Last month, I was debating whether I should go to this two day conference event called FOWA (Future of Web Apps) taking place at the Carnival Centre in Miami, FL. It’s an annual conference meeting with highly renowned speakers talking about where the future of web apps is heading and what they’re going to do about it. Discussions like The Architecture of Wordpress and The Future of APIs are two highlights that I’m looking forward to hearing.

This will be my first time going to an event with hundreds, or probably thousands of like-minded people sharing the same interest as me. The decision to decide whether I should actually attend this conference rather than just talk about it was hard to get over since I had to take off work and miss a day from school (2 classes).

In addition to attending the FOWA conference, they also have a full day workshop event that takes place the following day. There are a total of 8 workshops that you can choose from, but you can only attend two of them.

They have a morning session starting at 9am till 12:30pm, and another in the afternoon at 1:30pm ending at 5:00pm. Click here to get a full listing of all your options including full description of what’s being covered.

Barcamp (taking place on the same day as the workshops) is an international open disucision type social gathering event to network, share knowledge, and to participate with others.

Provided by the participants, Barcamp will also serve presentations covering topics like OpenID, Improving User Experience with JavaScript Form Validation and David Parmet with Josh Hallett pulling off the ultimate web April Fools Joke. I don’t know what to expect from that, but it sounds like a lot of fun.

Since this is my first time going to FOWA, I decided to head on to Barcamp. However next year, I plan on participating in the workshops for sure.
It’s been years since I’ve been in Miami so taking a little break from work and school will be refreshing. I can’t wait!