Click here for the full program overview and agenda.

Here's who is coming to the conference.

For fun things to do while in LA, click here.

Here's who to thank for this year's conference

To see a video shot at last year's conference, click here.

ABOUT THIS YEAR'S CONFERENCE:

Our Fall 2010 Conference is sold out. But we can add your name to a waiting list. And if you are a Network member, you get priority for any slots that open.

For those of you coming to the conference, here are the facts:

This year's event takes place September 29-October 1 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles, and is being held in partnership with our community foundation colleagues who are members of CommA, an affinity group of the Council on Foundations.

For this year's conference, we’ve dispensed with panel presentations. In their place, we’ve recruited a stellar lineup of speakers. And not just one or two, like in past years.

We have six high-profile speakers. They are James Surowiecki, Steve Lopez, Tracy Gary, Neal Baer, Lucy Bernholz, and Sendhil Mullainathan.

These people aren't coming just to talk to you. We invited them to interact with you and to get you thinking about what they have to say in smaller discussion groups that will follow. You'll get to kick around what they heard, challenge and question each other, and also reach some consensus about how to apply the concepts and practices, and some new thoughts that might occur, when you return home.

In the end, the success of the conference comes down to your active engagement, especially the many conversations we hope it spawns.

Other highlights of this year's event include an opening reception on top of the GRAMMY Museum, w

ith a performance by A Fine Frenzy, and a Thursday reception at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica. Like we did last year

, we're recruiting a team of bloggers and tweeters, and will have a video story booth running over the course of the conference where you can record your thoughts about the presentations or anything else you want to share about the work you do and how it is changing. We've also set aside time on Friday morning for you to organize your own breakfast roundtables on topics you want to discuss with colleagues.