INTRODUCTION

There are many conferences being organized in Poland focusing on changes that the Internet has undergone in the recent years and their implications. Topics and participants are usually precisely named and limited to the representatives of one discipline. There are academic conferences for sociologists, psychologists, media experts, IT specialists, marketing branch, start-up initiators, etc.

However, there is a lack of such an event that would combine the variety of Internet-affected environments providing an opportunity for academic and business professionals to openly share and exchange their experience, contacts and opinions.

The interdisciplinary character of the conference gives a unique opportunity to enrich your Internet knowledge, offering a wide variety of perspectives on the old and enabling the new ideas among academics, marketing professionals, sociological groups, all the actors who help to create virtual reality.

How about coming to Rzeszow once a year to share your experience, get to know each other, discuss and exchange opinions and, last but not least, spend some time together in a nice atmosphere?

A new important meeting site on the Internet map? Why not?
 

BASIC ASSUMPTIONS

Interdisciplinarity
We would like to invite to Rzeszow Internet specialists of different fields. There will be representatives of sociology and psychology faculties, mathematics, information technology, technical universities. There will be business professionals who run and manage successfully their own web services and Internet projects. There will be also representatives of venture angels, research institutes, marketing specialists promoting new trends, owners of the biggest Internet portals, representatives of interactive agencies, programmers, graphic designers, students and many others. This is a meeting place for those whose career is strictly tied with the Internet, its development and the possibilities it creates. We would like to give a chance to all the participants to get a working knowledge through personal contacts to specialists from different fields and disciplines. All those people have never had a chance to meet in one place so far. We strongly believe our event will be the cradle of new initiatives, inspirations and ideas.

Integration between different groups of people
We are convinced that such an interdisciplinary formula of conference where people can listen and participate to speeches of various kinds and topics, can get to know professionals from other fields, companies and groups will become a starting point of integration. We will do our best to enable and enhance this process. The conference will provide a venue for participants to freely share their ideas, opinions and comments within the Internet community. In order to allow the participants to prepare for the event we will distribute the list containing the profiles of all the attendees, not only of the speakers.

We wish to create nice atmosphere
Conference does not mean necessarily only lectures, speeches and gaining knowledge. Equally important is the social aspect and we would like to emphasize it as well. Two attractive conference evenings will allow participants to get to know each other better. We plan a jazz club evening the first day and a dinner in a regional restaurant with numerous attractions on the second day.

A three-day event
All the participants who probably come from distant places will have a chance to take a break from their everyday matters and duties. The University infrastructure will satisfy even those most demanding. Besides, a longer event favours integration and building up new relationships. And this is what counts!

Platform that delivers effectiveness & new solutions
During big conferences participants are usually on the horns of a dilemma: which session to choose? Taking part in one session makes it impossible to participate in another one at the same time. In this case the audience of each completed session will vote the most interesting presentation. Then it will be briefly presented for the rest of the participants during the last day. The best lectures will receive a special prize. What is more, the materials of selected sessions will be recorded and available for the participants after the event.