Upcoming Events
The Digital Web Events Calendar lists workshops, conferences, and other gatherings of interest to web professionals—designers, developers, information architects, and others. View events by location or date, or suggest an event for our list.
October 2008
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HighEdWeb 2008: Infinite Solutions
HighEdWeb 2008: “Infinite Solutions” heads to Springfield, M.O., to kick off its ninth year as the conference created by higher education Web professionals, for higher education Web professionals. HighEdWeb is perfect for Web developers, marketers, designers, writers, managers and all team members in-between who want to explore the unique Web issues facing colleges and universities.
In addition to attending the conference, consider participating in another truly exciting way: submit a presentation proposal for HighEdWeb 2008. We encourage presentations covering a broad variety of topics concerning the Web and higher education.
www.highedweb.org/2008/
Speakers: TBA
October 05, 2008 in Springfield, MO @ Missouri State University/Springfield, MO
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Search Marketing Expo - SMX East
Search Marketing Expo – SMX East, comes New York, October 6-8. Programmed by search experts Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, it’s the “must-attend” internet and search marketing event of the year on the East Coast, delivering superior value to conference delegates and exhibit hall attendees alike. SMX East will be “everything search“… all search topics, all-star presenters, all the top companies, and all the networking and fun.
Keynotes by Bill Tancer, author of the bestselling “Click,” and Tim Armstrong VP at Google in charge of paid search sales and sales operations.
Register at smxeast.com.
Speakers: Danny Sullivan, Chris Sherman, others
October 06, 2008 in New York, NY @ Jacob Javits Center
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IDEA 2008
The IDEA Conference is a yearly conference about Information: Design, Experience and Access that is sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute.
IDEA Vision Statement…
Throughout their days, people are engaging with complex information to manage their lives.
And designers now realize that information isn’t simply this stuff you find — the appropriate presentation of information helps people make sense of the world around them.
This conference addresses issues of design for an always-on, always-connected world. Where “cyberspace” is a meaningless term because the online and offline worlds cannot be made distinct. Where physical spaces are so complex that detailed wayfinding is necessary to navigate them. Where work processes have become so involved, and so digitized, that we need new processes to manage those processes.
This conference brings together people who are addressing these challenges head on. Speakers from a variety of backgrounds will discuss designing complex information spaces in the physical and virtual worlds.
Speakers: David Armano, Chris Crawford, Bill DeRouchey, Aradhana Goel, Andrew Hinton, Jason Kunesh
October 07, 2008 in Chicago, IL @ Harold Washington Library Center
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UPA Puget Sound: Table 4 Eight: Bill Fulton
Puget Sound chapter of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) will host Bill Fulton, Wednesday Oct 8th @ 35th Street Bistro in Fremont
Bill started Microsoft Games User-Research group in 1997 and grew the group from 1 to 35 researchers over seven years. Bill and his group spurred the adoption of formal user-research methods in the games industry.
After leaving the user-research group, Bill served as game designer on an Xbox game for 3 years, but eventually left Microsoft in 2007 to found Ronin User Experience, an user-experience consultancy. RoninUX provides user-research and social design services to the games industry and websites with a social networking components. He has recently begun consulting on how to develop effective user-research programs.
In what seems like another life, Bill spent 4 years studying Research Methodology and Social Psychology at the University of Washington graduate program in psychology, where he (mostly) stopped playing video games.
Space is limited. Please confirm your attendance by e-mailing blabylon@gmail.com.
What is Table-4-Eight?
Table-4-Eight is a quality-networking event, providing opportunities for communication and exchange between like-minded usability professionals in a relaxed atmosphere.The format: – One round or square table at a nice restaurant. – One guest. – One moderator – Six participants (maximum)
You pay for your meal and we all kick in for the host’s dinner.
Speakers: Bill Fulton
October 08, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ 35th Street Bistro
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BigFoot Blogging Conference
Join Seattle’s blogging community for the BigFoot Blogging Conference.
The featured speakers for the conference include Chris Pirillo “Lockergnome/Gnomedex”, Monica Guzman “The Seattle PI’s the Big Blog”, Andru Edwards “Gear Live”, Tracy Record “West Seattle Blog”, David Goldstein “HA Seattle” and Karen Anderson “iCultur”.
Topics for the conference range from Blogging Do’s and Don’t-Even-Think-About-Its, How Blogging is changing modern day politics to Branding and Marketing your blog and yourself for success.
The conference format will include Q&A plus opportunities for networking.
Conference is free, but space is limited.
Speakers: Chris Pirillo, Monica Guzman, Andru Edwards, Tracy Record, David Goldstein, and Karen Anderson
October 11, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ University of Washington - Kane Hall
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An Event Apart 2008 Chicago
In late 2005, two internationally recognized web authorities—web standards godfather Jeffrey Zeldman and world-renowned CSS expert Eric Meyer—got together to create the kind of web design conference they would want to attend.
Their new conference wouldn’t be just for designers. It wouldn’t be just for coders. Attendees would gain a deeper understanding of web standards, of course. But they would also encounter a world of emerging best practices and inspiring new ideas.
Guest speakers had to stand out as well. Subject matter expertise was not enough. Each speaker had to have made unique contributions to the industry. Each had to be a star.
They called their conference An Event Apart.
Speakers: Andy Clarke, Jason Fried, Cameron Moll, Bronwyn Jones, Rob Weychert, Eric Meyer, Curt Cloninger, Robert Hoekman Jr., Sarah Nelson, Jeffrey Veen, Jason Santa Maria, Jeffrey Zeldman
October 13, 2008 in Chicago, IL @ Sheraton Chicago
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Seattle IA Meetup: October
Join us for some good company and geeky conversation the 2nd Tuesday of every month at the Elysian Pub in Capitol Hill!
Once a month, we’ll get together to have drinks, chat, network, and geek out with fellow information architects, librarians, usability experts, user experience designers, and other like-minded people. It’s open to anyone, so bring a friend — especially those in other local organizations! The format will be casual, but all are encouraged to bring something to discuss — recent work, an interesting topic, or even your resume.
See you there!
Speakers: None
October 14, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Elysian Pub
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Interaction Design for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
Are you currently building web-based applications? Are you tasked with adding more interactivity to your web applications? Do you want to learn interaction design skills geared towards adding interactivity and richness to your web-based solutions?
To help designers with these types of problems, expert interaction designer David Malouf has created a seminar exploring the most important issues surrounding the web’s most sophisticated applications.
Speakers: David Malouf
October 16, 2008 in New York, NY @ Houston Street Center
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Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience
In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld—co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers—will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. And he’ll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your business strategy.
Speakers: Lou Rosenfeld
October 16, 2008 in Chicago, IL @ The Gene Siskel Film Center
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Understanding User Centred Design
This one-day workshop is designed to give those attending a hands-on overview of the User-Centred Design (UCD) process and the range of different methods that can be used to enhance the usability and user experience of websites, applications and products in general.
Speakers: Stuart Church and Darius Kumana
October 16, 2008 in Bristol @ Watershed Media Centre
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STC-PS: Workshop - Single Sourcing with MadCap Flare
Attend this hands-on half day workshop to find out what MadCap Flare can do for you. Even if you’re using other tools right now, you’ll benefit from learning how the fastest growing tool on the market can help you leverage your content and increase your productivity. The hands-on half day covers: * Overview of topic-based content development and how it adds to your workflow * Introduction to Flare * Creating new and importing existing content * Define the look of the content using style sheets, create page layouts, add snippets, variables, conditional text, and more. * Easily reuse and repurpose your content with TOCs and Outlines * Create the targets to output to PDF, XPS, WebHelp (cross-browser, cross-platform), Microsoft HTML Help, or others.You’ll leave knowing how the MadCap tools can reduce your workload and improve your customer experience. And one attendee will win a copy of Flare!
Presenter Sharon Burton is a nationally recognized practitioner, business expert, and speaker in the field of technical communication. With almost 20 years of experience in the field, she has consulted with large and small companies to improve their product documentation and/or their documentation processes. She has received many awards from places such as the Society for Technical Communication and Apex.
Before becoming Product Manager/Product Evangelist with Madcap Software, Sharon was Technical Publication Manager at Wonderware where she built a team of 13 writers. Prior to Wonderware, Sharon owned and ran Anthrobytes Consulting for 10 years.
Speakers: Sharon Burton
October 18, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Digipen Institute
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WebbyConnect
Building on the success of it’s first-ever summit, The Webby Awards today announced that this year’s WebbyConnect will take place from October 22-24, 2008 at The Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel.
The inaugural WebbyConnect, held in October 2007, brought together over 250 Webby academy members and leaders in interactive media, entertainment, advertising, design and politics to explore the future of the Internet and emerging media.
Arianna Huffington, Michael Eisner, and Vinton Cerf delivered keynotes last year, alongside panelists including StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, and executives from Google, MySpace, YouTube, Comedy Central, MTV Networks, and Heavy Networks.
“WebbyConnect reinvented the industry conference by giving the wider Webby community an opportunity to connect and directly exchange ideas with some of the leading thinkers in interactive media today,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. “We’re looking forward to making this year’s summit even more fun, compelling, and eye-opening.”
“I thought I knew more about the Internet than anyone else on the planet,” said 2007 attendee and Webby winner Tommy Means, Mekanism’s director. “And then I stepped into WebbyConnect and it nudged my knowledge of the Internet into the holy-crap zone.”
For information on passes and registration for WebbyConnect 2008, go to www.webbyconnect.com. The preliminary schedule of keynote speakers, panelists, and panel topics will be announced in July.
Speakers: To be announced
October 22, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA @ The Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel
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Northwest Tweetup
Time for another Tweetup for anyone in the Northwest that’s interested in meeting some of the folks they’ve met online.
Speakers: None
October 24, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Pyramid Alehouse
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Seattle Flickrites: South End Meet & Greet
This is a Member Sponsored Event (MSE): Please note the contact information for questions or comments.
This event is being organized by Richard, He can be contacted at: seattlesephotographers AT gmail DOT com or at 206-851-4352.
The purpose of this MSE is to get to know the south end photographers, do some shooting and brainstorm additional events.
South Port Café at Opps Beppo’s is a Neighborhood Café and Wine Bar located between Gene Coulon Park and Renton Boeing, Right on Lake Washington.
Speakers: None
October 25, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ South Port Café at Opps Beppo’s
November 2008
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Future of Web Design NYC 08
We’re excited about bringing The Future of Web Design back to NYC on 3rd/4th November. The lineup of speakers is packed with designers you respect, love and trust. So far we have Ryan Singer, Derek Powazek and Khoi Vinh to name just a few.
There will be lots more names added to the bill over the next few months…. so keep checking the website for details – www.futureofwebdesign.comFor your chance of an early bird ticket just go to the site and book before 18th September. Until then, conference passes are $295, conference/workshop passes are $595 and student tickets are a fixed price of only $45!
Also if you stick a badge on your site and let us know about it, your name can be entered into a draw for a free ticket.
We’ve also got plenty of parties going on where you can network and meet new friends.
Hope to see you there :)
Speakers: Ryan Singer, Derek Powazek, Dan Mall, Hillman Curtis, Paul Boag
November 03, 2008 in New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
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Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup East
Join us for the best insight into authentically reaching teen, college and Gen Y at Work audiences. The conference will focus on marketing and media professionals can reach and connect with youth ages 16-24 using technology. The themes driving conversation at the event will be content, connectivity and community. This Ypulse event is designed for brand marketers targeting teens, the college market and young adults; marketers and executives from media, entertainment and technology industries; and the education, non-profit and bookseller sectors.
Speakers: To be announced
November 06, 2008 in Boston, MA @ Boston University Campus
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Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience
In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld—co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers—will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. And he’ll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your business strategy.
Speakers: Lou Rosenfeld
November 11, 2008 in Washington, DC @ The State Room
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A practical introduction to website accessibility
This course is intended for organisations wanting a practical fast track introduction to web accessibility – the key issues and legal and business cases.
Speakers: Robin Christopherson
November 12, 2008 in London @ The British Computer Society offices
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Startup Empire 2008
Startup Empire is Canada’s only grassroots conference for startups. Created for entrepreneurs and by entrepreneurs, Startup Empire aims to educate and inspire by connecting you with other entrepreneurs, mentors and the ecosystem of support needed to create and operate a successful startup in Canada and the world.
StartupEmpire, the conference, is being produced by the team that has created StartupNorth.ca, DemoCamp, Founders & Funders, and and Startupindex.ca. StartupNorth.ca is Canada’s most popular community of web entrepreneurs and DemoCamp has been voted Toronto’s best “un-conference” and has been held in over 15 cities attracting over 10,000 individuals.
Speakers: Howard Lindzon, Austin Hill, Lane Becker, Charlie O'Donnell, Leila Boujnane
November 13, 2008 in Toronto, CA @ The Diesel Playhouse
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Ignite Portland 4
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
Speakers: TBA
November 13, 2008 in Portland, OR @ Bagdad Theater
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User Interface 13 (UI13)
Now in its thirteenth year, the UI13 Conference examines the biggest issues in the world of web design, information architecture, and usability.
Speakers: Jared M. Spool, Bill Verplank, Scott Berkun, Dana E. Chisnell, Andrew Crow, Kim Goodwin, Jeremy Keith, Donna (Maurer) Spencer, Peter Merholz, Jeff Patton, Christine Perfetti, Luke Wroblewski
November 13, 2008 in Cambridge, MA @ Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel
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CanUX 2008
Welcome to CanUX, the annual Canadian User Experience Workshop. Presented by nForm User Experience at the world-renowned Banff Centre, CanUX brings together industry leaders, hands-on activities, and working design and technology professionals.
For two and a half days, participants work in the middle of breathtaking scenery matched by a mix of practical tools and inspiring brand-new ideas. Unlike a typical conference, CanUX focuses on sessions that are long enough to give hands-on experience with the topics at hand. With a cap of 70 attendees and the retreat-like atmosphere of the venue, there is a special camaraderie among participants
CanUX is for people who care about making things work better, for both users and business. Past participants have diverse backgrounds in web design and development, software engineering, usability, interface design, and information architecture.
Speakers: Dave Gray, Brandon Schauer, Luke Wroblewski, Yvonne Shek, Lisa Anderson
November 16, 2008 in Banff, AB @ Banff Centre
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Sketching for Interaction Design
Are you looking for new ways to bring design thinking and design practice into your daily practice as a user experience professional? Do you want to learn how great designers of all types get to that “new” idea without having to wait for divine inspiration? Do you think that “sketching” is only a tool left to those who have been formally trained to draw?
The course is geared towards people who are practicing interaction design and other user experience practices, but can be beneficial for anyone who is trying to apply core design thinking methods into their personal and business practices. No previous experience with drawing or sketching is required. You don’t even have to bring a writing instrument or paper, as we’ll be providing them for you.
Speakers: David Malouf
November 17, 2008 in New York, NY @ Houston Street Center
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SIIA OnDemand
SIIA OnDemand is the industry’s only comprehensive conference for enabling and delivering Software as a Service. The complete SaaS ecosystem is invited to participate, including ISVs, platform vendors, systems integrators, venture capitalists and other bankers, analysts, press and other influencers.
Speakers: Marc Benioff, Josh James, Anthony Lye, Zach Nelson
November 17, 2008 in San Jose, CA @ San Jose Marriott
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Rich media and latest trends in accessibility
This course will introduce you to the key concepts and solutions in making rich media accessible
Speakers: Jon Gooday
November 19, 2008 in London @ The British Computer Society offices
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A very practical guide to testing against WCAG1.0 and 2.0
This course is intended for organisations wanting a practical fast track guide to an effective audit process, covering WCAG 1.0, 2.0 and other key areas of accessibility.
Speakers: Jon Gooday
November 26, 2008 in London @ The British Computer Society offices
December 2008
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EG ‘08: The Entertainment Gathering
The entertainment gathering, eg2008 at the Monterey Conference Center will showcase the best examples of the current and future ideas about entertainment and imagination in distinct, provocative sessions: music and radio; sports; science, health and nature; humor and satire; technology and transmission; imaging and animation; business and advertising; the cultural mirror; places, events and theater; and history and story. 3 days, 50 great explanations from brilliant presenters, and a new window of understanding. Created by Richard Saul Wurman. Directed and produced by Michael Hawley.
Speakers: TBA
December 11, 2008 in Monterey, CA @ Monterey Conference Center
January 2009
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SIIA Information Industry Summit 2009
During the past eight years, the SIIA Information Industry Summit has earned its reputation as the digital information industry’s flagship conference. This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of very few forums providing strategic guidance to senior business leaders representing publishers, content technology companies, bankers, analysts, bloggers and press.
Speakers: Henry Blodget, Mark Walsh, Marjorie Scardino
January 26, 2009 in New York, NY @ Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017
February 2009
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Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
The IxDA is pleased to announce its second annual conference-Interaction 09 | Vancouver.
Interaction 09 will be held from February 5-8, 2009 in stunning Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in conjunction with Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments, and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart discussions about our growing field.
Interaction 09 will feature three days of inspirational and tactical sessions geared at anyone who practices Interaction Design, as well as a day of pre-conference workshops.
Speakers: TBD
February 05, 2009 in Vancouver, BC @ Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology
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Webstock 2009
5 full-on days. 8 hands-on workshops. 23 kick arse speakers. 26 must see presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation and inspiration.
Speakers: Adrian Holovaty, Annalee Newitz, Bruce Sterling, Cameron Adams, Damian Conway, David Recordon, Derek Featherstone, Derek Powazek, Fiona Romeo, Heather Champ, Jane McGonigal, Jasmina Tesanovic, Matt Biddulph, Matt Jones, Michael Lopp, Nat Torkington, Russell Brown, Russ Weakley, Toby Segaran, Tom Coates, Ze Frank
February 16, 2009 in Wellington @ Wellington Town Hall
March 2009
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SXSW Interactive 2009
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you!
Speakers: TBA
March 13, 2009 in Austin, TX @ Austin Convention Center
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