We’ve crossed the 40-speaker landmark for BIA/Kelsey’s Interactive Local Media 2009 event. The show reflects renewed optimism in the marketplace, and has generated a lot of healthy buzz.

ILM is the culmination of this year’s research and analysis, and takes place  Dec. 9-11 at The Century Plaza in L.A. Keynote-level presentations are set from Brian Buchwald at NBC Local; Geoff Donaker at Yelp; Scott Moore at MSN; and Chris LaSala at Google.

Here’s the registration info. And here’s the current lineup.

Panos Beathanis, CEO, DirectoryM
Cory Bergman, Director, New Product Development, MSNBC.com
Matthew Berk, Executive VP, Product Engineering, Marchex
Jason Boseck, President, Parking Data Ventures
Brian Buchwald, Executive VP, Local Integrated Markets, NBC Universal
Neil Budde, President and Chief Product Officer, DailyMe
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, CEO-in-Residence, Accel Partners
Surojit Chatterjee, Product Manager, Google
Darrin Clement, CEO, Maponics
Court Cunningham, CEO, Yodle
Geoff Donaker, COO, Yelp
Aaron Finn, President and CEO, AdReady
Jeff Ferguson, Senior Director, Online Marketing, Local.com
Alex Hawkinson, CEO, SMBLive
Mark Josephson, CEO, Outside.in
Warren Kay, VP, Local, Fox Interactive Media
Tim Kendall, Director of Monetization, Facebook
Cyrus Krohn, Director, Online Services Programming, Microsoft
Chris LaSala, Director, Local, Google
Warren Lee, Venture Partner, Canaan Partners
Lem Lloyd, VP, U.S. Partnerships, Yahoo
Kirsten Mangers, Founder and CEO, WebVisible
David Mihm, Local Search Expert, David Mihm, Inc.
Scott Moore, U.S. Executive Producer, MSN, Microsoft
Kara Nortman, Senior VP, Publishing, Citysearch
Mike Orren, Founder and President, Pegasus News
Geneva Overholser, Director, School of Journalism, USC Annenberg
Meredith Papp, Product Marketing Manager, Google
Jim Pastor, Senior VP, ESPN Local
Claudia Poepperl, CEO and Founder, adaffix
Jeff Porter, VP General Management, Americas, mobilepeople
Lori Schwartz, Senior VP, Interpublic Emerging Media Lab
Doug Scott, VP of Marketing, RMG Networks
Julia Scott, CEO, BargainBabe.com
Lori Schwartz, Senior VP and Director, Interpublic Emerging Media Lab
Andrew Shotland, Local SEO Expert, Local SEO Guide
Andy Sims, Director of Advertising, Skype
Ben Smith, CEO, MerchantCircle
Scott Tobias, President and COO, Village Voice Media
Andy Vogel, Senior Director – Sales, Los Angeles Times Media Group
Kinsey Wilson, Senior VP and General Manager, NPR Digital Media
Victor Wong, CEO, PaperG
Michael Yang, Venture Partner, Comcast Interactive Capital