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Over 30 top flight speakers from around the world took to the stage talking about the latest in technology, creative trends, and the new web. They demonstrated projects which they have completed and apps still under development. They discussed how the next web will deliver seamless interconnection - letting everyone join in whatever the time, wherever the place, whatever the device. 

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Keynote Speakers

Bill Buxton Principal Researcher, Microsoft

Buxton, who began his career in music, has spent more than 30 years observing how people use technology and applying those insights to the human-computer interaction field. His research specialties include technologies, techniques and theories of input to computers; technology-mediated collaboration between people; and ubiquitous computing. Buxton is widely revered for his creative and sensitive explorations of new user-interface techniques spanning audio, speech, two-handed input, keyboards, menus, lenses, pens, augmented reality, multimedia and more. In 1995, Buxton received the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Achievement Award for his contributions to research in computer graphics and human-computer interaction. He also was selected as the New Media Visionary of the Year at the 2000 Canadian New Media Awards, and the Hollywood Reporter named him one of the 10 most influential innovators in the North American film industry in 2001. Before joining Microsoft Research, Buxton was principal of his own Toronto-based design and consulting firm as well as chief scientist at Bruce Mau Design Inc. in Toronto. He also is an associate professor in the department of computer science at the University of Toronto. From 1994 through 2002, Buxton served as chief scientist of Alias|Wavefront (now Alias Systems Corp.) and, starting in 1995, of its parent company, SGI Inc. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Toronto and a bachelor of music degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Scott Guthrie Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Division, Microsoft

Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft’s web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the web. Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

Featured Speakers (click on a photograph below for biography)

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• Brendan Dawes Creative Director, Magnetic North

  Brendan Dawes is Creative Director for magneticNorth, an interactive design group based in Manchester, UK. Over the years he's helped to realise projects for a wide range of brands including Diesel, BBC, Fox Kids, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg's and Coca-Cola. Ever since his first experiences with the humble ZX81 back in the early eighties, Brendan has continued to explore the interplay of people, code, design and art both in his role leading the team at mN and on brendandawes.com, a personal space where he publishes random thoughts, toys and projects created from an eclectic mix of digital and analog objects. Brendan regularly speaks at design conferences across the globe, has been featured in many magazine articles and books on interaction design as well as writing two solo works published by New Riders. The Museum of Modern Art in New York featured Brendan's ""Cinema Redux"" project as part of the ground breaking ""Design and the Elastic Mind"" exhibition in 2008.

• Tim Diacon Senior Interactive Designer, AllofUs

  AllofUs is an award winning digital design consultancy known for its unique experience in the field of physical interaction and naturalistic user-interface development. Tim - Senior Interactive Designer - has been the lead designer on the Microsoft Interactive Canvas project unveiled at this year's Remix event. Tim studied Graphic Design at Brighton University before joining AllofUs where he has led projects for Nokia, Sky, Playstation, the Natural History Museum and Land Securities. Tim also won the Microsoft Artist in Residence Course in December 07 alongside Mark Hauenstein at AllofUs, with their Doodle Earth project.

• Joshua Edwards Microsoft Product Manager, Live Labs

  Joshua Edwards is a Senior Product Manager in Microsoft Live Labs.  In this role, Joshua is responsible for the business and feature strategy for a portfolio of new and innovative technologies and products ranging from new concepts still very much in research to proven, mature technologies being prepared to ‘graduate’ from Live Labs to full product teams.  He is also leading efforts to forge collaborative research and development relationships with innovation centers both within the technology arena as well as complementary industries.  Joshua has been with Microsoft for more than six years.  Previous Microsoft experience includes Microsoft Office, MSN, and Xbox Live where he worked on innovative Internet services and products, in addition to entrepreneurial and consulting roles prior to joining Microsoft.  Joshua lives in Redmond, Washington and is a graduate of Brigham Young University.

• Mike Flasko Program Manager, SQL Server Data Programmability group, Microsoft

  Mike is a Program Manager (PM) in the SQL Server Data Programmability group at Microsoft. He is currently focused on the group’s REST data services projects. Prior to working with data services, Mike was a PM on the Windows Network Developer Platform team at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the System.NET namespace (.NET Framework), the Winsock API and the Winsock Kernel API. Prior to his roles as a Program Manager, Mike worked as a .NET Developer Technology Evangelist.

• Sara Ford Program Manager, CodePlex, Microsoft

  Sara Ford is the program manager for CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting site. Prior to CodePlex, she worked on the Visual Studio team for six years, where she continues to run the Visual Studio Tip of the Day on her blog. Her life-long goal is to become a 97 year old weightlifter, so she can be featured on the local news.

• Paul Foster Microsoft

  As a Microsoft technical evanglist for over 12 years Paul has supported solution development across a wide section of the Microsoft platform. Currently supporting technology hobbyists in areas such as gaming, robotics, digital home and photography, Paul's role just keeps getting more fun!

• Mark Hauenstein Head of R&D, AllofUs

  AllofUs is an award winning digital design consultancy known for its unique experience in the field of physical interaction and naturalistic user-interface development. Mark heads-up the AllofUs R&D division who's remit is to identify and evaluate to new opportunities for technology that will enable new and better methods of human-to-computer interaction. Mark is a post-graduate from the Interaction Design MA at the Royal College of Art who's work is often exhibited in shows - and cited in numerous magazines - around the world. Whilst at AllofUs Mark has worked on high-profile projects for Microsoft, Nokia, Sky, the Natural History Museum, the NHS and Land Securities. Mark was also the joint winner of the Microsoft Artist in Residence Course in December 07 with his Doodle Earth Project working alongside Tim Diacon, Senior Interactive Designer at AllofUs.

• David Pugh - Jones Creative Strategist, Microsoft

  As Creative Strategist for Microsoft Advertising, David's role is to be the evangelist for creative offerings and the strategist for creativity online. Alongside this David regularly presents to key clients and agencies on the future of digital advertising. David successfully worked in this role across the UK market for the past 2 and half years before recently taking on the challenge across the EMEA region in understanding the media landscape, the creative agencies ecosystem and our clients advertising demands, ensuring Microsoft is competitive with client concepts, ideas and solutions and continuing to drive and change the creativity online perception. Since joining Microsoft in October 2005 David has collaborated with numerous clients, advertising and creative agencies in evangelising innovation and creativity online. As the product expert on rich media best practice and technical feasibility with external partners, David's focus is to act as a creative consultant advising on advertising solutions across the Microsoft digital portfolio including MSN, Windows Live, Xbox and Office. Prior to joining Microsoft, David was Director of Operations at Handbag.com where he led the successful implementation of an in-house operations, creative and account management team and was integral in the launch of handbag.com's sister site, getlippy.com in March 2004. David began his career in Publishing in 1995 and since then he has gained over 9 years experience of online advertising.

• Johannes Kebeck Virtual Earth Technology Specialist, Microsoft

  Johannes Kebeck is a Technology Specialist in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth Business Unit supporting customers and partners in EMEA and APAC. He is currently based in Reading, UK and has over 13 years experience in the GI/GIS market.  In October 2004 Johannes joined Microsoft in Germany working within the Enterprise Product Group and in 2005 he joined the Virtual Earth team. Before specialising on Microsoft’s geospatial products and services, he had experience with various GIS, spatial databases, relational database management systems, workflow management, collaboration products and IT security.

• Seb Lee-Delisle Technical Director, Plug-in Media

  For more information about Seb and his work see pluginmedia.net and sebleedelisle.com.

• Travis Leithead Program Manager, IE, Microsoft

  Travis Leithead infuses his passion for web development into his work on Microsoft’s flagship browser, contributing technical leadership and specs for a variety of Internet Explorer’s core services such as HTML parsing, DOM and web standards compliance. When not tinkering on IE’s latest builds or programming web sites, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters.

• John Penrose Technical Director, Graphico		John Penrose is Technical Director for Graphico, a full-service digital agency based in Newbury, England. He is responsible for a team of developers and technical personnel, ranging from .net Developers through to Security Analysts and Technical Architects. As well as running this team, he spends much of his time helping clients find innovative solutions to business problems, and works closely with Graphico's Client Services team to help identify and plan clients' online strategy. Recently, he has been working closely with a number of key clients encouraging the trend towards RIAs.

• Tim Regan Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Research

  Tim is a Research Software Development Engineer in the Computer Mediated Living group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. His current research interests are social software, mobile media, and visualization. Before Cambridge he worked in the Social Computing Group in Redmond on aspects of shoulder to shoulder computing - building applications for several users to interact with together in the same room. Prior to this he worked on online virtual worlds, systems architecture, and formal methods. Tim holds a doctorate in theoretical Computer Science from the University of Sussex.

• Antony Ribot Co-founder, Ribot

  Antony is one of two founder members of ribot - a UK design house/ ideas lab that focuses on user interfaces, interaction design and the user experience for small screen devices. He spent his early years with London-based tomato, during which, amongst other things, he earnt a D&AD pencil award for a interactive web project for Levis. Inspired by the simple things in life, he then went back to University to study ants, bees and termites, where simple agents work together to form complex systems with emergent behaviours.

• Dr Neil Roodyn Trainer, Mentor, Development, Coaching & Authoring, Microsoft		Neil’s passion for software started in the 1970’s when he taught himself BASIC and 6502 Assembler. During the 1980’s Neil was involved in various software projects on a variety of platforms including IBM 390, Commodore PET, Apple MAC, IBM PC (DOS) and AS400. Neil received a first class honours degree in Computer Science, started the first (of many) software companies and began teaching software development, initially in academia and then commercially. During the early 1990’s Neil worked on a number of different real-time software systems. The work he did on these systems, combined with other research into real-time systems led to a thesis entitled “Software Architectures for Distributed Real-Time Systems”. Neil was awarded a PhD for this thesis from University College London and the brand of Dr. Neil was born.

• Guy Smith-Ferrier Technical Architect, Capella Software Ltd Guy is an MVP in ASP.NET. He is the author of ".NET Internationalization" published by Addison-Wesley (http://www.dotneti18n.com). He is a Microsoft Certified Professional developer, author, trainer and speaker, has spoken at many European and US conferences, is the winner of the NxtGen Best Presentation 2006/2007, has been voted best speaker three times and is an INETA Speaker. He runs The .NET Developer Network (http://www.dotnetdevnet.com), a free .NET user group in the South West of England. He is the author of C#/.NET courseware and much of the official Borland courseware including courses on COM and ADO. He has written over 50 articles for numerous magazines, has co-authored an application development book and is the author of the ADO chapter of "Mastering Delphi 6". You can read his blog at http://www.guysmithferrier.com.

• Mike Taulty Microsoft

  Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies. Mike holds a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.

• Arturo Toledo Senior Project Manager, Microsoft

  Arturo Toledo is a Designer Readiness Product Manager at Redmond. He is responsible for producing UX and Designer training resources for customers and field as well as helping the training partner ecosystem grow.

• Denise Wilton Creative Director, moo.com

  Denise Wilton is the Creative Director at UK startup moo.com. She looks after the overall look-and-feel, from online graphics to print and packaging. Denise is also MOO's Community Manager, keeping a keen eye on partnerships and developing communities based around the MOO products. Prior to this, she was variously self employed, a Creative Director at Emap (a UK publishers), and senior designer at Wheel. Denise is also a co-founder of b3ta.com, an excitable community described as both 'useful' and 'offensive' by The Guardian. She's still not sure what those combined words are supposed to mean, but is hoping is must be something good.

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