I am going to organize a small kanban conference. It's going to be on the week of February 16th in Miami, Florida. The dates are provisionally February 18th and 19th. The venue and pricing are yet to announced. I'm hoping to keep the pricing very low and get some sponsorship from a few well known vendors/consulting firms in the agile community. The dates may move slightly depending on the chosen venue. Anyone booking travel to Miami now should be safe if they assume a flight home late on the 21st or on the 22nd.

I need input from you if you plan to attend. Firstly, I need details on numbers. I initially envisaged an open space event for perhaps 20 of the folks on the kanbandev Yahoo! group. However, judging by the responses to my tweet and my post on the group, I'm now thinking between 50 and 100 people. So if you plan to attend, please email me or leave a comment.

I also need input on the format of the event. Several people emailing their intent to attend have suggest they want to present or that they want to hear case study presentations. I'm now thinking day 1 would be a couple of key notes - one from me - one from someone else with a solid background in Lean - to be announced. These would be followed by a series of theory and case study presentation. Potentially two tracks - one on theory - one on case studies. Would you prefer one track or more than one track. On the second day, I am proposing we do open space for perhaps two thirds of the day and then have some closing presentations for the open space facilitators. Please leave comments with your thoughts and suggestions.

More details will be announced as soon as I have them... Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, kanban