I was plan­ning to lay low on the con­fer­ence cir­cuit this year – our busi­ness is expand­ing like a run­away train (what global finan­cial cri­sis?) and I need to focus all my atten­tion on keep­ing it on the rails. But, oppor­tu­ni­ties I would be crazy to miss just keep com­ing up – I went to WebDU as a Media del­e­gate for Site­Point ear­lier this year, and I’m speak­ing at cf.Objective(ANZ) in Mel­bourne in Novem­ber. And of course I’m heav­ily involved in the Edge of the Web con­fer­ence in Perth in Novem­ber too.

Now, I’m also going to Web Direc­tions South in Syd­ney next week to help out on Adobe’s expo stand!

So, if you’re going to WDS, drop by and say hello. We’ll be doing some demos and other cool stuff and I’ll be fly­ing the Cold­Fu­sion flag (well, some­one has to!).

John and Max­ine have organ­ised a whole bunch of events for Aus­tralian Web Week around the con­fer­ence. There’s a whole ton of them but make sure you come along to Web­Wiz – a free Rock­Wiz style quiz event which should be a ton of fun, on Tues­day night. AWIA are doing this instead of the tra­di­tional Port80 Syd­ney, and will be announc­ing the East­ern States-based final­ists in the 2009 Aus­tralian Web Awards at the same time.

Good times! See ya there!