Carson Workshops Summit - a Carson Systems Company

The Future of Web Apps

Two-day conference focusing on the development technology you'll be using tomorrow

Breakfast with Yahoo

As part of your registration to The Future of Web Apps conference, you are invited to join Yahoo! for breakfast on September 13th.

While sipping fresh coffee and munching on croissants you'll have the opportunity to meet the developers behind your favorite Yahoo! apps and learn how Yahoo! comes up with new ideas and finds talent.

This is your chance to meet the developers behind your favourite Yahoo! apps and find out a little more about how Yahoo! develops its applications, comes up with new ideas and finds talent. The breakfast starts at 8:00am and runs until 10:00am.

Day 1

  1. 08:00 - 10:00
    Breakfast Sponsored by Yahoo!
  2. 09:00 - 09:45
    Registration
  3. 10:00 - 10:15
    Dick Hardt
    The emerging age of Who
  4. 10:15 - 11:00
    Kevin Rose
    The digg story: from one idea to nine million page views
  5. 11:00 - 11:45
    Tom Coates
    Tom discusses directions in social change on the web
  6. 12:00 - 12:45
    Five minutes of fame
    Purchase a spot to showcase your web app. Interested?
  7. 1:00 - 2:00
    Book signing by John Battelle Author of The Search. More info.
  8. 1:00 - 2:00
    Lunch
  9. 2:00 - 2:45
    Tantek Çelik
    Shows you best practice with Microformats
  10. 3:00 - 3:45
    Steve Olechowski
    10 things you didn't know about RSS, from FeedBurner's co-founder
  11. 3:45 - 4:00
    Platinum sponsor slot
  12. 4:00- 4:45
    Carl Sjogreen
    How we built Google Calendar
  13. 5:00 - 5:45
    Mike Davidson
    User-driven content - is it working?

Day 2

  1. 10:00 - 10:45
    Michael Arrington
    What's next for web apps: building tomorrow's Flickr
  2. 11:00 - 11:45
    Ted Rheingold
    The state, future and business of passion-centric communities
  3. 12:00 - 12:45
    Cal Henderson
    Taking Flickr from Beta to Gamma
  4. 12:45 - 1:00
    Platinum sponsor slot
  5. 1:00 - 2:00
    Lunch
  6. 2:00 - 2:45
    Evan Williams
    Selling and funding: pros and cons of bringing in a third party
  7. 3:00 - 3:45
    Ryan Carson
    The barenaked app: building Amigo
  8. 4:00- 4:45
    Jeff Veen
    Designing better web app interfaces
  9. 5:00 - 5:45
    Matt Mullenweg
    The story behind WordPress plus building user-powered apps

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Gold Sponsor
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Silver Sponsor
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Bronze Sponsors
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Partners
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Socialtext logo
DropSend logo
Amigo logo
Media Sponsors
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PHP Developer
Methods and Tools
Sponsorship info (PDF)

Five Minutes of Fame

If you'd like to get massive publicity for your new web app or product, this is the place to do it. There are only 10 slots available. More information (PDF 50k).

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