I am looking for speakers. If you have something geeky that you want to share in 20 slides, then please submit a talk. Some suggestions: don't submit a product demo, submit a how-to, something inspirational or some lessons learned. Submit by July 15th (earlier is better as selection is a rolling process) If you wish to sponsor (or pay for drink tickets) send me a ping.

1. Vanessa Fox - 5 Things Developers Should Know About Search Engines
   750 million people search. Ensure your infrastructure lets search engines turn those searchers into your customers.
2. James Levy - Medill Eats Its Own Dog Food
   In the aftermath of a serious trust scandal, a journalism school asks tough questions about its future. Transparently.
3. David Calkins - Robots Everywhere!
   Robots are finally here. Brains, bodies, sensors, and actuators - building, using, and buying robots. Where's your bot?
4. Christy Canida - How to Build Online Community Using the 7 Deadly Sins
   Building online community doesn't have to be complicated -- just give people what they REALLY want.
5. Vinnie Lauria - How to "Use" your Users
   From new features, to bug testing, to driving new traffic - how to get the most out of the community using your product.
6. Christian Crumlish - Grasping Social Patterns
   I will discuss a set of social design patterns I am framing out as Yahoo!'s pattern detective.
7. Annalee Newitz - Why Giant Monsters Rule
   Giant Monsters 101 -- an intro to the greatest giant monsters, what they mean, and how to appreciate their mega-charms.
8. Kathy Sierra - Kicking Ass
   How to make your users kick ass.

1. Lane Becker - By the time I finish this talk, everyone in this room will want to run a marathon
   Why every person who spends their day in front of a computer should get up from the chair and run a marathon.
2. Gregory Dicum - Asking Questions
   Conducting interviews for bloggers and podcasters -- techniques, tricks, and pitfalls from offline journalism
3. John Adams - Snarkatron
   Discusses Snarkatron,a social experiment which allowed audience members to interact with performers using SMS/RSS/WWW
4. Salim Ismail - The Metaphysics of Growth
   There are core processes that govern how growth/evolution happens. We'll drill into them and how it affects technology
5. Jim Edlin - Can the web become America's next polling place?
   Do we really need expensive, specialty machines from dubious companies to run elections, or can the Web do it better?
6. John Adams - You Aren't From Around Here, Are You?
   What technical end users mean when they talk about Web 2.0, as observed in the field well away from Silicon Valley.
7. Dan Shapiro - Make Money Fast: Where the dough is in mobile
   Overview of how to make money building software for mobile phones
8. Ted Rheingold - Dogs on the Web
   Let's follow Ted into Dogster
9. Sean Bonner - How to cause global chaos with a checkbox
   Riot inducing feedback and fun times when redesigning a global blog network.

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1. Noah Iliinsky - Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of SpaghettiA system for creating good diagrams, starting with perception and cognition, and ending by advising key choice points.
2. Ellen Kowalczyk - Living with (and not killing) the entrepreneur in your lifeCreative ways on managing money, time, personal space and the emotional ups and downs of living with a startup junkie.
3. Sarah Schacht Run the Government: A Primer for Online Citizens Web 2.0 has been around for a few years. US democracy-over 200. On/offline best practices & tools for citizen activism.
4. todd sawicki - History of Online AdvertisingFrom the 1st banner ad to where spam came from to the rise of the dreaded pop - its all explained so you'll who to blame
5. Adam Philipp - How to Roll Your Own Patent ApplicationGot an Idea? Is it new? Is it useful? Is it obvious? Yes, Yes, No! Patent it! Or at least get the provisional filed.
6. Vj Vijai- Hacking the Technical Interview Use NLP, Hypnosis and other Jedi Mind tricks to land the exact job that you want
7. Jeff Barr - How to be a Technology EvangelistJeff will talk about the theory and practice of technology evangelism - what it is and how it is done.
8. Ramez Naam - Bottoms Up - Putting Employees, Information, and Customers In Charge of Business What if businesses were market democracies? Would they be more effective? More conscientious? How do we make it so?
9. Ryan McMinn - A pseudoscience guide to geek datingHow the things you know and love like numbers, stats, charts & obsessive tendencies can actually help your dating life.
10. Monica Guzman - How to be an awesome news story commenterA few tips on how you can use news story comment boards to improve local journalism and help reporters help you.
11. Helen Cook - The most beautiful game in the worldThe first half of this talk will teach you how to play the most beautiful game in the world: go.
12. Justin Martenstein - The Six Hour StartupIs it possible to take a startup from idea to implementation in a Saturday afternoon?