I will be leading an unPanel (like unConference but smaller) at Xconomy’s Cloud³ Forum. Great lineup of speakers and the audience will be full of pundits (trust me, see the invite list) so the conversation is guaranteed to be both interesting and educational. This isn’t yet another “intro to cloud” or “cloud 101″. Expect a much deeper and more engaging and interactive forum. CloudCamp comes right after. Register here.

The proliferation of social media and mobile devices has made it more difficult for everyone to manage contact information and initiate conversations using the right channels. I have many contacts and experienced this problem every day. DUB’s unique technology makes the problem go away. I look forward to working with Manoj and the company to help DUB change the way we think about exchanging contact information.

I’ll be at OMMA Behavioral in SF on July 30. There are some big changes afoot in the advertising space driven by the move to exchanges, by advertisers asserting more control over data and by the evolving compliance landscape with respect to online behavioral advertising (OBA), which, to mix metaphors, is just the tip of the iceberg of that can of worms.

Last but not least, very excited that Thing Labs shipped the new, new thing–Brizzly. I can’t stop using it.

Adam Selipsky, VP Product Management and Developer Relations at Amazon Web Services will start off with a short keynote followed by a fireside chat with me and audience Q&A. Amazon continues to lead in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) part of the cloud services spectrum but they are also pushing deeper into the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) space by improving SimpleDB and driving additional innovations such as the recently-launched beta of Elastic Map Reduce. Adam is a dynamic speaker who’s got his finger on the pulse of cloud computing.

The goal of the event is to showcase what’s possible today with cloud computing. This is where the demos come in.

My friend and former co-worker Spike Washburn, who recently founded Stax Networks, will show off his company’s PaaS offering targeting Java applications. While Engine Yard’s amazing management of Ruby apps is impressive and Google’s AppEngine shows how one can manage Python-based apps in the cloud, there are a lot more Java developers and many more Java applications out there. Stax Networks is going for the sweet spot of enterprise cloud hosting.

Following that, Fumi Matsumoto, founder/CTO of Allurent will tell the story of how Allurent migrated its e-commerce 2.0 platform from on-premise to on-demand delivery and changed its go-to-market approach in a matter of months by leveraging cloud computing. Fumi will also share some of the hard-to-come-by data about the real costs of running a product in the cloud.

Frank Gillett, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research will close with a panel including Roman Stanek, founder/CEO of GoodData , Richard Reiner, CEO of Enomaly and Josh Fraser, VP of Business Development at RightScale. This will be a real treat.

Register for the event now and leave a comment if you’d like to join me at the VIP reception before the event (very few invitations are left).