Announcing Web Directions USA! | Web Directions

• In: Blog
• By:John
• May 25, 2010

Our tra­di­tional early year time­frame for Web Directions North has come and gone, so you might have been won­der­ing what’s been hap­pen­ing with Web Directions in North America.

We’re really excited to be able to say behind the scenes a lot has been going on, and we’re excited to be able to announce our next North American con­fer­ence.

Over the last year or so, we’ve been look­ing for a loca­tion that will be home to the sort of event we really want Web Directions to be — an event that brings together folks from all over North America, and indeed the world, and show­cases the lat­est tech­nolo­gies and tech­niques, the lat­est know-​​how.

We’ve been look­ing for a city that’s eas­ily acces­si­ble from just about any­where in North America. A city that doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily get the atten­tion, and events, that some other cities get. A city with a thriv­ing, excit­ing web scene, and a city that’s got a lot to offer over as a des­ti­na­tion is its own right.

In Atlanta, we really believe we’ve found that city, and we’re excited to let you know we’ll be hold­ing our next North America event there September 23rd and 24th of this year. Midtown Atlanta, where the event is held, is a thriv­ing, diverse com­mu­nity, fea­tur­ing restau­rants, bars, cafes, nightlife, and more, and home to Georgia Tech, one of the world’s lead­ing tech­nol­ogy focussed schools. Loews Hotel, the venue for the con­fer­ence is brand spank­ing new, only open­ing in April this year. And with the busiest air­port in the world, Atlanta is usu­ally a non­stop, afford­able flight from almost any­where in North America (and beyond).

To cap­ture the essence of this new home, Web Directions North is now Web Directions USA.

But at its heart of course is the same phi­los­o­phy — to bring the lat­est tech­nolo­gies, like CSS3 and HTML5, the lat­est tech­niques in design and devel­op­ment, fea­tur­ing lead­ing prac­ti­tion­ers, not just the usual sus­pects, to share their expe­ri­ence and exper­tise in con­tent rich, inde­pen­dent sessions.

For Web Directions USA 2010 we’ve got such amaz­ing speak­ers as

• Scott Thomas, lead web designer on President Obama’s elec­toral cam­paign, explain­ing how to design online com­mu­ni­ties that res­onate and motivate
• Aarron Walter, lead designer from MailChimp, speak­ing on emo­tional design
• The leg­endary Dan Rubin on Creativity, Design and Interaction with HTML5 and CSS3
• User Experience expert Juliet Melton on run­ning remote user research projects

And many other ses­sions cov­er­ing adding geolo­ca­tion to your web apps, build­ing native mobile apps with web tech­nolo­gies, server­side JavaScript, web typog­ra­phy, HTML5 for web app devel­op­ment, Agile UI design, and much much more. In total 20 amaz­ing ses­sions over 2 days.

We’ve also got 2 days of great value work­shops lead­ing up to the conference.

There’s also our well known ded­i­ca­tion to the social side of our events — so while you may not get the chance to ski or snow­board (this time) there’ll be plenty to keep you occu­pied, and con­nected, not least of which an amaz­ing free event on Saturday September 25th, which we’ll be announc­ing soon. Whether you’re from nearby, or far away, keep this day clear in your diary, it really is not to be missed.

And, before June 20th, it’s just $799 to attend. 20 hours of amaz­ing pre­sen­ta­tions, fully catered, a recep­tion and clos­ing night party, and our mys­tery event as well — we’d like to think it’s the best value, as well as the straight up best event for web pro­fes­sion­als you’ll find anywhere.

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