German IPv6 Council
2nd German IPv6 Summit
IPv6 Status

The German IPv6 Summit will take place in Potsdam at May 14-15, 2009. Hosted by the Hasso-Plattner-Institute, the German IPv6 Summit provides two days of International, European, and German experts to address IPv6 technology at work. The first day includes talks about IPv6 strategy and deployment status worldwide, with a focus on USA, Europe, Asian and Germany. As VIP-keynote speakers State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Dr. Hans Bernhard Beus and internet inventor Dr. Robert Kahn have confirmed their participation. In the evening, the winners of the International IPv6 Application Contest 2009 will be awarded in connection with a gala dinner at the Museum of Communications in Berlin. Day two will complement the program by addressing IPv6 deployment from the perspective of operators and ISPs as well as deployment in the public sector including the presentation of new and innovative IPv6 applications.

The 2nd German IPv6 Summit is organized by the Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the University of Potsdam in close collaboration of the German IPv6 Council, the national chapter of the International IPv6 Forum. The German IPv6 Council has been established to group all the different persons in industry, research, politics and administration in the IPv6 field in Germany with the clear mission to advocate IPv6 by improving technology, market, and deployment user and industry awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet.

The overall conference language is German with simultaneous translation in English.

In addition to the conference programm a halfday IPv6 Tutorial on May 15th 2009 being presented in German language only (see below for further information).

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