Campus Party is a five days (and four nights) non-stop, 4,000 tents, 7 stages, 20,000 visitors expected, 350 speakers from all over the world, 450 hours of content, more than 130 partners including companies, institutions, communities and universities.
Among the main speakers: Guido Tonelli, physicist talking about the CMS project at CERN that discovered the Higgs Boson; Jon “Maddog” Hall, the Board Chair for the Linux Professional Institute; Edward Frenkel, mathematics professor from the University of Berkeley in California and author of the bestseller Love and Math and George Hotz, programmer and hacker from the US, the first to jailbreak the iPhone 3S and to hack the PlayStation 3.
An important new feature of the second edition was the Job Factory, an area where participants and companies can get to know each other and carry out different activities together.
The first edition of Campus Party Italy, the international festival that focuses on creativity and innovation, was held in Milan (Fiera Milano Congressi MiCo) in July 2017.