Like all previous editions, the seventh belongs to the past. So let’s remind ourselves what happened on 10-12 March 2011.

More than three thousand people attended 17 lectures given by 19 speakers. At the same time about one hundred people participated in the workshops.

These people shared with us their wisdom:

• Wiesław Paluszyński  
• Wojciech Świeboda
• Andrzej Błaszczyk  
• Sławomir Kopeć
• Marcin Bielówka
• Szymon Słupik
• Stephen Wolfram
• Michał Śliwoń
• Rafał Legiędź 
• Paweł Dolega
• Konrad Malawski
• Tomasz Smolarek 
• Piotr Konieczny
• Chris Mills  
• Mariusz Stawowski
• Albert Hupa
• Katarzyna Wadas
• Rafał Szemraj
• Mariusz Gil

Topics of the lectures concerned electronic signatures, creating processes in Windows Workflow Foundation, Facebook for developers, starting up a company with help of Cracow Technology Park, the future of mobile communication, web development, programming language Scala, a distributed version control system GIT, hacker tools, HTML5, designing and scalability of databases or creating virtual characters for games.

It’s worth mentioning that for the first time in ATIF history we held a videoconference. Stephen Wolfram told us about his vision of future programming.

Also for the first time, participants of the festival had a possibility to become speakers. It was enough to send an application through Call for Papers - just presenting us a subject that others might be interested in. From the applications we selected two people who had their chance to present their speeches.

Workshops were led by:

• Andrzej Błaszczyk 
• Monika Konieczny
• Kamil Piekarz 
• Konrad Malawski
• Paweł Chrapka
• Piotr Gurgul 
• Mariusz Gil

Participants of these workshops had a chance to learn how to create applications for Facebook, how programmers and testers can communicate and which tools they can use to create Android applications.

7th AITF received honorary patronages of Cracow’s City President Jacek Majchrowski and of Little Poland’s Governor Stanisław Kracik.

Our media patronages were:

• niebezpiecznik.pl 
• www.krakow.pl 
• Miesięcznik Studencki Manko 
• Telewizja Studencka URSS.TV

Our golden sponsors were:

• Clico 
• Krakowski Park Technologiczny 
• SoftwareMind 

And our silver sponsors were:

• ABB 
• Capgemini
• eset 

 Like all previous editions, the seventh belongs to the past. So let’s remind ourselves what happened on 10-12 March 2011.

More than three thousand people attended 17 lectures given by 19 speakers. At the same time about one hundred people participated in the workshops.

These people shared with us their wisdom:

• Wiesław Paluszyński  
• Wojciech Świeboda
• Andrzej Błaszczyk  
• Sławomir Kopeć
• Marcin Bielówka
• Szymon Słupik
• Stephen Wolfram
• Michał Śliwoń
• Rafał Legiędź 
• Paweł Dolega
• Konrad Malawski
• Tomasz Smolarek 
• Piotr Konieczny
• Chris Mills  
• Mariusz Stawowski
• Albert Hupa
• Katarzyna Wadas
• Rafał Szemraj
• Mariusz Gil

Topics of the lectures concerned electronic signatures, creating processes in Windows Workflow Foundation, Facebook for developers, starting up a company with help of Cracow Technology Park, the future of mobile communication, web development, programming language Scala, a distributed version control system GIT, hacker tools, HTML5, designing and scalability of databases or creating virtual characters for games.

It’s worth mentioning that for the first time in ATIF history we held a videoconference. Stephen Wolfram told us about his vision of future programming.

Also for the first time, participants of the festival had a possibility to become speakers. It was enough to send an application through Call for Papers - just presenting us a subject that others might be interested in. From the applications we selected two people who had their chance to present their speeches.

Workshops were led by:

• Andrzej Błaszczyk 
• Monika Konieczny
• Kamil Piekarz 
• Konrad Malawski
• Paweł Chrapka
• Piotr Gurgul 
• Mariusz Gil

Participants of these workshops had a chance to learn how to create applications for Facebook, how programmers and testers can communicate and which tools they can use to create Android applications.

7th AITF received honorary patronages of Cracow’s City President Jacek Majchrowski and of Little Poland’s Governor Stanisław Kracik.

Our media patronages were:

• niebezpiecznik.pl 
• www.krakow.pl 
• Miesięcznik Studencki Manko 
• Telewizja Studencka URSS.TV

Our golden sponsors were:

• Clico 
• Krakowski Park Technologiczny 
• SoftwareMind 

And our silver sponsors were:

• ABB 
• Capgemini
• eset 

Nasz Festiwal od pierwszej edycji miał na celu m.in. zaproszenie prelegentów z najwyższej, światowej półki.

Wielu z Was, uczestników SFI, może przypomnieć sobie, że przemawiali u nas prof. Andrew Tanenbaum, Chad Fowler, Joe Armstrong, Gilad Bracha i wielu innych, którzy niejednokrotnie spędzali ponad 20 godzin na pokładzie samolotu (w obie strony), aby wygłosić 90-minutowy wykład dla uczestników Festiwalu.

Musicie jednak wiedzieć, że składaliśmy znacznie więcej propozycji i zaproszeń do prelekcji. Niektóre nie zostały zaakceptowane właśnie ze względu na czasy podróży, inne ze względu nadmiar zajęć czy już zaplanowane terminy innych prelekcji (choćby w przypadku Tima Berners-Lee czy Roberta Cailliau). Jednak jedną z najbardziej oryginalnych odpowiedzi przesłał nam przed IV SFI prof. Donald Knuth, znany wielu z nas twórca systemu TeX oraz autor wielu interesujących algorytmów i książek z serii "The Art of Computer Programming".

Prof. Knuth najwyraźniej otrzymuje zaproszenia konferencyjne tak często, że posiada serię kartek pocztowych z szablonem do przesłania odmowy (i kilkoma typowymi powodami tej odmowy).

Oto jedna z takich kartek, którą otrzymaliśmy od niego w lipcu 2007 roku:

18 speakers and over 3000 people participated in 2nd Academic IT Festival.

23rd, 24th i 25th February 2006 you had an opportunity to hear about: server IIS 6, SSETI, working for Google, IBM and Microsoft for students, Internet project management, OCR systems, Ruby On Rails, MINIX3, algorithms for Internet and many others.

Our speakers were:

• Waldemar Jarmużek
• Grupa COMM_PL
• Renata Kuśmider
• Marcin Mrowiecki 
• Krzysztof Maj
• Karol Wituszyński
• Marek Jeziorek
• Michał Orkisz
• Tadeusz Golonka
• Tymoteusz Chmielewski
• Paweł Płaszczak
• Tomasz Gąciarz
• Marek Hołyński
• Andrzej Krzywda
• Michał Ciach
• Łukasz Grabski
• Krzysztof Diks
• Andrew Tanenbaum

Festival took place thanks to generosity of our sponsors:

• Clico,
• ABB,
• Plus GSM, 
• IBM.

2nd AITF received honorary patronages of Cracow’s City President and of Little Poland’s Governor and of Cracovia. Our media patronages were: Lunux+ and Kraków IT.

We were supported by: Google, Microsoft and Academica.

18 speakers and over 3000 people participated in 2nd Academic IT Festival.

23rd, 24th i 25th February 2006 you had an opportunity to hear about: server IIS 6, SSETI, working for Google, IBM and Microsoft for students, Internet project management, OCR systems, Ruby On Rails, MINIX3, algorithms for Internet and many others.

Our speakers were:

• Waldemar Jarmużek
• Grupa COMM_PL
• Renata Kuśmider
• Marcin Mrowiecki 
• Krzysztof Maj
• Karol Wituszyński
• Marek Jeziorek
• Michał Orkisz
• Tadeusz Golonka
• Tymoteusz Chmielewski
• Paweł Płaszczak
• Tomasz Gąciarz
• Marek Hołyński
• Andrzej Krzywda
• Michał Ciach
• Łukasz Grabski
• Krzysztof Diks
• Andrew Tanenbaum

Festival took place thanks to generosity of our sponsors:

• Clico,
• ABB,
• Plus GSM, 
• IBM.

2nd AITF received honorary patronages of Cracow’s City President and of Little Poland’s Governor and of Cracovia. Our media patronages were: Lunux+ and Kraków IT.

We were supported by: Google, Microsoft and Academica.

The 3rd edition of Academic IT Festival took place on 8th – 10th March 2007. Over 300 guests and 21 speakers came to the event.

Speeches were about anthropomorphic robots, Intrusion Prevention, Apache Geronimo v2, Google Ads, Iron Python, informatics in banking and also about OpenMosix+Gentoo, workflow systems, eBay, medical teleconstructions, JRuby and history of computers and informatics.

During the 3rd edition we could listen to:

• Ryszard Tadeusiewicz,
• Mariusz Stawowski,
• Paweł Wołoszyn,
• Jacek Laskowski,
• Damon Hougland,
• Michael Foord,
• Greg Badros,
• Bogdan Pilawski,
• Karol Wróbel,
• Ewa Grabska,
• Walter Zieliński,
• Łukasz Brzyski,
• Zbigniew "Gandalf" Braniecki,
• Vahe Amirbekyan,
• Piotr Powroźnik,
• Michał Nowak,
• Andrzej Bożek,
• Maciek Wnęk,
• Jakub Sipowicz,
• Maciej Sysło,
• Piotr Kluczwajd,
• Ola Bini,
• Lukas Renggli. 

3rd AITF received honorary patronages of Cracow’s City President Jacek Majchrowski and of Little Poland’s Governor Maciej Klima and of Cracovia.

Our media patronages were:

• dobreprogramy.pl
• hakin9.org
• inicjatywa it.wkrakowie.org
• mediatop.pl
• netsprint
• Radio Kraków
• warchalking.pl  

We gained financial support from:

• Clico
• TVN S.A.
• Sabre Holdings 
• Google
• ABB 
• grasz o staż
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Ericpol
• DRQ  

We were also supported by: Academica, Gazeta Krakowska and Dziennik Polski Student.

The 3rd edition of Academic IT Festival took place on 8th – 10th March 2007. Over 300 guests and 21 speakers came to the event.

Speeches were about anthropomorphic robots, Intrusion Prevention, Apache Geronimo v2, Google Ads, Iron Python, informatics in banking and also about OpenMosix+Gentoo, workflow systems, eBay, medical teleconstructions, JRuby and history of computers and informatics.

During the 3rd edition we could listen to:

• Ryszard Tadeusiewicz,
• Mariusz Stawowski,
• Paweł Wołoszyn,
• Jacek Laskowski,
• Damon Hougland,
• Michael Foord,
• Greg Badros,
• Bogdan Pilawski,
• Karol Wróbel,
• Ewa Grabska,
• Walter Zieliński,
• Łukasz Brzyski,
• Zbigniew "Gandalf" Braniecki,
• Vahe Amirbekyan,
• Piotr Powroźnik,
• Michał Nowak,
• Andrzej Bożek,
• Maciek Wnęk,
• Jakub Sipowicz,
• Maciej Sysło,
• Piotr Kluczwajd,
• Ola Bini,
• Lukas Renggli. 

3rd AITF received honorary patronages of Cracow’s City President Jacek Majchrowski and of Little Poland’s Governor Maciej Klima and of Cracovia.

Our media patronages were:

• dobreprogramy.pl
• hakin9.org
• inicjatywa it.wkrakowie.org
• mediatop.pl
• netsprint
• Radio Kraków
• warchalking.pl  

We gained financial support from:

• Clico
• TVN S.A.
• Sabre Holdings 
• Google
• ABB 
• grasz o staż
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Ericpol
• DRQ  

We were also supported by: Academica, Gazeta Krakowska and Dziennik Polski Student.

In 2008, 6th, on 7th and 8th of March fans of informatics gathered in Krakow for the fourth time. 4 thousand participants, 21 speakers and 9 workshop conductors came to AITF.

During lectures you could listen to:

• 
  Krzysztof Diks,
• Lucjana Sosna,
• Jakub Dziwisz, 
• Jan Mrzygłód, 
• Paweł Sołyga, 
• Piotr Rog, 
• Maciej Fijałkowski, 
• Michael Foord, 
• Joe Armstrong, 
• Piotr Kluczwajd, 
• Łukasz Pobereżnik, 
• Mariusz Stawowski, 
• Andrzej Krzywda,
• Dirk Muthig,
• Chad Fowler, 
• Aleksander Pohl,
• Jonathana Hartley’a, 
• Arkadiusz Kozak, 
• Paweł Wołoszyn, 
• Michał Moskal, 
• Leo Sauermann,
• Gilad Bracha.

Speakers told us about Internet algorithms, AJAX, multitouch screens, PyPy, Python and Silverlight, Java, concurrent software, web security, Ruby on Rails, Cyber-Police and also about semantic web in applications and satellite navigation.

Workshops were conducted by:

• Cracow Linux Users Group,
• Pykonik, 
• Polish Agile User Group, 
• Marcin Nowrot, 
• Maciej Fijałkowski, 
• Andrzej Krzywda, 
• Aleksander Pohl, 
• Marcin Raczkowski, 
• Kraków Ruby Users Group. 

4th AITF received honorary patronage of Little Poland’s Governor and City President. This year AITF was once again supported by Academica.

Our media patronages were: Magiczny Kraków, Onet.pl, DobreProgramy.pl.

We were happy to be financially supported by:

• TVN
• DRQ
• SoftwareMind
• SabreHoldings
• Clico 

In 2008, 6th, on 7th and 8th of March fans of informatics gathered in Krakow for the fourth time. 4 thousand participants, 21 speakers and 9 workshop conductors came to AITF.

During lectures you could listen to:

• 
  Krzysztof Diks,
• Lucjana Sosna,
• Jakub Dziwisz, 
• Jan Mrzygłód, 
• Paweł Sołyga, 
• Piotr Rog, 
• Maciej Fijałkowski, 
• Michael Foord, 
• Joe Armstrong, 
• Piotr Kluczwajd, 
• Łukasz Pobereżnik, 
• Mariusz Stawowski, 
• Andrzej Krzywda,
• Dirk Muthig,
• Chad Fowler, 
• Aleksander Pohl,
• Jonathana Hartley’a, 
• Arkadiusz Kozak, 
• Paweł Wołoszyn, 
• Michał Moskal, 
• Leo Sauermann,
• Gilad Bracha.

Speakers told us about Internet algorithms, AJAX, multitouch screens, PyPy, Python and Silverlight, Java, concurrent software, web security, Ruby on Rails, Cyber-Police and also about semantic web in applications and satellite navigation.

Workshops were conducted by:

• Cracow Linux Users Group,
• Pykonik, 
• Polish Agile User Group, 
• Marcin Nowrot, 
• Maciej Fijałkowski, 
• Andrzej Krzywda, 
• Aleksander Pohl, 
• Marcin Raczkowski, 
• Kraków Ruby Users Group. 

4th AITF received honorary patronage of Little Poland’s Governor and City President. This year AITF was once again supported by Academica.

Our media patronages were: Magiczny Kraków, Onet.pl, DobreProgramy.pl.

We were happy to be financially supported by:

• TVN
• DRQ
• SoftwareMind
• SabreHoldings
• Clico 

5th Academic IT Festival lasted 3 days and took place on 12th-14th March 2009. The number of participants was as usual quite impressive: 4 thousand IT fans and 15 speakers.

Lectures were about: Adobe AIR, open Source products, success in business, applications for iPhone OS, technology of sending information, internet portals, and also monitoring and analyzing experiments of nuclear physics, programming in Erlang, security of ATM machines, making computer games, neurocognitive informatics.

Our speakers were:

• Roman Kluska,
• Paweł Sołyga,
• Lukas Hasik,
• Ryszard Tadeusiewicz,
• Piotr Walczyszyn,
• Michał Czaicki,
• Michał Ślaski,
• Piotr Kluczwajda,
• Tomasz Napierała,
• Ryszard Horodecki,
• Jerzy Grębosz,
• Mariusz Stawowski,
• Piotr Konieczny,
• Michał Drobot,
• Włodzisław Duch.

 Workshops were conducted by:

• Michał Ptaszek,
• Marcin Raczkowski,
• Piotr Misiowiec, 
• Michał Drobot.

Workshops participants had an opportunity to learn about: Adobe AIR and Flex, Erlang and Ruby.

6th AITF received honorary patronages of Cracow’s City President Jacek Majchrowski and of Little Poland’s Governor. We also gained annual support of Academica. Our sponsors were: Clico and Sun Microsystems.

Our media patronages were:

• MFX Film Studio,
• DobreProgramy.pl,
• Radio17,
• Semestr,
• dlaStudenta.pl,
• MagazynIT.pl,
• Softy.pl,
• ERP-view.pl,
• Manko,
• Hack.pl
• Benchmark.pl.