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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.

Christian Johansen

Originally a student in informatics, mathematics, and digital signal processing, Christian has spent his professional career specializing in web and front-end development with technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, and HTML using agile practices. After working on several projects with less than trivial amounts of JavaScript, Christian has felt the pain of developing "the cowboy style''. In an attempt at improving code quality, confidence and the ability to modify and maintain code with greater ease he has spent a great deal of his time both at work and in his spare time over the last few years investigating unit testing and test driven development in JavaScript. Being a sworn TDD-er while developing in traditional server-side languages, the cowboy style JavaScript approach wasn't cutting it anymore. The culmination of this passion is the book "Test-Driven JavaScript Development", out on Addison-Wesley September 2010.

Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman is a Web Developer/Speaker who travels around and give talks about HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 and blogs about Web Development at http://robertnyman.com. He has been working with Front End development for the web, in Sweden and in New York City since 1999. He was one of the Technical Editors (the JavaScript parts) for the book Introducing HTML5 http://introducinghtml5.com/

Rupert Breheny

With an honours degree in Marine Biology from a prestigious British university, and an expertise in sea urchin reproduction courtesy of a renowned French research institute, Rupert was rendered largely unemployable at an early age. However, thanks to a thin paperback volume of HTML tags taped to the cover of .net magazine issue 6, a career on the Internet was born, culminating in his becoming Google's first British webmaster, relocating to its Zurich engineering office in 2007. His hobbies include semantics, validation, progressive enhancement and getting rid of those annoying bits of trailing white-space.

Michal Budzynski

Michal is a JavaScript developer from Poland with strong game development background, currently working for GG Network (owner of Gadu-Gadu, the biggest Polish instant messaging client). He officiates as a Javascript trainer and ran technical workshops in many countries. He is also organizer of first HTML5 Game conference - http://onGameStart.com. He is behind several HTML5 demos and he safely says JavaScript is not just his job - it's his lifestyle.

Johannes Fahrenkrug

Johannes is the one man software development army, a freelance JavaScript and iOS developer from Germany. He works with the Cappuccino and SproutCore JavaScript frameworks and has contributed code to both. He is also the co-author of the book "Objective-C Fundamentals." He likes that video where the monkey smells his hand and falls off the tree.

Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Originally from Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany where he has discovered his passion for typography, writing and design. After working as a freelancing designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine, one of the largest online magazines dedicated to Web design and development. Vitaly is writer, co-author and editor of both Smashing Books. He is now working as the editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine in the lovely city of Germany, Freiburg.

Roland Sailer

Trained industrial designer who has been working as professional interaction designer since 1996. He is now the Head of Interaction Design at NOSE and acts as constultant and interaction designer on projects developing web sites, applications and mobile solutions with a focus on branding, usability and user experience.

Jordi Boggiano

Jordi Boggiano is the author of a few open source apps/libs (Slippy, php-console, Monolog, ..), and frequent contributor to other OSS projects (Symfony2, Twig, Doctrine2 and others). He has been involved in web development for about 10 years, working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, and has recently jumped the shark and created his own company, Nelmio. You can find his blog on http://seld.be

Marko Dugonjić

Marko Dugonjić is a web/interface designer from Croatia. Before he started his own studio Creative Nights in 2009., he was a Front-end Lead at the award winning agency Web.Burza and a User Experience Director in media publishing company Adria Media Zagreb. He is the author of Typetester http://typetester.org/, an online application for testing screen type.

Keith Bingman

Keith Bingman is an American web developer and photographer living in Germany for the past 15 years. He has worked on the web for over ten years, concentrating on front end and javascript development, but also working extensively with Ruby on Rails and Sinatra and Radiant CMS, for which he is a member of the core team of developers.

Bastian Allgeier

Bastian is the founder of Zootool. He has originally studied communication design but started developing almost 10 years ago. Zootool was born as his bachelor thesis project in 2007 and now has reached more than 60,000 users and 5 million bookmarks. He works about 50% on Zootool, where he does the backend and frontend development as well as the design. Beside that he is working as a freelance developer and designer for clients from all around the world.

Julie Ng

Julie started freelancing as a web designer while still in high school. She's also shelved books, waitressed, studied Economics and taught English to German students. She's what you would call a generalist and is currently working at Ancestry.com and has some long designer title. But in plain English, she works with large international marketing teams including analysts, managers, designers and developers on larger projects. She would tell you teamwork is more challenging than learning programming and abbreviations like OOP and MVC. But she can appreciate how it will help designers grow and teams meet their goals.

Julia Dressler & Jessica Goodson

Julia Dressler started her frontend development carreer in 2000 in a classic advertising agency where she built some nice little websites with Dreamweaver. Because this was not enough for her she studied business informatics and got to know and learned to love webdevelopment. After stops at different web agencies Unic became her main station for the last 4 years. There she is working as frontend engineer who's developing frontends in HTML, CSS and JavaScript for several systems and is also leading that team of frontend enthusiasts. Julia describes herself as an allrounder with experiences in frontend engineering, flash developing and designing. Her actual project is to upgrade her knwoledge in interaction design. But in real life she's just an normal girl with normal quirks. Originally from the United States, Jessica Goodson studied communication design in Hamburg, Germany, and has been working as a graphic designer for Unic AG since 2008.

Ognen Ivanovski

Ognen Ivanovski is a Chief Architect at Netcetera. His experience ranges from development of business-critical enterprise projects through process control, technical lead, coaching and architecture. Areas of expertise include real-time market data delivery / technical analysis, content management systems, frontend technologies, acquiring systems for credit and debit cards, and transport schedule delivery. Since 2008 he has been responsible for mobile platforms and technologies within Netcetera.