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<H1>Join the NGINX team and fellow users in NYC!</H1>
Want to learn more about NGINX and how it can help in your applications? Want to share how you've been using NGINX, and have your say in future features? Talk one-on-one with other users and with the NGINX team?
Come and spend the day with us in NYC! We are combining great training along with an afternoon lineup of amazing guest speakers.
For those of you who are newer to NGINX or want to improve your skills,we'll host our NGINX Fundamentalscourse onThursdaymorning.
Lunch will be provided for those of you staying for the afternoon.
<P STYLE="font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none; border: none; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); background: 0px 0px;">Our afternoon summit will kick off at 1:30pmwith an opening talk bySarah Novotny,NGINX Head of Developer Relations.In this session, we'llshare strategies to help you move from a monolithic architecture to one that allows you to innovate, respond faster, and give your users the best possible experience. We'll discuss ways to give your users a better experience when failure does happen.
The enlightenment continues with lightning talks from some of the most innovative technologists using NGINX today. Past speakers have includedJeff Kaufman ofGoogle, Andrew Stein ofDistil Networks, Vanessa Ramos and Nicolas Greni of3Scale, Andrew Fong ofDropbox, John Wason ofDisqus, Dustin Whittle ofAppDynamics, and Chris Richardson,creator of the originalCloudFoundry.com.
After all the content, stick around for snacks, drinks, and social time with fellow NGINX users and the NGINX team.

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What will you learn with NGINX Fundamentals?
NGINX is a high performance, open source web application accelerator that helps more than 37% of the world's busiest websites deliver more content, faster, to its users. NGINX Fundamentals is a hands-on course in which you will learn to install, configure, and maintain NGINX. Not only will you learn to set up NGINX, but you will learn about common use cases such as load balancing, reverse proxy and caching. 
In the spirit of learning by doing, the course will take you step-by-step through the setup process and in the end you will finish up with a complete basic NGINX Setup. This course is hands-on so bring your laptop and prepare to go to work. This hands-on workshop covers the open source version NGINX. We will cover:
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<LI>Why NGINX and How it Compares to the Alternatives</LI>
<LI>Installing NGINX</LI>
<LI>Configuring NGINX</LI>
<LI>Processing requests and working with server blocks</LI>
<LI>Building NGINX from source</LI>
<LI>Using log files for debugging</LI>
<LI>Load balancing, reverse proxy, caching and other common use cases</LI>
<LI>Take home exercise</LI>
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Schedule for the Day:

9:00am: Registration for NGINX Fundamentals Course
9:30am: NGINX Fundamentals Course begins (lunch provided)
1:30pm: Summit registration
2:00pm: Opening Keynote:Delivering Amazing Applications with NGINX
2:45pm: Break
3:00pm: Community Lightning Talks
4:00pm: Break
4:15pm: Closing Keynote
5:00pm: Social Hour

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Submit a Community Lightning Talk: We are looking to spotlight community members in the afternoon Community Lightning Talks segment. Have an NGINX use case you'd like to share? Excited about your implementation? Writen or used a module you enjoy or found helpful?<A HREF="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qwjBzyqVYjoeBKnSpby51cBjX55ss-HWbD3B0J2QUNA/viewform" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Submit here</A>to share your insights and stretch your speaking skills.
 
Sponsor Opportunities: There are sponsorship slots available. Learn more about <A HREF="http://cdn.nginx.com/resources/events/NGINX_Summits_Training_Prospectus_v1.pdf" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">sponsoring NGINX Summit + Training</A>.

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Transit + Parking Details: There are parking options nearby, however there is no parking validation at the venue or event. There is no bicycle parking onsite. Please plan ahead if you are biking to make other arrangements to park it. 

Accessibility: The building is ADA accessible.

Refund Policy: Tickets for theNGINX Summit +Training are non-refundable, but they are transferrable.

Code of Conduct: By registering for this event,we expect you to have read and agreed to our<A HREF="http://nginx.com/nginx-conf-2015-code-of-conduct/" REL="nofollow">Code of Conduct</A><A HREF="http://nginx.com/nginx-conf-2015-code-of-conduct/" REL="nofollow">.</A>

 * This page will be updated as we continue to finalize speakers.