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.
May 2008
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2008 SIIA CODiE Awards
The Codie Awards holds the distinction of being the only peer-recognition awards program of its kind in the industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to earn the praise of their competitors. The Codie Awards program, now in its twenty-first year, remains the standard-bearer for celebrating outstanding achievement and vision in our industry.
In 1986, the Codie Awards were established by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that the pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each other’s work.
Since its inauguration, the Codie Awards program has carried forward the same vision – to showcase the software and information industry’s finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement and philanthropic efforts.
Many people ask about the origin of the name Codie Award. “Codie” is derived from the word “code” and alludes to the program’s basis in the software industry.
Speakers: Ben Wasch
May 20, 2008 in San Francisco, CA @ The Palace Hotel, 2 Montgomery St., Los Angeles, CA, 94105
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Refresh Denver Returns!
Join us as we kick off Refresh Denver again in 2008. We’ve got an expanded crew helping now and we are excited about moving the meetups and talks to Forest Room 5 in the Highlands!
Speakers: Tentative, awaiting confirmation
May 21, 2008 in Denver, CO @ Forest Room 5, 2532 15th St, Denver, CO 80211
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@Media 2008 San Francisco
The best practice web design and development conference returns for a fourth year.
Featuring some of the best speakers from around the world, covering topics including web standards, accessibility, information architecture, content creation, internationalisation, JavaScript libraries, usability testing, Rails, Django, and a whole lot more.
Speakers: TBD
May 22, 2008 in San Francisco, CA @ JW Marriott, Union Square
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WebVisions 2008
WebVisions is a nationally recognized conference that features the Web’s top experts and visionaries in a two-day exploration of the future of design, technology, user experience and business strategy.
• Dates: May 22 – 23, 2008, at the Oregon Convention Center
• Web site: webvisionsevent.com
• Started in 2001—now in its 8th year
• 600+ attendees from the northwest and around the globe
• Over 30 speakers who are leaders in their industry
• Half-day workshops with the experts
• Networking opportunities during and after the conferenceWebVisions offers cutting-edge sessions and workshops on topics like Experience Design, Motion Graphics and Web Applications, Open Source, Mobile, Social Media and Blogging. There are book signings, panel discussions, social events—and more!
Join us for the conference that is seen as “the creative conference for the Web.”
Speakers: Jeffrey Veen,Roger Black,Rashmi Sinha,Andi Rusu,Tjeerd Hoek,Christina Wodtke
May 22, 2008 in Portland, OR @ Oregon Convention Center
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Refresh Seattle: May
More details to come.
Refresh Seattle is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Seattle /Puget Sound area. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards, Refresh Seattle is a part of Refresh and the associated Refreshing Cities.
Speakers: TBD
May 28, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Fremont Library
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@Media 2008 London
The best practice web design and development conference returns for a fourth year.
Featuring some of the best speakers from around the world, covering topics including web standards, accessibility, information architecture, content creation, internationalisation, JavaScript libraries, usability testing, Rails, Django, and a whole lot more.
Speakers: TBD
May 29, 2008 in London @ Southbank Centre
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Design That Ships: Making Design Happen In Any Environment
This full-day course is focused on teaching methods and techniques to get past obstacles, big and small, that prevent great design from happening. This starts with forging a shared vision with people at all levels of the org chart, having the right mindset and approach to be a design leader, and working with difficult team members. Tom will help you take the initiative and make sure the great design you’re part of creating actually sees the light of day. It will also help you grow as a professional, both within and beyond design.
Key areas of focus include:
* Representing your designs * Establishing action networks * Managing organizational energy * Understanding stakeholders * Connecting with your purpose * Taking ownership * Utilizing official and guerilla channelsUsing practical, real-world examples with an emphasis on activities and hands-on learning, Tom will help designers and design stakeholders develop the skills and approaches necessary to get people, departments and companies behind great design that actually ships. The result is increased job satisfaction and growth for you and more success for your company.
Instructor Tom Chi
Tom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He was a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answers, the new Yahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several other enterprise applications. Tom is a co-creator of OK/Cancel, and has published over 200 comic strips about user experience in a variety of online and printed publications.Speakers: Tom Chi
May 31, 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA @ 1294 Kifer Road Suite 707
June 2008
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Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Enterprise 2.0 is the largest gathering for people ready to reinvent the way work is done. Whether you are leading the effort or exploring your options for bringing social tools and 2.0 technologies, like wikis, team workspaces, blogs, unified communications, enterprise search, software as a service and social networks to your business, Enterprise 2.0 supports you through visionary keynotes, sessions, case studies and a Demo Pavilion featuring the latest technologies from established leaders and innovative start-ups. Register using priority code CMBNEB12 and get $100 off or a Free Demo Pass.
June 9-12, 2008, Boston, MA www.enterprise2conf.comSpeakers: Rob Carter,
June 09, 2008 in Boston, MA @ The Westin Boston Waterfront
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Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference
You’ve read their books. Now you’re ready for more.
Come and join the conversation. Meet your favorite Web design authors live and in person at the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference.
As a Web designer, you understand the challenges you face. Gone are the days when a good grasp of HTML and some straightforward usability knowledge would get the job done. Now your clients want to know that you’re comfortable with CSS, XML, Ajax, Web standards, interaction design, information architecture, interface design, search engine optimization, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, mobile design, mash-ups and much more.
This not-to-be-missed conference brings you face to face with the experts whose books have shaped your career. Get your most difficult questions answered and gain insights from the brightest thinkers and practitioners in the Web industry during four days of entertaining, informative, and inspiring sessions and conversations.
Two tracks (one inspirational, one practical) mean there’s always a session for you: whether you’re looking for the up-in-the-clouds ideas that’ll transform your work when the conference is over or the down-to-earth techniques that’ll make your job easier every day.
Speakers: Kimberly Blessing, Dan Brown, Curt Cloninger, Zoe Mickley Gillenwater, Robert Hoekman Jr., Jeremy Keith, Steve Krug, Penny McIntire, Sandra Niehaus, Joshua Porter, Garr Reynolds, Nita Rollins, Christopher Schmitt, Nathan Shedroff, Gene Smith, Jason Cranford Teague, Shari Thurow, Larry Ullman, Aarron Walter, Charles Wyke-Smith, and more
June 10, 2008 in Nashville, TN @ Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
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webDU - the web technology conference
In its 6th year webDU is a conference for web developers, designers, managers and students. The conference has 4 tracks over 2 days:
- Flash/Flex
- Rich Internet Application
- ColdFusion
- Web Essentials (design, usability, IA and management topics)
Speakers: http://www.webdu.com.au/go/agenda/speakers/speakers
June 12, 2008 in Sydney @ Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney
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Web Form Design Best Practices
Online forms are the critical bridge between your website or online application and customers actually purchasing from or making connections with you. Seemingly small differences in form design and layout can result in a customer completing their transaction — or abandoning it entirely. This can have an impact of thousands or even millions of dollars. Capitalizing on these opportunities requires an understanding of advanced concepts and experience with key details.
Students will take a deep, in-depth look at online forms as a specific aspect of web design, focusing on the impact of information, interaction and visual design in a variety of different online forms. As a student, you will participate in discussions and hands-on activities that illustrate the concepts, while giving you the chance to exercise the skills so your company’s web form design will successfully facilitate users taking the action you want.
Key areas of focus include:
* Input Fields * Input Labels * Validation * Feedback * Calls to Action * Visual Elements * Dynamic Inputs * Progressive DisclosureInstructor Luke Wroblewski
LukeW is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs. Luke authored the book “Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability” and his online publication, Functioning Form, is an industry-leading resource for design intelligence. Luke taught interface design at the University of Illinois and is a top-rated speaker at conferences around the world.As with all Involution Master Academy courses, this class is limited to nine students. This guarantees each student significant interaction with Luke and a unique opportunity to roll up your sleeves and put these ideas into practice with the recognized industry expert on this topic and your eight classmates. It also means that there are very few seats available, so sign up today!
Speakers: Luke Wroblewski
June 14, 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA @ 1294 Kifer Road Suite 707
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IBF 24 - 24 hours of intranet innovation from your desk
For 24 hours in June, hundreds of the world’s largest organisations will share, collaborate and learn in a unique global online gathering. Competitors, partners, customers and suppliers will spend 24 hours together from 11am GMT on 18th June at IBF 24: the world’s first major corporate event on the web.
The Intranet Benchmarking Forum , an exclusive, confidential intranet and portal benchmarking group of leading UK, US and global organisations, is hosting this unique global first with IBF 24, a 24 hour online event focussed exclusively on intranet innovation.
At 11am GMT on June 18th 2008, the IBF will open this pioneering online global intranet gathering. IBF 24 will take delegates from the world’s leading blue-chip corporates live to some of the world’s most advanced intranets, corporate portals and information workplaces – behind the firewall.
IBF 24 will operate wholly on the latest online meeting technology delivered using Microsoft’s latest 2008 Unified Communication Services and is only possible because it is being delivered by an organisation such as the IBF.
Paul Miller, IBF Chairman and CEO, said: “We already have in excess of 300 delegates attending IBF 24 from around the globe from organisations such as BP, HSBC, Sara Lee, Microsoft, BHP, Deloitte and Reuters. Given that this is such a unique event, we’re not certain how many delegates we’ll end up with but we fully expect over 1000 to attend and we’re already seeing that major organisations are very keen to not miss this pioneering chance to learn, see, interact and develop.
“In fact,” continued Miller, “using IBF 24 as a focal point, many organisations are choosing to host global Intranet Days combining it with local in-person sessions and using IBF 24 as a day of ‘reflection’ to discuss their intranet. Obviously, we don’t expect delegates to join IBF 24 for the whole 24 hours but to participate in sessions of especial interest to them. Joining and leaving as they wish.”
Without leaving the comfort of their desk, office, home, hotel, café or wherever they are on the day, delegates will have the opportunity to see 12 live intranet tours from the world’s most advanced intranets, experience the latest online meeting technologies in action and see and hear intranet issues and challenges addressed live by internationally acclaimed intranet experts and key note speakers.
Additionally, delegates will be able to join live Q & A sessions throughout the 24 hours and, following each specific session, participate in 12 hourly global online breakout sessions with their peers. Whilst they are interacting with other delegates in person or online, IBF 24 will still be broadcasting live and any material missed can be viewed later through the IBF 24 archive.
Register for IBF 24
Visit www.ibf24.com to register. As soon as you register, you will be able to meet and share with other delegates at the IBF 24 site.ABOUT IBF
Established in 2002, the IBF is the world’s foremost intranet and portal benchmarking group and is acknowledged to have established industry standards for intranet and portal performance. Members include BP, Nokia, HSBC, ExxonMobil, BBC, Unilever, Sara Lee, Shell and Reuters. Find out more about IBF at www.ibforum.com
Speakers: Microsoft, IBM, American Electric Power, Nokia, BT and many other corporate giants.
June 18, 2008 in Worldwide @ From the convenience of your desk!
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Refresh Seattle: June
More details to come.
Refresh Seattle is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Seattle /Puget Sound area. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards, Refresh Seattle is a part of Refresh and the associated Refreshing Cities.
Speakers: TBD
June 18, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Fremont Library
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An Event Apart 2008 Boston
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: TBA
June 23, 2008 in Boston, MA @ TBA
July 2008
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Intelligent Environments 2008
The 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 08)
21 – 22 July, 2008
University of Washington, Seattle, USAIt is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 08), which will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA from July 21 to July 22, 2008. As the fourth in a successful series, this conference will provide a leading edge forum for researchers and engineers from across the world to present their latest research and to discuss future directions in the area of Intelligent Environments.
The conference aims at contributing to the realization of the Ambient Intelligence vision, where physical space becomes augmented with computation, communication and digital content, thus transcending the limits of direct human perception.
Types of Intelligent Environments range from private to public and from fixed to mobile; some are ephemeral while others are permanent; some change type during their life span. The realisation of Intelligent Environments requires the convergence of different prominent disciplines: Information and Computer Science, Architecture, Material Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Design. In addition, technical breakthroughs are required in key enabling technology fields, such as, microelectronics (e.g., miniaturisation, power consumption), communication and networking technologies (e.g., broadband and wireless networks), smart materials (e.g., bio-implants) and intelligent agents (e.g., context awareness and ontologies).
The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists contributing to the area on Intelligent Environments.
The conference is supported by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the IEEE and the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. The conference proceedings will be published by The IET.
We look forward to welcome you to IE 08!
Speakers: TBD
July 21, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ University of Washington
August 2008
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An Event Apart 2008 San Francisco
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: TBA
August 18, 2008 in San Francisco, CA @ TBA
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Blaze: The Web Strategy Summit
Blaze is a conference for business professionals who are responsible for managing their companies’ marketing efforts and web presence. Our mission is to educate these people on best practices and advancements in web design, online marketing, and web strategy.
Speakers: TBA
August 21, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Bell Harbor International Conference Center
September 2008
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10th WWW Conference
Topics for the 2008 event can relate to trends and developments over the last ten years; for example the growing number of “foreign” language sites; the politics of the Web; censorship and legal issues; new methods of access and device and network convergence; search engines and search techniques; emerging Web technologies, developments and trends; Web 2.0; in fact e-anything (health, government, commerce, marketing, learning, society, entertainment).
Target dates:
Peer-reviewed papers
Submission of abstracts (±500 words): 31 March 2008
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 April 2008
Submission of full text papers for peer-reviewing: 31 May 2008
Posters
Submission of abstracts (±250 words): 10 August 2008
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2008FURTHER ENQUIRIES:
Prof Pieter van Brakel
Conference Chair
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Cape Town
vanbrakelp@cput.ac.za
+21 82 966 0789 (mobile)
+27 21 469 1015 (office)
http://www.zaw3.co.zaCONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:
Elizabeth Danckwerts
Conference Secretariat
PO Box 2760
Clareinch
7740
South Africa
aecon.e@mweb.co.za
Phone +27 21 683-5522
Mobile +27 82 468 7504
Fax +27 21 674 3269
www.aecon.co.zaSpeakers: Not yet confirmed. Please watch the web site.
September 03, 2008 in Worldwide @ Cape Town, South Africa
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 Monterey, CA @ Missouri State University/Springfield, MO
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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: TBD
October 13, 2008 in Chicago, IL @ TBD
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