Defrag Blog

Suddenly, I woke up and it was August 25th - which means that the “super early bird” rate of $995 for Defrag expires next Friday (Sept. 3rd). Funny story: when we were setting up this rate in eventbrite, Kim turns to me and says, “it’s not just early bird, what should we call it?” I immediately suggested “the worm” (as in, “the early bird gets the…”). Kim vetoed that idea (ie, she was logged into eventbrite) and called it “Super Early Bird” — but to me it will always be known as “The Worm.”

I’ve barely got an outline of an agenda up, but you can at least know this: the keynoters include Esther Dyson, Michael Wesch (digital anthropologist, KSU), Paul Kedrosky (on data, markets and highway debris), Jeff Jonas (chief scientist, IBM on “organizations are getting dumber and it’s IT’s fault”), JP Rangaswami (”information as seen through the eyes of a foodie”), David Weinberger (of Cluetrain fame), Alex Wright (author of Glut; on “oral culture in social networks”), Stowe Boyd (on Community), Vivek Wadhwa (on Innovation), and topics that span analytics, semantic data, collaboration, social CRM, feedback and product management, and APIs. Plus, I’m most likely adding two awesome keynote speakers this week.

In short, missing out on this is just gonna be silly, as I don’t think you’ll find a more influential collection of tech minds this fall.

The price is right right here, and it only goes higher — so use the code “eb1″ and take an additional 10% off of The Worm.

Update: Vinnie Mirchandani, author of The New Polymath, has signed on for keynoting Defrag. Vinnie will be addressing analytics and data visualization in a polymath world.