Creative Weblogging and SDForum have joined to forces to provide you live coverage from the upcoming 'Software as a Service' Event in Santa Clara on March 22nd. The full-day event will highlight the state and prospects of this emerging industry:

"SDForum's Software as a Service Conference is a chance to learn and network with numerous industry experts, entrepreneurs, technologists and thought leaders who are taking SaaS into the mainstream.

The conference will be a mix of panel sessions and keynote presentations. The audience will come away with practical and strategic advice on developing saas applications, driving adoption and managing a sound business model and engineering best practices, and as well, what to look for when investing time or money in SaaS solutions."The speaker line up is the creme de la creme of the industry:

- Marc Benioff, CEO, salesforce.com
- Brian Behlendorf, Founder and CTO, CollabNet
- Doug Hickey, General Partner, Winblad Venture Partners
- Brian Jacobs, Managing Partner, Emergence Capital
- Subrah Iar, CEO, Webex
- Halsey Minor, CEO, Grand Central
- Treb Ryan, CEO and Co-Founder, OpSource
- Scott Sandell, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
- Stephan Schambach, President and CEO, Demandware

We would be delighted to see you taking part in this very promosing event. You may register here (pretty low price at $125).

We will live blog from this event here at the CIO Weblog. Also we might be able to bring you audio footage through our new partner ITConversations.

Your Creative Weblogging Team