Fronteers 2010 speakers
More speakers will follow in the coming months. You can expect at least 14 different sessions, including topics like HTML5, CSS3, accessibility, JavaScript, SVG and front-end performance.
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Cameron Adams
Cameron, The Man in Blue, melds a background in Computer Science with over eight years experience in graphic design to create a unique approach to interface design. Using the latest technologies, he likes to play in the intersection between design and code to produce innovative but usable sites and applications. In addition to the projects he’s currently tinkering with, Cameron writes about the Internet – and design in general – on his well respected weblog, and has written several books ranging in topics from JavaScript, to CSS, and design.
Cameron will be presenting The Renaissance of Browser Animation.
Jake Archibald
Jake is a front-end developer at the BBC working on JavaScript components developed to meet the corporation’s design and accessibility standards. He also works with the BBC’s working groups which research and develop the corporation's technical Standards & Guidelines, keeping web standards & usability at the heart of the corporation.
Outside of the BBC, Jake is a keen photographer, photoshopper, and motorsport fan.
Jake will be presenting Reusable Code, for good or for awesome!.
Jina Bolton
Jina is a designer, developer, speaker, author, and artist working and residing in San Francisco. She is an interaction designer at Crush + Lovely. Previously, Jina worked at Apple, Inc. as a visual interaction designer and front end web developer. She enjoys making pretty websites, and then she likes writing and speaking about it.
Jina co-authored Fancy Form Design and The Art & Science of CSS; she also was an expert reviewer and wrote the foreword for Sexy Web Design. Jina has written articles for publications including A List Apart, .net Magazine, SitePoint, and Vitamin, and she has spoken at interactive and web design conferences around the world.
Jina will be presenting CSS Workflow.
Andy Clarke
Andy has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web at Stuff and Nonsense ten years ago. His ego likes words like ambassador for CSS, industry prophet and inspiring, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a bastard
Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project and a former invited expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group. He took ten months out of his life to write the best-selling book Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design, but Andy's passion is amazing web design. He loves making designs for the web, writing about design and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.
On Wednesday October 6, Andy will host his Advanced CSS styling workshop. During the more advanced JavaScript sessions of the conference he will be around for a Q&A session in a different room.
Jeff Croft
Jeff is a web designer and developer working out of his Seattle home. Currently working with web agency nGen Works, he is also a blogger, speaker, critic, and industry thought leader. Jeff has previously worked with experience design consultancy Blue Flavor, as well as World Online, an outfit responsible for several award-winning journalism sites and the birthplace of Django, a popular web application framework. He has been working on the web full-time since 1995. While Jeff does some programming, his true passion lies in visual design, user experience, communication, and social media.
Jeff has co-authored two books, Pro CSS Techniques, published by Apress, and Web Standards Creativity, published by Friends of ED.
Brendan Eich
Brendan is responsible for architecture and the technical direction of Mozilla. He is charged with authorizing module owners, owning architectural issues of the source base and writing the roadmap that outlines the direction of the Mozilla project.
He created JavaScript, did the work through Navigator 4.0, and helped carry it through international standardization. Before Netscape, he wrote operating system and network code for SGI; and at MicroUnity, wrote micro-kernel and DSP code, and did the first MIPS R4K port of gcc, the GNU C compiler.
Steve Faulkner
Steve is the Senior Web Accessibility Consultant and Technical Director, TPG Europe. He leads the development of the Web Accessibility Toolbar, Color Contrast Analyser and AViewer accessibility testing tools. He is an active member of the W3C HTML Working Group and W3C Protocols and Formats Working Group, his work in these groups is focused on HTML5 canvas accessibility, use of WAI-ARIA in HTML5 and he is editor of the W3C Draft Specification HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives. Steve regularly publishes articles and research on accessibility issues on the TPG blog.
Hans Hillen
Hans is accessibility consultant / developer at TPG Europe. He is part of the Firebug Working Group and is responsible for making the Firebug web developer extension accessible to people with disabilities. He is involved with the accessibility of widget libraries such as JQuery-UI and Ext-GWT. Additionally, he has worked on the accessibility support of the Spark components in the new Flex library. His focus is on using modern techniques such as WAI-ARIA while maintaining a high level of backwards compatibility. Hans is also heading the development for the Firefox version of the WAT-C (Web Accessibility Tools Consortium) toolbar.
Jeremy Keith
Jeremy is an Irish web developer living in Brighton, England where he works with the web consultancy firm Clearleft. He has written two books, DOM Scripting and Bulletproof Ajax, but what he really wants to do is direct. His latest project is Huffduffer, a service for creating podcasts of found sounds. When he’s not making websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the band Salter Cane. His loony bun is fine benny lava.
Jeremy will be presenting The Design of HTML5.
Brad Neuberg
Brad is a developer advocate at Google for the Open Web and HTML5 and an acknowledged expert in pushing web browsers in new directions. He is the creator of a number of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including Dojo Storage, Dojo Offline, and Really Simple History, many of which preceded and helped influence HTML5. He is currently working on the SVG Web library, a drop-in JavaScript toolkit that brings SVG 1.1 support to Internet Explorer, including building an SVG implementation using SVG Web into Wikipedia.
Brad will be presenting Vector Graphics for the Web.
Dan Rubin
Dan is a published author, teacher and practitioner of user interface design and web standards. When he isn't busy Twittering, his work, writings, and various side projects can be explored in and around the vicinity of Sidebar Creative and his personal site, Superfluous Banter.
On Tuesday October 5, Dan will host his Bringing Your Design to Life with CSS3 workshop. During the more advanced JavaScript sessions of the conference he will be around for a Q&A session in a different room.
Stoyan Stefanov
Stoyan is a front-end performance engineer at Yahoo! Search, speaker, author of Object-Oriented JavaScript and contributor to Even Faster Web Sites, High-Performance JavaScript, co-creator of the smush.it image optimizer, YSlow 2.0 architect, beach bum and guitar virtuoso wannabe.
Nicholas Zakas
Nicholas is a principal front end engineer at Yahoo!, where he works on the Yahoo! homepage, is a contributor to the YUI library, and teaches classes on JavaScript to employees and Yahoo! Juku participants. Nicholas also is the author of Professional JavaScript, co-author of High Performance JavaScript, co-author of Professional Ajax, and a contributor to the book Even Faster Web Sites in addition to over a dozen online articles.
Nicholas will be presenting High Performance JavaScript.
