Web Directions North » About

After a smash hit first year in Canada, following several years of great success in Australia, Web Directions North returns to Vancouver, with two days of workshops, a two day conference featuring renowned, inspiring expert speakers from across the globe, and the now legendary post conference trip to Whistler.

Web Directions speakers are real world experts bringing insights, experience and expertise you’ll go a long way to get anywhere else. Our speakers walk the walk, not just talk the talk. You’ll also get the chance to meet, exchange ideas, and network with your peers from across Canada, North America and the World. Web Directions is a must for all designers, developers, product managers, and anyone who works with the web. Why Web Directions?

The Executive Summary

Short on time? Need one convenient place to refer your boss that outlines the entire conference in a nutshell? Then take a look at our executive summary page which covers all the highlights of Web Directions North in one spot.

Brought to you by…

Web Directions is brought to you by four passionate, well known members of the Web Development community, with years of experience, who put together the kind of conference they’d want to attend, featuring the experts that inspire them.

Maxine Sherrin

Maxine has developed and maintained the large collection of web development resources at Westciv from the early days of web standards. Since this time, she has been involved in the development of Westciv’s long standing cross platform CSS Editor, Style Master, which these resources support. In 2004 Maxine was one of the co-founders of the Web Directions series of conferences and workshops.

Dave Shea

Dave is a designer from Vancouver. He built the css Zen Garden and then wrote a book about it, he speaks at conferences and now organizes this one too, and most recently he’s been into icon design. Dave blogs at mezzoblue.

Derek Featherstone

Derek is a well known instructor, speaker and developer with expertise in web accessibility consulting.

Derek delivers technical training that is engaging, informative and immediately applicable. A high-quality instructor, he draws on his background as a former high school teacher plus seven years running his web development and accessibility consultancy Further Ahead in Ottawa.

John Allsopp

John is a co-founder of the Web Directions conference series, and author of one of the earliest books on Microformats. As a software developer, long standing web development speaker, writer, evangelist and self proclaimed expert, he’s spent the last 15 years working with and developing for the web.

As the head developer of the leading cross platform CSS development tool Style Master, and developer and publisher of renowned training courses and learning resources on CSS and standards based development, and author of the highly regarded “Dao of Web Design” he has been widely recognized as a leader in these fields. John lives in Sydney.

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