Hack.summit()

Speakers include:

Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass) - Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language) - David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails) - Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell) - Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks) - Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS) - Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django) - Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led development for many Adobe products) - Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification) - Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co-created Agile, author of 9 books) - Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co-author of Design Patterns) - Bram Cohen (inventor of Bittorrent) - Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author) - Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark) - Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering) - Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow) - Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books) - Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator) - Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy) - Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight) - Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ) - Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us) - Orion Henry (founder of Heroku) - Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert) - Scott Chacon (CIO, Github) - Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well-known programming educator and blogger) - Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan) - Hadi Partovi (founder of Code.org, was in charge of Internet Explorer, advisor to Dropbox and Facebook) - Qi Lu (EVP, Microsoft)

Full agenda coming soon :)

BTW, here is a special code for HN users to get a free ticket and bypass the registration process. We want to seed the audience with great developers who can help spread the word. Just put this code in: HACKERNEWS at http://hacksummit.org

Very cool, I registered with the HN code with no problems.

Will these hangout videos be recorded for viewing later? I did not see that listed in the FAQ.

Yes, it will be recorded for those who registered. Note: by attending the live event, you will be able to ask Q&A with the speakers too :)

(First off, yes, this is very cool :-))

This strikes me as an ingenious way to promote a service like Crowdcast. Even if the speakers are being paid for their time, the thousands (potentially?) of developers who will get to know about the product through what is essentially a live demo will be very valuable. And it raises money for charity. Assuming the technology holds up, this really does seem like a win-win :-)