I’m really looking forward to this year’s ETech Conference – it’s going to be a pretty amazing lineup of speakers and topics. Of particular note are the numbers of women presenting. Here’s a partial list of just some of the speakers/topics I find extra extra extra interesting… the conference isn’t till march so they may change, but it gives you plenty of time to register:

• Nicole Lazzaro (XEODesign, Inc.) : Halo vs. Facebook: Emotion and the Fun of Games
• Nicolas Nova (Media and Design Lab)
• David Rose (Ambient Devices) : The PC-free Internet
• Peter Semmelhack (Bug Labs)
• Stan Williams (Hewlett-Packard Labs) : Green Nano and The Holy Grail
• Pauline Ng (J. Craig Venter Institute) : Personalized Genomics, Benefits and Risks
• Merci Hammon (GameLayers) : Projecting Surveillance Entertainment (!)
• Saul Griffith (Makani Power/Squid Labs)
• Elan Lee (Fourth Wall Studios) : Designing Magnets, Connecting with Audiences
• Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine) DIY Drones, An Open Source Hardware and Software Approach to Making “Minimum UAVs”
• Ed Boyden (MIT Media Lab & Dept. of Biological Engineering) Synthetic Neurobiology, Towards Engineering Brain Circuits for Health and Human Augmentation
• Erin McKean (Dictionary Evangelist) : Web(ster), What Should An Online Dictionary Be?
• Tom Igoe (Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU) & Brian Jepson (O’Reilly Media, Inc.) : Making Things Talk Tutorial
• limor fried (adafruit industries) : Open Source Hardware
• Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research) : Users, Socializers, and Producers

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