Speakers

When Jeffrey Zeldman wanted to start publishing books, Jeremy Keith (HTML5 For Web Designers: Return Of The Standards) was the person he turned to first. You, along with 157,000 followers, might also know him as @adactio - a fantastic author, speaker, and one of the organizers of the dConstruct Conference. Jeremy lives in Brighton, England, where he makes websites for the design agency Clearleft. web / twitter

Andy is in the engineering team over at Twitter. He worked as a software architect at the Guardian, a senior developer at Clearleft, and an engineering manager at Microsoft. You can also regularly find his articles in net magazine and Computer Arts Projects. twitter / linkedin

Johnny Rodgers is a technology designer from Vancouver, part of the awesome team that helped make Slack a reality. His responsibility is to program and address whether the speed of development or code sustainability is more important. He was previously an interactive designer for SAP and currently runs his own development and design company, Creative Creature. In his spare time, he makes Give.to, a service for fans to give financial support to the music artists they love. twitter / linkedin

Robbie is a web developer, specializing in front-end developerment. He builds user interfaces exactly the way the designers intended. He's been building large-scale React applications for over a year, and has recently been playing around a lot with React Native. McCorkell is also a organizer of the popular React Meetup in London, which meets once a month to share tips and tricks. twitter / linkedin

Morgan's life revolves around databases. After he joined the MySQL team in 2006, he's worked at many different companies, including Percony. He has now returned to MySQL (now owned by Oracle) as their community manager. You can find him blogging at tocker.ca. web / twitter / linkedin

Anna is a freelance front-end developer based in the UK. She was awarded Young Developer of the Year by Netmag in 2013. When she's not playing on them, she's researching the browsers on game consoles. She's a technical editor at A List Apart, and also published a book on Front-End Style Guides. twitter

James Hall has been in the digital sector for over 12 years. He is the author of the popular jsPDF library, and is also the founder and director of Parallax, a digital agency based in the UK. He's worked as a software developer on a wide range of projects, from LED billboards and car unlocking apps, to large web applications and tools. twitter

Seth Juarez holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science where his field of research was Artificial Intelligence, specifically in the realm of Machine Learning. Seth is a Microsoft Evangelist working with the Channel 9 team. When he is not working in that area, Seth devotes his time to an open source Machine Learning Library, specifically for .NET, intended to simplify the use of popular machine learning models, as well as complex statistics and linear algebra. twitter / linkedin

Umar is a front-end web developer based in London, with a focus on writing tips, tutorials and documentation for the web platform. One of the projects he plans to explore and share with the community is using tooling such as the Chrome DevTools for an improved development workflow, but also for debugging performance issues. twitter / linkedin

Philip Hilm is a senior AI researcher and programmer at GoodAI. A former poker professional, Phil has a strong background in game theory and developing artificial intelligence for online gaming and coaching. Phil is known both inside and outside the company for his ability to talk about complex, abstract models using normal everyday language. linkedin