In just one week (!!) we'll be kicking off The Big M here in lovely Bath.

Things are looking pretty blinding from where we're sitting - speakers are lined up with some exceptional talks, venues are booked, passes are being printed..

More to the point, a bloody great lovely bunch of YOU are coming along - and without you (as someone once said) this whole thing is but a dream. So thank you for booking - and if you haven't yet, you really should do it now :-)

Just to give you a flavour, I've just scanned through the list of people attending and dug out a few random company names.

The list includes - of course - our fantastic sponsors: O2, Vodafone and Nokia...

...it includes other international companies like Everything Everywhere, Prudential, Opera and Estee Lauder...

...it includes local firms such as Analog, 3Sixty, Future Publishing and Mubaloo...

...not to mention a vast collection of freelancers, creatives, academics and others...

Chris and I are absolutely loving this mix - and we're really excited that you'll all be able to hang out together between talks and chew the mobile cud.

Two more things before I go - first off, I'm absolutely delighted to announce that Keir Whitaker has agreed to come on board to help us out with logistics in this final week running up to the conference. Keir has a huge amount of experience putting together this kind of thing in his previous role at Carsonified, and as a close friend I'm delighted to welcome him on board.

Lastly - if you have already booked, please don't forget to fill in our Big M's Big Questions form - it'll really help our Developer Connect partners. Thanks!