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Speakers | @media 2010

Speakers

Interesting and talented people from the four corners of the web

• Relly Annett-Baker
• Remy Sharp
• Mark Boulton
• Doug Schepers
• Matt Biddulph
• Christian Crumlish
• Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Andy Clarke
• Bruce Lawson
• Jeremy Keith
• Steve Souders
• Jonathan Stark
• Rachel Andrew
• Hannah Donovan

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew is a front and back-end web developer and Director of edgeofmyseat.com, a UK web development consultancy and the creators of the small content management system, Perch. She is the author of a number of web design and development books including CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks (3rd edition), published by SitePoint and also writes on her blog rachelandrew.co.uk. Rachel tries to encourage a common sense application of best practice and standards adoption in her own work and when writing about the web.

Follow Rachel on Twitter: @rachelandrew

Presenting: Core CSS3

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer living in Brighton, England where he works with the web consultancy firm Clearleft. He has written two books, DOM Scripting and Bulletproof Ajax, but what he really wants to do is direct. His latest project is Huffduffer, a service for creating podcasts of found sounds. When he’s not making websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the band Salter Cane. His loony bun is fine benny lava.

Follow Jeremy on Twitter: @adactio

Presenting: Jeremy Keith's Hot Topics

Workshop: Get semantic with microformats and HTML5

Matt Biddulph

Matt Biddulph works at Nokia Social Location in Berlin. He is a co-founder of Dopplr, the social network for smarter travel. He started out in 1994 building search engines on CD-ROM, and now specialises in digital media, social software and putting data on the web. In past lives he was a creative technologist for hire, working with companies like Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream.

Follow Remy on Twitter: @mattb

Presenting: Mobile social location

Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web. Jonathan's new book, "Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript" is available for download from O'Reilly.

Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @jonathanstark

Presenting: Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web ten years ago. His ego likes words like “ambassador for CSS”, “industry prophet” and “inspiring”, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a “(triple talented) bastard”.

Andy took ten months of his life to write the best-selling Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, but his passion is amazing web design. He loves designing for the web, writing about design, and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.

Now he is pulling all of those passions together to create For A Beautiful Web, a unique series of web design master classes that cover topics including visual design and best-practice use of technologies.

Banner photo credit (CC) Svetlana Tsikoza.

Follow Andy on Twitter: @Malarkey

Presenting: Hardboiled web design

Workshop: Advanced CSS styling

Doug Schepers

Doug Schepers works for the W3C as the Rich Web Clients Activity Lead, and the Team Contact for the SVG and WebApps Working Groups, and participates in several other groups, including HTML and OWEA. He is an editor of the Element Traversal, DOM3 Events, and SVG specifications, and co-chairs the SVG Interest Group. Before joining the W3C Team, he has been a long-time developer of Web applications, with a focus on SVG. Doug works from home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Follow Doug on Twitter: @shepazu

Presenting: SVG: Today and Tomorrow

Steve Souders

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. He previously served as Chief Performance Yahoo!. Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. He created YSlow, the performance analysis plug-in for Firefox. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He recently taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.

Banner photo credit (CC) Björn Söderqvist.

Follow Steve on Twitter: @souders

Presenting: Even faster web sites

Remy Sharp

Remy Sharp is a developer, speaker, blogger, author of upcoming jQuery for Designers (Manning) and co-author of Introduction to HTML5 (New Riders). He also organises the Full Frontal JavaScript Conference and is one of the curators of HTML5 Doctor.

jQuery team member (developer relations, formally evangelism) and the developer on a fistful of JavaScript related apps, Remy loves his JavaScript and he is keen as mustard to share it with other developers.

Follow Remy on Twitter: @rem

Presenting: Browsers with Wings: HTML5 APIs

Workshop: Browsers with Wings: HTML5 APIs

Relly Annett-Baker

Relly Annett-Baker lives in Brighton with her husband and two small sons. As a result, she thrives on the sea air and can be guaranteed to stand on Lego at least once a day. As well as being a freelance web copy and content writer, she is employed as live-in domestic staff by two cats who often supervise her typing and make editorial suggestions such as ‘I think it’s dinner time’. In between opening cans of Whiskas and writing for clients, she writes articles for various online media groups and continues to procrastinate over the draft of her first children's book.

Follow Relly on Twitter: @RellyAB

Presenting: All the small things

Hannah Donovan

Originally from the icy north, Hannah Donovan is creative director at Last.fm, where she's worked for the last four years. Before moving to London to work at Last.HQ, she designed websites with Canada's largest youth-focused agency working on brands such as Hershey, Heineken and Bic. Previous to that, Hannah designed for Street Print, a Canada Research Council funded, open source web app for sharing and archiving printed ephemera. Hannah also plays the cello with an orchestra and draws monsters.

Follow Hannah on Twitter: @Han

Presenting: Telling stories through design

Christian Crumlish

Christian Crumlish has been participating in, analyzing, designing, and drawing social interactive spaces online since 1994. These days he is the curator of Yahoo!’s pattern library, a design evangelist with the Yahoo! Developer Network, and a member of Yahoo!'s Design Council. He is the author of the bestselling The Internet for Busy People, and The Power of Many, and is currently working on an upcoming book, Designing Social Interfaces, with Erin Malone. He has spoken about social patterns at BarCamp Block, BayCHI, South by Southwest, the IA Summit, Ignite, and Web 2.0 Expo. Christian has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton. He lives in Oakland with his wife Briggs, his cat Fraidy, and his electric ukulele, Evangeline.

Photo credit (CC) JJ Halans.

Follow Christian on Twitter: @mediajunkie

Presenting: Designing for play

Workshop: Designing social interfaces

Tom Hughes-Croucher

Tom Hughes-Croucher is an Evangelist and Senior Developer in Yahoo's Open Strategy Group, focusing on Yahoo¹s Web Services and Cloud Platform.

Tom joined Yahoo! to work on the Yahoo! frontpage in Europe as a Front end engineer. He brought his experience from contributing to a number of Web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI).

Before joining Yahoo! he helped build the online music stores for some of the UK's largest brands including Tesco, Three Telecom and Channel 4.

Follow Tom on Twitter: @sh1mmer

Presenting: An introduction to server-side JavaScript

Bruce Lawson

Bruce evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He's currently working with the British Standards Institution to draft the new Standard for commissioning accessible web sites and writing a book about HTML5. Previously, he's been front-end technical lead for the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority web sites, tutor to a princess' daughter in Thailand, a movie extra in Bombay, and a tarot card reader in Istanbul. He blogs at www.brucelawson.co.uk, drinks Guinness and is training for a blue belt in kickboxing.

Follow Bruce on Twitter: @brucel

Presenting: HTML5: structure, semantics, styling and sexiness

Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton is a graphic designer from the UK. He’s worked in Sydney, London and Manchester as an Art Director for clients such as the BBC, T-Mobile, British Airways, and Toyota. Mark now runs his own design studio, Mark Boulton Design. A stickler for applied typographic and design theory, Mark is an active member of the International Society of Typographic Designers and writes a design journal at markboulton.co.uk.

Follow Mark on Twitter: @markboulton

Presenting: Designing grid systems