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In this talk dina will share her tinker story, how it all started and why she continues to tinker. She will share what she’s learnt so far and the biggest mistakes she’s done. And hopefully show you a side of Egypt you’ve never seen before.

Web Annotation—now a W3C standard—aims to establish a conversation layer on top of the web. By theoretically allowing anyone to annotate any web page content, it’s an ennobling premise and thoroughly web-like: democratic, open and standardised. But with this freedom comes challenges. Content publishers are faced with an anxiety-inducing lack of control over …

Kate has designed and directed content projected onto a floor of ice, the ceiling of the London Design Museum, the bridge of the USS intrepid in NY and put content onto the smallest LEDs to create one of the largest screens for the London 2012 Olympics ceremonies. 2017 in particular saw two diverse, exciting and extremely complex projects! It goes without sa…

Advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence are moving very fast now. People are starting to wonder what role Robots will have in our society. While many researchers are focusing on the very practical side, we have to wonder how we will interact with the Robots on a social level. How will we feel about them, and even more important: how will they f…

Claire Evans, author of Broad Band: The Untold History of the Women who Made the Internet, will share stories about the hardworking women who challenged convention to make key contributions to the history of our century’s most transformative cultural technology—the Internet. As we face issues of privacy, identity, and society in a networked world, we have mu…

Accessibility stifles design and harms creativity. That's what uncreative people say. During this presentation we'll look at the convergence of creativity and capability. Bleeding edge technology and design that is accessible.

Wes will share his 23+ years of experience starting out as a web programmer freelancing, to an interactive director at an ad agency to founding his own data visualisation studio in 2006. He will talk about how the journey (aka the process) is equally as important as arriving at the destination. And that journey is often faced with bumpy roads and unpleasant,…

Vic will talk about his beginnings, how he got started as an illustrator, muralist, wordsmith and man of many Inkings. But to get to where he is has been a journey, from working 7 days a week, to constantly challenging himself and getting noticed in an increasingly flooded market. Vic will talk about hard work, how it pays off. Being reliable, always saying …

Web development is an amazing field—easy to get into, straight forward to grow skills, great to build a reputation. The sky is the limit. It turns out, being a web developer is not all roses: on great opportunities that lead to obscure problems that ask for humble solutions.

We were supposed to build a better world. Design and technology was supposed to point the way towards utopia. Instead, we designed a nightmare. Find out why this was our fault and what you can do to help fix it.

Design can feel super intimidating when you feel more comfortable with code and don’t have a background in design. Knowing design basics and shortcuts can help your career in measurable ways: by helping you work more effectively with your coworkers as well as making it easier and faster for you to launch new projects from scratch without hiring a designer. T…

Web layout has always been a hack — compounded by responsive design, web application needs, and the desire for consistency. Join the creator of Susy (a meta grid-system) for a review of layout and grid techniques — when to use them, what to consider, and how to roll your own layouts with minimum code. We'll look at everything from floats to CSS Grid, flexbox…

WAI-ARIA is an integral technology for web development. But when does it make sense to use it? When is it more harm than benefit? This talk shows good and bad ARIA examples and asks the question “ARIA Serious about using ARIA this way?”

Interactive animation in the browser is currently pretty limited when it comes to choice - you can either go the super-slow css / svg / animated gif route, or the powerful but proprietary Unity ecosystem. Rob has spent the last few years working on projects that demanded something more, and takes us through the problems encountered - as well as his own open …

When might pair programming be a good choice? Do we plan time in for it? How can we measure its benefits? I think these are all difficult questions to answer in workplaces that need developers to deliver work on time and on budget. I want to talk about how, as a beginner developer, I view pair programming, and what I've learned from other developers who have…

Still think browsers are only capable of parsing HTML, CSS and JavaScript? Think again! Browsers have become much more powerful and contain numerous APIs that can enrich the user experience or are just plain fun. This talk will introduce you to some of them and show you how easy it is to unleash their power with JavaScript.