I just announced over on O’Reilly Radar that Steve Souders and I will be co-chairing Velocity, the new O’Reilly conference dedicated to Web Performance and Operations. Velocity is happening on June 23-24, 2008 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California.

Our theme is “Fast, Scalable, Resilient, Available”. We’re focusing on the crucial skills and knowledge needed by people who are building successful websites. This is the conference that many of us have wanted for a long time, and I’m really excited to help make it happen.

The Call for Participation for Velocity 2008 is open. Please the Velocity Proposals page for more details on submitting sessions. The submission deadline for all proposals is January 3, 2008.

Along with subscribing to the official RSS feed you can join the Facebook group and Upcoming event. Please use velocity08 when tagging.

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I joined Professor Hans Rosling (Gapminder, TED), Mike Arrington (TechCrunch), John Gage (Sun), along with teams from MappingWorlds, Swivel, and Many Eyes as a “Web2.0 Delegation” to the OECD World Forum in Istanbul.

Professor Rosling gave an amazing speech about “Unveiling the Beauty of Statistics”.

Over 1200 delegates at the OECD World Forum were asked to vote for the best of show exhibitor. Out of over 30 organizations, Swivel and Mapping Worlds won Awards for the best initiatives to turn information into knowledge. Each winner was given the chance to present to the general session. Here’s Brian Mulloy & Dmitry Dimov’s session.

(Update: I also made a post about this on O’Reilly Radar)

I’m giving a talk at the Web2.0Expo on Wednesday called “Failures, Disasters, & Resilient Design“. I’ll be using some of the lessons-learned from our deployment and how they apply to managing technology.

Failures, Disasters, & Resilient Design
(Click here for ExpoCal!)

Jesse Robbins, ex-Amazon, OpenAid

Track: Web Operations
Date: Wednesday, April 18
Time: 4:30pm - 5:20pm
Location: 2008

This talk reviews real world examples of complex systems failure and how they relate to Web 2.0. Drawing on his work as the “Master of Disaster” at Amazon and using examples from Nuclear Power to his own experiences after Hurricane Katrina, Jesse will provide:

• A methodology for managing risk with Web 2.0 technologies.
• Best practices for building Resilient Systems with Web Services & Web Scale Computing
• Stories and pictures of things blowing up!

Here’s the full-version of one of my slides:

Dad at the helm…, originally uploaded by jesse robbins.

Springtime, originally uploaded by jesse robbins.