Speakers
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 also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world's best loved data format. And he works at Yahoo!
Divya Manian
Divya Manian is part of the Adobe Web Platform Team in San Francisco. She made the jump from developing device drivers for Motorola phones to designing websites and has not looked back since. She takes her duties as an Open Web vigilante seriously which has resulted in collaborative projects such as HTML5 Please and HTML5 Boilerplate.
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.
Malcolm Sheridan
Malcolm Sheridan is a Microsoft awarded MVP in ASP.NET, ASP Insider, Telerik Insider and a regular presenter at conferences and user groups throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Vaughan Rowsell
Founder and CEO of Vend, NZ Innovator of the year 2011. Taking on the retail point-of-sale world with the a sexy HTML5 powered app, and making POS mean point-of-sale again. Often found in Auckland, San Francisco and on planes.
Aaron Morton
Aaron Morton is a freelance developer and a committer on the Apache Cassandra project. In 2010 he gave up the RDBMS world for the scale and reliability of Cassandra. He now spends his time advancing the Cassandra project and helping others get the best out of it.
Hamish Friedlander
Programming since childhood, Hamish has dedicated his life to technology. As CTO he ensures SilverStripe remains applicable to the evolving way humans use the internet, technologically advanced without becoming technical and future-focused without losing sight of the present.
Alla Boglaeva
When she’s not searching for deep powder on the slopes of Whistler, Alla works as a Technical Wizard at Provoke – Microsoft New Zealand Partner of the Year 2011. From cutting bespoke .NET apps through to leading technical teams at Provoke on some of New Zealand’s highest profile SharePoint deployments. More recently Alla has delivered a new intranet for the NZ Police and a new intranet/public web platform for NZ customs.
Why?
WDCNZ is a highly technical discussion about cutting edge topics in the web world. Our presenters are fluent speakers of code, and are unafraid of it.
The day is filled with information about technical advances and challenges facing the web based software industry.
It’s for people cutting code and loving every minute of it!
Venue
WHERE IT'S AT
Mac’s Brewhouse Function Rooms
On the corner of Taranaki & Cable Streets, Wellington.
It’s close to the all the good stuff: food, coffee, bars and Te Papa Museum.
WHO'S ON WHEN
We’ll announce/present/outline the order of the day closer to time.
GROUP DISCOUNT
If you’ve got a group of 5 or more get in contact with groups@wdcnz.com.
We’ll hook you up.
Eats And Drinks
We will keep you well stocked throughout the day, and into the night.
If you have any dietary requirements, (we look after you too), just let us
know when you are buying tickets.
Xero After Party
After the conference kick back at the Xero After Party. Food, drinks and
good times will be provided, so it’s worth sticking around. It’s also a great
chance to chat with speakers and other conference goers.
Places To Stay
If you're in need of a room, we've arranged a few special deals at hotels
close to the conference.
The Museum Hotel
- 90 Cable Street, Wellington
- 2 mins away
- groupbookings@museumhotel.co.nz
- +64 4 802 8900
- Booking no: 63015
- Rates starting from $225 inc GST, breakfast & internet
West Plaza Hotel
- Wakefield Street, Wellington
- 5 mins away
- reservations@westplaza.co.nz
- 0800 731 444
- Booking no: 317592
- Rooms available from $140 inc GST & breakfast
YHA
- 292 Wakefield Street, Wellington
- 4 mins away
- Lisa.Gebbels@yha.co.nz
- +64 4 801 7280
- Rates available from $31 per person
So...
Get a ticket and spread word via twitter, facebook or
whatever works.
See you there!
Sponsors
There’s nothing quite like geeking out in a room full of like-minded people while hearing from some of the best talent in the industry. WDCNZ supports the growth and collaboration of NZ’s tech community. We're pretty stoked to be a part of it.
On that note, we’re always on the lookout for talented individuals. If you see someone wearing our t-shirt, introduce yourself. Otherwise get in touch: xero.com/careers
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Huge thanks to TradeMe for providing free WiFi again this year.
Contact
WDCNZ (Web Dev Conversations NZ) is brought to you by Owen Evans, Charlotte Hinton, Dave Keyes and many others.
If you have any questions get in contact at team@wdcnz.com