Schedule

You'll be interacting with a leading group of innovators and thought leaders in the web app industry. Take a look at what they'll be speaking about below

Conference Day One
3rd October

08:00 — 09:00
Registration
09:00 — 09:15
Developer Stage: Welcome from Brian Oberkirch & Simon Willison, the FOWA Conference Chairs
09:15 — 09:55
Developer Stage: Om Malik, (GigaOM) & Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
What is the Future of Web Apps? We Discuss!
09:55 — 10:05
Developer Stage: Andrew Shorten (Adobe)
10 Real-world Apps That Represent The Future of Web Apps
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
10:15 — 10:55
Steve Souders, (Yahoo!)
High Performance Websites
10:15 — 10:55
Heather Champ & Derek Powazek, (Founders of JPG Magazine)
We've Got This Community - Now What? 		 
10:55 — 11:25
AM Break
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
11:25 — 12:05
Dion Almaer, (Ajaxian.com)
How to take your app offline
11:25 — 12:05
Tony Conrad, (Sphere)
The Future of Search
11:25 — 12:05
Adobe
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
12:05 — 12:35
Robin Christopherson, (AbilityNet)
The Art of Attractive Yet Useable Sites
12:05 — 12:35
Daniel Waterhouse, (3i)
The Future of Funding
12:05 — 12:35
Alistair Mitchell (Huddle)
12:35 — 14:05
Lunch Break
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
14:05 — 14:35
Daniel Burka (digg / Pownce)
How User Feedback can Influences Design
14:05 — 14:35
Ted Rheingold (Catster / Dogster)
How to Turn Your App Into A Business
14:05 — 14:35
KickApps
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
14:35 — 15:15
Matt Mullenweg (WordPress)
The Architecture Behind WordPress.com
14:35 — 15:15
Robert Kalin (Etsy)
The Future of Commerce
14:35 — 15:15
Mark Quirk & Jon Harris (Microsoft)
Next version of Visual Studio & Expression for web developers
15:15 — 15:45
PM Break
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
15:45 — 16:25
Matthew Haughey (MetaFilter)
Building a Community
15:45 — 16:25
Lane Becker & Thor Muller (Satisfaction)
Customer Service is the New Marketing
15:45 — 16:25
Zoho
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
16:25 — 16:55
Heidi Pollock (BluePulse)
Taking Your Application Mobile
16:25 — 16:55
Umair Haque (Bubblegeneration)
Next Generation Web Product Strategy
16:25 — 16:55
F5
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
16:55 — 17:35
John Resig (Mozilla Corporation)
The Future of Firefox and JavaScript
16:55 — 17:35
Scott Rafer, (MyBlogLog)
How to build Financial Value with your Web App
16:55 — 17:35
Tony Lucas (XCalibre)
17:45 — 17:55
Mark Quirk & Jon Harris (Microsoft)
7 Things You Probably Don’t Know About That You Can Use in Your Future Web Apps
17:55 — 18:25
Developer Stage: Kevin Rose (digg / Pownce)
Lessons Learned From Launching Digg & Pownce
19:30
Expo Hall closes
19:30 — 20:30
Live Filming of Diggnation
20:30 — 23:00
Future of Web Apps Party - Yay!

Conference Day Two
4th October

08:00 — 09:00
Doors Open
09:00 — 09:15
Developer Stage: Welcome from Brian Oberkirch & Simon Willison, the FOWA conference chairs
09:15 — 09:55
Developer Stage: Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
The Future of Web Startups
09:55 — 10:05
Developer Stage: Edwin Aoki (AOL)
Predicting The Future of Web Apps
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
10:15 — 10:55
Leah Culver (Pownce)
Web app do's and don'ts - Practical lessons we learned
10:15 — 10:55
Rashmi Sinha (SlideShare)
Making Your App Social
10:15 — 10:55
Andrew Shorten (Adobe)
10:55 — 11:25
AM Break
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
11:25 — 12:05
Dave Morin, (Facebook)
The Story Behind The Facebook Platform
11:25 — 12:05
Felix Petersen (Plazes) &
Jyri Engestrom (Jaiku)
The Future of Presence
11:25 — 12:05
Exalead
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
12:05 — 12:35
Simon Wardley,
Short on Cycles, Long on Storage
12:05 — 12:35
Suw Charman, (suw.org.uk)
Preparing for Enterprise Adoption
12:05 — 12:35
Microsoft
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
14:05 — 14:35
John Aizen & Eran Shir (Dapper)
Practical Semantic Web
14:05 — 14:35
Thomas Vander Wal (InfoCloud Solutions)
Putting Users First
14:05 — 14:35
Steve Semelsberger (Pluck) Monetising Social Media Marketing & Advertising
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
14:35 — 15:15
Matt Biddulph, (Dopplr)
Smart Web App Integration With Third Party Sites & Services
14:35 — 15:15
Eric Rodenbeck, (Stamen Design)
Next Generation Visualisations
14:35 — 15:15
Michael Jones (AOL)
Founding, Financing, Growth and M+A; a brief startup guide for the developer, designer and entrepreneur dreamer
15:15 — 15:45
PM Break
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
15:45 — 16:25
Joe Walker, (DWR)
Comet: Making the Web a 2-Way Medium
15:45 — 16:25
Erika Hall, (Mule Design)
Copy is Interface
15:45 — 16:25
Quintura
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
16:25 — 16:55
Tom Coates (Yahoo!)
An Insight to FireEagle
16:25 — 16:55
Leisa Reichelt (Disambiguity.com)
Ambient Intimacy
16:25 — 16:55
David Marcus (Zong)
Developer track Business Track Showcase Track
16:55 — 17:35
Adobe
Air - Next Generation Development
16:55 — 17:35
Dick Costolo (Feedburner)
Launch Late to Iterate Often 		 
17:45 — 18:15
Developer Stage: Best Tips & Screw Ups - Panel of FOWA speakers
18:45
Expo Hall closes

Workshop Day
5th October

  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Chris Shiflett (OmniTI) — Essential Web App Security
  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Steve Souders (Yahoo!) — High Performance Websites
  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Deborah Schultz (deborahschultz.com) — Mindshare Marketing
  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Rashmi Sinha (Slideshare) — Building a Successful Web App
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Daniel Lieberman (Bitpusher) — Scaling The LAMP Stack
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Michael Kowalski (PostCMS) Interface Design for Web Applications
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Ted Rheingold (Dogster) — Making Money From Your App
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Leisa Reichelt (Flow Interactive) — Improving Your Sites Usability - What Users Really, Really Want