Speakers | Web Directions East 2010

Speakers

Brian Boigon

Cultivating the Follow Me Generation

Brian Boigon is a leading edge Social Media strategist and thought leader and skillfully straddles the corporate, media and academic worlds. He is currently at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, where he is full time faculty in Design and Cultural Theory. He has lectured at MIT, Princeton [...] → Brian Boigon profile page

Bruce Lawson

Be an Iron Chef of HTML5

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 [...] → Bruce Lawson profile page

Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis

CSS evolution: Using beautiful CSS3 today

Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis is a prominent front-end developer, corporate trainer, and noted champion of web standards. Author of Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4 and other books, she’s a driving force in WaSP, as their Industry Evangelist to Adobe. A born teacher savvy about both business needs and the web, she’s a highly regarded, in-demand trainer [...] → Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis profile page

Jonathan Stark

Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Jonathan Stark is a mobile application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web. Jonathan is the author of “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” and “Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” which are both available from O’Reilly. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @jonathanstark Session: Building [...] → Jonathan Stark profile page

John Resig

Mobile JavaScript and jQuery Mobile

John Resig is a JavaScript Tool Developer for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library and jQuery Mobile framework. Currently, John is located in Boston, MA. He’s hard at work on his second book, Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, [...] → John Resig profile page

Scott Thomas

Designing Obama

Scott Thomas, who goes by the moniker SimpleScott, lives by the idea that the simplest solution is the best one. Whether he’s building a website or singing emails operatically the motivation is always “Less is More.” Back when SimpleScott had free time he could be found at a letterpress fashioning original prints and collaborating with [...] → Scott Thomas profile page

Hiroto Ebata

Coca-Cola Japan’s Triple Media Strategy

Director, i Marketing, Marketing & New Businesses, Coca-Cola (Japan) Company, Limited Born in Manhattan New York he holds dual citizenship (United States and Japan). He obtained his MBA and Global Management Program (GMP) certificate from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1994. He co-authored "Coca-Cola Park's challenge for Eco-System Marketing". After working for the Aerospace [...] → Hiroto Ebata profile page

Gosuke Kumamura

An Easy Access Social Media Marketing Method for Japanese Enterprise

Gosuke Kumamura is the Online Marketing Manager/Socila Media Lead in Microsoft, and is responsible for corporate website management and social media marketing strategy. In 1998, after graduating from Waseda University, Gosuke started his career as a professional saxophonist, and threw himself into the world of IT industry in 2000. In 2002, Gosuke joined RealNetworks K.K., and [...] → Gosuke Kumamura profile page

Jun Fujisawa

SVG

Fujisawa-san was part of the NeXT development team where he developed 2D/3D graphic technologies, and was also an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 1990 Fujisawa-san has been working for Cannon Inc. He is also involved with standardizing internet technology: he has been an editor for the W3C SVG 1.1 specification since 2000, [...] → Jun Fujisawa profile page

Kazuhito Kidachi

WAI-ARIA: Leading Web Accessibility to the Next Stage

Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd, Member of the Board of Directors, General Manager of R&D After being a webmaster for NASDA (the National Space Development Agency of Japan), Kazuhito Kidachi moved into the IT industry, joining Mitsue-Links in February 2002. He specializes in developing guidelines, workflows and plans based on web standards. He oversees several groups in the [...] → Kazuhito Kidachi profile page

Katsutoshi Tsuji

WAI-ARIA: Leading Web Accessibility to the Next Stage

Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd, Accessibility engineer Katsutoshi Tsuji has been working as a web accessibility professional since 2001. He joined Mitsue-Links in 2006 evangelizing the importance of web accessibility through their accessibility blog and podcast. He spoke at the International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference for three consecutive years about web accessibility in Japan. He is also [...] → Katsutoshi Tsuji profile page

Paul Irish

HTML5 for Web Apps, in depth and cross-browser

Paul Irish is a front-end developer and user experience designer. He is on Google Chrome's Developer Relations team. He is also a member of the jQuery Developer Relations team as well as a host of the yayQuery Podcast about Javascript. He develops the HTML5/CSS3 feature detection library Modernizr, HTML5 Boilerplate, and other bits and bobs of [...] → Paul Irish profile page

Kouji Ishii

ePub 3.0: The next generation e-book standard based on HTML5 and CSS3

Ishii joined Microsoft after developing software for printing machines such as automatic paste up composers. He was a part of the development team for MS Word from versions 6 to 2000. During that time, he also helped create the basis of what came to be the CSS3 Text Layout specification. He established a company called [...] → Kouji Ishii profile page

Noriyuki Suehiro

ePub 3.0: The next generation e-book standard based on HTML5 and CSS3

Noriyuki Suehiro is an engineer working for Access. He has been working on NetFront Browser (a popular Japanese mobile phone browser), and recently NetFront Book Viewer, an ePub reader. He introduced NetFront Book Viewer at a Japan Electronic Publishing Association (JEPA) event. Currently he is also involved in Booker’s, a new e-book service. Session: ePub 3.0: [...] → Noriyuki Suehiro profile page

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