Only con­firmed in the past few days, I can now reveal I’ll be keynot­ing the Web­trends Engage 2010 Aus­tralia Con­fer­ence at the Inter­Con­ti­nen­tal Hotel in Syd­ney on 21 April.

While I’ve not yet really decided just how I’ll address my sub­ject mat­ter, loosely described by Web­trends as “his per­spec­tive on the dig­i­tal world”, I promise not to deliver just another “social media is the new way and it is awe­some and you can sell lots of stuff with it” talk.

You can hear as many of those as you want at ad:tech.

Rather, I intend to do a bit of crys­tal ball gaz­ing, a bit of reflec­tion on the past and present, and  a look at just how the exis­tence of our hyper­con­nected world really has trans­formed busi­ness and soci­ety, for bet­ter and worse in every cor­ner of the globe.