Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

  • Etelos
  • IBM
  • Microsoft

Platinum Sponsors

  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • Cynergy
  • Nokia
  • Openmaru Studio
  • WebEx

Gold Sponsors

  • AOL
  • Citrix Systems
  • Coghead
  • Confident Technologies
  • Disney
  • Disney
  • EffectiveUI
  • F5 Networks
  • HCL Technologies
  • Intuit Quickbase
  • Oracle
  • S60
  • Salesforce.com
  • Spinscape
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Symphoniq Corporation
  • TeleAtlas
  • Yahoo! Inc.

Silver Sponsors

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • awareness
  • BroadSoft
  • Curl
  • Denodo
  • Dixero
  • Force10 Networks
  • Humanix Inc.
  • Intel
  • JackBe
  • Jaduka
  • Jive Software
  • Jive Software
  • Juniper Networks
  • Kapow Technologies
  • Keynote Systems
  • Leverage Software
  • LiquidApps
  • LithiumTechnologies
  • LongJump
  • Morfik
  • Mzinga
  • NeuStar
  • Octopz
  • ONEsite
  • OpSource
  • Panther Express
  • Profy
  • Real Time Content
  • Rearden
  • Rearden Commerce
  • Remy
  • Reply
  • spigit
  • StreamVerse, Inc.
  • StrikeIron
  • XBOSoft
  • Znak

Launch Pad Sponsors

  • O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures
  • Panorama Capital

Media Sponsors

  • ACM Queue
  • Berlin Partner
  • BlogHer
  • Business Marketing Association
  • Dr. Dobbs
  • Fast Company
  • GigaOM
  • Juniper Research
  • Mashable
  • MSDN Magazine
  • NewTeeVee
  • Revenue Magazine
  • TechNet
  • Technorati
  • Topix
  • Webware
  • Wired
  • WOW

Sponsor & Exhibitor Opportunities

Vicki Sanders
415-947-6107
vsanders@techweb.com

Download the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus

Media Sponsor Opportunities

Liliana Arancibia
415-947-6179
larancibia@cmp.com

Speaker / Program Ideas

Have a suggestion for a speaker or topic at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco? Send an email to: sf-idea@web2expo.com

Press/Media Inquiries

confpr@oreilly.com

or

Natalia Wodecki
415-947-6762
NWodecki@cmp.com

Contact Us

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Schedule: Design and User Experience sessions

It’s often said that in Web 2.0, the design IS the product. But what we mean by the practice of design is evolving, and the skill sets of web designers have evolved with them. This track looks at the technical concepts, process innovations, design patterns, and frameworks that inform today’s web applications, from the perspective of user experience and interaction design.

9:00am - 12:00pm Tuesday, 04/22/2008
Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design
Location: 2006
Aaron Marcus (Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A))
User interfaces for Web 2.0, whether on desktop or mobile platforms, reach across culturally diverse user communities, sometimes within a single country/language group, and certainly across the globe. If user interfaces are to be usable, useful, and appealing to such a wide range of users, if social networks are to produce the hoped for communities and revenues, Read more.
1:00pm - 4:00pm Tuesday, 04/22/2008
Experience-driven Product Strategy
Location: 2003
Todd Wilkens (Adaptive Path)
Based on a new O'Reilly book by the strategy and design experts at Adaptive Path, this workshop will help you learn how to make user experience a strategic advantage. As the factors affecting our business get more complex, we must deal with greater and greater uncertainty. Read more.
8:30am - 9:20am Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Designing the RIA Experience (Adobe “Thermo”)
Location: 2006
Steven Heintz (Adobe Systems)
A sneak peak at “Thermo” (code name), the new design tool from Adobe that will enable designer and developer collaboration throughout the process of creating engaging web applications. Read more.
9:40am - 10:30am Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Polite, Pertinent, and... Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics
Location: 2006
Matt Jones (Dopplr), Tom Coates (Yahoo! Brickhouse)
There's an explosion in "personal informatics:" services that surface information about you and your network to your advantage. Matt Jones will examine how great UX design can maximize the benefits to all. Read more.
10:50am - 11:40am Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Children of Flickr: Making the Massively Multiplayer Social Web
Location: 2003
Justin Hall (GameLayers), Rajat Paharia (Bunchball), Christopher Chapman (Areae), Gabe Zichermann (rmbr)
The presenters on this panel are each working to integrate video games into online life. Points, levels, distributed persistent social play: metrics for cooperation and competition borrowed from video games and woven into the web. Learn how video game mechanics can create social cohesion and promote participation in innovative web services. Read more.
1:30pm - 2:20pm Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Copy as Interface
Location: 2006
Erika Hall (Mule Design)
Effective language is essential to a usable, appealing, platform-independent interface. Read more.
2:40pm - 3:30pm Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Global Design Trends
Location: 2006
Aaron Marcus (Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A)), Jimmy Kim (Nexon), Erik Hersman (Ushahidi), Kelly Goto (gotomedia, LLC), Surya Vanka (Microsoft)
How do you make it easy to look bigger and more global than you are? How do you create a maintainable yet personal experience for users around the world? Hear about practices and the trade-offs multinational companies make to incorporate cultural diversity in user interface design. Read more.
11:00am - 11:50am Thursday, 04/24/2008
Designing for a Web of Data
Location: 2003
Tom Coates (Yahoo! Brickhouse)
Design patterns for brochureware and editorial sites are well-established. In fact, they're so simple and formulaic that even waterfall development processes can churn them out. But what happens when you're pushing into web apps or social media? Read more.
1:30pm - 2:20pm Thursday, 04/24/2008
Web 2.0: Fabulously Useful and Confusing
Location: 2003
Leanne Waldal (OTIVO, INC), Megan Koroshetz, Victor Tom (Retired), Becky Haycox (UCSB), Susan Harris (Susan Diana Harris Interior Design), JP Singson (E-Loan, Inc)
What happens when average consumers use Web 2.0 sites to share and find and communicate? This will be a presentation of Web 2.0 user research and live consumer interviews demonstrating good, bad, and ugly. Read more.
2:40pm - 3:30pm Thursday, 04/24/2008
The Next Generation of Tagging: Searching and Discovering a Better User Experience
Location: 2006
Kakul Srivastava (Director of Product Management, Flickr )
Kakul Srivastava, director of product management of the popular photo-sharing community Flickr, will discuss enhancing the user experience through tagging and geotagging. Read more.
3:50pm - 4:40pm Thursday, 04/24/2008
10 Tools for Managing a Creative Environment
Location: 2006
Bryan Mason (Adaptive Path), Sarah Nelson (Adaptive Path)
There's a lot to learn from how other industries manage creative professionals. Stage managers, editors, conductors, and others can teach us how to build environments that are creative and effective. Read more.
11:00am - 11:50am Friday, 04/25/2008
Next-generation Mobile UI
Location: 2003
Ben Bederson (Zumobi), John SanGiovanni (Zumobi)
Explore a new era of mobile UI with industry pioneer Dr. Ben Bederson. Bederson will speak on how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research is reshaping how consumers interact with their mobile phones. Read more.
1:30pm - 2:20pm Friday, 04/25/2008
Checking the "Feel" of Your UI with an Interaction Audit
Location: 2006
Josh Damon Williams (Hot Studio, Inc. ), Peter Stahl (eBay)
What is the "feel" of your user interface? Is it consistent or jagged? See how an audit of interactions can reveal whether your site delivers a clean, simple, easy-to-operate experience to your users. Read more.
2:40pm - 3:30pm Friday, 04/25/2008
Designing Like We Give a Damn
Location: 2002
Katrina Alcorn (Hot Studio), Maria Giudice (Hot Studio)
In this case study, we show how research inspired the design of a system that harnesses the best of Web 2.0 concepts to allow architects to collaborate on humanitarian projects around the world. Read more.
3:50pm - 4:40pm Friday, 04/25/2008
Web 2.0 Workflow
Location: 2002
Kelly Goto (gotomedia, LLC)
The new web has become more than interaction; more than design. In this rapid-paced environment, companies and teams need to rethink their process and methodologies to keep up to the pace. Workflow veteran Kelly Goto combines both Agile and User Centered Design (UCD) methodologies to provide you with a new arsenal of best practices to align your design and development processes. Read more.