If you’re looking to attend one of the hottest web app conferences in ‘08, then you better make sure you book tickets for FOWA now.

FOWA is hitting the East Coast, and it’s hitting it hard, with tons of networking potential, an impressive and growing list of speakers, and much more. I would even go as far as to say that this isn’t your normal web app conference at all, it’s not even close. For starters, it’s going to have a beach party right on Nikki Beach, on one of South Beach’s most exclusive and exciting shores, right on the sand. The FOWA conference is an exciting and fresh blend of fun social side-events, top-notch workshops, and an arsenal of great information.

Apart from the provocative glamor and high-fashion that South Beach is known for, it’s also becoming one of the hottest spots for web entrepreneurs and start ups to establish themselves, basically being the seductively hot cousin of the famous Silicon Valley hype. Everybody that’s somebody will be at FOWA, I’m attending, are you? Hope to see you there.

Tickets are 25% off if you book them in advance, but time is running out, so take advantage of it while you still can. FOWA will be held in Miami, Florida, on February 28th thru March 1st ‘08.

Here’s an outline of confirmed speakers for the FOWA conference.

Kevin Rose
Digg

Kevin Rose is the founder and chief architect of Digg. He oversees all aspects of the management and development of the Web site. Kevin started Digg in September 2004 as a personal project. His initial idea was to conduct a social experiment in how masses of users could control and promote news and other content on the Web, without external editorial control. After a very short time, he realized the power of his idea, as Digg was becoming a resource for breaking news stories and developed a strong user following.

Kevin is also a co-founder of the Internet Television Network Revision3 where as a member of the board he provides strategic direction to the company.

Cal Henderson
Flickr

Originally from London, England, he currently works at Yahoo! Inc, as the Director of Engineering for Flickr, in San Francisco, California. He’s been working on Flickr from the day it started development (on his laptop) to the present day (where it’s now the “Offical website of the Internet”). In 2006, he wrote the book Building Scalable Websites for O’Reilly Media.

Before Flickr, he was the technical director of Special Web Projects at emap, a UK media company. By night he works for a whole slew of web sites and communitites, including the creative community B3TA and his personal site, iamcal.

Erick Schonfeld
TechCrunch

Erick is the Co-Editor of TechCrunch and has been covering startups and technology news for 14 years. At Business 2.0 he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, Next Net. He also does a lot of video work and hosts regular panels of industry luminaries called Disruptor Round Tables.

Prior to Business 2.0, Erick was an editor-at-large for eCompany and a contributing editor for Fortune. In 1999, Schonfeld won the prize for best information technology submission at London’s Business Journalist of the Year Awards, and in 2001 he won the prize for best space submission at the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in Paris.

Kevin Marks
Google

Kevin is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. He became principal engineer for Technorati after doing work for both Apple and the BBC. He is one of the founders of Microformats.

In 2003, Marks was an early experimenter with and contributor to the technologies that became popular under the names podcasting and iPodder in 2004.

Leah Culver
Pownce

Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as a way of sending messages, links, files and events to each other. Leah is the lead developer for the site and spends most of her time working on feature development, fixing bugs, and re-writing her SQL queries. She’s a recent computer science graduate from the University of Minnesota and loves the challenge of developing a web application from scratch. Leah also writes a blog about her experiences as a software developer at leahculver.com.

Matt Mullenweg
WordPress

Matt Mullenweg blogs at PhotoMatt.net. He is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool. In late 2005, he left CNET to found Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Askimet.com. In his spare time he enjoys taking photographs and playing jazz.

Blaine Cook
Twitter

Blaine Cook is the Architect at Twitter. He is currently building and maintaining Twitter’s Jabber-based real-time backend infrastructure that tracks and distributes millions of updates every day to users on the Web, instant messaging, and SMS.

Jeff Clavier
SoftTech VC

Jeff is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in more than 20 consumer Internet companies developing new concepts (such as social media) or revisiting ‘old’ ideas with a new set of economics and technologies. In 2007, Jeff was recognized as one of the 13 ‘Web 2.0 King Makers’ by Business 2.0, and is often noted for his investments in categories such as ‘passion-centric communities,’ or for having already sold five of his companies in the past two years through successful M&As

For a full list of speakers, visit the FOWA Confirmed speakers page.