organize a webdesign conference

I spent some time at a conference over the past few days discussing with a collegue the need for more than a technology conference in the Atlantic Provinces. Together, we agreed that the lack of a forum east of Montreal and north of Boston for brainshare between web professionals is somewhat frustrating. To this end, we will be working together to try and get something organized for next summer – stay tuned, detail will be coming as we sort them out.

It would be really neat to organize a webdesign conference on the east coast here. We have IT Works! in Saint John and some other IT conferences (including NAWeb in Fredericton) but nothing else (that I know of) that is mainly a couple of days of learning new things in our profession; from CSS techniques to sessions on content management, to usability/UI issues, and so on. So how does one organize something like this?