I'm sure this is still subject to some change, but the IGC (http://www.indiegamescon.com) site has been upadted with a list of sessions and speakers. Looks like a good showing.

For a direct link to the schedule... click here (http://www.indiegamescon.com/conference.html)

I'm extremely disappointed there aren't more management/marketing discussions happening. One on guerilla marketing would be great in my opinion. The one on building an active fan base could be interesting, but I don't know enough about the speaker to judge whether or not I should listen to him, the IGC pages offer no background info. Maybe Chromatic doesn't just work for O'Reilly and has some popular games under his belt, but if he doesn't wouldn't it be better to have some developers with a strong community talking?

The public relations one seems to be the closest thing to a marketing talk the show has to offer, and even though I know that Bill Linn has done some good stuff for indies through his former PR venture, it would be nice to have an independent developer with some real world marketing success talk. Let's just pray the discussion doesn't touch on how they were succesfully able to promote the GTA games and get media coverage for it.

Oh well, I'm sure I'll enjoy the show. I'll make sure to catch as many of the presentations as possible, but I have a feeling the best part will just be checking out some games, talking to people, and doing everything I can do to make sure IGC transforms into the "DIYCon", hehe.

Many conferences like this offer BOF sessions (Birds of a feather) - perhaps early in the day you can post a BOF notice on marketing and get together with like-minded folks.

I don't think that the list is complete yet either - David Michael and myself are supposed to be speaking, but aren't listed on there (Unless Jay suddenly canceled us without me knowing.)

I talked to Jay last night, he's still penciling in a lot of stuff. There will be two "Peer 2 Peer" sessions where Indies with games in development or finished will give a 10 min demo of their game, talk about the development and answer questions for about 10 min. He also mentioned some other people who had given him early "yes's" but he had to re-confirm and also that he was still looking for some people with experience to speak on certain topics.