Vassilios Alexiou

Less Rain www.lessrain.com
Interaction Director

Creative technologist, won a yellow pencil in 1997, founded Less Rain in 1998, got a BAFTA in 2001, loves www.vandalsquad.com, runs Less Rain's London office.

Asa Bailey

WAX Agency www.waxagency.com
Agency Head

Asa started designing websites in 1996; one of the first being the IT publication theregister.co.uk. Today as the Agency Head of digital advertising agency WAX he is responsible for delivering the agency’s own philosophy of Slippy Thinking™ across all its functions and departments.

Personal site: www.asabailey.com

Aral Balkan

OSFlash.org OSFlash.org
Founder

Aral is founder and coordinator of OSFlash.org, author of ARP, the pattern-based ActionScript framework, and the creator of SWX (swxformat.org), a new data exchange format for Flash. He is the author of the Adobe Flex 2 QuickStart Guides and blogs on aralbalkan.com

Paul Boag

Headscape www.headscape.co.uk
Director

Paul Boag is a user interface expert. He is also a well known writer, speaker and podcaster.

Personal site: www.boagworld.com

Daniel Box

KNI www.kurtnoble.com
Creative Director

When not designing, Daniel likes biking around town, playing random sports, eating delicious sandwiches, and making movies with friends.

Personal site: www.dbox.us

Andy Budd

Clearleft Ltd www.clearleft.com
Creative Director

Andy Budd is a blogger, user experience designer, standardista and the author of “CSS Mastery”.

Personal site: www.andybudd.com

Mike Buzzard

Cuban Council www.cubancouncil.com
Presidenté + Code Curator

Michael Buzzard is a self-taught web developer, instructor and author living in San Francisco, California. He is a partner at Cuban Council, a technical/creative company with offices in San Francisco and New York.

Personal site: www.blather.org

Alastair Campbell

Nomensa www.nomensa.com
Director of User Experience

As well as managing Nomensa's user experience team, Alastair works with Nomensa's clients to provide highly usable and accessible technology for their websites, users and customers.

Personal site: alastairc.ac/

Ryan Carson

Carsonified carsonified.com
Co-Founder

Ryan is an entrepreneur and web advocate who has built two successful web applications: DropSend and Amigo. He also runs web events and workshops worldwide that inspire web designers and developers to build their own web applications.

Suw Charman-Anderson

Fruitful wearefruitful.com, strange.corante.com
Social software strategist

Suw specialises in the use of social media in business to improve collaboration and communication.

Personal sites: chocolateandvodka.com, kitsandmortar.com

Andy Clarke

Stuff and Nonsense www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Lead designer and creative director

Andy Clarke is a member of the Web Standards Project and an Invited Expert to the W3C's CSS Working Group. Andy writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and speaks at conference and workshop events worldwide.

Personal site: www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk

Graham Cluley

Sophos www.sophos.com
Senior technology consultant

Graham is one of the world's leading experts in internet security, and author of the cult computer games "Jacaranda Jim" and "Humbug".

Personal site: www.grahamcluley.com

Paul Dawson

Conchangowww.conchango.com
Experience Director at Conchango

Paul started in 'new media' in 1996 and, after a string of early websites and CD-Roms for some big brands, went to Conchango in 1999 to create an integrated offering of design, user experience and build for clients like Virgin Atlantic, Microsoft, HMV and others.

Rob Ford

The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) www.thefwa.com
Principal

Founder of The FWA, consultant to leading brands, writes for Adobe and author of "Guidelines for Online Success" (Taschen).

Ian Forrester

BBC backstage.bbc.co.uk/
Senior Backstage Producer

Ian Forrester heads up the BBC's Backstage, a developer/designer network like no other. His role as head of BBC Backstage includes working with internal and external developers/designers to express their creativity through BBC feeds and APIs.

Personal site: www.cubicgarden.com

Christian Heilmann

Yahoo! UK uk.yahoo.com
Standardista

Web Developer since the end-90s, worked on several blue chip sites, wrote several web development books and now looks after the code quality at Yahoo! Europe.

Personal Site: wait-till-i.com

Molly E. Holzschlag

Molly.Com, Inc. molly.com
Web Standards and Interoperability Education & Outreach

Molly works to educate and assist individuals and companies to use and implement standards in their sites and software.

Julie Howell

Fortune Cookie (UK) Limited www.fortunecookie.co.uk
Director of Accessibility

Julie Howell is Director of Accessibility at digital design agency Fortune Cookie. Prior to this she was the Digital Policy Development Manager at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) where she worked for 12 years.

Martin Hughes

WEFAIL www.wefail.com
Studio Co-Founder

I like making websites for people, for money. Eminem, XGames, BBDO and the Dixie Chicks have all been my friends.

Personal site: www.martin-h.com

Tara Hunt

Citizen Agency www.citizenagency.com
Co-Founder

Entrepreneur, blogger, revolutionary, trouble-maker, Tara is a Canadian living in San Francisco.

Personal site: www.horsepigcow.com

Patrick H. Lauke

University of Salford
Web Editor

Patrick currently works as Web Editor for the University of Salford. An outspoken accessibility and standards advocate, Patrick favours a pragmatic, hands-on approach to web accessibility over purely theoretical, high-level discussions.

Personal site: www.splintered.co.uk

Margaret Manning

Reading Room www.readingroom.com
CEO

Responsible for the creative and strategic direction of the agency, she’s a frequent keynote speaker and has recently won Female Entrepreneur of the year.

Patrick McNeil

Moosylvania Marketing www.moosylvania.com
VP of Interactive

Patrick is a web developer, programmer and project manager for marketing agency Moosylvania where he leads the charge in all things interactive.

Personal site: www.designmeltdown.com

Shane Seminole Mielke

2Advanced Studios LLC www.2advanced.com
Creative Director

I'm a Jack of all trades and master of none.

Personal site: www.shanemielke.com

Ian Moulster

Microsoft Ltd www.microsoft.com/uk
Senior Product Manager

Ian has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years, mostly as a software developer working for a range of enterprise clients.

John Oxton

Scholastic UK LTD scholastic.co.uk
Front End Designer

A freelancer for many years, he joined Scholastic in 2008 having worked with them as a freelancer during 2007.

Oxblood Ruffin

Hacktivismo
Executive director

Oxblood is a member of the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow, and is the founder of Hacktivismo, a provider of circumvention technologies for users behind national firewalls.

Matt Shobe

Google (nee FeedBurner) www.feedburner.com
User Experience Designer

Matt is a co-founder and Chief Design Officer of FeedBurner, now part of Google. He is also a private pilot.

Personal site: www.burningdoor.com/matt

Fadi Shuman

Pod1
Co-founder

Fadi Shuman is the Co-Founder and E-Commerce Director of Pod1, one the UK's fastest growing independent digital agencies. Pod1’s clients include Reiss, Uniqlo, Jigsaw and Net-a-Porter.

Fadi ensures that the agency is at the forefront of all e-commerce strategies including conversion marketing and optimisation tactics. He currently operates between London and New York.

Rob Small

Miniclip www.miniclip.com/games/en/
CEO

Rob co-founded Miniclip.com in 2001, aged 24, with a plan to build the next generation games entertainment company. Miniclip has become the world’s largest online games website with over 43 million unique users.

Jonathan Snook

Snook.ca Web Development, Inc. snook.ca/
President

As web designer and developer, Jonathan Snook creates striking designs and impeccable markup and code, moving effortlessly from client-side to server-side.

Greg Storey

Airbag Industries LLC
Principal

Greg is principal of small Californian agency Airbag Industries, LLC which helps businesses and organisations with their internet related concerns. Previous clients include Sundance Film Festival, MSNBC, and the W3C. Greg is also well known for publishing a notorious weblog.

Personal site: www.airbagindustries.com

Bryan Veloso

Revyver revyver.com
CEO & Head of Creative Development

Bryan fights the good fight to make sure great applications and great design always live to grace the web.

Personal site: avalonstar.com

Khoi Vinh

The New York Times www.nytimes.com
Design Director

Khoi leads the digital design group for NYTimes.com, responsible for interaction and experience innovation. He is also the author of the popular weblog Subtraction.com.

Personal site: www.subtraction.com