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How 250 volunteers helped make TNW2018 memorable for 15,000 attendees

Jun07
by on June 7, 2018 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


Attending a large conference is undoubtedly awesome. When you walk inside for the first time, you marvel at how it all came together. TNW Conference 2018 was no different. It’s grown from a 200 attendee event to one of the largest tech festivals in Europe — it attracted 15,000 visitors each day this year. In case you’ve ever wondered how we do it, here’s a little behind-the-scenes. One of the secrets to pulling off a conference of this scale is volunteers. We recruited 250 this year, all of them playing a crucial role. I spoke to Myriam Koning, our volunteer…

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How 250 volunteers helped make TNW2018 memorable for 15,000 attendees

Jun07
by on June 7, 2018 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


Attending a large conference is undoubtedly awesome. When you walk inside for the first time, you marvel at how it all came together. TNW Conference 2018 was no different. It’s grown from a 200 attendee event to one of the largest tech festivals in Europe — it attracted 15,000 visitors each day this year. In case you’ve ever wondered how we do it, here’s a little behind-the-scenes. One of the secrets to pulling off a conference of this scale is volunteers. We recruited 250 this year, all of them playing a crucial role. I spoke to Myriam Koning, our volunteer…

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Microsoft just dropped 864 servers into the sea to run an underwater data center

Jun07
by on June 7, 2018 at 7:58 am
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As a major player in the cloud infrastructure market, Microsoft is keen on figuring out better ways to store and power its machinery. To that end, it’s now deployed a data center on the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The idea is part of Project Natick, an initiative to identify environmentally sustainable ways of running large-scale data management units. The first phase, which kicked off in 2014, saw Microsoft build a small submersible data center that housed the equivalent of 300 desktop PCs and drop it into the ocean back in February 2016 to test whether it’d actually…

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