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.
July 2008
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BizJam Seattle 08
BizJam Seattle is an indie business conference dedicated to building your small business in all the right ways. We do things a little differently than the conferences of old. More collaboration. More active exchange of ideas. More fun. Far fewer rules and stale donuts. We even do name badges differently.
BizJam Seattle brings together experts in social media and small business for two days of workshops that will leave you and your business positioned to ride the wave of change rather than get buried by it. It features top-notch speakers, networking opportunities and a party, all with the sole purpose of helping independent business people like you broaden your knowledge base, sharpen your skills and make connections in order to thrive in today’s increasingly competitive business environment.
Speakers: D. Keith Robinson, Eric Weaver, Matthew Haughey, DL Byron and many more
July 09, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
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Faceted Search and Digital Asset Management
Faceted Search and Digital Asset Management: Leveraging Taxonomies and Metadata to Improve Findability
Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems are similar to other kinds of content management tools but present unique challenges around describing and locating content that typically lacks a great deal of narrative text. Still images, video, audio clips and other non text assets are more challenging to describe and, given the sheer volume of content generated in day to day operations, difficult to locate.
Metadata can be used to very precisely characterize content for a process and audience, task, medium, application, resolution, distribution mechanism and other parameters. But the true power of locating the right asset for the right process at the right time can be realized using faceted search technology. Carin Forman of Discovery Communications will describe her organization’s use of these approaches and principles in addressing the challenges of findability of digital assets.Carin Forman, Discovery Communications, Inc.
Carin has more than eighteen years experience in the broadcast, media and entertainment space, most recently as the Director of Digital Asset Management for Discovery Communications, Inc. (DCI). Carin’s 15 year career with DCI spans from writing the initial business case to start a footage archive, Discovery Images, to managing their enterprise wide digital asset management initiative.Speakers: Carin Forman, Discovery Communications, Inc.
July 16, 2008 in Worldwide @ Telephone Conference Call
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Internet Strategy Forum Summit
Attendees of the Internet Strategy Forum Summit will engage in an intimate setting with each other and with our executive keynote presenters from eMarketer, Forrester Research, Disney, Nike, Intel, IBM, WebTrends and Fandango, who will share their insights and ideas about smart enterprise Internet strategy — how to best leverage the Internet and integrate it into overall business strategy.
The event covers a diverse array of important and complementary strategy areas including:
* general digital strategy * social media strategy * personalized marketing * e-commerce * email marketing * customer metricsSpeakers: Nancy Bhagat, David Placier, Daniel Stickel, Mike Moran, Shane O'Neil
July 17, 2008 in Portland, OR @ Governor Hotel
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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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Summer Workshops in Malmö
http://1scale1.com – making things in the scale of life
The 1scale1 Critical Research Studio has prepared a selection of 7 workshops that will run over two weeks during August 2008. Between August 18th and 29th we will run 7 simultaneous workshops in open software and hardware for designers and artists at our studio in Malmo, Sweden. Themes will be related to either physical computing or computer vision. There are both basic and advanced workshops that vary in length between 2 and 3 days.
The workshop fee will include all the materials (check each workshop description for details), documentation, and some food and beverages during the workshop hours. Each workshop is limited to 15 participants and may require some previous knowledge in programming or basic electronics. We will count with some relevant international teachers and lecturers during the workshops. You may consider participating in several of these workshops or just spend two full weeks with us in Malmo. Please check the event’s details, fees, exact dates and in depth descriptions for each workshop at our eventwax site.
Speakers: David Cuartielles, Tony Olsson, David Sjunnesson, Fernando L Barrjon, Andreas Göransson
August 18, 2008 in Malmo, Sweden @ 1scale1.com
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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
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 Cape Town, South Africa @ Cape Town, South Africa
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dConstruct 2008
dConstruct is an affordable one day conference for those designing and building the latest generation of web applications. Each year the organisers pick a different theme and this year they’ll be looking at “Designing the Social Web”. Expect everything from high brow discussions on the nature of online communities, through to practical sessions on UI design and portable social networks. The line-up is always impressive and this year features speakers like TED regular Steven Johnson, Digg designer Daniel Burka and New Riders author Joshua Porter to name but three.
Bought to you by those lovely people at Clearleft, dConstruct is one of the hottest tickets on the UK conference calendar, with places selling out in under 6 hours last year. Registration opens at 11am on the 24th June, so we recommend getting over there early to secure your place.
Speakers: Steven Johnson, Aleks Krotoski, Daniel Burka, Mat Jones, Matt Biddulph, Joshua Porter, Jeremy Keith, Tantek Celik
September 05, 2008 in Brighton @ The Brighton Dome
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Design For Mobile
Design For Mobile will be the first North American mobile user experience conference. This will be a two-day conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, interaction and other design, and usability testing. A day of workshops and training will preceed the conference sessions.
Speakers: Jeff Axup, Liselott Brunnberg, Francis Djabri, Markus Grupp, Clyde Heppner, Morten Hjerde, Lee Humphreys, Kashif Imam, Mike Lundy, Enrique Ortiz, Luca Passani, Dan Saffer, Gabriel White
September 22, 2008 in Lawrence, KS @ historical Eldridge Hotel
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The Ajax Experience
The Ajax Experience is the original – and still the most authoritative – rich Web development conference out there. Brought to you by the creators behind Ajaxian.com, the Web’s most relied-upon Ajax resource, TAE comes to Boston, September 29-October 1, 2008. Join founders and contributors to all the major open source Ajax frameworks, as well as the most respected rich Web development experts from around the world for 3 days of vendor-independent, practical Ajax education.
http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/east/index.html?Offer=AEdigwebcal620
The Ajax Experience offers content appropriate for all levels of Ajax development experience.
-New to the Web 2.0 world? Attend tutorials, and benefit from introductory sessions on all the major frameworks.
-Ready to take your intermediate skills to the next level? Learn how to develop better software in your everyday development career with exclusive insight into the next round of framework releases and security threats.
-Are you an Ajax expert? TAE provides a gathering place for the community experts to meet and push forward Web development techniques and it gives more advanced developers opportunities to expand their areas of focus. Plus, join us for the first ever Ajaxian Framework Summit, an opportunity to learn even more about your favorite framework, and help drive its course.Register before August 22 to save $100 off a registration rate that is already the most affordable in the industry. Get all the details on the TAE agenda and speaker lineup and register today at http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/east/index.html?Offer=AEdigwebcal620
Speakers: Brian Dillard, Gavin Doughtie, Andrew Dupont, Joshua Fraser, Joshua Harrison, Christian Heilmann, Ted Husted, Dietrich Kappe, Yehuda Katz, Omar Kilani, Peter-Paul Koch, Glen Lipka, Neil Mix, Richard Monson-Haefel, Brad Neuberg, David Nolen, Dan Phiffer, Christophe Porteneuve, John Resig, Steve Souders, Tenni Theurer, David Verba, Greg Wilkins, Richard Worth, Max Zabramny, Nicholas Zakas, Kris Zyp
September 29, 2008 in Boston, MA @ Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel
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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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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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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