Geek Picnic
| Geek Picnic | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | science and technology festival |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | St. Petersburg |
| Inaugurated | 2011 |
| Organised by | ООО «EXPONENTA» |
| Website | http://geek-picnic.ru |
Geek Picnic — is an annual science and technology open-air festival in St. Petersburg.
Geek Picnic 2011
- When: August 6, 2011
- Where: New Holland Island, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Number of visitors: more than 5,000 people
About the event
Yury Lifshits and Ilya Bolkhovskiy were the first organizers of Geek Picnic. The staff of Vkontakte, Yandex, Iota, LookAtMe, Veeam Software could be found among the participants, as well as the representatives of the leading investment funds and incubators: Runa Capital, ABRT, Ingria, etc.[2][1]
Geek Picnic 2012
- When: August 3, 2012
- Where: New Holland island
Number of visitors: more than 7000 people
About the event
The main group of Geek Picnic 2012 visitors consisted of programmers and IT-specialists, representatives of creative class, young families. The program of Geek Picnic contained three parts:
IT
- Exhibition of robotics
- A special tent with lectures and master classes from specialists from various Russian IT companies
- Informal fair of vacancies for programmers
- Start-up session on popular technological projects
- Speed dating for programmers
Educational part
Lectures in the format of TED organized together with Tedx Neva River «Hello, World!». Among speakers there were Gaidar Magdanurov, Hrachik Adzhamyan, Alexey Voinov, Philip Katz, Kirill Shihan and Yury Lifshits. Open stage for speeches on the modern technological life of St. Petersburg (presentation laboratories, IT projects, educational programs, co-working spaces, publications) Lecture hall Windarium from Windows
Entertainment part
A large picnic from the organizers New Holland exhibitions Open library Jumpers Juggling school Game zone with game consoles Children Playground Playground with board games Geek-goods market Activities (ping-pong, trampoline, badminton, basketball) Segway Mechanical sculptures by Alexander Ghetoi Kicker and Golf Competitions and prizes (*5)
Geek Picnic 2013
- When: 3-4 August,2013
- Where: St. Petersburg, Elagin island
- Number of visitors: Over 2 days, the festival gathered more than 15 000 visitors, making it the largest and, indeed, record in Europe.[6]
About the event
The forum was divided into 5 thematic areas[7]:
- Technology
- Science
- Art
- EXPO
- Picnic