I’m very happy to have been asked to speak at the upcoming Web Directions conference in May. The conference has a focus on User Experience, and includes a great speaker list (aside from me 
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Here’s the official blurb, and the list of speakers:
Web Directions User Experience is a full day two track conference, plus an optional extra day of workshops, focussing on concepts, technologies and techniques for building great user experiences on the web.
Workshops: May 15
Conference: May 16
http://ux08.webdirections.org/
* Andy Budd (Clearleft) – Interaction design and usability
* Robert Hoekman Jr (Miskeeto) – User experience evangelist
* Lisa Herrod – User testing
* Emily Boyd (Remember the Milk) – Ajax techniques for great user experiences
* Cameron Adams – Frontiers of Javascript (workshop)
* Donna Maurer – Getting content right
* Jackie Moyes (News Digital Media) – Turning research into products
* Oliver Weidlich – Mobile web user experience
* Steve Baty – Analysing research data
* Mathew Patterson (Campaign Monitor) – Designing for email
Need to convince the person who writes the cheques? Try downloading our executive summary:
http://www.webdirections.org/downloads/Web_Directions_User_Experience.pdf
Mark your calendars: this one looks like a great conference.