Future Of Web Apps - Miami
I will be in Miami for the FOWA conference 28/29 Feb and a party Mar 1st.
It has a great lineup of speakers and workshops, but it is going on practically the same time as SMX West 
I met some of these folk at the Widget Summit in San Francisco, and I have to warn you that many of these people are not drunkards, which makes me very suspicious of them. I noticed at the Widget Summit that I was usually drinking about three beers for each one that others were having, it is an odd and surreal experience for me to be around people with clear minds.
But I am going to give the gadget crowd another chance to be drunken idiots, and since FOWA is a bigger conference, I have better odds of finding another lush, if I do not, I will hire one. I need to be around drunk people.
Oh, let’s talk about the line-up.
Kevin Rose of Digg fame will be there and so will Erick Schonfeld of Techcrunch. Kevin Marks of Google and Flickr’s Cal Henderson are also gonna be there and Blaine Cook of Twitter and Emily Boyd of Remember the Milk and Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Kathy Sierra of JavaRanch and Leah Culver the founder of Pownce and the very cool Joseph Smarr of Plaxo and…
You get the picture. Buttloads of talented and interesting people.
The first day (feb 28th) is workshops and they look very very interesting, I am actually going to wake up for them 
The second day is the conference and here is the schedule…
Conference Day (29th February)
Registration
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08:15 — 09:00
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Welcome
From Brian Oberkirch & Tantek Çelik, the FOWA Conference Chairs
09:00 — 09:15
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Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users
09:15 — 09:55
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Matt Mullenweg, Wordpress
The Architecture of Wordpress
09:55 — 10:35
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Sun Microsystems (Diamond Sponsor)
Speaker TBC
10:35 — 10:45
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AM Break
10:45 — 11:15
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Brian Oberkirch ,Tantek Çelik & Joseph Smarr
The Future of Social Networks
11:15 — 11:55
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Blaine Cook, Twitter
Building The Real-Time Web
11:55 — 12:35
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Leah Culver, Pownce
The Future of Web Services
12:35 — 13:05
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Lunch
13:05 — 14:05
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Panel Discussion, chaired by Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch, including Kevin Rose, Digg
Launch a Web App in 40 Minutes
14:05 — 14:45
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Microsoft (Diamond Sponsor)
Speaker TBC
14:45 — 14:50
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Speaker TBC
What Makes The Next Great Startup?
14:50 — 15:30
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Emily Boyd, Remember The Milk
From the web, to the iPhone and beyond!
15:30 — 16:10
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PM Break
16:10 — 16:40
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Kevin Marks, Google
The Future of APIs
16:40 — 17:20
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Cal Henderson, Flickr
The Application of New Features to an Established Application
17:20 — 18:00
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Gary Vaynerchuk, Winelibrary.tv
How to Grow a Community in The Future
18:00 — 18:40
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Live filming of Winelibrary.tv
Join Gary Vaynerchuk for a special filming of winelibrary.tv
19:00 — 20:00
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Official Scrapblog FOWA Party
@ Nikki Beach, South Beach, Miami
21:00 — 01:00
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This guy needs some help getting to the conference. He is selling ads on his tshirt. He is getting beer from me, and lots of it.
I know South Beach Miami pretty well, and it is one of the many cities I went to in search of places to stay for less than 25 dollars a night. There are four such places in South beach within two blocks of the beach (really).
They are hostels, but South Beach is wacko expensive so those who need a cheap place might want to look at my Miami hostels page.
I really recommend the workshops on this one. It is a shame that they are scheduled on the same day as the Miami BarCamp.
Go to the FOWA page to get more details.
Hint for news watchers: AOL is sponsoring this event… hmmm.
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