Local Government Web Network

Registrations closing soon, don’t miss out!

By Diana Mounter : August 1, 2008 | In Conference 08, Events & meetups |

Register now so you don’t miss out!

We Believe In Community: 21 - 22 August 2008

2 full days on web technologies, strategies, creativity, and standards. 12 sessions in 2 streams and 6 plenary sessions from some of the leading experts in the field from Industry and Government.

If you haven’t registered for tickets yet then now might be a good time! We’ve extended registrations for you late comers so that you’ll be able to get tickets (at a slightly increased rate) until Friday, 8 August 2008.

So get your skates on and don’t miss out on seeing our awesome list of speakers, here’s some you might not have seen that we’ve added to the list…

• Ben Buchanan a Frontend Architect for News Digital Media with experience in both the public and private sector, is our opening keynote speaker for day 2 of the conference. Ben will be talking about how one person can have an impact on an organisation.
• Russ Weakley chair of Web Standards Group and an expert in standards based
  development will be presenting on Efficient, maintainable, modular CSS. Russ will also be leading our panel discussion on Web Standards.
• Brian Hardy an experienced trainer from Vision Australia, is now running two sessions for us (thanks Brian!), one on Writing for the Web and a new session we’ve just added to the list on Making the Web Accessible - this session will focus on accessible solutions for forms and multimedia.
• Lachlan Hardy a Design Engineer at Atlassian, team lead behind Webjam events, and well known web standards expert. Lachlan will be our closing keynote speaker and will be well worth the wait!

But don’t take my word for it, come and see for yourselves and register now. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to meet with your peers and professionals, participate in discussion and debate, and come away inspired feeling a part of our new web community.