Speakers

• Brendan Eich

  Mozilla

  Brendan Eich is CTO of Mozilla and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language. He also co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect. Eich helped launch the award winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client in December 2004. Today, Eich’s central focus is guiding the future technical work to keep Mozilla vital and competitive. In the greater Web community, Eich remains dedicated to driving innovation in Internet technology with his work in JavaScript and with the Mozilla platform. In August 2005, Eich became CTO of Mozilla. He has also been a board member of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. He holds a bachelor of science in math and computer science from Santa Clara University and a master of science in computer science from the University of Illinois. Eich and his wife have four children.

  

• Richard D. Worth

  jQuery UI/Bocoup

  Executive director of jQuery Foundation and leader of the jQuery UI project. Lives in Washington, D.C. and works at Bocoup, training developers on JavaScript, jQuery, and jQuery UI.

  

• Fat

  Twitter

  Fat is an engineer at Twitter and co-author of various interesting projects famous in the Javascript community, like Bootstrap, Ender and Hogan.js

  

• Michal Budzynski

  Mozilla

  Michal is an Open Web Alchemist from Warsaw, Poland, responsible for many ridiculous experiments like CSS Nyan Cat or All your gradient are belong to us. Michal officiates as an HTML5 GameDev trainer in W3C and ran technical workshops and tech-talks in many countries on different continents. He recently organized onGameStart, the first HTML5 games conference and wants to bring JavaScript to the last and forgotten continent - Antarctica, with AntarcticJS. He safely says that making web a better place is not just his job - it's his lifestyle. That's why he founds BLYSK, soon-to-be-open-source first serious web animation tool

  

• Mike Taylor

  Opera

  Mike Taylor works for Opera Software on the Developer Relations and Site Compatibility team. He reads lots of email and sometimes they let him write JavaScript.

  

• Leonardo Balter

  Mozilla Rep / Estante Virtual

  Mozilla Representative and front-end developer at Estante Virtual, and a member of RioJS. In love with the Web and open technologies that are part of it. Currently engaged in a few open-source projects like B2G, MDN and others related to OpenData in Brazil.

  

• Zeno Rocha

  Liferay

  Zeno Rocha, Front-end Engineer at Liferay. With only 21 years-old, he already worked as a software developer at Petrobras and front-end developer at Globoesporte.com. One of the creators of jQuery Boilerplate, Wormz a experiment that featured in Google Chrome Experiments, Dive into HTML5 translation project leader and studies Information Systems at UNIRIO.

  

• Eduardo Lundgren

  LifeRay

  One of the creators of AlloyUI, involved in many open-source projects, ex-contributor to jQuery and jQuery UI. Graduate in Telecommunications Engineering from UPE and taking a Masters in CS from UFPE. Currently development lead at LifeRay.

  

• Renato Mangini

  Google

  Renato Mangini works in the Google Chrome team. His goal is helping the community of web developers to make magic, surprising products, out of web technologies.

  

• Davidson Fellipe

  globo.com

  Graduated in Computer Engineering at UPE and electronic technician from IFPE. Is the founder and moderator of RioJS and PernambucoJS Discussion groups. Currently, is a FrontEnd Developer at Globo.com and studies for his Master degree at PUC-Rio.

  

• Daniel Filho

  IG

  Daniel Filho is a front end developer, very focused in interface development and interactions. Experienced in mobile web applications, has always been focused in HTML, CSS and JavaScript performances.

  

• Benjamin E Alman

  Cowboy/Bocoup

  Ben Alman currently works at Bocoup, where he is responsible for the development of intermediate and advanced JavaScript and jQuery training curricula, as well as the creation and maintenance of JavaScript-based tools and utilities. In addition to his training and client work at Bocoup, Ben writes articles and gives presentations advocating JavaScript and jQuery best practices. Ben has created and maintains a number of very popular open source JavaScript projects and jQuery plugins and is a frequent contributor to the open source jQuery, jQuery Mobile and Modernizr projects. As an avid photographer and funk bass player, Ben loves spending time taking photos and jamming in the greater Boston area.

  

• Maximiliano Firtman

  firt

  Max Firtman is a mobile+web developer, trainer, speaker and writer. He is Adobe Community Champion and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He wrote many books, including "Programming the Mobile Web" and "jQuery Mobile: Up and Running" published by O'Reilly Media He has a blog about mobile web development at www.mobilexweb.com and he maintains the website www.mobilehtml5.org. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including QCon, OSCON, Breaking Development, Velocity Conference, Fluent, Google Developer Day, Nokia Developer Days, Campus Party Europe and many other events around the world. He has received different recognitions, including Nokia Developer Champion yearly since 2006; Adobe Community Champion in 2011, and a Google recognition for being one of the most innovative mobile developers.

  

• Dave Herman

  Mozilla

  Dave Herman is a Senior Researcher at Mozilla Research. Dave's teams at Mozilla are building the Rust programming language, the next-generation Servo browser engine, and new extensions to JavaScript. Dave serves on TC39 working on the future of JavaScript.