Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

Category: speakers

Mark Pesce in today’s Sydney Morning Herald

Web Directions closing keynote speaker, Mark Pesce is interviewed in depth in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. So to get a sense of what he’ll be talking about, and the ideas he is kicking around, take a look.

New keynote speaker – Chris Wilson

We are really excited to announce our final keynote speaker for Web Directions South 2007 – Chris Wilson. Chris, currently the co-chair of the W3C’s HTML working group, and Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer browser has a long and extraordinary career with the web. He was a developer of Mosaic, the browser which really […]

Web Directions Speakers – Mark Pesce

Last year’s conference closed with what may just become something of a tradition, a keynote from Mark Pesce. Mark is one of the things the web seems to foster so well, a genuine polymath, whose “blog” hyperpeople (I hesitate to call it that because its really a collection of sophisticated essays, but don’t let that […]

Speakers in the news – Scott Gledhill

A new local speaker for 2007 is Scott Gledhill, from News Interactive. Well, Scott’s a local now, though hails from near Vancouver in Canada. Scott’s newsigh blog, http://standardzilla.com/ provides no nonsense opinion and idea on using standards in a corporate context, and he’s just had a feature article published in Digital Web magazine on corporate […]

Early bird finishes tomorrow at midnight, Andy Clarke selling fast

A quick final reminder that to get $200 off the full ticket price of Web Directions, (that makes it only $795 including GST) you’ll have to register by tomorrow night at midnight. You can pay later, but that is the final chance to get the early bird discount. Registrations have been absolutely fantastic so far, […]

Web Directions speakers in the news – Gian Sampson-Wild

While she might not e speaking this year, last year’s speaker Gian Sampson-Wild has an important role to play in conjunction with Web Directions South this year, which we’ll be announcing next week. For now, she’s been in the news a fair bit, and has just published an article on testability for the eminent online […]

Web Directions speakers in the news – Angela Beesley

Angela Beesley, speaking on Wikis and community collaboration in our management/strategy track is, along with Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) a founder of Wikia, which aims to be “To be the definitive, unbiased resource of the Web.”. Read/Write Web is profiling Wikia today. They are doing some extraordinary things. Angela is just one of nearly […]

iPhone/Safari is the Mosaic of the Mobile Web

Really old folks like me remember a time before the web. And then a time when the web was an interesting technology. And then Mosaic, the browser which by virtue of (many people would argue) incorporating inline images in web pages kickstarted the web. I think that in the wake of today’s announcements from Apple, […]

Web Directions – it’s not just for geeks

Since last week’s launch there’s been a lot of coverage online about the conference (and brisk signups too, thanks very much for those who have signed up already, we are off to a cracking start). One thing that a number of people have mentioned is that Web Directions is a web design and development conference. […]

Web Directions Speakers in profile – Adrian Holovaty

I’m not quite sure when I first heard of Adrian Holovaty, but I’d long heard of Chicago Crime, one of the very first “mashups”, which Adrian developed. With that kind of achievement, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Adrian was a computer scientist, but in fact, his background is in journalism. Until very recently, Adrian […]

delivering year round learning for front end and full stack professionals

Learn more about us

Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development

Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney