Schedule | Web Directions South 2012

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Thursday, October 18 2012

Time	Big Picture Track	Design Track	Development Track	Startup Track
07:30–09:00	Registration
09:00–09:15	Opening comments
09:15–10:15	Beyond mobile: where no geek has gone before with Josh Clark
10:15–10:45	Morning tea
10:45–11:40	You are a developer, the internet is your friend with Charlie Gleason	Responding to Responsive Design with Craig Sharkie	JavaScript Performance Patterns with Stoyan Stefanov	The Personal Side of Starting Up with Derek Powazek
11:40–11:45	Changeover
11:45–12:40	Stop your agency sucking at web development with this one weird old tip with Kynan Hughes	Adapting to responsive design with Mark Boulton	Building and Breaking Web Forms with Quaid-JS with Chris Lienert	So, you’ve got an idea with Kim Heras, Anson Parker & Marcus Schappi
12:40–13:45	Lunch
13:45–14:05	The Bit Between Data and You with Matthew Sheret	Getting unstuck: content strategy for the future with Sara Wachter-Boettcher	Opening credits — behind the scenes with Cameron Adams	The Incubator Experience with Chris Lloyd, Alan Downie & Matt Milosavljevic
14:05–14:25	Continued from above	Continued from above	The Monster Music Mash with Tim Gleeson	Continued from above
14:25–14:45	Continued from above	Continued from above	What’s hot in animation? with Dmitry Baranovskiy	Continued from above
14:45–14:50	Changeover
14:50–15:10	What we talk about when we talk about the web with John Allsopp	Datatium — radiation free responsive experiences with Andrew Fisher	Lazy load everything! with Sebastiano Armeli-Battana	The Australian Startup Scene with Kate Kendall, Chris Lloyd, Mick Liubinskas, Peter Bradd & Leni Mayo
15:10–15:30	Continued from above	Continued from above	Smarter CSS with Sass with Elle Meredith	Continued from above
15:30–15:50	Continued from above	Continued from above	A Touch of Class with Mark Dalgleish	Continued from above
15:50–16:25	Afternoon tea
16:25–17:25	The flower, the field and the stack with Ben Hammersley
17:25–19:10	Opening night reception

Friday, October 19 2012

Time	Big Picture Track	Design Track	Development Track	Startup Track
09:00–09:15	Opening comments
09:15–10:15	An animating spark: mundane computing and the web of data with Tom Coates
10:15–10:45	Morning tea
10:45–11:40	LoSoMo: Enhancing location, social, mobile with situation, context and content with Alex Young	More CSS secrets: Another 10 things you may not know about CSS with Lea Verou	5 things you absolutely, positively need to know about web security with Troy Hunt	Passion and purpose with Avis Mulhall
11:40–11:45	Changeover
11:45–12:40	How to grow and sustain a passionate community with Heather Champ	Avoid opinionitis with Jay Rogers	Programming style and your brain with Douglas Crockford	Business models with Alan Duncan, Shane Weddell, Russell Ivanovic, Cameron Craig & Paul Gray
12:40–13:45	Lunch
13:45–14:05	Beyond HTML5 — where to next? with Chaals McCathieNevile	Developers will design: let’s make them amazing at it with Samantha Thebridge	Roll-your-own (Style Guide) with Arunan Skanthan	Funding vs. Bootstrap with Rebekah Campbell & Ben Duncan
14:05–14:25	Continued from above	Continued from above	Basics of Three.js with Alex Danilo	Continued from above
14:25–14:45	Continued from above	Continued from above	Single Page web apps: a practitioners guide with Myles Eftos	Continued from above
14:45–14:50	Changeover
14:50–15:10	Building a Next Generation Mobile Browser using Web technologies with Adam Stanley	Buttons are a Hack with Josh Clark	Better than MVC with Damon Oehlman	In conversation with Mike Cannon-Brookes and Leni Mayo
15:10–15:30	Continued from above	Continued from above	What’s the point? with Jared Wyles	Continued from above
15:30–15:50	Continued from above	Continued from above	WebVTT and video accessibility with Silvia Pfeiffer	Continued from above
15:50–16:25	Afternoon tea
16:25–17:25	A means to an end with Jon Kolko
17:25–17:35	Closing comments
17:35–Late	Closing night party

About the Web Directions South schedule

Conference sessions at Web Directions South run from 9am to 5.40pm on Thursday the 18th of October, and then from 9am to 5.35pm on Friday the 19th of October. There are also full day optional extra workshops on October 16 and 17.

In terms of extra-curricular activities, there’s a reception at the conference venue on the Thursday evening till about 7.10pm. and then on a Friday night there is a big party after the show that will go to all hours. If you’re coming from out of town and you really must get home on the Friday night, do see if you can get on a later flight so you can at least come for one drink with us to close the show.