After huge success in Vancouver Canada in early 2007, and Sydney Australia last month where attendance grew more than 50% from last year, one of the world’s leading conferences for web professionals, Web Directions, returns to Vancouver in late January 2008.
Featuring in-depth day long workshops, more than 20 world leading speakers from across the globe over two days, and two days at Blackcomb/Whistler proving geeks can ski and board with the best of them, Web Directions is widely considered one of the ‘must attend’ professional events of the Web Industry, drawing attendees from all over the world.
Unlike most web conferences, Web Directions is organized by industry practitioners and leaders with collectively decades of experience in web design and development. We are passionate and knowledgeable about the web, we keep abreast of trends and developments, and like our attendees we work with the web every day so understand the need for practical content that attendees can use right now, as well as inspiration for the future.
Web Directions focusses on the challenges of building the web – practical and inspiring concepts, technologies and techniques for web designers, developers, product managers, and others whose day to day responsibility is making and managing web sites and applications.
This year, Web Directions features
Cameron Adams – Building Interactive Web Interfaces with CSS and Javascript
John Allsopp & Dave Shea – “Where’s Your Web At?” Designing for Alternate Methods of Accessing Web Content
Kimberly Elam – Layout and Composition: Good for the Web, Too
Eric Rodenbeck – Data Visualization In-Depth
Josh Williams – Bedroom to Boardroom: Design as a Business
Indi Young – Crafting the User Experience
Brian Fling – Mobile Web Design & Development
Derek Featherstone – Real World Accessibility
Boris Mann – 3 Stages of Content Management
Jonathan Snook – Working with Ajax Frameworks
Anil Dash – Bringing Social Media into the Enterprise
Tara Hunt – Government 2.0: Architecting for Collaboration
Brian Oberkirch – Plays Well With Others: Simple Things to Make The Social Parts of Your Service More Social
and more, with keynotes by the “King of Web Standards” (Business Week) Jeffrey Zeldman, and author of the best selling “Mind Hacks”, Matt Webb.
Web Directions takes place from January 28th ’til February 2nd 2008, with the main conference on January 30th and 31st, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver.
Places are just $795CDN until December 1st, then $895, with special room rates at the Hyatt Regency of just $149CDN.
