What is eTech?
ETech is a yearly conference developed by O’Reilly Media and held in San Diego, California. This conference first began in 2001, and is a way for people in media, software programming, business and a variety of other fields to get together to discuss, observe or create emerging technologies. O’Reilly calls many of the attendees and presenters alpha hackers, the idea men and women who continue to shape significant advances in technology. Anyone can attend ETech, and there are several different ways in which the conference can be of interest. There are keynote speeches, tutorials and how to seminars, and an exhibit hall where the latest products are exhibited, often by some of the biggest names in Media, like Google®, Comcast®, and Disney®. ETech also features Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions which allow people face to face time to discuss shared interests in certain technologies or developments on the horizon, and they’ve showcased topics on developing technologies in other countries w