Conference for forum owners?

I wanted to see if there was any interest in having a conference for forum owners to get together once a year in order to share best practices and monetization strategies?

I have learned a lot more from talking to owners of forums than I have from reading about things on the internet and I would love to keep meeting and networking with forum owners. I believe that forum owners need to organize and form a trade association and conference in order to remain viable against blogs and other forms of social media that are more organized.

Companies like Internet Brands and many of the advertising networks might be convinced to become sponsors for the conference since we obviously impact their businesses.

Please share your thoughts on this subject. I am happy to do the organizing, and the event would extend beyond vBulletin to all forum owners. I would either pick Southern California (my home base) or Las Vegas if I was doing the planning, but almost any city would work if we had local help and there was proper infrastructure for panel sessions, etc...

What do you think?