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APEX Alpe Adria

APEX Alpe Adria


There are different ways how a story can start. The story about the APEX Alpe Adria conference started in the beautiful city of Rovinj in Croatia. I was travelling from the SiOUG event to the HrOUG event. Since the HrOUG event takes place on the island, I was waiting for the boat transfer. I was standing at the end of the peer and thinking it's good that we have an event in Slovenia and also in Croatia, but at the same time, would it be great to do something together? To do something together, you need other people who would support this idea, and by "coincident", who do I see standing on the peer waiting for a boat transfer ... Dario Bilić. Dario is a good friend of mine. At that time, he was helping with the APEX track for the HrOUG event. I explained my idea to Dario. He suggested, let's also reach out to Peter Raganitsch and we can organise the dedicated APEX event for the Alpe Adria region. Sure enough, Peter supported this idea without any hesitation. 


Soon after the HrOUG conference Peter, Dario and I had a call. It was a short call, we all had the same vision, so the meeting was just to align on the basic concepts of the conference and to make a plan what are next steps. I will talk more about what happened next with the first conference and also I will tell you more about the second and third edition of the conference in the next blog posts. 


On the first call, we aligned on concepts, or what I would call the foundations of the APEX Alpe Adria conference. Again, it was a short discussion where we all agreed on this:


  • Conference must be affordable 
  • It will be one day conference
  • Conference will take place in Austria, Croatia and Slovenia (each year different country) 
  • It will be on Fridays
  • On Thursdays evenings we will organise a pre-event, more like get together event
  • On Friday evening, there will be a party
  • The last thing we agreed on was and still is: we do not earn any money by organising the conference (I will come back to this point in the next blog posts)


This picture was taken on 17.10.2018 when I was waiting for a boat transfer

 







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