Academic IT Festival is an annual international conference directed especially toward people who show a passionate interest in computer related technology. This event stands out of the crowd because of the fact that it is being organized by students for students and therefore meets their expectations accurately. Since the very first edition, which took place in 2005, the Festival has been becoming more and more popular. Cracow city had not been offering a similar event that far. Although scientific life has always been thriving at Cracow’s universities, there lacked some substantial contact with what was really going on in computer science both in Poland and in the world. Every year, the Academic IT Festival has been surprising everybody with its momentum. At present, it is the biggest event of its type in Central Europe. The conference deals with a wide range of issues, such as software engineering, operating systems etc.. It results in the lectures being attended to both by experts and beginners in a given field. The conference guests are always people who have something interesting to say: experts from the IT world, representatives of the biggest companies, scientist from leading universities. We had the pleasure to host: prof. Andrew Tanenbaum, Richard Stallman, prof. Kevin Warwick, prof. Stephen Wolfram, prof. Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Gilad Braha and others. The Academic IT Festival is a non-profit initiative. Participation is totally free of charge.