This year the focus is on building and deploying Web services using Java and Open Source technologies, so Apache's various projects including Jakarta should be well represented.

If you're a technical person, I'd recommend submitting a paper.

I've presented there a few times, and the conference is a "by geeks, for geeks" event, with a lot of interaction. I've gotten a lot out of the sessions I attended there, and made some good friends along the way.