There's even an emergent democracy session.
Why the limited attendance at the event?
The focus of Web 2.0 Conference is to provide industry thought leaders with a forum for spirited idea exchanges through Q&A sessions and networking events. To allow this to happen, an intimate setting is key, so we are limiting the attendance to approximately 500 people.
Jeebus, it's a good thing that free software (whoops, I meant open source) doesn't work this way. Is it me, or is O'Reilly and Associates (whoops, make that O'Reilly Media) developing quite the taste for closed, invitation-only events for "Internet entrepreneurs?" (Sorry, but calling them "business geeks" is just attempting to deflect attention from their little back-of-the-head ponytails.) I mean, Kim Polese? How 1995.
One other thing. If it's invitation-only, why the hell are you advertising it on the web? Put the damn thing behind https and send all the Sooper Geenyuses ultra-seekrit logins at their gmail accounts. Snark. Puny humans.