The Committee
Of course this conference did not appear out of thin air. A team of seven highly motivated students have been working on this conference for over a year. We have all done this with great pleasure and we hope you enjoyed the conference!
Of course this conference did not appear out of thin air. A team of seven highly motivated students have been working on this conference for over a year. We have all done this with great pleasure and we hope you enjoyed the conference!
Organising the 2017 SNiC is a great challenge, speakers, location, sponsors, promotions have to be managed in harmony to make it a success. As the chairman I'm blessed with a good team of enthousiastic people which I have a lot of fun with making the SNiC 2017 happen. I hope that you enjoyed the SNiC as much as we did, organising it.
During my year as board member of Cover, I got to realise how much these conferences contribute to broadening the horizon of the students. That made me want to bring the organisation to Groningen. As secretary I made sure everyone had access to the information they needed, worked on the back-end of the website and consequently made some new features this year.
Since I've started studying, SNiC was always an event I looked forward to. When I got the opportunity of organising the event, I had no doubt doing it. I had to make sure that there's money available to make the conference happen. It is a challenging task, but I learned a lot about it.
As Commissioner of External Affairs, I have the chance to make companies enthusiastic about collaborating with us. This makes me very enthusiastic about the conference as well! I love the theme Disruptive Technology, because I’m really looking forward to work with all those exciting technologies after finishing my studies. I hope that with DisruptIT we have given you an inspiring look into the future!
The content of the programme is my main responsibility. As a Computer Scientist who is always looking for ways to broaden his horizon, I am looking for stories. My goal was to fill your day with interesting talks by enthousiastic speakers, who can teach you something you haven't heard before. I want everybody to leave the conference inspired by new technologies and motivated about the future of Computer Science.
Before I had organised events, but nothing on the scale of the SNiC before. It was a lot of fun to see how everything gets together when organising such an event. Finding the right location was also a time consuming, but very rewarding and enjoyable. I hope you all have had as much fun at the conference as we had organising it!
I am the youngest of the committee, so I had to compensate my lack of experience with my enthusiasm. For me working on giving you this conference has been an amazing experience. I have been responsible for all the promotion material, the logo and the design of the website. When I started I did not know how to do any of these, but this committee has taught me a lot, besides it being a lot of fun!
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or if you are looking for more information. Just send us an email and we will contact you.