It’s Monday as I write this and registration for the conference opens in just five days.  Anyone getting excited yet? (Yes, I am!)

Mid-week I will post a preliminary schedule for the conference program here and give more information about the registration cost and booking your lodging at the Marriott Marquis.

We will also start a blog contest for the chance to win a coupon for a discount on the price of full conference registration.  I’ll announce the contest details here on the U2 Conference blog.

We are closing in on the deadline for accepting presentation proposals.  If you’ve been thinking, “I’d love to talk to some intellectually curious U2 fans and get their feedback on my thoughts,” now is your chance to give it a shot.  Check out the proposal guidelines and then submit an abstract of your presentation by November 1.  We’re getting proposals on all sorts of topics, from different walks of life and from multiple points around the globe.  We’d love to have one from you too.

Starting today, I’m beginning a series of posts in our Speakers category to introduce our featured speakers.   I asked each one to answer the same three or four questions for this week’s postings, and then periodically between now and next May we’ll do more rounds of Q & A.  If you have a question you’d like to pose to our conference speakers, leave a comment here or send it to me through our contact page using the “Conference Director” message option.

Thanks for reading.

Scott