I'll post a March Meeting update later, but if you like your conferences a little more wide-ranging, Ethan Zuckerman provides extensive reporting from the TED Conference. The speakers range from Steven Pinker and Murray Gell-Mann to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so there's a little something for everyone.
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For what it's worth, TED makes all their presentations available as video podcasts, released over the course of the next year.
http://ted.com/tedtalks/
I subscribe with iTunes, and some of them are really good. They certainly manage to collect a lot of the world's movers and shakers in one place.