Speakers

Cameron Adams

Cameron Adams has a degree in law and one in science; naturally he chose a career in Web development. He likes to occupy the niche where both design and code intersect, so he’s often found tinkering with unique JavaScript interfaces. While running his own business he’s consulted and worked for government departments, nonprofit organisations, large corporations and tiny startups.

As well as helping his list of clients, Cameron has taught numerous workshops around Australia and spoken at conferences worldwide, such as @media and Web Essentials. In 2006 he released his first book - The JavaScript Anthology (Sitepoint) - which is one of the most complete question and answer resources on modern JavaScript techniques. He is soon to release the first JavaScript book prequel, whereby he’ll go back and fill in all the gaps which beginners might have fallen through.

Cameron will be presenting Dynamic Interfaces

Dan Cederholm

Dan Cederholm is a web designer and author living in Massachusetts. He’s the founder of SimpleBits, a tiny design studio.

A recognized expert in the field of standards-based web design, Dan co-founded the wine community site, Cork’d and has worked with Google, MTV, ESPN, Fast Company, Blogger, Odeo (and others), also collaborating with Happy Cog on selected projects. He embraces flexible, adaptable design using web standards through his client work, writing, and speaking.

Dan is the author of two best-selling books: Bulletproof Web Design (New Riders) and Web Standards Solutions (Friends of ED). Dan also runs a popular weblog where he writes articles and commentary on the web, technology and life. He also plays a mean ukulele.

Dan will be presenting Interface Design Juggling

Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik is Chief Technologist at Technorati where he leads the design and development of new standards and technologies. Prior to Technorati, he was a veteran representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer for Macintosh.

As co-founder of the microformats.org community and the Global Multimedia Protocols Group, as well as Steering Committee member of the Web Standards Project and invited expert to the W3C Cascading Style Sheets working group, Tantek is dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web.

Tantek lives in San Francisco, and has Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user centred design from his many years at Apple Computer. He shares his thoughts at tantek.com.

Tantek will be presenting Microformats, Building Blocks, and You

Joe Clark

Joe Clark lives in Toronto and did a lot of work in Web accessibility, like writing a book on the topic and serving, for some reason, on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. He now goes where he is wanted and volunteers with the PDF/Universal Access Committee. He is supported by nearly 200 micropatrons as he fundraises for a research project unrelated to Web accessibility, the Open & Closed Project.

Joe will be presenting When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem

Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer based in the UK and started his design consultancy Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. As lead designer and creative director, his clients include local and national businesses, charities and government bodies and he has designed for The British Heart Foundation, Disney Store UK, Save The Children and WWF UK.

Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he redesigned the organization’s web site in 2006. He is also an Invited Expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group. Andy regularly speaks at workshops and conference events worldwide and is the author of Transcending CSS (New Riders).

Andy will be presenting Royale With Cheese

Jesse James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett is co-founder and President of Adaptive Path, a product experience firm based in San Francisco. Jesse’s tools and concepts have been published in more than a dozen languages and his book The Elements of User Experience is considered one of the seminal works on user-centered design. He is internationally recognized as a leading product experience thinker and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In 2006, Jesse received WIRED Magazine’s Rave Award for Technology for coining the term Ajax.

Jesse will be presenting Beyond Ajax

Molly E. Holzschlag

Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is a steering member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an invited expert at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Among her thirty-plus books is the recent The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. The book artfully showcases the most progressive csszengarden.com designs. A popular and colourful individual, you can catch up with Molly’s blog at, where else? http://molly.com/.

Molly will be presenting The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All

Richard Ishida

As W3C Internationalization Activity Lead, Richard Ishida’s job is to ensure universal access to the Web, regardless of language, script or culture.

Richard is much in demand as a speaker, as his talks combine fascinating examples with clear and very practical recommendations. For 15 years his seminars and consultancy have helped developers around the world understand how to create websites, documents, and on-screen information that can be easily adapted for international users when the time comes. His talks draw on his earlier background in translation and interpreting, computational linguistics, translation tools, and his knowledge of numerous languages and writing systems.

Richard will be presenting Designing for International Users: Practical Tips

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer living and working in Brighton, England with the web consultancy firm Clearleft.

Jeremy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. He is author of "DOM Scripting", and "Bulletproof Ajax". His online home is adactio.com.

Jeremy will be presenting Bulletproof Ajax

Cameron Moll

Cameron Moll is a freelance new media designer, author, and speaker. Proficient in functional web design, elegant interfaces, and clean markup, Cameron’s work has been recognized by respected organizations such as National Public Radio (NPR), Communication Arts, and Veer. He was a contributing author for the book, “CSS Mastery” and his personal site, CameronMoll.com, delivers design how-to in the form of engaging conversation, on-topic banter, and downloadable artwork source files.

Cameron will be presenting Designing for Communication

Jeffrey Veen

Jeffrey Veen is project lead for Measure Map, the well-received web analytics tool recently acquired by Google, where he now works as a Design Manager.

He is a founding partner of Adaptive Path, and previously served as the Executive Interface Director for Wired Digital and Lycos Inc. In addition to lecturing and writing on Web design and development, Jeffrey has been active with the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS Editorial Review Board as an invited expert on electronic publishing. He is also a columnist for Webmonkey, the author of the acclaimed books “The Art & Science of Web Design” and “HotWired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites”.

Jeffrey will be presenting TBA

Dan Webb

Dan Webb is a Web Application Developer and renowned JavaScript expert. He has spoken at @media, RailsConf Europe and The Ajax Experience, written for A List Apart and Sitepoint and was the technical editor for Pro JavaScript Techniques (Apress). He is also well known for authoring the Low Pro extension for Prototype (and being a member of the newly formed Prototype Core Team) and co-authoring the Unobtrusive JavaScript plugin for Rails.

He has worked on projects for the likes of Nike, Sainsbury’s, Dulux, and Nestle and in a past life was a senior developer for über-agency AKQA. He has recently worked with Vivabit and continues to collaborate on the event management web application, Event Wax.

Dan will be presenting The Mysteries Of JavaScript-Fu