Speakers are starting to be announced. Yes, we’ve persuaded Scott to come back to the UK and he’ll be sharing the keynote with Bill Buxton. I’m also pleased that Sara Ford will be speaking, as her blog is one of the most useful for developer resources available.

They’ll be more speaker announcements soon, along with the first draft of the schedule, which is starting to look pretty exciting; some really interesting talks. Once these become available we’ll get details on the backnetwork too and hopefully get discussions started on the forums. Speaking of which, Trevor asked about plans for the 17th; there’s nothing planned, but feel free to use the forum as a place to organise something. Certainly the crew will be around the night before and while I’d like to say we’ll be relaxing in a bar somewhere, there’s always the possibility we’ll be panicking because of some major failure; such is the nature of conferences.