I don’t normally go in for conferences, they seem over self important, money making schemes full of speakers who rarely speak from any basis of credibility. They remind me a lot of university lectures except you didn’t have to directly pay for those and at least the speakers had academic credentials.

Despite this dislike of conferences, the Carson Workshops Summit (’summit’, now thats classic managementese – it doesn’t bode well!) on Feb 8th in London has some pretty inspiring speakers from the latest and greatest web sites at the moment:

1. 09:00 – 09:45
   Registration
2. 10:00 – 10:45
   Why Tagging is Crucial to your Web App
   Joshua Schachter – Delicious
3. 11:00 – 11:45
   Ajax – How to Give Users the Rich Interactivity They Want
   Eric Costello – Flickr
4. 12:00 – 12:45
   Designing Web 2.0-native Products for Fun and Profit
   Tom Coates – Yahoo!
5. 12:45 – 1:30
   Lunch
6. 1:30 – 2:15
   Happy Programming and Sustainable Productivity with Ruby on Rails
   David Heinemeier Hansson – 37signals
7. 2:30 – 3:15
   10 Reasons Why You Need to Build an API
   Shaun Inman – Mint
8. 3:15 – 3:30
   Flex
   Andrew Shorten – Adobe
9. 3:45 – 4:30
   How to Build an Enterprise Web App on a Budget
   Ryan Carson – DropSend
10. 4:45 – 5:30
    Google Labs
    Steven Crossan & Douwe Osinga – Google
11. 5:45 – 6:30
    Panel Discussion

I am going to bite the bullet and check in out – I am sure there will be some useful brain fodder.