Web Directions Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

It’s a little over a week to go until Web Directions South for this year, and if you’re not quite sure whether you can make it or not, our most recent speaker announcements might just tip you over.

In addition to our already stellar lineup of keynote speakers, we have the privilege of having Tim Harrison, until recently a creative director at Apple, who will be closing the event. Tim, a mentor at Stanford University’s DSchool, will look at how design driven companies, like Apple, are changing the way all companies, big and small are thinking about design, and its place in their decision making.

We’ve also announced several new sessions in our Big-Picture track, including The Form and the Future of the Book from James Bridle, a big hit at the recent d.Contruct conference, and Craig Mod of Artspace Tokyo fame with thoughts on How Digital Affects Books and Publishing.

We’re really proud of how this track has turned out and are excited about it becoming one of the highlights of the conference.

We’ve also finalized the W3C South track, curated by the Australian W3C office, and including in depth sessions on HTML5, W3C Mobile Widgets, eGovernment, RDFa and accessibility.

So, as promised, 36 huge sessions, over two amazing days – I’m pretty confident you’ll regret it if you’re not there :)

There’s also loads of other events happening in Sydney as part of Australian Web Week, so even if you can’t make Web Directions, there’s plenty else to keep you occupied.

Look forward to seeing you in Sydney next week!.