Martin Kelly runs some excellent local conferences, including TravelTech, which I had the privilege of kicking off last year, and which demonstrated to me that the travel industry gets tech in a big way. Martin also runs Search Engine Room, on the 20th and 21st of March. Now, search, particularly SEO has something of a […]
18 months ago, Tom Coates over at Plastic Bag asked “Where are the UK startups”? The question is being asked over at the Guardian of late, all of which prompts me to ask – what about the Aussie startup scene? A recent post by Vishal Sharma at Read/Write Web listed a few, but for mine, […]
Jeremy Keith has spoken twice at our conferences now, in both Sydney and Vancouver. He’s a wonderful, smart, lovely person, a fantastic speaker and teacher, and always a crowd favourite. It’s been an honour to have him at our conferences, and I hope that he comes to many more. Jeremy’s second book, Bulletproof Ajax, has […]
In a crazy moment on chat in the middle of last year, Derek Featherstone, Dave Shea, and founders of Web Directions South (then just called Web Directions), decided to bring the Web Directions experience to the Northern hemisphere, and chose the least freezing place in Canada in February to do so. The attraction of one […]
One of my very favourite web designers, in fact thinkers, writers, and speakers about the Web is Douglas Bowman. Web Directions actually owes a lot to Douglas. He, Joe Clark and Dave Shea were all speakers at the first conference that Maxine and I helped organize, WE04, way back in 2004. We enjoyed all their […]
Let’s face it, we tech folk tend to often be indoors types, and social side of conferences is often indoor-focused parties. That’s one of the main reasons with Web Directions North we decided to add some adventure – trips to Blackcomb Whistler after the formal part of the conference is over. The response has been […]
During Web Directions South, Japanese web standards powerhouse Kazuhito Kidachi, who has attended all of our conferences down under, did an interview with John Allsopp about all kinds of things, but with a strong focus on microformats. Part one of the interview is here, and part two, here in English, with Japanese subtitles. He also […]
As record snow falls continue in Whistler, Web Directions North is really heating up. We had planned to raise the price to $CDN995 this week, but because we have had some great support from sponsors (more news on that soon) and because interest has been so strong, we’ve decided to keep the price at $895 until […]
I’m very proud of this, and very much hope we can do it for all our conferences. As conference organizers, speakers and attendees, Dave, Derek, Maxine and John have long been aware that while a good conference can be an unbeatable benefit for your career, they are definitely out of the price range of those […]
Web Directions North is almost upon us — with attendees coming from all over the world, some great sponsors are helping to make the event even more special, and of course, a bumper snow fall is making the after-conference ski trip just keep getting better. But that discount pricing deadline of $895CDN (about $USD770), originally […]
It should come as no surprise to anyone who heard Mark Pesce speak at Web Directions that he’d be excited by the iPhone. The reality, people who have beendead for several years are excited by the iPhone. Anyway, Mark is one of the web’s deep thinkers, and excellent writers, and gnerally makes me ashamed of […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
