I don’t know that I’ve shared this with many people, but I have been asked to be on the advisory board for Emerce e.day 2008. The other day I received an email from Rebecca (one of the organizers and my main contact at Emerce) asking me if I had any “good ideas” for speakers or themes.

I’m not sure if it’s public yet, so I won’t divulge the main theme of the conference for 2008, but I will say that feedback from the 2007 attendees wished for more “inspirational” speakers, maybe even from some highly-respected world brands.

So here’s the list that I jotted off but I’m open to more suggestions… post some comments and I’ll pass them on

David Recordon, Open Platforms Tech Lead, Six Apart
http://www.web2summit.com/cs/web2007/view/e_spkr/2771

somebody from “Flock“, the social web browser
http://www.flock.com/

Tara Hunt is always a good speaker

Kathy Sierra if she’s back on the speaking circuit

Chris Messina has various projects that are interesting (including microformats and OAuth, OpenID, etc)
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/projects/

somebody from Nokia or the Android project, talking about openness in mobile/software

my wife recommends Rob Lanphier from Linden Lab working on OpenSource
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/01/08/open-source-busybody/

on the topic of inspiring: I can HIGHLY recommend Bill Strickland
http://www.bill-strickland.com/
I saw him speak at eBay the other day and he tells a very inspiring and life-affirming story