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Web 2007 is celebrating 10 years of bringing Penn State Web staff together for professional development, networking with colleagues, and sharing ideas. This year's conference will have many recognizable faces as some of the best of the past 10 years return: Jared Spool, Dan Frommelt, Mark Greenfield and many top Penn State speakers.
In addition to including new features like lightning talks, more sessions to attend, and an all day tutorial taught by Jared Spool, this year's conference, featuring a walk down memory lane and a variety of anniversary celebration surprises, will be the place to be on June 11 and 12.
Web 2007 will be held on Monday, June 11, 2007 at the Penn Stater Conference Center. Post-Conference Tutorials will take place on Tuesday, June 12 in the Business Building. A lunch for all conference attendees will be held on Tuesday in the Business Building.
Jared M. Spool, CEO & Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering (http://www.uie.com/about/consultants/) will be this year's keynote speaker with Kimberly Blessing as the closing speaker.
Spool, a software developer and programmer, founded User Interface Engineering in 1988. He has more than 15 years of experience conducting usability evaluations on a variety of products, and is an expert in low-fidelity prototyping techniques. Jared is on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute and teaches seminars on product usability. He is a regular tutorial speaker at the annual CHI conference and Society for Technical Communications conferences around the country.
Kimberly Blessing is the manager of the Web Development Platform Team at PayPal, where she is responsible for driving the creation and adoption of standards.
Kimberly also runs her own consultancy, KimmieCorp. She was previously employed by AOL, where she worked on the standards-compliant redesign of AOL.COM in 2004 and the publishing system that allowed AOL to "go free" in 2005.
Further details will soon be available at http://www.psu.edu/webconference/.
