Surge 2012 conference that gathers the best minds in the Web on a common platform will be held on Sept 27-28, 2012 at Baltimore, MD. The event will showcase practitioner-oriented sessions presented by some of the most established practitioners in this field. With whom you can meet, make face-to-face connections, and learn from the experiences of the best in our industry.

The organizers have announced call for ‘Bird of a Feather’(BoF) sessions, which can be given by almost anyone. So technically, you don’t have to be a subject matter expert to host a BoF session. Surge 2012 has an interesting list of speakers, such as Facebook’s Pedro Canahuati, Etsy’s Matt Graham, Pinterest’s Yash Nelapati and Marty Weiner, and may more eminent personalities from the industry.

Sponsors of the event include OmniTI, Aerospike, AppDynamics, AppNeta, AppNexus, Basho Technologies, Google, O’Reilly Media, Yammer, Syncsort, Senimax, etc. Just talking about Syncsort, it is now a member of Greenplum Catalyst Developer Program by landing its certification for DMExpress data integration software to load into the Greenplum Database. Syncsort’s DMExpress software makes it a lot easier to extract and transform data from almost anywhere while quickly loading it into Greenplum Databases without manual tuning or custom coding, which helps make more data available faster to kick-start Big Data analytics.

Surge 2012 will include several one-hour slots Wednesday and Thursday evenings, between 9 p.m. and midnight for BoFs, and limited slots for 5-6 p.m. on Thursday. So, before you lose the opportunity, sign up here.