In the wake of Yet another Conference 2011

    On September 19, Moscow hosted the second Yandex technology conference - Yet another Conference 2011 . This year the event was attended by about two and a half thousand people. Registration terminals issued up to 22 badges per minute.



    We discussed, argued and exchanged a lot of things on various topics: programming techniques, security, mobile technologies, client development, mathematics in computer science, administration and testing, distributed storage and computing systems.

    This year, in addition to reports, a technology exhibition was held at YaC 2011, where Elliptics, Mod_js, MapKit, Lunapark, Mulca and other technologies developed in Yandex were presented, as well as new smartphones and technologies from Samsung and HTC. The booth at which the tactical training exercises were codenamed “Lunapark” vs Nginx was very popular.

    Separate stands were devoted to training and work in Yandex. Our employees answered questions about which specialists are of interest to us, about the School of Data Analysis and the School of Managers, held contests and lotteries. One of the most popular competitions was a competition for system administrators. Its winners became students of the fall Yandex Information Technology Courses. We also offered to go through a training interview at the School of Data Analysis and, by our own example, to find out our requirements for applicants.

    The Marvin robot was a great success. Thanks to him, some lucky ones got prizes from our partners.



    We thank all participants and guests of the conference!Thank you for the excellent and bold questions, for the active interest and positive energy that was felt throughout the event!

    Very soon, we will post interesting numbers, materials, video and photo reports on the conference website - yac2011.yandex.ru - and we will certainly tell you more about this.
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    In the meantime, watch our video on how we prepared for YaC 2011:

    Photos are kindly provided by our colleague - Oleg Okhotnikov.

    Natalia Fedorishcheva,
    Group of conferences and external events

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