Conference Day One
20th February

  • 08:00 — 09:30
    Registration
  • 09:30 — 09:35
    Welcoming Note
  • 09:35 — 10:15
    Mike Arrington, (TechCrunch) - The Future of Start-Ups and Web Companies
  • 10:15 — 10:30
    Edwin Aoki (AOL) - The Changing Face of Online Communities and Communication
  • 10:30 — 11:00
    Break with refreshments served, sponsored by AOL
  • 11:00 — 11:40
    Tara Hunt, (Citizen Agency) - Building Online Communities
  • 11:40 — 11:50
    Simon Wardley (Fotango) - Commodisation of IT and What the Future Holds *Silver Sponsor*
  • 11:50 — 12:30
    Danny Rimer, (Index Ventures) - Everything you need to know about Funding
  • 12:30 — 13:45
    Fully Catered Lunch
  • 13:45 — 14:25
    Matthew Ogle & Anil Bawa Cavia, (Last.fm) - Lessons from the Building of the World's Largest Social Music Platform
  • 14:25 — 14:35
    TJ Kang (ThinkFree) - Gold Sponsor
  • 14:35 — 14:45
    Google (speaker TBC) - Open APIs
  • 14:45 — 15:25
    Werner Vogels, (Amazon) - Why and How Its Easier Than Ever Before To Build A Web Business and Compete With Anyone
  • 15:25 — 16:10
    Business Card Treasure Hunt (refreshments served), sponsored by AOL
  • 16:10 — 16:50
    Bradley Horowitz, (Yahoo!) - Social Interaction - What the Future Holds
  • 16:50 — 17:00
    Stephen Stokols (BT) - Converged Communications on the Web
    *Sponsor Spotlight*
  • 17:00 — 17:10
    Amit Kothari & Chris Garrett (QuotationsBook.com) - *Sponsor Spotlight*
  • 17:10 — 17:20
    Stefan Fountain (Soocial.com) - The Future of Contact Management *Sponsor Spotlight*
  • 17:20 — 18:00
    Kevin Rose, (digg) - The Future of Crowd Generated Media
  • 18:00 — 19:30
    Drinks Reception hosted by Adobe

Conference Day Two
21st February

  • 08:30 — 09:30
    Doors Open
  • 09:30 — 10:05
    Mark Anders (Adobe) - Enabling Next Generation Web Apps In and Beyond the Browser
  • 10:05 — 10:30
    Chris Wilson (Microsoft) - The Future of The Browser
  • 10:30 — 11:00
    Break with refreshments served, sponsored by ThinkFree
  • 11:00 — 11:40
    Khoi Vinh, (NYTimes.com) - Managing User Interface Design
  • 11:40 — 12:20
    Simon Willison (Freelance) - The Future of OpenID
  • 12:20 — 13:35
    Fully Catered Lunch - Including Panel Debate in Council Chamber
  • 13:35 — 14:15
    Jonathan Rochelle, (Google Docs & Spreadsheets) - How We Built Google Docs & Spreadsheets
  • 14:15 — 15:00
    Open Mic Presentations (Voted by Attendees in The Lounge)
  • 15:00 — 15:40
    Daniel Appelquist, (Vodafone) - The Future of Mobile
  • 15:40 — 16:25
    Networking Hot Corners (refreshments served), sponsored by ThinkFree
  • 16:25 — 17:05
    Rasmus Lerdorf, (Creator of PHP) - Application Development Using PHP
  • 17:05 — 17:10
    Tariq Krim (Netvibes) - Netvibes relaunch, code-named "Coriander"
  • 17:10 — 17:50
    Richard Moross & Stefan Magdalinski, (MOO) - How we Turn Virtual Stuff on the Web into Beautiful Things in the Real World
  • 17:50 — 18:00
    Brice Leblevennec (contactoffice.com) - The Future of the Virtual Office *Sponsor Spotlight*
  • 18:00 — 18:05
    Closing Comments
  • 18:30 — 23:00
    Geekdinner with Tara Hunt & Chris Messina
    The Bear, 2 St.Johns Square, EC1M 4DE

Panel Debate - European start-up culture: playing catch-up to the US?
12:35pm, 21st February, Limited Seats

The Council Chamber (located in Kensington Conference Centre) will be host to what promises to be a fascinating discussion around the current state of European start-up culture. The debtate will be attended by a number of industry experts all of whom have an interest in European web culture, including:

There will be limited seating which will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. The debate will start at 12:35 which is shortly after the lunch break commences, so make sure that you grab a bite to eat and then join us for an hour of interesting discussion!

Workshop Day
22nd February

  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Rasmus Lerdorf (Yahoo!) — Increasing PHP Performance & PHP 5 Support for Modern Web Apps
  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Khoi Vinh (NYTimes.com) — The Grid, the Web and Visual Design for User Interfaces
  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Jeremy Keith (Clearleft) — Getting Started with Ajax
  • 09:00 — 12:30
    Matthew Ogle (Last.fm) — Scalable LAMP Development Tips for Growing Web Apps
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Tara Hunt (Citizen Agency) — Building Online Communities
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Jinesh Varia (Amazon Web Services) — How to use Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) to Improve Your Web App
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Stefan Magdalinski (MOO) — Tips and tricks for Building Successful Web Apps
  • 13:30 — 17:00
    Warren Cowan (Greenlight) — Search Engine Optimisation - Hot tips for your Web Application