Steve has worked in the web and web game industry since 1995. He is the co-author of two books, The Essential Guide To Flash Games and HTML 5 Canvas. He has worked as a web development manager at Mattel Toys for 15 years, helping to create Mattel’s extensive online presence. He’s also worked for Zynga, and currently creates manages the development of multi-player games for Electrotank. Steve writes about games, technology, software development, on his website, 8bitrocket.com

Jeff has worked in the web and web game industry since 1995. He is the co-author of two books, The Essential Guide To Flash Games and HTML 5 Canvas. He has worked as a web development manager at Mattel Toys for 15 years, helping to create Mattel’s extensive online presence. He’s also worked for Zynga, and is currently the CTO of Producto Studios. Jeff writes about games, technology, software development, on his website, 8bitrocket.com

Deepa Subramaniam is a Group Product Manager of Open Web Technologies at Adobe based in San Francisco. She focuses on the contributions Adobe makes to WebKit along with Adobes activities in standards with the W3C – basically, helping Adobe to make the web more awesome. It is her dream that one day, the Web Platform will replace any need to write native applications.

Andrew Lunny is a software developer based in San Francisco, and the author of PhoneGap: Beginners Guide, from Packt Publishing. He currently works at Adobe on the PhoneGap Build project, building thousands of apps a day for five different mobile platforms. He is also responsible for writing cogent error messages when something inevitably goes wrong.

Tyler Smith has led appMobis HTML5 game development and game developer evangelism since joining the company in 2010. Tyler developed his first computer game at age 11 and graduated from Penn State with an associates degree in Computer Aided Design for Mechanical Engineering in 2010. He has participated in numerous app and game development hackathons and trade shows, both as a speaker and as a facilitator.

Joey began his love with computing when he got a Commodore Vic-20(complete with audio cassette data recorder) as a child. He works as aconsultant delivering interface design and open source softwareintegration to his clients.Over the past 17 years, Joey has worked for startups in Austin,Dallas, Boston, San Antonio and New York City, as a front-enddeveloper and senior user experience lead. He has also excelled inlarge corporate settings managing fully staffed development teams.With Big companies (Fortune 25) or small companies (3 guys and afoosball table),

Rudy Jahchan: Rudys fascination with computer programming began at age 10 when he mistakenly picked up the Micro-Adventure book Space Attack (he thought it was going to be about Star Wars). That happy accident led him to graduate from McGill University in Computer Science and start a 12 year career in software development playing with a wide range of technology; everything from web applications to cryptology to NoSQL. In 2008, he moved from Montreal to join Carbon Fives Los Angeles office. He is also known as the creator of popular web shows Galacticast and A Comicbook Orange.

Alex Cruikshank: Alex has been developing web apps for 15 years. In that time he has won a Webby, ranked third (briefly) on Project Euler, designed a content management system still in use by Fortune 500 companies and major non-profit organizations, and gotten paid to develop in at least 10 different languages. He joined Carbon Fives San Francisco office in 2002. Since then he has moved to the hinterlands of Tennesse where he works remotely on a variety of projects for clients across the country. He has been programming almost exclusively in JavaScript for the last year.

Tony Parisi is an entrepreneur and career CTO/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 bring coolness and fun to the broadest possible audience.

Tony’s first startup, Intervista Software (1995-1998), developed the first-ever real-time VRML plugin for Internet Explorer, which Microsoft bundled with millions of copies of their browser. His most recent company, Vivaty (2007-2010), created a novel end-to-end virtual world system fully integrated with the web and serving up millions of virtual goods transactions.

Tony is perhaps best known for his work as a pioneer of 3D standards for the web. He is the co-creator of VRML and X3D, ISO standards for networked 3D graphics. Tony continues to build community around innovations in 3D as the co-chair of the WebGL Meetup (www.meetup.com/WebGL-Developers-Meetup) and a founder of the Rest3D working group (http://www.rest3d.org/). Tony is also the author of the upcoming O’Reilly Media book, WebGL Up and Running.

Tony is currently a partner in a stealth online gaming startup and has a consulting practice developing social games, virtual worlds and location-based services for San Francisco Bay Area clients.

Zhenyao Mo, Ph.D., software engineer at Googles Chrome GPU team. His background is computer graphics and image processing. For thepast two years, he worked on webkit and chromium open source projects,implementing WebGL.

Jason is the founder and CTO at Joyent, where he is responsible for overseeing the engineering, operations and product groups’ development and implementation of Joyent’s Cloud Computing technology. He is also responsible for research and advanced development, technical outreach, evangelism, consultative efforts for partners and business units, and manages Joyent’s intellectual property portfolio including involvement in open source projects, licensing, technology transfer, assessments of potential partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. His specialties include bioinformatics, grid computing, cloud computing, distributed systems, collaborative applications and deploying and scaling web applications.Jason earned a BS and MS in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA and a PhD in Molecular Pathology at The Burnham Institute and UCSD School of Medicine. Jasontaught at the university level for more than a decade, is a prolific speaker and author and a highly-regarded expert on scalable systems. He serves as the Outside Director of the WordPress Foundation, frequently blogs at Joyeur, and most often can be found on Twitter when not flying across an ocean in an aisle seat. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Peter Lubbers, is the author of Pro HTML5 Programming and the co-founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group, the largest HTML5 User Group in the world. Peter is known to give one of the best HTML5 overview presentations. Peter oversees all aspects of Documentation and Training at Kaazing, a start-up company specialized in building a high-performance HTML5 WebSocket platform that revolutionizes web communication and the first company to offer HTML5 training world-wide.

Focused on investigating, innovating, designing and executing solutions to make it easier for people to communicate. Mobile Computing in particular is something that is of growing importance in our social culture and my goal is to build devices, software and services to help deliver solutions that make peoples lives more efficient and more enjoyable. In a nutshell, i would define myself as a product innovator and designer

Bill Walker is Engineering Manager at Mozilla Labs. While working at Apples research division, Xerox PARC, Reactivity, and Cisco, he became increasingly passionate about software process, automated testing, and helping prototypes turn into products. At Mozilla he manages teams working on PDF.js and the Mozilla Apps runtime. Bill holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Phil Purviance is an Application Security Consultant for AppSec Consulting where he researches application security vulnerabilities and performs penetration testing. Phil’s body of work includes the discovery and proof-of-concept exploitations of critical security vulnerabilities, design flaws, and system weaknesses in hundreds of custom web sites and web application frameworks. Purviance also consults with clients and recommends helpful countermeasures that are useful to mitigate serious security vulnerabilities. Phil’s recent exploit talks include cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Skype for iOS, and the revealing of flaws in the Ruby on Rails and Django Web Frameworks. Phil’s contributions to the security community have earned him an induction into both Google’s and Facebook’s Security Hall of Fame. Phil most recently presented at the Toorcon Security Conference in San Diego.

Sayeed Choudhury is responsible for Web Technologies, including optimizations and new features developed to enhance the core Web browser, JavaScript engine, Web Apps functionality, and Adobe Flash Player for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. Prior to this, he led the business team responsible for the company’s partnerships with Microsoft on Windows Mobile, and Google on Android.

Before joining Qualcomm, Choudhury led product management activities for the Consumer Electronics & Wireless markets for Wind River Systems. He started his career as an embedded software & hardware engineer, originally receiving his BSEE from the SUNY at Buffalo.

Terry Ribb led the Research efforts for the Mobile Relevance Project, a research initiative to discover and share design innovations that improve the relevance of mobile brands. The Project’s findings will be unveiled at DevCon5. Terry is also co-founder and CMO of Relevens, a consulting firm that helps internal teams plan mobile 3.0 strategies, design 3.0 apps, and develop 3.0 platforms.

Previously with Deloitte Consulting, Terry led an innovation team to study the impact of the Internet on next generation consumers, and she served as a keynote speaker at universities, conferences, and Fortune 500 companies on the topic of Virtual Life. As a Marketing Leader, Terry has spent 15 years helping companies and ventures leverage the Internet to create new markets, develop online communities, and improve the relevance of brand relationships.

Dr. Nag is VP App World & Intelligent Systems at Research in Motion responsible for strategies and deployment of the Blackberry App World app store, Mobile Search, Mobile Advertising, Context, Analytics, Blackberry Travel, Blackberry Maps and Location Based Services, and the BlackBerry Identity Service. Dr. Nag was previously CEO/Co-Founder of Cellmania, a leading wireless applications company, acquired by Research in Motion. He is an acknowledged authority in the mobile industry, having been featured on the cover of Fortune and involved in the development of, and holding patents in, wireless applications, user interfaces and new m-commerce distribution methods of mobile applications and devices. Previously he was a Vice President and General Manager at Motorola responsible for smart mobile technologies developed in the Lexicus Division and Motorola Human Interface Laboratories worldwide. Hundreds of millions of devices have shipped with technology developed under his leadership - apps stores, voice recognition, handwriting recognition and predictive text key systems. Previously he was CEO/founder of Lexicus, a pioneer of speech and handwriting recognition technology, acquired by Motorola. Dr. Nag holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University (research in speech recognition), was a Harkness Fellow at Stanford University (neural network research in the Department of Psychology), has a Masters in Management Science from MIT, and a 1st class Honours degree in electrical engineering from Birmingham University, in the UK.

Ashley Gullan graduated from the University of Surrey in Sound Engineering but has always had a passion for programming. In 2007 Ashley and a band of fellow students began developing software in their spare time. This is how Construct Classic came to be developed, which has since been downloaded over 300,000 times! In 2011, Scirra set up as an exciting new software company with the new goal to revolutionize how HTML5 content is created. Rewriting the Construct software from scratch, Ashley and his team are now working at breakneck pace on Construct 2 and will continue in to the HTML5-powered future that awaits.

David Kaneda is a designer, developer, and consultant based in San Francisco. He was previously the creative director at Sencha, where he worked on the companys brand and HTML5 framework, Sencha Touch, and created jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile development, before that. David enjoys talking about product strategy, corporate branding, and design architecture.

Tyler Bryant is a freelance SW developer using the Unity game engine, and is the CEO/Founder of Starship Interactive, LLC. a dev. studio focused on multi-platform experiences with novel interaction. Tyler wants to change the way we interact with computers. By improving the interface, he believes that we can improve the human experience and extend the possibilities of living with machines. He has been writing software in various forms, starting in the early 1980s with the Atari 800 XL. He has written algorithms for navigation and sensor fusion, and has written software to perform quantum many-body physics simulations. Son of a visual artist and electrical engineer, Tyler enjoys incorporating technology into creative and engaging visual works. Currently living in Santa Rosa, Tyler has a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Davis, a Masters in Physics from San Francisco State Univ., and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Marc Grabanskis background is in open source. He created the jQuery UI Datepicker project and met a lot of amazing developers through that. Marc is now focused on connecting the worlds experts in order to create the highest quality education possible. Recent events he has created include Day of JavaScript on Mobile at Google HQ and Frontend Masters Workshop Series at the MJG Workshop Center. > Marcs deepest area of expertise is in building UI-intensive applications. He has built out countless diverse interfaces with the MJG International team by partnering with product leads who need their dreams built out. Lately hes been hacking on projects with SVG/RaphaelJS and responsive designs built on top of jQuery mobile.

Tom Shafron serves as CEO of Viewbiquity. In this capacity, he is responsible for the strategic development and execution of the company’s advanced M2M solutions. A recognized innovator in the technology sector, he is credited with the invention and patent of Browser Interface Overlay technology – the foundation of browser toolbar implementations. Along with his brother David, he co-founded Log-Me-On, eventually selling that company to Yahoo! While with Yahoo!, Tom built and led their Toolbar development group, growing it to 40 million active connected users, and generating more than $100M annual revenue. Tom attended the University of Wisconsin.

Caridy Patino is a principal frontend engineer at Yahoo! Search, with extensive experience with client-side technologies, as well as end-to-end design and architecture of high performance and scalable web applications. At the moment, he is focused on SSJS/NodeJS and Yahoo! Cocktails platform as part of the effort to modernize Yahoos frontend layer with respect to scalability, performance, and maintainability. Caridy is responsible for the overall front-end design, architecture and code quality within the innovation track, and guided the first wave of research and development of a new infrastructure for Yahoo! Search based on Node.JS/Cocktails platform.

He is also known as YUI Evangelist and Mojito Ambassador.