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)
• East Bay Maker Faire - http://ebmakerfaire.wordpress.com/ 

San Jose

• Zero1 - http://www.01sj.org  (June)

Global

• ISEA 2011 - http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/   
• ISEA 2012 - http://www.isea2012.org
• Ars Electronica - http://new.aec.at/festival/en/2011/ 
• SXSW Interactive - http://sxsw.com/interactive   (March)
• 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)