Schedule

08:30am – 5:00pm

Mobile Hackathon for Social Good

Join mobile app development experts, developers and designers in an all day Mobile Hackathon for social good. The day will begin with short presentations by educators and representatives from non-profit organizations, followed by informational sessions on building apps for Windows Phone and other mobile platforms.

12:00pm

Registration and Badge Pick-up

Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center
800 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308

12:30pm

Shuttle bus departs from hotel to Macquarium

01:00pm

Russ Unger

“The Right Way to Wireframe”

01:45pm

Thomas Phinney

“CSS3 OpenType: The New Web Typography Frontier”

02:30pm

J Cornelius

“HTML5: Hell, Yeah!”

04:00pm

Studio Tours:

ScoutMob
(590 Means St, Suite 201, Atlanta, GA 30318)
“Prepare your local lovin’ selves for ScoutMob, that nudge you need to get out the door and do your local thang. ScoutMob delivers interesting tidbits, city gems and more.”

Studiocom
(191 Peachtree St NE, Suite 4025, Atlanta, GA 30303)
“Studiocom is an agency for digital times–a simple, yet broad statement that ultimately describes what we believe agencies should be when the user is in control.”

Neboweb
(1031 Marietta St NW. Atlanta, GA 30318)
“Our passionate team of designers, strategists, programmers, interactive marketers & dreamers help companies design great websites and craft campaigns that build brand, drive revenue and connect with customers.”

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
(1600 Peachtree St NE. Atlanta, GA 30309)
“Visit the SCAD Digital Media Center. On your tour you will see five departments: animation, motion media, interactive game design, visual effects and television producing. The latest games from the interactive game department will be on display including “Black Bottom Parade,” which was displayed as a finalist at Indiecade 2011.”

06:30pm

Day One After Party at Cypress Pint and Plate

07:30am

Registration and Badge Pick-up

Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center
800 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308

08:35am

Opening Comments:

Brad Smith, WebVisions Executive Director

08:45am

Jason Grigsby

“Choose Your Mobile Adventure”

09:30am

Victor Lombardi

“Why We Fail”

10:15am

Break

10:30am

Nishant Kothary

“Broken Telephone”

11:30am

Lunch Break

12:30pm

“One Punchy Idea” Sessions

A series of short, 10 minute sessions that focus on a big idea.

Russ Unger // “From Muppets to Mastery: Core UX Principles from Mr. Jim Henson”

Andrew Hinton // “The Context Problem”

David Adamovich and Phil Oppenheim // “TV Everywhere: How TBS and TNT are putting Drama on Demand and Comedy on Command”

Jason Cranford Teague // “Design IS Trust: 9 Principles for Design Credibility”

Sherra Bell // “Shh!: What Librarians Know About Content Curation That Every Designer Should”

01:30pm

Thor Muller

Get Lucky: The Business of Planned Serendipity

02:15pm

Break

02:45pm

Jason Cranford Teague

“HTML5 + CSS3 = Your Web Design Future”

03:30pm

Bruce Wyman

“The Permeability of Place: Looking into the Future of Interactive Media”

04:15pm

Break

04:45pm

Keynote Address:

Nathan Shedroff

“Make it So”

05:45pm

Conference closes

06:30pm

Wrap Party at Gordon Biersch Midtown