Fluent is an O'Reilly conf, and it's at almost the same time as BackboneConf, but you should still give it a shot! First, Peter Cooper's one of the organizers, and second, this is one of the talk proposals:
First name: G like "giraffe," not G like "get." Rhymes with "miles." Last name: rhymes with "broke it," although I often fall back to an Americanized version which rhymes with "go get."
