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Speakers

Interesting and talented people from the four corners of the web

• Brian Fling
• Bruce Lawson
• Andy Clarke
• Tom Coates
• Addy Osmani
• Relly Annett-​​Baker
• Dave Balmer
• Hannah Donovan
• Nicole Sullivan
• Jonathan Stark
• Stephen P Anderson
• Douglas Crockford
• Brian Suda
• Michael Mahemoff

Brian Fling

Presenting: Six rules to designing amazing mobile apps

Brian Fling is an authority in the field of in mobile user experience and designing for multiple contexts. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-​​ups to Fortune 50 companies to leverage a variety of mediums, like mobile devices, to design for the needs and context of real people.

Author of O’Reilly Media’s Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps, Brian goes in depth into the design principles involved in creating compelling mobile experiences for this new era of multiple devices and context. As well as explore the rapidly growing area of how to easily design and build a mobile site and web app, how to deal with devices practically and how to translate an experience to a variety of mobile devices.

Brian is a frequent author and speaker on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience, teaching people how to leverage mobile all over the world. Brian is also the founder and president of pinch/​zoom, a design and development agency specializing on mobile experiences helping clients like Best Buy, Lonely Planet and others dive into the world of mobile.

Follow Brian on Twitter: @fling

Bruce Lawson

Presenting: Native multimedia with 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 movie extra in Bombay, and a tarot card reader in Istanbul. He blogs at brucelawson​.co​.uk, drinks Guinness and is training for a blue belt in kickboxing.

Follow Bruce on Twitter: @brucel

Andy Clarke

Presenting: Ballpoint, Penn, or Bust

Andy Clarke’s been called many things since he started designing for the web over ten years ago. His ego likes words like “ambassador for CSS”, “industry prophet” and “inspiring”, but he’s most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a “bastard”. He runs Stuff and Nonsense, a small web design company that specialises in designing highly usable and attractive websites.

Andy’s a renowned public speaker and presents at web design conferences worldwide. He teaches web design techniques and technologies through his own workshop masterclasses, and is the author of two best-​​selling books, Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, and more recently, Hardboiled Web Design. He writes a popular blog, And All That Malarkey, mostly about the web.

Follow Andy on Twitter: @malarkey

Tom Coates

Presenting: A New Network

Tom Coates is a technologist and writer who focuses on new product development, the web of data, location services and social software . He’s worked for many of the web’s leading companies, including Time Out, the BBC—where he ran a small R&D team focused on future media—and Yahoo! where he was Head of Product for the Brickhouse incubator and developed the Fire Eagle location sharing service. Now independent, he lives in San Francisco and works as a freelance product designer and consultant.

Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomcoates

Addy Osmani

Presenting: Essential JavaScript design patterns

Addy Osmani is a popular JavaScript Blogger and a senior independent developer based in London, England. He is also a member of the jQuery Bug Triage and Front-​​end teams where he assists with community updates, releases and bugs. Addy’s passion lies in helping spread knowledge about JavaScript and jQuery best practices, coding techniques and open-​​source projects in the community. He achieves this through numerous free online talks, articles and resources which he releases each month.

For more on Addy’s work, check out his official website AddyOsmani​.com for tutorials, jQuery​.com for his community updates and magazines such as .NET for his thoughts and commentaries.

Follow Addy on Twitter: @addyosmani

Relly Annett-​​Baker

Presenting: What people want from mobile content

Relly Annett-​​Baker lives in a leafy market town with her husband and two small sons. As a result, she eats far too many cakes from Waitrose and can be guaranteed to stand on Lego at least once a day. As well as being content strategist and content writer for Headscape, she is employed as live-​​in domestic staff by two cats. She also writes articles and jabbers on about copy to anyone who will listen, creates scrapbooks, and continues to procrastinate over the draft for her book, a guide to creating web content for designers and developers, to be published in Spring 2011 by Five Simple Steps. She better finish this biography before her editor spots she isn’t writing her book again.

Follow Relly on Twitter: @RellyAB

Dave Balmer

Presenting: Rockstar graphics with HTML5

As a Senior Software Engineer with Palm Developer Relations, Dave is a JavaScript guru currently focused on mobile app development. He is the creator of four JavaScript application frameworks, including Jo, which is a lightweight solution for cross-​​platform mobile apps.

In his spare time, Dave designs and writes games, makes music, and writes.

Follow Dave on Twitter: @balmer

Hannah Donovan

Presenting: Designing without the browser

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

Nicole Sullivan

Presenting: Performance of CSS3 & HTML5

Nicole is an evangelist, front-​​end performance consultant, CSS Ninja, and author. She started the Object-​​Oriented CSS open source project, which answers the question: how do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? She also consulted with Facebook and the W3C, and is the co-​​creator of Smush​.it, an image optimization service in the cloud. She is passionate about CSS, web standards, and scalable front-​​end architecture for large commercial websites.

She co-​​authored Even Faster Websites and blogs at stubbornella​.org.

Follow Nicole on Twitter: @stubbornella.

Jonathan Stark

Presenting: The mobile frameworks landscape

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. He is the author of O’Reilly’s Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and is often quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.

Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-​​80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @jonathanstark

Stephen P Anderson

Presenting: Sustaining Passionate Users

Stephen P. Anderson is an internationally recognized speaker and consultant based out of Dallas, Texas. He recently published the Mental Notes card deck to help product teams apply psychology to interaction design. Between public speaking and project work, Stephen offers workshops to help businesses design fun, playful and effective online experiences. He’s currently writing a book about “seductive interactions” that will be published by New Riders in 2011.

Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephenanderson

Douglas Crockford

Presenting: Server Side JavaScript

Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, and for having popularized the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). He is currently a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo!, and is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.

Brian Suda

Presenting: Visualising Data

Brian Suda is an informatician residing in Reykjavík, Iceland. He has spent a good portion of each day connected to Internet after discovering it back in the mid-​​01990s. Most recently, he has written a book on the topic of charts and graphs entitled Designing with Data. His own little patch of Internet can be found at suda​.co​.uk where many past projects and crazy ideas can be found.

Follow Brian on Twitter: @briansuda

Michael Mahemoff

Presenting: HTML5 offline for fun and performance

Michael Mahemoff is a Chrome Developer Advocate for Google, based in London, always looking at ways to make the web a more habitable place for users and developers alike. He’s been programming on the web since the mid ’90s, in a range of public-​​facing and enterprise (Java, what else?) contexts, and is the author of Ajax Design Patterns (O’Reilly, 2006) and a blogger for Ajaxian​.com. Server side, he’s mostly a Ruby, PHP, and NodeJS guy and sushi is his preferred coding fuel. Michael holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, covering software design patterns for improving user experience.

Follow Michael on Twitter: @mahemoff

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