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15 - 19 February 2010. Wellington, New Zealand

Speakers

Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood

Technical evangelist and the legend behind codinghorror.com and StackOverflow.

Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein

Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum. Recognised as a social media maven for her work in furthering the Museum's community-oriented mission via social media.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

Designer extraordinaire. Former Creative Director of Digg, a founder of Pownce, now Director of Design at the early-stage startup Tiny Speck.

Ben Cerveny

Ben Cerveny

Strategist and conceptual advisor. Experience designer from Stamen Design.

Sebastian Chan

Sebastian Chan

Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.

Mike Davidson

Mike Davidson

Founder of Newsvine, co-inventor of sIFR.

Regine DeBatty

Regine DeBatty

Blogger and a new media art curator, she lectures internationally and writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on we-make- money-not-art.com.

Esther Derby

Esther Derby

A recognized agile and productivity expert. Author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management and Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

Brian Fling

Brian Fling

Mobile expert; President of pinch/zoom an interactive agency specializing in mobile and web applications and author of Mobile Design & Development.

Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs

Creator of the script.aculo.us framework, Prototype core member and Rails core alumnus, Thomas is one of the world's top JavaScript and rich web app performance experts.

Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield

Nokia's head of design direction for service and user-interface design; author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing and the upcoming The City Is Here For You To Use.

Lisa Herrod

Lachlan Hardy

Open web advocate. WebJam founder.

Lisa Herrod

Lisa Herrod

Usability, accessibility and user experience strategy advocate. Principal User Experience consultant at Scenario Seven.

Bek Hodgson

Bek Hodgson

Visual and Interaction Design Consultant for global community-based e-commerce sites, products and brands. Formerly led UX and visual design at Etsy.

Amy Hoy

Amy Hoy

Writer-Speaker-Designer-turned-Interface-Developer-and-sometimes-Programmer. Principle designer behind Twistori, Freckle Time Tracking, the Pepsico Zeitgeist, and other unusual sites and apps.

Mark Pesce

Mark Pesce

A pioneer in Virtual Reality, respected writer, researcher and teacher, co- inventor of VRML, author of five books and numerous papers on the future of technology.

John Resig

John Resig

Creator and lead developer of jQuery. John Resig is a JavaScript Tool Developer for the Mozilla Corporation.

Eric Ries

Eric Ries

Entrepreneurial king ping. Author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned. Creator of the Lean Startup entrepreneurship methodology.

Rives

Rives

Poet. Pop-up book designer. Romanticist.

Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose

Founder of Digg. Co-founder of the Internet Television Network Revision3. Co-hosts of Diggnation, a weekly video podcast based on digg.com news stories and content.

Toby Segaran

Toby Segaran

Software developer and data magnate. Author of Programming Collective Intelligence, Programming the Semantic Web and Beautiful Data.

Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett

Founding member of Analog, a web design and development co-operative. Blogger at shiflett.org and author of Essential PHP Security (O’Reilly) and HTTP Developer’s Handbook (Sams).

Scott Thomas

Scott Thomas

(aka Simple Scott) - Design Director for the Obama Presidential campaign.

Jeffrey Veen

Jeffrey Veen

CEO of Typekit, internationally sought-after speaker, author, and user experience consultant. Formerly led the creation of Measure Map, the well-received blog analytics tool acquired by Google.