Speakers | Web Directions South 2011

Speakers

Interesting and talented people from the four corners of the web

• Greg Rewis
• James Bridle
• Ryan Seddon
• Addy Osmani
• Andrew Fisher
• Hannah Donovan
• Aaron Weyenberg
• Relly Annett-Baker
• Julio Cesar Ody
• Cameron Adams
• Stephen P Anderson
• Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis
• Damon Oehlman
• Jeremy Ashkenas

Greg Rewis

Presenting: Move it! CSS3 Transitions and Animations

Greg Rewis is the Principal Evangelist for Adobe Systems, focusing on Adobe’s open web products and technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. With over 20 years of computer industry experience, Greg spends in excess of 200 days of the year on the road, talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at seminars, and speaking at industry conferences.

Greg has been passionate about the web since putting his first “home page” online in 1994. His career has taken him around the world, from the early days of desktop publishing, to a start-up in Hamburg, Germany, the glory days of the web at Macromedia and finally his current role at Adobe.

The original GoLive Cyberstudio Product Manager and former Dreamweaver Technical Product Manager, Greg is the co-author of “Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3″ and “Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4″ published by New Riders, as well as a regular contributor to industry publications.

James Bridle

Presenting: The Robot-Readable World

James Bridle is a publisher, writer and artist based in London, UK. He founded the print-on-demand classics press Bookkake and the e-book-only imprint Artists’ eBooks, and created Bkkeepr, a tool for tracking reading and sharing bookmarks, and Quietube, an accidental anti-censorship proxy for the Middle East. He makes things with words, books and the internet, and writes about what he does at booktwo.org.

Ryan Seddon

Presenting: Remote debugging landscape

Ryan Seddon is a Senior Front-end Developer from Melbourne Australia who has an unnatural obsession with JavaScript and the many places it runs. He also loves to tinker with any new web technology he can get his hands on and loves diving into specs and code to figure out more.

In his spare time he’s either playing basketball, writing for his blog thecssninja.com or committing code to github.

Addy Osmani

Presenting: Essential JavaScript Design Patterns

Addy Osmani is a popular JavaScript Blogger and a UI Developer for AOL based in London, England. He is also a member of the jQuery [Bug Triage/Docs/Front-end] teams where he assists with bugs, documentation and community updates. His free book, ‘Essential JavaScript Design Patterns’ has been downloaded over 130,000 times in the past year and continues to be expanded in his spare time.

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.

Andrew Fisher

Presenting: Why the Web will win the physical world too

Andrew Fisher is deeply passionate about technology and is constantly tinkering with something — whether it’s a new application for mobile computing, building a robot, deploying a cloud or just playing around with web tech. Sometimes he does some real work too and has been involved in developing digital solutions for businesses since the dawn of the web in Australia and Europe.

Andrew is the General Manager of Technology for Citrus, an award winning digital marketing agency in Melbourne, Australia. At Citrus, Andrew has helped businesses such as Sportsgirl, the Victoria Racing Club, Cotton On and Garnier create leading digital initiatives and he has previously worked with Nintendo, CRAI, Mitsubishi and peoplesound.

Hannah Donovan

Presenting: Designing without the browser

Hannah Donovan is a Canadian interaction designer living in London. She led design at Last​.fm for five years, and before that worked agency-​​side designing digital campaigns. Since leaving Last​.fm this spring, Hannah’s become an independent product designer focused on ways to make music better on the web. When she’s not busy with new work, Hannah contributes to spacelog​.org and plays cello with a real orchestra as well as a comedy orchestra.

Aaron Weyenberg

Presenting: Realistic UI Design

A mixed breed designer/developer, Aaron’s career is built upon a unique blend of creative and technical sensibilities. He began twelve years ago leading interactive initiatives for Colorado’s top design agencies, delivering successful projects for a range of clients including HP, Spyder Active Sports and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In 2004 he joined ESPN New Media where he provided instrumental leadership in an Art Director role. At ESPN he guided best practices, developed core UI components and designed pioneering real time game and scoring applications. Aaron currently serves as Creative Director for Fanzter, a lean and profitable New England based startup. His work has appeared on Smashing Magazine, Six Revisions, Ajax Rain and was awarded at the 27th annual Sports Emmys.

Aaron’s academic background spans three fields of study at three different universities, settling into a B.S. in Scientific and Technical Communication from Michigan Tech. His offline hobbies involve learning about social psychology and human behavior, photography, and a quest to find the perfect iPod earphones.

Relly Annett-Baker

Presenting: A practical guide to creating web content (Workshop), All The Small Things

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 Supernice Studio, 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.

Julio Cesar Ody

Presenting: CSS3 and Backbone.js for killer mobile apps

Julio has been a full-stack software developer for the 12 years of his career, and during this time he went from being a GNU/Linux and Unix sysadmin, to a VoIP PBX architect, and finally a software developer.

Since moving to Australia from Brazil, he has worked on startups and companies building software and at the same time, stuck his nose as much as he can into the human side of the software equation, understanding developer productivity, how software companies work, and product development.

More recently he grew too interested in design for his own good, and began freelancing under the codename of Awesome By Design, writing a bunch of software which he open sourced on GitHub, giving presentations using his own presentation framework, and building software that not only does the job, but does so in style.

Cameron Adams

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Cameron Adams is a designer, coder and published author who has been creating cutting-edge digital experiences for over a decade. Cameron’s background in computer science and graphic design gives him a unique approach to interactive design, allowing him to use the latest technology to create work that fuses disciplines in inspiring ways.

Cameron’s current passion revolves around the creation of realtime, interactive motion graphics using a range of tools — HTML5, JavaScript, WebGL, Processing & Flash. This work and other experiments can be seen at The Man in Blue.

Stephen P Anderson

Presenting: Seductive Interaction Design (Workshop), 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.

Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis

Presenting: CSS3-the web's Swiss Army Knife updated and improved, CSS3: Practical, Beautiful, Usable (Workshop)

Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis is the founder of W3Conversion, a web design company with a passion for web standards. A front-end developer, Stephanie created the CSS Starter Layouts in Dreamweaver CS3 and recently updated for DW CS5. Her passion for sharing knowledge has led her to write books and tutorials, pen a bi-monthly column for Web Designer Magazine, train corporate web departments, and speak at numerous conferences. Stephanie is the WaSP liaison to Adobe Systems, working with product managers to ensure the output of its web products continues to move toward today’s web standards. An admitted workaholic who rarely leaves the office, she frequently escapes to talk to the people inside her computer via Twitter. Her hobby, if only she had time? Studying brain function. Her guilty pleasure? Eighties music.

Damon Oehlman

Presenting: Building web and native mobile apps for iOS, Android and more with HTML5 (Workshop), HTML5 API Soup - Recipes for Maximum Taste

Damon Oehlman is an experienced web and mobile applications developer. He has worked with small and large companies to develop software solutions for desktop, web and most recently mobile devices. His first technical book, Pro Android Web Apps, was released earlier this year by Apress. Damon currently runs his own boutique software development and consulting firm Sidelab which specializes in mobile and cloud computing. Damon’s aptly titled tech blog Distractable offers a mix of articles, tutorials and other shiny things. He is a proud dad, husband and one day dreams of owning his own underground lair.

Jeremy Ashkenas

Presenting: Hot coffee? Playing with JavaScript

Jeremy is the lead developer of DocumentCloud, an open-source repository of documents contributed by journalists and non-profits. DocumentCloud was a winner of the 2009 Knight News Challenge. He works on the Ruby-Processing project for software art, placed in two Apps for America competitions, is the inventor of CoffeeScript and lives and works in New York City.

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