Brief Overview

In March (1-5, 2011), CeBIT will once again be opening its gates in Hannover, Germany. CeBIT is the world's largest and most renowned trade fair for the world of IT and telecommunications.

CeBIT is a great opportunity to talk with people who know about Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox, but who may not be aware of our amazing organization and community. We see this as a chance to learn why people choose Firefox or Thunderbird, and hope we can evangelize why we are different in the quickly changing browser landscape.

Ideally we are attending to learn more about our users, and understand why they have chosen to use Firefox or Thunderbird. We expect to meet technology fans, but of different backgrounds and levels of skill. This is a great learning opportunity for us. Also its a great place to tell People about Firefox and so spread the word and get new Community Members involved.

We also have the possibility to meet and network with other open source projects and Influencer,

Participants

We are looking to staff the Mozilla booth at CeBit with around 3 in the booth at any one time.  This means we probably need 4-5 staff at the event each day, and no more than 30% non-German speakers.  If you are interested to take part in the Mozilla booth and could attend for at least 2 days, please add your details here or contact pfinch or Tomcat.  If you have a relevant topic, there may also be speaking opportunities.  Please let us know if you would be interested in this also.

Logistics

Venue Name and Address

CeBIT
Deutsche Messe
Hannover, Germany
CeBIT - website: http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e

Map of exhibition grounds (hall number TBC): http://www.cebit.de/43470

Important Phone Numbers

Tomcat - QA Staff Lead - +49 176 36180151

Getting there

CeBIT provides a guide - which is the simplest thing to follow: http://www.cebit.de/48811

Train Travel Times

Wolfsburg - Hannover morning train times:

• 06:55 - 07:28 (ICE)
• 08:05 - 08:37 (IC)
• 08:55 - 09:28 (ICE)

More details for the 6:55am train:

• Wolfsburg Hbf to Hannover Hbf
  • Depart: 06:55am
  • Platform:1
  • Train number: ICE 946, ICE 956 (Intercity-Express)

• Hannover Hbf
  • Arrive: 07:28
  • Platform: 11

• Hannover Hbf to Hannover Messe Ground
  • Dept: 07:41am
  • Platform: 4
  • Train number: ICE 71 (Intercity-Express)

Accommodation

Tryp Hotel Wolfsburg Willy-Brandt-Platz 2, 38440, Wolfsburg GERMANY

Conference Details

What is CeBIT?

CeBIT (Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik; German for "Centre of Office and Information technology") is the world's largest computer expo. It is held each spring on the world's largest fairground in Hannover, Germany, and is a barometer of the state of the art in information technology. With an exhibition area of roughly 450,000 m² (5 million ft²), over 6,111 exhibitors and more than 755,000 visitors in 1995, it was larger than COMPUTEX and the no-longer held COMDEX. By 2008, the CeBIT expo attendance was at 495,000, and was held from 4 March to 9 March 2008. The CeBIT 2011 event will be organized by Deutsche Messe AG and is expected to surpass the previous year's success.

CeBIT on Wikipedia

About CeBIT

CeBIT Open Source Area

Types of Visitors

Tuesday to Thursday
The first few days of CeBIT are where all the main deals are done. CEOs and VP of all the major computer hardware and software manufacturers want to do business during these first days. Therefore, the types of folks around on these days are the business crowd. There is also likely to be more press around at this time.

Friday to Saturday

Visitors from Friday to Sunday are mainly technology interested consumers (and also teachers)

Mozilla Speaking Slots

Monday Feb. 31nd

Set up the demo stations, Booth and Internet

Tuesday March 1rd

Full Day at the event.

Wednesday March 2th

Full Day at the event.

Thursday March 3th

Full Day at the event.

Friday March 4th

Full Day at the event.

Saturday March 5th

Full Day at the event + Last day at the event. Need help taking stuff away and clearing up if necessary.