Estelle Weyl

Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: CSS | Javascript | XHTML | Web standards | coding for search engines | browser rendering
Spoken Languages: French | English

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Speaking about, writing about and teaching about CSS, JavaScript, XHTML, web standards, coding for search engines, browser rendering and CSS hacks.

Previous Presentations: 
Moving From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0: Skills to Stay Relevant
Taming the Beast: JavaScript and CSS tips to make IE behave.
Worry Free Web Development

María Paula Mariani

Location: Buenos Aires | Argentina
Speaking Topics: frontend | CSS | jquery | Javascript | usability | outsourcing | argentina | Python | Ruby On Rails | integration | slicing | user interfaces | open source | open source at university | augmented reality | students and open source
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Jade Rauenzahn

Location: New York | NY | USA
Speaking Topics: accessibility | Creating Community | CSS | Javascript | Programming Frameworks | startups | State of the Web | User-Generated Content | Web 2.0 | Web standards
Spoken Languages: English | basic Spanish

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A passionate web personality, Jade's among the "web" generation - an upcoming demographic of young adults who have always had the Internet around at their disposal.

With a solid foundation of where the web has been and a good idea on where it's going, Jade spends her days programming (mainly on the client-side) web sites and applications which inform, empower, and create passionate communities.

Kimberly Blessing

Location: United States
Speaking Topics: Web development | standards evangelization | site optimization | process management | technical management | HTML | CSS | Javascript

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Previous Presentations: 
SXSW Interactive panelist, 2004-2008
An Event Apart San Francisco 2007
WebVisions 2007

Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: iPhone | mobile | gadgets | blogging | social networking | online communities | Internet | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Women in IT | HTML | community | twitter | Ajax | Widgets | gender | OS X | weblogs | Web development | mac OS | wikis | jquery | video | tech writing | YUI
Spoken Languages: English

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How many hats can one woman wear?

I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977—yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more.

Books I've authored or co-authored:

  • Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide (Peachpit Press, 2009)
  • JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7 ed. (Peachpit, 2009), and 6 ed. (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2009)
  • Ajax Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2008)
  • JavaScript Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2005)
  • Mac OS X Unwired (O'Reilly Media, 2003)
  • Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2002)
  • Java for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 1998)
  • JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2 ed. (Peachpit, 1997), 3 ed. (1999), 4 ed. (2001), 5 ed. (2003), and Student ed (2003)
Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.

Jacqui Maher

Location: Brooklyn | NY USA
Speaking Topics: Ruby | Ruby On Rails | Javascript | CSS | OSX | RSpec | Testing | BDD

Susan Potter

Location: Illinois
Speaking Topics: BDD | DSL | Merb | REST | RSpec | Ruby | SELinux | Javascript | Rails | Ruby On Rails

Previous Presentations: 
Multi-Tenancy Data Architecture (January 2007) [30 minute tech talk]
Embedded Domain Specific Languages using Ruby (June 2007) [45 minute tech talk]