Amsterdam is the first European venue for the Sakai Community Conference. The Sakai Foundation and the Sakai Community are cooperating with the Universiteit van Amsterdam on the conference. The main venue for the Tuesday-Thursday meetings is the new Movenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Center.


Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios, and research collaboration. Sakai is a free, open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community.