Confirmed Speakers

To Come

Dave Cormier is a web technologies specialist at the University of Prince Edward Island, cofounder of Edtechtalk, and president of Edactive Technologies, a social software consulting firm. He holds a master's degree in education from Mount St. Vincent University and teaches sporadically on a variety of educational topics. His major research interests include the tracking and development of educational technology, the examination of planned and unplanned online communities, and open-source multiuser virtual environments (MUVEs). Cormier is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee Emerge Project in the United Kingdom and has designed and written a variety of grants and projects, including the recently completed Canadian Heritage-funded Living Archives project. He has produced, designed, or participated in over 300 online webcasts in the past three years and speaks regularly at conferences on topics including rhizomatics, effective use of new technologies, and educational project management and design.

Over the past twelve years, Owen has established a reputation at the forefront of innovative media development. A strong industry leader and industrial proponent, his profile spans production, education and digital media advocacy. Owen served as the Multimedia Development Coordinator for Alberta Learning‘s LearnAlberta.ca project, a repository of digital learning objects for the K-12 sector. Owen‘s roles typically involve leadership, creative facilitation, strategy, forecasting, analysis and design, and user experience design. He is an active speaker and champion of the digital media industry in Alberta through his position as a Director on the Board for the Digital Media Association of Alberta.

As a leading visual designer, web developer, entrepreneur, educator, team leader and project manager - Michael’s 14 years in industry continues to set the pace for large-scale projects in government, education, entertainment, and the corporate world. An active member and promoter of Alberta’s digital media community — Michael evangelizes standards-based, accessible design practices and user experience design to both clients and industry peers.

Daniel Washbrook is a freelance web developer and project manager. His love for all things technical started in his pre-teen years when he would disassemble HP printers and computers from his father’s work (not always with permission). After returning from Rouen, France where he attended the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce studying European Marketing, Daniel began delivering web development and project management services to a variety of clients around the world. He has studied for a Bachelor of Commerce and a Project Management Certification through the PMI. Drupal is an incredibly good match for the work Daniel does because it’s flexible, powerful and easy on the client.

About Trailhead Interactive Trailhead Interactive is a United States-based website consulting and design company founded in February of 2006, and specializing in website consultation and design, Drupal content management system, custom MySQL databases, and custom PHP programming. About Chris Miller Trailhead was created when Chris Miller, professional web developer and graphic designer, made the leap from advertising agency drone to independent consultant.

Marc Ingram is the co-maintainer of the Drupal "Services" module and is responsible for ourfernie.com

Since 1997 Jess has focused his career on understanding and developing positive user experiences for his clients and their users. Jess draws on techniques from usability, information architecture, and user research to generate client insight to drive innovation and create better customer experiences. His value-centered approach grounds customer experience strategy at the intersection of business goals and customer goals to produce return on investment for clients, and 'return on experience' for their customers. Jess regularly writes and speaks at conferences about user experience. He has contributed ideas and material for several user experience books, including Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville's Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Ed.; Jesse James Garrett's The Elements of User Experience and Peter van Dijck's Information Architecture for Designers. His work appears as a case study in Designing Websites for Every Audience by Ilise Benun. Jess co-founded the Information Architecture Institute, the international professional organization for information architects, and served on the Board of Directors for 2004 and 2005.

As a leading visual designer, web developer, entrepreneur, educator, team leader and project manager - Michael’s 14 years in industry continues to set the pace for large-scale projects in government, education, entertainment, and the corporate world. An active member and promoter of Alberta’s digital media community — Michael evangelizes standards-based, accessible design practices and user experience design to both clients and industry peers.