On February 15th, my family and I are moving to a new home. It's in Edgemont Village about 5 blocks away from where we are now, but a much nicer place. Yeah nicer place, but moving is a brutal experience even when it is only 5 blocks away. So imagine Mandy's reaction when I mentioned that I was already booked to attend or present at a number of conferences over the next 6 weeks.

I don't blame you if you can't picture it. I wouldn't want to go there either.

Anyway, should I survive to travel, these are the places I will be:

February 24th and 25th: SanFran MusicTech Summit. It is supposed to be a great meet-up of leading music industry technologists and thinkers. The speaker list is pretty impressive. I'm keen to hear and learn what other people are doing.

March 5th-8th: Canadian Music Week in Toronto. I was booking my ticket to attend when I was contacted to sit on two of the panels. That got me pretty stoked. After I confirmed, Gerd Leonhard, who I have been following for years, contacted me and asked if I wanted to demo a product from Project Opus. "Hell Yeah!" I hadn't planned on demoing our JAMM Technology until the end of March, but we are going to try and get the bugs worked out in time for CMW so I can demo there.

March 7th-16th:SXSW. This will be my first time at SXSW. I don't know what to expect really. I hope my friends from Virtue Vice will show me the ropes. Though I hope the balcony doesn't collapse this year.

March 12th-14th: Content Convergence & Integration. I'll be presenting: Content Mash-ups: An assault on copyright or a new publishing reality? The smart and highly energetic Rahel Bailie has organized a conference focused on the three main assets in the content management equation:
1. The actual Content (Strangely the most often forgotten element in most CMS conferences)
2. The enabling technologies (All the CM conferences have this one, naturally.)
3. User Relationships (Smart addition. A content management plan and technology can not be deployed in a cookie cutter fashion.)

If any readers are going to these events, I'd love to hook-up. Send me an e-mail.

Oh... and for those of you who think I'm a heartless bastard for leaving my poor wife alone with two kids and a dog for the bulk of our move, I'm shipping in my parents from Calgary to help her out.

Is that love!