Speakers
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Marco Arment
Co-founder and former CTO of Tumblr; founder of Instapaper.
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Doug Bowman
Influential designer, Creative Director at Twitter, former Visual Design Lead at Google.
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Josh Clark
Designer, developer, and author specializing in mobile design strategy and user experience. Author of the O'Reilly books Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps and Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders.
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Tom Coates
Renowned technologist, former Yahoo! Head of Product for the new product incubator Brickhouse and creator of Fire Eagle.
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Jason Cohen
Founder of Smart Bear Software, author of Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review and the man behind the highly regarded start up blog, a smart bear.
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Frank Chimero
Graphic designer, teacher, writer, and awesomely creative person.
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John Gruber
Writer and publisher of Daring Fireball.
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Kristina Halvorson
CEO of Brain Traffic, author of Content Strategy for the Web, host of Content Talks podcast (5by5 Studios), and founder of Confab: The Content Strategy Conference.
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Michael Koziarski
A Ruby on Rails core team member since 2005 and popular speaker at development conferences around the world.
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Michael Lopp
Silicon Valley-based engineering manager, author of two books, Being Geek, Managing Humans, and a blog, Rands in Repose. Formerly of Apple.
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Merlin Mann
Creator of 43folders.com, a popular American website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work. Other Merlin Mann creations include Kung Fu Grippe, The Merlin Show, 5ives, 30 Seconds with Phone Guy. He is also one the funny men behind a decidedly NSFW podcast known as, You Look Nice Today and the author of the upcoming book, Inbox Zero.
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David McCandless
Author, data-journalist and information designer who has championed the use of infographics and data visualisations. The man behind the renowned blog and book Information Is Beautiful.
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Scott McCloud
Cartoonist and author of Understanding Comics, a New York Times Notable book for 1994, and is available in 16 languages. Found on the internets at scottmccloud.com.
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Amanda Palmer
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Christine Perfetti
CEO and Founding Principal of Perfetti Media, formerly VP & Managing Director at User Interface Engineering.
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Mark Pilgrim
Software developer, popular blogger, and author of numerous titles including Dive into Python, Dive into Accessibility, Greasemonkey Hacks and HTML 5: Up and Running. An advocate of open source and open standards.
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David Recordon
Senior Open Programs Manager at Facebook, where he leads open source and open standards initiatives.
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Jason Santa Maria
Award winning designer, founder of Mighty, a Brooklyn-based design studio; creative director for A List Apart and creative director of Typekit.
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Glenda Sims
Accessibility consultant, speaker, author of InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design. Co-lead for the W3C Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group.
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Steve Souders
Web performance guru, and open source advocate. Author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. Creator of YSlow. Former Chief Performance Yahoo!.
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Peter Sunde
Co-founder of The Pirate Bay and Flattr.
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Nicole Sullivan
Front-end performance consultant, CSS Ninja, co-author of Even Faster Websites and the brains behind http://stubbornella.org. Instigator of Object-Oriented CSS open source project.
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Jason Webley
Punk accordionist, world troubadour and DIY musician.