52 confirmed speakers. 115 registered participants. 24 sponsors. It looks like we’re on track. And this is even before we issued a first press release. Blogs can be pretty effective marketing tools nowadays it seems. So, without further ado, here is an update on the Office 2.0 Conference.

On the registration side, we’ve got good news and bad news. Good news: we received plenty of them. Bad news, we’ve got so many that we won’t be able to extend the early bird registration period. September 1st will be the last day to benefit from the $395 early bird special. After that, the registration price is $595. So if you want to save a cool $200, make sure to register now.

On the sponsor side, we’re proud to be joined by ThinkFree, which has one of the most complete Office 2.0 productivity suites currently available. Also, Coghead has decided to use the event has launch pad for their product. This makes me pretty happy, because I wrote about this company six months ago, and I was really eager to know what they were up to. It looks like the wait should be well worth it: if you want to know what BPM on demand should look like, look no further, for my friend Greg Olsen has it all figured out.

For managing the marketing of the event, we joined forces with SugarCRM and will use their on-demand deployment option. Our account will be activated tomorrow, and we will upload all our data for participants, speakers and sponsors. Blogtronix will demonstrate their corporate blogging solution, and Socialtext will provide the conference’s Wiki, which we will launch next week and will use to collectively refine the content for each panel. Also, Netvibes will be used as virtual desktop on all demo pods. Many thanks to Jeff Clavier for this one.

Over the past seven days, we received more and more pressing requests for an Enterprise 2.0 track to be developed throughout the conference. Our Editorial Board, which is made of members of the illustrious Enterprise Irregulars group, took this advice to heart and started inviting companies that have interesting things to say on the subject. As a result, ActiveGrid and BEA decided to join us as sponsors. Now, all we need to do is make sure that the super-stealth and ultra-cool Abgenial uses the event as launch pad as well. With Oren Michel’s Mashery added to the mix, we should have a pretty good overview for the state-of-the-art technologies that are available today for enterprise mashups. And if yet another 2.0 meme is confusing you, just memorize this simple equation:

On the speaker side, we added biographies and pictures for all 52 speakers and panelists, which now include Michael Arrington, Editor of TechCrunch, Jeff Benrey, CEO of Trovix, Stowe Boyd, Managing Director of A Working Model, Kevin Hale, Co-Founder of Wufoo, J.B. Holston, CEO of NewsGator, Robin Hopper, CEO of iUpload, TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree, Paul Kedrosky, Venture Partner at Ventures West Management, Tariq Krim, CEO of Netvibes, Michael McDerment, CEO of FreshBooks, Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, Craig Remy, CMO of Intacct, Peter Rip, Partner at Leapfrog Ventures, Paul Wiefels, Managing Director of The Chasm Group, and Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid.

Regarding the final program for the conference, our Editorial Board will meet tomorrow evening at Socialtext’s headquarters in Palo Alto and dispatch speakers and panelist across keynotes and panels, for both plenary and breakout sessions. The schedule will be published on Friday this week, or Monday next week at the latest, using the excellent 30 Boxes calendaring service. If you’re a speaker and do not like the spot you will be granted, please do not complain to me, for I won’t be directly responsible for it. The Editorial Board is. Only problem: it does not have an email address, and I do not have any desire to create one at this point. So I really hope you’ll like the spot these guys will give you. Really.

From a logistics standpoint, the promotion code for the St. Regis Hotel should be communicated very soon now. If you think it’s long overdue, you’re absolutely right. All I can say is that Starwood would certainly benefit from a good injection of Office 2.0 productivity. If you know anyone there, please make sure to send them an invite to the conference.

Last but not least, all demo equipments for sponsors will be purchased before the conference. We’re talking about 20 complete setups made of a cute Apple Mac mini, a 20-inch Apple Cinema Displays, a keyboard, and a mouse. We will sell 10 of them for 25% off retail price immediately after the conference. If you want to buy one or two, just drop me a line, and I’ll put them aside for you, all neatly packaged in their orignal boxes.

That’s all for now. Lot’s of catch up on blogging ahead of me…