Kinnernet
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Kinnernet is an annual networking event for Internet
professionals, held at the Ohalo Resort in Israel
every Spring since 2003. Organised by Yossi Vardi
, founding investor of ICQ
, Kinnernet serves as a think tank for everything Internet, with some 250 attendees. Previous attendees include Martin Varshavsky, Loic LeMeur, Kevin Slavin, Nimrod Kozlovski, Jeff Pulver
, Gary Shainberg, Eyal Hertzog
and Yair Goldfinger.
Kinnernet is an invitation-only, self-organized "un-conference", originally inspired by Tim O'Reilly's Foo Camp
. Kinnernet aims to provide Internet professionals, creatives and "geeks" the opportunity to gather informally and discuss topics of mutual interest.
Some discussion points later become topics at TheMarker, a two day Internet business conference in Tel Aviv
.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
professionals, held at the Ohalo Resort in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
every Spring since 2003. Organised by Yossi Vardi
Yossi Vardi
Joseph Vardi , is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 40 years he has founded and helped to build over 60 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology.-Biography:Joseph Vardi was born in Tel...
, founding investor of ICQ
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
, Kinnernet serves as a think tank for everything Internet, with some 250 attendees. Previous attendees include Martin Varshavsky, Loic LeMeur, Kevin Slavin, Nimrod Kozlovski, Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver
Jeffrey L. Pulver is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his work as founder and chief executive of pulver.com. He has written extensively on the need to develop an alternative to government regulation of the applications layer of Voice over Internet Protocol telephony.-Biography:Jeff...
, Gary Shainberg, Eyal Hertzog
Eyal Hertzog
Eyal Hertzog is the co-founder and current CCO of the popular video sharing website Metacafe.Hertzog grew up in Ra'anana, Israel and currently lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also a musician...
and Yair Goldfinger.
Kinnernet is an invitation-only, self-organized "un-conference", originally inspired by Tim O'Reilly's Foo Camp
Foo Camp
Foo Camp is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly describes it as "the wiki of conferences", where the program is developed by the attendees at the event, using big whiteboard schedule templates that can be rewritten or overwritten by attendees to optimize the schedule...
. Kinnernet aims to provide Internet professionals, creatives and "geeks" the opportunity to gather informally and discuss topics of mutual interest.
Some discussion points later become topics at TheMarker, a two day Internet business conference in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
.