Webstock - 16-20 February 2009, Wellington, New Zealand

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Speakers

Adrian Holovaty

Adrian Holovaty

Adrian Holovaty, journalist and computer programmer, founder of EveryBlock, co-creator of Django, creator of chicagocrime.org, co-author of the Django Book. See more ...

Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist who writes for many periodicals from Popular Science to Wired, and since 1999 has had a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation. Editor of io9, a blog about science fiction. See more ...

Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger

Browser guru extraordinaire. See more ...

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling

Science fiction author, design essayist, Net critic and a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. See more ...

Cameron Adams

Cameron Adams

Cameron Adams — The Man in Blue — author of several books ranging in topics from JavaScript, to CSS, and design. See more ...

Damian Conway

Damian Conway

The "Mad Scientist of Perl". Technical interests inculude programming language design, morphing, the psychophysics of perception, nanoscale simulation, and parsing. Personal interests include: reading, fitness, cinema, and Total World Domination. See more ...

David Recordon

David Recordon

Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart. Recipient of a 2007 Open Source Award for his efforts with OpenID and is the youngest recipient in the history of the award. See more ...

Derek Featherstone

Derek Featherstone

Internationally-known authority on accessibility and web development, a respected technical trainer, and author. Leader of the influential Web Standards Project. See more ...

Derek Powazek

Derek Powazek

Social media consultant. Named one of the top 40 “Industry Influencers” of 2007, cofounder of JPG, author of “Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places” (New Riders, 2001). See more...

Fiona Romeo

Fiona Romeo

Head of Digital Media at the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. See more ...

Heather Champ

Heather Champ

Flickr Community Manager. See more ...

Jackson Wilkinson

Jackson Wilkinson

Designer, developer and UX strategist. See more ...

Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal

Game designer and future forecaster. In 2006, MIT Technology Review named her one of the top 35 innovators changing the world through technology. Affiliate Senior Researcher with the Institute for the Future. See more ...

Jasmina Tesanovic

Jasmina Tesanovic

Feminist, political activist, translator, publisher and filmmaker and periodic contributor to BoingBoing. See more ...

Joshua Porter

Joshua Porter

Social web application designer. See more ...

Matt Biddulph

Matt Biddulph

Nomadic CTO of Dopplr, former creative technologist for Nature, Joost and the BBC bringing cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream. See more ...

Matt Jones

Matt Jones

Designer, former creative director at BBC and Director of UX Design at Nokia. A founder of, and lead designer at Dopplr. See more ...

Michael Lopp

Michael Lopp

Manager of Humans, surfer, the man behind Rands in Repose, author of "Managing Humans". See more ...

Meg Pickard

Meg Pickard

Creative geek, Head of Communities and User Experience for guardian.co.uk. See more ...

Nat Torkington

Nat Torkington

Chair of O'Reilly Open Source Convention and other O'Reilly conferences for over a decade, the man behind the first web site in New Zealand, co-author of best-selling Perl Cookbook, and a founding Radar blogger. See more ...

Pamela Fox

Pamela Fox

Pamela Fox is a Google maps guru. See more ...

Russell Brown

Russell Brown

Mastermind of PublicAddress and the voice of HardNews. See more ...

Russ Weakley

Russ Weakley

Chair of the WebStandards Group, author of a series of widely acclaimed CSS-based tutorials as well as a book, "Teach Yourself CSS in TenMinutes". See more ...

Toby Segaran

Toby Segaran

Software developer, author of the acclaimed O'Reilly title, "Programming Collective Intelligence" and Data Magnate. See more ...

Tom Coates

Tom Coates

Yahoo Brickhouse technologist developing new concepts in social software, future media and the web of data. The man behind plasticbag.org and experimental online community barbelith.com. See more ...

Ze Frank

Ze Frank

Ze Frank is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker. See more ...

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