What is emerging technology?

Originally started in 2001 as the Peer to Peer Conference, ETech evolved to its current name and positioning by May 2002. It is currently held in San Diego every March. In 2006, the conference is being held March 6-9, and is focused on the Attention Economy. The conference is increasingly becoming a venue for announcements by new startups, and is more widely attended by venture capitalists than in the past, when it was more purely a get together for what Tim O'Reilly refers to as "the alpha geeks."