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Speakers at Iceweb 2008
Chris Mills
Chris Mills is a developer relationship manager for Opera. He edits and publishes articles on dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com, liaises with the community to raise awareness of Opera and collect feedback, and evangelises about Opera software wherever he can.
Finnur Pálmi Magnússon
Finnur deployed his first website in '97 and since then he's been involved in all things Internet. He has worked on IT projects for some of the largest companies in Iceland including Icelandair and Siminn. During the last couple of years he has been focusing on applying social web applications in the enterprise environment.
Hjálmar Gíslason
Hjalmar Gislason is a technology enthusiast and entrepreneur, currently working on his fourth startup - DataMarket.
Hörtur Smárason
Hjörtur Smárason is an anthropologist gone practical. Starting as a copy writer and concept developer at an advertising agency in 1997, creating award winning campaigns, Hjörtur soon moved over to the fast developing field of Internet Marketing. In the last years Hjörtur has been exploring the field of social media marketing and how it's changing the way we do business today.
James Cridland
James Cridland is Head of Future Media & Technology for BBC Audio & Music Interactive. James contributes to the development of pan-BBC non-linear/new media strategy and provides strategic focus for new media technology within BBC Audio & Music. He is also a Trustee of the pan-industry body The Radio Academy, and is Chairman of its Radio At The Edge conference.
Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra is a popular Web developer, author and blogger who encourages people to consider human behavior when designing technology products. Kathy is the co-creator of the bestselling Head First books (the brain-friendly series from O'Reilly), and creator of the Creating Passionate Users blog.
Mark Boulton
Mark Boulton is a graphic designer based in Cardiff, UK. He runs his own design studio and user experience consultancy Mark Boulton Design and has worked with clients such as the BBC, Coolspotters, Drupal.org and Iceland Express. He specialises in usable, functional and elegant designs for todays webs.
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse is Head of User Experience at Trampoline Systems in London, UK. He began his career as a web standards and accessibility specialist, building systems for clients including PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Virgin and the BBC. In pursuit of his fascination with how and why people use the web Mike moved into User Experience, conceiving and implementing effective and usable interfaces for web applications.
Nate Koechley
Nate Koechley is a Yahoo! frontend engineer and designer based in San Francisco’s Mission district. When he’s not helping design and build the open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library he edits the YUIBlog, promotes accessibility, defines Yahoo! browser support policies, writes occasionally at his personal blog, and presents at conferences around the globe.
Per Rasmussen
Per Rasmussen is the CEO & Founder at eCapacity and former Vice President in TDC - heading the internet sales, support and media channel of the largest Danish Telecom.
Remy Sharp
Remy Sharp cut his teeth in web development 10 years ago as the sole developer for finance web site, Digital Look, which groomed him to be the one man coding machine he is today. Now he runs his own Brighton based development company, called Left Logic writing JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Perl, PHP and anything else he can get his teeth into.
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