Day 1
- December 1st
- 9am–5:00pm AEST
Registration
Grab an excellent barista coffee, while you register for two big days of amazing speakers, and more.
Welcome
Welcome, or welcome back to our first Summit in 3 years.
Bridging the World through Cross-Cultural Creativity & Innovation
Yiying Lu, Fast Company Most Creative Person in Business
Morning Break
Fuel your morning with an excellent coffee, and morning tea we've specially chosen to pick-you-up.
REA Shippy
Get the lowdown on REA's Shippy challenge, to give you the best shot at completing and winning!
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Remix, Server Components, NextJS: Navigating the future of React
Ben Teese, Principal Software Engineer Shine Solutions
Web Performance 2023
Henri Helvetica, Head of Developer Community WebPageTest
Better Onboarding
Krystal Higgins, UX leader & Author "Better Onboarding"
The Shapeshifting Product Manager
Daniel Kinal, GM Product Management Reivernet Group
The Content Strategy Practice Blueprint
Natalie Marie Dunbar, Author, Speaker, Teacher, Senior Manager, UX Content Strategy
5 habits I learned to climb the career ladder
Keerthana Krishnan, Software Engineer Yamdu
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Working fluently with Data in React
Tejas Kumar, Director of Developer Relations Xata
Technically speaking: improve your code with documentation
Alexandra White, Technical Writer Google
Designing Digital for Reality
Oliver Weidlich, Director of Design & Innovation Contxtual
You Better Shape Up
Eli Ferrall, VP of Product VGW
Beyond good intentions: the secret sauce of content design
Angus Gordon and Lorien Kaye, Content strategist & Content designer Weave
A tale of the flip floppers. From engineer to manager and back again.
Matt Colman, Engineering Manager Atlassian
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Vanilla Extract: CSS Preprocessing in the Age of Components
Mark Dalgleish, Co-creator of CSS Modules and Vanilla Extract, MelbJS organiser, Staff Front End Developer Shopify
Trust me, I'm an open-source developer
Charlie Gerard, Senior developer advocate Stripe
Fixing Frustrating Design Patterns in 2023
Vitaly Friedman, Editor-in-chief, Creative Lead Smashing Magazine
OKRs are the new Git
Sten Pittet, Co-founder Tability
Information Architecture: More than just a navigation menu
Jo Minney, Co-founder & Principal House Digital
All the things I learnt as a junior developer (...so you don't have to)
Terence Huynh, Software Engineer Atlassian
Lunch
We've always got something special lined up for lunch. But you'll have to come to find out.
Okta Customer Identity Fireside Chat with SafetyCulture
Grab your lunch and take a seat for a lunchtime session focussed on managing your users' identity with Brett Porter, Director of Engineering (Platform & Services) at SafetyCulture and Richard Marr from okta.
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
The algebraic structure of functions, illustrated using React components
James Sinclair, Senior Software Engineer Atlassian
When new CSS features collide: possibility and complexity at the intersections
Rachel Andrew, Content Lead for Chrome Developer Relations Google
The leadership path for senior designers
Lucinda Burtt, Product Design Manager ex-Meta
Grow Any Product 400% with Product-Led
Peter Ikladious, Principal and Co-founder Unlocking Growth
Create a thoughtful content design practice using your existing design process
Janine Saunders, Senior Content Designer Canva
Going freelance: answering the big questions
Sheree Hannah, UX Design and Strategy Lead Freelance
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Comparing JavaScript frameworks performance using real-world data
Dan Shappir, Performance Tech Lead NEXT Insurance
Defensive CSS
Ahmad Shadeed, Design Engineer Freelancer
Branding for accessibility: an inclusive approach to identity
Kate Linton, Head of Design Thoughtworks
Reach your product vision
Ash Ma, Senior Product Manager Zip
Agile content design in action
Judith Waller, Content Designer, Consumer Communications Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Build you career with open source
Justin Mclean, VP Training Services Instaclustr
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Hotwired Reactive Web Development - How LowJS Can You Go?
Josh Graham, CTO Cookaborough
CSS Architecture with Layers, Scope, and Nesting
Bramus Van Damme, Chrome Developer Relations Engineer Google
Behind the Story
Steph Troeth, Head of Research dxw
The Road Atlas: Visual Storytelling with Roadmaps
Tadeh Hakopian, Program Manager
BFFs: Content designers and engineers. The perfect pairing.
Mary Sabotkoski, Content Practice Lead Open Universities Australia
The Autonomy of Developerhood
Nina Ajnira Karisik, Software Engineer, Founder of FiD, Coding Mentor at SheCodes MyPass Global
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? Or an increasingly hip tea? We've got you covered, plus a sweet afternoon pick-me-up.
The World's Worst Date
Grab your coffee and take a seat to hear Anna Harrison talk about the ADORE Process, (and the world's worst dates!)
Q&AI
Mark Pesce Broadcaster & Futurist
Happy Hour (and a half)
Share a drink, a bite, and a chat with your peers, right here at the venue.
OZEWAI Careers in Accessibility
Stay on and join OZEWAI and guest speakers exploring the opportunities for careers in accessibility at the ICC right after our reception.
Day 2
- December 2nd
- 9am–5:00pm AEST
Platform.sh agency breakfast
Breakfast for agencies hosted by our partner platform.sh
Reboot
Get your heart started for another day of amazingness, with coffee of course
Welcome back
Make Joy Your Design's Source Code
Himanshu Bharadwaj, VP, Design Centime
Morning Break
Fuel your morning with an excellent coffee, and morning tea we've specially chosen to pick-you-up.
Frontend security 101
Dave Berner, Con-founder Kinde
Order your coffee and then up your front end security game with Dave Berner.
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
A Modern History of Front-End Best Practices
Ben Taylor, Staff Software Engineer Stile Education
Building amazing apps with Project Fugu APIs
Thomas Steiner, Developer Relations Engineer Google
Designing with friction, it’s irritatingly good.
Patima Tantiprasut, Managing Director PetRescue
Building The Strategy Bridge
Alejandro Patterson & Simon Hilton, Principal Product Manager, Honey Insurance & Director of Product, Karbon
Embracing the Power of Content Research
Erica Jorgensen, Product content strategy Independent
From Imposter Life to Imposter Moments: Tips from a Psychologist turned Engineer
Cristi Middag, Software Engineer VGW
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Creating and maintaining front end APIs
Isabel Brison, Front end engineer Automattic
The state of passwordless auth on the web
Phil Nash, Developer Evangelist Twilio
Designing for positive social and environmental impact
Mel Flanagan, Founder Nook Studios
A11y All the Things
Amanda Mace, Vice President AbleDocs
Improve UX research with content design
Patrick Stafford, COO and Cofounder UX Content Collective
Becoming a design leader without becoming a design manager
Richard Sison, Staff Product Designer at Roam Digital Roam Digital
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Rethinking state management in React
Keerthana Krishnan, Software Engineer Yamdu
Exploring Temporal
Steve Harrison, Senior Front End Developer NSW Department of Customer Service
Bringing Business Impact and User Needs together with Jobs to be Done (JTBD)
Itamar Medeiros, Director of Design Strategy SAP
Building organisational WCAG maturity through accessibility audits
Danielle Johnson, Manager, Digital Experience Deakin University Library
A content measurement model
Elle Geraghty, Founder Elle Geraghty Content Strategy
Should Designers ______?
Corey Ginnivan, Lead Designer Appbot
Lunch
Like everything else we do, expect the best conference food you'll have anywhere, and plenty of it.
Building Belonging
Grab your lunch and head into this session with Culture Amp's Kevin Yank and Cheryl Gledhill, as they share lessons learned at Culture Amp building belonging
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Reactive Programming in Modern Web
Aliaksei Kuncevič, Google Developer Expert Angular Consulting
Controlling, designing and improving text on the web
Mandy Michael, Staff Software Engineer Hireup
Why Data Science and UX Research should be Best Friends
Grishma Jena, Data Scientist, UX Research Operations IBM
Why Product-Market-Fit is not enough
Mara Cajar-Robinson, Digital and Product Specialist Consultant Thoughtworks
How to deliver at-scale personalisation through content fragments
Kanika Bhatia, Sr Digital Content Strategy Manager ANZ Bank
Neurodiversity: A Paradigm Shift from the Silent Disability to the Super Power
Shaila Man, Culture Amp Lead Technical TA & People Geek
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
Refactoring Components
Erin Zimmer, Software Engineer Cash App
Mobile accessibility: testing mobile sites and native apps for accessibility
Gian Wild, CEO AccessibilityOz
Operating a global fully remote product design team
Natalie Harper, Director of Product Design Platform.sh
From 0 to 1 million users: The secrets to building products that scale
Carmen Chung, Director of Product Fl0
Selling an idea to try something new in a large org
Anna Dixon, Senior Service Designer ABC
Sync to Async - adjusting to the new work style
Anton Ball, Full stack team lead Doist
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
React Native Everywhere
Taz Singh, Founder Guild
Making Content Creation Tools Accessible
Julie Grundy, Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant Intopia
A New Future for the Interface: Reaching Toward True Adaptation
Liam Spradlin, Interface Designer Google
How to Be Relentlessly Resourceful in Building A Bootstrap Design Education Startup
Stella Guan, Founder & CEO, Multidisciplinary Designer Path Unbound
Increasing the status of Content
Elle Geraghty, Mary Sabotkoski, Natalie Marie Dunbar, Judith Waller
CV Makeover
Mags Hanley, Steve Gilles and Georgina Robilliard,
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? We've got you covered, plus an awesome surprise sweet afternoon treat.
The infrastructures of everyday life
Dan Hill, Professor and Director, Melbourne School of Design Melbourne School of Design
Farewell
Farewell, but hopefully for not too long after two days filled with learning, connection and inspiration.
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About Us
Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for nearly 20 years brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.
We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.
We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.
John Allsopp
John Allsopp has been working on the Web for nearly 30 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.
His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.
His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".
Code of Conduct
For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.
As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.
If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.