Ryan Fest will take place on Monday, 30th June 2025 in Gdańsk, Poland. A dinner on the preceding evening is also planned.
Venue
The venue is the Gdansk branch of Polish-Japanese IT Academy, Targ Drzewny 9/11, 80-894 Gdańsk, Poland. See Google Maps for the detailed location. This is right in the middle of the medieval Hanseatic Old Town of Gdańsk, and within walking distance from the main train station.
Getting to, from, and around
By air: Gdańsk has direct flight connections to Warsaw (by LOT), Munich and Frankfurt (Lufthansa), Amsterdam (KLM), Copenhagen (SAS), Zurich (SWISS) and Helsinki (Finnair). Besides that, there are plenty of cheap connections to all over Europe by Ryanair and Wizzair, see also the website of the Gdansk Airport for more details.
By train: Gdańsk has good train connections to most Polish cities (including hourly connections to Warsaw). International train connections include Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. Trains are generally cheap in Poland, and relatively reliable. You can find train connections here (only in Polish, but the interface is self-explanatory), and book your train tickets here.
Getting around Gdańsk, Sopot, and Gdynia: The city has reliable and inexpensive public transport system, consisting of metropolitan trains, trams, and busses. You can your itinerary here. When moving around the city, we advise to install the jakdojade app (android, iphone), and use it to find connections and especially buy tickets. The ticketing rules are a tricky maze here and even the locals get lost in it sometimes. Better to let the app choose the right fare for you.
You can also pay by credit/debit card using the Fala terminals at train stations, and inside the trams and buses.
Taxi: We will post links to reliable cab companies closer to the symposium. Uber and Bolt are also in widespread use here.
Whenever in doubt or in need of advice, you can contact Wojtek who is a local and will be happy to answer your questions. 🙂
Accommodation
There is plenty of good accommodation close to the venue. In Poland, 3-star hotels are usually of pretty good quality (better than 4-star places in many other countries). Also, it is generally a good rule of thumb to use booking.com or airbnb to find and book a place.
Note: end of June is already the high season in Gdańsk. Better to book a place in advance!
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a beautiful and vibrant city on the Baltic Sea shore, with a long history of intercultural exchange. It is well connected by air and train to most European cities and (via Warsaw, Munich, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Zurich and Helsinki) to places on other continents. It features the Hanseatic medieval old town and fantastic sandy beaches along the sea shore. The symposium will be hosted by the
Polish-Japanese IT Academy, right in the Old Town and within walking distance from the main train station.
MORE INFO TO FOLLOW SOON… 🙂