FINHTML5

Keynote speakers

• Andrew Betts

  Financial Times

  Director - FT Labs

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  Andrew is a web standards advocate and founder of FT Labs, an emerging web technologies division of the Financial Times.

  His area of expertise is emerging web technologies, particularly on mobile and tablet platforms, where his team created the FT web app, now well known globally as one of the best examples of what can be achieved with HTML5.

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  Offline rules: Bleeding edge web standards at the Financial Times

  In the last couple of years a deluge of new web technologies have appeared, allowing for the creation of ever richer and more immersive web applications. The FT is one of the pioneers in the use of newly minted HTML5 technologies to build web apps that are virtually indistinguishable from native apps. But using these technologies is far from easy. I'll cover some of the compelling reasons for choosing HTML5 and investing in the web platform.

  In the second part of the talk, I'll focus on one of the most complex and difficult aspects of modern web development, and walk through the techniques to consider when building a web application that can load and function with no network connectivity. The examples will feature real-life code from our FT and the Economist applications, so you know that the techniques here are applicable to large, complex problems.

• Jeff Burtoft

  Microsoft

  HTML5 Evangelist

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  Jeff Burtoft is as an HTML5 Evangelist for Microsoft where he has the pleasure of serving the HTML5 community every day.

  Jeff is co-author of “HTML5 Hacks” from O’Reilly Media and is a founding blogger at html5hacks.com.

  Being in the Web Development community for over 10 years, his work experience varies from positions like "web master" for a small startup to Principal Front End Engineer for a fortune 200 company.

  Jeff is a huge proponent of web standards, and loves all programing languages, as long as they are JavaScript. He lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife and three children. In his free time, he enjoys writing Apps and playing video games with his kids.

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  The Rebirth of Touch

  From phones to tablets to desktops, touch is a standard interface for the web and for apps. But in this era of multiple input computing, will our current coding techniques be enough to develop for a variety of input types?

  This session will provide an in-depth technical review, code examples and best practices of popular touch models, and an introduction to the W3C Pointer Event Specification submission and the W3C Pointer Event working group. Come see how pointer events can change the way you code for touch!

• Martin Spindler

  Internet of People

  Strategy Consultant, Founding Member

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  Martin Spindler is a speaker, writer and strategy consultant focusing on the Internet of Things, the Future of Energy, and how the Internet leaks into all kinds of aspects of everyday life.

  He co-founded the Cognitive Cities Conference which looked into how the pulse of Cities changes once they get equipped with “smarts” and worked as a market analyst for leading German energy price comparison site verivox.de.

  He is a founding member of the Internet of People consultancy network, a collective which tries to help clients make sense of the rapidly shifting environment they find themselves in and come up with creative solutions to the problems that the expansion of the internet presents them with, and a member of Council, an Internet of Things Think Tank, the Internet & Gesellschaft Co:llaboratory and the Open Internet of Things Assembly.

  He studied Political Sciences, Economics and Islamic Studies at the University of Heidelberg and lives in Berlin.

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  The Internet in Things - Taking the Web to the Everyday

  The cost of chips is plummeting, and ubiquitous connectivity is all but a reality. The question is not whether increasing chunks of everyday life will be integrated into the network, but how.

  This talk is going to look at how the principles of the Web translate to connected things, and why it’s crucial to develop for an Open Internet of Things.

• Louisa Heinrich

  Free agent

  Strategist/Designer/Instigator

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  Louisa Heinrich is relentlessly curious. She loves getting inside clients’ heads to understand the challenges they face.

  She also loves listening to and telling stories as a process of understanding people’s behaviour and how the world works.

  Louisa has spent the last 15 years working in digital, on an ongoing quest to investigate how technology can adapt to and enhance what makes us uniquely human. She previously held the position Group Director of Strategy at Fjord, where she was responsible for driving thought leadership and exploring future trends, and generally stirring things up.

  She speaks and conducts workshops all over the world at the intersection of Design, Business and Technology. When Louisa isn’t geeking out about the future on stage, she enjoys clever conversations with passionate people.

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  People are the heart of the system: how a human focus can help us use technology to invent a better future

  The products and services that people love the most have furthered technology more than anything else. So how do these come about?

  Putting people first can guide us - from uncovering an opportunity for a product or service, to guiding its design and development, to getting it to market and keeping it evolving and strong.

  By maintaining a human focus, we can work together to build the future that we really want.

• Stephanie Rieger

  Yiibu

  Principal, Mobile User Experience Designer

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  Stephanie is a designer, researcher and closet anthropologist with a passion for the many ways people interact with technology.

  A mobile industry veteran with a keen eye on emerging technologies she has created web and mobile experiences for companies such as Nokia, Microsoft, Intel, Phillips and Vodafone. Stephanie speaks at conferences and teaches workshops on mobile design and strategy all over the world. She is also co-founder and one of the principals at Yiibu, a wee mobile design consultancy based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

  Stephanie writes about design and devices at stephanierieger.com and @stephanierieger but to really get to know her, you'd best have a look at some of her presentations.

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  Reset the web

  Midway through a project, a client of ours recently said "One thing I'm learning is that it's ok to give up on the desktop experience once it stops making sense". This wasn't an isolated incident. In fact, i'm beginning to think desktop web sites stopped making sense quite a while ago. We've just had nothing viable to replace them with. Mobile apps have given us a glimpse, but I think they're merely a glimpse into something bigger.

  Mobile isn't merely a new stage in the evolution of the web, it's not even merely a new context, it's the very early stages of an entirely new system. A system that has already started to shape our environment, affect the way we live, how we choose to connect with others, and how we're able to spend our time. A system that is also slowly unravelling our assumptions and causing us to question the very reason we build web sites, why people visit them, and where the true value of the web actually lies.

• Bryan Rieger

  Yiibu

  Co-Founder, Creative Director

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  Bryan is a designer and reluctant developer with a past mired in theatre and animation.

  With over 15 years experience designing and developing software, Bryan's work has spanned many platforms including print, broadcast, web and mobile. Prior to founding Yiibu, Bryan led research and development focused on multi-platform video at a startup in the broadband entertainment space. During this time, he also worked on early interactive multimedia prototypes for handheld entertainment consoles and devices.

  Bryan now divides his time between his own research, prototyping, and working internationally on mobile projects for clients such as Nokia, Intel, Phillips, Vodafone, and Microsoft.

• Philipp Nagele

  Wikitude

  Director Partner Relations

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  Born in Salzburg, Philipp studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Applied Science in Salzburg and received his M.S. in Computer System Engineering from University of Halmstad, Sweden.

  Prior to joining Wikitude, Philipp worked at VeriSign Inc. and T-Mobile Austria as Product and Innovation Manager. At Wikitude he manages partner and developer relationships on a global level.

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  Adding Augmented Reality to the HTML5 mix. Create AR content with JavaScript and HTML5

  With new interfaces coming up (think of Google Glasses) service providers are facing the challenge to adapt their mobile offering to the new "screen" Augmented Reality.

  Web technologies are the right solution to tackle that problem.

  We are going to dive into creating Augmented Reality content using standard web technologies and tools - namely HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.

  Demos and samples built using Wikitude’s ARchitect toolkit will highlight the current possibilities of modern Augmented Reality engines.

• Janne Vuorenmaa

  Veikkaus

  Development Manager

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  Mobile HTML5 magic, fresh out of the oven – Case Veikkaus

  Veikkaus, the Finnish lottery and gaming entertainment institution, just recently launched their new mobile service, dubbed as one the largest mobile HTML5 apps in the world. Development Manager Janne Vuorenmaa from Veikkaus will open up the story behind the service.

• Oleg Podsechin

  HelsinkiJS

  Founder

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  Oleg was born in Moscow, grew up in Tampere and studied in Cambridge. He has been working on technology for startups for the past thirteen years.

  Oleg is the founder of Moscow and Helsinki JavaScript meetups and contributes to the DailyJS blog. He also does technical due diligence work for investors while coaching at Startup Sauna. His most recent project is StartHQ - a directory of web apps.

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  Full stack JavaScript - the folly of choice

  The modern day web developer is faced with a plethora of tools and libraries, ending up assembling a different framework with every new endeavor. This talk will walk through each step of this process, presenting the main options available and choices made in the context of a greenfield project.

  We will briefly discuss the choice of server side technologies such as Node.js and MongoDB as well API centric application design and how they impact the front end. The bulk of the talk will focus on the client with AngularJS used as an example: namely the build process, module system, style of MV*, templating and deployment.

  This talk is not prescriptive and is intended for a wider audience than just those working with the technologies mentioned above, with the hope of stirring discussion and perhaps even identifying new trends.