I won’t have to travel as much as usual over the next week.

I’m speaking in sessions at IPEX (#IPEX) at the NEC in Birmingham today and Monday and am then heading to Thinking Digital (#TDC10) at The Sage in Gateshead from Tuesday to Thursday next week. The latter is a short commute from my home in Northumberland.

Do look me up if you’re at either event.

IPEX is a trade event for print, publishing and media where my contribution will be to debates on the future of printed media. With the iPad’s impending launch in the UK it couldn’t be timelier.

Thinking Digital will see 500 delegates descend for the third year on what has become the UK’s answer to US conferences such as SXSW, TED and PoP!Tech. Among the speakers for 2010 will be execs from Creative Commons, Futureworks, Ogilvy Group UK, Sony Pictures Digital and Wired.

I’ll be blogging interesting content from Thinking Digital here and on The (Newcastle) Journal’s NEOtherBusiness business web site.