Speakers
A diverse group of prominent figures including best-selling authors, renowned developers, influential evangelists, and the creators of some of the most commonly used techniques in Ajax today. More speakers will be announced very soon.
Dion Almaer
Dion is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading Ajax community, and "Audible Ajax" the popular podcast. He works in the Google Developer Programs group where he spends his time in the land of code.google.com and podcasting via the "Google Developer Podcast". He enjoys writing, having co-authored Pragmatic Ajax, and speaking at events around the world.
Presenting Updating the Web with Gears on Day One
Jake Archibald
Jake Archibald is a client-side web developer at the BBC where he develops Glow, a JavaScript library which meets the corporation's strict Browser Support and design requirements. He also sits on many of the working groups which research and develop the corporation's technical Standards & Guidelines.
Outside of the BBC, Jake is a keen photographer, photoshopper, and keeps in touch with his previous life as a Flash & PHP developer.
Presenting Reusable JavaScript on Day One
Dean Edwards
Dean Edwards is a freelance computer programmer and web developer and a highly regarded member of the JavaScript community. He is also a charter member of the WHATWG, who are extending the existing HTML specification for a new generation of web applications.
His personal web site plays host to his various meddlesome projects. He drinks a lot of tea.
Discussion Panel panellist on Day Two
Brendan Eich
Brendan is responsible for architecture and the technical direction of Mozilla. He is charged with authorizing module owners, owning architectural issues of the source base and writing the roadmap that outlines the direction of the Mozilla project.
Brendan created JavaScript, did the work through Navigator 4.0, and helped carry it through international standardization. Before Netscape, he wrote operating system and network code for SGI; and at MicroUnity, wrote micro-kernel and DSP code, and did the first MIPS R4K port of gcc, the GNU C compiler.
Presenting Faster than Light JavaScript on Day One
Christian Heilmann
Christian has worked on BMW, HP, McDonald's, etoys, Visit Britain and other web sites for several agencies and is currently employed by the Yahoo Developer Network as a Developer Evangelist.
He has authored numerous articles for A List Apart, Thinkvitamin and Digital Web and wrote "Beginning JavaScript with Dom Scripting and Ajax" for Apress. He also co-authored "Web Accessibility" and "Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy" for Friends of Ed and "The Art and Science of JavaScript" for Sitepoint.
Christian publishes his thoughts at Wait Till I Come and at icant.co.uk.
Presenting Scripting Enabled on Day One
Yehuda Katz
Yehuda Katz is the plugins team leader of the jQuery project. He is also a core team member of the Merb project, a Ruby alternative to Ruby on Rails. Yehuda currently works at Engine Yard, where he works on the Merb Ruby framework. Yehuda is the author of jQuery in Action, and is a contributing author for Ruby in Practice.
Presenting Making your jQuery Code Modular on Day Two
Michael Mahemoff
Michael Mahemoff is a hands-on architect with 12 years of commercial experience, focusing on usability and user-interface development, primarily Java and web based. Today, he works primarily with JavaScript/Ajax, Ruby, and PHP.
He is the author of Ajax Design Patterns (O'Reilly) and founder of AjaxPatterns.org and co-author of The Art and Science of Javascript (Sitepoint). He holds a Ph.D from The University of Melbourne, covering patterns in human-computer interaction and software development.
You can visit his blog at SoftwareAs.com.
Presenting OpenSocial and the Technologies that Power it on Day One
Christophe Porteneuve
Christophe Porteneuve has been designing and implementing Web apps since 1995. After having created the first JSP-based portal in Europe, he ran the software engineering department of a prominent IT college. He is now the CTO of Ciblo.net, a Web agency to which he brought a leading edge on Web development best practices, and the love of Rails.
Christophe authored the French best-seller, Bien développer pour le Web 2.0, and the already famous "Bungee book", on Prototype and script.aculo.us, published at the Pragmatic Bookshelf. He is a member of Prototype Core, a script.aculo.us contributor, and president of the celebrated Paris Web conference.
Presenting Best-practice solutions for common Ajax use-cases with Prototype on Day Two
Richard Rutter
Richard Rutter is a information architect living in Brighton, England. He specialises in user-centered design with a particular emphasis on accessibility and web standards. Richard is co-founder and Production Director of Clearleft user experience consultants based in Brighton. Richard massages his ego at Clagnut where he witters on about web design, mountain biking and typography.
Presenting Wireframing Ajax Interactions on Day One
Joe Walker
Joe Walker is lead developer of the DWR framework, and Director of Support and Development at Sitepen UK. He is a frequent speaker at industry events like InfoQ, JavaOne, and The Ajax Experience. He is an author of Ajax in Practice (Manning), and blogs at http://getahead.org/blog/joe and also at http://cometdaily.com
Presenting Comet and Highly Interactive Websites on Day Two
Dan Webb
Dan Webb is a freelance Web Application Developer whose recent work includes developing Event Wax, a web-based event management system and Fridaycities, a thriving community site for Londoners. He maintains several open source projects including Low Pro and the Unobtrusive JavaScript Plugin for Rails and is also a member of the Prototype core team.
He's a JavaScript expert who has spoken at previous @media conferences, RailsConf and The Ajax Experience and written for A List Apart, HTML Dog and Sitepoint. He blogs regularly about Ruby, Rails and JavaScript at his site, danwebb.net.
Presenting Taming The Beast: Managing Complexity In Ajax Applications on Day Two
Simon Willison
Simon Willison is a freelance client- and server-side Web developer and a co-creator of the Django Web framework. Simon’s interests include OpenID and decentralised systems, unobtrusive JavaScript and rapid application development. Before going freelance Simon worked on Yahoo’s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at simonwillison.net.
Presenting When Ajax Attacks! JavaScript security fundamentals on Day Two
