We’re very proud of the speaker lineup assembling for the inaugural Edge of the Web conference - every one of them a noted luminary in the web world.

Chris Messina

Chris Messina arrived in San Francisco four years ago and began volunteering for the Mozilla Foundation, leading the Spread Firefox community marketing project…
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Derek Featherstone

Engaging, surprising, and inspiring, Derek Featherstone is an internationally-known authority on accessibility and web development…
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Cameron Adams

Cameron Adams — The Man in Blue — melds a background in Computer Science with over eight years experience in graphic design…
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Sonja Bernhardt

She’s smart, she’s punchy, she’s intelligent and delivers presentations with a great sense of humour…
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Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan started creating web pages more than ten years ago, while completing a degree in everything but I.T…
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Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins is the Founder and Chief Troublemaker at acidlabs - recognised as one of Australia’s leading proponents of participatory culture, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and social networking…
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Kai Koenig

Kai is a German Software Solutions Architect living in New Zealand by choice but working internationally. He’s the founder and director of Ventego Creative in Wellington, providing various services for Adobe’s Flash platform…
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Lisa Herrod

Lisa Herrod is the Principal Usability Consultant at Scenario Seven. The primary focus of her work is web usability, which she believes incorporates much more than just user testing…
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Nick Hodge

Nick has over 21 years of IT industry experience in a variety of sales, technical, management, semi-marketing and strategic roles, working with the internet more years than there have been browsers…
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Marc Lehmann

Marc is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Saasu. Previously Director of Principal Finance Trading at Deutsche Bank, he has extensive investment banking and financial technology experience…
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Tim Lucas

Tim Lucas, AKA toolmantim, is a software developer and web technologist known in the Aussie web community for his involvement in events such as Work at Jelly, Webjam…
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Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth is a senior consultant in Social Networks, she teaches social media at the University of Sydney…
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Donna Spencer

Donna (Maurer) Spencer is a freelance information architect, mentor, writer and trainer. She has 8 years experience working in-house and as a consultant doing strategic and tactical design…
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Russ Weakley

Russ Weakley has worked in the design field for over 18 years. He has a detailed knowledge of web design and development, and co-chairs the Web Standards Group…
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