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Program

Schedule for October 8 & 9

Web Directions is not just a two day conference, there’s also the optional workshops, a birds of a feather breakfast on the Friday morning, and plenty of networking events.

And, through the magic of Microformats, you can download this schedule directly into a scheduling application like iCal or Outlook. But of course, you don’t need to do this - you’ll get a copy of the schedule at the conference.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Time Design Business Development W3C Track 7:30 am–9:00 am

Registration

9:00 am–9:10 am

Opening comments

9:10 am–10:15 am

Opening keynote - Matt Webb: Escalante

10:15 am–10:45 am

Morning tea

10:45 am–11:40 am

Font embedding and typography

Mark Boulton

Beyond SEO

Cheryl Gledhill & Scott Gledhill

Best practices for speeding up your site

Mark Stanton

W3C and web standards big picture

Doug Schepers

11:40 am–11:45 am

Changeover

11:45 am–12:40 am

Using Ajax to enhance UX

Tania Laing

Accessibility means business

Damien McCormack

The state of developer tools

Ben Galbraith

Open Web Education Alliance

Leslie Jensen-Inman

12:40 am–1:40 pm

Lunch

1:40 pm–2:35 pm

Designing for suits

Pete Ottery

Would you like service design with that?

Suze Ingram

Canvas

Dmitry Baranovskiy

Boosting new media accessibility

Scott Hollier

2:35 pm–2:40 pm

Changeover

2:40 pm–3:35 pm

Information seeking behaviours

Donna Spencer

The state of the web as platform

Nick Galvin

jQuery

Earle Castledine

Taking HTML5 <video> a step further

Silvia Pfeiffer

3:35 pm–4:05 pm

Afternoon tea

4:05 pm–5:05 pm

Day 1 Closing keynote - Cameron Adams: Making Waves

5:05 pm–5:15 pm

Day 1 Wrap-up

5:30 pm–7:00 pm

Opening night drinks reception

Friday, October 9, 2009

Time Design Track Business Track Development Track W3C Track 7:30 am–8:45 am

Birds of a feather breakfast

9:00 am–9:10 am

Day 2 Opening comments

9:10 am–10:15 am

Day 2 Opening keynote - Kelly Goto: WorkFLOW

10:15 am–10:45 am

Morning tea

10:45 am–11:40 am

The social life of visualization

Jeremy Yuille

It’s the people stupid

Deborah Schultz

WCAG2

Gian Wild

Marking up content with RDFa

Mark Birbeck

11:40 am–11:45 am

Changeover

11:45 am–12:40 am

Visualising the user experience

Grant Robinson

Cloud computing

Andrew Fisher

Progressive enhancement

Elliot Jay Stocks

The mashed up playlist

Fergus Pitt & David Peterson

12:40 am–1:40 pm

Lunch

1:40 pm–2:35 pm

Designing social interfaces

Christian Crumlish

Pervasive computing

Rob Manson

CSS frameworks

Kevin Yank

Semantics & sensors

Kerry Taylor

2:35 pm–2:40 pm

Changeover

2:40 pm–3:35 pm

Data driven design

Luke Stevens

The open web

Lachlan Hardy

Test your JavaScript

Mike Williams and Rob Mitchell

Opening up social networks

Renato Iannella

3:35 pm–4:05 pm

Afternoon tea

4:05 pm–5:05 pm

Closing keynote - Dan Hill

5:05 pm–5:15 pm

Closing comments

5:30 pm–late pm

Closing night party