I'd love to make this conference -- one of my goals for '03 is to stop attending conferences in my particular industry and instead attend one or two at the edge. But I have to go with Tim. By the time I pay my cross-country air fare and accommodations, plus the $1,200-$1,600 for entry it's way over my head. I know they price it that way precisely to keep people like me out, reserving space for the real movers and shakers. Those of us who are just down here at the grunt and quiver stage are counting on you to blog the conference for us. ;-)

Hey Glenn, the conference is only about a mile from my house, so now we'll have no reason not to get together!

Let's definitely setup a blogger dinner for the conference.

Definitely won't be your grandfather's Supernova. Supernova focused on policy not technology, even though there was a lot of tech discussion. This event will be more academic and more technical while still retaining the big picture.

That is, folks doing things that are beyond the market or just at the market either in the lab (university or commercial) or in the marketplace will be talking about the fundamentals of what they do.

The granularity of this event combined with the selection process should result in a lot of very drilled-down presentations. More time will be spent on every topic, even those that overlap.

I'd also say that even the speakers who overlap will be creating new or refurbished presentations more closely focused on the topic of this event.

I liked Supernova 2002 quite a lot, but it was about trends coalescing into decisions; this is about technology coalescing into the future.

Glen,

I'm glad you are going - a lot of it sounds interesting. It will be interesting to see how much change there is since SuperNova 2002, which seemed to cover a lot of the same topics with some of the same people.

My only problem is finding some way to get there without ponying up $1145 which I don't have. :-(

Thanks,

Tim

P.S. Congratulations on all the good press your book is getting.