Conferences and Annual Events:

Not this year's event, but info about the annual event. 

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Bay Area

• Maker Faire - http://www.makerfaire.com  (May 30-31, 2009)
• Maker Faire Austin (October 18th and 19th, 2008), same URL: http://makerfaire.com
• ETech - http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/

San Jose

• Zero1 - http://www.01sj.org  (June)

Global

• ISEA - http://isea2008.org  (July/August)
• Ars Electronica - http://www.aec.at - link dead?
• SXSW Interactive - http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/   (March)
• Wired Nextfest - http://www.wirednextfest.com/
• SIGGraph - http://www.siggraph.org/   (August)
• TED - http://ted.com (February)  - Online video coverage is free and fantastic... the physical conference is invite only and $6K
• PopTech: http://www.poptech.org/ (Similar to TED, hard to go to in person, awesome/inspiring videos online)
• ArtBots - http://www.artbots.org