Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance; it was #1 in Amazon's Computer and Internet bestsellers. His follow-up book, Even Faster Web Sites, provides performance tips for today's Web 2.0 applications. Steve is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons. He's created many other performance tools and services including the HTTP Archive, Cuzillion, Jdrop, SpriteMe, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford, and does many public speaking appearances.

Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about web performance on Yahoo! Developer Network. He was named a Yahoo! Superstar. Steve worked on many of the platforms and products within the company, including running the development team for My Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo!, Steve worked at several small to mid-sized startups including two companies he co-founded, Helix Systems and CoolSync. He also worked at General Magic, WhoWhere?, and Lycos.

In the early 80's Steve caught the Artificial Intelligence bug. He worked at a few companies doing research on machine learning and had several publications and conference appearances. He has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Steve's interests are varied. He's on the council of First Lutheran Church of Palo Alto and the Couchbase Advisory Board. He's played basketball with several NBA and WNBA players. He was a member of the Universal Studios Internet Task Force. He participated in setting a Guinness world record. He rebuilt a 90-year-old carriage house. He has a wonderful wife and three daughters.

Faruk Ateş is a founder of four53, the San Francisco-based startup behind Presentate, a new and better way to create, present and share your story. Prior to starting four53, Faruk was the Product Designer at Apture, and a UI Engineer at Apple. He is the creator of Modernizr, an award-winning JavaScript library for the next generation of websites and web applications.

I've written lots of tiny node modules including dnode, browserify, optimist, and seaport. I draw silly cartoons and always have dozens of mad science experiments laying about. I built underwater robots in Alaska and then moved to Oakland and co-founded browserling.com and testling.com. I am on a mission to empower developers to write lots of tiny modules and tiny services instead of giant monoliths. Beep boop.

Ilya Grigorik is a developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google. He spends his days and nights working on making the web faster and building and driving adoption of performance best practices. Ilya is currently working on a SPDY book with O'Reilly, which should be available in late 2012 - for news on SPDY and the book, head to: www.spdy.io

Sidney Maestre is the Platform Evangelist for StackMob, a leading provider of backend services for mobile developers. Prior to joining StackMob, Sidney immersed himself in the world of payments as a Developer Evangelist at PayPal. He spent the last few years building mobile apps and sharing his knowledge with others. These efforts included speaking at Adobe MAX, 360iDev, SenchaCon, HTML5DevConf, Silicon Valley Code Camp, creating two courses, jQuery Mobile for Beginners and Learn Backbone.js + StackMob, for the uDemy.com platform and organizing the Bay Area Mobile meetup.

James Pearce is Head of Developer Advocacy at Facebook. He's a developer and writer with a special passion for the web, mobile platforms of all sorts, and exploring their untapped potential.

James' mobile projects include confess.js, WhitherApps, tinySrc, ready.mobi, Device Atlas, and mobiForge. Previously at Sencha, dotMobi, Argogroup and Ernst & Young, he has also written books on the mobile web for Wrox & Wiley. He's easy to find at, @jamespearce or http://tripleodeon.com

Jen Lampton has been building websites since 1997, and working with Drupal since 2006. She maintains several modules on drupal.org, and is a member of the Drupal core usability team. Jen is a huge advocate of the open-source community, and has been organizing the Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADcamp) since 2007.

Recently, Jen has been focused on improving usability and "learnability" in Drupal core. After spending the better part of two years writing curriculum and attempting to teach people how to work with Drupal, she decided that the problem is not a lack of documentation, but instead that Drupal is not intuitive enough, or consistent in its implementation. A huge part of her struggle to make Drupal "make more sense" to people includes an initiative she's leading with many others, to replace the theme layer in Drupal 8.

Paul Trani is a Creative Suite Evangelist for Adobe Systems focusing on workflows that empower designers and developers to publish to multiple screens and platforms.

Paul has been an Adobe Certified Instructor and courseware creator for over a decade. A writer and prolific trainer, Paul has earned top author status at Lynda.com and has created a constant stream of content for AdobeTV as well as his own tutorials on www.designupdate.com.

Prior to joining Adobe, Paul led a team of interactive designers and developers at Starz Entertainment producing multimillion dollar web and mobile campaigns.

When he is not traversing the globe he can be found hiking somewhere in the Colorado mountains (and he’s not telling where). Best chance to find him is to follow him on twitter: @paultrani

Harry Shoff is a Design Engineer at Airbnb. Before that, in no specific order, he was a bookseller, a barista, a car wash operator, a valet, an electrical engineering student, and a Christmas tree salesmen. Having left those all behind, he's currently working on everything from Airbnb’s mobile website to their internal photographer management tool, responsible for coordinating hundreds of photography shoots per day.

Michael Wnuk (@mikewnuk) is the Director of Technology at the Onion. He's worked on a number of HTML5-based iOS apps, including the Webby Award Winning Onion iPad App. The Onion team is currently working on rebuild of their sites that takes advantage of the latest browser & device capabilities.

Diego Ferreiro works at Yahoo! as a FrontEnd engineer and as a Security Paranoid. He was named Mojito Ambassador to evangelize the community on Mojito and Cocktails platform. In his spare time he also enjoy messing around and experiment with new HTML5 features.

Adron Hall is a jovial, TDD, BDD, get things done well, software architect, engineer, code monkey, coder, cloud advocate, distributed systems junkie or what have you. He runs the gamut of dev stacks from Ruby on Rails, Node.js and .NET. JavaScript is admittedly a favorite of his, with a dose of Node.js these days. Adron is passionate about devops (it is the future, get ready) and especially PaaS (Platform as a Service) Technologies. He loves to get involved in hackathons, user groups, and other tech community events. If you haven’t met him, there’s always a good chance you will.

Adam Christian started at the Open Source Applications foundation out of college, co-creating the windmill test framework. He then helped create the Mozmill testing tool working with Mozilla, and leading the test automation effort at Slide inc before joining Sauce Labs. He currently focuses on front-end development at Sauce Labs, and works on open source projects like WD.js, jellyfish and se-builder in his free time left over after snowboarding and whiskey tasting.

Jina Bolton enjoys creating beautiful user experiences. She currently works as a product designer at Do, an awesome company that helps you get work done. Previously, Jina has worked at rad companies including Apple, Engine Yard, andCrush + Lovely. She also coauthored 2 books, Fancy Form Design and The Art & Science of CSS.

She is currently helping lead Team Sass Design (a task force redesigning the Sass website), and does occasional maintenance work for 320 and Up (after she volunteered to port the LESS files over to Sass). She also has a side project, Art in My Coffee, a curated gallery of coffee art."

Zohar Babin's background is with programming, web, 3D, video production, community, marketing and facilitating relationships and partnerships. I hack software and build communities, enjoy connecting, sharing ideas, martial arts, visual arts, music, extreme sports, beer, travel and many other things. I enable ecosystems.

Today I lead Community Building and Developer Relations at Kaltura. I spend most my day exploring new, innovative, exciting and fun ways to leverage video and online media to improve participation, increase sales, increase learning results, improve efficiencies and deliver greater, more fun web and TV experiences.

I was born into the early days of the web, modding was how I started software development and online forums/communities were my [in]formal community education. I love giving back and sharing ideas and enjoy open discussions. You’ll often find me chat about psychology and human nature, technology, collaboration, open source, linked-data (and connecting ideas), art and the future of communication and education.

Josh Powell is the co-author of the upcoming Manning book, Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript End to End. He was formerly an engineer at Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial-intelligence advertising solutions that transform digital media campaigns into self-optimizing engines that learn and adapt in real-time, where he built the single page web applications that monitor, control, and report on digital advertising campaigns across online image, video, mobile and social media. Prior jobs include a stint at Silver Spring Networks, working on the web applications responsible for managing millions of networked electrical meters in some of the biggest networks on the planet, and at Electronic Arts working on high traffic sites for some of the entertainment industries biggest names: Harry Potter, 007, Lord of the Rings, and others.

Eric Elliot is a 15 year veteran of JavaScript development. His past roles include head of client side architecture at Zumba Fitness (the leading global fitness brand), Senior JavaScript Rockstar at BandPage (the top music app on Facebook), several years as a UX consultant, and author of h5Validate, an HTML5 form validation plugin for jQuery. Eric has also photographed many famous musicians and DJs, and worked in recording studios as a musician and audio engineer.

While developing JavaScript client applications for over a decade, Derek Brans worked for Electronic Arts in Vancouver, Idilia and Mecano in Montreal and Declicmedia in Paris. His work has been nominated for a Webby Award and a Prix d’excellence - Domaine de la culture et des arts vie moderne of Canadian New Media. His credits include the Jolicloud OS web interface, and a web client for McGill University's Open Orchestra project.

Stephen Blum CTO and Founder at PubNub.com, is based in San Francisco, CA. Stephen’s vision and strong technical chops drove the initial architecture of PubNub, building a core engine that has scaled the largest real-time deployments in the world. Stephen has been a successful software entrepreneur his whole life, starting his first company, LTSun, at age 17, and joining Microsoft after its acquisition.

Julie Ann Horvath is a Designer and Front-ender at GitHub. Obsessed with all things CSS, webkit, and mocking-up in markup, she spends most of her time in the browser and dancing in and around her computer chair.

Ian Johnson is a data visualization programmer and designer. His passion is building tools that make the creation of audio, visual, and data-driven media more intuitive and engaging for both programmers and non-programmers.

As an active user in the d3.js community, he co-organizes the SF Bay Area d3 Meetup and hones his skills by helping startups visualize their data with his colleagues at the Mainstem Collective.

Mikito Takada is a Node.js software developer at Zendesk. He's written a couple of free books on Node and single page apps.

Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a software engineer at Google where he works on Dart. Previously, he was a VP at SAP Labs, a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, and a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Parashuram Narasimhan Programmer at Sneekpeeq. Before Sneakpeeq, he was a program manager for SQLCE at Microsoft, working on the IndexedDB implementation and specifications. He has written the Jquery IndexedDB plugin, a query layer for IndexedDB and is working on a WebSql shim for IndexedDB. He also like playing with latest HTML features in the web and their security implications. During his free time, he hacks at http://nparashuram.com/projects.

Matt Kelly Lead Rails Engineer at ZURB and HotChalk Inc. Born into a world gone mad with Java, and the promise of order and civilization brought at the hands of object oriented programming, Matt went down to the river of PHP to be reborn. But alas, these were false gods. Although fast and thread safe, his web applications were still in chaos. SQL injection was rampant, models views and controllers all co-mingled in a shanty town they named index.php. In the midst of a battle between the strongly and weakly typed languages Matt fled town, seeking something wholesome and good. It was then that he found Ruby on Rails, a shinning beacon of hope. Bet that wasn't what you expected and yes his talk is funny too and highly recommended. Matt's talk is on Interaction Design Engineering for JavaScript.

Hampton Catlin is the inventor of Sass, a CSS generating language, and the Haml markup language. He is the VP of Technology at Moovweb, a (bootstrapped!) startup focusing on kicking ass at taking names in the mobile space. He is the original creator of Wikipedia Mobile (m.wikipedia.org) and is also the creator of several successful iPhone applications that have been downloaded by over 10 million people.

Devrim Yasar is CEO and Co-founder of Koding. He grew up with computers, wrote his first program in qbasic when he was 12, started a few companies from software house to a mobile payment, now he's a software engineer and architect at Koding. Building better and more accessible tools for developers.

Bear Travis works at Adobe on the Web Engine team, developing new goodies for the web.

Dr. Corey Clark is a professor of Game and Simulation Programming at DeVry University in Dallas and Founder of @GameTheoryLabs. His current work is focused on building high performance Web Apps, HTML5, Gaming, Cluster Computing, Artificial Intelligence Modeling, Learning and Optimization. Previously he was Principal Investigator (PI) on several advanced research projects for various organizations in the DoD ranging from advanced 3D modeling and simulation of nanoscale deposition techniques to System on Chip SWARM based low power reconfigurable self-healing mesh networks.

• @CoreyClarkPhD
• @GameTheoryLabs
• CV: coreyclarkphd.com
• Web Dev Consulting Firm: wiki.gametheorylabs.com
• Multithreaded Online OS: jahovaos.com

Dave Freeman is in the running for elder statesman of Developer Relations. Few on the team can match his length of time alive, let alone claim to have seen, nay, heard of, the ancient computer systems that he has been exposed to in his career. Dave has been “in computers” and networking since 1982 when he first hooked up his VIC-20 to Compuserve at the blistering pace of 300bps. An expert troubleshooter, he has a broad knowledge pool from which to draw. Prior to becoming a Developer Relations SWAT Engineer, he worked for IBM as a technical enablement specialist, Tivoli as a level 2 technical support specialist, Dell as an Optiplex system test engineer, and various IT consulting gigs sprinkled between them. An epiphany in 2009 (webOS) led Dave to the fast-paced world of mobile application development. He currently specializes in Enyo, an object-oriented cross-platform JavaScript application development framework.

Gray Norton leads the team responsible for the Enyo JavaScript app framework. Enyo helps developers build native-quality HTML5 apps that run across all platforms and form factors, from mobile to desktop and beyond. Before assuming leadership of the Enyo team, Gray led product management for the webOS developer platform. He believes that the web is destined to become the dominant app platform of the future, and has been working on web-centric products and platforms for 15+ years, at Palm/HP, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and a handful of startups.

Sérgio Costa has been working on web technologies since 1999, where he has a vast experience, being involved in a plethora of different projects, mainly in the area of e-commerce. He oversaw the early R&D for the Realtime technology and was involved on the initial prototypes for xRTML and PowerMarketing. Sérgio is very passionate about real time and the possibilities it provides to both companies and developers and believes it will change the way we use the internet. New and exciting opportunities are now in reach of developers and he couldn't be happier to be one of the people involved in it from the beginning.

Glan Thomas is a Senior Platform Engineer at Disney Interactive. He specializes in creating magical mobile web experiences. Prior to moving to the Bay Area in 2010, he worked as a web developer at the BBC in London and ran his own web consultancy. Glan has a Master of Engineering degree from Warwick University, rides a Buell motorcycle and has a chocolate labrador named Buddy.

Karlene Nguyen is a Technology Manager of the Games Lab (Disney Interactive Labs) at Disney. Her team has worked closely with Rocket Pack to develop several Disney HTML5 games using RocketEngine. She graduated with her M.S. in Computer Science & B.S. in Cybernetics from UCLA. She currently resides in Los Angeles & enjoys spending time with her toy Australian Shepherd Keilani.

Bill Pearson manages the Developer Experience and Strategy team in Intel’s Developer Relations Division. He and his team are responsible for defining Intel’s developer program. Bill leads the Intel Developer Program’s efforts on HTML5. Bill leads the Intel Developer Program’s efforts on HTML5. He has over 20 years of software industry experience. Bill holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a MS in Management from the University of Southern California.

Jiri Kupiainen is one of the founders of Rocket Pack, which became a part of Disney in March 2011. Rocket Pack makes the Rocket Engine HTML5 cloud game development platform. Throughout his career Jiri has been keenly interested in web technologies and game development, successfully bridging the two as the CEO of Rocket Pack.

Sean Adkinson is a senior software engineer at Jama Software in Portland, OR, where he works on Contour, a large-scale ExtJS web application. Sean is a first time speaker, lover of HTML and JavaScript, and looking forward to an awesome conference.

Jeff Burtoft is as an HTML5 Evangelist for Microsoft where he has the pleasure of serving the HTML5 community every day. Jeff Recently co-authored his first book entitled HTML5 Hacks (O’Reilly Media) and is a founding blogger at html5hacks.com. Being in the Web Development community for over 10 years, his work experience varies from positions like "web master" for the Department of Defense to Principal Front End Engineer for a fortune 500 company. Jeff is a huge proponent of web standards, and loves all programing languages, as long as they are JavaScript. Jeff lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife and three children. In his free time, he enjoys writing Apps and playing video games with his kids.

As web lead at dotCloud for the past year, Gabriel spent his time mashing together Python with both browser- and Node.js-based JavaScript to create best-of-both-world applications used by thousands of developers.

Gabriel now spends more of his time doing developer advocacy -- acting as dotCloud's "customer-in-residence" to ensure the company is producing a product developers love.

He maintains and contributes to a number of open source projects: https://github.com/gabrielgrant

Pablo Garralda is a product engineer for HTML5 tools at Intel Corporation. He joined Intel in 2006, working for the Software Pathfinding Division on technology incubation projects using a variety of different technologies. More recently, he joined the Developer Products Division, focusing on software development tools for HTML5 technologies.

Aaron Reismanis a front-end engineer at OkCupid Labs. When he's not contributing to your sex life through code, he's writing about his front-end toolkit on Forrst at https://forrst.com/people/lifeiscontent/posts

Craig Muth has been evolving Xiki for over 10 years. He is the founder of Memorize.com, and the founder/organizer of the ProtoNight.com pair programming hack events in San Francisco.

David J. Kordsmeier President and CTO at Razortooth Communications LLC, Node.js SSJS++ Club SF Meetup Founder, Board Member @ SMILE Consortium (an EDUTech 501c3), read more @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/dkords. David loves to build end-to-end solutions for embedded systems (Android and Linux on ARM) and develops multi-touch enabled Web Applications based on HTML5 Web standards.

Diane Bisgeier runs Mozilla's open innovation program, providing startups with 3 months of business curriculum and access to the Mozilla network. Before this, she worked with a variety of startups in communications and marketing roles, as well served as a venture capital associate and executive recruiter. She has a BA in History from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Ipsheeta Furtado is co-founder of the FTW Group, a technical consultancy for SMBs, NPOs, and start-ups focused on leveraging the cloud and practicing lean. She codes across the stack (now) and is a founder of @PyLadiesSF. She practices yoga, teaches swimming, and is learning guitar in her spare time. Ipsheeta holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley. She promises to tweet more @ftwipsheeta.

Kent Brewster helped launch the Yahoo! Developer Network, built Netflix for the iPhone, and is now the guy whose fault it is if the Pin It button is broken on Pinterest.

I'm a programmer, runner, and tea drinker. I'm on the BestieJS and FuseJS core teams, and currently hacking on awesome JavaScript projects at Voxer. I spend my free time reading and hunting browser bugs.

Peter Lai co-founded Crocodoc immediately after graduating from MIT in 2008. At Crocodoc, he leads development of technology that converts documents to cross-browser compatible HTML. Prior to Crocodoc, he worked on information retrieval at PARC and co-authored a patent on novel ways of searching collections of documents. He most enjoys pushing the limits of what is possible using the newest pre-release browsers. He least enjoys discovering that data URIs cause mixed content warnings in Internet Explorer 7.

Vance Feldman is a developer at Fashionbuddha, a digital skunkworks in Portland, OR.

Mike Wallin is a mobile user acquisition guru. With more than seven years’ experience delivering top-tier mobile marketing acquisition programs, Mike has witnessed the incredible evolution of digital mobile media from before the launch of smartphones to today’s 4G networks.

In his current role as Senior Director of Marketing for the PlayPhone Social Gaming Network, Mike and his team navigate the increasingly complex mobile app acquisition landscape to deliver top-quality traffic to PlayPhone’s growing catalog of mobile games at lowest possible blended CPAs. Mike also manages product monetization programs for the PlayPhone Developer Program, offering in-app advertising solutions that utilize top-tier ad networks as well as cross- marketing opportunities for PlayPhone’s game developers.

Prior to his position at PlayPhone, Wallin held a number of comparable business development functions for companies such as GameTheory LLC, Viveli, Inc. and W3i, LLC. Wallin earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and psychology from Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota, where he graduated magna cum laude from the G.R. Herberger College of Business.