Speakers

Andy Budd

Andy Budd is an interaction designer and web standards developer from Brighton, England. As the user experience lead at Clearleft, Andy spends his time helping clients improve their customers’ online experience.

Andy is a regular speaker at events such as SXSW, and founded d.Construct, the first web apps conference in the UK. Andy wrote the best selling book, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions and blogs at andybudd.com.

Andy will be presenting Making the Jump to Tableless Design

Patrick Griffiths

A long-time front-end code specialist, Patrick has written extensively on the subject of best practice web development for a number of publications, including his own web site, HTML Dog and has also written a book of the same name, published by New Riders.

He has worked for various companies and organisations, large and small, and currently works for his own company, Vivabit, which started life offering training and development services, but now focuses on events related to the web through organising the @media conference, and building and running Event Wax, an event management web application.

Patrick will be presenting A Best Practice Overview of (X)HTML and CSS

Shawn Lawton Henry

Shawn Henry focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organisations in designing human-computer interfaces. She currently leads worldwide education and outreach activities promoting web accessibility for people with disabilities at the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Previously she developed and implemented strategies to optimise user interface design for usability and accessibility with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organisations, education providers, and research centres.

Shawn’s recent book, Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design, is available online.

Shawn will be presenting Web Accessiblity Foundations

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

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 The Behaviour Layer: Using JavaScript for Good, Not Evil

Nate Koechley

Nate Koechley is a Yahoo! frontend engineer and designer based in San Francisco. When he’s not helping design and build the open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library he edits the YUIBlog, promotes accessibility, defines Yahoo! browser support policies, writes occasionally at his personal blog, and presents at conferences around the globe.

Nate will be presenting TBC

Dave Shea

Dave Shea is the creator and cultivator of the highly influential web site csszengarden.com, and co-author of Zen of CSS Design (New Riders, 2005). The founder and design lead of Bright Creative in Vancouver, Canada, he also writes for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular weblog, mezzoblue.com.

Dave and his work have been featured in numerous books and magazines, including Wired, Germany’s Page Magazine, and Japan’s “Style Sheet Style Book”, among others. He has spoken internationally at design and technology industry conferences, including Flash in The Can, Web Essentials, SIGGRAPH, SXSW, and more.

Dave will be presenting More Than Layout: Ultimate Design Control with CSS