Hasta La Gadget!

Over the past couple of months we’ve been letting you know about the awesome speaker lineup for Expand, our big event that’s just around the corner at San Francisco’s Fort Mason on March 16th and 17th. Now you can check out the full agenda of sessions and speakers who will be gracing our stage for two days full of in-depth discussions about the frontiers of technology.

From 3D printing to crowdfunding, from robots to space (and undoubtedly some robots in space) and more, you’re not going to want to miss the Expand experience. And if you’re looking for even more reasons to attend Expand, how about 10 of them? Go on and pick yourself up a full pass for the weekend and get a free six month subscription to Make Magazine to boot.

See you at Expand!

And don’t forget…

• We now offer day pass options for folks who can’t make it out for the entire weekend
• Join us for Insert Coin winner voting on March 16-17!
• If you’re a company that would like to work with us on an exhibition or sponsorship level, please drop us a line at sponsors at engadget dot com (DIYers and small startups, please ask us about our Indie Corner option!)
• If you’re a member of the media interested in covering Expand, please contact engadget at shiftcomm.com for more information.

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If you’ve been following along with our speaker announcements for Expand, you know we’ve already got a lineup chock full of some of the most interesting technologists at the forefront of innovation. You’ll also appreciate that this last batch is a bit of a doozy — consider this the big reveal before the Big Reveal of the full agenda, coming very soon:

• Nate Mitchell: Vice President of Product, Oculus Rift
• Jason Parrish: Director, Lenovo ThinkPad Strategy & Planning
• Hod Lipson: Professor of Engineering, Cornell University
• Tamar Yehoshua: Director of Product Management, Google
• Ujesh Desai: Vice President of Product Marketing, NVIDIA
• Bob Heddle: Director, Kinect for Windows at Microsoft
• John Wilson: Vice President, Systems Product Group, Razer
• Corinna Proctor: Senior Research Manager, Lenovo User Research Center
• Jim Denney: Vice President of Product Marketing, TiVo

Here’s why else you need to be at Expand…

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Hard to believe, but March is here, and with this lambing-lion of a month comes Engadget’s first-ever Expand conference in San Francisco. It also marks the impending culmination of our first-ever Insert Coin: New Challengers competition. Late last year, we asked makers to submit their projects for a chance to win $25,000 in prizes. We whittled that list down to 10 semifinalists and asked you to help up get it down to a final five, which will go up in front of our all-star panel of judges on March 16th and 17th. Finalist voting closed yesterday, and we’ve tallied the 5 projects that will be demoed on stage. Check them out after the break, and be sure to follow our coverage at Expand for a chance to help pick the Grand Prize and People’s Choice winners.

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Our first ever Expand event is around the corner, this March 16-17 in San Francisco. In addition to oodles of interesting speakers, there’ll be shiny sights to see: robots, retro games, of course gadgets galore and a few surprises we haven’t even unveiled yet. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to record said sights with your own state-of-the art camera?

Show us you can shoot an awesome photo of your favorite gadget, and you could win a Samsung Galaxy Camera! We described it thusly:

“Samsung’s Android-powered Galaxy Camera is a bit of a wild card, marrying Google’s Android Jelly Bean OS with a 16-megapixel camera – heck, it’s even got a 4.8-inch 1,280 × 720-pixel (308 ppi) touchscreen display… the entire back consists of that 4.8-inch screen, edge-to-edge…”

Check out our full review for all the details and specs.

Want a chance at nabbing this bad boy for your very own? Step 1 is to Like the Expand Facebook page. Step 2 is to use the entry form on our Facebook page to submit a photo you’ve taken of your favorite gadget, title the photo and give a short description about why it’s your chosen top device. Team Expand will judge entries based on creativity, style and skill. Show us why you deserve a new camera!

Good luck, and may the best shot win — you have until this coming Monday, March 4 at 5pm EST to get your entry in. To be eligible to enter, you must be 18 years of age and a U.S. resident (please peruse the full rules).

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We would say it’s been an absolutely epic and crazy Mobile World Congress, but we’d be lying. Instead, we’ll talk to you about what we saw, felt and heard — some of it good, and some just outright disgusting. There’s a span of two weeks to cover, so it should be a healthy podcast with lots of stuff to talk about. As a disclaimer, our connection here in Barcelona isn’t incredibly strong, so there is a small possibility that our bandwidth may go out on occasion. If you don’t mind that chance, however, join us at 10:15AM ET!

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