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Our Second Event, in 2010

In 2010, we wanted to do something different. In between events, there had been these 2 posts (here and here) where some issues were brought up in our community. So, we decided to run our same event but put invite only amazing ladies in the community. It could only work well if we never brought it up. I think we pulled it off and we were only one fish sandwich away from perfection.

Again, the speakers made the day, continuing in the new #frontendconf tradition of delivering awesome presentations and being very approachable. I owe a special thank you to Denise Jacobs for stepping up and sharing as well.

July 23, 2010

The event was held at the Hilton Bayfront in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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2010 Speakers and Presentations

  • Larissa Meek

  • Larissa Meek

    Larissa has over 9 years of experience of designing for the web and is a standards enthusiast who is well versed in design trends, usability, CSS and HTML. She has worked on a multitude of diverse brands such as Oxygen Networks, Bacardi, Ruby Tuesday, MOJOHD, Howard Stern and Warner Brothers...

    Follow Larissa on Twitter: @larissameek

  • Learning to Love Ideas: Brainstorming 101

    See Larissa's slides on slideshare

Larissa Meek
  • Lea Alcantara

  • Lea Alcantara

    Lea Alcantara is often hired to kill bad design, with her weapon of choice, ExpressionEngine. She has been an active part of the web, designing and developing for 10 years, and through her efforts, has been considered (on blog list posts) one of the best women designers in the world and an amazing female role model for web designers.

    Follow Lea on Twitter: @lealea

  • The Art of Self-Branding

    See Lea's slides on Speaker Deck

Lea Alcantara
  • Niki Brown

  • Niki Brown

    Niki has been designing since she was a little kid - drawing cartoons, making fake newspapers, and planning her plot to take over the world. (Just kidding). Her early interests in design were heightened when she got her first computer, it was love at first sight! She made her first website in 1996, with the help of geocities and word-art. Now the rest is history. Fast forward to today - she's all grown up with a nifty degree that says she knows what she's doing.

    Follow Niki on Twitter: @nikibrown

  • Design is in the Details

    See Niki's slides on slideshare

Niki Brown
  • Meagan Fisher

  • Meagan Fisher

    Meagan Fisher is a web designer who works through the night to create simple interfaces and well-written markup. When not conspiring with SimpleBits to take over the world, she creates web magic with her own clients. Along the way she has worked with Rails Machine, Halogen Guides, Airbag Industries, Change.org, and MTV.

    Follow Meagan on Twitter: @owltastic

  • How to Take Your Designs from Wireframes to Beautiful Finished Products

    We were very sorry that Meagan wasn't feeling well during the conference. She was able to give a very similar talk later in the year. So, check it out from Build on Vimeo.

Meagan Fisher
  • Jina Bolton

  • Jina Bolton

    Jina is an interaction designer at Crush + Lovely. Previously, Jina worked at Apple, Inc. as a visual interaction designer and front end web developer. She enjoys making pretty websites, and then she likes writing and speaking about it. Jina co-authored Fancy Form Design and The Art & Science of CSS; she also was an expert reviewer and wrote the foreword for Sexy Web Design.

    Follow Jina on Twitter: @jina

  • CSS Organization and Workflow

    Jina's slides are no longer online, but you can see her give a similar talk at Fronteers on Vimeo.

Jina Bolton
  • Sarah Parmenter

  • Sarah Parmenter

    Sarah was brought up on computers from an early age and always knew her career would be in IT. The story of exactly how she came to be a web designer is a long-winded one, and quite surreal, but in 2003 she took the plunge and started her own business, and hasn't looked back since.

    Follow Sarah on Twitter: @sazzy

  • Principles of UI Design
Sarah Parmenter
  • Adelle Charles

  • Adelle Charles

    As Chief Creative Officer, Adelle oversees the creative and strategic direction of Fuel Brand, Inc., which she co-founded with her partner Joshua Smibert. A designer and entrepreneur at heart, Adelle has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from RIT and has won various awards for her past work in television.

    Follow Adelle on Twitter: @adellecharles

  • Fuel Your Brand
Adelle Charles