Speakers

People behind the ideas.

709 speakers across the Conffab library

Aaron Powell

Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Having spent 15 years doing web development he's seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits.

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Aaron Spence

A professional photographer for over 25 years Aaron has been involved in Web & Multimedia development from the early days of the Digital Photography revolution in the mid ‘90s. From shooting on film and using film scanners to early professional digital SLR’s, Digital Video, Multi-Media CD-ROM and Web production he has always been on the bleeding edge of technology. This is doubly so for the highly technical photographic niche of 360 panoramas, where Aaron has been a world leader for much of the past decade. A vast amount of work goes into Research & Development to ensure Panedia is always producing the best work available, in the shortest possible time. Fortunately 360 work is his passion, so the more work the better.

Aaron Tan

Design culture is about rediscovering the human side of business. UX Design is becoming an increasingly valued part of all kinds of organisations, although there are still pockets of resistance. So how do we manage design in organisations to achieve their full potential? Better UX design maturity makes an organisation more competitive and more effective at delivering great products and services. This talk goes through case studies from years of leading product development — both successful and not — to show that investing in design culture will help an organisation achieve greatness.

Aaron Turner

Aaron Turner is a senior engineer at Fastly. In their spare time, they are hacking on various WebAssembly projects on the web, cooking up some dope beats, and shredding local skateparks!

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Aaron Z Lewis

Aaron Lewis used to design digital products for Uber and for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Now, he's researching and writing about memetic warfare, preventing online radicalization, and cultivating compassionate communities (IRL and URL). He likes to make familiar things feel new and new things feel familiar.

Aarron Walter

Aarron Walter is VP of design publishing at InVision , drawing upon twenty years of experience running product teams and teaching design to help companies enact design best practices. Aarron founded the UX practice at MailChimp and helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. His design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and many Fortune 500 companies, startups, and venture capital firms. Aarron is a keynote speaker and has spoken at more than a hundred conferences, events, and companies on five continents. He’s also the cohost of the Webby nominated Design Better podcast . He has been featured in Fast Company, TechCrunch, and many other publications.

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Abdu Códigos

Abdu "Códigos" Mappuji is a software developer based in Indonesia (frequently moving from town to town) and he's on a mission to inspire and elevate people everywhere so that they can improve their lives, raise the bar, and contribute back to society. He's currently (2021) a tech lead at Mekari, a leading Software as a Service company in Indonesia focusing on the HR & Business suites.

Ada Rose Cannon

As a developer advocate for Samsung Internet Ada tries to help developers with all the latest features of the Web platform. You can find her on Twitter at @AdaRoseCannon or the Samsung Internet team at @SamsungInternet. Or Email at webadvocacy@samsung.com

Adam Ahmed

Adam has had an unhealthy obsession with Javascript since he first heard the term 'prototypal inheritance'. He starts each morning with a drum session, then spends his days delivering sexy diffs and pull request comment trees for Atlassian's enterprise Git-hosting product, Stash. Nights are an epic dilemma between good and evil: contribute to open source, or attempt Skynet on a Nodecopter?

Adam Argyle

Adam is a bright, passionate, punk engineer with an adoration for the web who prefers using his skills for best in class UI/UX and empowering those around him. He’s worked at small and large companies, and built an app for pretty much every screen (or voice). He is capable of over-engineering, but spends lots of brain power not. Loves CSS, loves JS, loves great UX.

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Adam Bradley

Adam is the Director of Technology at Builder.io, focused on pushing the web forward with innovative technologies such as Qwik and Partytown. Adam leads teams in developing high-performing user interfaces with the latest technologies. Adam’s past roles include being the Director of Technology at Ionic, where he co-created the Ionic Framework and helped to develop CapacitorJS. Additionally, Adam created StencilJS, which is a toolchain for building reusable, scalable Design Systems. He is an open-source and web-standard enthusiast.

Adam Stanley

As a senior member of the BlackBerry Developer Relations Team at Research in Motion, Adam shares his passion for creating innovative and exciting mobile applications using web technologies such as HTML5 , CSS3 and JavaScript. His focus is on energizing and supporting the BlackBerry Web development community with their application development efforts.

Adekunle Oduye

Adekunle Oduye (Add-eh-koon-lay Oh-due-yay) is a UX Engineer born / bred / based in Brooklyn, New York. Currently he's at Plaid, where he's helping to build Threads, Plaid's official design system. Outside of work he's a coach, speaker, and co-hosts the Code and Pixels podcast. He's very passionate about design systems, prototyping, and front-end development. When he's not building software, you can probably find him deepening his knowledge on Stoicism or planning his next adventure.

Adem Cifcioglu

Adem Cifcioglu is an experienced digital accessibility consultant and web developer based in Melbourne, Australia. Adem has over 12 years of hands-on, professional experience working on the web, and has worked with accessibility in all its forms. From defining strategy and embedding accessibility into organisational culture, to technical accessibility, training and usability testing, Adem has done it all. Adem also established and led the National Australia Bank (NAB)’s digital accessibility team. In 2016 Adem co-founded Intopia, a digital accessibility consultancy, with the aim of creating an inclusive digital world by assisting organisations to embed accessibility throughout all stages of product development. When he’s not helping people make things accessible, Adem is an avid football fan (round ball and AFL), supporting Galatasaray in the Turkish Super League and Collingwood FC in the AFL.

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Adrian Bece

Adrian Bece is a versatile full-stack web developer with extensive experience in eCommerce. He enjoys writing and talking about the latest and greatest technologies in web development, mainly JavaScript and CSS. He has launched and maintained several popular tools for frontend developers and has contributed to several Open-Source projects. He usually spends his free time listening to music, playing guitar, and reading Sci-Fi novels and “Calvin and Hobbes” comics.

Adrian Roselli

Adrian has written articles for trade journals, web sites, and participated as an author and editor on five books. In 1998 he co-founded a software development consulting firm before leaving at the start of 2016. He was a member of the W3C Web Platform Working Group, W3C ARIA Working Group, and W3C Accessibility Task Force. Some may recognize Adrian from his days helping to run evolt.org, one of the first communities for web developers. Adrian has been developing for the Web since 1993.

Ahmad Shadeed

Ahmad Shadeed is a Digital Product Designer and Front-End Developer from Palestine. He enjoy working on large scale Product Design and Front End Projects which involves solving complex design problems. He writes extensively on CSS, Accessibility and RTL (right to left) text styling.

5 presentations

Aimee Maree Forsstrom

Spending the past decade doing independent consulting on Content Management System builds (blue and refactoring projects) and occasionally working in the area of research assistance (Mozilla, Massive Interactive, Southern Cross University, University of Adelaide), Aimee has a passion for CMS communities, sharing information, supporting Open Source technologies and information technology education.

Ajit Pillai

Ajit Pillai is a researcher in AI and ethics at the University of Sydney.

Akahsha Edwards

Akahsha is a Product Leader who is currently helping to scale global SaaS business JobAdder. She's spent the past decade working on technology products for the HR, Media, and Healthcare sectors. Curious and always hungry for knowledge, Akahsha will complete her MBA at UNSW this year.

Alan Downie

Co-founder and CEO of @ macropodhq and @ Bugherd . @ RightGIF founder. Co-founder @ usabilityhub and @ fivesecondtest .

Alan Duncan

Founder of events support and management company now merged with Knowledge Media. Knowledge Media's vision is to create knowledge networks where people meet face-to-face through events, and continue their relationships and receive digital content via our web services. We facilitate their interest in sharing and gaining new knowledge and understanding. Our purpose is to "inform, connect and inspire". Examples of knowledge networks are our 3 Pillars Network and Private Wealth Network. Examples of events and interests are New Economy Leadership Council, National Sustainable Food Summit, family offices, philanthropy, creation of shared value and collective impact.

Alasdair Hamilton

Alasdair is the CEO of Remi AI.

Alastair Simpson

Alastair has 10 years of experience in user experience design at large growth focussed businesses. Alastair is currently Head of Design for Confluence. He is a passionate advocate of using lean customer centric design and design thinking methodologies to solve complex business problems and has helped many teams see its benefits and transition to leaner approaches to product development. Previously Alastair worked at global publishers Reed Business Information as well as a digital consultancy firm consulting to Qantas, FOXTEL and Telstra. His areas of expertise include design thinking, lean customer centric design, and program management. 2018 Update Alastair Simpson is a product design manager, leader and mentor. He loves working with teams to solve complex business and interaction design challenges. He currently leads a multi-disciplinary design team at Atlassian across their Platform services, Stride and Confluence. His team is spread across 3 locations (Sydney, San Francisco, Austin) and are responsible for the user experience across some of Atlassian's largest cloud products. He is an advocate of applying lean customer centric design and design thinking frameworks to solve problems. He has vast experience leading teams and designing interfaces across multiple devices, with a proven track record of delivering user friendly digital experiences on high growth products.

Albert Mai

In 2013, Albert made the bold move to Sydney from Vietnam via Singapore, to immerse himself in one of the leading startup ecosystems in the world. Since then he's worked on numerous projects and with startups including AngelHack hackathon, Dolphin Browser, AVYLD, AsianPioneers, ZeroMail, IMWT, Airtasker, GlamCorner, TinyBeans and most recently, Vero.

Alejandro Patterson

Alejandro has spent the last 18 years building businesses in a wide range of industries. In 2018 he joined BlueChilli as a Product Manager where he worked with non technical founders to validate, build and launch over 12 startups. In early 2019 he moved into a Senior Product Manager role and worked with our talented team to hire Product Managers in Australia and Singapore. In October 2019 he moved to Jakarta, Indonesia where he ran the BlueChilli powered Amatil X academy accelerator for Coca-Cola while also building and launching 3 startups in Sydney for the SheStarts accelerator program. Alejandro joined IAG as a Senior Product Manager in March 2020, and has recently been promoted to Principal Product Manager. His role as a product leader within IAG is championing product practise as they move through a digital transformation in a highly regulated industry.

Alex Danilo

Alex has spent over a decade on various W3C working groups developing the standards we all know and love, all while running a couple of start ups doing web engines for mobile and embedded markets. He now works at Google, spreading the good word about HTML5 and Chrome.

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Alex Feyerke

Alex works as a freelance frontend developer and consultant in Berlin and is one of the founding members of Hoodie . He also helps organise Berlin's frontend usergroup & frontend meetup berlin">up.front .

Alex Lakatos

Alex has spent the past 11 years working on the Open Web within Browser, Communications, and FinTech organizations. With a background in web technologies and developer advocacy, he's helped organizations build developer-friendly products while engaging with the developer community at large. As the new Technology Lead for the Interledger Foundation, he focuses on lowering the barrier to entry into the Payments ecosystem and driving the adoption of the Web Monetization standard.

3 presentations

Alex Mackey

Alex works as a Senior Developer for Xero . He has written a couple of books on .net, a course on WebGL for Pluralsight & runs the DDD Melbourne community conference. He enjoys caffeine, Crossfit & cat videos.

3 presentations

Alex Moore

Alex Moore is the Executive Director of Open Web Advocacy, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to browser competition, ensuring that the Web is able to fairly compete on mobile devices and getting Web Apps to have feature parity with Native Apps.

4 presentations

Alex Reardon

Alex is a Principal Engineer at Atlassian, spending his days making the web a better place for everyone

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Alex Russell

Alex Russell (@slightlylate) is a Partner Program Manager on Microsoft Edge. Prior to joining Edge, he spent a dozen years on the Chrome team where he designed new features for the Web Platform. Alex served as Tech Lead for Project Fugu, Chrome's Standards Tech Lead, was a delegate to ECMA TC39, and served three terms as an elected representative to the W3C's Technical Architecture Group. His recent projects include Progressive Web Apps, Service Workers, and Web Components, along with ES6 features like Classes and Promises. Previously he helped build Chrome Frame and led the Dojo Toolkit project. Alex plays for Team Web.

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Alex Sexton

Alex Sexton works for Stripe as a Product Engineer. He lives and works in Austin, TX where he runs the TXJS conference. He’s on the jQuery Board of Advisors, the Dojo Foundation Board, and the Modernizr team and is a big fan of contributing to open source. Alex wrote the article that coined the term “Front-End Ops” for Smashing Magazine in June of 2013, thus adding much credibility to his List of Coined Terms™.

Alexander Karan

Co-Founder & CTO @ ClimateClever. JavaScript dev, TedX speaker and blogger with a passion for software architecture. Alexander is the co-founder and CTO at ClimateClever - a climate-tech company helping businesses of all sizes to accurately measure and reduce emissions, focusing on aggregating supply chain emissions. A full-stack developer with over ten years of experience, he previously ran an App development agency, managing various teams from design and marketing to web and native mobile app developers in Australia and abroad. Alexander's strengths are system architecture design and communicating complicated tech to everyday people. Having helped scale tech at numerous startups, he is passionate about making a positive difference. When not working, you can find him writing tech articles and teaching Javascript and React at SheCodes, an initiative helping to get more women into tech. He regularly gives talks on various topics, focusing on the impact the technology we build can have. Alexander is devastated by the state of the world, loves a good political rant and can often be swearing at no one in particular. He enjoys building things in Node, Deno, React, Svelte, MongoDB and Rust.

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an interaction designer & entrepreneur. She is the founder of Good Night Lamp , a family of internet-connected lamps. She also leads Designswarm an internet of things design studio & consultancy and works with clients who want to design next generation connected products. She uses her expertise to help shape early business ideas around smart products. Her work has been exhibited at The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Alexandra has been focused on the “internet of things” and its implications in the design of everyday products since 2005.

Alexandra Skougarevskaya

Alex is a passionate, curious design leader and juggler of life who loves to inhabit the ‘getting things done’ space between brand, design, and engineering. Currently leading the Atlassian Design System team across Sydney and Mountain View.

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Alexandra White

Alexandra is a technical writer for Google Chrome. In this role, writes documentation for Privacy Sandbox and acts as a co-chair of the documentation accessibility working group. Prior to Google, she was a technical writer, a web developer, and a digital marketer. Alexandra has a bachelor’s degree in professional writing with an emphasis in digital and technical writing from Michigan State University.

Aliaksei Kuncevič

Aliaksei is a Google Developer Expert and Consultant with MIT degree, IT Educator, Mentor and Podcaster. This days Aliaksei as CEO of Angular Consulting is focusing on helping companies and devteams building modern frontend architectures using industry standards and best practices. Aliaksei lives in Australia, but modern day processes and technologies allow him to operate on the global scale. The main professional goal for Aliaksei is to share his competence and be a true IT professional - giving the branch various options to one problem based on specific needs, inspiring tech-people on self-improvement and building creative software solutions. Expertise and experience are Angular Consulting core engines that drive forward innovative solutions for different industries like e-commerce, medicine, manufacturing, education, sport, big data and sales.

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Alicia Sedlock

Alicia is a front-end developer who loves to use the web as a playground, whether it’s building financial tools at Society of Grownups, or trying to build games with CSS. She’s a teacher with the Boston chapter of Girl Develop It, and co-organizer of the Purple Monkey Game Jam. Outside of the Web, she’s a cook, gardener, and video game player.

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Alisa Lemberg

Alisa Lemberg is a Sr. User Researcher at Twitter where she seeks to uncover the secret sauce behind Internet stardom. Prior to joining Twitter, she was a member of IDEO’s Hybrid Insights team, bridging the divide between the qualitative and the quantitative. She is passionate about finding stories behind the numbers, and learning how to order coffee in new languages. 2018 Update Alisa Lemberg is a user research professional currently working as the Director of Fidelity Labs. She has experience leading multidisciplinary teams through the process of building empathy and identifying user needs. She has planned and executed complex, multi-phase, user research studies that have resulted in new product launches in partnership with product managers, designers, and senior leadership throughout her time at Twitter and IDEO, and prefers a hybrid approach to blending qualitative and survey research.

Alison Cooke

Experience Designer working on digital products with a background in Psychology and Research. Passionate about customer advocacy, complex problem solving and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Allen Wirfs-Brock was the project editor and lead author of the ECMAScript 2015 Language Secification (ES6) that modernized the JavaScript programming language. Allen is also the co-author of JavaScript: the First 20 Years , the definitive history of the creation and evolution of JavaScript. Allen is an expert in programming languages and their implementation with broad experience developing compilers, virtual machines, programming environments, and complete computer systems and has made major contributions to the design of both the JavaScript and Smalltalk programming languages. Allen has been a strategic technologist, researcher, software architect, startup advisor, assembly language programmer, product developer, and manager. He founded two successful companies and has been a technical leader and contributor at: Mozilla, Microsoft, Instantiations, Parcplace-Digitalk, and Tektronix. For his contributions, Allen Wirfs-Brock has been recognized as an ACM Distinguished Engineer and an Ecma International Fellow.

Allison Ravenhall

Allison has worked in enough IT roles to fill a bakery: tester, web dev, team lead, tech architect, usability and UX consultant, tech writer, training facilitator, speaker, and accessibility consultant. She's currently Digital Accessibility Sensei at Intopia, helping organisations create inclusive websites and apps.

Alvaro Montoro

Alvaro is passionate about web technologies, and he enjoys playing with HTML and CSS (sometimes literally) and seeing what these languages can achieve by themselves. He lives in Texas with his family, where he currently works as a UI Manager at Visa, leading a team that builds a design system focusing on accessibility.

Aman King

Aman King has been working in the Agile software development space for 13 (lucky) years! He is a Software Development Manager in Atlassian, and previously was a Lead Consultant with ThoughtWorks. He has software development expertise in diverse domains and technologies. Within Atlassian, his focus has been on leveraging Atlassian Cloud Platform to power Atlassian’s cloud products. He is passionate about mentoring and enabling individuals, teams, and organizations to tap into their full potential.

Amanda Broomhall

Amanda is a managing partner at ABCW, a digital initiatives consultancy. Amanda has been thriving on the challenges of intranet and digital workplace projects for over 15 years, working in permanent, contract and consulting roles. Her experience covers a broad range of organisations within industries such as: utilities, financial services, telecommunications, universities, not-for-profits, retail, healthcare and local, state and federal government – both within Australia and internationally. She has built up an impressive set of skills in the areas of digital strategy development, user research, information architecture design, human-centred design, training and mentoring, content and knowledge management.

Amelia Crook

Amelia leads the Design and Product teams at Cogent.co, a business focused on using strategy, product, design and development to turn great ideas into remarkable businesses. Amelia has previously held senior product roles in some of Melbourne's brightest startups including SEEK, Redbubble, Flippa, and Lonely Planet, as well as international roles including at Amazon.co.uk. Her experience working in cross-discipline teams has made her passionate about diversity of ideas, skillsets and people, and setting up the right environment for them to thrive. When not working in teams you'll find Amelia cooking in her kitchen in the countryside of Victoria.

Amila Welihinda

Making the web fast for everyone, everywhere, Amila is currently building a B2B SaaS company around web app performance monitoring and optimization. Hist software is used by Google, Dropbox, PayPal, and many other companies, and he's helped hundreds of developers and teams in open source.

Amir Ansari

Amir has held numerous senior design leadership roles, most recently as the Global Head of Design at a Global Financial Services Technology company. With over 25 years of experience in the field of design, and 15 years as a design leader, he has worked across the private and public sectors, in-house and agency, managing a breadth of research and design practitioners, while delivering digital products and technology. He is passionate about inclusion and digital accessibility and democratising the craft of design - and doing it with a smile and a hug.

Amir Shevat

Author of the new Designing Bots (O'Reilly), Amir Shevat is the head of developer relations in Slack, working with bot developers and designers. Previously Amir managed the Google Startup outreach program, helping developers around the world design and build better products.Amir has also created a product design course in Udacity, teaching product managers, designers & developers how to build products users love. Amir is the co-lead of the Botness community where bot platform leads and bot developers share best practices.

Amit Sheen

Amit is an experienced web developer, specializing in CSS, design systems, animations, and creative coding. He has a pathological curiosity and a constant desire to learn new things, and loves sharing his experience and explorations with the community.

Amy Cleary

Amy Cleary is a multidisciplinary UX consultant with industry experience in retail, finance, online education and start-ups. Her specialisation is in designing Conversational User Interfaces (aka Chatbots) to facilitate user self-service and optimise workflows. Amy is the co-founder of the Chatbots, Messaging & AI Meetup Melbourne.

Amy Lee

Amy Lee has managed and created design systems teams at Salesforce, DocuSign, and Nomad Health. She is passionate about processes to bring stakeholders and teams together, and create scalable UI experiences.

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Amélie Lamont

Amélie, a first-generation Jamaican-American born and raised in New York City, is a product designer(d) + writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Currently she works at The New York Times and has been consulting for the past 10 years. In 2016, Amélie was recognized by The White House as a Changemaker at the United State of Women Summit. In August 2016, she became a New York 2016 StartingBloc Fellow.

Ana Cidre

Ana is a Developer Advocate at Auth0. She has a degree in Fine Arts and a Master in International Business Economics and Management, so she is not your usual software developer. She loves to code and she especially likes Angular. As a very active member of the community, she regularly organises meetups and conferences, like the amazing ngSpain. In Spain, where she’s currently based, she’s an organiser of GDG Vigo and the founder of GalsTech, a group for women in tech from Galicia. Because she is so passionate about diversity, she has also been named a Women Techmaker Ambassador.

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Ana Rodrigues

Ana works as a front-end developer at tech-for-good agency Hactar. She started coding as a teenager building fan sites, and has been working as a front-end developer for the last 12 years. Nowadays, Ana spends most of her free time experimenting on her personal blog and is particularly interested in ethics, IndieWeb, sustainability, privacy, and all things CSS.

Ananya Neogi

Ananya Neogi is a Frontend Developer at Shopify. She's also an occasional writer and speaker sharing her insights and experiences in tech.

Andi Tjong

Beginning his career as a virtual reality developer, Andi made his way into front-end development around 3 years ago. Now working at Atlassian, Andi spends his time experimenting with cloud products to improve experiences for all users.

2 presentations

Andrea Lau

Andrea is a data visualisation specialist, co-founder and one of the directors of Small Multiples, a data visualisation studio based in Sydney. She is a strong advocate for data transparency and technology which brings this data to life for the people who it is most relevant to. Andrea has been a passionate teacher of data and visual literacy, including doing workshops for Guardian Australia; lecturing and tutoring final year at the University of Sydney and UTS and General Assembly.

Andrea Magnorsky

Andrea Magnorsky is a programmer and entrepreneur currently based in the New Zealand. She is a founder and is well-known in the programming community for her contributions to functional programming and software architecture. Magnorsky has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has spoken at well-known international conferences and events on topics such as game development, functional programming, and software architecture. She is the creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions.

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Andrea Verlicchi

Andrea, loves to craft and optimise websites. He's passionate about user experience and especially web performance. He writes about the web on his tech blog andreaverlicchi.eu, on Medium and Smashing Magazine, and he loves to speak at web conferences. He's GitHub fan and the proud creator of many open-source projects, `vanilla-lazyload` amongst others. He loves nature in all of its forms and - when he's not geeking around - he love cycling, hiking, eating regional food, and all kinds of foreign languages and cultures. His current job at Netcentric is focused on web performance optimisation.

Andrew Betts

Andrew heads up developer relations for Fastly, working with developers across the world to help make the web faster, more secure, more reliable and easier to work with. He founded a web consultancy which was ultimately acquired by the Financial Times, led the team that created their pioneering HTML5 web app, and founded the FT’s Labs division. He has also been an elected member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, a committee of nine people who guide the development of the World Wide Web.

3 presentations

Andrew Chatfield

Using 25 years experience of building technology for humans, to bring the new A.I. tools like ChatGPT to businesses. This new world is incredibly exciting, and nascent, and fast moving, and confusing! Let me help make it easy for you.

2 presentations

Andrew Fisher

Andrew Fisher is a senior technology and business executive with 25+ years engineering and digital strategy experience and over a decade serving businesses in technology oriented leadership functions within senior management. Working both client-side and consultancy in global and regional organisations throughout Asia, Australia, Europe & US. He's a regular commentator in media on the topics of Data, Physical Computing, Mobile & IoT technologies.

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Andrew Green

Andrew is the Head of Design at Canva, whose mission is for everyone to design anything and publish anywhere. Previously he was the Head of Product Management for SEEK Asia. Throughout his 15 year career, he has worked extensively both as a UX Design and Product Management leader. Previously he was a self-employed Product Designer in Melbourne and Director of User Experience at Razorfish, a design consultancy in New York.

Andrew Gregovic

Andrew is currently a senior software development manager at PayPal Singapore, working in the Consumer Financial Services team. Most of his technical experience is centred around product development - building responsive, scalable and robust apps that customers love to use (or at least love to hate). He also loves dabbling in machine learning. By accident rather than intent, Andrew has a colourful workplace background, everything from being a co-founder of a New Zealand loyalty/virtual payments startup to working in large multi-nationals such as BHP and PayPal.

Andrew Murphy

Andrew Murphy started his career as a Software Engineer but, after a decade in technology leadership, he decided to focus on teaching the skills that he learnt the hard way. When he moved into leadership there was no support, so he had to make all the mistakes (a lot of them!) and learn from them. His goal is now to make sure that tech leaders don’t have to do things the hard way by providing them with the mindsets and skillsets that can make them happy, confident and effective leaders. His company, Tech Leaders Launchpad, currently focuses specifically on the new and emerging leader space, as that's the place we can have the biggest impact on the students, and the industry.

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Andy Clarke

Andrew Clarke is an art director and web designer at the UK website design studio Stuff and Nonsense. There he designs websites and applications for clients from around the world. Based in North Wales, Andy’s also the author of two web design books, Transcending CSS and Hardboiled Web Design and is well known for his many conference presentations and over ten years of contributions to the web design industry. Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a triple talented bastard. If you know of Jeffrey, you’ll know how happy that made him.

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Andy Davies

Andy Davies is a Web Performance Consultant at SpeedCurve, helping organizations measure and improve site speed since 2012.

Andy Polaine

Dr. Andy Polaine is a designer, educator, trainer, coach and writer who helps clients build and grow their own design and innovation capability and transform their organisations. For several years he worked at Fjord where he was global Group Design Director of Client Evolution. He is co-author of the Rosenfeld Media book, Service Design: From Insight to Implementation , now a standard text for Service Design. Andy has nearly three decades of experience in design and innovation with clients across a range of industries, including financial services, public services, life sciences, telecommunications, automotive, media, design and education. He holds a PhD from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a Fellow of the RSA . He can be found online at polaine.com , on Twitter as @apolaine . He writes a popular newsletter called Doctor’s Note and hosts the Power of Ten podcast.

Andy Sharman

Andy Sharman is a Senior Engineering Leader with strong agile and commercial experience. Proven track records to dramatically improve team effectiveness and efficiency through technological advancements, process optimisations, and constant innovation. Andy is passionate about UX, Quality code and an unhealthy love for exercise.

Anette Bergo

Anette is an engagement maximizing hacker at Bouvet, as well as a developer of code, products, projects and people.

Angus Croll

Angus is a displaced Brit who now works for Twitter’s web core team in San Francisco, and is one of the principal authors and maintainers of Twitter's Flight web framework. He's obsessed with JavaScript and literature in equal measure, and is a passionate advocate for the greater involvement of artists and creative thinkers in software

Anh Pham

Anh is a part of the 2018 Gungahlin College Graduate Class and also the co-founder of atschool.live which is a learning management system. He has majored in Web Development and Intelligent Systems at college. Prior to @ school, he was a freelancer in React for about a year. Proudly speaking, even though his age is only 18, but he has had two years of industry experience. He also gave a couple of React talks at some local meetup groups as well as a Python talk at PyCon. He spends most of his time designing web applications and improving his knowledge in machine learning. When he is not doing those stuff, you could find him on a soccer field or tennis court.

Anirudh Sharma

Anirudh Sharma is a Junior at Delhi Technological University with more than two years of experience in full stack development and cloud ecosystem. He is a Major League Hacking Fellow and a part of TensorFlow.js Working Group. He loves to share his knowledge and experiences through blogs and developer conferences. He is also an active open source contributor and is interested about everything around Web and DevOps.

Anna Dixon

In her role as a Senior Service Designer at the ABC’s Innovation Lab, Anna has a keen interest in experimentation, always taking an evidence-based approach by using research and analytics to link the needs of audiences with the objectives of the organisation.

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Anna Gerber

Anna is a full-stack developer and technical project manager specialising in digital humanities projects at the University of Queensland’s ITEE eResearch Lab. In her spare time, Anna enjoys tinkering with soft circuits, wearables, 3D printers, quad-copters and interactive installations. Anna is passionate about open source, open hardware and open data.

Anna Harrison

Anna Harrison is an unusual thinker who specialises in optimising tech products for best performance, marketability, acquisition and venture funding success. In her work with startups and Fortune 500 companies in Australia, Europe and the USA, Anna has led product teams to numerous successes, highlights of which include Tiny (raised $4m in 2018); TravellersBox (raised $10m in 2016); Tririga (acquired by IBM in 2011 for an undisclosed amount) and AdSpace Networks (raised $20m in 2007). Her latest ventures include the launch of thnx! to power the The Gratitude EconomyTM, and the penning of her next book, which looks at the impact of organisational structure on product design, and how to design optimal conditions to grow high performance product teams.

Anna Lee Anda

Anna is a Senior User Experience Researcher based in Singapore. Currently she is working for Zendesk, a global SaaS company which builds software for better customer relationships. She has experience working in the technology and financial industries. Anna is passionate about educating designers and product development teams about the benefits of research and taking a pragmatic approach to delivering successful results.

Anna Pickard

Anna Pickard has spent a long time pretending to be other people. After training as an actor, and then segueing into dramaturgy when she realised she was too shy to act, she went from a small blog into a series of frankly ridiculous career moves: candle making, script editing, TV criticism, advertising and the games industry. For Glitch, a beloved but now-shuttered MMO, she gave voice to strange butterflies and surfer pigs; for Wieden+Kennedy she brought life to criminal cat masterminds and omniscient butter gods; for educational games studios, she turned mathematical concepts into friendly faces. Now, as arbiter and wrangler of words at Slack, she's pretending to be a competent grown-up professional. One in charge of bringing a human approach to business, and maintaining the energy, entertainment, values and voice of the fastest growing piece of business software ever.

Annie Sullivan

Annie is a software engineer on Chrome's Web Platform team. She is passionate about building a better performing web for users across the globe. Her tenure as a Googler spans 16 years, with experience on the toolbar, docs, web search, and chrome teams. Annie currently leads performance metric development on Chrome. She lives in Michigan with her husband Doug and two sons, and enjoys tinkering with laser cutters, metal etching, and new cooking techniques.

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Anson Parker

I've been working in the internet industry since 1996. Having battled on the front-lines in most areas of web production I have found product management to be my true calling.

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Anton Ball

Anton is a Front-End Developer, speaker and community organiser. He is passionate about clean, structured code, web standards, accessibility and optimisation. He prides himself on delivering robust, high quality and beautiful solutions. Anton co-organises Fenders Front-End Developer meetup and DDD Perth and has volunteered as a mentor introducing others to the world of coding.

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Armağan Ersöz

Armağan is a software engineer currently part of the team building Primer, GitHub's design system. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion and this passion is well reflected in her professional life as her main motivation in working in tech is creating inclusive, accessible, and ethical software. She is also an organiser of Muses Code JS Brisbane which runs coding workshops and meetups for women and non-binary folks. When she is not geeking about design systems and tech, you can find her camping with her partner and dog, or reading some random contemporary fiction novels.

Arunan Skanthan

Arunan is proud to be a Geek; but believes he is really good at talking to humans; just as he is with machines. When he’s not designing or developing interfaces, ranting about web standards or being obsessive about *nix & Apple products; he can be found serenading his neighbours with his musical skills, shooting anything and everything (with a camera of course!), cooking spicy food or doodling penguins everywhere.

Ashley Claymore

Ashley is a software engineer in the JavaScript infrastructure team at Bloomberg. He is also a Bloomberg TC39 delegate co-championing several proposals .

Ashley Hefnawy

Ashley Hefnawy is a multi-disciplinary writer and artist, consultant, creative strategist, and DJ. Over the course of her decade-long career, she's worked as a journalist, UX writer, strategist, copywriter, and has pursued creative projects as a poet, fiction, and non-fiction writer. You can learn more about past and present projects via her website .

Asim Hussain

Asim is a developer, trainer, published author and conference speaker with over 18 years experience working for organisations such as the European Space Agency, Google and now Microsoft, where he is the EMEA Regional Lead for Developer Relations.

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Aubrey Blanche

Aubrey Blanche is the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Atlassian. There, she works with teams across the business to enhance access to technical education, recruiting, retention, and career mobility for underrepresented minorities. She relies on social science research and methodologies to understand the psychological and structural barriers to achieving full representation and inclusion. This research allows her to design effective interventions and programs that create equal opportunities for all Atlassian employees. Aubrey works with partners across the tech industry to define new standards for company transparency, reporting, and investment in diversity & inclusion. She believes that leading with empathy is the key to driving meaningful, sustainable change and creating highly effective teams.

Austin Gil

Austin helps organizations create fast, secure, accessible websites. In his free time he writes articles, creates open-source projects, live streams, and hangs out with his darn cute pup named Nugget.

Avis Mulhall

Avis Mulhall is an Irish girl who ditched her successful career in Ireland in 2008 to move to Africa where she lived in a rainforest in Tanzania, travelled through 15 countries, got attacked by a cheetah and ran a surf and yoga lodge in Mozambique before moving to Oz to set up her travel startup mmMule. Passionate about social innovation, connecting people and travel, Avis is mmMule’s caped crusader who fully intends on changing the world with AngelMule – a unique way for ordinary folk to give back on their travels by using their journey to deliver supplies to not-for-profit projects in developing countries. Avis is also the founder of Think Act Change a monthly meetup where changemakers, thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs or anyone who is interested in social innovation, social enterprise or simply doing good meet once a month. She is also a Trustee of the Awesome Foundation and is founder of the soon-to-launch social enterprise Looloo Paper, which has taken on the ambitious goal of wiping out diarrhoeal disease in developing countries. When she was small she genuinely believed she could fly. It ended badly.

Axel Rauschmayer

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer specialises in JavaScript and web technologies. He edits JavaScript Weekly, teaches web development and organises the JavaScript user group in Munich. Axel has been programming since 1985, developing web applications since 1995 and held his first talk on Ajax in 2006. In 1999, he was technical manager at a German internet startup that later expanded internationally. He has done extensive research into programming language design and has followed the state and the future of JavaScript for years.

Barbara Bermes

Barbara has been captivated by the web since the millennium and has always been passionate about its capabilities. After working for web agencies in Germany and Canada, and most recently working as a Senior Architect and Performance Advocate for Canada’s national public radio and television broadcaster (CBC), she joined OANDA as the Product Manager for their Developer Program and API. Barbara is an international speaker and organiser of the Toronto Web Performance Meetup Group.

Barry Pollard

Barry Pollard works in Chrome DevRel on Core Web Vitals and tooling such as Chrome DevTools, PageSpeed Insights, and CrUX; maintainer of web‑vitals; author of 'HTTP/2 in Action'.

Basarat Ali Syed

Basarat is an eight-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Web Development. He’s authored multiple books and runs a successful YouTube channel. He’s also created his own course platform called BooleanArt, which is his main focus nowadays and provides a complete learning path for modern web development, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Playwright, and more.

Bear Douglas

Bear Douglas is head of developer relations at Slack, where she and her team help developers build more pleasant and productive ways to work. Before Slack, she led the developer relations teams for the mobile and data platforms at Twitter, and worked on native mobile developer relations at Facebook and Parse.

Bec Johnson

Bec is a doctoral researcher in the ethics of generative AI technologies at The University of Sydney, where her work is focussed on human-centred AI value alignment of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GAI). Previously, she spent a year at Google Research in the Ethical AI team and Responsible AI division.She is a Managing Editor for “The AI Ethics Journal” founded at UCLA. In April 2023, she organised and Chaired a large multi-disciplinary conference called ChatLLM23 at The University of Sydney focussed on the risks and ethical impacts of GAIs.

Ben Barone-Nugent

Ben Barone-Nugent started his career as a content strategist at various Melbourne-based agencies — DT, Whybin/TBWA and CHE Proximity. In 2014, Ben relocated to R/GA New York, where he led the led major product design initiatives for Google and SolarCity (Elon Musk company) as well as the development and rollout of Samsung’s first global content strategy. Ben is currently a Content Strategist on the product design team at Facebook in New York, where he helps lead content strategy across the Pages product. Ben has been published on the topic of content strategy and business design in a range of publications — including UX Booth, UX Magazine, The Next Web and The Guardian.

Ben Birch

Ben is a Tech Lead and Beer Baron at Aconex. He’s spent the first 10 years writing JavaScript frameworks, and is now trying to undo all the damage he's done. By day he builds enterprise apps and by night contributes to several open source projects and playing with whatever the hot-new-thing is. You can sometimes spot Ben up the back at @melbjs, pouring the beers.

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Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan started creating web pages in the nineties, while completing a degree in everything but I.T. He has created frontend standards and UI libraries throughout his jobs at Griffith University, News Limited, Atlassian, Bigcommerce, Ansarada and Quantium... and probably thinks about markup too much. He can be found at https://mastodon.social/@200ok and writes at the 200ok weblog .

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Ben Dechrai

Ben Dechrai is a technologist with a staunch focus on security and privacy. This started at the age of 11, when he wrote software to stop his mum from breaking the family PC, and resulted in his working as a developer advocate for Auth0. He enjoys helping developers find the joy of experimentation, from ethical skulduggery to subversive automation, and can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @bendechrai.

Ben Dechrai

Ben Dechrai is a technologist with a staunch focus on security and privacy. This started at the age of 11, when he wrote software to stop his parents from breaking the family PC, and resulted in his working as a developer advocate for Auth0. He enjoys helping developers find the joy of experimentation, from ethical skulduggery to subversive automation, and can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @bendechrai.

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Ben Duncan

As a founder and developer, Ben Duncan has a passion for technology, startups, and contributing back to his community. He calls the Sunshine Coast, Australia home, and often flies between the US and Europe for work. He has spent the past decade sharing his vision for the Sunshine Coast as a future tech mecca of Australia. In 2013, he presented this concept in a TEDx talk titled "Silicon Beach." In 2000, he founded Atmail and, as CEO, grew the company significantly to over 3,000 customers in 65 countries worldwide. Atmail provides email platforms for ISP, Telco and business customers worldwide. He's had the pleasure to deliver this product to customers such as Interpol, Dreamhost, MediaTemple, Singtel, Princeton University, KDDI and thousands of other companies. The software continues to power over 30 million user mailboxes, and he is currently lead Atmail as CTO.

Ben Hammersley

Ben Hammersley is the Prime Minister’s Ambassador to Tech City, but don’t hold that against him. He’s really quite a fascinating and charming gent and not at all a smarmy politician. When he’s not running marathons in the Sahara desert, Ben is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He reports on the effects of the internet on society, foreign policy, business, and culture …not just on his blog either; his writing has appeared in proper dead-tree publications like The Times, The Guardian, and Wired UK (where he is Editor at Large).

Ben Hawkins

Ben Hawkins is a Design Director creating new ways to design and deliver unique exceptional retail experiences. A long time Surf LifeSaver, Ultra marathon runner, and mountaineer, Ben has a very plausible theory as to the identity of Banksy.

Ben Schwarz

Ben Schwarz is an independent web dude from Melbourne. He's an invited expert to the W3C CSS working group, 1/5 of CSSConf, a percentage of JSConf (We all know how good JavaScript is at numbers), a bower team member and a swag of other stupid projects.

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Ben Taylor

Ben is a staff software engineer at Stile Education and the creator of Runno, an open-source browser-based runtime for programming languages and WebAssembly binaries. With over a decade of experience in front-end and mobile development, he's passionate about making technology more accessible and has a particular focus on educational technology. His work spans from building dev tools like Bengular to creating sandboxed execution environments that let AI assistants safely run code in real-time. When he's not building software that bridges the gap between complex systems and human needs, Ben can be found rock climbing, making games, DJing, or volunteer teaching. His approach to development centers on design, usability, and interfaces that actually serve people—whether that's students learning to code, developers building applications, or AI systems trying to execute user requests safely. He's also an active open-source contributor and frequently shares insights about WebAssembly, web components, and the future of browser-based development.

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Ben Teese

Ben is a principal software engineer at Shine Solutions in Melbourne, Australia. He spent the first ten years of his career as a Java programmer, then the next ten working with JavaScript (plus a bit of Rails & iOS on the side). He's obsessed with both the user experience and the developer experience, and how we can optimise them for the web.

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Benjamin Wirtz

With over 10 years of experience in building companies and leading teams in Product, Design and Engineering, Benjamin F. Wirtz has helped numerous people in tech become accomplished leaders in their own right. He has learned from world class leaders at organisations such as Google and Atlassian, as well as many established coaches and executives. While sharing his strategies and processes of building products that generated over $100,000,000, he recognised the pressure on Tech teams and their Leaders to excel without adequate support. Based on his experience of working with over 50 leadership teams at over 50 Tech companies, he crafted Scalable Leaders – a Growth & Support System addressing the challenges that tend to overwhelm Leaders in Tech.

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Benson Low

Benson has worked in design and UX related roles for over 20 years, across the emerging web, games development, start-ups, design consultancies, and enterprise UX teams. An award-winning designer turned researcher, Benson has worked at Australia Post, NAB, Sensis, Experian Hitwise helping shape and mature their design practices. For the past 4 years, Benson established UX Research practice at Australia Post and build the team user research as a core capability across key products and initiatives. Recently he has started at REA Group to supercharge UX Research.

Bianca Berning

Bianca Berning is a Font Engineer and Type Designer. She is currently leading the Skills and Process Department for the font foundry Dalton maag. She is an active member of Alphabettes, Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) and the Unicode Consortium. She also coordinates a mentorship program with the aim to help students and professional newcomers to immerse themselves in the industry.

Bill Scott

Bill Scott is the VP Engineering, Merchant | Retail | Online Payments at PayPal where he leads the engineering organisation responsible for Retail, Merchant and Payment Engineering. Prior to that he was the head of UI Engineering at PayPal and Netflix. In a past life he co-created and designed one of the first successful Macintosh games, GATO, in 1985; built & designed wargaming systems for NATO; led user experience teams at Sabre & Meebo; co-wrote one of the first Ajax/JavaScript frameworks, OpenRico; and published the design pattern library at Yahoo! Bill is also a frequent speaker at conferences & workshops worldwide as well as the co-author of the O'Reilly book Designing Web Interfaces.

Bjarki Ágúst Guðmundsson

Bjarki has a strong technical background in computer science, having started at an early age developing websites. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Discrete Mathematics from Reykjavík University, with a short academic career resulting in several peer-reviewed publications and talks on international conferences, both in the field of Computer Science and Mathematics. Bjarki previously worked as an information security consultant, performing everything from application assessments to real-world attack simulations. At Google, Bjarki carries out security hardening of application frameworks, develops inherently secure APIs, and compiler guards that guide developers to these APIs.

Brad Frost

Brad Frost makes things and helps people. He’s a web designer & developer, speaker, writer, teacher, consultant, musician, artist, and enthusiasm enthusiast located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He hosts the Wake Up Excited! podcast where he talks to exuberant people about living a creative and fulfilling life. He is the author of the book Atomic Design , which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. He helps digital designers and developers level up through online courses about design systems , design tokens , frontend development, collaboration, and more. Not short on projects and passions, Brad’s created projects like the Open Up Podcast , Cold Album Drumming , Frostapalooza , Style Guides Podcast , Pattern Lab , Styleguides.io , This Is Responsive , Death to Bullshit , and more .

Bramus Van Damme

Bramus Van Damme is a web developer from Belgium. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since. With his company 3RDS he works as a freelance developer, tackling both the frontend (HTML, CSS, JS) and the backend (PHP, MySQL). His current focus is on JavaScript, React and React Native yet his love for CSS will never fade.

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Brecht De Ruyte

Brecht De Ruyte is a self-taught front-end developer located in Belgium with a passion for UX and Design. During the day you can find him working at iO, a full service agency. Besides that, he is also a Google Developer Expert, Smashing Magazine writer and blog owner of utilitybend.com. He also participates in the W3C communities: Open UI and CSS-next.

Brendan Allan

Brendan is a Rust and TypeScript developer, and a founding member of Spacedrive. He is an avid open-source contributor, maintaining popular libraries like Prisma Client Rust, and has experience building a range of web, desktop, and mobile applications.

Brett Snaidero

Brett is a seasoned veteran of information architecture, interaction design, branding, conceptualisation, and interface design. He enjoys getting his hands dirty with front-end development, too. With an extensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, he builds responsive websites that are accessible, intuitive, and performant. At the moment he's having a blast building websites at Internetrix.

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Bri Norton

Bri is a Digital Strategist, UX and Accessibility Specialist based in Canberra and has previously been an Accessibility Lead for Australian Federal and State Governments. She co-developed the Inclusive Research workshops to share how to include accessibility earlier in the project lifecycle, which includes engaging with people with disability as part of inclusive research activities. Bri is the co-chair for OZeWAI, Australia’s Web Accessibility Initiative, a Standards Australian Accessible ICT Procurement Committee Member and a member of the ResearchOps.Community Cheese Board.

Brian Kardell

Brian is a Developer Advocate at Igalia, was an Original Co-author/Co-signer of The Extensible Web Manifesto and was the Co-Founder/Chair, W3C Extensible Web Community Group. He represents Igalia and the OpenJS Foundation (formerly jQuery) in several standards groups. He is a blogger and lover is Art, Science & History.

Brian LeRoux

Brian is a cofounder of Begin.com and maintainer of Architect. He's also sports a tattoo which has a good backstory.

Brian Terlson

The editor of the ECMAScript standard, long time member of TC39 (the standards committee for ECMAScript) Brian Terlson also works on TypeScript and Chakra, the JavaScript engine in the Edge browser.

Brigette Metzler

Brigette Metzler is a jump-in-with-both-boots kind of a person. She is passionate about the democratisation of knowledge. Brigette is a lead User Research Librarian for the Australian Government. Brigette is passionate about the role of ResearchOps in helping researchers do their best work and most weeks can find her talking ResearchOps, and libraries in particular, with people from all over the place. Brigette is on the board of ResearchOps, a global community of people discussing ResearchOps — the people, mechanisms, and strategies that organizations use to scale their design and user research practice.

Bruce Lawson

A veteran of the browser wars, many a standards skirmish and an accessibility apocalypse or two, Bruce now leverages synergies for Vivaldi browser. When web standards finally makes him a billionaire, Bruce has no plans to go to Mars, but will continue making music with the cruellest months.

Brynn Evans

Brynn Evans leads design for Project Fi, Google's new wireless carrier. She's been at Google for 4 years, previously leading design for the Google+ Stream. Brynn also runs “gamestorming” workshops on product design, marketing, brand positioning, and leadership development with clients such at Estée Lauder, Apple, McAfee, Google Ventures, and more.

Caio Lima

Active contributor of JavaScriptCore and JS Virtual Machine hacker. Loves talk and discuss about JavaScript, Web technology implementation, and programming languages.

Cameron Adams

Cameron is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, an online design platform that has quickly become one of the most exciting startups in Australia. He has been exploring the frontiers of design & technology for over 15 years, and his reputation for creating cutting edge experiences has been earned while working on projects at Google, TEDx and in New York's Times Square. Alongside his practical experience implementing and leading design teams, he has toured the world as a speaker and written several books focusing on the design and technology underpinning modern digital products.

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Cameron Craig

Keynote speaker and communications professional with 20+ years experience working with Apple, Visa, PayPal, Polycom and Yahoo! Formerly tour publicist for Johnny Cash. Contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Business Insider, Forbes, The Huffington Post and PR Daily.

Cameron McCormack

Cameron is a Software Engineer at Mozilla, where he works mostly on the SVG and CSS support in Gecko, the Web rendering engine behind Firefox. Based in Melbourne, he is also heavily involved in Web standards activities at the W3C, where he is the editor of the Web IDL specification and co-chair of the SVG Working Group.

Cap Watkins

Cap Watkins is a product designer living in Brooklyn, NY. He’s the VP of Design at BuzzFeed, as well as a blogger, conference speaker, podcast guest and lover of startups and technology. Cap believes in thoughtful, holistic design solutions that get out of the way and empower people to accomplish more. His past work includes Etsy, Zoosk, Formspring and hush-hush stuff at Amazon.

Carmel Hinks

Carmel Hinks is a Sydney-based software engineer who joined Atlassian in 2015. She received her B.Sc degree in software engineering from Curtin University (Perth, Australia), where she also spent several years teaching students about application and database design. Since realizing her passion for systems architecture, Carmel has specialized in the development and maintenance of highly critical platform services. She also has a passion for giving back to her community, and has spent her free time leading a team of Atlassian volunteers to completely redevelop a website for a local dog shelter.

Caroline Sinders

Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she's worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Currently, she is a research fellow with the digital program of the Harvard Kennedy School. Sinders has held fellowships with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Slate, Quartz, and the Channels Festival. Sinders holds a masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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Carolyn Wilkinson

Carolyn leads a team of designers, and projects that cross multidisciplinary areas, working with clients to understand their needs, conduct user research, and design products and services to meet user needs. As a consultant Carolyn led teams on projects with the Dept of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, the Australian Federal Police, Services Australia and the Dept of Home Affairs, sitting across user research, visual design, UX design and interaction design. Passionate about sharing her knowledge with the next generation of designers, she has taught design at ANU, and regularly guest lectures there.

Cath Jones

Cath currently works as People Operations Manager at Buildkite part-time whilst completing a double degree in Commerce and Gender Studies at Macquarie University. As a former software engineer herself, she has a unique insight into inclusive management strategies for engineering and product teams.

Cecelia Martinez

Cecelia is dedicated to building developer communities that are inclusive, constructive, and make software development a better experience for all. Her role as Community Lead at Replay.io involves coding, writing, speaking, teaching, and most importantly listening. She is a lead volunteer with Women Who Code FrontEnd, chapter head of Out in Tech Atlanta, a mentor, and part of the GitHub Stars program.

Cennydd Bowles

An accomplished digital product designer and writer, Cennydd has over 10 years’ experience assisting and consulting with companies about dynamic design strategies. Most recently, he worked as design lead at Twitter. He is a published author, having written Undercover User Experience Design and writes regularly for A List Apart.

Chaals McCathieNevile

Chaals left Australia at the end of last century to work for W3C , and then moved to Opera where he was Chief Standards Officer. He left Opera in June 2012 and now works at Russian search and services giant Яндекс (or ‘Yandex’ as we say in English) where he is a consultant in the CTO office. He co-chairs the W3C ’s Web Apps working group and cuts his lawn with a scythe.

Charlie Gerard

Charlie is a developer at Atlassian, a Google Developer Expert and a Mozilla Tech Speaker. Outside of her day job, she is passionate about human-computer interaction and spends her free time experimenting with innovative technologies to build prototypes mixing art, science and tech. She also loves contributing to the community and giving back by building open-source tools, writing tutorials, mentoring junior developers and speaking at conferences.

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Charlie Gleason

Charlie Gleason is a developer, designer, photographer, writer, musician and video game enthusist. Having studied both design and computer science, he has worked as a technical lead, lead developer and senior designer in Melbourne, London and Perth. He spends his spare time building web apps, talking about the internet and roaming around Azeroth looking for loot. Unfortunately, he does not tan.

Charlotte Jackson

Charlotte Jackson is a front-end developer who cares about all aspects of web projects and collaboration. Now at Ansarada, and previously at ClearLeft, she's worked on large and small projects for clients including Bike Register, John Lewis and Bravissimo.

Cheryl Gledhill

Cheryl is Head of Product for Zip, with a career spanning 25 years in startups, mobile, fintech, disability-tech and telecoms. She has been working remotely on and off for the last decade, although this is her first unprecedented global pandemic, which really has changed everything.

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Chris Coyier

I'm a web designer and developer that tries to help other people get better at those things. I'm the co-founder of CodePen, a social development environment for web designers and developers. CodePen is a front-end focused IDE in the browser allowing people to write HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related languages. It's as much of a community and social network as a coding platform. Along with Dave Rupert, I'm the co-host of a podcast called ShopTalk, a show about building websites. We're over 10 years and 500 episodes strong! I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022, before selling it to DigitalOcean. I'm big on the power of writing as a way to improve yourself and be successful.

Chris Eppstein

The originator of the Compass CSS framework, and a core contributor to Sass since 2009, Chris is now Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn working on front end tooling, including an all-new CSS Framework and Optimiser.

Chris Lienert

Chris started out as a web developer when Netscape ruled the world and works as an Engineering Manager at StarRez in Melbourne. He organises the Melbourne chapter of community group Men Championing Change. Aside from musical distractions and accumulating frequent flyer points, Chris and his wife Sarah can be found in the company of their not-so-small human.

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Chris Lilley

Chris Lilley worked on the first standardised version of HTML - HTML 2 at the IETF - was the first chair of the CSS Working Group and co-editor of the CSS 2 specification, and was the inaugural chair of the SVG Working Group. He is now a Technical Director at W3C.

Chris Lloyd

Chris Lloyd is a co-founder of Minefold, a San Francisco based startup and alumnus of Y Combinator.

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Chris Messina

Chris Messina has spent over 15 years living on the edge of social technology. He has designed products and experiences for Google and Uber, founded startups, and changed the world with many of his creations, including the hashtag. He co-founded a conversational social AI company (YC’18) and recently became a digital nomad, traveling the world and speaking on social technology, product design, and founder culture and mental fitness. Chris has created movements online and off, and acted as catalyst for change in large and small organizations. In 2004, he helped organize the grassroots movement that propelled Mozilla Firefox to its first 100 million downloads. In 2005, he co-organized the first BarCamp and then popularized the unconference event model to over 350 cities around the world. In 2006, he opened the first coworking spaces in the world, giving rise to a global movement. Then in 2007, he championed the idea of the hashtag, eventually changing social media forever and galvanizing popular social revolutions. He has spoken TEDx, SXSW, Google I/O, and Microsoft’s Future Decoded, and is frequently quoted in media outlets like The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, Washington Post, and Wired.

Chris Modica

Chris is a seasoned software professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career, he has held various leadership roles in App Development, Product Engineering, Digital Transformation, and Cloud Computing. He has a proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams (up to 140+ individuals) across multiple locations. As a Chief Architect (Digital and Application Innovation) at Microsoft, Chris works with some of the largest companies in Australia and New Zealand, serving as a trusted advisor in the capacity of a CTO. Prior to Microsoft, he has worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Domain Group, Macquarie Bank, Carsguide, News Digital Media and Westpac Group. Outside of work, Chris is an avid sports enthusiast who enjoys running and biking, and occasionally participates in marathons. He is also a big fan of technology, streaming services, and gaming. Chris has a daughter named Eleanor, and he and his partner Elaine enjoy a quiet home life, watching movies and visiting local cafes. Although Chris is of Italian descent, he admits to being rusty in the language.

Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts is a full-stack engineer and office ping-pong champion at Expedia Brisbane. Working as an Engineering Manager he leads a team of developers passionate about the web and travel. He is inspired by the ever changing nature of the web and how it can be used to create an accessible experience for all users.

Chris Stonestreet

Chris is a designer at heart with a product mindset. Passionate about problem-solving for end-users using human-centered design practices, and fostering collaboration, whilst unleashing the potential of talented teams, he is currently, the product manager for REA's renowned design system, Construct Kit, used across multiple REA brands. Formerly, he was the User Experience and Optimization manager at nib, scaling the design culture and headcount across the Australian Residence and International health insurance business lines.

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Chris Strahl

Chris is the CEO and co-founder of Knapsack , an enterprise software platform that unites product, design, and engineering teams in one workspace, offering a source of truth for collaborative digital product development. He’s worked on design systems within the world’s leading enterprises since 2016. Together with Evan Lovely they founded Knapsack in 2020 to focus on uniting product, design, and engineering into a single collaborative workspace. As CEO, Chris focuses on steering the company toward innovative ways of changing how companies build their digital products. He’s spoken at Google, Meta, and recently at the Future of Design Systems conference about the emerging use of generative design and AI technology in design systems. Chris is also the host of the Design Systems Podcast , a weekly conversation series with experts in design, development, product, and systems thinking. With over 70 episodes with industry leaders, practitioners, and design system community members, it is the leading podcast for design systems content. Previously, Chris worked at Acquia in program management for their largest enterprise customers and at Phase2 where he was responsible for strategic sales and business development. Outside of work you can find him in the PNW on a river, climbing a trail, or dreaming up new worlds for his latest tabletop game.

Chris Ward

Chris Ward has a plethora of experiences under his belt that hopefully contribute towards a desire to work with projects and technologies that make sense and people's lives easier. These days a project manager, he has specialities in CMS, CRM and mobile.

Chris Wright

Chris is a front-end developer at Campaign Monitor in Sydney, where he makes software which simplifies creating elegant email campaigns. He loves writing about and experimenting with CSS and learning in the open. He is interested in the bridge between web disciplines and how we can create better cross-functional teams with shared understanding. He loves hiking and enjoys experiencing the great outdoors.

Christian Baker

For the last five years, Christian has been leading design at Local Measure, a SaaS startup providing tools to help the hotel and tourism industries create better guest experiences. Before that, he was part of a small team that created and launched Balmain Private, an online investment product that was the first of its kind. Working on small teams and start ups over his career has meant learning and practicing skills across multiple disciplines in design, engineering, product management and marketing.

Christian Crumlish

Christian Crumlish leads the core product team at PathCheck Foundation, a nonprofit making an open source privacy-first contract-tracing solution for the COVID-19 pandemic. He also consults on product and UX leadership at Design in Product, where he also hosts a community that explores the overlap between UX design and product management. He is a mentor at Code for America and StartX, and a fellow in the Rosenfeld Media Experts network. Christian earned an AB at Princeton in philosophy, where he graduated sine laude. Formerly, he was head of product at 7 Cups, winner of the 2016 Stanford Medicine X Prize for health systems design and a 2019 World Economic Forum Pioneer. He has also co-chaired the monthly BayCHI program, was a director of product at CloudOn, was director of messaging products for AOL, was the last curator of the Yahoo design pattern library, and served two terms as a director of the late lamented Information Architecture Institute. He is the author of Growing Product People: Creating a Product Culture One Person at a Time (Sense & Respond, 2020), Product Management for UX Designers (Rosenfeld Media, in press), as well as the bestselling The Internet for Busy People (McGraw-Hill), The Power of Many (Wiley), and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces (O’Reilly). Christian lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Briggs Nisbet, and an ever-growing collection of ukuleles.

Claire Tran

Claire is an Engineering Manager at SafetyCulture, where she’s working on IoT and Analytics, as well as web performance initiatives. She has experience with scalable systems and performance from her time at Fairfax and Gumtree/eBay. She is also Director for Women Who Code Sydney and has started a podcast called Women Techcast.

Claire Webber

Claire has been working in the accessibility field for more than 7 years. She is passionate about design, accessibility, and inclusion. Day-to-day, Claire works on web design, training, accessibility auditing and accessible design consultation.

Clark Pan

Clark Pan is a full stack developer based in Sydney/Singapore. He enjoys coding and debugging, and helping others learn about the web and the technologies that build it. He understands that the web has been built by a large community of dedicated developers, so he tries to take time out to contribute back to the community.

Colin Chauvet

Colin is a Development Manager at Atlassian where his job is to build tools that unleash the potential of teams around the world. Colin is passionate about building high performing teams, experimenting with new time-management techniques, and baking the perfect loaf of sourdough.

Cordelia McGee-Tubb

Cordelia McGee-Tubb is a web developer and accessibility specialist, focused on web accessibility at Salesforce. An advocate for digital literacy, she teaches computer and internet skills to senior citizens. Cordelia recently finished her Master of Fine Arts in Comics and is currently working on her first comic book.

Cory-Ann Joseph

Cory started working with the internet way back in 2001 when she chanced her way into a position as web content editor for the Aussie version of the X-Games. Since then she's dabbled in PR, marketing, events management, a skateboard shop, worked as a barista, accrued a blank IMDB profile, run pub poker tournaments in rural NSW, and dropped out of Bible college - amongst other things. She spent most of the last decade in Ireland managing design teams at Paddy Power and Mobile Travel Technologies, and currently works as a UX Lead at ANZ.

Courtney Hemphill

Courtney Hemphill is a partner and developer at Carbon Five, an integrated product design and development firm. As a full stack developer for 10+ years, she enjoys exploring tools and techniques that help integrate designers & developers during the product creation process. Currently, she has been diving into approaches to useful animations in interfaces and how data can capture the true story underlying a user's experience with a product, a company and our world as a whole. Courtney is a long time member and frequent contributor to RailsBridge, Women Who Code and and Code2040. She often travels to speak and mentor at design and development conferences worldwide. She also finds a healthy amount of time to unplug from the internets, traveling in search of the best rock climbing spots in the world, always returning to her primary stomping ground in Yosemite Valley.

Craig Sharkie

Craig is a recognized coder, teacher, leader, speaker, author, and wrangler. He approaches Technology opportunities from many different angles, and has maintained the conviction that Experience is the key to growth and success. When you delight a User's Experience and boost a Developer's Experience, your solution will stand the tests of time.

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Craig Sullivan

Craig has been blending UX, analytics, A/B testing and customer insight methods for over 12 years, optimising outcomes for companies like Google, Amazon, Spotify, Eurostar, Lego, Asos and Red Bull. Although he started out in 2001 as a usability test moderator, he has gradually learned the best results come from using prioritised qualitative and quantitative research methods. He’s put all these into practice building highly accessible, delightful, fast and successful products for John Lewis, Waitrose, LOVEFiLM, Autoglass and Amazon. Craig has now coached over 500 people at more than a hundred clients, helping them to unlock the latent value inside their products or services. Using a mixture of design thinking, lean, agile, analytics, experimentation and cultural change, he’s driven over £3bn in additional revenue at these companies.

Cyd Harrell

Cyd is a user research expert who believes you can answer any question as long as you are fearless and creative about methods. She was the VP of Research for SF-based UX design firm Bolt | Peters until June 2012, when Facebook acquired the company. While there, she helped clients such as Sony, Volkswagen, and Rdio to conduct remote research and real-time usability studies. In the early 2000s, she led desktop experience and design standards groups at Charles Schwab.

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Cyd Stumpel

Cyd is a freelance creative developer and part time teacher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She creates accessible, award winning websites for everyone; from large organisations like WeTransfer and Amnesty International to creative agencies and freelancers. She's got an eye for details and loves to turn flat designs into rich experiences. Cyd has mostly focused on JavaScript animation over the last couple of years but has rediscovered her passion for CSS this year, rebuilding her portfolio with View Transitions and Scroll Driven Animation.

Damian Keeghan

Damian Keeghan is National Lead Front End Developer at Deloitte Digital with 15 years experience running his own design and development business, and over 11 years at Deloitte, specialising in interfaces that are responsive, usable, standards compliant, inclusive and accessible for all users. He leads a large team of Front-End Developers involved with the development of solutions using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including frameworks like React and Vue.

Damien Fitzpatrick

Damien Fitzpatrick is Senior Director of Products at Ephox and has 14 years of experience in content management. Damien is responsible for Ephox's contributions to TinyMCE — the rich text editor in WordPress, Tumblr, Evernote and more — and the development Textbox.io, a next generation rich text editor and the first available for mobile devices. Using HTML5 and responsive CSS3 Damien and the Ephox team have overcome the challenge of adapting rich, browser based word processing to mobile devices and introduced new capabilities on the desktop.

Damon Oehlman

Damon Oehlman is an experienced web and mobile applications developer. He has worked with small and large companies to develop software solutions for desktop, web and most recently mobile devices. Damon currently works on WebRTC at NICTA, as well as numerous of his own open source projects.

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Dan Burka

Daniel Burka is a design partner at Google Ventures. He works with the venture funds’ many portfolio companies to solve their design challenges. Daniel has had a varied career that included co-founding an agency (silverorange), design directing at startups (Digg and TinySpeck), and founding two startups (Pownce and Milk). When Milk was acquired by Google, Daniel ran a mobile-focused design team there before moving to Google Ventures where he gets to work on everything from robots to apps to wearable therapeutics.

Dan Draper

Dan is the CEO and founder of CipherStash, a Sydney based data security startup building a searchable encrypted data storage platform for sensitive data. As an experienced cryptography engineer, his mission is to empower all developers with the knowledge they need to build secure applications. Previously, Dan has worked as a VP of Engineering at Medical Director and at Expert360 and is also the Executive Producer or the forthcoming docu-series, Debugging Diversity.

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Dan Hill

Professor Dan Hill is Director of Melbourne School of Design, the graduate school in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. A designer and urbanist, Dan's previous design leadership roles include the Swedish government’s innovation agency Vinnova in Stockholm, Arup in London and Sydney, Fabrica in Treviso, the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA in Helsinki, and the UK's Future Cities Catapult and BBC in London. Dan is also a Visiting Professor at UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Practice and a founder member of the Council on Urban Initiatives, a joint venture between UN HABITAT, LSE and UCL. Dan was one of the inaugural Design Advocates for the Mayor of London and a Trustee of Participatory City Foundation. Dan is the author of the books 'Dark Matter & Trojan horses: A strategic design playbook' (Strelka Press, 2012) and 'Designing missions: Mission-oriented innovation in Sweden' (Vinnova, 2022).

Dan Hon

Dan Hon is Code for America’s Content Director, working to show that government can work for the people, by the people in the 21st century. Previously, he was a Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy, an ad agency, working on Facebook, Sony, Coca-Cola, Nike and Kraft. A recovered lawyer, he helped Mind Candy build their first game, Perplex City, and co-founded Six to Start, an award-winning entertainment production company in 2007. He has been blogging for a very long time and now writes a popular email newsletter. He doesn’t play World of Warcraft anymore.

Dan Rhatigan

Dan Rhatigan works with Adobe Typekit in New York as the Senior Manager of Adobe Type. He has over 25 years of eclectic experience in various industries as a typesetter, graphic designer, typeface designer, and teacher, including several years in London and New York serving as Type Director for Monotype. He has a BFA in graphic design from Boston University, and MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in the UK, and a very tattered passport.

Dan Rubin

Born in Miami Beach and now living in London, Dan is a designer, photographer, and co-founder / Independent Codependency, a multi-disciplinary creative studio. In addition to working with clients and speaking at conferences around the world, he also provides his photographic services to select clientele on request.

Dan Scott

Dan Scott is currently a Frontend Staff Engineer in Canva's Ecosystem group. Bringing over a decade's worth of experience in web dev and a passion for building dev tools, he spends his time building Canva's App runtime and Apps SDK and APIs.

Dan Shappir

Dan Shappir is the Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, and previously held that position at Wix.com. Dan has over 25 years of software development experience, and has worked on systems ranging from multiuser games to missile trajectory simulations to designing and building large-scale Web applications used by hundreds of millions of users. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a host and panelist on JavaScript Jabber podcast, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Performance Working Group. Dan holds an MSc in Computer Science.

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Daniel Kinal

Daniel has been in product management for over 15 years, chiefly working in IT with a focus on B2B products and services. He began his career in marketing, communications and consulting but soon learned that the aspect of marketing he loved most was working out what to build, for whom and why. He gets excited about helping businesses become more effective in decision-making, more efficient in their processes and more engaged with their customers. Daniel is at his happiest when waving his arms about in front of a whiteboard with a bunch of smart people, exploring problems and weighing up solutions. He is passionate about product management as a discipline and is intrigued by how businesses, large and small, grapple with the sometimes-elusive concepts of innovation and collaboration. Daniel is currently a Senior Product Manager at MYOB helping to develop products that assist accountants to become ‘virtual CFOs’ for their own small business clients at scale.

Danny Banks

Danny (he/him) leads the AWS Amplify UI team, helping frontend and fullstack developers build cloud-connected UI. His love for design tokens is apparent in the Style Dictionary open source framework and participation in the W3C Design Tokens Community Group. He has 2 fluffy cats named Burt and Donna. Oh and 2 human children.

Darla Sharp

Darla Sharp is a voice interaction designer currently working on the Google Assistant. At Google, she works on helping the Assistant sound efficient yet personable, helpful yet humble, and above all natural (with the understanding that a talking speaker has certain limitations when it comes to the depths of it’s humanity). Before Google, she was working at Amazon as a voice designer for Alexa. Of all the features she helped launch with Alexa, she's most proud of helping write her pickup lines. Before digital assistants were a thing, she worked on a range of voice products including automated phone systems, as well as voice enabled apps. She have a Masters in Applied Linguistics from San Diego State University, and a B.A. in French from Valparaiso University.

Dave Berner

Dave is a frontend-leaning generalist living in Byron Bay, Australia. He has been coding since 1998 when spacer gifs, marquees and blink tags were the “new hotness”. He favours fundamentals over frameworks and simplicity over clever code. He is the co-creator of, Roast, a lightweight, unorthodox, server-rendered architecture for programmers that are frustrated with the over-complexity of the current development landscape.

Dave Johnson

Dave is a co-founder of Nitobi. He holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering (UBC) and a PhD in Solid State Physics from London's Imperial College, which both have pretty much nothing to do with mobile phones or software development. Dave spends most of his time working on and talking about the PhoneGap project.

Dave Lemphers

Dave Lemphers is a distinguished technologist and entrepreneur with a global career spanning Australia and the United States. Having co-founded and successfully exited four startups, Dave has held executive engineering roles at Easygo (makers of Stake and Kick), Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. He is also the author of multiple patents in machine learning and AI. Dave's talents extend to the boardroom, where he passionately advocates for technical and product excellence with private and public companies, including his role with the Australian Sports Foundation. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology and Law from Monash University.

David Demaree

David Demaree is the product manager for Google’s Material Design system, encompassing both the open-source Material guidelines and component libraries for web and mobile, as well as Google Material, the unified, Material-based design system for all Google products introduced in 2018. Prior to joining Google, David worked on Typekit, the pioneering web/desktop subscription service (acquired by Adobe), in various roles including principal product manager and web engineering lead. David is also the author of A Book Apart’s Git for Humans, a friendly introduction to version control and Git published in 2016. A web designer & developer since 1995, David is passionate about building tools that help today’s and tomorrow’s software makers do their best work. 2014 David Demaree is a developer and product manager for Adobe Typekit, focused on user experience, data modeling, and generally trying to make customers happy. Since joining Typekit in 2011 David has led development of several major projects, including full-text search, integration into Adobe’s Creative Cloud, and localizing Typekit’s user interface. He’s also written for A List Apart and spoken about design and code at TYPO Berlin, AIGA Chicago, RailsConf, and WindyCityRails.

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David Dylan Thomas

David Dylan Thomas, author of the book Design for Cognitive Bias from A Book Apart, serves as Content Strategy Advocate at Think Company and is the creator and host of the Cognitive Bias Podcast. He has developed digital strategies for major clients in entertainment, healthcare, publishing, finance, and retail. A co-organizer of Content Strategy Philly, he previously consulted at the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy and is the creator, director, and co-producer of Developing Philly, a web series about the rise of the Philadelphia tech community. He has given standing-room-only presentations at TEDNYC, SXSW Interactive, Confab, LavaCon, UX Copenhagen, Artifact, and the Wharton Web Conference on content strategy and emerging content trends.

David Feng

David Feng is a Lead Developer at BGL Corporate Solutions, with expertise spans Micro-Frontends, Spring Boot, and event-driven architectures. He has successfully led projects like Smart Docs 360 and GuestTrack, demonstrating strong leadership and innovation. David holds multiple AWS certifications and excels in leveraging AI to transform unstructured data into actionable insights, driving technological advancements and efficiency in development processes.

David Herse

David Herse is the Product Manager of Five Good Friends, founder of Userology and co-founder of jobstobedone.pro . He has over 10 years experience in UX and Product Design. David applies his experience with Jobs-to-be-Done Theory, to uncover customer struggles and turn them into product opportunities.

David Jonathan Ross

David Jonathan Ross makes fonts that challenge people to set their work apart by going beyond the generic workhorses and confronting the unique visual and technical demands of their texts. He enjoys working in a variety of styles, but he designs each of his fonts to solve a specific problem. That specificity is what defines his work, along with a little craftsmanship and a dash of the unexpected. He is originally from Los Angeles, but he started making fonts during his time at Hampshire College. After working with The Font Bureau, he is now working on projects with Type Network and developing display faces for his Font of the Month Club.

David Lewis

David is driven by the need to understand and innovate how things work in the ever changing world of web development, and has been trying to make things look good on computers since tinkering with a ZX Spectrum in his Birmingham bedroom way back in the 1980s. For the last 15 years he has worked for various companies in the UK and Australia, from small agencies to big media. He now works as a Senior Front-end Developer for Bigcommerce and is the co-founder of SydCSS. He has also been known to release mobile games that hark back to the 80s era. Update 2019 Now Delivery Manager fast growing Sydney based startup Deputy, until recently David Lewis was responsible for one third of the technology team that looks after the customer experience for Scentre Group (owners and operators of Westfield in Australia and New Zealand). In his copious spare time he coordinates SydCSS, one of Sydney's most popular tech meetups regularly attracting over 100 people to each event. Update 2022 David Lewis has been a web developer since the late 90s. The last seven years have focused on engineering leadership. Currently, at Compono, he leads the teams developing the company's central platform. He's passionate about fostering teams that people love to be part of.

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David O'Reilly

As a lifecycle marketer for Microsoft Clipchamp video editor, a qualified life scientist, an engaging content creator, a JavaScript dabbler, and a passionate advocate for others, I’m on a mission to make generalists cool again. I thrive on thinking outside the box and experimenting with new ideas, which allows me to share valuable knowledge with others, so they may be inspired and excel. My goal is to always leave a positive impact on everyone I encounter. I’ve had the privilege of mentoring “future thinkers” through ABCN, served as Vice President of a kindergarten, and I care deeply about the next generation. When I’m not working, you’ll likely find me creating content, playing games, or striking up conversations with random people—I firmly believe that everyone has a story to tell.

Deepak Verma

I am full stack engineer and have spent my last 15 years building solutions for the big4 banks, Australia's biggest tradie marketplace and the largest Mexican fast food chain on AWS cloud. Father of one I love to ride my bike and take my 4wd out to bush when get some downtime.

Denise Jacobs

Denise R. Jacobs is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at conferences worldwide and consults with companies and individuals, teaching techniques to make the creative process more fluid, methods for making work environments more conducive to creative productivity, and practices for sparking innovation. Denise has presented at events and organizations such as South By Southwest Interactive, the BBC, The Future of Web Design, Paris-Web, FITC: Future, Innovation, Technology, Creativity and TEDxRheinMain. Working in Web Design & Development since 1997, she is an industry veteran and regarded expert on many things web. Denise is the author of The CSS Detective Guide, the premier book on troubleshooting CSS code; and co-author to the Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web and InterAct with Web Standards: A holistic guide to web design, and contributed to Designing Together by Dan Brown. Denise was nominated for .Net Magazine’s 2010 Best of the Web “Standards Champion” award.

Derek Powazek

Derek Powazek has been building participatory websites since 1995. He’s the founder and CEO of Cute-Fight, the online game you play with real life pets. He was previously the founder of Fray, JPG Magazine, and Pixish, the Creative Director of Blogger and Technorati, and the author of “Design for Community: Connecting Real People in Virtual Places.” Derek is currently running a small farm outside of Portland, Oregon.

DeveloperSteve Coochin

DeveloperSteve comes from a strong background as a developer, with over 20 years industry experience he has worked with companies, startups and not for-profits of all sizes. DeveloperSteve has worked closely with developer communities as a Tech Evangelist and Advocate to develop and nurture the healthy developer and start-up culture that continues to flourish. With a passion for sharing knowledge DeveloperSteve is an established international speaker and loves geeking out with people everywhere. As a Tech Evangelist and Advocate he has represented and worked with global companies such as IBM, PayPal, Braintree, Xero, Telstra, Nginx, Gitlab and more.

Dhanji R. Prasanna

Dhanji R. Prasanna is a random hacker who has previously worked at ThoughtWorks, Google and co-created Fluent, which caused a brief splash last year. Currently, he is engineering lead at Tactile, Inc., a mobile apps company in Silicon Valley. He primarily codes in Scala and Haskell these days.

Dheeren Vélu

Dheeren Vélu is an award-winning AI professional, speaker, and a tech-savvy business leader. Avidly focused on guiding large enterprises and organisations in adopting Cognitive Computing & A.I. technologies to implement innovative and game-changing solutions. He helps strategize, design and lead their future expansion of the AI platforms across multiple industry domains like Education, Supply Chain, Healthcare, Public Sector, Telco and BFSI. Former IBM Watson Cognitive Solution Lead and a key contributor to some of the earliest AI implementations in Australia.

Diana MacDonald

Diana MacDonald is a product designer, raised in the tropical north of Australia. She has relished the tech industry for over a decade, exploring the digital space with progressive organisations like Culture Amp, Bellroy, and SitePoint. Blurring the lines of designer, developer, writer, and leader, she believes in the value of considered, inclusive, and remarkable stories. She wants to help you effortlessly execute your digital ideas.

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Diego González

Born in Costa Rica, did part of his school in Canada. Graduated as a computer engineer. Finished a master degree in information systems. Did multimedia studies in Spain. Eventually finished a PhD in informatics researching 3D UIs. 3D UIs led to VR. VR led to Samsung. Samsung led to web. Web led to Dev Rel. Dev Rel led to PM. Currently a PM for PWA platform features on the Microsoft Edge team. Also learning about standards. Fan of kittens, puppies and gadgets throughout.

Dina Gohil

Hailing from sunny London, Dina joined Fairfax almost 8 years ago and has been part of several huge projects during that time from the Australian Financial Reviewcontent management system migration (spanning web and print products) to management and production of the Good Food Guidealong with its sister apps and sites. Her biggest challenge yet has been the delivery of the new adaptive sites for the Sydney Morning Heraldand The Age. Building and managing a cross-functional team integrating agile practices in a traditional culture has been a wild but hugely rewarding ride.

Divya Manian

Divya works at Apple on WebKit as an Engineering Program Manager. Previously, she worked at Adobe as a Product Manager for Photoshop, working on better Export Options . She also participates in projects to make gender bias history .

Divya Mohan

Divya is a Senior Technical Evangelist at SUSE, where she contributes to Rancher’s cloud native open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & LitmusChaos projects & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global Solutions Pvt Ltd. A co-creator of the KCNA exam & a CNCF ambassador, she is invested in making technical communities & technologies more accessible & inclusive.

Divya Sasidharan

Divya is a web developer who is passionate about open source and the web. She is currently a developer experience engineer at Netlify, and believes that there is a better workflow for building and deploying sites that doesn’t require a server—ask her about the JAMstack. You will most likely find her in the sunniest spot in the room with a cup of tea in hand.

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Dmitry Baranovskiy

Dmitry is a Sydney based web developer, interested in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT and SVG. Currently he works at Adobe as Senior Computer Scientist.

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Dom Price

Born to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter of 77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC. Dom has responsibilities spanning 5 global R&D centres. He has previously been the GM Program Management for a global gaming company and a Director of Deloitte providing assurance and consulting services across the areas of project management, product management, IT systems and change management. His roles have spanned technology risk consulting, product development and program management, across businesses in beverage, telco, manufacturing, software development and gaming. Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, the home of the most intelligent t-shirt wearers in business, as the Head of R&D Program Management.

Domenic Denicola

Domenic Denicola is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team. He enjoys running out slightly ahead of the current state-of-the-art in browser technology, coordinating, prototyping, and standardizing on tools and APIs for driving the web forward. Domenic serves on the Ecma TC39 committee in charge of standardizing JavaScript and is the editor of the Streams Standard ; in his free time he contributes to the io.js and jsdom projects.

Dominic Lovell

Dominic Lovell is the Solutions Engineering Manager for Akamai Technologies across Australia and New Zealand. Dominic has a strong technical background in web development, cloud and cybersecurity. Prior to Akamai he ran the development team for one of Australia's largest ecommerce brands.

Dominic Pym

Dom is an entrepreneur and technologist who recently launched Up (up.com.au), a next-generation Australian digital bank delivering super powered banking. Up is a clever way to organise your money and simplify your life, giving you the freedom to do the things you love. Dom's been involved in software, web and mobile development for over 20 years from start-ups to global enterprises in Australia, the UK, the USA and throughout Asia.

Dominik Wilkowski

Dominik is a developer who studied photography and art. He has been fortunate to have built a view design systems in the past including Westpac GEL and the design system for the Australian Government. Currently works as the People Director of Thinkmill.

Donna Benjamin

Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, a small Australian company specialising in customised web services, research, project facilitation and event management. However she has recently joined Catalyst IT Australia full time as a Project Lead. Donna also sits on the boards of the Drupal Association, and the Open Australia Foundation.

Donna Spencer

Donna is a Lead Consultant at Readify where she’s building a new design practice and working on interesting client projects. With 20-ish years experience, she has designed for a wide range of problems across all kinds of industries. Recognised internationally as a leading UX practitioner, Donna is a regular conference speaker, has written three books: on information architecture, card sorting and writing for the web. She created and ran UX Australia for 9 years.

Donnie D'Amato

Donnie specializes in crafting experiences for companies of any size with hand-tailored solutions to meet the needs of an organization. Author of gridless.design; a thesis on mismatching the design grid to the web medium. Member of the NYC chapter IxDA. Instructor for User Research and Interaction Design at Parsons School of Design. Currently, the engineering lead for the UXCore library at GoDaddy Previously, the first UX Engineer at Compass.

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Doug Bowman

Doug Bowman is an influential designer whose creations, leadership, and convictions pushed him to the forefront of modern design. Doug spent most of his career leading design at top tech companies, including Wired and Google. In 2009, he joined Twitter as Creative Director, where he started its Design team from scratch. For five years, Doug guided Twitter’s Product and Marketing Design teams, passionately influencing the direction of the service's brand and overall user experience. He now lives in Southern California with his wife, two daughters, and a lab-sized dog (that thinks he's lap-sized) named Buster.

Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford was born in the wilds of Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers. He has worked in learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. This was an important and unexpected discovery. He discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He is currently working on making the web a secure and reliable software delivery platform. He has his work cut out for him.

Eduardo Velloso

Eduardo Veloso is a Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. His research aims at creating future social user experiences combining novel input modalities such as gaze, body movement, touch gestures, etc. His latest work has investigated eye-based interaction with smart watches, multimodal combinations of gaze, and eye control of video games.

Ehsan Gazar

Started programming when I was 17, QBasic, C then C++, then Java! so passionate about the Web and learned JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Co-Founded a consultancy company and had it for 5 years, with 100 clients and over 10 employees. Learned a lot about management, big projects and how to talk to stakeholders and clients. I got my server certificates from Microsoft and studied Hardware Engineering, led a few robotic teams to competitions, and taught programming to many others. I enjoyed open source and worked a lot on Linux distributions, visualizations, and networks. Decided to come to Melbourne, Australia, started working for the top companies back in Iran, granted my visa and came here, found my first job, soon I was promoted, leading our product, mentoring, documenting and architecture designs, AWS, Azure, and even talks in Engineering MeetUps. I love teaching, so recently started my online courses, proud to say that I have over 7000 students. This has been my life for a decade and love to do it for another decade! Now working at Mecca as Technical Lead

Eiji Kitamura

Eiji is a developer advocate at Google Chrome team working on trust and safety on the web, specialized in identity and payment to make them open, seamless and frictionless.

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Elad Shechter

Elad Shechter is a Web Developer specializing in CSS & HTML design and architecture. Besides this, his a Writer of various globally known CSS articles, a CSS speaker, and the founder of the "CSS Masters Israel" Community.

Elijah Manor

Elijah Manor is a Christian and a family man. He works at Ramsey Solutions as a front-end web developer. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider, IE userAgent, and a Pluralsight author. He enjoys blogging at and tweeting about the things he learns.

Elise Chant

Elise Chant is Lead Front-end Developer at hipages Group.

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Elizabeth Allen

Dr. Elizabeth Allen is a UX researcher, psychologist, and cat owner based in Toronto, Canada. She works at the ecommerce platform Shopify, where she conducts research to guide product teams in making strategic decisions about user experience. Before she got into UX, her research as an experimental psychologist focused on explaining why normal, healthy humans can differ widely in their cognitive and perceptual experiences of the world. Like most at Shopify, Elizabeth is always working on at least one side business in her spare time. Currently, this means she’s writing a book to help academics transition into UX roles, and designing and selling psychology-themed products to sell at her store, goodgestalt.com. 2018 Update Through a career of impactful research backed by a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Dr. Elizabeth Allen has helped companies such as Shopify, Mozilla, United Airlines, and Wealthsimple deeply understand their users and design products that elegantly solve user problems.

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Elle Meredith

Elle is a web designer and developer with a passion for web standards and a unique background that bridges the gap between the front– and back–end. She employs best–practice techniques to deliver clean, functional and user–friendly websites. In 2007, she discovered Ruby and has since been building web applications with Ruby, Rails, Haml, Sass, Coffeescript and other such awesome technologies. 2017 Update Elle is a full stack web developer with more than 10 years experience writing Ruby and Rails. Currently, she is a consultant at Blackmill. Before Blackmill, she was a Development Director in the New York City office of thoughtbot. Elle's current project is developing and running Hooroo's Engineering Academy. The Academy will take on four very junior developers, and will work with them for six months, covering programming fundamentals, clean code, refactoring, and agile workflows. As part of the project, she streamlined the interview process at Hooroo to be more accommodating and welcoming to juniors.

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Elly Loel

Elly is located in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) and is a passionate Web Designer (Front-end Developer) and Accessibility & Design System specialist. She has a deep love for the web platform, with extensive expertise in semantic HTML, advanced CSS, and modern minimal JavaScript. Additionally, Elly values diversity, accessibility, and inclusivity, as she is disabled, neurodivergent, trans, and queer.

3 presentations

Emily Nakashima

Emily manages the engineering & design teams at Honeycomb.io. In the past, she’s worked on javascript, web perf optimization and client-side monitoring & telemetry at other developer tools companies like Bugsnag & GitHub. In her free time, she organizes an unconference called AndConf, makes many checklists, and likes to talk about disaster preparedness.

3 presentations

Emily Pearce

18 years of building and designing experiences which have always lead me to be the translator between design and engineering. This is where design systems really shine. I've worked under a few different role titles such as product manager, and head of design I've been able to guide experiences from their inception to maturity. I am someone who cares about elevating a designer's role within companies and instilling a positive culture within our design function through embracing collaboration with a side of paper craft.

Emma Boulton

Emma Boulton is a Design / User Research Leader based near Cardiff in the UK. Now working as the Interim Director of Design Research at Babylon Health, she previously led research at Monotype and in the BBC’s Audience Research team. She was a co-founder of the boutique design studio, Mark Boulton Design and there ran User Research projects for global clients such as Al Jazeera, CERN and Global Witness. As the commissioning editor of popular indie publisher, Five Simple Steps, she was instrumental in amplifying many new voices in the Design Industry. Since last year, she has been an admin, organiser and spokesperson for the burgeoning Research Ops community. Emma also writes and speaks and you can often find her sharing her thoughts on Twitter @emmaboulton

Emma Carter

After running an award winning design agency in the UK, and being shortlisted for entrepreneur of the year in 2011, Emma moved to Brisbane and joined ThoughtWorks as a User Experience Designer. She's the author of the best selling book, voted by Amazon: Beyond The Logo. She has over thirteen years of experience in branding, visual design and user experience design, and takes a user-centered approach to her work with a focus on, branding, user experience, marketing, interaction, and interface design. To truly create the 'Total Brand Experience’ she believes you need to combine, strategy, design and technology.

Emma Jones

Emma Jones has amassed a career in talent acquisition, management and strategy that spans more than 25 years across global markets. Originally from London, Emma’s career has seen her live and work in the UK, US and for the last eight years, Australia. The majority of Emma’s career has centred in the IT&T sectors and since arriving in Sydney in 2011, on the digital technology sector. Notably, Emma built a stabling enterprise channel for tech start-up specialists Mitchellake before joining Australian SaaS success story Ansarada as Global Head of Talent, building a world-class talent capability and scaling up to more than double its headcount in two years. After Ansarada, Emma founded talent strategy consultancy Future Of Work Australia and thriving not-for-profit tech community Men Championing Change (Sydney & Melbourne) before embarking on new venture Project F.

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Eric Elliott

Compassionate entrepreneur on a mission to end homelessness. #jshomes Javascript, tech education, electronic music, photography, film, viral apps. 2018 Update Eric Elliott is the author of “Programming JavaScript Applications” (O’Reilly), and cofounder of DevAnywhere.io. He has contributed to software experiences for Adobe Systems, Zumba Fitness, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, BBC, and top recording artists including Usher, Frank Ocean, Metallica, and many more.

Erika Hall

Erika is an experienced and skilled web designer and developer and has been working in the industry since 1995. She currently directs all research, strategy and information design practices at Mule. Proficient and dedicated to evidence-based decision-making and strategizing, Erika wrote a study on the topic called Just Enough Research, published by A Book Apart. She is a regular speaker on the topic of collaboration and design research as well as effective interface language, and currently leads discussions about the limits of using quantitative data to make design decisions.

2 presentations

Erin Moore

Erin Moore is a Senior UX Designer at Twitter. She’s fascinated by the ways people interact with their environments and how storytelling can empower us to generate new ideas. She is a professional people watcher and believes that designing products that have meaningful effects on people’s lives has a lot to do with looking up and paying attention.

Erin Zimmer

Erin Zimmer is a senior developer at Atlassian in Melbourne, Australia. She's been writing code for over 15 years, and is passionate about building a web that's available to everyone. She also just really likes CSS. If you see her at a conference, she'll probably be knitting.

10 presentations

Erwin van der Koogh

Erwin is the founder of Bitgenics, a software development tool company focused on creating awesome tools to support developers to grow software. Their first two products, currently in development, are a hosting platform for Single Page JavaScript apps and a SaaS product to help scale serverless architectures.

5 presentations

Ethan Gardner

Ethan Gardner is a full‑stack engineer and educator focused on high‑performance web apps, process efficiencies, and team mentorship. He works at Flexion and develops courses for engineers.

Ethan Marcotte

Ethan coined the term “responsive web design” to describe a new way of designing for the ever-changing Web. His popularbook on responsive design has been widely praised, as it demonstrates how designers and organizations can leverage the Web’s flexibility to design across mobile, tablet, and desktop—and whatever might come next. Over the years his clientele has included New York Magazine, the Sundance Film Festival, The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and the W3C. In addition to advising the occasional startup, Ethan has been a featured speaker at many conferences, including An Event Apart, SXSW Interactive, and Webstock.

Eugene Chung

Eugene is an experienced digital transformation consultant with 12+ years of partnering with clients to create innovative experiences, products and teams, including: SBS, Atlassian, ServiceNSW, PepsiCo, HBO, Mike Bloomberg, Supercell, Audi, and Nestlé Australia. He now leads Organisational Design at Mentally Friendly to empower leaders and teams to adapt to change, adopt new mindsets, behaviours, & practices, and achieve their missions.

Eva PenzeyMoog

Eva PenzeyMoog is a principal designer at 8th Light and the author of Design for Safety. Before joining the tech field she worked in the non-profit space and volunteered as a domestic violence educator and rape crisis counselor. At 8th Light she specializes in user experience design as well as education and consulting in the realm of digital safety design. Her work brings together her expertise in domestic violence and technology, helping technologists understand how their creations facilitate interpersonal harm and how to prevent it through intentionally prioritizing the most vulnerable users.

2 presentations

Facundo Corradini

Facundo is a front-end developer, author, and speaker from Mar del Plata, Argentina. Passionate about CSS, accessibility, and JS. Currently working on "just a small fix", as he's been doing for the last 15 years.

Faruk Ates

After many years of being an award-winning product designer, developer, and entrepreneur in technology, Faruk is bringing his career and life experience together in a new effort: Love First. “Love First: A Love Letter To Humanity” is a collection of personal stories looking at life through a more holistic and love-centric lens, exploring new perspectives and lessons to help us better understand people and embrace the breadth of humanity. Faruk's tech career spans back-end development, database architecture, front-end engineering, accessibility, User Interface, User Experience, Interaction Design, entrepreneurship, and Product Design. He has spoken at conferences around the world on design, development, accessibility, and tech inclusion. Two technologies he pioneered — CSS-based animations and uniform feature detection — have become integrated, W3C-standardized features in every current web browser. On the side, Faruk created the award-winning open source tool Modernizr, writes for publications both online and print, and speaks at conferences and events all around the world. He is also a strong advocate for increased diversity, more inclusive environments, and combating systemic problems in society, technology, and on the internet.

Felicity Evans

In 2001 Felicity decided not to be an Architect; unsure of what exactly she did want to be she stumbled into a multimedia class and it was here she discovered a love for the web. She quickly graduated to a web master (the bar was low in those days) and has since found a home for herself in a small association, digital agency and most recently a big stonking media company: Fairfax Media. These days she helps a team of front-end developers create some of the most-visited websites in Australia; and there's always a new challenge to be met over the next horizon.

Fershad Irani

Fershad Irani is a web performance consultant based in Taipei, Taiwan. He is on a mission to build a faster, low carbon web.

3 presentations

Fiona Chan

Fiona is a fun size Technical Recruiter at Lookahead Search and former front-end developer. She is passionate about web standards and making the web an accessible place for all. Her love for CSS and the web community has led her to co-found SydCSS, and was one of the organisers for the first CSSConf Australia. Sometimes during her long train rides, she likes to write on her blog fionachan.net about her personal experiences.

3 presentations

Garann Means

Garann is a JavaScript developer from Austin, Texas, USA. She’s the author of Node for Front-End Developers and the organizer of Austin All–Girl Hack Night and Girl Develop It Austin. Garann is also one of the hosts of the Frip Frap web development podcast.

Genevieve Bell

Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development. Bell is the Director of the 3A Institute (3Ai) and a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University (ANU), as well as a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation. Bell is a highly regarded industry expert and a frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panellist at technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from extensive international fieldwork and research. Genevieve joined the ANU in 2017, after having spent 18 years in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities. Genevieve established the 3A Institute in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61 with the mission of building a new branch of engineering to effectively and ethically manage the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on humanity through better design and management of technology. Genevieve is an influential voice within academia, industry and government. She currently holds the ANU’s inaugural Florence Violet McKenzie Chair in honour of Australia’s first female electrical engineer and presented the highly acclaimed ABC Boyer Lectures for 2017. She is a Non-Executive Director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Board , member of the Prime Minister’s National Science and Technology Council and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE). In 2020, Bell was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia , for distinguished service to education, particularly to the social sciences and cultural anthropology, and was named the first Engelbart Distinguished Fellow at SRI International Genevieve completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998.

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Geoff Crain

Geoff Crain is a engineering team lead who believes success comes from trusting and respecting your team as people. Starting as a developer in 2008, he worked on developer tools and Atlassian’s Identity platform until 2015 when he made the switch to people management. In this role, he’s helped grow and strengthen people and practices to deliver value in a rewarding, sustainable and inclusive environment, most recently in Bitbucket Pipelines.

Geoffrey Huntley

I'm Geoff. Some folks know me as the person who “stole” all of the NFTs and for my involvement with a letter to the United States Congress that urged lawmakers to legislate the crypto industry responsibly. Others may know me through my work in open-source and working with developer tooling companies to bring their products to market. Computers are one of my hobbies, and I've been continually self-learning in this sector since the early '80s. When I'm not authoring code, you will find me DJing or passing down knowledge to others.

2 presentations

Georgina Laidlaw

I've been writing for web, print and voice for more than 20 years, and in 2014-15 began to focus on UX writing. Today I freelance as a UX writer and trainer and brand communications specialist alongside my work as an ESL teacher. As a student recently pointed out, I basically get to play with English all day.

Georgina Robilliard

Georgina has built a career as a people and operations leader in growing technology companies, primarily in remote and distributed teams.

3 presentations

Gerard K. Cohen

Over the last 25 years, Gerard K. Cohen has spent much of his life sitting in front of some kind of digital display. Whether it was as an Enterprise-class Systems Engineer, developing motion detection and digital video surveillance systems, or apps to distribute 3D medical animations, he has been eternally waiting on some kind of “Please wait…” indicator. Now, Gerard loves front end engineering so much that he is on a mission to make sure that the web is inclusive to all users, making rich internet experiences available for all. He believes a great user experience includes performance and accessibility. During the day, Gerard is the Engineering Manager of the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. When he is not sleeping or drinking Zombies at tiki bars, he helps raise awareness by speaking at Front End and Accessibility conferences around the country. He is also the author of “Meeting Web Accessibility Guidelines,” “Introduction to Developing Custom Components with ARIA,” and "Accessibility: Testing and Screen Reader Use" on Pluralsight.

Gian Wild

Gian Wild is the CEO of AccessibilityOz, with offices in the United States, Europe and Australia. She has worked in accessibility industry since 1998, when she worked on the very first Australian accessible web site. Her major achievements include: six years’ active membership in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group contributing to WCAG2; her speech on the importance of web accessibility at the United Nations Conference of State Parties in 2015; and the release of the ICT Mobile Site Accessibility Testing Guidelines as the Mobile Sub-Committee Chair of the ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium. In 2019 Gian won the inaugural Accessibility Person of the Year. Gian speaks at conferences in Australia, US, Canada, South America and Europe.

Giles Colborne

Giles co-founded a company called CXPartners in 2004, which has since grown to become one of the world’s foremost independent experience design consultancies. CXPartners works on creating next-generation experience design, and generates multimillion dollar revenue for companies such as Marriott, eBay and AXA. His highly successful book, Simple and Usable, has sold tens of thousands of copies in Europe and North America and has been translated into Chinese and Korean. Giles was previously President of the UPA, Co-Chair of IA Summit and UX Awards judge. He has also worked with the British Standards Institute, developing standards for web accessibility.

Gilmore Davidson

By day, Gilmore is a web developer, often complaining that most of our tools tend to merely rearrange complexity instead of reducing it. By night, he folds origami and tries to do things that don’t involve computers. When that inevitably fails, he makes ridiculous web projects such as Emoji Censor and yakstack. He is equally comfortable with HTML and CSS as he is with JS, but is definitively uncomfortable with writing in the third person.

Glen Maddern

Glen Maddern is an independent web developer living in Melbourne, Australia. Over his career, he hass done through phases of wanting to work with the biggest computation problems, the biggest scale of userbase, and the biggest challenge to his own skills - starting and trying to grow a company, Goodfilms. These days he's most interesting in pushing the web forward, so he splits his time between freelancing on challenging front-end builds, working on small open-source projects, and speaking at conferences. His passion lies in finding use-cases for technology that appears unusual, event frivilous, and using that to help people understand the technology itself.

5 presentations

Golden Krishna

For years, Designer Golden Krishna has been behind the scenes, solving technology problems for companies from startups to Fortune 50. He’s currently a Senior Designer at Samsung, where he works in a division dedicated to designing and building the near future of electronics.

Grant Sheppard

Grant is a passionate tech head who was a late entrant to frontend development. After spending fifteen years buried in large scale Java integration projects, he saw the light and started spending his time hanging with frontend developers, where he brought some solid backend engineering practices and principles to the frontend. He's now at REA, working closely with design systems and web platform architectures.

Greer Lucas

Greer thinks Culture Rocks! In fact, so much so, she named her company that. She works with passionate time-poor people leaders and their teams to go from surviving - reviving - to thriving. With over 15 years of experience working with tier 1 organisations and SMEs in the areas of Technology, Operations and Consulting, she understands the challenges people leaders face in balancing the operational imperatives of their roles, with nurturing happy, productive and loyal teams. She understands the challenges because she’s been there – instilled culture during 400% team-growth in 3 years, turned struggling and broken groups into productive teams, championed ‘people’ at executive levels using insights and awareness, and implemented practical and affordable initiatives that have driven engagement in fast-paced and challenging environments. Greer was once asked to talk about ‘engaging people’ without moving her arms – she failed! It is, without doubt, her most favourite topic and her passion can’t be contained.

Greg Rewis

Greg has been passionate about the web since putting his first “home page” online in 1994. His career has taken him around the world – from the early days of desktop publishing, to a start-up in Hamburg, Germany, the glory days of the web at Macromedia and Adobe, Redhat and Apogee, and now as Lead Developer Evangelist at Salesforce

Gretchen Anderson

Gretchen consults with clients to inform their product strategy and improve team collaboration skills, and her book, Mastering Collaboration is available from O'Reilly. She spent the first part of her career in design consulting for firms like frog design, Cooper, and LUNAR. Recently, she was Head of Design at PG&E, California’s largest energy company, she has led the design of the hardware and software of a next-generation surgical system, and served as VP of Product at GreatSchools.org. Her past clients include Virgin Records, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, and Intel. Gretchen is a Bay Area native who left only long enough to get a bachelor’s degree from Harvard in History & Literature.

2 presentations

Gretchen Scott

Gretchen is a former Community Manager at Cloudflare and a leading executive in tech. She is a Director at Women Who Code Melbourne and prides herself on supporting and encouraging diverse people in the technology industry. Gretchen is a founder of Tech Diversity Lab; the only platform with technology focused career growth frameworks.

3 presentations

Grishma Jena

Grishma is a Data Scientist with the UX Research Operations team for IBM Software in San Francisco, USA. As the only Data Scientist in the org, she supports 100+ user researchers and designers and uses data to understand user struggles and opportunities to enhance user experiences. She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has spoken and facilitated workshops at multiple conferences including PyCon US (largest Python conference in the world). She has also taught Python at the San Francisco Public Library. She enjoys introducing new technical concepts to people and help them use data and code to drive change. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, cooking, writing, and acting.

Guy Podjarny

Guy Podjarny, or Guypo for short, is a web performance researcher and evangelist, constantly chasing the elusive instant web. Guy is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Akamai’s Web Experience business unit, dealing with everything fast browsing and mobile. Guy was previously the co-founder and CTO of blaze.io, acquired by Akamai in 2012. Guy focuses heavily on Mobile Web Performance and Front-End Optimization, is a fan of large scale tests using real world websites, and regularly digs into the guts of mobile browsers. Guy is also the author of Mobitest , a free mobile measurement tool, and contributes to various open source tools.

Hadi Michael

Conference speaker

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Hannah Donovan

Hannah Donovan is an entrepreneur, product leader, and public speaker. She’s been working in entertainment tech for over a decade. Han is the founder & CEO of TRASH, making it easy to create and share videos with one tap from your phone. Before that she was the General Manager at Twitter-owned Vine; led the team and product at Expa-backed music startup Drip (acquired by Kickstarter); was VP Design at Ripcord (a product incubator funded by MTV); co-founded the song-sharing service This Is My Jam while leading R&D design for The Echo Nest (acquired by Spotify) and was part of the original leadership team at early music streaming service Last.fm (acquired by CBS for $270M) where she led design. She’s spoken at conferences worldwide and lectured at top universities including Imperial College London, Princeton, Parsons, and as visiting faculty at Cornell Tech. Her work has been featured by media such as the Guardian, the New York Times, Forbes, Variety, and the Today Show. Han is passionate about changing the gender ratio in tech. She’s also a startup advisor, and frequently mentors others, including through programs such as Google's 30 Weeks, First Round Capital's Product Program, and co-hosting a forthcoming podcast called It Just Got Real about being a woman startup founder. You can find her on the internet on Twitter/ Instagram @han.

Hannah Malcolm

Hannah loves pixels and code. She can usually be found in front of a screen, researching front-end techniques, or embarking on a new digital project. When she isn’t in front of a screen, she loves exploring national parks with her family and travels everywhere with a notebook for sketching out ideas, or scribbling down thoughts.

Harriet Wakelam

Harriet Wakelam ‘s work at IAG uses design as the platform from which to deliver customer experiences that support our customers deliver a safer Australia. She uses human centred thinking across innovation, future strategy and customer experience design. She is fascinated by ‘why’, making real things that inspire curiosity and generate new meaning. She’s worked at NAB, CAPCO, Medibank as well as supporting start ups and an active supporter of the UK and Australian start up community. Her work has taken her to the US, UK, Russia and Eastern Europe.

Harry Roberts

With a client list including Google, Unilever, and the United Nations, Harry is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect who helps organisations and teams across the globe to plan, build, and maintain product-scale UIs. A Google Developer Expert, and Performance Ambassador for SHIFT Commerce, he writes on the subjects of CSS architecture, performance, and scalability at csswizardry.com , develops and maintains inuitcss , authored CSS Guidelines , and Tweets at @csswizardry .

Heather Champ

Heather Champ built her first homepage in 1994 and has worked online ever since. Enamored with photography, she created The Mirror Project (1999-2006), an early photography website that celebrated self-portraiture with over 34,000 contributions from around the world, and cofounded JPG Magazine, the photography magazine made by its community. Heather lives outside of Portland with her husband, their three dogs, six goats and twenty-six chickens. She never leaves home without a camera or three.

Heather Migliorisi

After almost 18 years in web development, Heather has pivoted from engineering to Accessibility Program Manager for Blackhawk Network, a global leader in branded payment programs. She has written articles and given several talks on web accessibility. In the past, Heather has also contributed to the Make WordPress Accessible project, W3C Accessible SVG Community Group and The A11y Project.

Hemanth HM

Hemanth is a FOSS philosopher and MTS at PayPal Inc. TC39 delegate Google Developer Expert for Web && Payments. DuckDuckGo community leader. Member of Node.js Foundation. Google Launchpad Accelerator mentor.

Henri Helvetica

Henri is a developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering and pinches of user experience, which led to his joining Catchpoint Systems on the WebPageTest Team. When not reading the deluge of daily research docs and case studies, or profiling sites in his favourite tools, Henri can be found contributing back to the community: Toronto Web Performance Group meetup + Jamstack Toronto organizer, curating conference content or volunteering his time for lunch and learns at various bootcamps. Otherwise, Henri is focusing on running the fastest 5k possible (surprise surprise), encouraging a healthy lifestyle via #devsWhoRun.

3 presentations

Heydon Pickering

Heydon Pickering (@heydonworks) has worked with The Paciello Group, The BBC, Smashing Magazine, and Bulb Energy as a designer, engineer, writer, editor, and illustrator. He was shortlisted for Designer Of The Year in The Net Awards. Heydon previously wrote Inclusive Design Patterns which sold over 10,000 copies. Proceeds from this title were donated to the ACLU and The Democratic Socialists Of America, to help these organizations fight fascism and create a more inclusive society.

Hidde de Vries

Hidde (@hdv) is a freelance front-end developer and accessibility specialist, excited about web standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and web accessibility. For over 10 years, he worked with organisations like W3C, Mozilla and the Dutch government on fast, scalable and accessible front-end solutions for their end users. As a volunteer, he was previously involved with Fronteers, the professional association and front-end conference in The Netherlands, organising meet-ups, workshops and conferences.

2 presentations

Hila Fish

Hila Fish is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Wix, with 15 years of experience in the tech industry. AWS Community Builder, and an international public speaker who believes the DevOps culture is what drives a company to perform at its best and talks about that and other DevOps/Infrastructure topics at conferences. She carries the vision to enhance and drive business success by taking care of its infrastructure. In her spare time, Hila is a lead singer of a cover band, giving back to the community by co-organizing DevOps-related conferences (Inc. "DevOpsDays TLV" & "StatsCraft" monitoring-focused event), providing mentorship and managing programs in “Baot” (The largest Israeli technical women’s community), and enjoys sharing her passion and knowledge wherever she can, including across diverse technology communities, initiatives and social media. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hila-fish Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hilafish1

Hilary Cinis

Hilary Cinis is an experience design leader and practioner, currently at Salesforce. At the time of this presentation, Hilary Cinis was the Head of User Experience at Data61 , a business unit of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. She is a digital industry veteran with over 20 years experience working in commercial and government, across media, marketing and software development and the emerging technology sector.

Himanshu Bharadwaj

Himanshu is a digital nerd with the mind of a Himalayan yogi. His experience spans marketing, brand, and product design to make people laugh, cry, and reach for their wallets. It's hard to tell when Himanshu is talking about life and when he's talking about design. This is probably why his designs resonate so powerfully deep within to create calm and joy. Himanshu has created Joyful Design, an operating system for designers to enhance their quality of life and infuse joy in creations by connecting feelings with features. He uses joyful design to inspire teams to create scalable, compassionate products for startups and large enterprises in the US.

Holger Bartel

Holger is a web developer and design consultant based in Hong Kong. After opening a design studio in Frankfurt in 2001 and later moving to Hong Kong, he is now one third of the distributed team of Colloq, the first conference and event platform with ethics at its core.

Homer Gaines

I'm a Front-end Developer with over 28 years of experience in the field and an independent recording artist. With a background in Behavioral Psychology, specializing in Neurology and Graphic Design, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to my role. As a Staff UI Engineer, certified accessibility professional, and international speaker, I focus on advancing accessible front-end development.

Houssein Djirdeh

Houssein Djirdeh is a developer advocate at Google.

2 presentations

Hugo Richard

Hugo Co-founder of Dystech , worked in many different AI projects over the past years in France, UK and Australia. Including applying image recognition and natural language processing techniques to various real-world problems including diagnosing dysgraphia for kids using machine learning technique. He is now focusing on conversational AI to improve communication and increase automation for businesses.

Hui Jing Chen

Hui Jing is a self-taught designer and developer living in Singapore, who loves CSS way more than the average web developer. With more than a decade of experience working on the web, her main focus is building performant and responsive frontend interfaces. And yes, Hui Jing is a two-word Chinese first name. She can often be found spanning routes in some local climbing gym.

6 presentations

Ian Frost

Brad Frost is a design system consultant, web designer & developer, speaker, writer, teacher, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He helps people establish & evolve design systems, establish more collaborative workflows, and design & build software together. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, This Is Responsive, Death to Bullshit, and more.

Ifeoma Nwosu

Ifeoma Nwosu is a developer with skills in user experience, interested in creating and enhancing usable products through software development. She's the chapter lead for Vue Vixens Nigeria.

Iker Jamardo

With years of experience in the video game industry, both as an engineer for AAA PC games and as CTO of one of the first HTML5 smartphone game technology startups (Ludei), Iker has also been a professor and researcher at his alma mater, the University of Deusto in Spain working on multimedia, web accessibility and VR and AR for over 10 years. Lately, he has been actively working on immersive technologies, trying to expose them on the web, first as a freelancer and now as the technical lead for the WebXR team inside Google Daydream. He is the main engineer behind the first Tango based Chromium prototype to expose Augmented Reality capabilities on the web and is a member of the WebVR standardisation group.

Ikram Saedi

I am a full stack web developer who currently is working in EdTech, while also undertaking a major of Computing and Software Systems at The University of Melbourne. I am most familiar with TypeScript and React, and also have experience with Ruby. In my free time, my favourite pastime is hanging out with my shy cat named Loaf, and making GitHub repositories revolving around him!

Inayaili de León

Inayaili de León is a Senior Designer at Microsoft Developer Services — where she works on the design system for Azure DevOps. Previously, she led the team creating Canonical’s Vanilla design system. She writes frequently for well-known online publications and on her own blog, and speaks at international conferences. She’s the co-author of “Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites” (Apress, 2011), and author of “Moving to Responsive Web Design” (Apress, 2016). She’s Panamanian Portuguese, born in the USSR, and lives in London.

2 presentations

Ines Akrap

Ines Akrap is a Frontend Software Engineer and Web Performance GDE, co‑chair of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, and a Green Software Champion. She works at Storyblok as a Solutions Engineer.

Inga Pflaumer

Inga Pflaumer - Indie game developer, engineer and dog lover. Leader with a passion for bringing more women into tech space. Finalist of YOW! Women in Tech Competition 2017. Rollups platform Engineering Manager at Immutable - Web3 gaming company building blockchain protocols for game Web3 integration.

3 presentations

Irene Vlachou

Irene is a freelance Typeface Designer and Font Developer. She has previously worked with Type Together as a Senior Type Designer, as well as with Cannibal Fonts as a Typeface Designer and Font Developer.

Irith Williams

Irith draws on 10 years of strategy, research and product design experience in domains as diverse as healthcare, legal operations, higher education and maritime safety. She now focusses on Design Justice and working for the equitable inclusion of people with a disability in the innovation of services and products. Irith has lived experience as a person with a chronic condition and invisible disability.

Isabel Brison

Isabel is a front end engineer and has been a maintainer and full time contributor to the WordPress open source project for the past 3 years. When not coding, reviewing or otherwise wrangling software, she enjoys getting out in the sun, growing herbs and veggies, and working on art projects.

3 presentations

Isabel Nyo

Isabel is an accomplished woman in technology with a passion for knowledge sharing and continuous learning. She has been sharing her thoughts via her written and spoken words. She was born and grew up in Burma (Myanmar) and now calls Sydney, Australia home. She is currently an engineering manager at a technology company in Sydney, Australia, leading high performing teams and having fun while doing so. A few years ago, she realised that women in technology are under-represented in the media and industry and she wanted to change that. She believes that change starts with herself and therefore, she started speaking at local meet-ups, events and conferences with the hope to get recognition for women in technology and in leadership positions and to inspire others to do the same. Outside work, she likes to read, write (sometimes in a programming language) and spend time with her family, especially with her daughter who loves YouTube way too much. You can find Isabel on social media or various publications and websites, talking about topics that she cares about; leadership, career development, and diversity and inclusion. Isabel is an ISTJ, an Enneagram Type 1, a Reformer and an Achiever.

Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as Director of Design Strategy at SAP. Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in several countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, The United Arab Emirates, United States, Hong Kong) create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Ivy Hornibrook

Ivy Hornibrook is a Product Lead at Canva, where she looks after Magic Design, an AI-powered design tool that crafts the perfect starting point to bring design ideas to life. Driven by a desire to create exceptional user value, Ivy is passionate about the potential of Generative AI to develop new, innovative solutions to user challenges. Prior to joining Canva, Ivy honed her skills in product development and technology at various early-stage startups spanning industries such as education, logistics, health, and eCommerce. Active in the tech community, Ivy is also a highly respected product leader dedicated to creating pathways into product management for the next generation of product leaders.

Jack O'Donoghue

Jack has 10 years of industry experience in website and user interface design, with a client list that includes HSBC, Vodafone, Samsung, Aviva, IBM, and Sportsbet. His unique strength as a design leader is an ability to interpret complex problems and challenges into simple objectives. He has solid experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and other departments and is fluent in front-end dev so enjoys a conversation with the dev team about creative solutions to technical constraints.

Jack Zhao

Jack is a co-founder and data visualisation specialist at Small Multiples, a leading consultancy in Australia and Asia-Pacific. He brings extensive experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and creating breakthrough innovations that drive meaningful change for our communities. His expertise includes design data visualisation, geospatial solutions, UX/UI design, and machine learning. Jack's most recent roles include serving as a data visualisation lead and senior solution architect at Accenture, working diverse sectors including mining, defence, utilities, and telecommunications.

Jacob Bijani

Jacob Bijani was Tumblr's first product designer and engineer. He and Pasquale D'Silva now work on OKDracula and other cool stuff at TotallyViable.

Jake Archibald

Jake works in Google Chrome's developer relations team, working on specs, implementations, and ensuring developers have tools to make their jobs less painful. He's a big fan of time-to-render optimisations, offline-first, progressive enhancement, and all of that responsive stuff.

Jake Ginnivan

Jake serves as a Principal Consultant at Arkahna and the Director of Technology for DDD Perth. Previously he helped build Seven West Media's new digital news platform including 7news.com.au. A seasoned software developer, teacher, international speaker, open source contributor and maintainer, he is always looking for better ways to build software and the why behind the things we do. Jake balances his professional pursuits with playing ice hockey and raising his incredible daughter.

Jake Lane

Jake Lane is a senior software engineer with over four years of experience. He joined Atlassian after completing his degree and has worked on several products, including Jira. His particular interest lies in front-end performance and building tools that help make writing performance code easier at scale. He contributes to open source through his role and is the tech lead for the Compiled CSS-in-JS project on GitHub (https://github.com/atlassian-labs/compiled).

James Baxley III

Normally found in his garden tending his bees or chickens, James Baxley is a believer in cultivating happy and healthy communities. He is a lover of design systems, all things JavaScript and fixing old land rovers. James works as an Open Source Engineer at Apollo from his home in South Carolina.

James Cave

James sports a 25 year career in tech, spanning web dev, database design, monitoring & observability, automation at scale, cybersecurity & devsecops. Current obsession is continuous assurance (adding CA to CI/CD, sometimes first), monitoring risk and drift so humans can focus on less stressful things. Outside work, James spends as much time as possible in the forest, bouncing between Stoicism and prepping for the apocalypse.

James Hunter

James Hunter is very passionate about JavaScript. For the past couple of years, his focus has been on building web interfaces that are real-time, collaborative, evented, and powered by eventually consistent systems. In his spare time he writes a lot of elixir and erlang.

James Sinclair

James (@jrsinclair) is a Senior Developer with Atlassian. He works with JavaScript (in various flavours) on both the front and back-end. He's passionate about functional programming, and good software-engineering practice in general. Over the years he's worked on web projects for Ford Motor Company, Bendigo Bank, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Monash University, and the Prime Minister of Australia. Somewhere along the way he picked up a PhD in Information Architecture but decided building stuff on the web was more fun than being an academic.

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James Snell

James is a core contributor to both Node.js and the Cloudflare Workers runtime. He is on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, has authored or contributed to a number of standards, and is working to drive the adoption of standard APIs across multiple JavaScript runtime environments.

Jamie Kimmel

Jamie is a User Researcher at Facebook who focusses on the interaction between people and technology, researching and improving products and software so they are usable and have social impact at scale. This means taking insights from behavioral science, using design skills from user experience (UX), and creating new, improved digital contexts.

Jana Iyengar

Jana is a Distinguished Engineer at Fastly, working on networking performance, including building, deploying, and measuring QUIC, TCP, and congestion control. He chairs the IRTF's Internet Congestion Control Research Group and engages in IETF standards development. Before Fastly, he was a Software Engineer at Google, working on QUIC, BBR, and other networking projects. In a past life, he was an Associate Professor at Franklin & Marshall College, where he taught computer science and worked on various Internet architecture and transport projects.

Jane Davis

As the Head of UX Research and Content Design at Zapier (fondly known as UX+), Jane Davis leads a team in helping the company make user-centered, strategic decisions about our business and its direction by having informed, research-driven opinions on key problems and opportunities. They ensure that Zapier is connecting users to value by undertaking exploratory research, developing a vision and strategy for how we communicate with users, and scaling research and content design as disciplines so that their product teams are able to get the information they need in a way that speeds up their development process.

Jared Wyles

As a senior computer scientist at Adobe, Jared is putting his money where his mouth is in order to improve the web. Previously, he’s worked with Atlassian, Bigcommerce, and the usual digital agencies.

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Jason Grigsby

In 2000, Jason Grigsby got his first mobile phone. He became obsessed with how the world could be a better place if everyone had access to all that information in their pockets. Those mobile dreams hit the hard wall of reality: WAP was crap. So Jason went to work on the web until 2007, when the iPhone made it clear the time was right. He joined forces with the three smartest people he knew and started Cloud Four. Since then, he has had the good fortune to work on many fantastic projects, including the Obama iPhone App. A sought‐after speaker and consultant on mobile, Jason is founder and president of Mobile Portland, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting the mobile community in Portland, Oregon.

Jason Mayes

Jason is the Web AI lead at Google, helping web engineers globally to get productive with machine learning in JavaScript. Jason is the author of the first Web AI course on Google Developers and EdX, that have enabled over 50,000 students start their journey with Machine Learning in the browser. Jason combines his knowledge of the technical and creative worlds to develop innovative prototypes for Google's largest customers and internal teams with 20+ years experience working within web engineering and investigating emerging technologies. He holds an MEng in Computer Science, is a member of the British Computing Society, and is a certified information privacy technologist. Jason loves sharing knowledge online which has attracted a global following.

Jason Miller

Prolific JavaScript developer, architect and Open Sourcerer, and the author of Preact. Jason specialises in JavaScript performance analysis & optimisation, web application optimisation, front end architecture, and build tooling.

Jason O'Neil

Jason lives in Perth and works remotely as a front-end software engineer for Culture Amp. He loves thinking about ways we can improve developer experience, and make it easier and faster for us to make high quality, accessible websites and apps.

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Jason Pamental

Jason spends much of his time working with clients to establish their typographic systems and digital strategy, helping design and development teams works smarter and faster, and running workshops about all of the above. He is a seasoned design and user experience strategy leader with over 20 years’ experience on the web in both creative and technical roles, and an Invited Expert to the W3C Web Fonts Working Group. Clients range from type industry giants, Ivy League and High Tech, to the NFL and America’s Cup. He also researches and writes on typography for the web: he’s author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, articles for .Net Magazine, PRINT Magazine, HOW, Monotype.com, and frequent podcast guest. Author of online courses for Aquent’s Gymnasium platform and Frontend Masters. He’s an experienced speaker and workshop leader, having presented at over 50 national and international conferences. The real story: mainly he just follows Tristan and Tillie around Turner Reservoir, posting photos on Instagram.

Jay Rogers

Jay has a great gig as an interaction designer at Atlassian Software in Sydney, building software in unusually fun ways. He’s been designing and building interactive products since 1996, moving from web design to UI design, and finally to designing processes and team experiences. His current focus is web application software development and building great software design teams. With humble antecedents as nightshift manager at a tex-mex restaurant in Austin, Jay retains a strong service philosophy in his design practice. Great software should anticipate needs, exceed expectations, and mix a really nice margarita. Exactly that.

Jed Schmidt

I’m a web developer and Japanese translator living in the Hudson Valley. Most recently I’ve run UNIQLO’s mobile web platform , built BrooklynJS , recorded a barbershop album , and hacked on IoT projects .

Jeff Veen

Jeff is a Design Partner at True Ventures, where he spends his time helping companies create better products. Jeff does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium and WordPress. Previously, Jeff was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was also one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led Measure Map, which was acquired by Google. During his time at Google, he redesigned Google Analytics and lead the UX team for Google’s apps. Much earlier, Jeff was part of the founding web team at Wired Magazine, where he helped build HotWired, Web Monkey, Wired News and many other sites. During that time, he authored two books, “HotWired Style” and “The Art and Science of Web Design.”

Jen Mumford

Jen Mumford is a radically candid and driven people rebel leading SafetyCulture’s People & Culture team across APAC, Europe and North America. Jen is on a mission to disrupt the people space, encouraging vulnerability, democratising knowledge, growing future millennial leaders and investing time and knowledge in creating an AU tech community whose impact is on a global scale. Jen has been at the core of enabling SafetyCulture’s workforce to scale from 90 to 300 and has an ambition to make work more inclusive at an industry level.

Jen Simmons

Jen Simmons is a designer who builds stuff, too. She’s the host and executive producer of The Web Ahead, a weekly podcast about changing technologies and the future of the web. Creating websites since 1996, Jen’s clients have included CERN, the W3C, Google, Apress, the Annenberg Foundation, Zinch, and The New York Stock Exchange. In 2010, Jen designed and created a new default theme for Drupal 7 named Bartik. Besides designing for the web, Jen has 20 years experience designing for live performance and for print. Back in the day, she’d make the poster for a film festival one day, mix the sound for a live salsa band the next, and hang a photo exhibit the week after, all while designing the lighting for an upcoming play. In 2006, she created seven-channel digital projections for an opera about Nikola Tesla, in Serbia and for the BAM Next Wave Festival. She directed several short films that toured film festivals around the globe, including at RESFEST and on MTV Television. She taught video-making to high school kids in San Antonio and film production to college students in Philadelphia. Jen has a MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. She lives in New York City. 2022 Update Jen Simmons is an Evangelist, Web Developer Experiences, Safari & Webkit at Apple and a member of the CSS Working Group. She's especially interested in the coming revolution in graphic design on the Web.

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Jenn Bane

Jenn is the the head of community at Cards Against Humanity & Blackbox. She co-hosts a podcast about friendship & mental health called Friendshipping. She also helps organize the Science Ambassador Scholarship.

Jennifer Hom

Jennifer Hom has been illustrating for tech for the better part of a decade. Having kicked off her career as a Google Doodler for 6.5 years, she's since moved from drawing/animating/carving whimsical logos to building illustration systems. In 2016 she joined Uber to design their illustration style and hire their first brand illustration team. Since then, she's taken on the role of Experience Design Manager of Product Illustration at Airbnb. Tasked to redesign their illustration system from the ground up, she's created a style centered on honesty, diversity, and own-ability.

Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer is a Director of The Project Factory, a producer of creative multiplatform /transmedia projects across web, mobile, social media, games and virtual worlds. Jennifer is the author of several books and papers exploring the digital space: actively encouraging the telling stories through digital. She also works on digital solutions in the health and wellness space to help support positive behavioural change. She has worked on projects as diverse as Sherlock: The Network, the official app for the hit BBC series; My QuitBuddy, an extremely successful and effective quit smoking app developed for the Australian Department of Health; Ringbalin River Stories, an SXSW nominated app bringing indigenous stories to life; Breaking Bad News, an AI-based project teaching doctors how to be better communicators; How We Get to Next, a website funded by the Knight and Gates Foundations to foster innovation; Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia, a revisioning of the book as an interactive app and site in text, video, images and audio, serialised more like a soap opera than a novel; and more recently PhoneBook, an interactive feature film told in chapters via mobile devices. She spends her time between Sydney & London.

Jenny Chu

Jenny Chu is a designer turned product manager who is on a mission to create awesome experiences for awesome humans. She's played a critical role in many early stage startups to validate customer problems and launch their products to market, often as their first employee. Jumping over to the other side of the tech world, Jenny currently solves complex, global, scale problems at Atlassian as a product manager on the Platform team. She's obsessed with digging deeper on the “why” and a strong believer of the lean startup way.

Jeremiah Mannings

Jeremiah Mannings is a Managing Data Scientist at Capgemini. He was recognised for his industry contribution as one of the Top 25 Analytics Professionals in Australia by the IAPA. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.En.)(EEE) with Honors and was previously part of the IBM Watson division. Jeremiah was also selected as one of the Top 100 Future Industry Leaders in Australia consecutively for 2016 & 2017. Jeremiah is focused on creating machine learning, natural language, and deep learning projects valuable and relatable. His passion is expanding the field of Data Science to more than just big business. He is currently working a number of experimental projects in the education & financial prediction spaces.

Jeremy Ashkenas

Jeremy Ashkenas is a programmer-at-large. When not being itinerant, he works on the Interactive News team at the New York Times, and on DocumentCloud.org. He created the CoffeeScript programming language, Backbone.js and Underscore.js, among other open-source projects.

Jeremy Nagel

Jeremy loves checklists and is prone to forgetting his keys unless he ticks off his packing list each morning. He has made many an embarrassing mistake during his four years in web development and likes to pretend that this is not because he is a bad programmer but simply because there weren't enough checklists and automated tests to save him. When he's not annoying his colleagues at Learnosity by asking them to fill out checklists or write excessive numbers of automated tests, he enjoys running, cross country skiing and playing with quantified self toys.

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Jess Budd

Jess is a Senior Software Engineer at Hireup, a platform that connects thousands of Australians with a disability to local support workers. Having worked in government, not-for-profit health, and accessibility, Jess is passionate about using technology as a force for good. She demonstrates her passion by spending her time volunteering, mentoring and supporting tech communities to learn more about accessibility and when she isn't writing, speaking or tweeting about tech, you’ll find her putting together lego or walking with her dog Leo.

Jess Telford

Today Founder of Cete , a tool for meetup organisers to coordinate speakers, sponsorships and communities. Organiser of Code❤️Design , a mini-conf bringing together designers, design system lovers and front-end developers. Creator and organiser of React Sydney , Australias biggest React meetup attracting 140+ devs & designers each month. Public speaker at other hugely popular conferences such as NDC Sydney , JSConfAU , and SydJS . Recent Achievements Graduated from YCombinator’s Startup School Advisor Track as part of the highly engaged and dedicated 2018 cohort. As Domain Group’s Frontend Architect, I Grew an amazing team of developers from only myself in 2013 to 30 fronteders 2.5yrs later. I focused on maintaining a positive, inclusive, and hard working culture, helping to take the company to a successful IPO with a very low turnover rate in my team.

Jessica Edwards

Jessica is a UX Developer at Canva, where she helps bridge the gap between design and engineering. In her spare time, she helps organise the Node Sydney and Creative Coding Sydney meetup groups.

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Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische is a letterer and illustrator best known for her personal projects Daily Drop Cap and the Should I Work for Free? flowchart as well as her work for clients like Wes Anderson, Penguin Books, and Google. She’s been named one of Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists, an ADC Young Gun, and one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Art and Design two years in a row. She is currently serving on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has traveled the world speaking about lettering and illustration, and has probably consumed enough coffee to power a small nation.

Jessica Temporal

Jessica Temporal is Senior Developer Advocate at Auth0. Pizza de Dados co-founder and co-host, Pizza is the first and most beloved Brazilian podcast about data science. Jessica is also part of the instructors team in Data Bootcamp and LinkedIn Learning. She is part of the PyLadies, an international network for promoting and empowering women in technology. Born in warm weather, she keeps herself warm in the cold Brazilian south with sweaters she knits herself.

Jina Anne

Jina is a consultant, community builder, and advocate focused on design systems. She organizes Clarity , the first Design Systems conference. She founded the Design Systems Coalition and its San Francisco chapter (and there are now has chapters around the world including New York and London). She created and moderates the Design Systems Slack and the Design Systems publication on Medium. She maintains the design and website for Sass . She organizes The Mixin (a Sass and front end meet up). She also curates Sass News . She co-authored the Design Systems Handbook , Fancy Form Design , and The Art & Science of CSS . She was a tech editor for Sass for Web Designers (by Dan Cederholm) and Sexy Web Design (by Elliot Jay Stocks). She has written articles for publications including A List Apart, 24 Ways, The Pastry Box, Sitepoint, net Magazine, and Treehouse. She has spoken at many conferences including Adobe MAX, An Event Apart, and Beyond Tellerand. Currently, Jina is a consultant on a design system for a new product at Amazon , and she advises design systems teams at other companies through online office hours . At Salesforce , Jina was lead designer on the Lightning Design System . Previously, she has worked at companies including Apple, GitHub, Engine Yard, Crush + Lovely, inferno, Oden, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Through agencies and consulting has worked on projects including W3C WAI, Mass.gov, Deloitte, and FedEx.

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Jo Minney

Jo Minney is a small business founder and technical communicator based (for now) in Perth, Western Australia. She is passionate about user experience, data-driven decision making, cats and travel – not necessarily in that order. She’s also an avid maker, from 3D printing to sewing to woodworking, and loves combining technology and creativity to make cool stuff and encouraging others to do the same. By day, you’ll find Jo creating bespoke digital platforms through her business, House Digital. You might also find her donating her time via the Mission Digital program to help tackle social issues (such as gender inequality, domestic violence and global poverty) through the use of technology, or contributing to the open source WordPress project.

Jo Montanari

Jo is a Director of Engineering based in Melbourne, Australia at Culture Amp, an all-in-one people feedback and analytics platform. Although Jo has been a Senior Business Analyst and Product Planner, coding is her real passion. She's worked with Lonely Planet, Atlassian, ThoughtWorks and Expedia and was CTO of a startup accepted into Telstra's Muru-D program. When not coding her happy place is under the sea - she's a qualified scuba diving instructor.

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Joan Westenberg

Joan is a writer, investor, philosopher and founder, who's been published by Wired, the AFR, The Next Web, TIME, etc. Through @Westenberg, she covers tech, economics and humans. As a creator, she helps technology companies market their platforms and tell better stories. Joan founded Idle Ventures, a portfolio company, studio and fund.

Joe Toscano

Joe is a former Experience Design consultant for Google, who has won international awards for his work but has since left his job due to ethical concerns. He is now working on a non-profit called Design Good, which is actively working to educate the public about what's going on inside the industry, help regulators understand what questions to ask, and give technologist the knowledge/tools/resources to create a better future, through technology.

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Johanna Lynch

Johanna is a talented UX/UI designer with a solid background in Graphic Design and Web Design. Her primary goal is to create exceptional design solutions by tackling intricate challenges head-on. As a passionate advocate for user needs, Johanna excels in deciphering user behaviour and crafting immersive experiences that leave a lasting impact. Join her as she unveils the transformative potential of design systems in enhancing product development and user satisfaction.

John Allsopp

With a background in computer science and mathematics, and a great deal of good fortune, John Allsopp’s life collided with the web in the early 1990s. For nearly 30 years he has developed software for web developers, built web sites and applications, written books like Developing with Web Standards and the first ever book on Microformats, and written countless articles and tutorials for print and online publications. In 2000, he wrote “A Dao of Web Design”, which over two decades later continues to be widely cited as the theoretical foundation for Responsive Web Design and has been described by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".

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Jon Bell

Before moving my family to New Zealand to work as a design lead at Alphero, I was a Staff Product Designer at Twitter working to fight online abuse and harassment. I previously led teams on Office Mobile and Windows Phone and worked at frog design before that.

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Jon Bradshaw

Jon has over 30 years global experience working for big brands in big markets, leading the marketing function across FMCG, beverages and telco. Jon has worked for Mars, Diageo, Virgin, Droga5 and Lion. In those roles he has built marketing teams from the ground up as well as transforming existing teams into more efficient and effective units. Since 2021 he has led Brand Traction, a marketing effectiveness consultancy, that embeds evidence-based marketing best practice into marketing teams in Australia, New Zealand and around the world.

Jon Kolko

Jon Kolko is the Founder and Director of Austin Center for Design , a progressive educational institution teaching interaction design and social entrepreneurship. His work focuses on bringing the power of design to social enterprises, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and large-scale industry disruption. He has worked extensively with both startups and Fortune 500 clients, and he has a breadth of experience in consumer electronics, mobility, web services, supply chain management, demand planning, and customer-relationship management. He has worked with big-brand clients such as AT & T, HP , Nielsen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford, IBM , Palm and other leaders of the Global 2000, as well as with startups like Socialware, Spredfast, Vast, Attivio, and more. Jon has held positions of Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv, a venture accelerator in Austin, Texas, and both Principal Designer and Associate Creative Director roles at frog design, a global innovation firm. He was also a Professor of Interaction and Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he was instrumental in building both the Interaction and Industrial Design undergraduate and graduate programs. Jon has also held the role of Director for the Interaction Design Association ( IxDA ), and Editor-in-Chief of interactions magazine , published by the ACM .Jon is the author of the book Thoughts on Interaction Design , published by Morgan Kaufmann, Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis , published by Oxford University Press, and the forthcoming text Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving , published by Austin Center for Design.

Jon Kuperman

Jon Kuperman is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare. He publishes content on JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Web Development, React, career advice and a few other things! You can find him at @jkup on Twitter.

Jon Tan

Jon Tan is a designer who runs the Mild Bunch studio and founded Fontdeck, the vanguard web font service that ran from 2009 to 2018, making some of the world’s best typefaces available to web designers and developers. He was formerly a partner at Fictive Kin and Analog, creative director at OmniTI, and founder of the early web co-op Grow Collective, where he worked with clients ranging from small start-ups to household names such as the BBC and National Geographic. He writes for publications such as Typographica, talks about design at conferences such as An Event Apart, and leads teams making durable, inclusive, aesthetic design for screens, hands, and paper.

Jonathan Shariat

Jonathan Shariat has been in design for over 10 years. He is also co-host of the Design Review Podcast and runs a popular Twitter handle @DesignUXUI. He's written for publications such as Medium.com, most notably a #1 most recommended article “How bad UX Killed Jenny,” a story about a patient who died because the EHR UI distracted the nurses and caused a critical error. He's passionate about shedding light on the negative impact of bad design and an advocate for thoughtful, purposeful design.

Jonathon Colman

Jonathon Colman ( @jcolman ) leads product designers, design systems, and the global content design team at Intercom . He's a Webby Award-winning designer and a keynote speaker who’s appeared at over 90 events in 9 countries on 5 continents. Previously, Jonathon led UX content strategy for Facebook’s Platform and Marketplace teams, was the principal user experience architect at REI, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa. He’s worked on the web since 1994 and is grumpy it’s not done yet.

Jonathon Creenaune

Jonathon Creenaune is a dev manager / architect at Atlassian, working on design guidelines and frontend code that implements them. He gets super fired up about two things: pushing technology forward and backwards compatibility ... which frequently leads to him having arguments with himself.

Jonny Schneider

Jonny spends most of his time consulting on digital product development and innovation management, and coaching product teams to do their best work. He’s all about getting to the bottom of stuff, making sense of it, and working with good folk to solve knotty problems. He’s biased to action, leads by doing, and believes that best strategy emerges from execution. Jonny authored 'Understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile' (O’Reilly, 2017), founded the Melbourne chapter of ProductTank, coaches at Product Institute, and works with ThoughtWorks. He lives in Melbourne, works all over, and loves a nice brogue.

Jordan Overbye

Jordan Overbye is a senior software engineer focused on front-end dev, with a passion for creating accessible web and mobile applications. He currently works at Thinkmill, a consultancy based in Australia, internationally recognised for their work in software design and development. Most recently, Jordan has been helping the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to create a new, modern and accessible React Design System.

Josh Clark

Josh Clark is an interaction designer specialising in connected devices, mobile experiences, and responsive design. He is founder of Big Medium , a design agency whose clients include TechCrunch, Time Inc, eBay, O’Reilly Media, and many others. Josh wrote Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (O’Reilly, 2010) and Designing for Touch (A Book Apart, 2015). He speaks around the world about what’s next for digital interfaces. In a past life, he created the incredibly popular “Couch-to-5K” (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical would-be exercisers take up jogging. (His motto is the same for fitness as it is for software user experience: no pain, no pain.)

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Josh Duck

Josh is a front-end engineer who is passionate about building solid technical infrastructure and creating amazing user experiences. He's worked on products for Facebook sites for The Beatles, the Sherlock Holmes Film, and many others. Now at the ABC, for several years he's been working at Facebook where he helped launch Friends Lists, Timeline, and Graph Search. He also built common infrastructure by contributing to React and Draft.js as well as managing the team building Relay. 2016 Josh Duck is a Brisbane native and front end engineer at Facebook. He's contributed to React, managed the open source effort behind Relay, and has helped build Facebook products like Profile and Search. He is currently leading an effort to improve JavaScript initialisation on Facebook's desktop site.

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Josh Goldberg

Hi, I'm Josh! I'm frontend developer from New York with a passion for open source, static analysis, and the web. I'm a full time open source maintainer and work on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem such as typescript-eslint and TypeStat. I'm also writing a Learning TypeScript O'Reilly book. I'm passionate about bringing accessible education to the masses in a sustainable way.

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Josh Graham

Josh Graham, Chief Dispenser of Pleasantries, has over three decades of experience in the software industry. Although semi-retired, he's a CTO, cloud computing expert, speaker, track host, and chair at conferences on SOA, enterprise architecture, agile software delivery, and technology innovation. He is a "modern enterprise architect", applying the principles of agile software development and software craftsmanship across architectural disciplines. Josh has held leadership roles at influential startups and consultancies like Secure Code Warrior, mPort, Simple Machines, Canva, Atlassian, Hashrocket, ThoughtWorks, and OzEmail. You may have already met Josh at one of his bars or restaurants.

Josh Johnson

Josh is an enterprise architect at Akamai, where he assists customers in designing and implementing solutions to improve website performance, security, and resiliency.

Josh Kinal

Josh Kinal grew up in Melbourne and has a background in biomedical science, broadcasting and screenwriting in addition to his design work. He created the long-lasting and much missed *Boxcutters* podcast, the first Australian podcast to be invited to perform live at SXSW. One day he learnt CSS and ten years later he became a Lead Experience Designer at ThoughtWorks.

Jules Forrest

Jules Forrest is a product design director leading design systems and content design at Credit Karma, where her teams focus on enabling design innovation and excellence at scale with best-in-class design tooling. She also built Women Who Design, a directory of accomplished women in the design industry.

Julia Clavien

Julia Clavien is an freelance web developer and data management consultant, and an aspiring rationalist. After working on software development projects with top Australian telco, media, retail and FMCG corporates, it became clear that when these software projects floundered, it was due to the humans, not the machines involved. Julia sought answers... and found them in psychology, neuroscience and economics. She has since devoted considerable time to understanding how cognitive bias impacts software projects. Julia is currently enjoying the digital nomad life and can be most often be found in Sydney, Bali, or San Francisco.

Julian Burr

Julian is a software engineer from Germany, currently living and working downunder in Australia. A pragmatic perfectionist, he is always looking for opportunities to learn and grow.

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Julie Grundy

Julie Grundy is an accessibility expert who works for Intopia, a digital accessibility consultancy. She has over 15 years experience as a front-end web developer in the health and education sectors. She believes in the open, democratic web and aims to unlock digital worlds for as many people as possible.

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Julio Cesar Ody

A software developer / designer / wannabe writer, with strong opinions and a gentle heart, Julio is mostly busy with browser applications of all dimensions, and always happy to share a few good ideas he has on this with others.

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Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent

Kaelig is a principal software engineer at Netlify and the co-chair of the Design Tokens Community Group. In the past, he's worked on various design systems, such as Shopify Polaris and the Salesforce Lightning Design System.

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Kai Brach

Kai Brach was a web designer of ten years before starting a print-only magazine in early 2012. As a one-man operation, he is the publisher, editor and art director of Offscreen – a publication about people who use the internet and technology to be creative, solve problems, and build successful businesses. He resides in Melbourne and periodically in Berlin.

Kai Malcolm

Kai freelances as a full-stack developer by day and live sound engineer by night, combining the two in his limited time off. He has a passion for creating the most performant applications possible without the jumping on the hype train, and strongly believes the best user experiences are built around extremely fast apps. In sound, Kai has worked with some of Australia's top amateur theatre companies, including PLOS Musical Productions, CLOC Musical Theatre, and Stage School Australia to deliver the highest quality shows on Victoria's non-professional stages.

Kaif Ahsan

Kaif Ahsan is a coder by passion and a hacker by profession. He started his journey in tech as Software Engineer but soon fell in love with the art of breaking software. His knowledge of development and cybersecurity has naturally led him to the Application Security space, where he currently works as a Product Security Engineer at Atlassian. Kaif is a big proponent of education and open access to knowledge. He regularly volunteers to run cybersecurity workshops at various universities as well as giving talks at local meet-ups and conferences. He is also the co-host of YT channel, Everything Cyber, where he shares hands-on and conversational videos on tech and cybersecurity.

Kailan Blanks

As a software engineer on the Developer Relations team at Fastly, Kailan is responsible for customer-facing tooling and content. As part of his work, he maintains the Fastly Developer Hub along with tooling and solutions for Compute@Edge.

Karen McGrane

If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For nearly 20 years Karen has helped businesses create better digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. She is Managing Partner at Bond Art + Science, a UX consultancy she founded in 2006, and formerly VP and National Lead for User Experience at Razorfish. She's led projects for dozens of publishing clients, including The New York Times, Condé Nast, The Atlantic, and Hearst. Karen teaches Design Management in the MFA in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, which educates students on how to run successful projects, teams, and businesses. Her book, Content Strategy for Mobile, was published in 2012 by A Book Apart, and she is the co-host of A Responsive Web Design Podcast with Ethan Marcotte.

Karl Fast

Karl Fast is a professor of User Experience Design at Kent State University. His work explores the consequences of cheap information, ubiquitous computation, and rich interaction. He teaches classes on various aspects of user experience, including information architecture, information visualization, user research, and human-information interaction. He is a founding member of the Information Architecture Institute. He used to be a physicist. He has always been a Canadian.

Karolina Szczur

Karolina has worn many hats over the last decade—a designer, front-end developer, community leader as well as diversity and inclusion activist. Currently, she's a front-end engineer at Help Scout, a comprehensive solution for customer success and support. She's also an advocate for Calibre, a web performance monitoring platform aiding in building a faster, more accessible Web for everyone. She writes and speaks about tech industry culture and ethics, relentlessly pushing towards more diversity and welcoming spaces. Her pieces have been published in Huffington Post, Smashing Magazine, Adobe, The Pastry Box, Creative Bloq and Hack Design amongst others. With over twenty conferences under her belt, Karolina is also a seasoned organiser, previously curating such well-known events as JSConf and CSSConf Australia or JSConf Europe.

Kassandra Perch

Kassandra Perch (Kas) is a software developer / educator / roboticist living in Austin, TX. She works for Bocoup teaching open web education courses. Her language specialty is JavaScript, and she also works her way around C/C++, Python, Arduino, and HTML/CSS. When she’s not working on software or robotics, Kas is either drawing, playing video games, or enjoying a good beer.

Kate Conrick

Kate Conrick is a Service Designer with an overwhelming desire to create amazing experiences. Her solid grounding in design, development, data, research, strategy and business give her the foundation to make smart decisions and design services that work in an increasingly digital reality. Kate values the power of technology to make real changes in people's lives, and believe that large organisations can successfully transition to a contemporary digital context.

Kate Kalcevich

Kate Kalcevich is the Head of Services at Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform powered by people with disabilities. Kate is an experienced accessibility leader and disability advocate with an extensive career. She most recently led digital accessibility efforts at Canada Post. Previously, Kate held a series of progressively senior roles in the Ontario public service, including in product, user experience, and design roles. In recent years, she has focused on change management to increase the accessibility capabilities of organizations.

Kate Kendall

I’m an entrepreneur, community builder, and writer. I love making things and helping people find work they love. I’m the founder and CEO at CloudPeeps . I created The Fetch and Freelance Friday , and served on the board of the Aussie Founders Network in Silicon Valley. I write about indie companies, remote work, location independence, marketing, living simply, and following your authentic path.

Kate Linton

Kate is a digital designer with over 30 years of industry experience. She is the Head of Design at ThoughtWorks Australia, a global software consultancy. Kate leads ThoughtWorks Australia’s Experience Design team, and is involved in mentoring and coaching design and product delivery teams in continuous design practices. She is also passionate about ethical and accessible design and mentors teams on adherence to inclusive design practices.

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Kathleen McMahon

Kathleen is a software engineer, designer, and international conference speaker with deep industry experience that fuels her passion for creating beautifully accessible apps. She's an editor for the Design Tokens Community Group, and in her spare time, she is the Creative Director for the CXsisters network. She can be found racing bikes in costume as the best lanterne-rouge cyclocrosser you’ll ever meet.

Kathryn Grayson Nanz

Kathryn Grayson Nanz is a Developer Advocate at Progress with a passion for React, UI design, and sharing with the community. She started her career as a graphic designer and was told by her Creative Director to never let anyone find out she could code because she’d be stuck doing it forever; she ignored his warning and has never been happier. You can find her writing, blogging, streaming, and tweeting about React, design, UI, and more @kathryngrayson on Twitter.

Katie Bell

Katie's 15 year career as a software engineer has been pretty darn fun. She was working on Google Docs before it was cool, and then she got to play with Google's huge scalable storage systems as a Site Reliability Engineer. Since then she's worked at Campaign Monitor, as a freelance developer for startups and a coding bootcamp instructor at General Assembly. Currently she's working on making coding accessible to everyone at SplootCode.

Katie Hempenius

Katie is an engineer on the Chrome team where she works on web performance and Core Web Vitals. Previously, she was a software engineer on Google Ad Manager. Prior to Google, Katie was a senior software engineer at Fitbit.

Katie McLaughlin

Katie has worn many different hats over the years. She has previously been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics. When she's not changing the world, she enjoys cooking, making tapestries, and yelling at JavaScript and its attempt at global variables.

Katie Ots

Katie Ots is a polyglot programmer with a penchant for Haskell. Katie co-founded the Lambda Ladies group for women in functional programming and co-founded the Brisbane Functional Programming Group. The former newspaper journalist works as Software Engineer at Google and co-authored the O'Reilly book Getting Started with OpenShift. Katie is passionate about coding, open source, software quality, languages of all kinds, and encouraging more girls and women to pursue careers in technology.

Katja Forbes

Katja Forbes is the Managing Director of Designit, Australia & New Zealand, a strategic design firm who work with ambitious brands to create high-impact products, services, systems and spaces – that people love. Katja is proud to be an International Director on the Global Board of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

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Kazjon Grace

Dr Kazjon (Kaz) Grace’s research explores how computers can participate in the design process as partners rather than tools. His interests span computational design, computational creativity, HCI and AI. He develops computational models of novelty, surprise, and curiosity, and investigates how they can help people make decisions. Kaz's current work involves systems that encourage their users to broaden their horizons: to eat more diversely, to read more broadly, and to overcome design fixation.

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Keerthana Krishnan

Keerthana K is a software engineer based in Munich, Germany. She has 5+ years of experience, mainly as a front-end web developer. She's also an experienced technical speaker who has previously presented at events like JS Conf Asia

Keith Cirkel

Keith has been a web developer for the last 20 or so years, building UIs for some of the biggest organizations in the world. Keith participates in various standards groups to help improve web standards, such as the ARIA, CSS, HTML working groups, and the OpenUI and Web Components Community Groups. When not surfing the web, Keith likes to pick up a garden fork and literally touch grass.

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Kelley Robinson

Kelley works on the Account Security team at Twilio, helping developers manage and secure customer identity in their software applications. Previously she worked in a variety of API platform and data engineering roles at startups. Her research focuses on authentication user experience and design trade-offs for different risk profiles and 2FA channels. She believes in the power of good documentation and is passionate about making security accessible to new audiences. Kelley lives in Brooklyn, is an avid home cook, and spends too much time on Twitter.

Kenneth Rohde Christiansen

Web Platform Architect and Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, W3C Technical Architecture Group alumni Kenneth Rohde Christiansen is a Danish software engineer and architect, specialized in mobile and web technology. Working at Intel out of Copenhagen, Kenneth helps define Intel’s strategy and plans regarding the Web Platform, as well as puts it into action. Before joining Intel, Kenneth was employed by Nokia (Denmark and Brazil) where he worked on the Nokia N9 web browser, Qt, WebKit, as well as many other mobile projects. Kenneth is an elected member of the W3C Technical Architect Group (TAG). Currently working on extending Progressive Web Apps with more native capabilities as part of Project Fugu

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Kevin Yank

Before joining Culture Amp in 2015, Kevin taught a generation of web developers during his time at SitePoint, and helped to launch success stories like 99designs and Flippa. More recently, he quizzed web developers on HTML, CSS and JavaScript by leading the team behind Sit the Test. On weekends he performs improvised theatre with Impro Melbourne, which is a lot more like building web apps than you might expect.

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Kilian Valkhof

Kilian Valkhof is the creator of Polypane, the browser for building websites. He wrote his first article on mobile web design all the way back in 2008 (with an exciting look ahead at "media features"!) and hasn't stopped thinking about responsive websites since. Kilian is a solo developer building his and hopefully your dream browser, he writes about the web on kilianvalkhof.com and anywhere else he's allowed to, and is an active open source contributor.

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Kim Heras

Founding Partner 25fifteen . Co-founder techsydneyau . Founder Sydney Tech and Sydney FinTech Startup Meetups.

Kim Maida

Kim is the VP of Developer Relations at Ionic, an Auth0 Ambassador, Google Developer Expert in Security & Identity, and Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. She's passionate about making the web a better place, constant learning, and developer communities. As a developer relations leader, engineer, and international speaker, she loves learning from and sharing with other inhabitants of the tech space. She also enjoys mentoring engineers who are interested in leadership and building/automating tools to make developers' lives easier at work.

Kitt Hodsden

Kitt Hodsden is the 47th laziest developer in the world, a feat which takes considerable effort. Kitt enjoys preaching the gospel of lazy productivity, and hopes to encourage you to automate as much as you can of your work. Kitt is founding director of Hacker Dojo, a community center for hackers, tinkerers, creatives and creators. She is currently a developer at Shopify, having previously been at Phase2, Twitter, and Dreamworks.

Klee Thomas

Klee is a software engineer who is interested in the art and craft of software development over any particular technology. He's one of the organisers of the Newcastle Coders Group working along side Peter Drew and John Roach to push the Newcastle development community forward.

Kris Howard

Despite graduating with a BA in Film & Theatre (no, really!), Kris Howard has been earning a living from the Internet for over fifteen years now. Her fondest memory of her first dev job was arguing with the guy who wanted everyone to alphabetise their HTML attributes. She is currently the TV Development Director at Mi9, heading up the team responsible for Channel Nine's 9Jumpin platform. She's also pretty good at knitting and sewing, which she hopes will be valued skills after the zombie apocalypse.

Kris Kowal

Kris Kowal guided the CommonJS module system from design to adoption, most notably by Node.js, and created the popular Q JavaScript promise library out of which emerged modern JavaScript promises. Kris built RPC infrastructure at Uber for five years. On nights and weekends, Kris is a Middle-earth cartographer, Elvish calligrapher, OpenMoji contributor, interactive fiction creator, cellular automaton curator, and a hiking camper.

Kristen Hewell Garrett

Kristen has been a frontend developer for over 10 years, specializing in JavaScript frameworks and recently contributing to the language as the champion for Decorators. In her spare time, she works on pixel art and short stories, reads voraciously, and fancies herself an amateur chef.

Kristi Riordan

Kristi discovered growth businesses nearly fifteen years ago after starting her career in professional services (accounting, finance & law). Since then, she's had the privilege to help grow and evolve the operations of traditional service businesses by taking advantage of the power of technology, and establishing new categories. Having served in a variety of leadership roles from product development to sales & marketing, she's most driven by finding the path forward for growth and building and aligning the team needed around that opportunity. Her mission at Flatiron School is to create a new model for education that enables the pursuit of a better life. After an immersive twelve week program, their graduates launch careers in software engineering, armed with modern skills, an ability to learn rapidly and a feeling of purpose.

Kritiketan Sharma

Kritiketan (aka Kittu) is a Senior Software Engineer at Shine Solutions, and have been building consumer facing applications for a decade. He is passionate about knowledge sharing, developer experience and web development. He believes technology should simplify lives and make them better. He is currently on a mission to discover the world's best sandwich.

Krystal Higgins

Krystal Higgins is a senior interaction designer who likes connecting people with products and services. An area she’s been working on for years, and is extremely passionate about, is the onboarding and guidance of new and existing users. She shares tips for designing in-product education on her design blog and maintains a collection of onboarding reviews from websites, apps, and other products. In addition to teaching teams about guiding users, Krystal designs all sorts of experiences for digital products. She has worked at companies like NVIDIA, eBay, and, currently, Google, where she helped launch Android Wear 2.0 and leads a small UX team working on new opportunities for Google Photos.

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Kyle Simpson

Kyle Simpson is an evangelist of the open web, passionate about all things JavaScript. He writes books, teaches JavaScript, speaks, and contributes to the world of OSS.

Lachlan Hunt

Meet Lachlan, a web development expert with nearly two decades of experience and a mastery of JavaScript. Since joining Atlassian in 2015, he’s been an essential member of the team, working to develop and improve product features. Lachlan is a seasoned speaker, having shared his knowledge and insights at numerous events, including Web Directions Summit. His enthusiasm for web standards and dedication to pushing the boundaries of coding is contagious, and he’s always eager to inspire and share his expertise. Get ready to be motivated by Lachlan’s passion for coding and innovation!

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Larissa Azevedo

Larissa Azevedo is Vice President of Product and Experience at hipages leading the product and the experience design teams. Larissa has 18 years of experience driving Digital Innovation in the areas of mobile, web, cross-channel services experiences, and financial wellbeing. Larissa has led large-scale customer experience transformation across a range of industries including financial, news and entertainment. She coaches start-ups at Stone & Chalk, and lectures in User Experience. Before joining hipages, Larissa has driven the product and experience strategy on some of Australia’s most well known digital brands including Commbank, Westpac and ninemsn. Larissa holds a Bachelor of Communication and Design, and a Master in Interactive Media from UTS in Sydney.

Laura Kerrison

Laura is passionate about technology and design for social impact. Her daily work involves researching, designing and managing the creation of digital solutions for startups, non-profit organisations and businesses across Aotearoa (New Zealand). Alongside this, Laura runs community events and projects advocating for representation and holding space for storytelling at individual, organisational and community levels. She collects creative hobbies and generally has a few too many on the go at once!

Laura Morinigo

Laura is a software developer, advocate, and mentor, having been involved in the tech industry for over 10 years, working as a full-stack developer and getting involved with education projects teaching coding in cities like New York and Buenos Aires. Currently, she is a web developer advocate for Samsung Internet at Samsung Research Institute UK where the team contributes to open source projects, build demos and participate in conferences getting the word out about advanced web features helping web developers to create great and more inclusive web apps.

Laura Summers

Laura Summers is a multi-disciplinary designer researching technology ethics and building tools to promote fair machine learning. She recently founded Debias AI and is the human behind Ethics Litmus Tests , fairXiv , the Melbourne Fair ML reading group . Laura is passionate about feminism, digital rights and designing for privacy. She speaks, writes and runs workshops at the intersection of design and technology.

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Laura van Doore

Laura is Head of Product Design at Fathom, a B2B SaaS product in the fintech domain. Over the last nine years, she has worked her way through design and UX roles in a variety of environments, from small agencies to corporate giants. Her experience includes creating digital solutions for travel, government, SaaS, health, fintech, real estate and ecommerce. Laura has a natural curiosity for solving 'people problems’, which makes her a passionate advocate for unravelling complexity, measuring UX, and crafting design systems. Laura's passion for Design Systems has seen her tackling these initiatives with Flight Centre Travel Group & Queensland Government, along with multiple SaaS product companies in an effort to improve the way products are designed & delivered.

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Lauren Lucchese

Lauren is a Chicago-based design leader and writer. She spent years championing content-first design at Capital One, where she built and led a team of AI Content Designers responsible for creating conversations for the Capital One skill on Alexa and for Eno, the first natural language SMS chatbot created by a U.S. bank. She’s since led design systems & data strategy at Cars.com , and is now a Sr. Manager on the Product Design team at Sprout Social. At Sprout, she leads a badass team of designers focused on building centralized systems and experiences across the Sprout product suite, including global frameworks, design systems, and design operations. If you want to get her talking, ask her what she’s reading, or where she’s hoping to travel to next. Also, she loves meeting new designers and technologists. You can find her on Twitter as @laurenlookayz, and can connect with her here on LinkedIn.

Lauren Max

Lauren is a design leader with a project management background who loves working with businesses to help them understand customer needs and motivations, while working within the constraints and limitations of complex environments, project budgets and schedules.

Laurie Voss

Laurie Voss has been a web developer for 23 years and is currently the co-founder and Chief Data Officer of npm, Inc.. He cares deeply about making the web bigger, better and accessible to everyone.

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Lea Verou

Lea has a long-standing passion for open web standards, and has been often called a “ CSS guru”. She loves researching new ways to take advantage of modern web technologies and shares her findings through her blog, lea.verou.me. Lea also makes popular tools and libraries that help web developers learn and use these standards. She speaks at a number of well-known international web development conferences and writes for leading industry publications. Lea also co-organized and occasionally lectures the web development course at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

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Leisa Reichelt

Leisa Reichelt leads the Research and Insights team at Atlassian where they are interested in understanding how to unleash the potential in every team. Previously she was the Head of Service Design at the Digital Transformation Agency of the Australian Government and the Head of User Research for the Government Digital Service (GDS) in the UK Government – makers of GOV.UK

Leni Mayo

Leni Mayo is a Melbourne based angel investor who amongst other things is a founding investor at 99designs and co-founder of Learnable.

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Leo Balter

Leo works with the UI Platform team at Salesforce drafting and testing standards related to the JS ecosystem. Leo is currently championing the Realms API proposal at TC39 and he's looking forward to roll a powerful code sandboxing API on the Web Platform.

Liam Spradlin

Liam is a Zürich-based designer focused on the future of interface, interrogating the relationship between design, designer, and community through explorations of design theory and conversations on the Design Notes podcast. Having helped independent creators, startups, and civic organizations invent or improve interfaces from apps to new types of public infrastructure, Liam now works on Material Design to create an adaptable, personal design system with user intent and expression at its core.

Libby de Souza

Libby de Souza is a Senior Producer at Portable. With a creative background as a designer and creative services manager, she has found her happy place bridging the gap between creatives, technologists and clients. Libby joined Portable in 2018 and has worked on products including Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning land mapping tool and the Westlaw Legal Research Database. She has co-ordinated and facilitated design activities for Orygen’s research into how to talk safely online about suicide as part of the #chatsafe initiative. Libby has also managed end-to-end design and development for the website product and a number of digital service offerings with headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Prior to this, Libby has worked with clients across print publication, industrial design, packaging, branding and marketing including Mayver’s, Emirates, Jetstar, The Salad Servers, Pouches Parent & Child Health Services and Australian Geographic.

Lindsay Holmwood

Lindsay brings engineering, delivery, and product experience together to lead software engineering teams. Together with these teams, Lindsay builds software that solves real problems for people. He runs the monthly Sydney DevOps meetup, the longest running DevOps meetup in the world. He also serves as the secretary of DevOps Australia. He regularly speaks on culture, DevOps, digital transformation, and building high performing teams. He also won third place at the 1996 Sydney Royal Easter Show LEGO building competition.

Lisi Linhart

Lisi is a lecturer for web development at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg, Austria, where she teaches students everything there is to know about front-end development and design. In her free time you will often find her at conferences, attending or speaking about web animation. Other than coding and design, she also loves to spend her free time drawing and illustrating.

Liz Blink

An ex-academic turned product nerd who asks why at every opportunity. This drives me to keep the needs of the customer in focus for all that we do and for all that I ask others to do. I have fallen in love with product management because it challenges the individual in the role and the company when they choose the right individual. It is neither a place for complacency or acceptance. It is a place for dreaming the dream and understanding where the day-to-day can take you... and then it is rising above and asking for the dream anyway. So passionate about product mgmt stuff I am a co-founder of the community Product Anonymous : where Melbourne-based product management folk get together & discuss product management topics & meet others in the industry or related fields (like UX). I have been recognised as a top community builder in the 2017 & 2018 list of Leading Women in Product in Australia & New Zealand .

Louis Stowasser

Louis is the Engineering Manager in charge of ABC's award-winning websites, including ABC News, ABC iview, and ABC listen. He began his career by building one of the first HTML5 game engines, CraftyJS. Since then, he has worked for a web game development startup and Mozilla, bringing household name apps to the web for Firefox OS.

Lovell Fuller

Lovell is a freelance software developer, coding since the 1990s and still learning, with experience across a wide range of industries and countries. He lives in London with his wife and children, who still occasionally let him do a bit of DJing. His interest in web performance is partly a desire to reduce energy consumption. Make things fast so we can do less, not more.

Luca Casonato

I'm a developer and open source enthusiast. I like Rust, Go, TypeScript, and fast websites. I work at the Deno company, building Deno and Deno Deploy, and serving as a delegate at TC39. I built fresh, deno-puppeteer, and a few other open source libraries. Probably reading some web spec right now.

Lucie Paterson

As Product Manager at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) Lucie is responsible for delivering dynamic, user focused digital experiences for visitors in online, mobile and exhibition contexts. Lucie has also been introducing new tools and ways of working to the organisation to streamline back-of-house processes as the museum consolidates and improves its products and services. Before moving to Melbourne Lucie worked for five years in various digital roles at Southbank Centre in London including project managing the centre’s £1m website transformation project. Prior to moving to London, Lucie worked at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington.

Lucila Tallone

Lucila is a curious designer who loves to focus on asking questions and finding thoughtful visual solutions. She believes that the best work comes from collaborating with passionate people, always trying to create the best experience for users while considering business goals.

Lucinda Burtt

Lucinda has been shaping teams across product design and strategy for more than 12 years. She currently leads a team of product designers at Amperity, a Seattle-based startup enabling brands to unify their consumer data to power customer experiences. A common theme across her work is finding the gnarly problems to solve to help people to do what they need to do, encouraging truly collaborative ways of working between design and development. Recently at Facebook/Meta building experiences to connect people and businesses over a messaging thread, she has also held roles at design consultancy Symplicit and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Lucinda spent her formative years at Fairfax Media (now Nine Entertainment) in commercial innovation and product design teams responsible for flagship news sites the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review. She’d like everyone to forget her first project for dating site RSVP, an e-invite for “Australia’s Hottest Tradie” competition.

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Luke Denton

Luke is the Principal Frontend Software Engineer at Aligent. Within his role, he is a mentor, a coach, a leader, a prototyper, a debugger, a demonstrator, and a teacher. He leads a large team of FE developers, implementing best practices and code standards across the PWA ecommerce apps that Aligent crafts for clients with customers both local and international

Lydia Hallie

Lydia Hallie is a full-time software engineering consultant and educator that primarily works with JavaScript, React, Node, GraphQL, and serverless technologies. She also spends her time mentoring and doing in-person training sessions.

Léonie Watson

Léonie is Director of TetraLogical; a member of the W3C Advisory Board; co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group; and a member of the BIMA Inclusive Design Council. Amongst other things, Léonie is co-organiser of the Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) conference; co-author of the Inclusive Design Principles; and mentor to young people interested in the fields of accessibility and inclusive design. She is also a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP).

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Maciej Ceglowski

Maciej Ceglowski is the founder and sole employee of Pinboard, a personal web archive and bookmarking site with an emphasis on user privacy. He's been an outspoken advocate the decentralized, open web as a counterweight to the excesses of Silicon Valley startup culture. . Before founding Pinboard in 2009, Ceglowski worked as an engineer at a variety of tech companies, most notably Yahoo. He lives and works in San Francisco

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Maciej Treder

Senior Software Development Engineer at Akamai Technologies; Twilio Champion; Enthusiast of web technologies especially Single Page Apps, Progressive Web Apps, microservices, and Internet of Things. Author of articles about JavaScript, NodeJS, and Angular. Open Source contributor - creator of @ng-toolkit opensource project - set of tools for expanding existing Angular applications.

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Maggie Appleton

Maggie is a designer, anthropologist, and mediocre developer. She currently leads design at Ought, an AI research lab exploring how machine learning can support open-ended reasoning. She previously spent years working in developer education and designing visual metaphors for programming concepts. She's enthusiastic about embodied cognition, end-user programming, and digital gardening.

Mahesh Muralidhar

Mahesh Muralidhar is the Head of People Operations at Airtasker. With a post grad qualification in organisational change, Mahesh has work across the people space in professional services and large corporates. Post exiting his own startup, Mahesh joined Canva and established the People and Culture function. In 2016 Canva was named ‘Best place to work’ by Job Advisor. He is passionate about delivering a fantastic employee experience through data driven techniques and practising design thinking.

Maia Miller

Maia is the Managing Director of Aleph Accessibility, a web accessibility consultancy based in Wellington NZ. An IAAP-certified web accessibility specialist, Maia has an innate ability to translate complex concepts into clear and easily digestible content. She regularly speaks at local and international conferences on the broad application of digital accessibility, accessibility techniques in dev, and practical strategies to embed accessibility into digital products. Her contagious enthusiasm for web accessibility is combined with a pragmatic, down-to-earth approach that both inspires audiences and provides tangible takeaways.

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Mandy Michael

Mandy is a community organiser, speaker, writer and developer currently working as a Development Manager at Seven West Media in Western Australia. Her passion is front end technology and loves to experiment with new and old technologies to see how we can push the boundaries of what is possible on the web. She is an avid supporter of local communities, volunteering at events across Perth and Australia. Mandy is the Founder and Organiser of Fenders a local meetup for Front End Developers, and was previously the co-organiser and Director of Mixin Conf. In 2018 she was named one of the Top 20 Women in Tech in Western Australia.

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Manuel Matuzović

Manuel is a front-end developer from Vienna, specialized in HTML, CSS, accessibility, and performance. He likes to write about these topics on his blog matuzo.at and talk at meetups and conferences. He’s organizer of the webclerks conference in Vienna, and he maintains htmhell.dev and frontendbookmarks.com.

Marc Fasel

Marc Fasel has been building high-performance scalable applications since before you were born, and still has a passion for writing fast and excellent software. He is an experienced Team Lead, Lead Architect, Thought Leader, Mentor, and Public Speaker with a passion for the development of excellent software. He is currently working as a Technical Director at Performio, a cloud-based SaaS platform for sales incentive plans.

Marcin Szczepanski

A developer for almost twenty years, Marcin has worked with the web as it evolved from static pages to the rich JavaScript applications we see today. Starting in the corporate world, and later a digital agency, Marcin is currently a Principal Frontend Developer at Atlassian. As a member of the Jira Cloud Frontend Platform team, Marcin helps to ensure Jira's development practices can scale as the frontend code base goes through rapid growth.

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Marcos Caceres

Marcos is a Platform Engineer on Mozilla's DOM team where he hacks on Firefox, edits various W3C specifications, and co-chairs the W3C's Web Incubator Community Group. Previously, Marcos worked at Opera Software where he lead the Core ExtApps Team, which implemented Geolocation, getUserMedia(), W3C Widgets, and Opera's extensions platform. Marcos has been working with Web technology since 1996.

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Marcus Schappi

Marcus Schappi is President at Ninja Blocks, a hardware and software startup dedicated to bringing the Internet of Things to the masses.

Marcy Sutton Todd

Marcy Sutton Todd is a Senior Engineer on the Frontend Infrastructure team at Khan Academy, working on design systems, accessibility, and test automation. She created Testing Accessibility to encourage designers and developers to test their own work.

Maria Farrell

A graduate of University College Dublin, the Dublin Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics, Maria Farrell worked in technology policy for twenty years, including at The World Bank, ICANN, the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, the Confederation of British Industry and The Law Society of England and Wales. Maria has written for The Guardian, Conversationalist, New European, Slate, Medium, the Irish Times and Irish Independent, and appeared as a tech expert on BBC, Sky News, NBC and TRT.

2 presentations

Maria Giudice

Innovator, artist, protagonist, activist, and positive provocateur, Maria has pursued a vision of intelligent, elegant, people-centered design throughout her professional life. Her grasp of the pragmatic, the authentic, and the essential have kept her at the forefront of design and business for over 30 years. Under Maria’s leadership, Hot Studio, the award-winning experience design firm she founded in 1997, grew into a full-service creative agency with an impressive list of Fortune 500 clients. In 2013, Facebook acquired the talent behind Hot Studio, where Maria worked as a Director of Product Design. From 2015 to 2017, Maria led a global team of designers as Autodesk’s first VP of Experience Design. Maria’s third book, Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design, is available in several languages. She has spoken at conferences all over the world. Maria serves on several Boards and is a trustee at California College of the Arts.

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Maria Sereno

Maria has been a working artist and designer for over ten years and has been recognised internationally for her body of work, including winning a Tiptree Fellowship in 2016 and qualifying as a Hugo Award Finalist in 2017. She started web development in 1998, hand-coding HTML in Notepad, and has worked on web design and development for businesses over the past 4 years. As a calligrapher, she is serious about typography and uses WordPress as her platform of choice because code is poetry.

Mark Boulton

Mark is a designer who’s been building design systems for the past twenty years, either in-house building and leading delivery teams, or running his design agency. Until recently, Mark was Head of Digital at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) where he led a team building a design system for life sciences, and trying to figure out how to scale design in a scientific environment where the bottom line was discovery not dollars. Prior to working at EMBL, Mark was Design Director at Monotype where he led scaling of a new design system across the company’s portfolio of products. Previously Mark ran a design studio working on design systems for CERN, Al Jazeera, and ESPN. Mark lives in Wales with his wife, two daughters and a dog that thinks it’s a bear.

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Mark Dalgleish

Mark Dalgleish is the co-creator of CSS Modules, lead organiser of MelbJS, creator of Playroom and Braid Design System, and front end lead at SEEK.

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Mark Monfort

Mark Monfort, company founder and Managing Director, is a data analytics and technology advocate at heart. He lives and breathes the ecosystem and has a storied career focusing on the creation of data-driven solutions across a variety of industries in Australia and overseas. He began his career in insurance and audit but it was his time as an analyst at CommInsure (part of Commonwealth Bank) that fuelled his passion for the better path that analytics could lead to. He saw the pain and frustrations of working in an area full of data but without great tools to properly harness it.

Mark Nottingham

Mark Nottingham has helped develop the Web and its associated technologies for more than fifteen years. Currently, he's Chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group and a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. He currently works for Akamai, the world’s first, largest and best public Content Delivery Network.

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Mark Pesce

Mark Pesce is a leading futurist, author, entrepreneur and innovator. He has been at the forefront of the digital revolution for thirty-five years and is a sought-after keynote speaker for major conferences and leadership gatherings. Bringing clarity, understanding and insight. From virtual reality to education, finance, manufacturing, transportation and communication, Mark gives individuals and organisations the tools they need to think effectively about the future, its opportunities, and its disruptions.

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Mark Porter

Mark Porter is a designer and creative director specialising in media. For three decades, he has been helping some of the world’s most influential publishers and broadcasters adapt to the changing media landscape. His company Mark Porter Associates is an international design consultancy, working in digital, print and television. Mark started out in magazines, before moving into newspapers, digital, and broadcast design, and his passion for storytelling shows in everything he does. Based in the UK but with a global outlook, he believes that good design is a universal language. Mark has won a D&AD Black Pencil, SPD Gold, World's Best Designed at SND, and an award for clear communication from the Plain English Campaign, and his work has been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Design Museum in London.

Mark Zeman

Mark Zeman is the founder of SpeedCurve, a frontend performance monitoring service that gives you continuous feedback on how your frontend code is affecting the performance of your website. He has spent 20+ years crafting websites and mobile apps in a variety of roles, including running his own design studio, lecturing at New Zealand's best design school and leading teams to deliver some on New Zealand's largest websites.

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Martin Charlier

Martin Charlier is designer specialising in the intersection of digital and physical. His background is in industrial design, he works a lot in UX and service design and his key interest is in connected products. He’s a co-author of ‘Designing Connected Products’, a co-founder of Rain Cloud (which is a project exploring new interactions with connected products) and a freelance design consultant. Martin has previously worked at Frog Design, Fjord and Random International. Recent projects include work with a predictive analytics startup as well as on the community platform IoT Academy. Martin co-authored the book ‘Designing Connected Products’, am a co-founder of Rain Cloud and am a freelance design consultant.

Martin Tomitsch

Professor Martin Tomitsch is a design academic with 20 years of experience in teaching design, facilitating workshops, and conducting design research at universities in Vienna, Paris, Beijing, and Sydney. He is a Professor and Head of the Transdisciplinary (TD) School at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The TD School operates at the intersection of creativity and innovation and offers transdisciplinary programs, including the award-winning Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation and postgraduate programs in Data Science & Innovation and Creative Intelligence & Strategic Innovation. Martin is founder of several non-profit organisations, including the Austrian Network for Information and Communication Technologies for Development, the global Media Architecture Institute, and the Life-Centred Design Collective. Martin’s recent books include Designing Tomorrow – Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Your Organisation & Your Planetary Impact and Design Think Make Break Repeat which is a handbook of design methods, now available as a revised edition after having sold over 13,000 copies.

Martine Dowden

An award winning CTO, UX / UI Designer & Developer, International Speaker, and author, Martine focuses on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, accessible, and usable. She approaches user experience from both art and science, drawing from her degrees in psychology and visual communications. She has worked as an developer, artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. In 2015, she published a children's book, “Programming Languages ABC++”. She then went on to write “Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success” which was released in June 2019 and “Architecting CSS: The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Stylesheets” in 2020. Currently, she is the CTO at Andromeda Galactic Solutions where she continues to learn, work on, and share her passion for front end development.

Mary Nolan

Mary is a designer and applied behavioural scientist with more than 15 years experience creating innovative digital experiences. From startups to global industry leaders, she has worked across diverse sectors including fintech, B2B SaaS and media.

Mat Travers

Matt is an internationally-experienced product leader with more than 20 years in digital businesses at start-up, growth and enterprise stages. He's built products with millions of daily users which generate hundreds of millions in annual revenue. He's led product and marketing organisations of 65 people spanning product, UX, marketing and analytics. Matt is obsessed with the alchemy of process, culture, talent and strategy that turns autonomous, product teams into world-beaters. His digital career has taken him to Berlin, London, Brussels and Sydney and he is now happy to be back home in Melbourne.

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Mathew Patterson

Mathew Patterson spends his days writing about customer service at Help Scout so his readers can look after their customers. He is a huge proponent of great customer service coming out of a culture of valuing customers and the customer service team. Mathew writes and speaks about customer service from the frontline to the management tier, and his background in web design in house, as a freelancer and through his own business has given him plenty of experience to draw from and a deep understanding of business on the web.

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Matt Colman

A dad, a drummer and a CSS lover. Matt is a frontend developer, focussed on building great user experiences through innovative and responsive design. Having previously worked on Reading Eggs, Draftstars, Domain and now Jira at Atlassian, Matt believes he now somewhat understands CSS, sometimes.

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Matt Fenwick

Bringing more than 20 years' experience as a communications strategist, Matt is skilled in navigating complex domains and charting a path for a strategically coherent and user-centred approach. He is one of Canberra’s most respected communication and content strategists, with many projects that involved setting a new strategic direction for content, then building teams to implement that direction. Matt has worked across a host of Australian and ACT Government projects, across sectors ranging from law enforcement to health and investment attraction.

Matt Griffin

Matt Griffin is a designer and the founder of Bearded . Matt is a writer, speaker, and A List Apart columnist . He is the director of the documentary film What Comes Next Is the Future .

Matt Hobbs

Matt Hobbs is Head of Frontend Development at the UK Government Digital Service. An experienced frontend developer, he is passionate about using his skills to build accessible and performant user interfaces. Matt makes a point of keeping on top of the latest technology and tools, is interested in all aspects of interface development, and is a keen advocate for best practices.

Matt Kelcey

Mat Kelcey is an applied machine learning research engineer with extensive experience working for some of the key industry players. He has worked on a range of machine learning systems across domains such as information extraction, knowledge base completion, deep reinforcement learning for robotics and search ranking. During his 20 years as a software engineer he has gathered broad experience covering everything from front end development to building the infrastructure to support petabyte scale low latency / high availability systems.

Matt Milosavljevic

I help people make things. Founder: @ UsabilityHub + @ Bugherd . Alumnus: @ Startmate + @ 500startups .

Matt Webb

Matt Webb is co-founder of Berg, design studio turned Internet of Things tech startup. Berg provided cloud services for connected products, and created Little Printer, the cute web-connected printer, nominated for Designs of the Year in 2013. Matt is co-author of Mind Hacks and lives in London.

Matthew Kairys

Matthew is a software engineer at DiUS Computing with over 10 years of experience working with mobile and web technologies. He is passionate about sharing knowledge with others and helping create accessible experiences for the web.

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Matthew Newman

Founder and principal at TechInnocens, a Sydney based, globally operating consultancy specialising in empowering organisations to make agile, defensible, and well-informed decisions on the adoption and implementation of exponential technologies by balancing risk and opportunity. Matthew's career spans strategy, governance, risk/compliance, process/operations, HR, marketing, L&R, digital transformation, and cultural change, providing comprehensive enterprise impact coverage.

Matthew Sheret

Matthew Sheret regularly describes himself as a ‘copywriter’. In the last few years that’s seen him writing interface copy, essays, comics, press releases, radio scripts, infographics, positioning statements and talks. He’s done that for the likes of Thomson Reuters, Dentsu, and Lego. In 2010 he became Last.fm’s first Data Griot, a kind of in-house storyteller, contextualising user behaviour for people inside and outside of the company. Matthew edited the independent comics anthology Paper Science for three years, and in 2011 was selected as the Writer-in-Residence for the Thought Bubble Sequential Arts Festival. In his spare time he plays with Lego.

Maximiliano Firtman

Max Firtman (@firt, firt.dev) is an independent mobile + web developer, trainer, speaker, and writer. He has authored many books, including Programming the Mobile Web and High-Performance Mobile Web published by O’Reilly Media, and many online courses at LinkedIn Learning, PluralSight, O'Reilly Learning, Udemy, and more publishers. He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, and he has been widely recognized for his work in the mobile web community. He teaches mobile (Android & iOS), HTML5, web performance, and PWA workshops for top companies worldwide.

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Maye Edwin

Maye Edwin is a professional software engineer, google developer expert in web technologies, and creator of the open-source library, pwafire, and the read blog. Most of his work is open source and publicly available on github.

MC Monsalve

MC is a highly accomplished design leader with over two decades of experience in technology, design, working across many industries from finance, insurance and now in media. Currently, MC leads a bunch of exceptional designers at the ABC

Meaghan Waters

Meaghan has spent 20 years creating user experiences and products both on and off the screen for small and large clients, including Suncorp, Cancer Australia, NBN, and NSW Attorney General’s Department. Her hardest gig however was creating internal products for ThoughtWorks itself - building products for a company that builds products for other companies is surprisingly tricky.

Meg Blake

As a product and experience consultant, Meg helps organisations to use customer insight, rapid experimentation and an agile methodology to deliver custom software solutions.

Meggan Turner

Meggan is a Software Engineer at Jaxsta, a music startup dedicated to providing credit where credit is due. At Jaxsta, she writes code for the front-end platform, tinkers with databases & derails conversations with random music trivia (mostly about Beyoncé). When she's not coding you can find her rock climbing, swimming with sharks, or doing something else that makes her parents nervous.

Mehdi Valikhani

As software engineer, Mehdi has been involved in the design & development of multiple large-scale web and mobile software platforms.His primary focus is on the design, development and deployment of horizontally scalable and highly distributed applications using JavaScript (Node.js), MongoDB and AWS on top of a microservices architecture.

Mejin Leechor

Mejin Leechor is an application developer and hands-on software consultant, who values and aspires to write code that’s simple, expressive, and trustworthy. She thrives on tight-knit teams that prioritize learning, communication, and reflection. Her current day-to-day work uses React + TypeScript, SpringBoot, and Java.

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Mel Flanagan

Mel is a designer of useful things. She's worked as a theatre and film maker, designed collaboration and workflows tools for movie studios, built and nurtured teams across many disciplines, ran a design hotel and established a writers and artist residency, designed revolutionary content and information services, and supports the reuse economy to stop perfectly useful resources being wasted. She introduced participatory design and an agile way of working to the NSW Government in 2012. Mel is also a storyteller, transparency and social justice advocate. She is a pioneer in producing open government services; designing with data to help communities access the information they need about government decision making, natural resource and infrastructure projects, and process pathways to help everyone navigate legislation, regulation, and make sure communities are meaningfully engaged. Nook Studios is her social enterprise of researchers, designers, and civic technologists.

Meligy

Meligy learned developing with Microsoft .NET in 2002, and started getting paid for it in 2005. Since then, he has worked on a wide range of projects both on the backend and the front end. Most known for his ng-sydney user group, in addition to his .NET background, Meligy has always been crazy about TypeScript and the sanity it brings to JavaScript, which also allowed him to switch from Angular to React fairly easily, and then to writing Node APIs years later. Nowadays Meligy acts as a servant leader on a number of projects varying from internal GraphQL tools to external API Management platforms on the Azure and AWS clouds. Some even involve Conversational AI!

Melissa Perri

Melissa Perri is a skilled Product Manager, UX Designer, speaker, and coach, who specializes in consultation work with product development teams around the globe. Melissa focuses on creating product strategies that satisfy users and drive business goals. She coaches Product Managers using two key questions to address the rationale and potential profitability of development projects: - Should we build this? - Why? Melissa has created her own Product Management processes by drawing on valuable knowledge from Agile, Continuous Improvement and Lean Startup, and she teaches these through her consultation work and through workshops. She has worked with a range of clients including Spotify, Rovio, Valtech, Plated, Wayra UK, and Levo League. After implementing these concepts into her own work as a Product Manager, Melissa began to teach through Skillshare, and later developed a Product Management curriculum using these key principles, for General Assembly worldwide. She has been invited as keynote speaker on these subjects for a number of events including QCon, Mind the Product, Lean UX NYC, Lean Agile Scotland, and Agile 2015. Before becoming a consultant, Melissa worked as a Product Manager and UX Designer at Barclays Capital, OpenSky, Capital IQ, and Conductor. For a brief period of time, Melissa started a company in Italy where she learned valuable lessons about bureaucracy and risotto. Now, she is finishing her book The Build Trap, and is based in New York.

Michael Hladky

Michael Hladky is a Google Developer Expert (GDE), Microsoft MVP, trainer, and consultant with a focus on Angular and RxJS. For years he has been helping companies and developers to set up scalable architectures and performant processes enabling teams to keep up with state-of-the-art development. A vibrant member of the tech community, he organizes multiple community events and workshops each year to give back.

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Michael Honey

Michael is the founder of Icelab, a design and development studio with offices in Canberra and Melbourne. Icelab build interactive projects for clients in the cultural, academic, public and private sectors: their four-day workweek gives the team space to be more fully-rounded humans. Michael has twenty years' experience in interactive, motion and spatial design: he has degrees in philosophy and his interests include mountains, generative art, politics, and the environment.

Michael John Peña

Michael is an experienced Technical Consultant currently working with Readify in Sydney, Australia, a Microsoft MVP and a certified professional with more than 5 years of working experience ranging from Mobile, Cloud, Web, DevOps and Blockchain. Michael is a former CTO and Director of his Microsoft-partner company and has worked with various Microsoft clients and consulting partners delivering valued Consulting, Delivery, Training, Technical Presales and Support services. He is also a Microsoft Student Partner alumnus and has worked in Microsoft during his internship working on Windows RT. Michael also enjoys mentoring, attending conferences and user group meetups. He is now in a pursuit of learning more about Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

Michael Johnson

Michael set up the company in 1992, after learning his trade in brand consultancy, design and art direction across the globe in Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne and London. 25 years later, Johnson oversees the strategic and creative output of the company but is just as likely to roll up his sleeves and get involved in the work himself. This access to key directors is one of the ways that Johnson Banks is different from competitors often ten times its size. For over a decade, Johnson has been a regular speaker at the world’s design and branding conferences. He has given keynotes four times at Typo Berlin, spoken three times at Brand New conferences in the USA and Europe, twice at Kyoorius Design Yatra in India, and moderated the event once. He has presented at What Design Can Do in Amsterdam, and judged its refugee challenge competition. He has conducted lecture tours across India and China, and one day will take up an invite to do the same across Australia. Johnson has taken part in five Pecha Kuchas, including one at the home of the rapid fire presentation format in Roppongi, Tokyo. He also spoke at and organised a Pecha Kucha for Japan in 2012, in reaction to and fundraising for the Fukushima disaster. For over a decade, Johnson edited the influential Thought for the Week blog (now to be found on this site under Thoughts) and his branding workshops have been running for nearly a decade, determinedly demystifying the branding process for hundreds of delegates in London and Tokyo. In his spare moments he wields old-fashioned yet wonderful cameras, and wonders why, after 47 years of trying, he isn’t a better guitar player.

Michael Kollo

Dr. Michael G. Kollo is the CEO of Evolved.AI, an AI adoption consultancy and software development firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia. He is recognised as a global thought leader on adoption of AI in financial services, and its impact across a broad range of industries.

Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff is a full-stack web developer, always looking at ways to make the web a more habitable place for users and developers alike. He is currently putting podcasts in the cloud at Player FM, using a mix of Rails and HTML5, and previously worked at Google as a Chrome Developer Advocate. He first programmed for the web in the mid-90s and wrote O'Reilly's Ajax Design Patterns in 2006. Michael obtained a PhD from the University of Melbourne on design patterns for user experience in 2001.

Michael Mifsud

Michael is a front end engineer at 99designs where he focuses on performance and tooling. He is a core contributor to LibSass and the Node-Sass project lead. He also started the MelbCSS Meetup and is an organizer of CSSConf AU.

Michael Neale

Michael is a co-founder of CloudBees, where occasionally he does tours of duty writing JavaScript, and doesn't mind it, but tries to keep that secret from his colleagues. He enjoys integrating systems - in the browser as much as possible (less servers mean less work, you see) and is fascinated with user interaction. You can see his open source work on GitHub is best described as 'polyglot'. He is known to hand out free underpants with logos on them.

Michael Taranto

Michael is a Front End Lead at Seek in Melbourne and has been working on web applications for over 10 years. With his software engineering background and a passion for design he has spent most of his career focusing on building the front end capability and quality in development teams. Michael is embedded in the Melbourne web community — particularly through his involvement co-organising MelbJS for the past 6 years. Having presented at a number of local meet ups, he enjoys sharing his learnings with a particular passion for improving the interface between design and development teams.

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Michal Golas

Michal has gathered 15 years of design experience across visual communication, brand strategy and experience design. Working with big and small organisations, he develops design solutions using Human Centered Design methogologies for web, mobile, eCommerce and brand.

Michal Mocny

Michal Mocny is on the Canadian Google Chrome team, and was Tech Lead for INP, maintains Core Web Vitals, and contributes to Web Performance APIs in Chromium.

Michal Porag

Michal Porag is a Front-end developer at Outbrain, and a tech lecturer & writer. She's also involved in the open-source community and serves as a community leader at Pull Request community. Michal loves to draw, cats and technology.

Michel Boudreau

Forged in the icy crucible of the Great White North known as Canada, Michel valiantly rode his moose to Australia 10 winters ago to work as a Technologist and to discover that perpetual summer does in fact exist. With 21 years experience ranging from large corporations to being a startup founder, he is now trying to tackle his biggest challenge yet; Changing Development Culture.

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Michelle Chin

Michelle is a Design Advocate at zeroheight, where she serves the design community through knowledge sharing, building bridges, and identifying community needs. She has worn several hats, from product designer to design manager to design ops manager. She leads the DEI committee at zeroheight and career coaches underrepresented communities in tech. She also cohosts the Design Systems WTF webinar/podcast that explores burning design system questions from the community. She runs a meetup called Hella Design Systems for Bay Area design system makers. Michelle is also an environmental justice advocate and works to provide tree equity in Oakland, California.

Michelle Gleeson

Michelle Gleeson is a software development leader who is passionate about growing people and teams, building strong cultures and coaching better technical practices. She loves clean code, pair programming, test driven development and enjoy passing on my knowledge and experience to up and coming developers.

Mick Liubinskas

Mick Liubinskas is a high energy, technology entrepreneur, investor, author, speaker and industry leader based in San Francisco. He programmed his Commodore 64 at age 8, sold computer networks at age 17, raised capital for a business at 22 and ran marketing globally for Kazaa at 26. For the past 18 years he has co-founded 12 technology startup companies. He also started Pollenizer with Phil Morle and was a co-founding investor of Startmate . This has included evaluating 1,000’s of ideas, building first products, getting first customers, launching globally, raising capital, closing businesses, selling businesses and all the emotional rollercoaster rides in between. His most successful companies are Flightfox (investor, advisor) which provides travel services to businesses, Pollenizer (co-founder and CEO) which he grew to $3m in revenue, and Spreets (investor advisor) which sold to Yahoo for ~$40m in 13 months. Mick is known as Mr Focus due to his strong drive for starting small and fast, doing fast testing on the road to success and avoiding the entrepreneurial distractions. He, Phil and the team from Pollenizer wrote a workbook called Startup Focus which sold 5,000 copies. He’s also proud of his role in helping to establish and build the technology entrepreneur industry in Sydney and Australia with Silicon Beach Drinks and in San Francisco with Aussie Tech . Mick also works with Telstra to run muru-D technology accelerator. The ambition is to create global software businesses based here in Australia. muru-D has backed over 70 companies across Australia and South East Asia and taken many of them to China and the USA. He’s also loves being a dad, surfing, playing football (the round ball variety) and singing bad karaoke.

Mick Real

Mick has roots in early web design and over 20 years experience working through the progressions of digital design and learning the concepts of atomic design and design systems. Recently becoming a Permaculture designer has given him a perspective to see natural systems of design and organisation as inspiration to influence the digital landscape.

Mihail Dungarov

Conference speaker

Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes is the co-founder and CEO of Atlassian Software Systems, an Australian software company attempting to ‘upset’ the enterprise software market with high quality, low price offerings. He is also an angel investor in Shoes of Prey, Ninjablocks and Tyro Payments, a Venture Partner at new Australian VC Blackbird Ventures and a mentor/investor at Startmate.

Mike Riethmuller

From major Federal Government sites to innovative agencies, Mike Riethmuller has worked on some of Australia's largest websites as well as some of the smallest community sites, and since first speaking at Web Directions 2015, has spoken at events all over the world. When he's not building sites or blogging he likes to experiment with code, learning new things and finding techniques that challenge what we think is best practice. And when he's not exploring the digital landscape he likes to explore the world.

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Mike Sharp

Mike realised soon after leaving university that chemistry wasn't the career for him. He'd used the early "World Wide Web" at uni and suggested to his boss at the time that her company needed a website - "It's the future!". She agreed. He picked up a copy of 'HTML 2.0 in 24hrs' and built his first commercial website. That was over 20 years ago and Mike has loved growing with the web. Whether it's designing or coding, he's always had a keen interest in an accessible, semantic web and considers himself lucky to have worked on many incredible products with some of the most talented people in the industry. Away from the web he grows fiery chillies, keeps native Australian bees and builds Lego with his kids.

Milica Mihajlija

Milica is a technical writer at Google working on privacy and identity. She is a big believer in the open web, always exploring new technologies that are moving it forward.

Mina Markham

Mina Markham is a front-end developer in Brooklyn, New York who is currently working as a Senior Engineer at Slack. At Hillary for America, she created and maintained its UI pattern library, aptly titled Pantsuit. Mina has been featured in Fast Company and WIRED. In addition, she has presented at various conferences and events, including Distill, O'Reilly Fluent and Collision. She's actively involved in the tech community, founding the Dallas chapter of Girl Develop It, teaching for Black Girls Code, and organising Front Porch.

Miriam Suzanne

Miriam is a hybrid media artist based in Denver, CO. She makes web things with OddBird , music with Teacup Gorilla , and live performance with Grapefruit lab . Miriam is an Invited Expert on the W3C CSS Working group, a member of the Sass core team, and a teacher – providing workshops and training to companies and conferences around the world. She had a lead role in developing several new CSS features like cascade layers , container queries , and scope . These days she's developing an in-depth CSS training course, editing even more specifications, and fighting for an open web that respects people over profit.

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Myles Eftos

Myles is a Melbourne-based software engineer and product designer specialising in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and mobile applications. He has worked on web apps ranging from small brochure sites, all the way up to high-traffic ecommerce sites and enterprise level mapping applications. He has a strong interest in IoT development, in particular the ESP8266, the Thread protocol, 6lowpan and 802.15.4. He's currently automating his house. You can read about that on my blog: https://myles.eftos.id.au. He's a co-author of "Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices" (Published by SitePoint). He has a strong community focus, having been a foundation member and Chairperson of the Australian Web Industry Association. He also ran the adhoc technology meetup: #mobilebeers, the Footscray Makers Lab Arduino night, and regularly attends Ruby on Rails Oceania Meetups, Start up Weekends, Melbourne CTO School and Rails Girls.

Nabeelah Ali

Nabeelah Ali is an experienced web developer with a love of interfaces that work with people, not against them.

Nadia Makarevich

I've been a frontend developer for more than 10 years now, since the times when the websites were simple, the Internet was slow and IE6 was the most popular browser.2.5 years ago I moved to Australia and joined Atlassian where I worked on Atlassian UI library for a year and then moved to be a frontend developer in Jira. I am passionate about code excellence, best practices, and frontend architecture and working in Jira with its rapidly growing codebase provided me a perfect opportunity to apply that passion. When I'm not thinking about code I spend my time exploring and photographing Sydney and its marvelous surroundings.

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Natalie Harper

Natalie is currently leading a global fully remote team of product designers for the devops tool Platform.sh. Her career spans roles in graphic, digital and most notably product design, working in both agencies and saas companies of all sizes. As a design all-rounder, Nat's focus today is on empowering and enabling designers to do their best work.

Nate Kraizelburd

Nate is a digital product designer turned entrepreneur, guided by humans and numbers to help answer the why, the what and the how. With experience at global innovation studios across Australia and Asia, his work has seen him champion lean experimentation practices, inclusive design strategies and the benefit of metrics with purpose. Nowadays, he is wielding the power of design to reshape workplace wellbeing, enhancing the way individuals & teams connect, access support and thrive.

Nathan Kinch

Nathan is the CEO of Greater Than X. He's the creator of Data Trust by Design and dabbles in startup investments when he can. He's spent the bulk of his career grappling with the complexity and nuance of the rapidly evolving personal information economy. He's led work for governments, big tech, banks, telcos, startups, as well as research and policy institutes. He writes often and speaks at events all around the world. He lives most days like it's a holiday with his beautiful family on the Gold Coast.

2 presentations

Neil Jenkins

Conference speaker

2 presentations

Nic Jansma

Nic Jansma is a Co-Chair of the W3C WebPerf WG, and is a software developer at Akamai building high-performance websites, apps and open-source tools

Nicholas Gruen

Lateral Economics’ CEO Nicholas Gruen is a widely published policy economist, entrepreneur and commentator. He has advised Cabinet Ministers, sat on Australia’s Productivity Commission and founded Lateral Economics and Peach Financial. He is Visiting Professor at Kings College London and Adjunct Professor at UTS. He chairs the Open Knowledge Foundation (Australian Chapter) and is Patron of the Australian Digital Alliance, which brings together Australia’s libraries, universities, and major providers of digital infrastructure such as Google and Yahoo. He is a member of the Council of the National Library of Australia. He was Chair of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation until 2016 and Chair of the Australian Government’s principal innovation advisory body, Innovation Australia, until 2014. He was second shareholder and Chairman of successful San Francisco based startup, data analytics crowdsourcing platform Kaggle, subsequently acquired by Google in March 2017. He is an angel investor in various other Australian and international startups including Breezedocs, Slant.co, HealthKit and Lendable.

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Nick Gower

Nick is the Co-Founder of Mentally Friendly, a design and innovation consultancy in Sydney and Canberra. Nick has championed the development and refinement of Mentally Friendly's leading design methodology and is widely recognised across the design community as a leading thinker on product and using our action bias and prototyping methods to transform organisations. He is a highly adept strategic problem solver and facilitator with hugely diverse experience and knowledge that lends itself to creating tangible and achievable visions for NGOs, government, and corporate organisations. Nick has sat on advisory boards for education and disruptive businesses and co-founded Australia's first human centered digital design school.

Nick Lothian

Nick Lothian is the founder and CEO of Tyto.AI - an artificial intelligence consultancy and product company based in Sydney and Adelaide. Prior to Tyto.AI, Nick was a directory at the Data2Decisions Co-operative Research Centre, where he ran machine learning and A.I projects.

Nicola Rushton

Nicola is a product designer and design consultant who loves working with enterprises, startups and government. An alumni of Pivotal Labs, she’s passionate about Lean UX, dual-track agile, and the benefits of regular user research. She is also a vocal advocate for honest communication within teams and reflective practises and is a cofounder of the retro tool Postfacto.

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Nicolas B. Pierron

Nicolas B. Pierron is a compiler engineer at Mozilla since 2011. He joined Mozilla to work on the optimizing JIT compiler of SpiderMonkey. Since, he has worked on a large spectrum of tasks such as Range Analysis, Branch Pruning, Recover Instructions, Code Coverage, Macro Assembler, ARM64, Specter issues and Bytecode caching. Apart from Mozilla, you might know Nicolas from the NixOS operating system, where he implemented the Module system and Overlays.

Nicolas Steenhout

A developer in the mid-'90s, Nicolas Steenhout was approached by clients facing issues not yet part of the public consciousness. On the emerging web, accessibility hurdles were keeping people with disabilities from engaging with a technological revolution. Confronted by this gap within the digital landscape, Nic began championing web accessibility. He transitioned into the non-profit sector where he collaborated with people with a wide variety of impairments and was introduced to new assistive technologies. Twenty five years on, Nic continues his accessibility work as an independent consultant for both the private and non-profit sectors. Having worked on three continents, he’s engaged with thousands of individuals with disabilities. Blogger, podcaster, public speaker, Nic offers real-world insight into everyday accessibility issues.

Nicole Brolan

Nicole is the Chief Product Officer – ANZ for SEEK and is responsible for the Product team of ~110, our roadmap & hirer and candidate products and services. She was last year bought onto the Product & Tech leadership team covering AsiaPac and is working with that leadership team to converge platforms and experiences across AsiaPac. Nicole has been at SEEK for 14 years and is a passionate about building empowered teams who can identify customer needs and deliver on them. She has helped lead the rollout of OKRs which are now used across all of Product and Tech & is now championing the embedding of continuous discovery. Prior to CPO, Nicole looked after SEEK’s SME hirers who drive a third of the overall SEEK ANZ revenue, driving substantial revenue growth & retention through improvements to the e-commerce funnel. This included being responsible for cross functional product delivery, sales and service teams, to drive a holistic experience. During her time at SEEK, she has worked across Customer Service, Sales, Go to market and Product, giving her an appreciation for other business functions and how best to collaborate Nicole holds a Bachelor of Business, Major – Marketing

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Nicole Sullivan

Nicole is a UI performance nerd living and working in San Francisco. She helps companies make their CSS smaller and their UI more manageable. She is also an author, most recently contributing to the Web Performance Daybook Volume 2.

Nicolás Peña Moreno

Nicolás (@NicPenaM) is a software developer currently working on Google Chrome's Speed Metrics team. He's an active member of the W3C Web Performance Working Group and a spec editor of various web performance APIs that have shipped in Chrome. He was born and raised in Colombia, and lives in Canada.

Nina Walia

Nina Walia is an Experience Designer for ubiquitous technology and emerging platforms. Currently, she is weaving technological experiences into interactive textiles and surfaces at Google. Her previous experience includes overseeing innovative, award winning designs intended to motivate, inspire, educate, and improve people’s lives for Nike, GE, PBS, and the Office of the First Lady, Michelle Obama. Most recently, Nina was working as Experience Design Lead on Jacquard, a collaboration of Google and Levi's. She holds four design patents for her work and has spoken about her craft at many renowned conferences, such as the Interaction Design Association's (IXDA) annual conference, South By South West, Games for Change, the International Conference for Interaction Design and Children, and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union's annual workshop. She is passionate about community organizing, and co-founded Subcontinental Drift, a nationally syndicated group to encourage South Asian Americans in the arts. She sometimes reminisces about her days as musician, record label owner, and DJ.

Ningxin Hu

Ningxin Hu is a principal engineer, working at Intel in Shanghai, specializing in Web technology. His interest is in closing the gap between web and native app performance by exposing hardware capabilities to the Web platform. Ningxin has worked on multiple open source web browser and runtime projects, such as Firefox, WebKit, V8, Blink, and Chromium, for various OS including Moblin, MeeGo, Tizen, Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux. He also is also participates in Web standardization and has contributed to several specifications within W3C and ECMA.

Nishu Goel

Nishu Goel works with epilot GmbH on their micro-frontend architecture. She writes TypeScript and Golang at work with her focus on the performance aspects of the existing and upcoming codebases. She is the author of the book Angular Routing (BPB, 2019) and JavaScript chapter (Web Almanac, 2021). Recognised as a Google Developer Expert, and a Microsoft MVP, she loves to share her work at unravelweb.dev

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Oliver Maruda

Oliver has always been drawn towards solving human problems using technology. Whether it’s mobile, social or now his core focus in AI/ML, Oliver is passionate about helping companies explore and build capabilities in new and emerging technologies. His decade in product and innovation has helped both startups and corporates take advantage of the shift to customer centric products. As Innovation Lead at Arq Group, Oliver currently spends his time partnering with his clients to explore new data-driven solutions. Oliver is a regular speaker, startup mentor and panelist.

Oliver Reichenstein

Oliver Reichenstein is the founder and director of Information Architects, the Tokyo, Zurich, and Berlin-based design agency. iA's usual trade is website design and consultancy along with concept work for media companies like Condé Nast, Red Bull, The Guardian, Asics, Die Zeit, and Wikipedia. The company has also developed the iA Writer, a pioneering minimalist text editor. With their work on the long-overdue reinvention of the word processor, their research in responsive web typography and their lucid and ultra-clear user experience design work for major newspapers iA and Oliver are shaping nothing less than the future of how we read and write.

Oliver Weidlich

Oliver draws on a background in psychology, experience in usability, and understanding of mobile technology to identify key issues for client business strategy and to recommend & design solutions. He has consulted to clients such as; Three, Optus, Telstra, MySpace, Westpac, ninemsn, and ABC.

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Omar Andrade

Omar Andrade has spent 12 years on lean product development and human-centred design for digital and non-digital products. As a specialist in design sprints and service design, he has worked with companies like Qantas, Suncorp and Optus. He also facilitates and mentors design thinking at Boral, General Assembly and Academy XI. He has founded and sold his own start-ups and claims he made all the classic start-up mistakes. His start-up experience has taught him the importance of human-centricity, prioritising value and the telling of compelling stories

Omar Mashaal

Digital engineer working with artists, museums, festivals and other cultural organisations. Focused on web standards and open source software.

Opher Yom-Tov

Opher spent almost a decade with the global innovation powerhouse IDEO, first in Silicon Valley and then leading their Shanghai start-up office. He has helped develop products, services and innovation capability for corporations such as Apple, Microsoft, Nike, GE, BP, McDonald’s, Procter and Gamble and Pfizer. He then led the Customer Centred Design team at Westpac and their wealth arm BT Financial Group, charged with building Innovation and design thinking capability and creating new products, services and experiences for the group. Westpac Group have launched a number of award winning insurance, superannuation, online banking, investment and financial advice offerings through this approach that have collectively attracted billions of dollars under management.

Pasquale D'Silva

Pasquale D'Silva is an animator & software designer at Hype, in New York City. He co-founded Keezy.

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Patima Tantiprasut

Patima is the Head of Product and Design at Seven West Media, co-founder of 6Q and co-organiser and Director of Perth-based conference, Mixin. Over the years, she's worn many hats as a designer, front end developer, creative director, studio manager, brand director, digital strategist, meetup organiser, conference organiser, co-founder, people leader and now, goes about her day to day leading the direction on products with large audiences and creative people in her care. She’s passionate about many things but has a special interest in people, wellness, positive workplace culture, team engagement, ethical design and development, and of course, product love.

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Patrick Catanzariti

PatCat is a freelance web developer who has a passion for exploring the amazing things that brilliant minds make possible every day through new web technologies and techniques. He has spent countless hours staring at HTML, CSS and JavaScript, all the way back to the days spent debugging why his website wouldn't work in Netscape Navigator. He spent a large chunk of his working life at HotHouse Interactive working on projects for the Foxtel Channel Group, Toyota Australia, Amaysim and BP Australia. He has also worked on web experiments with the HTML5 canvas and video tags, 3D CSS transforms and the Twitter API.

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Patrick De Young

Patrick is a senior product manager at Domain who believes that great products are built with understanding and empathy, for both your team and your users. His product journey has taken him around the world to organisations big and small in a never-ending quest to help people get things done.

Patrick Hamann

Patrick is a front-end engineer at the Financial Times in London where – amongst other things – he is helping to build the next generation of their web platform. Prior to the FT he spent the last 3 years developing theguardian.com. When not speaking or ranting about performance he enjoys spending his spare time discovering new food and craft beer.

Patrick Meenan

Patrick has been working on web performance in one form or another for the last 20 years and is currently working on web performance measurement at Catchpoint. Prior to that he worked at Facebook, Cloudflare and Google to make Chrome and the web faster. Patrick created the popular open source WebPageTest web performance measurement tool.

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Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith is a product developer who writes about: Accessibility Collected Concepts CSS Deploying Design Golang JavaScript Marketing Planning Product React Teams Testing UX Workflow Writing

Paul Calvano

Paul Calvano is a Web Performance Architect at Etsy. He's also a co-maintainer of the HTTP Archive, a really cool open source project that has been tracking the evolution of the web since 2010, and author of various chapters of the Web Almanac.

Paul Conyngham

Paul is the Founder of Core Intelligence His other initiatives here: Data Science and Ai Association of Australia: https://dsai.org.au/ starai deepRL course: https://www.starai.io/ Sydney Mchine Learning meetup: https://www.sydneymachinelearning.org/

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Paul Gray

Paul Gray is co-founder and CMO at Bubble Gum Interactive, a VC-backed entertainment studio based in Sydney, Australia. The studio produces digital storytelling in the form of games, cartoons and interactive experiences. Paul plays a pivotal role in the product design, development, deployment and ongoing management the top charting mobile games Jetpack Jinx and Cake Bake Blitz as well as the multi-award winning kids virtual world Space Heroes Universe .

Paul Heasley

Paul is passionate about creating beautiful UI's that connect emotionally with users. He's excited by the opportunities that new technology opens up and is inspired by the innovators, free-thinkers and open source contributors in our community. Paul is currently a Technical Lead at PageUp where he tries to turn .NET Developers into Full Stack Developers by sharing his passion for the web and all things JavaScript.

Paul Hughes

Paul has been leading software teams for over 20 years, which is a surprising journey for a software developer who was adamant he never wanted to get into leadership. After coming through some health challenges early in his career, Paul discovered a passion for helping people thrive at work and has spent the last decade intentionally focused on the kind of leadership and culture that enables people to flourish while achieving amazing things. Paul is the Director of Engineering Enablement at Culture Amp, and when he’s not at work you’ll find him spending lots of time with his wife and two teenage girls, undertaking some kind of physically challenging activity, or in the early hours of the morning chipping away at his book “Love Your Team” that explores the importance of love in leadership.

Paul Theriault

Paul Theriault is the security lead for Mozilla's Firefox OS project - a project developing a mobile operating system based on web technologies. He is a reformed security consultant with a background in application security testing and these days spends his time promoting security on the web

Peggy Rayzis

Peggy Rayzis is an Engineering Manager leading developer experience on the Apollo team at Meteor Development Group, where she helps build tools for the GraphQL ecosystem. She’s also the author of react-native-create-bridge, host of Apollo #MissionBriefing, and an accomplished speaker and blogger. When she’s not coding, you can find Peggy hitting the ski slopes or traveling around the world.

Penny McLachlan

Penny is a Product Manager on the Chrome Web Platform team responsible for Chrome permissions, notifications, and progressive web apps. Penny is a co-founder of Mobify, now part of the Salesforce suite.

Peter Bradd

CEO of The Beanstalk Factory, Founding Director StartupAUS. My focus at The Beanstalk Factory is on enabling individuals within corporates to improve their ability to innovate faster and with more confidence through training and coaching. We operate throughout Australia and work primarily with large ASX listed companies and government departments. I have been an active contributor to the growth of Australia’s startup ecosystem for the past decade. In 2011, I became a Founding Director of Sydney’s first tech co-working space and the founding CEO, Fishburners - a thriving, sustainable place for startups, speakers, mentors and corporates to collaborate with each other. Fishburners is currently home to more than 175 technology startups.

Peter Ikladious

Product teams in enterprises are focused on growth now more than ever, yet much of what we hear about growth is geared towards startups. Enterprises face unique challenges that require product teams to think differently in order to achieve growth at scale. Peter Ikladious, Director of Growth, will share how he is able to drive growth at one of the world’s largest enterprise companies. In this session, you’ll learn how IBM uses data, design within product to ignite and ultimately sustain growth.

Peter Isaacs

Peter Isaacs is a passionate conversational AI designer who strives to make interactions with AI feel natural and human. As a Senior Conversation Design Advocate at Voiceflow, he draws on his experience in diverse industries to craft compelling conversational experiences. Peter is dedicated to elevating best practices, frequently sharing his insights on industry podcasts and through his writing. He tinkers with Large Language Models in his free time, building conversational apps that focus on fluid, engaging interactions.

Peter Merholz

Peter Merholz is an experience design and product management executive with 20 years experience across a broad range of digital media. In 2016 he co-wrote, with Kristin Skinner, Org Design for Design Orgs , the first book to address building and managing effective in-house design teams. In 2001, Peter co-founded Adaptive Path, perhaps the world's premier firm dedicated to user experience. He was instrumental in its growth from a small boutique firm to an international consultancy, with offices in San Francisco, Austin, and Amsterdam. After Adaptive Path, he lead the global design team at Groupon, including product/UX, marketing, and brand design. He grew the team from 30 to 60, and was instrumental in the first redesign of Groupon.com since the company launched. In 1999, Peter coined the word "blog." Really. In the OED and everything.

Peter Moskovits

Peter leads IBM’s world-wide developer advocacy teams raising awareness of a wide range of technologies (AI/ML, blockchain, containers, serverless, Java) in strategic communities in San Francisco, New York, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. Before joining IBM, Peter was involved with low latency web communications technologies at Kaazing, a startup that pioneered the WebSocket standard, and was director of product management for portal and content management products at Oracle. Peter is an avid backyard beekeeper learning every day from his honey bees.

Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson is a Senior Engineer on Nine Publishing's CMS team (formerly Fairfax Media). Peter has worked on the web for twenty years on everything from table based layouts in the 90s to enterprise grade CMS development. Peter’s a big fan of musical theatre and often encourages his industry colleagues to join him for a show or two in New York or in the West End.

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Phil Banks

Phil is a designer. He likes to consider himself a practical and pragmatic person, that puts user needs above his own design aesthetic. His process is based on user centred design principles and he gets a kick out of testing, learning and then iterating based on feedback gained from user research. He loves designing with context: meeting with and gaining empathy for people is an important part of the process. He has worked as a design lead across many projects and enjoy collaborating with teams. Working with and learning from other people with different experiences and skill-sets only makes the end result better and the achievements worthwhile.

Phil Hawksworth

With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common. After more than 20 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness. Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O’Reilly, 2019)

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Phil Nash

Phil is a developer advocate for Sonar and Google Developer Expert. He loves working with Ruby or JavaScript to build web applications and tools to help developers. He once helped build a website that captured the world's favourite sandwich fillings. He has too many GitHub repositories. Away from the keyboard, Phil listens to ska punk, hangs out with his miniature dachshund (also called Ruby), and is on a mission to discover the world's best beers. Phil tweets at @philnash , and you can find him elsewhere online here .

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Philip Boardman

Philip is an Engineering Manager at Redbubble with over 20 years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining content and e-commerce websites and rich web applications. He has built and lead distributed cross-functional teams across several core products at Redbubble and previously at Compono.

Philip Chimento

Free software enthusiast, GNOME JavaScript maintainer, GNOME foundation board member, hiker, technology skeptic, lapsed laser physicist

Prakriti Mateti

Prakriti Mateti is a Director of Engineering. She cares deeply about engineering culture, complexity, what makes teams work well together, diversity, inclusion, and equity. Prakriti loves travelling and food, experimenting with different cuisines and cultures. She enjoys reading, conducting workshops, presenting talks, and occasionally jumping off something high.

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Preeti Kotamarthi

Preeti Kotamarthi is the Behavioural Science Lead at Grab, the leading ride-hailing and mobile payments app in South East Asia. She has set up the behavioural science practice at the company, helping product and design teams understand customer behaviour and build better products. She completed her Masters in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics and her MBA in Marketing from FMS Delhi. With more than 7 years of experience in the consumer products space, she has worked in a range of functions, from strategy and marketing to consulting for startups, including co-founding a startup in the rural space in India. Her main interest lies in popularising behavioural design and making it a part of the product conceptualisation process.

Quynh-Chi Nguyen

QC escaped a life in retail so she'd never have to talk to a bunch of people she didn't know again. Now she spends her time solving whatever problems need to be solved, whether in product or infrastructure. She likes Vim, buying board games she'll never have time to play, and rabbits. She breaks things a lot. Occasionally she fixes them.

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Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew is a web developer and technical writer and editor. She works for Google on the web platform team as a staff technical writer and content lead for web.dev and developer.chrome.com. Prior to Google Rachel spent 20 years as a freelancer and business owner. She founded edgeofmyseat.com in 2001 as a web development consultancy, the company moved into products launching Perch CMS in 2009 and Notist in 2018. Editor: Rachel is a dead set legend of the web

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Rachel Binx

Rachel Binx is a data visualizer, developer, designer, and mathematician. She co-founded Meshu, a generative jewelry company that creates designs based on the places people have been. She likes to think of Meshu as the intersection of maps, data, and lasers. Previously, she worked as a design technologist for Stamen Design, where she built projects for clients such as MTV, Facebook, and Oprah. When not sitting in front of a computer, Rachel likes to be out traveling the world, or at home hanging out with her cockatiel.

Rachel Ilan Simpson

Rachel is a UX designer on the Google Chrome team. She’s worked for clients like Drivenow/BMW and Freeletics, as well as for Design Agencies in Vancouver and Munich. Rachel co-founded the first German version of the Maker Faire, called “Make Munich.” She also started Munich Design Jam, which brings together coders, designers, and business people to build cool products over the course of a single day.

Rachel Nabors

Rachel went from award-winning cartoonist to front-end developer. After six years of working in the trenches for agencies, startups, and large companies, she struck off on her own to explore and spread her love of web animation to the rest of the web community. Now she leads the pack in the new, ultra-niche field of web animation and motion design for the web. Her goal: unite developers and designers to make the web a better place for everyone. Rachel travels to train people at conferences and at companies, writes about and experiments with building tools for the Web Animations API and curates the Web Animation Weekly newsletter. Rachel recently joined the Microsoft Edge Team as a program manager where she represents the web design and animation communities on the team and at conferences, and continues her work with the W3C on the CSS Working Group. 2018 Update Rachel Nabors is a creative, collaborative developer advocate who can speak to both designers and developers with credibility and authority. Companies and organizations like Mozilla, Google, Salesforce, the W3C, and Microsoft have sought out her expertise in web animation, community building, and advocacy. She founded Slack.AnimationatWork.com, one of the largest communities of web animators in the world with over 3000 members, and started the Web Animation Weekly newsletter that now reaches over 7000 designers and developers with a 50% open rate. She has delivered 60+ keynotes, talks, demons, and workshops at conferences in 14 countries. She wrote "Animation At Work", released in 2017 by A Book Apart, and she is now exploring the world of AR and VR, excited to see how her deep knowledge of the human visual system applies to the coming consumer generation of AR/VR products.

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Randy Hunt

Randy J. Hunt is Head of Design at Grab, where he leads a team of designers, writers, and researchers who create Southeast Asia’s Super App. Through Grab’s broad design practice which includes service design, product design, UX research, design operations, design systems, illustration and more, the team strives to use Design, to understand and to serve the needs of our customers, while lifting them up. He has served as Head of Design at Artsy and VP of Design at Etsy. In 2014, Etsy was honored with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Corporate & Institutional Achievement. Randy is the author of Product Design for the Web, which explores the evolving discipline of product design for today’s connected world. He also co-founded Supermarket, a curated design marketplace, founded Citizen Scholar Inc. and worked at Milton Glaser Inc. He is an active writer, lecturer, critic, and visiting designer at many colleges and universities. Randy was born and raised in Orlando, FL and spent 15 years living and working in NYC before moving to Singapore in Jan 2019. He co-founded a record label, ran a design firm in Brooklyn, and co-founded an e-commerce marketplace. He spent nearly 8 years leading design at Etsy, where he learned most of what he knows about scaling a business and leading large teams. Together with his awesome wife/partner in life, they have got two rescue dogs - Fish and Twiggy. And Randy finds his deepest joy in helping people help other people.

Randy Silver

Randy has spent the last 20 years in the US and UK , growing Product teams and cultures across the globe. After starting Amazon’s music store in two countries, he’s gone on to work with companies across media, retail, banking, utilities and government. He’s overseen digital workplace initiatives across the globe, transforming the way that companies work - and helped teams to work together effectively when not in the same room. Randy is also the founder and co-host of The Product Experience podcast , founder of Product in the {A}ether , a frequent speaker, trainer and coach.

Raquel Vélez

Raquel Vélez is a Senior Software Developer at npm, Inc. in Oakland, CA. She has previously worked at institutions such as Caltech, NASA JPL, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and various universities in Europe. In her off time, you can find her baking, teaching NodeBots not to fall off of tables, and speaking. Also, hanging out with her hilarious husband and two cats dressed in dog suits.

Raymond Dellar

We will aim to look at how various products and businesses build addiction loops into their products, and why we fall for them. Then finally reviewing how we could use these lessons to help and improve our customers lives, instead of draining them.

Raymond Sun

Weekdays Raymond is a lawyer (at Herbert Smith Freehills) who advises clients (both small and large) on regulatory, contractual, privacy and ethical risks in relation to emerging tech projects, particularly those involving AI. Week nights and weekends: he oves programming and has experience in building AI (particularly computer vision), mobile development, web development and desktop applications (Java, Python, Node.js, Dart).

Rebecca Monfries

After 15 years’ working in Project, Program and Product Delivery, Bec has delivered numerous products to market across multiple industries, platforms, organisation types and using various technologies. Bec has extensive experience in Agile and product-excellence approaches, bringing an outside-in view to the delivery of products to market, and leading efficiency into organisations’ product development capabilities.

Rebekah Campbell

Rebekah is a serial entrepreneur who has played a lead role in the disruption of two industries. Her company ‘Hey You’ is Australia’s largest mobile ordering and payments platform for cafes. Hey You enables customers to discover and build relationships with storeowners, order and pay via their mobile phones and gain loyalty. The company processes more than 50K transactions per week with 4% weekly growth and recently closed a $5M investment round led by Westpac. Rebekah’s first company, Scorpio Music, developed the careers of some of Australia's biggest stars: Evermore, Alex Lloyd, George, Matt Corby and Lisa Mitchell. Rebekah collaborated with Warner Music to pioneer new business models that revolutionised the relationship between record company and artist. In 2010, Rebekah launched a technology platform that enabled music fans to earn income by promoting concerts online. The business later sold to Future Music. Rebekah is an expert in developing strategies to disrupt and improve the way we do things and then to create the right product and brand to fulfil on the opportunity. She understands how grass roots communities work and how to build momentum so that a product takes off. Rebekah has won the support of high profile investors in Silicon Valley, raising $10 million in venture capital. Rebekah is passionate about community building and entrepreneurship. She was instrumental in the creation of large-scale fundraising events such as the Levi’s Life Festival to raise awareness about youth suicide and Make Poverty History in 2006 and serves on the Advisory Board of Kidpreneur. She writes a weekly column on entrepreneurship for the New York Times and regularly contributes to Forbes, Fast Company and BRW.

Relly Annett-Baker

Relly Annett-Baker lives in Brighton, England, with her husband, Paul Annett, and their two small sons. As a result, she thrives on the sea air, and is certain to stand on Lego, barefoot, at least once a day. She is a content strategist and writer, runs dedicated workshops in-house with companies big and small, and continues to procrastinate over the draft of her five-simple-steps book, Content Creation for the Web, due out this year. She’ll get right back to it just after she’s had another cup of tea.

Remus Mate

Remus learned programming from a very early age, on a ZX Spectrum clone in post-communist Romania. He later learned web development by downloading documentation offline because access to the internet was scarce. More than twenty years later, he enjoys not having to deal with cross-browser issues, loves that browsers have tabs and access to high-speed internet on demand. Having worked closely with the Adobe AIR, Flash and Flex teams more than ten years ago, he’s had an early glimpse into the future that could be. Today, he thinks TypeScript + React is way better than ActionScript + Flex and it’s an exciting time to be developing on the web. He is currently working on developer tooling at SEEK and on Braid, SEEK’s design system. He’s also an active open source contributor on projects such as Vanilla Extract, Webpack, Vite, various Rollup plugins, and many others.

Remya Ramesh

Remya is an award-winning design leader with over a decade of experience in UX and product development. She is the Head of Design at OpenCities where she leads a multidisciplinary team shaping the future of government-citizen interactions. An MBA candidate at the Melbourne Business School, Remya is learning to enhance understanding between design and business. She also co-runs the Ladies That UX and Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design groups in Melbourne.

Rhiana Heath

Rhiana is known for speaking about CSS and how to make web sites and applications accessible for people with disabilities. She is currently a software engineer at Blake Education. Where she works to build educational software for students around the world. Drawing from her experience in education and psychology from university and as a high school teacher. When Rhiana is not at work you’ll find her at a local park or zoo with her two children or working on her latest cross stitch pattern.

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Rich Harris

Rich Harris works at Vercel and created Rollup and Svelte; previously an award‑winning visual journalist at the Guardian and The New York Times.

Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter is a founding partner of Clearleft , a digital design consultancy and studio based in Brighton, UK. Richard is an accomplished technical author and has spoken around the world about web typography and user experience design. In 2009, Richard co-founded the web font service Fontdeck as a way to unite web designers and type designers in introducing rich typography to the web. Richard recently crowd-funded and self-published his book, Web Typography .

Richard Zhang

Richard is a seasoned professional in the tech industry currently working as a Sales Engineer at Vercel. This role allows him to blend his technical expertise and business acumen to provide tailored solutions that boost developer productivity and website performance. Before Vercel, he was a Fullstack Engineer at RangeMe and a Frontend Engineer at Mathspace, enhancing user-facing web applications and transforming user data into actionable insights. His career journey is quite diverse, covering areas from data analysis to business development, always with a focus on strategies that drive positive business outcomes. Above all, he's a problem solver with a keen interest in understanding user motivations and behaviours, who takes great satisfaction in transforming ideas into solutions that just make sense.

Rick Giner

Rick Giner has worked in delivery and software engineering roles for more than 20 years - across agency, enterprise, startups, and public sector. He's been active in many communities across this time, founding the BuzzConf Emerging Technology festival, The Web Meetup, and many more. In his current role as Managing Director of Everest Engineering, he runs the Australian arm of this international consultancy. He enjoys creating positive work cultures and leading distributed teams across the world. He is an experienced coach, mentor, facilitator and public speaker with an interest in leadership, accessibility, and emerging technology. Andrew Murphy started his career as a Software Engineer but, after a decade in technology leadership, he decided to focus on teaching the skills that he learnt the hard way. When he moved into leadership there was no support, so he had to make all the mistakes (a lot of them!) and learn from them. His goal is now to make sure that tech leaders don’t have to do things the hard way by providing them with the mindsets and skillsets that can make them happy, confident and effective leaders. His company, Tech Leaders Launchpad, currently focuses specifically on the new and emerging leader space, as that's the place we can have the biggest impact on the students, and the industry.

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Rita Kozlov

Rita Kozlov is a product manager at Cloudflare, leading the developer experience for Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare's serverless platform on the edge.

Rob Hale

Rob wears the Chief Digital Officer’s hat at Regional Australia Bank – funnily enough, a Bank, that’s based in Regional Australia. However it’s not a listed bank with traditional shareholders, it’s a customer-owned bank and if you didn’t know already, that makes a big difference. An active member of the mutual banking tech industry, Rob enjoys pushing the boundaries of what a small mutual institution can achieve and loves working with fintech startups and scaleups. You won’t realise it but he is originally from the UK. He’s lived and worked in some major cities including London, Tokyo and New York before finally settling very happily with his Aussie wife, 3 kids, 2 dogs and numerous chickens, in Armidale, NSW.

Rob Hawkes

Co-founder at @ UrbanSim . Creator of @ ViziCities . Previously worldwide devrel at @ Mozilla & @ Pusher . Thrives on combining design & code to solve problems.

Rob Howard

Rob is a web developer who hops between Haskell, JavaScript and PureScript at Ambiata. Having made a career nicking the nice bits from different programming languages, he'd like nothing better than to help programming communities to learn more from each other. If you're a fan of essay-length tweet threads, he's on Twitter (and most other things) as @damncabbage.

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Rob Manson

Rob is the original evangelist for Mixed Reality (AR & VR) using open web standards. He's an invited expert with the W3C, the Khronos group plus the ISO and he's been involved in Mixed Reality research and development for the last 12 years. Rob believes the creation of immersive experiences should be democratized and not just available to those with large budgets and a team of developers. In 2009 he lead the team that launched the world’s first web based AR Content Creation platform (buildAR.com). Now, Rob is the CEO & co-founder of the https://awe.media platform which gives you the power to create, view and share Mixed Reality using your web browser. It makes it easy to add 3D models, animations, event driven information or actions to your creations, all without any coding required. Or you can use our open source awe.js API to add your own custom functionality. Rob Manson is CEO and co-founder of buildAR.com, the world's leading Augmented Reality Content Management System. Rob is the Chair of the W3C Augmented Web CG and an Invited Expert with the ISO, W3C and the Khronos Group. He is an active evangelist within the global AR and standards communities and he is regularly invited to speak on the topics of the Augmented Web, Augmented Reality, WebRTC and multi-device platforms. Rob's latest book " Getting started with WebRTC " is now a 5 star hit on Amazon.

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Rob Pyne

Rob is the founder of Realizer, that helps organisations focus on long-term development of the 4 most important skills for the future: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication and Collaboration. We use the latest science to help people improve their self awareness and make real change

Robert Tilt

Robert Tilt is the Interactive Lead at Isobar Australia, where he both leads the Sydney front-end team and bridges the gap between technology and creative. Having a diverse formal background of fine art, computer science and advertising, he sources and evaluates new technology and how it can be used to enable creative ideas.

Robin Berjon

Robin Berjon is Vice President of Data Governance at The New York Times, working on improving privacy, on data management, and on making sure that the Web can support independent media. He has contributed extensively to W3C standards and founded Web Platform Tests.

Robin Marx

Robin Marx is a Web Performance and network protocol researcher at KULeuven, Belgium. He is mainly looking into HTTP/3 and QUIC performance, and develops the qlog and qvis tools to make this easier. In a previous life he was a multiplayer game programmer and co-founder of LuGus Studios. YouTube videos of Robin are either humoristic technical talks or him hitting other people with longswords.

Robin Ricard

Robin joined Bloomberg in 2017 and has worked on the Bloomberg Terminal’s software infrastructure since then. He first worked on internal tools for Bloomberg's developers, then worked on the UI infrastructure behind the Terminal, and most recently is working on JavaScript performance and build infrastructure. Along the way, Robin started working on Record & Tuple, a new proposed feature for JavaScript, and joined the Bloomberg TC39 delegates to champion the feature.

Rod Farmer

Dr Rod Farmer is a multi-award winning designer and strategist. He is currently the Executive Director of Experience Design at Visual Jazz. Over the past 15 years, Rod has helped some of Australia's leading organisations reshape their businesses, products and services to better meet their customer needs and shifting technology landscape. Rod was was the Lead Human-Computer Interaction expert witness in the Apple versus Samsung trial, and is passionate about how technology shapes who we are and what we do.

Rod Vagg

Rod Vagg describes himself as a recovering Java programmer with a passion for JavaScript. Rod has been building software for the web for nearly 15 years and is excited about the modularity and productivity afforded by Node.js for constructing complex and performant web applications.

Rona Shaanan

A product designer from Tel Aviv, now based in Brisbane, Rona Shaanan has over 10 years experience in the technology industry, moving the needle for start-ups in various spaces including education, enterprise network and agriculture. She is currently a senior designer at Data61|CSIRO and secretly developing a super-cool web/tv project.

Rose Matthews

A self-described ‘nosey person’, Rose has worked on user-centred design projects across the world with a heavy focus on financial and public sector services. She’s currently leading service design engagements for Fjord’s studio in Sydney, as well as following her passion in charitable causes. 2018 Update Rose is a Design Lead with global experience in developing new services for health, finance and government. Having initially trained as a nurse in the UK, Rose turned to design as a way to achieve greater impact on a larger population and has never lost sight of that aim. In recent years she's worked with Fjord, the Australian Government, Asia Development Bank and with organisations seeking to build their own design capabilities. Her work is always highly collaborative - Rose's view is that no one person can ever innovate as effectively as a collection of well-facilitated experts. At M4ID, Rose heads service and social innovation design for our flagship programmes, ranging from planning and leading co-design with communities to lending her design skills to transforming global organisation.

Ross Chaldecott

Ross has more than 20 years of experience working in executive design leadership roles in global tech leaders and startups, most recently as Director of UX at Shopify. Previously he was the Head of Design at Campaign Monitor, and Senior Manager of UX at Atlassian.

Rowan Merewood

Rowan leads the Developer Relations team for security, privacy, payments, and identity for Chrome. Essentially anywhere people are creating—or specifically *not* creating—relationships on the web. Recently that's meant a lot of focus on cookies and the long road to getting us all to consume fewer of them. In his seven years at Google he's worked across a variety of areas from Android, Firebase, and all the way back to Google+. In the end though, the web has always been his natural home.

Rupert Manfredi

Rupert is a designer and programmer, currently working on the future of human-computer interfaces at Adept. He's passionate about the open web, and a world in which personal computing is more humane and accessible for all.

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Russ Weakley

Russ Weakley is an author, speaker and CSS expert, with a detailed knowledge of web design and development. Russ runs the Web Standards Group and has produced a series of widely acclaimed online tutorials on CSS, Responsive Web Design and web development. 2018 Update Russ Weakley is a User Experience Designer with over 20 years of experience designing and developing websites and applications who is currently working as the Senior Creative UI Designer at IAG. Russ has worked wth a wide range of companies and Government Agencies over the years, including: Sensis, Origin Energy Australia, Reed Business, Planet Ark, Screenrights, Employers Mutual, Smiths, Mosman Council, Australian Human Rights Commission, Australian Self Medication Industry, Amnesty International Australia, Melbourne University eScholarship Research Centre, Copyright Agency, Pinpoint, Pfizer Australia and many more.

Russell Ivanovic

I run @ shiftyjelly with @ geekygecko . We make @ pocketcasts among other things. I co-host @ materialpodcast .

Ruth John

Ruth is a creative engineer with a web development background. She has enjoyed a 15-year career working on websites, applications and most recently interactive art projects, especially those featuring audio. She also educates people and enjoys talking about new web technologies, inspiring others to try them. Always coming up with exciting and engaging ways to use them, as well as interesting integrations into everyday development. As a Google Developer Expert and founding member of { Live : JS } she’s almost always got a conference talk lined up, article ready to be published or live show tour date in the diary.

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Ryan Bigg

Ryan is the Junior Engineering Program Lead at Culture Amp. He runs a program where, along with his team, he brings in some junior developers and trains them up to be the most confident and capable versions of themselves. In his spare time, he writes books on Ruby, Rails and Elixir.

Ryan Seddon

Ryan Seddon is a Portfolio Architect at Zendesk. Hailing from Melbourne Australia, he has a keen interest in all the facet of the front-end and how to build, architect and maintain complex products.

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Sally Bagshaw

Sally is a Brisbane-based content strategist who likes big, messy web redevelopment projects. A word nerd at heart, she isn’t afraid of spreadsheets or metadata but hates the word migration. She often finds herself giving pep-talks to clients that they will have their content ready on time. Sally has a special interest in the author experience, and how writing for the web is evolving with technology, mobile and the rise of structure content. 2018 Update Sally Bagshaw. is a word-nerdy copywriter and content strategist from Brisbane, Australia who loves to write. Since establishing Snappy Sentences she's had a variety of clients, and have written many websites, brochures and publications. When she's not writing for clients you can find her on Twitter, at Interactive Minds and Networx events, hosting Brisbane Content Strategy Group meetups or writing about content strategy.

Sam Hancock

Sam is the Lead UX Designer at data-first consultancy, Servian. Sam focuses on establishing a fast-paced design process, that is both experimentation and validation heavy. This enables complex, data-driven solutions to be engaging and usable. Sam has worked for some of the most iconic, data-driven enterprises in Australia including; ASX, Macquarie Bank, Telstra and Cisco.

Sam Hobson

Sam is a former Designer, and now Digital Accessibility Consultant at Intopia. He is also a Sessional Academic teaching Design and The Web at Queensland University of Technology.

Samantha Thebridge

Samantha has been designing complex web apps since 1998. She’s been an interaction and visual interface designer for online booking systems and shopping sites for Qantas, Panasonic, Telstra, YHA and BigPond for companies like Red Square, Boomworks, Wax and now Atlassian. Over time, Samantha’s roles have become increasingly more software-development-centric, and her exploration of the minds of software engineers is a life-long hobby. Now she’s designing software for software engineers and splashing about in a whirlpool of meta.

Samuel Proulx

Samuel Proulx is the Accessibility Evangelist at Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform powered by people with disabilities. As a blind individual, Sam knows and values the importance of accessibility in all aspects of life and is a strong advocate for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the digital world. Sam brings his previous experience as Fable’s community manager, plus life-long advocacy for himself and others, to his role as Evangelist.

Sara Soueidan

I’m an inclusive design engineer, author, speaker, and trainer. I love the Web platform and I want to make it better for everyone. And I consider myself to be completely blessed that I get to build it for a living. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences, and have been working in this field since 2012. For a little less than a decade, I’ve worked with companies and agencies around the world, building Web user interfaces and digital products with focus on responsive design, accessibility, performance, and cutting-edge tech. Here is a selected list of clients I’ve had the opportunity to work with: I created the “Practical Accessibility” course —a get-right-down-to-it online video course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today. And in the past, I wrote the Codrops CSS Reference , and co-authored the Smashing Book 5 — a book that covers time-saving, practical techniques for crafting fast, maintainable and scalable responsive websites.

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Sara VanSlyke

Sara VanSlyke is a visual designer based in San Francisco. She currently works as a Design Lead at Atlassian, focusing on complex, systemic brand problems to make them meaningful and consistent across every touchpoint.

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Sara Wachter-Boettcher is an independent content strategist, writer, and rabble-rouser based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She got this way after stints as a journalist, copywriter, and web writer, during which she became increasingly dissatisfied with the chaos typically found in web content projects. In 2008, she launched a content strategy practice at her past agency, and started working closely with IA and UX teams to build a better way forward. Today Sara focuses on designing systems for flexible, adaptable, future-friendly content, with a heavy interest in making content mobile-ready. When she’s not consulting with clients or partnering with agencies, she’s putting the finishing touches on her first book, Content Everywhere, with Rosenfeld Media; serving as Editor in Chief of A List Apart; contributing to publications like Contents Magazine; and speaking about content strategy, user experience, and related topics at conferences worldwide. You can read her blog at sarawb.com . 2018 Update Sara is the principal of Rare Union , a product and content strategy consultancy based in Philadelphia, and the author of Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms , and Other Threats of Toxic Tech. Her other books include Design for Real Life, co-authored with Eric Meyer, and Content Everywhere. Her writing has appeared in Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, Quartz, and Wired, and she’s given talks at events in a dozen countries (and counting). Her friends seem to think she’s super productive, but she really spends most days wearing gym clothes and slippers.

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Sarah Federman

Sarah Federman is a UX designer and front end engineer who loves applying systems thinking to solve product problems. She graduated with her BFA in New Media Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. Previously a UI engineer at LinkedIn, she’s currently using her diverse skillset to help create the design system at Adobe, dubbed Spectrum.

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Sarah Maddox

Sarah Maddox is a technical writer at Google in Sydney. With fifteen years' experience in technical communication and ten as a software developer, she’s a dab hand at making words and code play nicely together. She has a strong belief that chocolate solves many a tech comm problem.

Sarah Mei

Sarah likes code, especially when there's a lot of it. She's been working with Ruby and JavaScript since before they were a big deal, and with software in general for almost two decades. Currently, she is Chief Consultant at DevMynd, where she works with successful teams, helping their developers -- and their codebases -- survive and thrive.

Sarah Pulis

Sarah is the cofounder and accessibility services director at Intopia. Sarah has extensive experience helping organisations to create more inclusive digital experiences at both a strategic and a technical level. She’s known to be an extremely passionate advocate of accessibility - she'll happily talk your ear off about it. Sarah is also founder of A11y Bytes and A11y Camp, Australia's largest community events focused on increasing awareness and supporting inclusive design and digital accessibility.

Sarah Taraporewalla

Sarah Taraporewalla is a Principal Consultant working for ThoughtWorks, where she specializes in developing robust software for the future, delivered today. She has acted as developer, software architect, technical lead and agile coach on many projects. She has spoken at both internal and external conferences, skills matter courses and geek nights. Although primarily focused on software design, she also has a lot to say about how software can be developed to accommodate the changing pace of business and how people should be treated within teams.

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Saurabh Karwal

Saurabh is the Experience Design Director at Sitback Solutions, a Human-Centred design and development agency based in Sydney. In his 10 years of experience, Saurabh has worked with design teams in India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Germany and Australia. He has lead teams of junior and senior designers, psychologists and HCI experts in order to help clients achieve exceptional design solutions and user experiences. He has lead projects for clients from domains including banks, education, automobiles, health care, aged care and data science.

Scott Burns

Scott (AKA Burnsy) has hopped, skipped and jumped across a variety of design disciplines and digital product roles. Holding a multi-facetted skillset, Burnsy, is passionate about applying human-centred principles within cross-functional teams to help tackle the challenges at the intersection of business, design and technology. Leveraging strategic thinking, research methodologies, creative problem solving and impactful communication skills, Burnsy seizes any opportunity to bring diverse people together to create meaningful change.

Scott Jehl

Scott Jehl is a designer/developer who works with the bright folks at Filament Group building websites and applications for clients such as the Boston Globe, LEGO, Global News, eBay, and more. In 2014 Scott wrote Responsible Responsive Design, and back in 2010 he cowrote Designing with Progressive Enhancement.He regularly speaks at conferences like An Event Apart, Smashing Conf, and BDConf, and is an active participant in the open-source community, maintaining projects that focus on accessible, sustainable, and performant practices for cross-device development.

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Scott Jenson

Scott Jenson started as a UX designer at Apple in 1988 working System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He moved to London to be Director of Symbian’s DesignLab, then back to California to manage Mobile UX at Google, then creative director for frog design. Headed up design for two startups and eventually returned to Google to work on the Physical Web project and Android UX research. Now semi-retired.

Scott Kellum

Scott Kellum is the founder of Typetura, a typography as a service company offering both bespoke and ready-made typographic solutions. With over 15 years of design experience across type, editorial, digital, and print design, Scott’s experience gives him a unique perspective on the typographic challenges and opportunities in the design industry. He has invented multiple web technologies, holds two patents, and has contributed to major projects at Vox Media, Darden Studio, and Roger Black Studio. These accomplishments include inventing dynamic typographic systems, high impact ad formats, new parallax techniques, an image replacement method, and the fluid typesetting technology that powers Typetura itself.

Scott Thomas

Scott Thomas, a.k.a SimpleScott, is a designer, technologist and founder of the Noun Project, a platform devoted to creating the world's visual language. Before creating a resource for universal communication, Scott collaborated on a wide array of projects for various brands, organizations, and agencies around the globe, including Obama for America, the White House, Fast Company, Apple, IBM, HP, Nike, Patagonia, Levis, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and Craigslist. His work has been featured in Wired, Print Magazine, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. In his free time, Scott strokes his beard and stares off into the distance, deep in thought about how to improve the world through design and technology.

Seaton Mckeon

Seaton is an experienced Industrial Designer with a demonstrated history of over 7 years working in the design industry. He is the Director of IKKIWORKS - an exciting Medical Companion Therapy Robot startup based at the CSIRO campus in Lindfield.

Seb Chan

Seb Chan is Chief Experience Officer at ACMI [Australian Centre for the Moving Image] in Melbourne. He is responsible for holistic experience design and oversees teams responsible for visitor experience, marketing, brand & communication design, digital products, ICT, as well as the museum’s collections, digitisation & digital preservation programs. Prior to this he led the digital renewal and interactive transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (2011-2015). At the Cooper Hewitt he also led experiments in the acquisition of digital design including the first ‘App’ to enter the Smithsonian’s permanent collection. He drove the Powerhouse Museum’s pioneering work in open access, mass collaboration and digital experience during the 2000s. He has also worked as a museum consultant with institutions across North America, Europe and Asia. His work has won awards from American Alliance of Museums, One Club, D&AD, Fast Company and Core77. He is an Adjunct Professor, School of Media and Communications, in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT, and is a member of the international advisory board of Art Science Museum (Singapore), and advisory committees for the National Museum of Australia, Hammer Museum at UCLA (USA), and the Exploratorium (USA), National Heritage Board of Singapore, and is a board member of Diversity Arts Australia. He is an alumni of the Getty Leadership Institute, Salzburg Global Seminar, UNSW, and also leads a parallel life in digital art and electronic music also founding Cyclic Defrost Magazine.

Sebastiano Armeli

Sebastiano is an engineering leader currently working at Pinterest as Head of Shopping Experience Engineering. In the past, Sebastiano has been leading engineering teams at a few other companies such as Paypal, Snapchat and Spotify. Sebastiano is an avid listener of podcasts around leadership, management and wellness. In a past life, he was a full-stack web engineer (e.g. he worked as JavaScript engineer at REA). Sebastiano received a MS in Software Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan and an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology.

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Serena Chen

Serena Chen is a professional pixel-pusher focused on security, privacy and trust. She is an ex-physicist/mathematician, one-time teen magazine founder, and hacker at heart. She cares deeply about using technology to build a fairer, kinder, and better world. By day she's an interaction designer on the security teams at Google Chrome and Chromium.

Shabnam Mohammadian

Frontend Developer experienced in e-commerce and advertising industry in order to configure, upgrade and maintain various projects. Possesses a strong willingness to learn and maintain currency with JavaScript frameworks. Involved in creating cross-functional and cross-organizational teams with customers (Agile environment) to identify, prioritize, and design solutions.

Shane Morris

Shane Morris is one of Australia’s most respected user experience professionals. Through consulting, mentoring and training he has helped organisations create compelling digital experiences since 1991. In that time he has worked on traditional productivity applications, mobile experiences, physical devices and end-to-end services. Shane has taught user experience topics around the world and has worked with companies like Microsoft, Lonely Planet, Cochlear, Qantas, Telstra, Australia Post and Tennis Australia - helping creative and technical professionals collaborate to create services that empower, inspire and reward. His passion is transforming the complex and constrained into the simple and powerful. Not just because it's a valuable endeavour, but because it's hard - and therefore immensely rewarding.

Shane Weddell

No stranger to the pressures experienced in fast paced and demanding environments. Employing a patient approach and creative thinking to find ingenious solutions. A capacity to communicate at all levels — from software engineers up to the CEO developed. With the abilities required to maximize a companies revenue growth and increase market share. And an enviable talent for business development, it was time for skin in the game. Founding SilverStripe Australia in 2009 to support open source MVC framework in its early stage adoption. Driving the strategic expansion in domestic and international markets for several years. An open source project can not thrive with a single source, only with a vibrant community. A passion for open source became augmented with a new passion. Pursuing and sharing success with partner relationships as a core value. Connecting accomplished, emerging, freelance and enterprise organisations into a vibrant community. Providing the foundation to their commercial success.

Sharbani Dhar

Sharbani Dhar is the Lead Designer for My Post Consumer Program; the customer portal for Australia Post. She is responsible for leading strategic design solutions for its consumer-facing applications for the MyPost platform. Sharbani is a strong advocate and actively implements collaborative work methodologies to guide UX adoption in a highly agile production environment.

Shawn Swyx Wang

swyx has worked on React and serverless JavaScript at Two Sigma, Netlify and AWS, and now serves as Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io. He has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His nontechnical writing was recently published in the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developers.

Shefik Bey

Shefik is a leading digital innovator who has practiced and influenced the growth of User Experience (UX) in Australia and around the world for the past 20 years. He has a proven track record delivering digital strategies that drive high profile clients to success, across a multitude of industry sectors. In 2001 he established pioneer UX consultancy U1 Group, and the company now heralds more than 30 staff across Melbourne and Sydney.

Sheree Hannah

Sheree Hannah is an award-winning freelance designer, speaker and mentor with over 12 years of experience. Sheree has led the user experience and design offerings at agencies including Carter Digital and Channel T. She has worked with clients including Heinz, Nissan, Mondelez, Monash University, The Australian Ballet, Black Dog Institute, Indigenous Business Australia, The Heart Foundation, Fairfax and LaunchVic. An advocate for strategic design, her approach lies in creating work that produces business results and puts a dent in the world (the good type).

Sherif Mansour

Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. He is currently a Distinguished Product Manager for Atlassian. During his career at Atlassian he was, among other things, responsible for Confluence, a popular content collaboration tool for teams. Most recently, he spends most of his days trying to solve problems across all of Atlassian’s cloud products. Sherif also played a key role in developing new products at Atlassian such as Stride, Team Calendars, and Confluence Questions. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.

Shivay Lamba

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

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Silvia Pfeiffer

Silvia is an open video technology enthusiast with a long background in open source software, media technology R&D, and in open standards. She worked as a Google contractor on video accessibility for the Web and became the editor of the WebVTT specification and co-editor of the HTML5 specification at the W3C. She is the author of “ The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Video ”.

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Simon Elvery

Simon is a web developer practising journalism at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Brisbane. 2018 Update Simon Elvery is a skilled and motivated web professional with a passion for new media, technology and design. He has tertiary qualifications in Business and Information Technology. He has a professional experience in web development, web design, technology commercialisation, intellectual property, business management and education.

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Simon Hearne

Simon is a web performance and user experience advocate. He helps folks build faster websites, collect better data and create stunning data visualisations. You can find him on Twitter , LinkedIn and GitHub . Simon writes about user experience, performance, accessibility and data visualsations.

Simon Hildebrandt

Simon has been a web developer for almost two decades, but his restless love for coding roams over game development and embedded experimentation too. His Github account is littered with experiments varying from broken prototype to finished product, and his desk is littered with laser cut fragments, 3D printed widgets and custom circuit boards. Being a Dad to Maisy and Alex, and a husband to Amanda, are the only things that trump technical meddling for him.

Simon Knox

Simon is a frontend enthusiast at Kogan.com in Melbourne with strong feelings about native apps and flash plugins. He enjoys exploring the endless possibilities available in browsers, and looks forward to a more real-time web.

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Simon MacDonald

Simon has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects, including object-oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open-source projects Architect and Enhance to enable developers to create functional web applications. Simon’s been building web applications since the time they were written using shell scripts. He still has nightmares about those dark days.

Simon Mateljan

Simon is an experienced Design Manager at Atlassian in the Design System team with a focus on accessibility. With two decades in the digital and design landscape, he has crossed industries ranging from finance to insurance and travel, learning the entire way. Over this time, he has worked and led designers across multiple disciplines in the beautiful design world. He champions inclusivity and accessibility in design and believes technology should be an enabler, not a barrier. Beyond the pixels and prototypes, he advocates for the power of design communities. Over the years in his hometown of Perth, WA, he is immersed in the vibrant Western Australian design scene as an organiser of UX Camp Australia and Experience Design Perth. More recently he is an organiser behind Friends of Figma Sydney, where all design enthusiasts unite to share their passion and insights.

Simon Swain

Simon spends most of his day using Javascript to design systems and human interfaces for real-time data. Based in Sydney, Australia he's come full circle back to his electronic engineering roots to work for a startup creating tiny but powerful wifi enabled modules that will be brains for the coming flood of internet connected devices. On the side Simon produces Techno, keeps obsessively fit and is still trying to work out Wing Chun.

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Simon Wardan

Simon Wardan is a Principal Engineer who has been fortunate to spend over two decades in the software industry. He's had the opportunity to work across various sectors, learning and growing with each new challenge. His love for software is at the heart of what he does, and he's always eager to take on new challenges. Simon takes pride in his ability to explain complex technical concepts in a way that's accessible to everyone.

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Simon Wright

Simon has spent the past three years collaborating with a range of clients on their digital products, and building his own. In that time he's helped a fulfilment-focused startup evolve their product experience, a media brand test new product ideas, helped reshape the design language of a conference series, and a government department better communicate the sensitive subject of mining and exploration. He's also created and coded a coffee subscription service and was part of the team behind a coworking space in Sydney’s inner-west. Prior to that Simon spent five years at news.com.au as Art Director, leading the design and front-end development teams.

Soren Hamby

Soren is a recovering font collector and is designing inclusive products and accessible design systems. They have a BFA in Design from the University of Alabama Huntsville, a certificate in accessibility program management from Deque, and certification in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell’s ILR school. Soren writes about ux for Inside Design, Modus, UX Planet, and UX Collective. As a Senior Manager of UX, Soren Hamby is making the design industry more equitable. They have a focus on accessibility, diversity, and inclusivity while simultaneously building a strong and diverse team. Otherwise, you can find them eating large amounts of plants, collecting fun enamel pins, and advocating for neurodivergent and disability representation in tech.

Stefan Bramble

Stefan is a clown, teacher, facilitator, youth worker, actor, consultant, academic and coach. Together, with Georgina Robilliard he is building Playgrounded and helping teams be more effective and have more fun working.

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Stefan Shroeder

Stefan is a post-it loving Experience Designer. Growing up in Germany he founded a fin-tech start-up and failed, applied for a job in product management, but got hired as an UX Designer and designed award-winning experiences for international brands. Today, he works as an Experience Lead for SapientRazorfish in Melbourne and partners with clients to help them realise a better future for their business by creating transformative experiences and business models that improve their customers' lives. Apart from design, he loves cat tattoos and his Dachshund, Whiskey.

Stefano Fratini

I am a technology leader that specialised in highly scalable systems and distributed computing but also likes people, team management and how to get the best for everyone I work with. Originally from Italy, in Australia for over 15years now I have been an IC, manager, architect, manager of managers then IC again in a start-up then back into management now at Rokt. I live in Sydney with my wife, my 3 kids and a big cat

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Sten Pittet

Sten is the co-founder and CEO of Tability. Before that, Sten held multiple roles in software development, including being Product Manager at Atlassian. Outside of work, he's sharpening his fathering skills and likes to pretend he can surf.

Stephanie Eckles

Stephanie Eckles is the author of in-depth tutorials on ModernCSS.dev, and the creator of StyleStage.dev, SmolCSS.dev, and 11ty.Rocks. Steph has well over a decade of webdev experience that she enjoys sharing as an author, egghead and workshop instructor, podcast host, Twitch streamer, and conference speaker. She's an advocate for accessibility, scalable CSS, and the Jamstack. Offline, she's mom to two girls and a cowboy corgi and enjoys baking.

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Stephanie Rewis

Stephanie Rewis is Lead Developer on Design Systems at Salesforce UX where she leads the team responsible for the CSS framework in the Salesforce Lightning Design System. Stephanie has been a front-end developer, passionate about web standards and accessibility, for over 16 years. She has worked with a wide spectrum of clients including Under Armour, Newsweek, MLB, New York Magazine, Adobe, Quiznos, Disney’s ‘TRON’, and a lively bunch of startups. She’s spoken at conferences including HOW Design Conference, UI16, An Event Apart, Microsoft’s MIX, Macworld, SxSW, Adobe MAX, among others. She’s a published author and has written for numerous publications. When not fighting specificity wars, she and her husband escape on their catamaran, Amritha.

Stephanie Troeth

Most recently, Stephanie Troeth was the Head of Research at Clearleft, where she helped companies and organisations, including the Greater London Authority and Virgin Holidays, build customer intelligence through combining design research with other disciplines. Previously, she led design research at the Telegraph, and spearheaded European customer research with MailChimp as a research consultant Having designed and built for the web for nearly 20 years, Stephanie has worn many hats. Apart from co-founding a startup on digital books as product lead, she was the Director of Interactive Technology at a Montreal agency where she led a multi-disciplinary team of project managers, UX and graphic designers, front-end engineers and programmers.

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Stephen P. Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson is the Chief Experience Officer at BloomBoard, where he is transforming how teachers grow as professionals. Once a high school teacher, Stephen continues to challenge and inspire people as an international speaker and trainer; he's presented at some of the world's largest organizations, teaching product teams about games, play, learning, interactive visualizations, and other fun topics. Stephen is most recognized as the man behind the Mental Notes card deck—a tool that's widely used by product teams to apply psychology to interaction design. He also authored Seductive Interaction Design, which answers the question: "How do we get people to fall in love with our applications?"

Stephen Rees-Carter

Stephen is a security consultant and crusted-on PHP developer who spends his days doing Laravel Security Audits and Penetration Tests. When he’s not trying to hack his client’s websites, he teaches Laravel and PHP developers how to think like a hacker through his Securing Laravel mailing list and Practical Laravel Security course. His conference talks have been described as "terrifying magic tricks", that show just how easy it is to hack into a vulnerable site and cause mayhem.

Steve Baty

Steve is well-known in the area of strategic design, contributing to public discourse on these topics through articles and conferences here and internationally. Steve sits on the Good Design Council of Australia and served on the Judging Panel for the Good Design Awards from 2012-2016. He served on the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Board of Directors from 2009 to 2014, served as President from 2012 to 2014, and served as Chair of the Interaction|12 conference. Steve is also Chair of Australia’s UX Australia conferences. Steve is the CEO of the Australian Design Council. Steve is the co-author of Designing Tomorrow – Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Your Organisation & Your Planetary Impact

Steve Harrison

Steve has worked as a Front End Developer for the last decade in a variety of industries including aerial imagery, streaming, aviation, and crypto. He's contributed to open source projects including Preact and answered questions on StackOverflow since 2008, earning a reputation of ~115K. Steve loves to learn about new tech, and is particularly enthusiastic about design, performance, accessibility, and test automation.

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Steve Honeyman

Steve is a Web Developer, guitar playter and boulderer. Addicted to coffe, he has had a thing for graphic design, CSS, gritstone and classic breaks and beats, though not always in that order. In 2016, he moved to the south coast to pick up his career and be close to Brighton, one of his favourite places anywhere. Prior to this, he did an MA in Interactive Multimedia Production, worked in mental health, DJ'd, played guitar in fuck and hip-hop bands and live a fairly nomadic existence based around his love for bouldering. Homes from the bouldering years included Salt Lake City, a Swiss village called Chironico, a lake District pub car park and an old AA van. To be fair it was the Old Dungeon Ghyll car park, so not any old pub.

Steve Morris

Steve is a Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks with experience both domestic and abroad, on brown and greenfield projects for both the public and private sectors. He has worked on a diverse array of software for a variety of organisations. Steve values clarity and enthusiasm and is passionate about finding the right solution for the job.

Stoyan Stefanov

Stoyan Stefanov is a Facebook engineer, ex-Yahoo, architect of the performance tool YSlow2.0 and creator of the image optimizer smush.it. He’s the author of the books “JavaScript Patterns” and “Object-Oriented JavaScript” and contributor to “Even Faster Web Sites” and “High-Performance JavaScript”. He curates the Performance Advent Calendar .

Tammy Butow

Tammy has led teams across Infrastructure Engineering (block data, metadata, source control (git), code search, IDE & Debugger, code review and mypy), Cloud Infrastructure As A Service (Linux/Networking) and Product Engineering (Web Applications, Mobile Applications & Analytics). Tammy has worked as an engineer in Product Engineering, Security Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering. Tammy studied Computer Science as an Undergraduate and Graduate in Australia.

Tammy Everts

Tammy has spent the past two decades studying how people use the web. As CXO at SpeedCurve, she now helps some of the biggest companies in the world understand how people experience their websites. Her book Time Is Money (O’Reilly) explores the intersection of performance, user experience, and business. Tammy is a frequent conference speaker, co-curator of WPOstats.com, and co-chair of the annual performance.now() conference.

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Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik currently works on Open Web Standards at Mozilla. His extensive history on the Web inludes authoring several key W3C specifications, leading the development efforts on Internet Explorer 5 for the Macintosh, co-founding the Microformats movement, and inventing the now infamous, though vital CSS box model hack. He continues to advocate for, and work tirelesssly to develop standards and technologies for an open Web.

Tanvi Patel

Tanvi worked as Software Engineer at Yelp, San Francisco as part of core web team. Right now she is relaxing and enjoying life before she starts her new ride with Uber as a Software Engineer. She originally hails from India where she worked for few years in a product oriented software company as well as in media company. Tanvi cares about technology, health and equality. You will find her openly speaking about and advocating these causes at various events happening in Silicon Valley.

Tanya Dixit

Tanya is a Deep Learning practitioner, currently involved with multiple projects in the field of NLP and CV. She has skills in digital image processing, traditional computer vision techniques, handling structured as well as unstructured datasets, deep learning, and its advanced applications in Computer Vision as well as Natural Language Processing.

Tanya Pelly

Medical doctor turned 'people-preneur' - committed to the infinite game of making work better for humans....previously consultant to govt and private sector in use of data for human impact....designs and implements thriving workplace practices.....Gen Z mindset in a Gen X timeline!

Taz Singh

Taz is the Founder of Guild and long time participant in communities across the globe. He has over two decades of software experience ranging from video games & robotic AI to consumer application development, has served as a principal technical management consultant, and is a serial startup founder. When he's not behind his computer, he can be found chasing his cat around the house or being chased by cars around a race track.

Tea Uglow

Tea Uglow is a writer, LGBTQ activist, and a speaker on innovation, inclusion, and digital futures. Tea founded Creative Labs for Google in Sydney (2011) and London (2007) and became globally known for work focused on projects with cultural organisations that enabled artists, writers, dancers and other cultural practitioners to digitally augment or interpret their work. As a queer activist she authored a compilation of LGBTQ activist speeches called Loud and Proud, and is the very proud co-author of the trans pride flag emoji, despite the 4 and a half years it took to achieve something that seemed so obvious. Her writing includes: Loud & Proud [Quarto, 2020] and A Curiosity of Doubts [Penguin, 2016]. In 2018 she was awarded a Peabody for digital storytelling for 'Editions at Play' a series of digital books with Visual Editions including We Kiss the Screens [2019] & A Universe Explodes [2018]. Tea currently advocates for mental health, disability, LGBTQ and transgender awareness and mentors queer, female and other intersectional creators and writers worldwide. She likes pop-physics, neuroscience for beginners, queer twitter, and shopping. Her pronouns are She/They.

Ted Tencza

Ted has over 25 years of experience in Software Development, the last 18 of which have been in leadership roles. Currently serving as the Founder of Code Purple Consulting, he has run multiple teams at Atlassian, Bigcommerce, finder.com and Prospa, with experience in both operational and development projects. He enjoys focusing specifically on the SaaS offerings, as well as working on improving the recruiting, hiring, and on boarding of new developers.

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Tejas Kumar

Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker and former director of engineering who adds value through engaging and educational presentations.

Thierry Wendling

Thierry is a machine learning engineer with a strong interest and experience in large scale machine learning, statistical modelling, system design and digital experimentation. He has more than five years practical hands-on experience in designing and building end-to-end ML solutions in institutions with large and complex databases.

Thomas Steiner

Thomas Steiner is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Hamburg, focused on making the Web a better place through standardization, creating and sharing best practices, and doing research. He blogs at https://blog.tomayac.com/ and tweets as @tomayac .

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Tim Buesing

With 20 years of experience in design, marketing and advertising in 4 countries Tim always strives to combine creative excellence with strategic business goals. Among many awards he has been fortunate to receive a Spikes Gold, Cannes Lions and a D&AD Black Pencil for Innovation. Tim frequently speaks or MCs at universities and creative and industry events like AGDA, AdTech, Web Directions, SXSW, VIVID, Semi Permanent and UX Australia.

Tim Churchward

A senior UX designer and team lead at Aconex, Tim Churchward has experience crossing the creative and technical boundaries of visual media and enterprise application and services. He's focussed on bringing usable, simple, powerful ideas to fruition.

Tim Gleeson

Tim Gleeson is a front end developer from Funke Labs. He has been creating websites for the past 5 years venturing into both UX and Ruby on Rails. In his free time, Tim hacks together all sorts of things but never lets them see the light of day.

Tim Hingston

Tim Hingston is an industry veteran full-stack developer. He has been leading application teams across desktop, mobile and web for years, and is currently helping to build developer tools for GraphQL @ Apollo. Tim is a happily expatriated American now living near Byron Bay, Australia.

Tim Holt

After running a one man shop for many years building all sorts of client websites, Tim started a new chapter working within a larger organisation as a member of the ABC’s Web Framework team. Primarily focused on developing a component library for the ABC’s new front end platform, Tim enjoys building tiny parts of a big machine and working with other teams to make it all fit together.

Tim Kadlec

Tim Kadlec is a Performance Engineering Fellow at Catchpoint, web performance consultant, and trainer focused on building a web everyone can use. He is the author of High Performance Images (O'Reilly, 2016) and Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (New Riders, 2012). He writes about all things web at timkadlec.com.

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Tim Nguyen

Tim is a WebKit engineer at Apple. His interest in web technology developed through years of web design and many contributions to Firefox's user interface. Those contributions led him eventually to hack on browser engines, starting with adding support for conic gradients to Gecko. These days, he is a prolific WebKit contributor. Features he's implemented include the element, popover, and View Transitions. He grew up in Paris and lives in San Francisco.

Tim Oxley

Speaker. Founder of @ campjs & SingaporeJS. NodeJS in Action 2nd ed co-author. Ask me about JS, React, WebVR & NodeJS.

Timothy Yeo

Design leader, empathetic storyteller, facilitator from problem to solution, open collaborator, builder of design teams. 15 years in UX & Design. Timothy helps achieve business outcomes by aligning influencers, bringing to life the customer's story, making sure we’re designing the right thing before we design things right.

Tobias Revell

Tobias Revell is a critical designer and futurist whose work primarily concerns fields of technopolitics and networked society. He exhibits his projects and films and talks internationally as well as teaching design with the Royal College of Art's Design Interactions program and the London College of Communication's Interaction and Moving Image course. He's also a senior associate at futures-facing design studio Superflux. His latest work - The Monopoly of Legitimate Use - looks at near-future technical, political and legal exploits for individuals looking to migrate the network.

Todd Libby

Todd is a professional web developer, designer, and accessibility advocate for 22 years under many different technologies starting with HTML/CSS, Perl, and PHP, Todd has been an avid learner of web technologies for over 40 years starting with many flavors of BASIC all the way to React/Vue. Todd is also a member of the W3C working with groups on WCAG Silver (3.0). When not coding or advocating accessibility, you'll usually find Todd tweeting about (or eating) lobster rolls and accessibility.

Tom Alterman

Tom is passionate about using technology to solve the hard problems in the world for the people who need it most. He's currently helping to digitize the Construction industry. He's spent the last 10 years leading teams to design and build great products with strong customer empathy, lean development processes and clear business impact.

Tom Armitage

Tom Armitage is a freelance technologist, designer and writer living and working in London.He makes systems, tools, toys, and art out of hardware, software, and the network. Tom has worked on everything from a large-scale website to aggregate and visualise UK schools data to giant, multi-part games that span a Parisian art gallery; from bridges that talk on Twitter and cities that speak over SMS to laser-cut sculptures of actors’ movement. He has spoken at conferences around the world (including ETech, Reboot, LIFT, Webdagene, Develop and Solid) on design, technology, and games.

Tom Coates

Tom Coates is the founder and president of Product Club , a new product development and invention company based in San Francisco. Before that he was Head of Product for the Yahoo incubator Brickhouse where he developed the pioneering location sharing project Fire Eagle. He’s also run a small R & D group at the BBC and been Production Editor of TimeOut.com. He writes and talks extensively about many areas of technology, including the Web of Data, social software and network-enabled physical objects and environments. He also advises start-ups like Lanyrd and Weathermob.

Tom Dupuche

Tom Dupuche is a Product Manager at MessageMedia, working in the value added messaging team. He's passionate about product strategy as a tool to align teams, stakeholders and simplify the decision making process.

Tom Loosemore

Tom Loosemore is a founder of the UK's Government Digital Service (GDS), and is now its deputy director. GDS was established in 2011 to ensure the UK government offers world-class digital products that meet people’s needs. Since 2012 GOV.UK has replaced hundreds of websites, winning Design of the Year and saving £60m in the process. It has also digitally transformed 25 of the most significant transactional public services. Prior to GDS, Tom ran the digital innovation arm of Channel 4. He was responsible for the BBC's internet strategy between 2001 and 2007, after launching its first sport websites in the late 1990s. From the late 1990s he was the driving force behind a raft innovative e-democracy sites including TheyWorkForYou.com, and later helped found mySociety, the world’s leading e-democracy charity. Earlier in his career Tom was an editor on the UK edition of Wired Magazine, and founded local information startup UpMyStreet.com

Tomomi Imura

Tomomi has worked as a developer advocate in various companies in the San Francisco Bay Area including Slack to empower developers all over the world, as well as taking an advisory role at Code Chrysalis in Tokyo. Her expertise is combining technology with cats, and her past projects include HTTP Status Cats, and Raspberry Pi Cat Camera.

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Tony Milne

Tony is a co-founder of Inlight Media, a leading Melbourne web and mobile development company who specialise in Node.js backed iOS/web projects. He helps organise and regularly attends MelbJS (a Melbourne JavaScript group) and the Melbourne Node.js meet-up.

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Trace Byrd

Trace Byrd is a illustrator turned designer turned illustrator from Oregon living in San Francisco. He currently works a brand designer at Atlassian, helping define the way they tell stories about teamwork and technology.

Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt is a Software Architect and Microsoft MVP for Developer Security. Troy has spent the last 17 years building web applications and now specialises in software architecture and security. He blogs regularly about security principles in software development, is the author of the OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers series and recently the free eBook of the same name.

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Trung Vo

Trung is a passionate engineer who brings beautiful, performant, and best engineering practices to web application production. Currently with Ascenda Loyalty, he simplifies loyalty for banks, payment networks, and merchants globally. Trung is also an organizer for Angular Singapore and Angular Vietnam, supporting the tech community. He authored Angular Spotify and Angular Jira Clone, notable open-source projects. With expertise in frontend architecture, scalability, and performance, Trung enjoys sharing knowledge and helping fellow engineers succeed.

Ugi Kutluoglu

Ugi Kutluoglu is a Web accessibility specialist from San Francisco, with over 20 years in the industry. He started out as a visual designer, became a developer, and his interest in Web standards eventually led him to a career in Web accessibility. He helped teams in public and private sectors to create more accessible products and processes.

Ujjwal Sharma

Ujjwal is a Compilers Hacker at Igalia working on TC39 and V8, Editor of ECMA-402, a Node.js Core Collaborator, a TC39 Delegate and an International Speaker. He loves to talk about open source software, decentralization, cryptography, JavaScript and web standards.

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Umar Hansa

Umar Hansa is a web developer, public speaker, and content creator based in London, focused on tips, tutorials, and documentation for the modern web platform.

Val Head

Val Head is a Senior Design Advocate at Adobe, author, and web animation expert. She is the author of Designing Interface Animation on Rosenfeld Media, teaches CSS Animation on LinkedIn Learning, and curates the weekly UI Animation Newsletter. Val has been published by Fast Company, A List Apart, and Smashing Magazine, and she’s spoken at dozens of events all over the world including Pixel Up, Web Directions, UX Week and An Event Apart.

4 presentations

Valeri Karpov

Valeri Karpov has been the maintainer of Mongoose, the most popular ODM for Node.js and MongoDB, since 2014. His dev shop, MeanIT Software, works on Mongoose and Mastering JS.

Verne Ho

Verne Ho is a designer, photographer, and director of UX at Shopify. Based in San Francisco, he leads a team that is forging a path to more entrepreneurs through Kit, a virtual assistant that leverages conversational experiences to automate tasks and help merchants build successful online stores. An avid entrepreneur himself, Verne also runs his own online photography store, owns an award-winning cocktail bar in Toronto, and previously founded and operated Jet Cooper, a design studio acquired by Shopify in 2013.

Vinicius Dallacqua

Vinicius Dallacqua is a lead developer focused on browser internals, user experience, and performance; creator of PerfLab and PerfAgent.

Virginia Murdoch

Virginia is Director of Product at Culture Amp. Before Culture Amp, she worked in product at O’Reilly Media and OverDrive, both based in the US. She was a co-founder of the small but lovely software agency Inventive Labs, and of Booki.sh, an ebook marketplace platform for independent booksellers, which was acquired by OverDrive in 2012. She is on the board of WAM, a not-for-profit organisation that provides support to women caught up in the criminal justice system, and provides occasional mentoring to tiny startups. She likes bread.

Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is a writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine. He runs responsive Web design workshops, online workshops and loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems in large companies.

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Viveka Weiley

Viveka Weiley is a designer, technologist and strategist with over 20 years’ experience inventing groundbreaking products and services. He has been responsible for leading change in organisations ranging from scrappy startups to storied institutions. Viveka is Head of New Things for consumer advocate CHOICE and a visiting scientist at CSIRO’s Data61. He also serves on advisory boards & juries - currently for the UTS School of Software, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Emerging Technologies and the Consumer Data Right standards body.

Voon Siong Wong

Voon is a full-full-stack [sic] developer. He's designed Error Correcting Codes for satellite communications, programmed embedded hardware, wrangled databases, engineered backends, and sculpted frontends. These days though, he specializes in the latter. He's a ballroom dancer. He's a climate activist. He's vegan.

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Warwick Cox

Warwick Cox is the founder and CEO of Australia's most innovative on demand delivery startup. Using cutting edge technology blended with old fashioned customer service and beautiful simplicity, it creates essential convenience for families, students and everyday Australians. Warwick and his all star team tirelessly work on improving the efficiency of the online shopping experience, thinking outside the box and challenging common practices and methodologies. The results speak for themselves.

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Warwick Pelley

Warwick Pelley, founder of peopleLOOP is a Social entrepreneur and connector. He works at improving organisations by helping people work better together.

Wayne Thompson

Fascinated by letters since he was a teenager, Wayne began with rub-down lettering and worked as a signwriter, photographer and journalist before settling into the design profession in the – *ahem* – late 1980s. After many years as Art Director, Wayne started Australian Type Foundry in 2001 and works full-time as a type designer, handletterator (technical term) and typography educator. He’s been running the popular Type by Hand series of handlettering workshops for several years, punishing the nation with his lame jokes like this one: Did you hear about the conservative Maltese guy who wanted to save all the fish? He built a Maltese Tory Carp Ark. To date, Wayne has produced custom typefaces for Animal Logic, Officeworks, Public Transport Victoria, Holden and O’Brien Glass, and spent much of 2016 developing a custom type family for ABC which is currently being implemented across its digital and television networks. He also enjoys working for smaller clients such as a micro brewery who paid him in beer. Wayne’s aim is to always learn more about typography, and hopefully contribute an Aussie flavour to the world of type design. Wayne has never won any awards.

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Weston Thayer

Weston is currently working on new accessibility tools at Assistiv Labs. Previously he was at Microsoft working on the Windows 10 design system and common controls. He's worked as a developer, designer, and many things in-between. Based just outside of Portland, OR, you also can find him in web-a11y Slack and tweeting @WestonThayer5.

Wing Ho

Wing Ho is a front-end developer with a passion for creating great user experiences and a mission to spread awareness of such front-end woes. He occasionally dabbles in powerlifting and swing dance amongst all things tech, and loves meeting other passionate people creating for the web together.

Xavier Ho

Xavier's focuses on high-impact, real-time data visualisation, data-driven engineering, and design at CSIRO Data61. His recent work on CSIRO's TraNSIT was recommended by the Office of Northern Australia. In his spare time, he fiddles with generative art, code, and a bit of interactive installations. He dreams to be able to print chocolate directly in the oven one day with code.

Yaser Adel Mehraban

Although it doesn’t look like it, Yaser is an almond croissant addict cleverly disguised as a successful web developer. Since it was relatively clear early on that it would be slightly more than difficult to make a living while sitting in a café eating a croissant and drinking a cappuccino, he’s focused his energy on the web, which happily has proven itself to be a wonderful decision.

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Yesenia Perez-Cruz

Yesenia is a designer based out of Philadelphia, PA. She has created beautiful, functional design systems for clients like MTV, Zappos, and Iron Chef Jose Garces. She currently works at Intuitive Company, where her role spans design strategy, user experience, and graphic design. Previously, she was a Senior Designer at Happy Cog in Philadelphia.

Yiying Lu

Yiying Lu is an award-winning bilingual artist, entrepreneur, and speaker with 10+ years of experience in Branding, Design & Cross-Cultural Creativity & Innovation Education. She was born in Shanghai China, educated in Sydney Australia & London UK, Yiying is currently based in San Francisco. Yiying was named a Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, a "Top 10 Emerging Leader in Innovation" by Microsoft, and the first Shorty Awards winner in Design. Her projects have been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, TIME, CNN, BBC and so on. She was the first artist to join IDEO Shanghai for its Creative in Residence program in China in 2017. Previously, Yiying was the Creative Director at 500 Startups, the world's most active venture capital firm and startup accelerator, where she provided creative user acquisition & branding strategies for hundreds of startups to improve their business. She is interested in unifying dualities, by connecting art and tech, business and humor, work and life, as well as being a cultural bridge between East and West

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Yoav Weiss

Yoav is a web performance and browser internals specialist, working on responsive design Web performance, image compression and more. He recently implemented the picture element and the srcset attribute in Blink. He is an RICG technical lead, a Blink & WebKit committer and a bass player.

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Younghee Jung

Younghee Jung is currently leading Nokia’s corporate research team, focusing on enablers of social development through mobile technology Younghee Jung is an explorer of culture and wisdom of everyday living, with a particular interest in reflecting her learnings on how manmade objects or systems influence behaviours and human interactions. Previously a nomadic worker in Seoul, Pittsburgh, New York, Redwood City, Helsinki, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore, she is trying out a temporary settlement in London since 2013. An interaction designer by education, her work has largely centred on developing insights, prototypes, and exploratory concept sketches. She enjoys finding new ways of understanding and learning from people, beyond the conventional methodologies taught in textbooks. Her latest job title is head dreamer for Nokia’s product marketing team, to provide ideas, inspiration and strategy for new mobile products tailored for developing markets.

Yulia Startsev

Yulia Startsev is a programmer at Mozilla on the SpiderMonkey Team. She represents Mozilla at TC39, the standardizing body for JavaScript.

Yuriy Dybskiy

Yuriy Dybskiy is a founder of Puma Browser, a privacy focused mobile web browser with a new way to pay for content and services without ads and tracking. Previously they worked with the following companies: Lyft, Parse, Meteor, Cloudant and a few others. They helped organize Apache CouchDB Conf and Worldwide Meteor Day and had a bunch of startup explorations that led to “experience” rather than great outcomes. Outside of work they enjoy spending time in nature, playing tennis, riding motorcycles, reading, taking photos and dancing Argentine Tango.

Zach Jensz

A Software Engineer and Web Developer with over a decade coding experience creating fun games and websites Zach Jensz has a passion for UX! He's a GDG Melbourne organiser, and now a Software Engineer at Prezzee.

Zero Cho

Zero is an engineer at Twitter working on everything web since 2014. Lots of side projects at night. Originally from Taipei, and an alumnus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, he now lives and works in San Francisco.

Zoë Haughton

Zoë has a background ranging from web app development, human interaction design through to secondary education. Her role is varied and involves consulting, QA and auditing, usability testing and accessibility training for clients throughout Australasia. She is a passionate about raising awareness for the need for digital products to be accessible and usable for people with disabilities.