Federated Media keeps sending e-mail reminding me about the conversational marketing conference in San Francisco, which is now three weeks away, and I keep thinking I really want to go do it. I think I could go for under $600 flight and hotel, and the conference is free, but I need to act quickly if I want to do it. There are only 300 people total attending, and it's quite the power list of speakers and panelists...
* Heather Armstrong; Founder, Dooce
* Jon Armstrong; Founder, Dooce
* Paul Beck; Senior Partner, Ogilvy
* Barak Berkowitz; CEO, Six Apart
* Jonah Bloom;; Editor, Ad Age
* Laura Desmond; CEO, Starcom MediaVest Group/The Americas
* Sarah Fay; CEO, Carat
* Shawn Gold; SVP Marketing & Content, MySpace.com
* Curt Hecht; EVP, Chief Digital Officer, Starcom MediaVest Group
* Carla Hendra; Co-CEO, Ogilvy North America
* Casey Jones; VP Marketing, Dell
* Patrick Keane; EVP, CMO, CBS Interactive
* Jeff Lanctot; Senior Vice President, Avenue A | Razorfish
* Jim Lanzone; CEO, Ask.com
* David Lawee; Vice President, Marketing, Google
* Ross Levinsohn; Former President, Fox Interactive Media
* Daina Middleton; Dir, Global Interactive Marketing , Imaging and Printing Group, HP
* Jon Miller; Former Chairman & CEO, AOL Inc
* Markos Moulitsas; Publisher, Kos Media
* Kent Nichols; Writer, Performer, Beatbox Giant Productions
* Chris Peterson; CEO, Chautauqua Communications
* Suzie Reider; Head of Advertising Sales, Youtube
* James Rose; Vice President, Brand and Global Marketing Communications, Symantec
* Kevin Rose; Founder and Chief Architect, Digg
* Randall Rothenberg; President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau
* Marc Ruxin; SVP, Director of Digital Strategy, McCANN Worldgroup
* Douglas Sarine; Writer, Performer, Beatbox Giant Productions
* Tina Sharkey; Chairman and Global President, BabyCenter, LLC
* Suhaila Suhimi-Waldner; East Coast Director, Digital, OMD
* Rishad Tobaccowala; CEO, Denuo
* Owen Van Natta; Chief Revenue Officer, Facebook
* Johnny Vulkan; Founder, Anomaly
* Jeff Weiner; EVP, Network Division, Yahoo!
* Michael Zimbalist; Vice President, Research & Development Operations, The New York Times Company
While it's a strange mix, that's a lot of brain power.
I'm so torn.