Australian Web Week :: October 2 - 10
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2nd
Friday
When
9am-5pm, Friday 2nd October
Where
Star City Convention Centre,
Pyrmont, Sydney.
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Registration is open at the OZ-IA site.
About
Oz-IA is the premier Australian conference on Information Architecture for the Web. Join us in Sydney, Australia on the Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd of October 2009 for two incredible days of presentations and networking with information architecture professionals from across Australia and beyond.
When
7pm-late, Friday 2nd October
Where
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (Upstairs),
96 Union St, Pyrmont.
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This event is free, but you MUST RSVP here as numbers are strictly limited.
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Be there at the beginning: come and celebrate the start of the first ever Australian Web Week with us.
Featuring the launch of a world premiere exhibition by Yiying Lu, designer of Twitter's iconic "fail whale", who has put together something special in conjunction with augmented reality pioneers MOB.
With drinks and nibbles thrown in, you don't want to miss this event.
3rd
Saturday
When
9am-5pm, Saturday 3rd October
Where
Star City Convention Centre,
Pyrmont, Sydney.
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Web
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Registration is open at the OZ-IA site.
About
Oz-IA is the premier Australian conference on Information Architecture for the Web. Join us in Sydney, Australia on the Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd of October 2009 for two incredible days of presentations and networking with information architecture professionals from across Australia and beyond.
When
11am-late, Saturday 3rd October
Where
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (Upstairs),
96 Union St, Pyrmont.
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Designer of the iconic Twitter fail whale (which Twitter adopted as a kind of mascot after co-founder Biz Stone discovered the image on a stock artwork site), Yiying Lu designs beautiful, engaging, intelligent, charming and fun filled images, which delight the viewer.
In this, her first ever public show, Yiying has collaborated with Augmented Reality pioneers MOB, to deliver artwork that genuinely has to be seen to be believed. Come along and check it out, upstairs at the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel.
When
7pm-late, Saturday 3rd October
Where
Powerhouse Museum Forecourt,
500 Harris St, Ultimo.
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Common Ground is a global meet up celebrating the Commons on Flickr. The event, in the Powerhouse Museum Forecourt, will consist of a projection onto the building showing a community curated slideshow of content from the Commons on Flickr.
Staff from the Powerhouse Museum and the State Library of NSW will be at the event to get to know their community face-to-face. This is an open event that celebrates the Commons on Flickr and as well as a 'thank you' to the online community.
Check out the Powerhouse Museum site to see how you can participate in curating the exhibition and bring a cushion, chair, pillow and a picnic for a night on the commons!
4th
Sunday
When
11am-late, Sunday 4th October
Where
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (Upstairs),
96 Union St, Pyrmont.
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Web
About
Designer of the iconic Twitter fail whale (which Twitter adopted as a kind of mascot after co-founder Biz Stone discovered the image on a stock artwork site), Yiying Lu designs beautiful, engaging, intelligent, charming and fun filled images, which delight the viewer.
In this, her first ever public show, Yiying has collaborated with Augmented Reality pioneers MOB, to deliver artwork that genuinely has to be seen to be believed. Come along and check it out, upstairs at the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel.
When
2pm-4pm, Sunday 4th October
Where
Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym
1-7 Unwins Bridge Road, St Peters.
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About
Different professions have their networking sports of choice - it may be the traditional golf, Barack Obamas's favoured Basketball, yachting. But in the web, indoor climbing seems to be the sport of choice, with well known adherents like Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka of Digg and Tantek Çelik.
Whether you've climbed the Arapiles, or wouldn't know a carabina from a Carona (that's the thing with the lemon attached), here's your chance to climb with fellow web folks during web week.
So, if you are an avid climber, stopped climbing years ago, or have never climbed at all, sign up and get along to web week's social climbing event. If you're a beginner, or need a refresh, you'll get a belaying a safety lesson, and all the gear you'll need will be provided.
At the end of the session, you'll get the chance to unwind with a quiet drink.
5th
Monday
When
11am-late, Monday 5th October
Where
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (Upstairs),
96 Union St, Pyrmont.
Map
Web
About
Designer of the iconic Twitter fail whale (which Twitter adopted as a kind of mascot after co-founder Biz Stone discovered the image on a stock artwork site), Yiying Lu designs beautiful, engaging, intelligent, charming and fun filled images, which delight the viewer.
In this, her first ever public show, Yiying has collaborated with Augmented Reality pioneers MOB, to deliver artwork that genuinely has to be seen to be believed. Come along and check it out, upstairs at the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel.
6th
Tuesday
When
9am-5:30pm, Tuesday 6th October
Where
Sydney Masonic Centre,
66 Goulburn St, Sydney.
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About
Three great full day hands on workshops for people who work on the web:
When
6.30pm-10pm, Tuesday 6th October
Where
Watershed Hotel,
198 Harbourside, Darling Harbour.
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This event is free but you must RSVP here as numbers are strictly limited.
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WE Rock will be an evening of short, sharp, entertaining presentations by education and industry experts on the state of education for web professionals, plus networking drinks and nibbles.
This will be a great event for secondary and post secondary educators developing and delivering education in the area of web design, development, interaction design, and related fields. Decision makers in Industry, Government and Education, HR professionals, and others interested in professional development for web professionals should also come along.
When
6.00pm-9.00pm, Tuesday 6th October
Where
The Blackbird Cafe,
Balcony level of Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Park above Nicks Seafood Restaurant, Darling Harbour.
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This event is free but please RSVP here by Monday 4th October.
About
A few Dojo talks, discussions and of course food/wine and beer (and other drinks if you like). No age restrictions.
When
7.00pm-Late, Tuesday 6th October
Where
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (Top floor),
96 Union St, Pyrmont.
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This event is free - but please RSVP here
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The Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA) is going over the top this year and will be throwing a mid web week party! However instead of your regular Port80 drinks and pizza affair for which at Web Directions we are famous, we are going to do something a little different, a kind of Port80++ a very special: WebWiz. Think a geek RockWiz.
Although we can't afford Julia Zamero, we will have a panel for four experts, plus two contestants from the audience to compete for millions of dollars worth of awesome web kudos. It's a bit of fun to kick off your Tuesday night.
For those that have never been to Port80 before, it's an event for anyone that works on the web, educators, creatives, devs, suits, seo dudes, UX peeps, if you are working the web this event is the party for you.
Everyone welcome!
When
5:45-8.00pm, Tuesday 6th October
Where
Anchor Systems,
Level 4, 81 York Street, Sydney.
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About
20 minutes to learn something, 20 minutes from someone who's successfully built a tech business, break into groups to talk about other areas of business and plenty of time to meet other people over drinks.
The presenters at this Growth Town will be
- Michelle Gamble of Marketing Angels – Positioning your business effectively
- Kylie Little, founder of Essential Baby - From idea to exit
A full schedule is available at the Growth Town site, where you can also RSVP for the event.
7th
Wednesday
When
9am-5:30pm, Wednesday 7th October
Where
Sydney Masonic Centre,
66 Goulburn St, Sydney.
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About
Three great full day hands on workshops for people who work on the web:
When
1pm-3pm, Wednesday 7th October
Where
Architecture Lecture Theatre 1, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning,
Sydney University,,
Wilkinson Building, 168 City Rd..
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This event is free but please RSVP here as places are limited.
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As part of the first ever Australian Web Week, Web Directions presents Web Futures, a web careers and ideas seminar for post secondary students featuring leading international experts from Mozilla, the W3C and Opera Software.
Want to know where the Web is headed? What roles there are in today’s (and tomorrow’s) Web whatever you passion for design and technology?
Then head along to the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning in the Wilkinson Building, City Road, University of Sydney (yes, it’s its own suburb), on Wednesday October 7th, from 1pm to 3pm to hear where the web is headed, and the part it will play in your professional future.
When
8.00am-10.00am, Wednesday 7th October
Where
Grant Thornton,
102 Adelaide Street,
Brisbane.
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Registration is open at the Interactive Minds site.
About
Interactive Minds is the premier event for digital and online professionals in Brisbane and South East Queensland.
The October event will focus on knowing and engaging customers online. Learn how to move beyond traditional focus groups to understand and identify your customers. Understand how to find, engage and determine the needs of your customers by using the latest online research, social media and technologies.
Speakers include Hitwise, Resonate Solutions, Dialogix and Suncorp.
When
6.00pm-9.00pm, Wednesday 7th October
Where
Vibewire Enterprise Hub,
525 Harris Street,
Ultimo, NSW.
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Numbers are limited - please RSVP here.
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As part of the 1st Australian Social Innovation Camp we are having a workshop where you will learn more about how the camp works. We will work on the generation of ideas using the same approach that is used during the camp. We will be working on ideas that use the web to enable social change. You can either come with an idea you might have or to help others develop their own ideas.
For more information, please visit the Australian Social Innovation Camp site.
When
7pm-late, Wednesday 7th October
Where
CBD Hotel,
CNR of King and York Streets
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Webjam is sold out.
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We give approximately 16 presenters 3 minutes each to show us the coolest thing they've done on the web lately. You vote via SMS for the big winner and they get to take home cool booty. We award prizes to random voters as well!
It's one big geeky party!
When
6pm-9pm, Wednesday 7th October
Where
Watershed Hotel,
198 Harbourside, Darling Harbour.
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This event is free, but you must RSVP here as numbers are strictly limited.
About
Join Ben Galbraith of Mozilla Labs and co-founder of Ajaxian.com, and The Ajax Experience conferences, for an evening of food, drinks and Web tools!
Mozilla Labs is Mozilla's experimental playground, where people like user experience wunderkind Aza Raskin, and Ajaxian wizards Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith cook up bleeding edge technology such as Ubiquity, Jetpack, Prism and the totally browser based code editor Bespin.
Come along for some food and drink courtesy of Mozilla. Meet Ben and get an update on his work, including Bespin, the Web tools landscape, and share what you've been working on yourself.
8th
Thursday
When
9am-5:30pm, Thursday 8th October
Where
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre,
Darling Drive, Darling Harbour.
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About
The event of the year for the Australian web industry.
A two day, three track conference - Design, Development and Business - with leading international and local experts in user experience, interface design, social media, coding and development, SEO, accessibility, interaction design and much more. A place for anyone who works on the web in any way at all to learn, connect, share and experience ideas in 2009.
When
5:30pm-7:30pm, Thursday 8th October
Where
Watershed Hotel,
198 Harbourside, Darling Harbour.
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If you're coming to Web Directions South 2009 you must not miss the Web Directions Reception, always a highlight of the conference.
Expect plenty of conversation, even heated debates, about the topics covered at the conference that day. Kick off what will certainly be one of the biggest nights of Australian Web Week 2009 with a couple of drinks and a bite to eat with the rest of the Web Directions Crowd.
When
7pm-late, Thursday 8th October
Where
The Pumphouse.
17 Little Pier St, Darling Harbour.
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This event is free but you must register here.
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WebBlast is proud to announce it is breaking out of its traditional pre-Christmas slot and becoming more regular throughout the year, starting during Australian Web Week. Hosted at the Pumphouse in Darling Harbour, WebBlast brings all of us in the website creation game together on the middle night of the conference.
For those that haven’t been to a WebBlast before, we’re here to get all of us who like to ‘build websites the right way’ talking to each other and to have fun. Not just devs, creatives or suits, but everyone across the entire web spectrum. Simple as that.
All delegates are welcome, but you need to register to ensure your place, as WebBlast always packs out.
When
7pm-late, Thursday 8th October
Where
Watershed Hotel,
198 Harbourside, Darling Harbour.
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Web
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This event is free but you must RSVP here as numbers are limited.
About
What would you say if you had just 5 minutes to give your presentation? You get 20 slides, and each slide lasts 15 seconds.?
You may have heard of Ignite. It’s an event pioneered in the US by some guys who wanted to spice up their presentations - and it quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Their idea was simple - make the presenters stick to a rigid format of 20 slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a guaranteed 5 minute presentation.
If you’re sick of Death By Powerpoint, make sure you come along to Ignite Sydney, where you’re guaranteed a fun night of entertaining and educational presentations.
9th
Friday
When
9am-5:30pm, Friday 9th October
Where
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre,
Darling Drive, Darling Harbour.
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About
The event of the year for the Australian web industry.
A two day, three track conference - Design, Development and Business - with leading international and local experts in user experience, interface design, social media, coding and development, SEO, accessibility, interaction design and much more. A place for anyone who works on the web in any way at all to learn, connect, share and experience ideas in 2009.
When
6pm-late, Friday 9th October
Where
The Shelbourne Hotel,
200 Sussex St, Sydney,
(Corner of Sussex and Market Streets).
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This event is for Web Directions South 09 attendees. Register at the Web Directions South site.
About
Web Directions South 2009 will be an intense couple of days, but, even after the last presentation has ended on Friday afternoon, we know you won't be ready to go home yet.
Join us for a few quiet drinks and some nibbles at our traditional closing party at the Shelbourne. This event will go late: do not make plans for Saturday morning before noon :)
About Australian Web Week
Australian Web Week celebrates the best of the Australian web industry - sites and applications, designers and designs, innovative Australians taking it to the world. Over ten days professionals across the industry from around the country and the from around the world will come together to connect, learn and celebrate the strength of the Australian web industry.
Featuring workshops, conferences, networking events, meetups, awards nights, exhibitions, parties, immersive mobile experiences, and more, Australian Web Week will be the focal point of the local web industry in 2009. Check out the Australian Web Week map.
Australian Web Week bridges the gap between web industry professionals and the broader web-interested community. Web Week not only features events for people who work on the web, but events for the general public showcasing the Australian industry's expertise and exciting local companies and individuals making a global impact, including exhibitions, mobile web based interactive experiences and more.
Australian Web Week is organized by Web Directions, world leading conferences for the web industry. Web Directions, founded in Australia, now hold events in Japan, the US and the UK for thousands each year.
Contact Us
Got an event on that you'd like to include in the Australian Web Week calender? No matter how big or small you are, if it's a web related event or meet up, we'd love to hear from you.
Web Week is also open to sponsorship. Please get in touch to hear about the opportunities we have available.
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