Today Twiistup has announced it official date of January 28th 2010 and an awesome lineup of its first confirmed speakers.  Check them out below:

Om Malik

Founder and senior writer for GigaOm. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

gigaom.com

Paul Grahm

Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. He’s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator.

ycombinator.com

Lisa Stone

Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, reaching more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub, and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates

Rick Heitzmann

Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Rick led Pequot’s investments in StubHub (Acquired by eBay), First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV) and US Search. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games.

The early bird special of $197 is only avialable from now til Friday November 20th 2009. (Click here to Register)

Here is what you get with your ticket:

8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast Mixer
12:30-1:30pm Lunch included at the event
8:30-9:30pm Open Tapas/Hors D'oeuvres bar (No-host drinks)

Although there are no free drinks at this one, you're still getting your money worth with the breakfest/lunch/Hors D'oeurves (Which I'd take over drinks anyday) and of course the lineup and all the great showoffs that will be announced soon.

You can see some of the past Twiistup's we have covered here:

Week of Twiistup 6: Interviews, Talks, Panels, and Pics

Twist And Shout for Twiistup 5

Relive the Magic of Twiistup 4