Alex Russell

Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google working to improve the open web platform and Google Chrome Frame. Prior to joining Google he contributed to the development of the Dojo Toolkit. He’s fighting IE 6 so you don’t have to.

Bruce Lawson

Bruce Lawson evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He's been active in Web Standards since 2002, working with the Web Standards Project, the British Standards Institution's guidance on commissioning accessible web sites and the W3C Mobile Best Practices Working Group and co-authored Introducing HTML5, the first full-length book on the subject. He blogs at www.brucelawson.co.uk

He once kissed a girl and he liked it (the taste of her cherry chapstick).

Derek Featherstone

Derek Featherstone is an internationally-known authority on accessibility and web development, a highly-sought speaker and published author. He is the founder of Further Ahead, a leading firm that delivers insightful and creative accessibility consulting to Fortune 500 corporations, educational institutions, public utilities, government agencies and other private sector clients.

Derek provides expert accessibility and facilitated user testing, review and recommendations for improving the accessibility of web sites and applications to all people. He loves to share his experiences building, designing, and helping others produce accessible web sites and applications.

He is the Group Lead of the influential Web Standards Project and blogs at the popular Box of Chocolates and writes about accessibility at the newly re-launched Simply Accessible.

Jake Archibald

Jake works at creative agency The Team and has extensive experience building JavaScript components to meet strict performance and accessibility requirements of sites such as the bbc.co.uk. He also helped develop the BBC's technical Standards & Guidelines on markup, accessibility and JavaScript.

Outside of the web, Jake is a keen photographer and motorsport fan.

Lea Verou

Lea Verou is the lead web developer and designer of Fresset Ltd, which she co-founded in 2008. Fresset owns and manages some of the largest greek community websites. Lea has a long-standing passion for open web standards, especially CSS and JavaScript. She loves researching new ways to use them and shares her findings through her blog, leaverou.me. She speaks at a number of the largest 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.

Robert Nyman

Robert is a Technical Evangelist for Mozilla and a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web. He has been working since 1999 with Front End development for the web, in Sweden and in New York City, and was one of the Technical Editors (the JavaScript parts) for the book Introducing HTML5. Robert regularly blogs at robertnyman.com, tweets as @robertnyman and he loves to travel and meet people.

Stephen Hay

Stephen has been designing and developing for the web since 1995. He was formerly Creative Director of Cinnamon Interactive, one of the first web design and development firms to successfully combine professional visual design with open web standards and accessibility best practices back when table layout was the norm. He now independently consults with clients on design, multi-platform strategy and accessibility through his new company, Zero Interface.

Stephen has written for A List Apart, NaarVoren and ChangeThis. Aside from his client work, he speaks and writes on the subjects of CSS3 layout, (web) design and accessibility. He sporadically publishes his thoughts at the-haystack.com.