Call for Participation – LOPSA-NJ Professional IT Community Conference 2012

This year’s Theme "System Administration: Scaling, Security, and Saving Money"

PICC ’12: 3rd Annual Professional IT Community Conference
May 11- 12, 2012
New Brunswick, NJ
Hyatt Regency New Brunswick
www.picconf.org/cfp

The organizers of the LOPSA-NJ Professional IT Community Conference (PICC) invite you to submit proposals for papers and talks to be presented at PICC ’12.
PICC12 is a gathering of professionals from the diverse IT (computer and network administration) community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference includes invited speakers and keynotes, training by top-notch experts that is relevant, useful, and recession-friendly; plus an “unconference” track where attendees propose and host their own topics during the event. We expect attendance of 100 to 150 IT professionals from mid to large sized companies and academia from New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania. We go by many titles but everyone is invited: system administrators, network administrators, network engineers, Windows, Linux, Unix, DBAs, etc

Presentation Topics
We strongly welcome topics on best practices, new developments in systems administration, and cutting edge techniques to better manage Linux, Unix, or Windows hosts and environments.
Papers should be of a technical nature and speakers should assume that members of the audience have at least a few years’ experience in general IT, Linux/Unix, and/or Windows administration.
The audience will primarily hail from businesses and academic institutions in the New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania area.

Join LOPSA at our annual PICC Conference for System Administrators in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 11-12, 2012. 

The PICC Conference is the perfect balance of cost and convenience close to home and full of amazing insights and leaders of the system administration community. 

Topics range from vendor neutral best practices to the bleeding edge of computing, hitting all points in-between.

Discussion in the hallway track is lively and enlightening because of the rich diversity inherent to the system administration community.

Enjoy the included meals and meet new and interesting conference goers while you get face-to-face time with the experts and leaders of the community.

The complete program and registration form will be available here in February 2012.