I’m on my way to Boston for the first annual Web Experience Forum. It looks like an amazing lineup of speakers, and I’m hoping to find attendees with lots of war stories and anecdotes to add color to the book. (Incidentally, if you’re such a person, feel free to fill out our Watching Websites survey and let us know if we can contact you.)

The forum is a three-day event, with some heavyweights like the always-provocative Jakob Nielsen speaking. (Jakob’s keynote, “You are Doomed,” promises to be equal measures controversial and entertaining.)

Something I like about the event is the “ExperienceExchange” sessions, a fireside chat for web operators. Too often, industry events are just a blur of monologues; we’ve seen great success with informal events like Bitnorth and Interop’s Unconference, and I’m really looking forward to this part of the itinerary.

I’ll post the slides for my session (The Modern Web’s Many Moving Parts, part of the “Technology Ecosystem of the Web Experience — A Hitchhikers Guide” track) here shortly.