Singularity claims to be the first large-scale online web conference in the world. Organizer Aral Balkan is planning to coordinate over 100 of the world’s top web visionaries, developers, designers, thought leaders, and celebrities for three days of talks over multiple tracks October 24-26th, 2008.

Some of the themes for the conference are accessibility issues, open data, open source and creative commons, and on giving back. Some 30 speakers have been announced so far.

This is what you get

All sessions will be recorded and made available to attendees for a period of six months. After this, the recordings will be released under a Creative Commons license to form a time capsule or snapshot of Web as seen through the eyes of the speakers.

Singularity will provide a wide array of networking tools to the attendees. These tools will utilize and build upon existing networks so you can expand your existing network prior to, during, and after the conference.

The organizers promise to share the development process of the conference with the community of attendees and offer a transparent look at its technological underpinnings via articles, podcast interviews, etc.

If you want to know more, take a look at this video interview by by Zian Marro from Télévision Suisse: