Welcome to the 2nd Annual, SDN & Virtualisation Summit, part of the newly formed SDN & NFV World Series. This year's event is in the beautiful city of Prague.

This is the flagship conference in Europe for Operators looking into SDN and network virtualisation and currently the ONLY global free-to-attend* SDN conference.

Following shockwaves sent into the industry by the ETSI NFV working group, and the unprecedented interest received by SDN & Open technologies;  we’ve pulled out all the stops to make this year’s conference the essential meeting place for telco network professionals.

At the event you’ll find everything you need to understand SDN, its’ relevance to network functions virtualisation and the opportunities these present to the telecoms sector. But more than that, we will be digging deep from a technical point of view to understand from an engineering and architectural scope.

Topics to be covered include: Leveraging Cloud to benefit Virtualisation, The business factors driving SDN & NFV, 4G Virtualisation, Automating the SDN with Big Data & predictive analytics, A review of OpenFlow & additional SDN protocols, Advancements in Traffic Management, SDN “goes Green” and much more. 

We’ve already got a whopping 17 case studies confirmed in amongst 2 jam-packed days of real-life implementation & user cases; industry analysis; in-depth discussion; academia & research findings; offerings from both the giant tech vendors and new start-up companies; financial/investment analysis and so much more.

The event is co-located with Ethernet World meaning that you will network with an extra 300+ attendees! Plus it is free to attend for Operators

Make your way over to the Speakers’ page to have a look at our great keynotes for 2013 including experts from: Amazon Web Services, British Telecom, IBM, PCCW Global, Deutsche Telekom, Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Colt Technology Services, Telecom Italia and many more.

*Free to attend for Operators. 

Delegates flew in from around the world to attend IIR's brand new SDN summit in 2012, which took place in London in November.

The interactive two day event was a huge success and generated much debate and hype over the full potential that this technology could present to operators in the next stage of their network infrastructure development.

Find out more in our post event report.