I recently hit up Sydney to attend CeBIT 2008, the world’s number 1 marketplace for digital solutions, trends and innovations. I spent little time in the exhibition area itself but was fortunate enough to check out the Transaction 2.0 conference and I was impressed by the presentations from Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com, Phil Morle and Mick Liubinskas, Co-Founders of Pollenizer and Paul Slakey from Google. Having moved back into development from a technical role in the last 12 months it was a chance to get a refresher on the latest trends and more importantly what to avoid in the market place.

I spent Thursday night bumping shoulders with some impressive people and networking my ass off! Unfortunately I was without camera but the most interesting things were already caught on video! Entrepreneurial Insanity, presented by Jason Calacanis was awesome. Check it out here.

Also worth watching are presentations by Phil and Mike from Pollenizer. Phil’s can be found here and Mike’s can be found here.

Looking forward to next year!