WebExpo Prague 2013

Conference

19 – 21 September

Web creation ideas

Explore the
unforgettable city of Prague

Meet 1200 web enthusiasts

Listen to talks from great speakers

Jesse
James Garrett

Chief Creative Officer
Adaptive Path
Steve
Corona

Head of Platform API
Life360
Ron
J Williams

Co-Founder
Knodes
Oli
Shaw

Strategic Design Principal / Creative Director
Consultant
Barbara
Bermes

Senior Architect, Mobile Web & Performance
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

On many exciting topics

Front-End Development
Nick Fisher

Director Web Engineering, SoundCloud
Making Single Page Apps Work
Darcy Clarke

Senior UX Developer, Freelance
Documenting Interfaces

On boarding someone new to a project can be time consuming. UI documentation is hard. Let's change that!
Daniel Steigerwald

Developer, Freelance
Huge Web Apps

Apps with millions lines of code maintained by hundreds of SWEs. Can vanilla JS + HTML5 do the job? If not, what can? TypeScript? Dart?
Matthew McClure

Developer Evangelist, Brightcove
HTML5 Video: Present and Future

HTML5 video has quickly become the new hotness. How has it grown, where's it going, and what can we use now.
Sebastiano Armeli Battana

Senior Software Developer, REA Group
Dependency management and Package management in JS

#dependency_management #requirejs #js
Jakub Mrozek

Software Developer, Lingano.com
Single-page applications

Why SPAs dramatically reduce the cost of web developement.
Jirka Kosek

Consultant, Freelance
Saxon CE – Interactive browser based applications without single line of Javascript

XSLT is not dead!
Robin Pokorný

Front-End Engineer, LMC
How to Turn Your Ugly Old CSS into a Clean Future-Ready Beauty

Refactoring CSS to make it maintainable, modular, speed optimized, documented and testable without devoting a whole month to it.
Jakub Fojtl

Embedded Systems Developer, Y Soft Corporation
Web development for embedded devices

How we fight with browsers embedded in office printers
Software Development
Steve Corona

Head of Platform API, Life360
Scaling LAMP doesn't have to suck

I went from sleeping in front of my laptop, restarting apache every hour, to automatically scaling servers from my phone.
James Abley

Technical Architect, Government Digital Service
A startup within UK government

government = innovative + agile + value for money?
Jakub Vrána

Privacy Engineer, Google
Code Reviews with Phabricator

What's the value of code reviews and how you can do them in Phabricator.
Karel Minařík

Software Developer, Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch: Beyond Simple Fulltext Search

Search and Analyze Your Data With Elasticsearch
Thomas Sundberg

Owner, Think Code AB
How to fail a software project fast and efficiently?

Failing a software project is very easy. You may do it without even knowing why. I will tell you why in this presentation.
Grzegorz Witek

software developer, Sponsorpay GmbH
... but we had to kill unicorns

How to handle 200k reqs/min with multi-threaded Ruby on Rails application
Štěpán Bechynský

Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
How-to write Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 apps with shared core

Build for both
David Majda

Senior Software Engineer, SUSE
Code Reviews FTW!

What did we learn after 1½ year of practicing code reviews in several teams.
Jaroslav Šnajdr

Product Development Manager, Kerio Technologies
Getting a Business Collaboration Service Into Cloud: A Case Study

Want to build a complete service product in cloud? Come and learn what it takes.
Radek Simko

Senior Developer, Zappit
ok glass, bring me a mojito

I'll share experience of wearing Glass and try to open a debate about future use cases.
Design Process
Jesse James Garrett

Chief Creative Officer, Adaptive Path
Design for Engagement

Because users want to be engaged by products and services, designers need to understand modes of engagement and how to create it.
Oli Shaw

Strategic Design Principal / Creative Director , Consultant
Strategic design. Probes, coaxing & manipulation

Creating the glue to hold a vision together while it's being made real
Carlo Frinolli

Creative Director/UX Designer, nois3
Visual Design Thinking

Telling stories starts from listening to people, and co-creating with them
Vincent van Scherpenseel

UX Designer / Founder, dotBlue
The importance of contextual user testing

Assumption is the mother of all f#ck-ups.
Lukáš Plíhal

Web Narrator, Freelance
Web Design Pattern

Basic design steps
Petr Štědrý

UX Designer and Product Manager, GoodData
Design without critique is like a flower without water

Do not let your creations wither without critique. Harness its power and improve your designs.
Michal Hudeček

Managing Director, Maintop Businesses
Web Directing: Conceptual thinking in online projects

Learn how to combine business, design and technology aspects of your website using simple logic of film directors.
Dominika Potuzakova

Design Engineer, Technology University Eindhoven
Empathy Design

Designing for health care & well-being
Jiří Sekera

Opinion Leader Impact Engager, Refresh, s. r. o.
UX is dead! #OLIE is the Next Big Thing

Confused about overusing of "UX" buzzword? Big changes are coming!
Wolf Becvar

COO, HotGloo
Some things you can't wireframe

Designing for experience by identifying customer touchpoints.
Adam Fendrych

UX Designer, Česká televize
Fake Your Research

Learn the dirtiest tricks to skew the results of your user research (and how to avoid them if you fight for the Light side)
Ivan Potančok

CEO, webdesigner, vibration s.r.o.
Prototyping with bootstrap & less

Another view to make prototypes using bootstrap and less instead of wireframing software.
Service Design
Philip Bonhard

Director / Co Founder, Newt Idea
Design Beyond the Screen

Introducing Service Design Thinking to Technology Design
Adam Hazdra

Head, Institute for Public Services
Service Design in 15 minutes

A brief introduction to service design for all who create experiences for their audience.
Nik Page

Manager, UX, Česká spořitelna
Emergent Service Design: Collaborating Toward SD Thinking in the Real World

A UX nut nudging a big, traditional, conservative company to an SD way of being.
Cross-Channel Design
Barbara Bermes

Senior Architect, Mobile Web & Performance, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Embracing performance in today’s multi-platform macrocosm

Let's make performance optimization and automation a fun piece of your multi-platform development cycle
Sabrina Majeed

Designer, Venmo
How to Break the Rules & Get Away With It

How to approach designing on platforms with strict design guidelines and conversely how to design the guidelines for such platforms.
Mariya Yao

Founder & Creative Director, Xanadu
Common Mobile Design Fails (And How To Fix Them)

Stop Making Crappy Apps
Avi Itzkovitch

UI/UX Consultant, XG Media (Freelance)
Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences

Use smart device technology, sensors and user data to design a better UX
Accessibility
Andrew Zusman

User Experience Designer, Inkod-Hypera
Universal Design & Accessibility in the Typing Experience: The Sound of One Hand Typing

Typing with one-hand in a two-handed world.
Radek Pavlíček

Accessibility Consultant, Blind Friendly Web
How to improve UX by implementing accessibility

By way of practical examples I would like to demonstrate how implementing accessibility could make life of your users easier and happier.
Jakub Tománek

Software Development Engineer, Skype
Accessibility in High Contrast Mode

Not everyone is fully blind
Creativity, Communication & Marketing
Ron J Williams

Co-Founder, Knodes
#Unmarketing

The Future of Marketing is not Marketing at All
Polle de Maagt

Founder / Prime minister, Ministry of World Domination
Service is sales

Service is sales or: the return on social media
Michael Kamleitner

CEO / Co-Founder, Die Socialisten
Open Graph Sponsored Stories

Laser-Focused Ad-Targetting for Facebook Apps and Content
Jan Tichý

Founder, Medio Interactive
Universal Analytics

Hot news, current status and existing limitations in the new generation of Google Analytics.
Petr Kosnar

UX/UI designer & researcher, IamPetr.com
Fakebook

Facebook, social experiment, life online, trust, information disclosure, teenagers, social responsibility. Fakebook.
Ondřej Krátký

Co-Founder & the Marketing Guy, ADLER iTech
Don't innovate just your product

Great product goes better with the right go-to-market strategy
Management
Eirik Hafver Rønjum

Content strategist, The Norwegian Directorate of Health
Designing the organization...

… or how to avoid the customer ruining everything you have created.
Content Is King
Sarah Richards

Head of Content Design, UK government
Revolutionising the UK government's content

GOV.UK - a case study in killing content
Marli Mesibov

Content strategist, Freelance
What’s in a Story?

Creating Powerful Content through Storytelling
Richard Ihuel

co-Founder, MOBS
SmartTV - A smart ecosystem

A quiet revolution about content, technology, and money!
Product Development
Christina Wodtke

Chief Instigator, Wodtke Consulting
The Executioner's Tale

Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything.
Lukas Fittl

Lean Practitioner & Entrepreneur, Spark59
We built it, and they didn't come

A failed product launch, a successful product launch - what did we do different?
Radek Matěj

UX Designer, Kentico
Take Hold of the Wheel; Become a Product Owner

In these agile ages, product management is no longer rocket science. Use backlog and communication to materialize your vision.
Flavius Ștef

Agile Coach and Trainer, Mozaic Works
Stop throwing money out the window

Build what the customer needs using Lean Startup principles, validated learning and continuous delivery
Tiang Cheng

Project Manager, TranslateKarate
Speaking to a European world

5 tips to a successful multi-lingual website!
Founder Stories
Václav Muchna

CEO & Co-founder, Y Soft Corporation
Y Soft global story

Designed by Y Soft in the Czech Republic, assembled by Y Soft in the Czech Republic. Sold in 80+ countries ;-)
Adii Pienaar

Founder, PublicBeta
Lessons learnt running a global startup from the edge of the world

Inspire other startups to aim higher and build global companies.
Tomáš Čupr

Founder & CEO, Damejidlo.cz
Founder Dámejídlo.cz

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Jakub Nešetřil

CEO, Apiary
Founder & CEO Apiary

Behind every success is a long string of screw-ups
Georgi Kadrev

co-founder, Imagga
Fixing Image Organization

Can a global problem as image organization be disrupted out of the SV?
Mirek Černý

CTO, Futurelytics
Founder & CTO Futurelytics
Bernd Gruber

Founder, indoo.rs
Communication in growing startups

Starting from a 2 person startup to a 16 people company brings leads to challenges in terms of internal communication
Fredrik Debong

Community Relations Lead, Co-founder, mySugr GmbH
Blood, sugr, apps, magick

From crazy idea, to a regulated medical app
Vladimír Sedlařík

CEO, OrganizeTube s.r.o.
Get your online videos organized

Make it as easy as possible
Michal Truban

Founder & CEO, Websupport
Founder & CEO Nicereply, Websupport

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Big Data
Michal Bachman

Principal Consultant, GraphAware
(Big) Data Science

Got Big Data? Now what are you gonna do with it?
Michael Juřek

Software Architect, Microsoft
Big Data and Cloud - Better Together?

2 + 2 is not always 4. Sometimes it's 3 and sometimes 5.
Pavel Kordík

vice-dean for development, Czech Technical University in Prague
Why you need predictive models and recommender systems?

Data science in your business
Ameya Kanitkar

Big Data Engineer, Groupon
Using Hadoop and HBase to Personalize Web, Mobile and Email Experience for Millions of Users

Big Data Tools to Build Personalization
Vojta Roček

Data Analyst, Keboola
How big is big data hype?

Intro for everyone who doesn't know what big data really is
Internet of Things
Patrick Zandl

co-founder, Energomonitor
Energy industry post Edison, Křižík & IoT

electricity, Internet of things, big data, smart data, smart grid, smart metering
Petr Ocásek

Founder CEO, Click2stream
Internet of Things for Dummies, CEOs & hackers

What is Internet of Things (IoT) and where is the value when devices talks with each other
Štěpán Bechynský

Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Internet of Things and Open Data

There are more autonomous devices on internet than humans.
Avi Itzkovitch

UI/UX Consultant, XG Media (Freelance)
The myth of the “Smart” Fridge

A look at the Internet of Things and the future Smart Fridge.
Life Hacking
Richard Fridrich

Product Designer, Centrum Holdings
How to get any job worth getting

Looking for a job is unpleasant, stressful, even humiliating experience. Because you're doing it wrong.
Josef Průša

CEO / Founder, Prusa Research s.r.o.
Open Hardware 3D printing and The Internet

Online co-operation of Open Hardware community
Vojta Roček

Data Analyst, Keboola
I had a pub

and it sucked :)
Adam Hrubý

designer ♥ creative, freelance
What do you expect?

Bananas? Did you? Really?
Luboš Louženský

Digital Strategist, Freelance / WMC/GREY
Small Changes, Big Impact

What life has taught me so far
Tomáš Slavíček

editor, photographer, freelance
Digital nomad lifestyle

Are you silly enough to try it? I was.

Navigation

WebExpo Prague 2013

Explore the unforgettable city of Prague

Listen to talks from great speakers

Jesse James Garrett

Steve Corona

Ron J Williams

Oli Shaw

Barbara Bermes

On many exciting topics

Front-End Development

Nick Fisher

Making Single Page Apps Work

Darcy Clarke

Documenting Interfaces

Daniel Steigerwald

Huge Web Apps

Matthew McClure

HTML5 Video: Present and Future

Sebastiano Armeli Battana

Dependency management and Package management in JS

Jakub Mrozek

Single-page applications

Jirka Kosek

Saxon CE – Interactive browser based applications without single line of Javascript

Robin Pokorný

How to Turn Your Ugly Old CSS into a Clean Future-Ready Beauty

Jakub Fojtl

Web development for embedded devices

Software Development

Steve Corona

Scaling LAMP doesn't have to suck

James Abley

A startup within UK government

Jakub Vrána

Code Reviews with Phabricator

Karel Minařík

Elasticsearch: Beyond Simple Fulltext Search

Thomas Sundberg

How to fail a software project fast and efficiently?

Grzegorz Witek

... but we had to kill unicorns

Štěpán Bechynský

How-to write Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 apps with shared core

David Majda

Code Reviews FTW!

Jaroslav Šnajdr

Getting a Business Collaboration Service Into Cloud: A Case Study

Radek Simko

ok glass, bring me a mojito

Design Process

Jesse James Garrett

Design for Engagement

Oli Shaw

Strategic design. Probes, coaxing & manipulation

Carlo Frinolli

Visual Design Thinking

Vincent van Scherpenseel

The importance of contextual user testing

Lukáš Plíhal

Web Design Pattern

Petr Štědrý

Design without critique is like a flower without water

Michal Hudeček

Web Directing: Conceptual thinking in online projects

Dominika Potuzakova

Empathy Design

Jiří Sekera

UX is dead! #OLIE is the Next Big Thing

Wolf Becvar

Some things you can't wireframe

Adam Fendrych

Fake Your Research

Ivan Potančok

Prototyping with bootstrap & less

Service Design

Philip Bonhard

Design Beyond the Screen

Adam Hazdra

Service Design in 15 minutes

Explore the
unforgettable city of Prague

Jesse
James Garrett

Steve
Corona

Ron
J Williams

Oli
Shaw

Barbara
Bermes