The Business of Web Design
Online Conference

Speakers

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  Paul Boag

  http://headscape.co.uk/Paul Boag has been working on the web since 1993. He is a user experience consultant for Headscape Ltd, a web design agency that he founded back in 2002. Paul also produces and hosts the longest running and popular web design podcast at boagworld. He is regularly speaker at conferences and author of the Website Owners Manual.
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  Simon Collison

  http://colly.com/Simon is a freelance web designer, developer, author, speaker, and consultant with over a decade of experience at the sharp end. His last big adventure saw him co-founding Erskine Design back in 2006, and the agency was runner-up in the .Net Awards Design Agency Of The Year category in 2009. Simon recently left Erskine to pursue new and exciting challenges, which he can't talk about yet.
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  Dan James

  http://www.silverorange.com/Dan James is a co-founder and the CEO of the web development agency silverorange. Started in 1999, silverorange has worked with well known companies such as Digg, Mozilla, ESPN, Bebo, and Ning as well as lesser known (but just as awesome) companies like Horton Brasses and Veseys Seeds. An incessant entrepreneur, Dan continues to try new things. He and the team at silverorange launched ClusterShot.com, an open stock photography market in 2008. This year, in his boldest and scariest move yet, he and his wife have taken over his family's resort on the North shore of Prince Edward Island.
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  Eoghan McCabe

  http://contrast.ieEoghan is the visual design lead and managing director of Contrast, a web app design and development firm. Before founding Contrast in 2008, he freelanced as a web designer for 5 years. In his freelancing career he worked with countless clients of all shapes and sizes—from tiny one-man companies to large corporations—like Vodafone and Western Union. Some projects were highly successful and some... not so much! With Contrast he's released and sold apps like Qwitter—which gained over 300,000 users in a couple of months and was featured on WSJ, CNN, Wired, The Times, The Guardian and many more.