To help you get the best feel for the areas the conference will cover, we’ve ‘tagged’ each session — but note that it’s possible presentations will cover subject matter they have not been tagged with. All sessions involve individual presentations by one or two presenters, lasting an hour, rather than panels — so each will have a very in-depth focus on its subject area(s).
AIR
Sessions with this tag look at Adobe’s AIR platform
Accessibility
Sessions with this tag gave a significant focus on web site and or/web application accessibility
Ajax
Sessions with this tag gave a significant focus on developing with Ajax.
Business
Sessions with this tag focus on issues relevant to business — business processes, opportunities, and methodologies
- Bedroom to Boardroom — Josh Williams
- Plays Well With Others: Simple Things to Make The Social Parts of Your Service More Social — Brian Oberkirch
- 3 Stages of Content Management — Boris Mann
- Serious Business: Putting Social Media to Work — Anil Dash
- The Mobile Web Landscape in Canada and Beyond — Brian Fling
- Closing Keynote — Matt Webb
Case Studies
Sessions with this tag use specific projects to help explain design decisions and practical technique application.
Code-free
Sessions with this tag may or may not be technical, but they keep the ideas high-level without exhaustive code examples.
CSS
Sessions with this tag have a significant focus on designing for the web with CSS. This might be theoretical, practical, or a combination of both.
Design
Sessions with this tag have a significant focus on graphic and web design.
- Opening Keynote — Jeffrey Zeldman
- Five Essential Composition Tools for Web Typography — Kimberly Elam
- Bedroom to Boardroom — Josh Williams
- Innovation is Overrated — Indi Young
- The Future of Web Interfaces — Cameron Adams
- Information Visualization as a Medium — Eric Rodenbeck
- What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive? — Jared Spool
- The Why and How: UI Case Studies — Daniel Burka
- Closing Keynote — Matt Webb
Design Patterns
Sessions with this tag analyze reusable solutions to common design problems, whether in the classic software design sense, or more visual problems.
Development
Sessions with this tag have a significant focus on developing front ends or back ends for the web
- Working With Ajax Frameworks — Jonathan Snook
- Developing with Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight — Andre Charland & Walter Smith
- Visions for the Web’s Future — TBA
- The Future of Web Interfaces — Cameron Adams
- 3 Stages of Content Management — Boris Mann
- Serious Business: Putting Social Media to Work — Anil Dash
- The Mobile Web Landscape in Canada and Beyond — Brian Fling
Government
Sessions with this tag cover issues geared toward those working with and inside of government agencies.
Javascript
Sessions with this tag have a significant theoretical and or practical component focussing on the use of Javascript
Mobile
Sessions with this tag have a focus on designing or developing for mobile and handheld devices
Process
Sessions with this tag look at the process behind designing and developing web sites.
- Bedroom to Boardroom — Josh Williams
- Five Essential Composition Tools for Web Typography — Kimberly Elam
- Real World Accessibility for Real People — Derek Featherstone
- Innovation is Overrated — Indi Young
- Information Visualization as a Medium — Eric Rodenbeck
- The Why and How: UI Case Studies — Daniel Burka
Products
Sessions with this tag are geared toward designing and developing products, focussing on web-based products (but perhaps not exclusively).
Server-side
Sessions with this tag highlight back-end development issues
Silverlight
Sessions with this tag look at Microsoft’s Silverlight platform
Technical
Sessions with this tag are more gears-and-propellers than nuts-and-bolts. Read: heavy geek quotient.
Typography
Sessions with this tag have a heavy focus on the way type works, in theory and on the screen
User Interface (UI) & User Experience (UX)
Sessions with this tag have a significant focus on user interface/experience design.
Web Standards
Sessions with this tag focus on general issues and techniques associated with standards based web development — CSS, HTML, and accessibility.
Vision
Sessions with this tag tackle big picture issues - concepts, ideas, future directions
Social Media
Sessions with this tag focus on the social side of web sites/applications and networks