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Web Directions Culture

• Web Directions Conferences for web and digital professionals
• 2020 Events:
• Product
• Design Leaders
• Code
• Code Leaders
• Summit

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Talks by

• Dom Price
• Cyd Harrell
• Ted Tencza
• Michel Boudreau
• Jo Cranford
• Greer Lucas
• Carmel Hinks
• Michael Honey
• Georgina Robillard
• Maria Giudice

Schedule

Session Details

Beware of the Mono-Culture Monster

Michel Boudreau Senior Software Engineer PageUp

You've just started at a new company, with your own set of experiences and knowledge, and you're in a meeting with a slew of your colleagues. Everyone else seems to have a similar solution, more or less, except for you have a radically different idea; you pipe up, only to have everyone look at your quizzically. Sound familiar? This is the pitfall of the Mono-Culture, which can breed a Monster resistant to different ideas, perspectives and experiences. Let's slay this beast together.

Michel Boudreau

Forged in the icy crucible of the Great White North known as Canada, Michel valiantly rode his moose to Australia 5 winters ago to work as a Technologist and to discover that perpetual summer does in fact exist.

With 14 years experience ranging from large corporations to being a startup founder, he is now trying to tackle his biggest challenge yet; Changing Culture.

Don't miss your chance to see Michel Boudreau and many other inspiring speakers at Culture 18.

Tickets start at $695, for an in-depth day on building great teams and cultures.

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• SydneyOct. 31

Praise for past Web Directions events

Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.

Phil Whitehouse,

Innovation Lead DigitasLBi

I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!

Ethan Marcotte,

inventor "responsive Web design"

Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite

Dave Greiner,

founder Campaign Monitor

About Us

Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for over a decade brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.

We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.

We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we're switching things up a bit for 2020. We'll be organising Product, Design, and Code as online conferences, and our annual extravaganza, Web Directions Summit will take place in Sydney as soon as it is practicable in late 2020 or early 2021.

John Allsopp

John Allsopp has been working on the Web for over 20 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.

His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.

His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's rightly acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".

Code of Conduct

For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.

As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.

If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.