Web Directions North returns in February 2009 - with more speakers, more sessions and more workshops.
This year, Web Directions North moves to Denver Colorado - a hub city for many airlines, and a non-stop flight from all over North America. Denver will for most of our attendees - even those from Canada - be easier and cheaper to travel to. Web Directions is on February 4 and 5, with workshops on February 2 and 3, and the now legendary ski trip February 6 and 7, in Breckenridge, the most popular ski resort in North America.
http://north.webdirections.org/
What is covered?
We are in an era of some of the most significant advancements in browsers, standards and web technologies including CSS, HTML5, location aware web applications, offline web applications, mobile web platforms and applications and RDFa to name but a few. Web Directions brings you the innovators of web design and development - in many case the developers of the new technologies - to keep you at the forefront of your industry.
Once again, the conference features practical and inspiring sessions from real world experts in areas such as:
Accessibility, CSS, HTML5 and emerging standards, SVG and Canvas, semantic web markup, Location aware web applications, Mobile web development, Mobile User Experience Design, Ajax and Javascript Libraries, User Experience Design and taking your web applications offline.
You will go back to your work with fresh new ideas, and even greater enthusiasm.
For more details on the Programs, Speakers and Schedule see:
http://north.webdirections.org/program
The Speakers
26 world leading expert speakers including:
- Brad Neuberg - Google Gears and Dojo
- Dan Cederholm - Simplebits
- Jina Bolton - Style guru
- Mike (tm) Smith - HTML Working Group co-chair
- Dave Shea - CSS Zen Garden
- Rachel Hinman - Adaptive Path
A complete list of speakers and their profiles can be found here:
http://north.webdirections.org/speakers
The conference also features an opening keynote by Lisa Strausfeld, of Pentagram, who led the team which designed Sugar, the revolutionary UI for the one laptop per child program (OLPC)
An extended closing session to end day 1, "The State of the Web 2009", bringing together key people from the major browser developers, the W3C, and other important companies and organizations shaping the web, to outline their vision of the web, and field questions from the audience and moderator. This is a rare chance to interact directly with the people responsible for the state of the web and a closing keynote speaker who will knock your socks off !
Media Partners
As one of the leading conferences for web professionals in the world, Web Directions offers an outstanding platform for print, online and other media to reach and expand their audience among opinion leaders in the web industry.
Our media partners help us reach more of the people who would benefit from attending our conferences. Web Directions has been covered extensively online and in the traditional media. Media Partnerships are available to print, and online publications focused on the web and IT industries.