Tickets are now available for An Event Apart Chicago, August 27–28, 2007, at the Chicago Marriott Downtown. Two days of web standards, best practices, and creative inspiration. Website: www.aneventapart.com

Featured Speakers
* Dan Cederholm, author, Web Standards Solutions, Bulletproof Web Design
* Louis Rosenfeld, author, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
* Liz Danzico, editor, Boxes and Arrows
* Jeremy Keith, author, DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax
* Jim Coudal, president, Coudal Partners
* Luke Wroblewski, publisher, Functioning Form,, senior principal designer, Yahoo!
* Derek Featherstone, Accessibility/Assistive Devices Task Force, DOM Scripting Task Force, The Web Standards Project
* Jason Santa Maria, art director, A List Apart, creative director, Happy Cog

Plus your hosts:

* Eric Meyer, author, CSS: The Definitive Guide, Eric Meyer on CSS
* Jeffrey Zeldman, publisher and creative director, A List Apart, author, Designing With Web Standards

WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that will shatter your assumptions about the Web. Be ready to network, share ideas and be inspired by an all-star lineup of speakers.

Over the years, we’ve built a loyal audience of designers, developers and industry leaders. I invite you to join us for an event that’s seen as “the creative conference for the Web.”

WebVisions 2007
May 3-4 in Portland, OR
Explore the Future of the Web
http://www.webvisionsevent.com

Found another workshop with several of the expert authors of the books I read. This one is more for the intermediate to advanced developer or those looking to expand beyond HTML/CSS layouts. There are 3 sessions and locations. Antartica - May 1, San Francisco - May 24, and London June 7. Speakers include Dan Cedarholm, Andy Clark, Cameron Moll, Molly E. Holzschlag, and Jeremy Keith.

from the website…

@media is all about web design best practices, and is well known for informative, inspiring, educational sessions. Covering areas such as design, usability, CSS, and JavaScript, the in-depth presentations will explain how to improve your web sites with the latest cutting-edge techniques.
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For those of you into business intelligence, Content Mangement Systems, Enterprise level info storage, reporting systems, etc…

Topic: Industry trends in Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Publishing.

Invited speakers include representatives from: Motorola, Siemens, Kohler, AT&T and Abbott Labs. Speakers will provide insight on topics including: software selection, ‘making the CMS business case’, partner selection, integration, success stories and more.

Location:University of Chicago Gleacher Center
When: May 3rd , 2007 9AM-4PM
Price: $495.00 per person (register with code: DS042507 to receive special pricing)
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From the website….Limited seating is now available for An Event Apart Seattle 2007, June 21-22, at Bell Harbor International Conference Center on breathtaking Puget Sound. Spend two days with leading designers, developers, and accessibility experts including (in alphabetical order) …

* Tim Bray, father of XML, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems, and Tim Berners-Lee W3C appointee;
* Andy Budd, user experience lead at Clearleft, co-founder of d.Construct, and author of CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions;
* Mike Davidson, founder and CEO of Newsvine, former art director and manager of media product development for ESPN and the Walt Disney Internet Group;
* Shawn Henry, director of education outreach for W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), research appointee at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and author of Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design;
* Shaun Inman, award-winning designer and developer, inventor of Inman Flash Replacement and the curiously successful stats package Mint;
* Jeffrey Veen, designer manager at Google, founding partner of Adaptive Path, and W3C invited expert on CSS before most of us knew the acronym;
* Khoi Vinh, design director at NYTimes.com, author of Subtraction.com, and former partner at Behavior LLC;

… Plus Jason Santa Maria, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Zeldman.
» more at the event apart website.