In this edition of “Event News” we offer you the chance to save up to 50% of FOWA 2 day conference passes, announce new cities for the upcoming Stack Overflow Dev Days series of conferences, reveal new speakers and details of the new uber-cool workshop venue for Future of Web Apps London and give you the chance to take to stand side by side with some of the UK’s biggest names in web design in our FOWD Tour “Call for Speakers”. Read on to find out more.

Future of Web Apps 2009 Summer Sale

To celebrate summer finally hitting the UK shores we are having a Future of Web Apps 2009 summer bonanza on 2 day conference passes.

• 10 seats at 50% off (save £167.50)
• 20 seats at 25% off (save £83.75)
• 30 seats at 10% off (save £33.50)

If you’re not quick enough to grab one of the first 10 there is still a chance to save some pennies as the sale will continue with the further 50 discounted passes.

Details of the summer sale will be announced via Twitter (http://twitter.com/carsonified/).

Stack Overflow

In May we announced “Stack Overflow Dev Days“, a series of 1-day conferences in five different US cities for programmers for only $99. The original five cities of San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Washington DC and London UK have now been joined by new dates in Boston, Austin, Los Angeles, Cambridge UK and Amsterdam. Five cities (San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Washington DC and London UK) are entirely sold out and tickets are selling fast for the remaining five. As Joel Spolsky (Co-founder of Stack Overflow) says:

“The conference is for programmers. The conversation is going to be hard core. Speakers are going to be writing code.”

Topics include:

• Android
• Objective C and iPhone development
• Google App Engine
• Python
• jQuery
• ASP.NET MVC
• FogBugz 7.0
• Mercurial and Distributed Version Control

Further info and booking here: http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/

Future of Web Apps London - New Speakers and Workshop Venue

Over the last few weeks we have completed the line up of speakers and workshop presenters for the Future of Web Apps London. Recently announced speakers include Bruce Lawson (Opera), Lynne D Johnson (Fast Company magazine), David Prager (Revision3) and our amiable business track host from last years event Simon Wardley (Canonical).

We are also pleased to announce that we will be hosting this years workshops at Wallace Space St. Pancras. It’s right up our street, centrally located and has an endless supply on Innocent Smoothies, cookies, snacks, coffee and wi-fi for all workshop attendees.

• Copywriting Fundamentals for the Web (Relly Annett-Baker - Poppy Copy)
• Kick-ass Online Marketing Techniques (Alex Hunter - Virgin)
• How to Build a Web App from A-Z (Mike McDerment - Freshbooks)
• How to build Facebook Connect + openID into your Site (Dave Morin - Facebook)
• Building Web Apps Using Atlas (Francisco Tolmasky - 280 North)
• Setting up Your Web App - Powerful Alternatives to LAMP (Chris Lea - Virb)
• Site Building with Drupal (Addison Berry - Lullabot)
• How to Build Accessible Web Apps (Philip Strain - Ecliptic)

Further info and booking here: http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/london/

Future of Web Design Tour Call for Speakers

Following on from our recent FOWA Tour we are back on the road in September with the Future of Web Design Tour. During September the FOWD Tour 2009 will hit four UK cities to bring you 2 FREE hour long web design tutorials per event, an afternoon of great talks from some of the UK’s best known web designers as well as a quick fire speed networking session. Tickets are only £59 (+VAT), student tickets for £19 (+VAT) are also available.

Who, where and when:

Belfast - 2nd Sept 2009

• Andy Clarke (AM: Extreme Typography Makeover: Malarkey Edition - PM: Method In My Modness)
• Drew McLellan (AM: Making Your Content Discoverable with Microformats - PM: Cost Effective Web Development)
• Chris Murphy and Niklas Persson (PM: A picture is worth a thousand words)

Bristol - 9th Sept 2009

• Elliot Jay Stocks (AM: The Perfect Portfolio - PM: The Importance of Beauty in Absolutely Everything)
• Bruce Lawson (AM: How to build a HTML5 Web site - PM: The Future of HMTL5)
• Paul Boag (PM: The Battlefield of Design - Designers vs Clients)

Glasgow - 14th Sept 2009

• Drew McLellan (AM: Making Your Content Discoverable with Microformats - PM: Cost Effective Web Development)
• Andy Allan (AM: Getting Started with Adobe Air)
• Patrick Lauke (PM: Keyboard Access Essentials)
• Steve Pearce (PM: TBC)

Leeds - 16th Sept 2009

• Paul Annett (AM: Oooh, That’s Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design) - PM: Top 50 Rookie Mistakes and How to Avoid Them)
• Simon Collison (AM: Developing Your Ultimate Package - PM: Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design)
• Brendan Dawes (PM: Useless. Pointless. Beautiful.)

Like the FOWA Tour we would like to give you the opportunity to join us on the FOWD stage. We have kept open one afternoon session in each city, if you have a great idea for a talk about the “Future of Web Design” head on over to our online “Call for Speakers” form (http://bit.ly/YuGHA) and let us know. We will be announcing the chosen talks in the first week of August.

Further info and booking here: http://events.carsonified.com/fowd/2009/tour/

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterjlambert/97671748/

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