Speaking at Conferences

I'm speaking at ad:tech in November. I saw this post on the nature of speaking on panels at conferences. Some good thoughts on how you put a conference together, without relying too much on people trying to sell their products.

BarCamp is coming to Washington, DC on 8/11. It's an unconference (attendees pick the session topics, and organize it. Some heavily technical BarCamp sessions. I've read writeups on several in Silicon Valley; it'll be interesting to see what form the DC version takes.