Background and Mission of APRICOT
What is APRICOT?
Throughout Asia Pacific Region, Internet service providers, backbone and regional networks, web hosting facilities, firewalls, and Intranets are being created, deployed, and installed at a staggering pace. The technicians, managers, entrepeneurs and decision-makers responsible are under tremendous pressure to master the skills necessary to build and operate these increasingly complex systems.
The mission of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) is to provide a forum for those key Internet builders in the region to learn from their peers and other leaders in the Internet community from around the world.
Held annually, the (now) eight day long summit consists of technical training, tutorials, conference sessions, the Peering Forum, specialist meetings, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other activities, all with the goal of spreading and sharing the best practice knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific region.
To help ease the travel burden on attendees, APRICOT is held in conjunction with one of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre's (APNIC) two annual meetings, and meetings of other Asia Pacific Internet organisations.
- APRICOT's mission is to develop and advance the skills and understanding necessary to grow a robust Internet infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. APRICOT is about bringing the world's top Internet experts together with those who can most benefit from their knowledge.
- APRICOT attendees are the key builders operators of the Asia and the Pacific Island regions of the Internet. Many of the world's best Internet engineers attend APRICOT either to teach, present or do their own human networking.
- APRICOT provides its sponsors the chance to participate in a quality, content-rich event with excellent opportunities to target their products and services at the technical and operational decision-makers in the Asia Pacific Internet community.
- APRICOT's primary goal is to provide a vehicle for the transfer of technology and techniques to the Asia Pacific Region. As such, our attendance fees are set well below those of the more promotionally orientated conferences.
- APRICOT is an activity supported by various Asia Pacific Internet organisations as well as numerous individuals who give freely of their time and talent, and is not a commercial profit making venture. Any surplus funds from any event are ploughed back into future APRICOT Summits to ensure that delegates have a low cost of participation.
APRICOT today
APRICOT is the Asia Pacific region's premier Internet Operations and Technology summit. The summit is organised by APNOG with the support and assistance of APNIC, along with several community volunteers, all coordinated by Molly Cheam, APRICOT's Event Manager.
APNOG is financially responsible for each and every APRICOT Summit, and works with partners in the region who assist with the local logistics for each summit.
APRICOT operates on a two year planning horizon, with future events being announced 18 to 24 months in advance of them taking place, to all for the community to plan their participation.
The successful model includes advanced technical training (workshops) prior to the conference, and a conference week which includes APNIC's own dedicated track, the APRICOT Peering Forum, tutorials and other operational and technology conference sessions. Apart from this core programme, APRICOT also supports meetings of various Asia Pacific based Internet organisations, as well as several social events, all designed to enhance the participants' networking opportunities.
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