Last year AWIA ran the inaugural Edge of the Web conference, a one day affair in November. It was a huge success and so this year we’re doing it all again, this time in a two day format, from 4–5 November 2009. Once more EOTW will be held at the UWA Club at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

The full speaker line up has been released and it looks awesome. Blogging pioneer Anil Dash, community design dude Derek Powazek and Alex Payne — from Twitter, no less — are our international guests, and we have a great line up of national and local speakers too. You can see the full program here.

Notable for the Adobe geeks is the addition of Justin Mclean, who will be talking about web-enabling hardware.

There’s also a day of workshops on Friday 6 November, where you can spend half a day with Alex Payne or Derek Powazek in the morning, and with Lachlan Hardy or Dmitry Baranovskiy in the afternoon – or if search engine optimisation is more your thing, you can spend a full day with Scott and Cheryl Gledhill exploring the topic. Friday the 6th is also the Australian Web Awards presentation night, a crazy black tie dinner done only the way the web industry can.

Oh, and did I mention fringe events? There’s a ton of those too…

So if you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard any of this, I can also tell you that the early bird pricing ends on September 30, which does not leave very long. So hop to it!

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Coming to the Edge?

AWIA has run a number of “Ideas” seminars in Perth over the past few years – well, four others to be exact. Each time we’ve brought speakers from interstate and overseas to share their wisdom on various topics deserving of some deep thinking.

This time around – April 22 -  Roger Hudson and Andrew Downie, two noted Australian accessibility experts, will be giving their insights on the impact of version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Just exactly what do they mean to the average (or not so average) web developer?

Ideas5 is an evening seminar to help the web community understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare websites with improved accessibility.

Where?

The Melbourne Hotel
942 Hay Street
PERTH WA 6000

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When?

Wed. 22 April 2009
7:00pm +

How Much?

AWIA Members: $40
Non-Members: $55

Tickets are available online now. If you’re in Perth, I hope to see you there.

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Get an Idea(s) about Accessibility

The first AWIA event of 2008 has been announced – Ideas4 with Lisa Herrod and Rachel Cook.

Ideas4 will be held at the Melbourne Hotel in Perth from 7pm on Wednesday the 30th of January. It’s a casual event – a great opportunity to listen to some great speakers and network with your peers in a cool venue.

Lisa is a usability and accessibility expert and all round awesome chick based in Sydney. Among many other claims to fame, she’s one of the organisers of WebJam, and started the I Work On The Web meme late last year.

Rachel Cook is a local entrepreneur – the founder of Minti, social networking for parents, as well as a bunch of other cool stuff. Rachel has spent the past year in Silicon Valley with husband and business partner Clay Cook and she’ll be sharing some of her experiences.

Tickets are $25 for AWIA members and $35 for non-members. Full details and online bookings at the AWIA web site: IDEAS4.

The last 3 “Ideas” events have solid out so don’t leave it too long!

Ideas4 is sponsored by Aquent, Bam Creative and Fasthit (hosts of this blog!).

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AWIA presents: Ideas4 with Lisa Herrod and Rachel Cook