The Speakers
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Alex Russell @slightlylate
Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google. Prior to joining Google he contributed to the development of the Dojo Toolkit. He's fighting IE 6 so you don't have to.
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Brian LeRoux @brianleroux
Co-creator of XUI and contributor to the open source PhoneGap project, Brian LeRoux believes that the future of the Internet is mobile and will rely on web standards, open source and developers like you. Brian is a software developer at Nitobi Software.
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Dan Webb @danwrong
Dan Webb is a british JavaScript bloke working on the platform team at Twitter. Recently he's spent a lot of time delving into the dark recesses of cross domain communication and security while working on @anywhere. In the past, as director of Massive Robot, he's been involved in a wide range of projects including work for Channel 4, A Bathing Ape and People's Music Store as well as popular Twitter app, twaud.io. When he's not doing that he's DJing, hording trainers and drinking fine beers.
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Seb Lee-Delisle @seb_ly
Seb has been working in digital media for over 15 years and is the founding partner at award winning digital agency Plug-in Media. He is a specialist in games, physics, motion detection, 3D and visual effects (such as particle systems). His work has pushed the boundaries of what is possible on the web, and has received many accolades including a BAFTA for the Plug-in Media project Big and Small.
As a member of the Papervision3D team, he is an expert in 3D. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences, and has presented at iDesign, FITC, FlashForward and many others.
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Jan Lehnardt @janl
Jan is a contributor to Apache CouchDB and co-organizer of JSConf.eu, the other great JavaScript conference.
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Paul Bakaus @pbakaus
Paul is the CTO of the browser game startup Dextrose AG, as well as a jQuery team member and his corporate work mostly focusses on UX, UI and tricky JavaScript challenges. He is well known in the JavaScript community for having created the popular user interface framework jQuery UI, where he was the driving force behind many of its plugins.
In 2010, he finally decided it‘s time for a long envisioned challenge – delivering the first commercial game engine for the web, running pluginless in web browsers. In addition to his main work, he enjoys his well booked speaking engagements at various conferences around the world. His favorite topics cover innovative user interfaces and experiences, JavaScript wisdom and of course, jQuery.
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Paul Rouget @paulrouget
Paul Rouget works on promoting the OpenWeb and Mozilla as a platform. He has been involved in the Mozilla project since 2003. He works for Mozilla as a Technology Evangelist. Paul experiments with the new technologies of the Web and the Mozilla platform. Lately, he has been working on set of demos demonstrating how far we can go with the new standards and Firefox 3.5, and promoting the new video tag on Firefox.
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Remy Sharp @rem
Remy Sharp is a developer, speaker, blogger, one of the authors behind Introduction to HTML5 (New Riders). He is one of the curators of HTML5 Doctor, and he's also one of the two organisers behind this conference: Full Frontal JavaScript Conference.
jQuery team member (developer relations, formally evangelism) and the developer on a fistful of JavaScript related apps, Remy loves his JavaScript and he is keen as mustard to share it with other developers.