Those of you who are in London this weekend (15-16 December) might be interested in checking out the AdventureX conference.
Of likely interest to readers of this blog, there will be presentations by Alex Warren (on Quest), Jon Ingold (on inkle interactive narrative projects), and Dave Gilbert (doing cool narrative things in the graphical adventure indie space). There will be demos and exhibitors and game trailers. There will be visual novels, gamebooks, point-and-click adventures, browser and indie titles. It’s like a big old family reunion for IF’s siblings, cousins, and in-laws.
All this is free, ticketless, and held in a wheelchair-accessible space. Also there will be snacks!
(My secret selfish agenda is that I am sad I cannot go myself, so I am hoping other people go and report back.)
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 
Hello, I’m one of the organisers and I (belatedly) would like to thank you for spreading the word. We have a short video up about the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKTYTdA1GE and hope to run again in 2013!