInfra Summit Berlin—WE LOVE IT! Here’s a snapshot covering the three-day OpenInfra Summit Berlin with 800+ attendees from 65+ countries, 100+ sessions, 23 sponsors, and one global OpenInfra community. After two and a half years of waiting out COVID, the OpenInfra Foundation hosted its first in-person…
Event name: 2021 OCP Global Summit Dates: November 9-10, 2021 The hybrid Global Summit brought together thousands of key decision-makers, executives, engineers, developers, and suppliers, both in person at the San Jose Convention Center and online through our own FNvirtual Event Platform. Being one of the first tech events to return to large-scale meetings…
Event name: Infinity Festival 2021 fntech.com | Event Article Dates: November 2-4, 2021 Infinity Festival Hollywood (IF) is an annual, multi-day event that celebrates “STORY ENABLED BY TECHNOLOGY.” Since 2018, Infinity Festival has grown to become the premiere, and only event that unites the talent behind Hollywood storytelling with the power of Silicon Valley technology. IF…
OCP Virtual Summit | ONLINE May 12-15, 2020 Talk about making lemonade out of lemons. Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, the Open Compute Foundation had no choice but to cancel their large in-person Global Summit just days before the event was due to commence. Over the next week, we met with their leadership team and…
Infinity Festival | Hollywood, CA November 7-9, 2019 The 2019 Infinity Festival (IF) was a three-day fusion of Silicon Valley innovators and Hollywood storytellers, featuring a fast-paced keynote, six different breakout tracks, countless film screenings, an awards ceremony, a sponsor expo, VIP rooftop networking party, and a museum exhibition blending Art + Tech. Sponsored by…
Oculus Connect | San Jose, CA September 25-26, 2019 This fall, Oculus Connect 6 brought together the industry’s leading developers, creators, and visionaries to celebrate the epic journey of Virtual Reality and explore the road ahead. In a world where lines blur between reality and imagination, FNTECH was delighted to help showcase this extraordinary digital…
Facebook Developer Conference F8 | San Jose, CA April 30 & May 2, 2019 F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference, spotlights the global community, the latest technology from their family of apps, and the future we are building together. In perhaps Facebook’s most robust LED showing to date, the event had several massive, but separate LED…
Open Infrastructure Summit | Denver, CO April 29–May 1, 2019 This spring, tech leaders building and operating open infrastructure met in bustling state capital Denver, Colorado for over 300 sessions and workshops on Container Infrastructure, CI/CD, Telecom + NFV, Public Cloud, Private & Hybrid Cloud, Security and members of open source communities like Airship, Ansible,…
FNTECH Expands Horizons with New LED Equipment and Support • FNTECH acquires 500 ROE Diamond 2.6 LED panels • New LED specialist David Dustin joins the team • Even more bang for the buck, for client events of all shapes and sizes Santa Ana, CA | January 23, 2019 – Locally-owned FNTECH, a full-service live event…
PyTorch Developer Conference 2018 October 2, 2018 On October 2, artificial intelligence leaders from tech companies, universities, research organizations, and the community came together for the first-ever PyTorch Developer Conference. PyTorch is an open source machine learning library for Python, based on Torch, used for applications such as natural language processing. It is primarily developed…
Oculus Connect 5 | San Jose, CA September 26-27, 2018 Held in the always-bustling San Jose Convention Center (SJCC), Oculus Connect 5 gathered the industry’s most visionary developers and creators to celebrate the VR journey thus far, and catch more than a glimpse of what lies on the horizon. In the keynote hall, demo areas…
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, BC May 21-24, 2018 This May, the OpenStack Foundation brought together 2,600 developers, tech leaders, sponsors and industry visionaries to grow and connect in beautiful downtown Vancouver, BC. Held in the award-winning, harbor-front Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC), attendees from 53 different countries were able to focus on building and operating open…
Facebook Developer Conference F8 | San Jose, CA May 1-2, 2018 At the risk of tooting our (and Facebook’s) own horn a bit, the Facebook Developer Conference in San Jose this spring was nothing short of jaw-dropping. While many areas of the event were visually enticing, perhaps the biggest “wow-factor” was the keynote stage. With…
Open Compute Project | San Jose, CA March 20-21, 2018 Looking back at this supremely successful event, perhaps the word that describes it best is “growth.” With more sponsors and sessions than ever before, Open Compute’s ninth annual event brought together more than 3,400 key decision makers, executives, engineers, developers and suppliers, a 17% increase…
Pride Leadership Day | San Francisco, CA March 9, 2018 Since 2008, Facebook has officially recognized, embraced and celebrated Pride Leadership within the company. During their inaugural global Pride Leadership Day, LGBTQ employees were able to connect in person, share their experiences and come together as a community. Set in the historical Palace of Fine…
OpenStack Summit | Sydney, Australia November 6-8, 2017 This fall, OpenStack took their international Summit to the to the southern hemisphere for the first time – the lush and luxurious city of Sydney, Australia. Attended by 2,300 people from 54 countries, the Summit was architected to appeal to a wide array of attendees. From sought-after…
Oculus Connect | San Jose October 11-12, 2017 Day one of this dynamic event saw more than 3,000 people converge on downtown San Jose for the fourth annual Oculus Connect, where Oculus leadership announced new hardware, software and content that brought even more people into the land of VR. During this content-driven, two-day event, Oculus…
Facebook Developer Conference F8 | 2017 April 18, 2017 – April 19, 2017 By all accounts, the 2017 Facebook Developer Conference was nothing short of jaw-dropping. From the moment attendees arrived, they were immersed in the F8 experience, the largest visual element being the three-story high exterior wall wrap covering the entire main entrance to…
OpenStack Summit | Boston May 8-11, 2017 Attended by more than 5,000 people from over 60 countries, the OpenStack Summit in Boston was THE place to be for anything “cloud” this spring. Held at the Hynes Convention Center and surrounding hotels, the Summit embodied information sharing on a massive scale. With scores of demos and…
Ads and Business Platform Summit | San Francisco, CA April 22, 2017 This spring, FNTECH was delighted to partner with Facebook to create the first-ever Ads and Business Platform Summit. Held at the illustrious Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in the heart of San Francisco, this one-day event boasted 2000 employees all focused on bringing their…
Silicon Valley Comic Con | San Jose, CA April 21-23, 2017 Silicon Valley Comic Con brings together America’s two greatest superheroes: Pop Culture and Technology. Presented by Steve Wozniak and featuring hundreds of top celebrities, comics, independent artists, cosplay, video games, consumer electronics, music and apps, Silicon Valley Comic Con exemplified the intersection of entertainment…
Facebook Women@ Leadership Day | San Jose, CA February 13, 2017 Women@ Leadership Day is billed as “a time to be inspired, network with like-minded professionals, and learn applicable skills to become resilient, effective leaders.” After being part of the magic in the making, we know Facebook hit the nail right on the head this…
Here is a look inside one of our biggest international shows to date: OpenStack Summit Barcelona. As one of the fastest growing open source communities in the world, OpenStack Summit Barcelona brought together over 5,200 attendees, held more than 500 sessions and represented 936 companies and 69 countries. With constant innovation and momentum, we cant…
Oculus Connect 3 October 5 – 7, 2016 San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA
As the saying goes, “Everything’s bigger in Texas!” the OpenStack Summit Austin was no exception. Nearly 7,000 guests from more than 50 countries attended the Summit held in OpenStack’s hometown, marking it as the largest turn out to date. Texas charm was visible in every aspect from Keynote to Marketplace to awesome events held around…
F8 is not only one of the most exciting shows but one of the most innovative. This annual session brings together the best leaders, tools and practices in creative app development. But really, here at FNTECH, that just means we get to do some really cool stuff. From state of the art sound and audio…
FNTECH had the great thrill and honor of producing the first ever Silicon Valley Comic Con 2016! Legendary Steve Wozniak hosted over 30,000 attendees, presenting an amazing show including a Spotlight on the Back to the Future cast! A big thanks to everyone who made it out, ready to go in full costume and the FNCrew that made it…
Another exciting Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit has wrapped in San Jose! This years show highlighted excellent keynote speakers, an always awesome exhibit hall for member and sponsor contributions, workshops and a hardware hackathon! Thanks to everyone that made it out and all the hard workers that made yet another great OCP Summit!
It was our great pleasure to work with Facebook again on their recurring Woman’s Leadership Day conference this past January. Over 2500 woman joined together at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Northern California to hear from some of the most influential women in the world today. We worked with Facebook to create beautiful, engaging…
The OpenStack Summit this May in Vancouver was nothing short of spectacular. From all accounts – media, attendees and industry buzz – this was, by far, the best OpenStack Summit yet! Two days of jam-packed Keynote Sessions A huge “Marketplace” exhibit hall with more than 100 sponsors (and a giant 30’ seaplane flying above the…
