It’s time to head to New York for the start of the fall conference season. This year, Interop and Web2Expo are side-by-side at the Javitz Center, and we’re holding the Interop Unconference event on Thursday night. Then there’s High Performance on Wall Street happening on Monday the 22nd.

At Interop this year, we’re helping to run the Software-as-a-Service track (in conjunction with Jeff Kaplan of Thinkstrategies) and the Cloud Computing track (helped by Peter Laird, who I first met when I saw his excellent Taxonomy of the Cloud, which he’s been hard at work revising for Interop.) I’m also doing a free session on cloud foundations at the show. The lineup of speakers and panelists is remarkable, and will hopefully lead to some great conversations. We also have folks from Google, Amazon, Joyent, 10Gen and Bungee on a Web2Expo panel.

Here’s a recap of the sessions and participants:

• SaaS Best Practices and Pitfalls is a reprise of a session I taught in Vegas, and it’s available here. All the content we produce at these events is in the Content section of the site, by the way.
• Martin Dubois of Taleo is taking time from his crazy schedule to present on compliance and regulation in SaaS — a hot topic, and Martin is a double threat with his background in law and technology.
• SMB SaaS, where Jeff has a lineup of some of the best small-business-focussed application developers out there: Alastair Mitchell of Huddle.net, Bill Lucchini of Intuit Quickbase, George Symons of Yosemite Technologies, Mike McDerment of Freshbooks, and Stephen Cho of Google Apps.
• A panel on managing SaaS with folks from Aria Systems, Boomi, and Conformity.
• A look at companies that have merged traditional products with a SaaS element to differentiate themselves, including Tomtom, Alertlogic, and Napera.
• Adam Gross of Salesforce.com on building applications on a Platform-as-a-Service offering (we’re guessing he’ll use Saleforce’s APEX as an example.)
• Peter Laird presenting the aforementioned cloud taxonomy (pictured above.)
• A session on cloud SLAs with Gomez and Servicecloud. SLAs are a particularly hot topic for the enterprise-heavy Interop crowd.
• Intuit, Rackspace, and AWS talking about the secrets of running big clouds.
• A chat with Stacksafe, 3Tera, Rightscale and Elastra on “the big migration” from enterprise data centers into the cloud. I’m moderating this one and really looking forward to the discussion.
• A session on managing cloud applications. This panel includes Embotics, Splunk, and Fortisphere. Originally, ManageIQ and Bluelane were scheduled on this panel as well, but both dropped out at the last minute — one with a good reason — and Reuven Cohen of Enomalism is going to join us to fill out the group.
• A look at the Web2-centric clouds with Joyent, Google, Bungee, Amazon, and 10Gen.

If you’re at either event, say hi. And if you’re free Thursday night, consider joining us at Unconference.