As every year, at the end of January, the biggest european developers conference takes place in Brussels, Belgium.
This year, there will be an SDN/NFV DevRoom. You can submit a talk proposal before November 18. Topic examples: * SDN controllers - OpenDaylight, OpenContrail, ONOS, Midonet, OVN, OpenStack Neutron,Calico, IOvisor, ... * Dataplane processing: DPDK, OpenDataplane, netdev, netfilter, ClickRouter * Virtual switches: Open vSwitch, Snabb Switch, VDE, Lagopus * Open network protocols: OpenFlow, NETCONF, OpenLISP, eBPF, P4, Quagga * Management and Orchestration (MANO): Deployment and management of network functions, policy enforcement, virtual network functions definition - rift.io, Cloudify, OpenMANO, Tacker, ... * Open source network functions: Clearwater IMS, FreeSWITCH, OpenSIPS, ... * NFV platform features: Service Function Chaining, fault management, dataplane acceleration, ... The announce by Dave Neary: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2015-October/002282.html It is also a good opportunity to drink some really good beers ;)
