Sessions
Practical Web Animation
Web Animation is an essential part of great user experience leveraging cognitive load and allowing us to provide user feedback. This talk examines Web Animation from a practical standpoint, answering when to use it, how to keep your animations performant from a browser standpoint and exploring the animation options we have on the web today.
Speaker origin story: Studied city planning for some time, but since I’m quite an impatient person and it takes decades to build cities, I decided to build websites instead. Still loving having immediate results and instant feedback from people interacting with what I build.
Mentoring: Being the help you wish you'd had
The tech industry is suffering; from bad role models and unrealistic expectations, from anxiety and impostor syndrome and from a lack of diversity, empathy and ethical consideration. Everyone, no matter how junior, can mentor and be a hero for someone else, for the industry and for yourself.
Speaker origin story: After studying (and hating) electronic engineering, I thought I'd teach myself HTML/CSS as a better fit for my love of tech+creativity. I wrote some terrible portfolio sites, applied for 50 million jobs and eventually one let me start my career!
WebXR: A New Dimension For The Web
Writing 3D applications for the browser is possible since some years due to the WebGL API. But since VR and AR are getting more popular, web developers and designers now have a serious reason to get to know the 3D web, its APIs, libraries and design patterns to build Virtual and Augmented Reality apps with JavaScript.
Speaker origin story: My parents did not want me to play video games, so instead of a Gameboy they bought me a PC. It didn't help: My first job after university was being an editor for a German computer games magazine.
Beyond the edge of the browser
We talk a lot about how to animate on the web, and what's possible in browsers today, but where is animation heading? In this talk, we'll start with some bleeing edge techniques such as native-like page transitions with client side rendering, but then we'll push it further. The intersection of health and animation with biofeedback sensors, the future of 3d in the browser complete with interviews with people who are writing these specs... this talk will show that in terms of animation on the web, we're just getting started.
Speaker origin story: I was a scientific illustrator until they invented a camera that replaced me. The museum asked me if I could build websites instead and I said yes.
The Future of JavaScript & Machine Learning
Deep learning, computer vision, natural-language processing, robotics - there are many exciting things happening with ai and machine learning, but where does JavaScript fit in with all of this?
Speaker origin story: Coming soon…
Is it possible to build a truly diverse community?
Often in our industry, aiming to increase diversity has been about finding people and trying to make them fit the mould of your event, project or team. How about changing the goal to making environments that could accommodate people from all headspaces, including people we haven't met yet?
Speaker origin story: Combining an electronics & art background, Jenny joined the tech world as a PHP developer and now works as a Community Engineer.
To be announced soon!
We're still searching for that perfect talk!
Speaker origin story: Coming soon…
To be announced soon!
We're still searching for that perfect talk!
Speaker origin story: Coming soon…
Workshops
All workshops are run on 7 November and include a conference pass for the 8 November for £449+VAT. You can request to change the conference pass day, which will be granted based on availability.
Locations
Venues
- Duke of Yorks
Conference
- Lighthouse
Workshops
- The Fountainhead
Pre Party
- OhSo Social
After Party
Hotels
- Jury's Inn
from £71
next to Train station & close to venue
- Ibis
from £75
directly outside the front of the station
- Travellodge
from £28
- My Hotel
from £90
- Old Ship Hotel
from £82
close to after party venue
Food/Drink
- Bardsley's
fish 'n chips
- The Joker
wings & salt beef
- Green Kitchen
vegan food
- Fatto O Mano
pizza
- Cafe Plenty
very near to venue
Diversity
Our diversity statement
ffconf takes diversity seriously. We know that a diverse line-up is important for the inclusion of marginalised people in the tech community.
We want people to attend because of the content we provide, not who's presenting it. As such, we only reveal our speakers at the day of the conference.
This statement is our approach to make our commitment to diversity as transparent as possible. We are striving to do better each year.
In the previous 3 years, ffconf's speaker distribution included over 50% women and POC and each year we intend to maintain diversity in our speakers. And we are proudly holding our event in Brighton.
This isn't something we should be proud of, because it should be the norm, but it is what we've got and we'd like to share that with you.
You can also apply for our diversity scholarship, open until the first Monday of September.
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