We've been working with our awesome speakers to come up with some ideas for the cruise. We've also got a uservoice set up so people can submit discussion topics. That's still open by the way.

In the meantime, here's what we've got right now. If it looks like a ton of awesome discussions, sitting around a table having a drink/meal, you'd be right, that's exactly what it is.

RIAdventure isn't a conference in the 'sit around in sessions' sense (we've got some sessions, don't get me wrong) it's more of what is typically the best part of conferences, the conversations in the hallways.

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We just announced this over on the 360|Flex blog, but wanted to post it here too! RIAdventure is gonna kick ass, that's not in doubt, but what would make it kick even more ass? Extending your cruise registration to include the next 360|Flex.

When is the next 360|Flex? It should be the last week of February or first week of March, we've got a few moving targets with Adobe and Ebay, but it's one of those weeks. Where? San Jose of course!

As if you should need any reason other to join us on an awesome cruise around the western carribean, than our awesome speakers, and content, but now for the price of 1 cruise and the RIAdventure registration fee, you'll get almost 10 days worth of awesome RIA content from the leaders in the industry!

360|Flex is likely to sell out again, it did last time it was in San Jose, which means you'll get in before regular tickets even go on sale!

First for those that are thinking about spending a week with us as well as some of the big name, big brain RIA crowd, we wanted to get some community involvement on what topics we should talk about.

So we created a uservoice site just for the cruise. Even if you can't make it, throw out some topic ideas. The idea is that on the second conference day, we're going to be semi barcamp and just openthe floor to break out discussions. Give us some ideas. Since we're all in one room, I'll likely video both days, so even if you can't make it, you might get some nuggets of wisdom from the video :D

Also for those that definitely ARE going, we know that some of you might not have a Significant other or maybe they can't make it. Since boats are all Double Occupancy rooms, we thought we'd set up a wiki for attendees to see if they could find a bunk mate. Nothing fancy, the site explains it.

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Rather than have rehashed presos and talks about specific products, what if we took this conference to a higher level? What if we talked about the future of RIA? Who would we want leading that discussion?

Two people immediately jumped into my mind when I asked myself that question. I quickly hit them up on instant messenger to get their initial thoughts. They caught onto the concept gave a tentative yes. Now, after checking their schedules, they've given the thumbs up to participating.

We're happy to announce that Doug McCune and Ryan Stewart will be joining us as the first two speakers at the RIAdventure 360 conference.

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We are now taking registrations for the conference and cruise.  We have an early bird special for the conference which ends on July 17th. Let us know if anything is unclear.