ETech is just around the corner

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Ahhh. O'Reilly's Emerging Tech Conference (ETech) is just around the corner. Getting excited about the conference is almost as much fun as getting excited for Christmas when I was a kid.

My talk slides are submitted. My travel is arranged. My accomodations are set. Meetings are getting scheduled.

I'm scanning the conference sessions trying to make up my mind early on what sessions I want to attend. As usual there are too many cool sessions to absorb them all. There is no way to attend all the sessions or to participate in all the lively discussions -- there are too many concurrent events happening at the same time.

And the idea of having Participant Sessions where the attendees can suggest/host new evening sessions is quite intriguing. It's quite clear that I will be utterly sleep deprived, over caffeinated and over stimulated for the whole conference. Ahh -- just they way I like it.

ETech is a great place to pour the latest trends and memes into your brain and to network with the movers and shakers. Many important people (think Lessig, Kapor, Bezos...) frequent ETech, so it is easy to make the right connections and to meet people that are normally our of your reach. For me, ETech is the best networking opportunity of the year.

If you're headed to ETech, check out my talk on Next Generation File Sharing With Social Software. If not, you can catch some of the happenings here -- the O'Reilly bloggers also show up en masse at ETech.

Are you going to ETech? What are you excited about?