As "Pragmatic Cloud Computing" track host for QCon London, I'm very pleased to say that the track is now finalised with a truly stellar collection of speakers. We have:

• Chris Read from ThoughtWorks giving us the low-down on his real-world cloud deployment experiences
• One of my absolute favourite speakers, Simon Wardley from Canonical to take us on the next step through his amazingly huge ... slide deck
• Ümit Yalcinalp from SalesForce.com taking a harsh-but-necessary look at what Cloud can really mean to us developers
• Chris Richardson, uber Cloud aficionado from SpringSource (a divison of VMware, in case you didn't know), will be taking us through his considerable experience developing for Amazon's cloud.
• Me! (and yes, I do need to get a new photo done before I get sued for lying about my real hairline...) My chance to talk through some of my experiences with building, managing and monitoring my cloud applications. I won't be pulling any punches as I dig into some of the gnarliest complications of developing apps for the cloud. I'm also looking to capture other's experiences so if you have something to share, get in contact.
  

And yep, I'm now booked into the speakers hotel so if anyone fancies some late night banter I look forward to seeing you in the bar!

My company, OpenCredo, will also be there in force so if you want to grab a moment to chat with us (heck, or just fancy some free consultancy time ... why not, it's what it's all about!) we'll have a stand and a room on the main breakout room so pop on in.

For those who have a thirst for more (staying power I think it's called...) I've also been collaborating with the nice people from the CloudCamp series and they'll be staging an evening session on the very same day at the same venue. Drinks will be available afterwards and should round off a very nice, cloudy day in London *.

QCon is going to be awesome again this year, I look forward to seeing you all there!

/Russ

* Couldn't resist, if the Brits don't know a thing or two about cloud then who does!?