Featuring exciting national and international speakers, Edge of the Web brings a world-class web conference experience to Western Australia this November 6 & 7.
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Supporting sponsor SitePoint have announced the winner of their free EOTW ticket competition. Congratulations to Raelene Carr, a lecturer at ECU, for her winning entry. Sitepoint editor Matthew Magain has noted that he didn’t know that ECU were a sponsor of EOTW when he selected the winning entry, but has decided that Raelene shouldn’t be disadvantaged.
You can some of the noteworth entries on the Sitepoint announcement.
Entrepreneur Sonja Bernhardt is unique among the Edge of the Web speakers in that her background is in software systems rather than the web. But her special interest has always been issues relating to gender across the entire information technology sphere, which is reflected in her presentation topic: Women in ICT - The Global Failure of Intervention Programs.
WA Web Awards judging chairperson Helen Burgess asked Sonja a few questions about her presentation, numerous side projects and role as a judge in the WA Web Awards (Sonja was also a judge in the inaugural awards in 2005).
AWIA committee member and Scouta head honcho Richard Giles was instrumental in getting Chris Messina, noted open source advocate and BarCamp co-founder, over to speak at Edge of the Web. Chris will be presenting the conference’s closing keynote, Breeding Success through Openness.
Richard has posted an interview with Chris on his blog, where he talks about realising the potential of BarCamp, the possibilities for open source beyond just software, and getting excited about the future of the web.
Social networks and social media have worked their way into the way we live on the web, and they’re starting to impact on the way we work on the web.
Bronwen Clune of Norg Media knows this better than anyone – her entire business is built on the premise. She had a chat to Stephen Collins about his Edge of the Web session, Enterprise 2.0 – no, that’s not the new Star Trek – and he shares some tips for selling the concept to stakeholders.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available. If you are interested in sponsoring the Edge of the Web Conference and WA Web Awards, please download the sponsorship proposal (PDF, 122kb) and contact Rebecca Taplin from Red Horizon Events on (08) 9244 4621.
