Emerging Technologies Conference at UNC?

Hi, all. How do you feel about having an "Emerging Technologies" conference at UNC? Please post comments here and vote on the poll on the left. Some topics to get us started in the discussion include,

• Rich Internet App tools/tech (AJAX, Flex, Curl, JavaFX, JBoss Seam)
• Cloud computing (providing technology-enabled services over the Internet -- "in the cloud")
  
• Mobile devices: Web access, development, etc.
  
• Web 2.0 (social networking sites, blogs, wikis) -- though many of these are already established tech and not so much "emerging" anymore
• Semantic search technology

Who would we contact to have such a conference? Are there companies and organizations that can help?