Posts from Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

An Event Apart is coming back to Seattle in June 2007, and the only major differences are that it will be two days instead of one, and this time we’ve got a roster of nine fantastic speakers.

Of all the Event Apart venues of 2006, I think the Bell Harbor International Conference Center was probably my favorite.  Every place we visited last year had its own unique charms and flaws, but at Bell Harbor I really felt like the charms were maximized and the flaws minimized.  So we’re bringing AEA back to Bell Harbor on June 21st and 22nd, as we announced this morning.

Nine speakers seems to be our target for these two-day events, and fully two thirds of our Seattle lineup will be different than our Boston lineup.  (The repeats are me, Jeffrey, and Jason.)  For your edification, we’ll be presenting:

• Tim Bray, father of XML and possessor of many fine hats
• Jeff Veen, Wired alumnus and very tall person, now at Google
• Andy Budd, leading member of the Brit Pack and our first international speaker
• Khoi Vinh, dog lover and Design Director at NYTimes.com
• Shaun Inman, the brains behind Mint, IFR, IPC, CSS-SSC, and a whole lot more
• Local hero Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine and web standards provocateur
• Shawn Lawton Henry of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Oh yeah.

That’s all completely awesome, but there is a catch.  There’s always a catch, isn’t there?  The catch is that the seating available at Bell Harbor is strictly limited.  Once we sell all the seats they have, that’s it, all done, finito.  The seating capacity at Bell Harbor is about two-thirds that of our Boston show, and Boston is on track to sell out.  Registration for Seattle will open March 15th, so now is the time to prepare.  See you in Seattle!

• Back in Seattle Again was published on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007.
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