Programme

Webstock 2011 will consist of three days of intimate hands-on workshops with industry leaders, followed by two days of action packed, talent-laden, 20+ session conference proper. And to top it all off, there's the Grand ONYAs Web Awards Dinner.

Receive a substantial discount to workshops when also attending the main conference. The discounted price for workshops is indicated by *

The workshop timetable is outlined below, as is the main conference programme.

Pre-conference workshops

Monday 14th February
Workshop Time Cost
The Practice of Content Strategy — SOLD OUT!
Kristina Halvorson
- $795
$650*
CSS of the future - building with Object Oriented CSS — SOLD OUT!
Nicole Sullivan
- $795
$650*
How To Make Information Beautiful — SOLD OUT!
David McCandless
- $795
$650*
Tuesday 15th February
Workshop Time Cost
Web Typography and You — SOLD OUT!
Jason Santa Maria
- $795
$650*
In-depth with HTML5: getting started with 4 key technologies — SOLD OUT!
Mark Pilgrim
- $795
$650*
Usability Bootcamp: The Essentials of Usability Testing — SOLD OUT!
Christine Perfetti
- $795
$650*
What’s (Maybe, Kinda, Sorta) Next for You? Steps Toward Futureproofing Your Passion — SOLD OUT!
Merlin Mann
- $495
$375*
How to Lead — SOLD OUT!
Michael Lopp
- $495
$375*
Wednesday 16th February
Workshop Time Cost
Tapworthy Mobile Design and User Experience — SOLD OUT!
Josh Clark
- $795
$650*
Writing with Pictures: The Power of Visual Communication — SOLD OUT!
Scott McCloud
- $495
$375*
The Long Tent in the Performance Pole — SOLD OUT!
Steve Souders
- $495
$375*
Killing your Sailboats: Managing Innovation by Saying True Things — SOLD OUT!
Merlin Mann
- $495
$375*

Main Webstock conference

Thursday 17th February - conference day one
Time Speaker
8:50am - 9:05am Opening and welcome
9:05am - 9:45am Frank Chimero
The Digital Campfire
9:50am - 10:30am Michael Koziarski
That's all well and good, but how does it help me?
10:30am - 11:00am Morning tea
11:00am - 11:40am Main auditorium
Christine Perfetti
Adventurous Usability Techniques: Novel Approaches for the Seasoned Pro
Illot theatre
David Recordon
HTML5 at Facebook
11:45am - 12:25pm Mark Pilgrim
The Future of the Web: where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?
12:25pm - 1:20pm Lunch
1:20pm - 2:00pm Main auditorium
Jason Webley
Portrait of an Artist as an Independent Musician
Illot theatre
Nicole Sullivan
CSS Tools for Massive Websites
2:05pm - 2:45pm Main auditorium
Jason Santa Maria
On Web Typography
Illot theatre
Steve Souders
Web Performance Optimisation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
2:50pm - 3:30pm Kristina Halvorson
Content/Communication
3:30pm - 4:00pm Afternoon tea
4:00pm - 4:40pm John Gruber
The Gap Theory of UI Design
4:45pm - 5:25pm Doug Bowman
Delivering Delight
5:30pm - 6:10pm Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer talks new music paradigm, blogging, Twitter and life
6:10pm - 7:30pm Beats & Bubbles
Friday 18th February - conference day two
Time Speaker
9:30am - 9:35am Welcome
9:35am - 10:15am Marco Arment
Contrary to popular beliefs
10:20am - 11:00am David McCandless
Information is Beautiful
11:00am - 11:30am Morning tea
11:30am - 12:10am Main auditorium
Josh Clark
Buttons Are a Hack: The New Rules of Designing for Touch
Illot theatre
Glenda Sims
Practical Accessibility Testing
12:15am - 12:55pm Jason Cohen
A Geek Sifts Through the Bullshit
12:55pm - 1:55pm Lunch
1:55pm - 2:35pm Peter Sunde
The Pirate Bay of Penzance
2:40pm - 3:20pm Michael Lopp
An Engineering Mindset
3:20pm - 3:50pm Afternoon tea
3:50pm - 4:30pm Tom Coates
Everything the Network Touches
4:35pm - 5:20pm Scott McCloud
Comics: A Medium in Transition
5:25pm - 6:10pm Merlin Mann
Scared Shitless: How I (Mostly) Learned to Love Being Afraid of Pretty Much Everything
6:10pm - 6:15pm Closing
6:15pm - 8:15pm Pre-partay partay — in the West Wing
8:30pm - 10:30pm Amanda Fucking Palmer and Jason Webley — live on the big stage
11:00pm - late After-partay — various salubrious venues city-wide

As always, the programme may be subject to change at any time. But we hope not! Unless it becomes more awesome — we'd be ok with that.

The ONYA Awards

Acting as the grand finale of Webstock week, the ONYAs, a celebration of NZ's web industry, will be taking place on Saturday 19 February at the Wellington Town Hall. Tickets are on sale now. Be quick: seats are limited.