Speakers

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 The State of Ajax on Day One

Douglas Crockford

Douglas is an Evangelical Architect at Yahoo! Inc. He discovered JSON while he was CTO of State Software. Previously, Doug was Founder and CEO of Electric Communities, Director of New Media at Paramount, Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd., and a Researcher at Atari, Inc.

Presenting JavaScript: The Good Parts 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 JavaScript 2 and The Open Web on Day Two

Derek Featherstone

Derek Featherstone is an internationally-known authority on accessibility and web development, and a respected technical trainer, and author. He is the founder and President of Further Ahead - an in-demand web consultancy to government agencies, educational institutions and private sector companies since 1999. His wealth of experience and insight as both a web developer and accessibility consultant enables him to provide audiences with immediately applicable, brilliantly simple approaches to everyday challenges in web site and application design.

Presenting Real World Accessibility for Ajax-enhanced Web Apps on Day One

Ben Galbraith

Ben Galbraith is the CEO of FeatureFifty, a consulting company dedicated to helping companies create compelling user experiences in software. He is also a frequent speaker, conference producer, and book author. Long juggling interests in both business and tech, Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. Prior to FeatureFifty, Ben has served as CEO, CTO, and software architect to a variety of organizations. He has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide and was the top-rated speaker at JavaOne 2006.

Presenting The State of Ajax 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 Yahoo! UK as lead web developer, standards evangelist and trainer.

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.

Christian publishes his thoughts at Wait Till I Come and at icant.co.uk.

Presenting Planning JavaScript and Ajax for Larger Teams on Day One

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.

Moderating Discussion Panel on Day Two

Peter-Paul Koch

Peter-Paul Koch is a freelance web developer, and well known JavaScript expert, living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has written the book ppk on JavaScript, and maintains the site www.quirksmode.org, a compendium of around 150 CSS and JavaScript articles, tips, and tricks, plus a blog.

Presenting Ajax at Work: A Case Study on Day One

Stuart Langridge

Stuart is a web hacker, author, and speaker living in the UK. When not writing books about JavaScript or trying to convince more people to use Ubuntu, he's a founder member of the WaSP's DOM Scripting task force and one quarter of the team at LugRadio, the world's best open source radio show. Code and writings and (the occasional rant) are to be found at kryogenix.org; Stuart is to be found outside in the rain looking for the smoking area.

Presenting How To Destroy The Web on Day One

John Resig

John Resig is a JavaScript evangelist working for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He's also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. He's currently located in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Presenting Building Interactive Prototypes with jQuery on Day Two

Alex Russell

Alex Russell is Project Lead for the Dojo Toolkit and Director of R&D for SitePen, a company specializing in rich internet applications that push the limits of the web. He currently serves as president of the Dojo Foundation, a non-profit organisation that supports the development of several high-quality, open source JavaScript projects and distributes them under liberal terms.

Presenting [Untitled Dojo Presentation] on Day Two

Mike Stenhouse

Mike spent several years doing the rounds in various London agencies as a web standards and accessibility specialist, working for clients including Virgin, the BBC, PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Red Bull. In pursuit of a broader interest in how and why people use the web Mike settled into User Experience, helping to conceive and implement effective and usable interfaces for web applications. He is now Head of User Experience for Trampoline Systems.

Presenting But I'm a Bloody Designer! on Day One

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 Metaprogramming JavaScript on Day Two