"If you're a sysadmin slaving away in a metaphorical basement and re-inventing the wheel every time your employer's business goals change slightly, LISA will help pull you into the light."
Marc Chiarini, Long-Time IT Admin and Researcher, MarkLogic Corp
"No matter if you are dealing with the latest tech or trying to maintain something from the dark ages of the ‘90s, there are people at LISA who are experienced with it. Heck, many of the people who _developed_ this tech attend. This is a great place to get answers and ideas."
Lee Damon, University of Washington
"In a world where technology changes rapidly, it's hard to find great resources for in-depth expertise. LISA has a terrific combination of people who create the technology and people who implement it effectively for their companies."
Matt Simmons, Northeastern University
"LISA is the best mix of training, talks, and networking of any events I've been to. That's the reason I've been to 11 of them.”
LISA14 Attendee
"LISA is the home of ops people who do ops correctly. I’m always motivated by the conference content and hallway conversations to be better, and I take home the knowledge needed to move closer to that goal. "
Tony Del Porto, Cisco Systems, Inc.
"I like seeing where the industry is heading, how SysAdmins/engineers are evolving, tools they are using, common problems and solutions across the world."
LISA14 Attendee
"This was my first LISA. It was great attending a conference that focused on my role without trying to shoehorn every challenge into a specific vendor's solution. The same mix of awesome sessions, speakers, and other attendees will bring me back every year."
LISA14 Attendee
"Great sessions, great presenters, great community. I feel like I can make up a year of following news and forums on the subject in a week."
Tutorials in the LISA Training Program are half-day or full-day sessions taught by industry experts. These sessions offer a highly curated selection of instructor-lead tutorials, all geared towards helping you create, maintain, and monitor efficient and secure networks.
The Conference Program, previously known as the Technical Sessions, includes Invited Talks, Paper Presentations, and Mini Tutorials. Each of these sessions is designed to provide guidance from industry leaders, while offering actionable takeaways to immediately apply the knowledge and ideas gained.
Invited Talks
Come listen to speakers from a variety of backgrounds share their knowledge and stories from the frontlines. Invited Talks cover an array of topics including Culture, Monitoring & Metrics, SRE & Software Engineering, and Systems & Network Engineering.
Paper Presentations
Accepted authors come to LISA to present their findings on the latest research in System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, and other related topics.
Poster Presentations
The Poster Session is the place to check out cool new ideas and the latest preliminary work on display.
Mini Tutorials
Want to learn more about a new or emerging technology, but not ready to commit to intensive training? Our Mini Tutorials offer 90-minute overviews designed to give you a taste and let you figure out if you want to learn more.
Workshops are half-day or full-day sessions for small groups (typically no more than 30 people) to share ideas and knowledge. Workshops are intended to be participatory, not instructional, and familiarity with the specific topic/area is expected of the attendees.
In cooperation with the hotel, LISA Build participants will help create a portion of the conference network, thus providing you with wireless access and providing them with a hands-on experience building a network from the ground up. The LISA Build room is next door to the LISA Lab and open the same hours as the Lab, so come by and see how and what they did. Or you can seek out those LISA Build orange badges and ask about the experience—perhaps we’ll see you helping build the network next year!
Back for its third year, LISA15 will feature a lab available for informal mini presentations by seasoned professionals, participation in live experiments, tutoring, and mentoring. Attendees can investigate and test new technologies, and interact with other attendees in a participatory technical setting.
UCMS ’15, URES ’15, Puppet Camp D.C., Red Hat Training, EMC {code} Mars Data Challenge Hackathon, Data Storage Day, and Linux Professional Institute Certification are all co-located events taking place alongside LISA15. Please visit each event's Web page to learn about the program and registration details.
LISA15 will feature one track of vendor talks on Thursday in Lincoln 5. Come listen to and interact with companies related to your industry. Learn about the latest technology and products available to professionals in the field.
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