Coming up: Office 2.0, Singularity, Dreamforce, TechCrunch 40, Demo

This week we get back into the tech conference season after the August hiatus, starting with the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday. I will be moderating a panel on enterprise collaboration, which includes Scott Dietzen, president and CTO, Zimbra; Etay Gafni, director of the Technology Innovation Center at SAP; Sam Lawrence, chief marketing officer, Jive Software; Oliver Marks, senior project manager, Sony Computer Entertainment America; Paul Pedrazzi, Oracle AppsLab director; and Jay Simons, senior director of product marketing at BEA. The agenda includes several other panels and more than 50 companies will be demoing products.

This weekend I will be covering the Singularity Summit 2007, which tackles the challenges of a future in which machines with intelligence beyond human capacity inhabit the planet. Listen to my podcasts of some of the speakers:

Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence

Steve Jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species

Can ‘friendly’ AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?

Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems

Also coming up this month: Salesforce.com's Dreamforce 07 conference, TechCrunch 40 and Demofall 07.