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One of the most important technology conferences<\/a> for the year will be held in March 3-6<\/strong> in San Diego, California. ETech<\/a> the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, now in its seventh year, will take a wide-eyed look at the brand new tech that’s tweaking how we are seen as individuals, how we choose to channel and divert our energy and attention, and what influences our perspective on the world around us. How does technology help you perceive things that you never noticed before? How does it help you be found, or draw attention to issues, objects, ideas, and projects that are important, no matter their size or location?<\/p>\n

Below is what the 2008 version of ETech, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference will look at.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Body Hacking. Genomics Hacking. Brain Hacking. Sex Hacking. Food Hacking. iPhone Hacking.
\n<\/strong>If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Take over the everyday aspects of your life and take your senses to the next level.<\/p>\n

DIY Aerial Drones. DIY Talking Things. DIY Spectrum. DIY Apocalypse Survival.
\n<\/strong><\/a>As technology becomes more accessible you’ll get to do it all on your own. Self-empowerment starts here.<\/p>\n

Emerging Tech of India, Cuba, and Africa. International Political Dissidents.<\/strong>
\nDifferent environments incubate new ideas and technologies. What these societies bring out will shake up your cultural assumptions and provide a wider world view.<\/p>\n

Visualize Data and Crowds. Ambient Data Streaming.<\/strong>
\nDynamic systems require new methods of data capture and interaction. Open a window on the methods experts use to interpret and harness collective intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good Policy. Energy Policy. Defense Policy. Genetic Policy. Corruption<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nPolicy inevitably lags behind technology advances. Learn about some areas where it’s catching up, where it’s not, and how these boundaries shape our creativity and freedom.<\/p>\n

Alternate Reality Games. Emotions of Games. Sensor Games.<\/strong>
\nGames provide a platform for experimentation on so many levels. The ones we’ll see engage their players in new and unexpected ways.<\/p>\n

ETech 2008<\/a> will cover all of these topics and more. We put on stage the speakers and the ideas that help our attendees prepare for and create the future, whatever it might be. Great speakers are going to pull us forward with them to see what technology can do… and sometimes shouldn’t do. From robotics<\/a> and gaming<\/a> to defense and geolocation, we’ll explore promising technologies that are just that–still promises–and renew our sense of wonder at the way technology is influencing and altering our everyday lives.<\/p>\n

“There’s more good stuff here, more new directions, than we’ve had at ETech in years, which is only to be expected, as the market starts to digest the innovations of Web 2.0<\/a> and we are now featuring the next wave of hacker-led surprises.” Read more of Tim O’Reilly’s thoughts on why ETech is our most important conference.<\/p>\n

Registered Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Below are listed all confirmed speakers to date.<\/p>\n

Dan Albritton (MegaPhone)
\nChris Anderson (Wired Magazine)
\nW. James Au (The Making of Second Life)
\nTrevor Baca (Jaduka)
\nTucker Balch (Georgia Tech)
\nKevin Bankston (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
\nAndrew Bell (Barbarian Group LLC)
\nEmily Berger (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
\nViolet Blue (Violet Blue)
\nEd Boyden (MIT Media Lab & Dept. of Biological Engineering)
\nGary Bradski (Stanford and Willow Garage)
\nTom Carden (Stamen Design)
\nLiam Casey (PCH International)
\nElizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research)
\nCindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
\nSteve Cousins (Willow Garage)
\nBo Cowgill (Google Economics Group)
\nMike Culver (Amazon)
\nJason Davis (Disney Online)
\nRegine Debatty (We Make Money Not Art)
\nDanielle Deibler (Adobe Systems)
\nMichael Dory (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP))
\nNathan Eagle (MIT)
\nAlvaro Fernandez (SharpBrains.com)
\nTimothy Ferriss (The 4-hour Workweek)
\nEric Freeman (Disney Online)
\nLimor Fried (Adafruit Industries)
\nJohannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom, and University of Applied Sciences Graz)
\nSaul Griffith (Makani Power\/Squid Labs)
\nKarl Haberl (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
\nJury Hahn (MegaPhone)
\nJustin Hall (GameLayers)
\nJeff Han (Perceptive Pixel, Inc.)
\nTimo Hannay (Nature Publishing Group)
\nMarc Hedlund (Wesabe)
\nJ. C. Herz (Batchtags LLC)
\nTodd Holloway (Ingenuity Systems)
\nPablos Holman (Komposite)
\nTom Igoe (Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU)
\nAlex Iskold (AdaptiveBlue)
\nBrian Jepson (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
\nNatalie Jeremijenko (NYU)
\nJeff Jonas (IBM)
\nTim Jones (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
\nTerry Jones (Fluidinfo)
\nDamien Katz (IBM – CouchDB)
\nNicole Lazzaro (XEODesign, Inc.)
\nElan Lee (Fourth Wall Studios)
\nJan Lehnardt (Freisatz)
\nLawrence Lessig (Creative Commons)
\nKati London (area\/code)
\nKyle Machulis (Nonpolynomial Labs)
\nDaniel Marcus (Washington University School of Medicine)
\nMikel Maron (Mapufacture)
\nJohn McCarthy (Stanford University)
\nRyan McManus (Barbarian Group LLC)
\nRoger Meike (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
\nChris Melissinos (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
\nDan Morrill (Google)
\nPauline Ng (J. Craig Venter Institute)
\nQuinn Norton
\nPeter Norvig (Google, Inc.)
\nNicolas Nova (Media and Design Lab)
\nDanny O’Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
\nTim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
\nDavid Pescovitz (BoingBoing.net, Institute for the Future, MAKE:)
\nBre Pettis (I Make Things)
\nArshan Poursohi (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
\nMarc Powell (Food Hacking)
\nJay Ridgeway (Nextumi)
\nHugh Rienhoff (MyDaughtersDNA.org)
\nJesse Robbins (O’Reilly Radar)
\nEric Rodenbeck (Stamen Design)
\nDavid Rose (Ambient Devices)
\nDan Saffer (Adaptive Path)
\nJoel Selanikio (DataDyne.org)
\nPeter Semmelhack (Bug Labs)
\nNoah Shachtman (Wired Magazine)
\nMichael Shiloh (OpenMoko)
\nKathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users)
\nMicah Sifry (Personal Democracy Forum)
\nAdam Simon (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP))
\nMichael J. Staggs (FireEye, Inc.)
\nGavin Starks (d::gen network )
\nAlex Steffen (Worldchanging)
\nJohn Storm (ind)
\nStewart Tansley (Microsoft Research)
\nPaul Torrens (Arizona State University)
\nPhillip Torrone (Maker Media)
\nKentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India)
\nGina Trapani (Lifehacker)
\nNate True (Nate True)
\nLew Tucker (Radar Networks)
\nAndrea Vaccari (Senseable City Lab, MIT)
\nScott Varland (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP))
\nMerci Victoria Grace (GameLayers)
\nMike Walsh (Tomorrow)
\nStan Williams (Hewlett-Packard Labs)
\nEthan Zuckerman (Global Voices)<\/p>\n

Attendee Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can register as an attendee online<\/a> or by Mail\/Fax at the following address:<\/p>\n

O’Reilly Media, Inc.
\nAttn: ETech Registration
\n1005 Gravenstein Hwy North
\nSebastopol, CA 95472
\nFax: (707) 829-1342<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference fees are as follows (through Jan 29 – Mar 2 )
\nSessions plus Tutorials $1,690.00
\nSessions Only $1,390.00
\nTutorials Day Only $595.00<\/p>\n

Walk-ins: Standard registration closes March 2, 2008. The onsite registration fee is an additional $100 to the Standard Price above.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

More about ETech<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now in its seventh year, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference<\/a> hones in on the ideas, projects, and technologies that the alpha geeks are thinking about, hacking on, and inventing right now, creating a space for all participants to connect and be inspired. ETechs past have covered peer-to-peer networks<\/a> to person-to-person mobile messaging<\/a>, web services to weblogs, big-screen digital media to small-screen mobile gaming, hardware hacking to content remixing. We’ve hacked, blogged, ripped, remixed, tracked back, and tagged to the nth. Expect much of what you see in early form here to show up in the products and services you’re taking for granted in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n

ETech balances blue-sky theorizing with practical, real-world information and conversation. Tutorials and breakout sessions will help you inject inspiration into your own projects, while keynotes and hallway conversation will spark enough unconventional thinking to change how you see your world.<\/p>\n

More then 1200 technology enthusiasts are expected to attend ETech 2008, including:<\/p>\n