Facebook F8 19, 2017, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. Announcements included: The 2018 F8 conference was held from May 1, 2018 to May 2, 2018, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. At the conference, Facebook announced the creation of their own online dating service. Shares in the dating business Match Group fell by 22% after the announcement. Facebook F8 Facebook F8 (pronounced ""eff eight"") is a mostly-annual conference held by Facebook, intended for developers and entrepreneurs who build products and services around the website. It is hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area, California,
Large Installation System Administration Conference years, the conference often ended with a LISA quiz show trivia contest, but that has been replaced with a plenary session to close out the week. The refereed papers are published in a proceedings volume. Many important topics in system administration were first disseminated publicly via LISA papers. Large Installation System Administration Conference LISA is the Large Installation System Administration Conference, co-sponsored by the computing professional organizations USENIX and its LISA special interest group (formerly known as SAGE). The word "large" was dropped from the title of the 6th conference in 1992 (though retaining the "LISA" name). The full acronym