Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ember.js, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; he spends his daytime hours at the startup he founded, Tilde Inc.. Yehuda is the co-author of the best-selling jQuery in Action, Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on open source—his main projects, along with others, like Thor, Handlebars and Janus—or traveling the world doing evangelism work. He blogs at http://yehudakatz.com and can be found on Twitter as @wycats.

Chris Heilmann has dedicated a lot of his time making the web better. Originally coming from a radio journalism background, he built his first web site from scratch around 1997 and spent the following years working on lots of large, international web sites. He then spent a few years in Yahoo building products and explaining and training people and is now at Mozilla. Chris wrote and contributed to four books on web development and wrote many articles and hundreds of blog posts for Ajaxian, Smashing Magazine, Yahoo, Mozilla, ScriptJunkie and many more.

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Dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web, Tantek Çelik is Web Standards Lead at Mozilla where he works with several web standards groups and edits specifications.

Previously he worked independently with numerous clients, such as Mozilla and Revision3, on web standards leadership and HTML5 upgrades. He is the author of HTML5 Now: A Step-By-Step Tutorial for Getting Started Today (New Riders: 2010).

Tantek co-founded both GMPG and the growing microformats.org open standards community after many years of experience contributing to, writing, and editing specifications at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He also serves on the Open Web Foundation (OWF) board.

In 2003 Tantek collaborated with Eric Meyer and Matt Mullenweg in the invention of the XHTML Friends Network (XFN), which has since become the most popular decentralized social network format in the history of the Web with billions of relationships.

In 2004 Tantek proposed hCard for representing people and organizations on the Web, which has since similarly become the most popular web profile format, supported by hundreds of millions of user profiles across dozens of social networks. During his years as Technorati's Chief Technologist, Tantek played an active role in refining and evangelizing these microformats, guiding them from wiki proposals to well-recognized open web formats endorsed and implemented by numerous individuals, small organizations, and major companies ranging from AOL to Yahoo.

Previously Tantek was a veteran representative to the W3C for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh, the first web browser to bring widespread standards compliant HTML4 + CSS1 + PNG1 support to millions of users worldwide.

Tantek has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user-centered design from his many years at Apple Computer. He shares his thoughts on tantek.com and his Twitter: twitter.com/t.

Nicholas C. Zakas is a software engineer at Box, author, and speaker. He worked at Yahoo! for almost five years, where he was front-end tech lead for the Yahoo! homepage and a contributor to the YUI library. He is the author of Maintainable JavaScript (O’Reilly, 2012), Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2012), High Performance JavaScript (O’Reilly, 2010), and Professional Ajax (Wrox, 2007). Nicholas is a strong advocate for development best practices including progressive enhancement, accessibility, performance, scalability, and maintainability. He blogs regularly at http://www.nczonline.net/ and can be found on Twitter via @slicknet.

I'm the CEO of Sencha, and we make SDK's, tools and cloud services for creating mobile and desktop apps using HTML5. I've been working in software product management and development for many years - starting off as the product manager for PKI in the Netscape browser. I can't imagine a more fun job than helping web technologies succeed.

Luz is a developer evangelist. Until recently she worked for Opera Software as a Web Opener, evangelizing Web Standards.

Ariya Hidayat is a passionate technologist and a big believer in sharing and openness. These days, his activities are mostly centered around software craftsmanship around HTML5, JavaScript, and other web technologies.

Michael Jackson (@mjackson) was not named after the singer, just so you know. He spends his days hacking on all things JavaScript and does his best to share stuff he learns along the way. He is a co-founder at HUM (@hum), a startup that is dedicated to improving the way we communicate.

Colt McAnlis is a Developer Advocate at Google focusing on Chrome Games and Performance; Before that, he was a systems & graphics programmer in the games industry working at Blizzard, Microsoft (Ensemble), and Petroglyph. He also spent 4 years as an Adjunct Professor at SMU Guildhall's school for game development, where he taught classes on math, physics, graphics, and concurrent programming. When he's not working with partners, Colt spends his time preparing for an invasion of giant ants from outer space.

Brian Lonsdorf is CTO of looprecur, a front for unimaginably corrupt underground activity. He's the last one you want at your hack night, although it's entirely reasonable to assume he'll show up to break your code and drink your beer anyways.

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."

A self-described 'geek with a love of design,' Dan Harrelson draws from a rich palette to create exceptional user-centered products. He has been working at the intersection of design and development for over 15 years. Dan is the Design Technology Lead for GE, driving adoption of great design within the vast software development teams across the company. As a thought-leader in UX and technology, he helps teams envision and build the products their customers want. Dan's expertise influences product design across many platforms such as mobile, consumer electronics, kiosks, television, and web applications.

Bringing a unique tech perspective to product design, Dan loves to help team solve difficult problems. From vetting concepts for feasibility to testing them with rapid prototyping, his work drives product success for industry leaders around the globe. Some of his past clients include HP/Palm, Zappos, FedEx, Sun, Visa, Art.com, Western Union, Rackspace, Mozilla, Apple, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, and SanDisk.

An engaging speaker and advocate for the use of technology in UX design, he actively promotes user-centered design concepts to developers. Dan's presentations and articles have been featured at UX Intensive, UX Week, MIX, Agile and Agile Roots. Prior to joining GE Dan was the Executive Director of Technology for Hot Studio and a Design Technologist with Adaptive Path, two consulting agencies based in San Francisco.

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.

Steve Newcomb is perhaps best known for being the author of "Cult Creation" and for being the founder of the Peter Thiel funded Powerset which is considered one of the best group of engineers ever assembled. Powerset is now MSFT Bing and the engineers, often called the Powerset Mafia, now hold key roles in nearly every major tech company in the Valley and have founded a host of successful startups including GitHub, Serious Business and Crowdflower. For the last two years Steve has been heads down building a new team and working on an experimental HTML5 3D gesture based physics engine that generates a jaw dropping immersive experience without the use of canvass, without the use of any native wrapper and works on phones, tablets, computers and media devices.

Bear Travis works on the Web Engine team at Adobe, developing new standards for the web platform. When he's not up to his elbows in text layout code, he can generally be found tinkering with HTML, CSS & JS.

Todd Kloots (@todd) is based in San Francisco, currently working as an engineer at Twitter. He's a believer in and evangelist of Web Standards, and the development of sites and applications designed with Progressive Enhancement. In his previous life at Yahoo!, he worked on Yahoo! Mail, the YUI Library and was a member of the Yahoo! Inclusive Design Team—where he worked with engineering and design teams to improve the usability and accessibility of products for users with disabilities. When he's not writing code, Todd works on his other passion: making and drinking coffee. Follow his progress of perfecting latte art on Flickr.

Matt Harrington is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Before joining Microsoft in 2011, Matt was active in the local open source community. He discovered functional programming through Scala, which he enjoyed very much. At a Silicon Valley Code Camp in 2008, Matt had a break in his schedule and decided to attend a talk on F# by Tim Ng of Microsoft. At that time, he didn't even own a Windows computer and had only heard faint whispers about F#. By the end of Tim's talk, he was sold. Matt stopped what he was doing, switched his home machine from Solaris to Windows, and dove into F# and .NET. He soon learned that to really become an expert in .NET, you have to know C#, which he then picked up and enjoyed just as much. Matt tossed VB.NET in for good measure, which he found to be just as powerful as C# but with a more readable syntax. After joining Microsoft, Matt expanded on the C++ skills he used in his scientific computing background.

Brian Rinaldi is as a content and community manager for the Adobe Developer Connection team, where he helps drive content strategy for HTML5 and JavaScript developer content. Brian blogs regularly at remotesynthesis.com and is an unreformed twitter addict @remotesynth.

Tony Parisi is an entrepreneur and career CTO/software architect. He has developed international standards and protocols, created noteworthy software products, and started and sold technology companies. Tony’s passion for innovating is exceeded only by his desire to build great products.

Tony is the co-creator of the VRML and X3D ISO standards for networked 3D graphics, and continues to innovate in 3Dtechnology. Tony is the co-chair of the San Francisco WebGL Meetup (www.meetup.com/WebGL-Developers-Meetup), a founder of the Rest3D working group (http://www.rest3d.org/) and a member of the Khronos COLLADA working group creating glTF, the new file format standard for 3D web and mobile applications. Tony is also the author of O’Reilly Media’s first authoritative book on WebGL, WebGL Up and Running (2012), and the upcoming Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL (O’Reilly 2013).

Tony is currently a partner in a stealth web media startup and has a consulting practice developing social games, game platforms and web applications for San Francisco Bay Area clients.

Mauvis Ledford, formerly of Tapulous / Disney Mobile is a CTO that is passionate about HTML5, JavaScript, and scaling on the cloud. He's done HTML5 / Backbone consulting for many companies in the Bay Area including Skype and is technical editor of the book Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3.

He open-sourced a sample Responsive Backbone app during last year's HTML5 Dev Conf here: http://dontbreak.me

Nate Altschul is currently the Director of Game Development at Nісkеlоdеоn, where he is responsible for the development of 100+ games annually across a variety of platforms. A game industry veteran, he has been developing casual games, multiplayer games (MMO), and virtual worlds for over 15 years. His award-winning work spans past clients that include Nike, Leapfrog, MLB, Nеоpets, PBS, Wrigley, and Discovery Channel. And games developed at Nісkеlоdеоn games (such as, PеtPеt Pаrk and Nісktrоpоlіs) won 4 Webby Awards and 2 Parents’ Choice Awards. He currently has 2 patents pending for game-related inventions. A graduate of UC Berkeley, he has lived in New York City since 2004, where he founded the HTML5 Games Group and the Cross-Platform Games Group.

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.

Imran S. Haque is the Director of Research at Counsyl, a South San Francisco-based genomics company performing carrier testing on over 2.5% of all births in the United States. Prior to his time at Counsyl, Dr. Haque received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford, where he worked on scalable machine learning for drug discovery with Vijay Pande and Daphne Koller, and his BS in electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley.

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

Gregory Menvielle (@pyramedium) is a principal at PyraSolutions LLC (www.pyrasolutions.com), a Boulder-based software company helping customers better manage their operations. To help our customers be rock stars and answer their mobile needs, we are focusing on using HTML5 and PhoneGap to tap into our enterprise API. Gregory is also part of the Non-profit Costs of Care, where he oversees information technologies initiatives that help caregivers decrease healthcare costs. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MA in Egyptology from the University of Chicago, neither of them preparing him to keep up with his 2.5 year old daughter!

Paul Fischer is a TCE (Technical Consulting Engineer) for mobile and embedded development tools at Intel Corporation. Prior to joining Intel [in 2009] he spent most of his time in a variety of engineering and marketing roles, primarily in the embedded computing and real-time software market.

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

As an active user in the d3.js community, he co-organizes the SF Bay Area d3 Meetup and hones his data vis engineering skills at lever.co. Ian develops http://tributary.io in his spare time to help people prototype their d3.js visualizations quicker.

Roy Sutton is the Community Manager for LG's Open webOS project. He is the author of Enyo: Up and Running from O'Reilly Media and a contributor to the Enyo project. He has been a mobile developer for longer than the term has existed. You can find him on twitter as @Pre101

Spike Brehm is a Front End Engineer specializing in rich-client JavaScript apps at Airbnb. In over a decade of experience with JavaScript -- his first code was for a UI widget on a Geocities page -- he has seen the role of JavaScript on the web morph from novelty to basic building block.

He's currently prototyping the next generation of Airbnb's front end stack, and is busy open-sourcing Rendr: a library for building web applications that run on both sides of the wire, fetching data and rendering views on client and server, built on Backbone.js and Node.js.

Prior to Airbnb, Spike brought solar power to the masses as Lead Front End Engineer at SunRun, and built a web-based analytics dashboard for a research project on nano particles' effects on the environment at Duke University.

Spike also hosts a monthly Backbone.js study group at Airbnb HQ in San Francisco. Come hack with us!

Melanie Archer is a freelance Web developer specializing in the presentation layer. Once satisfied with delivering mere pixel perfection, she's now ranting to all and sundry that front-end Web development merits the rigor of software engineering techniques. Among her dreams is obtaining test-driven development for CSS.

Rob Larsen has more than 12 years experience as a front end engineer and team lead, building web sites and applications for some of the world’s biggest brands.

Rob is an active writer and speaker on web technology with a special focus on emerging standards like HTML5, CSS3 and the ongoing evolution of the JavaScript programming language. He is co-author of Professional jQuery (WROX) and Beginning HTML and CSS (WROX.) He’s also active in the open source community, helping to bridge the gap between the front lines of web development and the people actively working on the tools that drive the web.

In his career Rob has spent time at Sapient Global Markets, Isobar, The Brand Experience, Cramer and as an independent consultant. Over the years Rob has solved unique problems for clients like Adidas, Motorola, Philips, Reebok, Gillette, Boston’s Museum of Science, State Street Corporation and Harvard Kennedy School.

Ryan Jarvinen is an Open Platform Evangelist working with RedHat's OpenShift team. He lives in Oakland, California and is passionate about open source, open standards, open government, and digital rights. He also spends time working with OpenOakland (a local Code for America Brigade), and SudoRoom (a neighborhood hackerspace). You can reach him as 'ryanj' on twitter, github, and IRC.

As president of Ludei, Joe Monastiero brings over 20 years of technology management experience to the Company. Joe is responsible for coordinating all business strategy and planning, funding initiatives, strategic partnerships, business models, product planning and roadmapping, new hires, marketing, PR, and of course, developing a sound revenue and profitability plan. He works daily with most of the larger companies in the mobile game industry and its ecosystem. As a technologist, he is also actively involved in the day-to-day planning of the company’s offerings.

Ludei is a cross-device native mobile game development and delivery platform that allows app developers to build, deploy and monetize high performance, native competitive HTML5 games for both iOS and Android from a single codebase.

Prior to joining Ludei, Joe co-founded appMobi, recently acquired by Intel and a pioneer in HTML5 mobile application development platforms, helping the company acquire over 60,000 active developers. He also co-founded Intervideo, (formerly IVII, acquired by Corel Corporation) where he was responsible for sales, marketing and business development activities and helped drive the company to become the dominant force in delivering DVD software playback to the world. Over 500M copies of WinDVD have been delivered to the market worldwide.

Joe has also been a leading consultant to technology startups, including muvee Technologies of Singapore and Cyberlink Corp of Taiwan and was also employed by Rockwell Semiconductor, Zoran and Turtle Beach Systems. Joe’s experience includes helping to take two companies public and managing two successful exit M&As.

Jacky Nguyen is one of the core engineers behind Sencha frameworks. With his well-rounded knowledge and experiences on both server-side and client-side development as well as industry best practices, he is responsible for designing and improving Sencha frameworks’ overall architectures. He was the author of MooTouch, which has become a part of Sencha Labs. Jacky is passionate about bringing innovation to software development and developers.

Tim Anglade is head of developer programs for Apigee, the API company. In previous lives, he created the NOSQL Summer (http://nosqlsummer.org) and the NOSQL Tapes (http://nosqltapes.com). When he’s not busy helping developers build their apps, he’s out speaking at conferences such as OSCON, GoGaRuco, Oredev, DrupalCon, or conducting mobile HTML5 training workshops around the world. You can find him on Twitter as @timanglade.

Philip Tellis (@bluesmoon) is a geek who likes to make the computer do his work for him. As Chief Architect at SOASTA, he analyses the impact of various design decisions on web application performance, scalability and security. He is the lead developer of ""boomerang"" -- a JavaScript based web performance testing tool.

In his spare time, Philip enjoys cycling, reading, cooking and learning spoken languages.

John is a Developer Evangelist at JetBrains.

John has spent the majority of his career developing Rich Web Applications. Before joining JetBrains, he was a Technical Architect at Roundarch for 3 years leading large teams in building the latest and greatest in web apps for the Air Force, HBO, and Bloomberg.

John focuses much of his free time on delivering high-quality video tutorials and offering them up for free on his youtube channel (http://youtube.com/johnlindquist). He recently has launched his own video tutorial training site at http://egghead.io currently focusing on AngularJS.

Jeff Burtoft is as an HTML5 Evangelist for Microsoft and an avid supporter of the JavaScript/HTML5 community. Being in the Web Development community for over 10 years, his job title has morphed from the likes of ""Web Master"" to “Front End Engineer” and everything in-between.

Jeff is a huge proponent of web standards, and loves all programing languages, as long as they are JavaScript. Additionally, Jeff is co-author of HTML5 Hacks (O’Reilly Media) and is a founding blogger of html5hacks.com. Jeff lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife and three children.

As Executive Vice President of Operations, Scott Teger is responsible for directing the company's day-to-day operations including technology support, business intelligence, customer support, and acting as a general 'catch-all' to handle whatever may arise and keep everything moving forward. Scott's proven track record is driven by a technical disciplined engineering background, layered with the flexibility required to navigate through demanding, real world business needs of the successful ventures he's helped lead.

Scott co-founded Fli Digital, Inc. in 2002, where he utilized his engineering background with an entrepreneurial spirit to build a digital technology client services company. In 2006, Fli Digital made the timely decision to create its own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), the "Fresh Mobile Platform," which was an early enabler for companies to utilize WAP, SMS, and PSMS services in the US and Latin America. Fli Digital was acquired for its technology and talent by Social Hour in 2010.

After joining the Social Hour team, Scott's role broadened to supporting the application of the Fresh Platform to the fast-paced space of performance marketing as EVP of Operations and Engineering. Scott managed the needs of internal platforms, supported or executed on many M&A transactions, navigated complex legal landscapes, as well as interfaced with Publishers, Advertisers, and Vendors to maintain a full understanding of the business landscape to make effective decisions. Social Hour, a highly successful performance marketing technology company with revenues around $100MM/year, was later acquired by PlayPhone in March 2012 to bring together its D2C marketing expertise with the highly successful PlayPhone product to aggressively pursue an opportunity to lead the Mobile Social Gaming space.

Scott holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. When Scott is not taking care of business at Playphone, you can find him exploring in and around the SF Bay Area by foot, bike, sea or ski.

Michael Mikowski works as a UI architect and product designer and is the co-author of the Manning book, Single Page Web Applications - JavaScript End to End (http://manning.com/mikowski). He has written JavaScript since its introduction, and created his first Single Page Web Application [SPA] in 2007 for the US and European AMD shopping sites.

Mike coordinated the initial design and is currently leading a UI development team of 5 for his fifth commercial SPA. This enterprise application is designed for desktop and multi-touch mobile devices using jQuery, SVG, TaffyDB, Node.js, MongoDB, and a number of his own jQuery plugins.

Mike is also an award-winning and degreed Industrial Designer. He has been the development manager for numerous companies and products and has brought many complex software and physical products to market. In a previous life, he founded, grew, and managed an engineering and design house that became a Tier 1 supplier to leading automotive OEMs. Some of his more interesting experiences include solid modeling, plastics, CFD, FEA, Kinematics, mold flow, rapid prototyping, numerical methods, and music composition.

Timothy Armstrong is a Developer Programs Engineer on the Dart team at Google. He's passionate about the open web platform and building large-scale applications on the web. Previously, Timothy worked as an engineer on the Google+ team where he learned the pain of developing large web applications; he's now taken those lessons to the Dart team where he's helping to create a better development experience for those building applications on the web platform. Before Google, Timothy worked as the primary mobile developer at a start-up company where he built the mobile web application which was critical to the company's current success.

Lorin Beer is a Computing Scientist at Adobe working on Apache Cordova/PhoneGap and the Pender project. His interests include computational complexity, computer languages, and AI. Lorin also plays a mean game of chess. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two girls.

Dave makes pocket software and hardware in San Francisco. A recovering consultant, his past clients include early-stage startups, Fortune 500 companines, non-profits, and advertising agencies. Since 2012 Dave has been helping filepicker.io build the future of the internet.

Trevor Burnham is a developer at HubSpot in Boston, MA. He's the author most recently of Async JavaScript, published by PragProg.

Adam Lehman is the Senior Product Manager for Web Development at Adobe based out of Washington, DC. He is passionate about helping web developers through better tools, frameworks and services. Adam is one of the founders of Brackets, an open source code editor written in JavaScript. He has been developing web applications for over a decade and spoken at over 100 events. You can find Adam online at http://gplus.to/adrock or follow him on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/adrocknaphobia.

I’m Burak Yiǧit Kaya, a software engineer working at Disqus. I am also an avid contributor to Mozilla and MDN. Currently my focus is on Disqus’s client-side code for realtime updates and translation infrastructure.

I love JavaScript, startups, green tech and all sorts of things. I have a degree in Environmental Planning, but primarily work on making large websites, APIs and mobile apps. I currently work at oDesk as a product architect and have been leading a project to get all of our teams up to speed with the latest in HTML5 and CSS3.Before that I worked at a startup called i.TV building mobile APIs with node.js and MongoDB.

You can find me on the Internet here:

• https://github.com/xjamundx/
• http://www.twitter.com/xjamundx/

Alicia Liu is a web and mobile developer, who has been building cross-browser websites and apps since IE5.5. Alicia is currently a full stack engineer at Lift, where she is working on the new responsive web version of Lift.

Trying to make web a better place, creating easy to use tools for developers and user interfaces for the people of internet.

Served as UI/UX designer to three New York startups -- Betterfly, Buzzd and Localresponse. He cofounded Koding with Devrim (his brother) 3 years ago, designed its entire UI/UX, and implemented it in Javascript. Lately he's been enjoying coffeescript, and is preparing to open-source the front-end framework on which he's been working on for the past year."

Tomomi (@girlie_mac) is an open web advocate, a member of W3C, also a front-end engineer with mobile focus. She has been in mobile-space since before it was cool -has been developing mobile apps, platform UI/UX and frameworks at Yahoo! Mobile, Palm, Hewlett-Packard, before the current company, Nokia, to evangelize HTML5. She also writes a technical blog at http://girliamac.com

A self taught designer and engineer – born and raised in Silicon Valley. Started off in 1996 with HTML, tables, spacer gif's, the dotcom boom, photoshop filters and a dose of lens flare. Lance quickly progressed via freelancing, tinkering with side projects and contract work. Now employed full-time as a UI Engineer at TrialPay, Lance has been part of major projects, such as TrialPay's offer wall on Facebook and its latest online-to-offline product. You can find Lance spending his days designing and writing php, html, css and javascript.

Benoit Marchant has been bringing innovative, native-class, user experience to web applications for the past 13 years. As Director of Engineering at Motorola Mobility, he bootstrapped and led the development of Montage, a ground-breaking HTML5 framework to enable designers and developers to craft expressive web experiences for mobile and desktop. Montage was open-sourced in July 2012.

Before that, Benoit spent over 10 years at Apple. As the lead developer of HomePage, a web page builder part of iTools, now iCloud, he re-imagined online photo albums by allowing users to reorder pictures by drag and drop, a feature presented by Steve Jobs at his Macworld New York 2000 Keynote. After helping to the launch of iTunes Store in 2003 and working on iTunes Store's content management application, he lead the team responsible for providing cutting edge interactive JavaScript features for apple.com worldwide.

At Apple, Benoit envisioned and created Gianduia, his first JavaScript Framework built to simplify the development of rich internet applications. Gianduia was used in multiple customer-facing applications for Apple Retail. He is the inventor of 3 patents in client side web technologies.

Wesley Hales is a User Interface architect from Atlanta, GA. He has been involved in UI and User Experience roles for over a decade in both startup and enterprise environments. Wesley co-founded several enterprise frameworks during his 4.5 years at JBoss by Red Hat and also served as a co-founder of the recently acquired startup, InstaOps. He is now employed by Apigee as a software developer mainly focused on UI.

End to end User Experience Design of the dotCloud product. Includes entire web presence, and experience of product use. Experienced in designing and developing software and services, knowledgable about user research and concept testing, his goal is to create highly usable and pleasant software.