Events

Information on upcom­ing events; Resources from past events

Since 2004, Web Directions has been organizing world leading conferences for web professionals.

Upcoming events

Previous events

We have dozens of pre­sen­ta­tions online from pre­vi­ous con­fer­ences. To see slideshows and hear pod­casts from lead­ing experts in design, cod­ing, UX, inter­ac­tion design, IA, data visu­al­iza­tion, social media and net­works, and so much more explore the tags to the right and take a look at our past con­fer­ences below.

Web Directions @media 2010

The very first Web Directions @media was held at The Southbank Centre in London, on June 10 and 11 2010.

Web Directions South 2009

Web Directions South 2009 was held at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, October 8 and 9 2009. The pod­casts and slides for both days are avail­able below, full of the lat­est tips, tricks and inspi­ra­tion for all aspects of the web.

Web Directions South 2008

Web Directions South 2008 was held at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, September 25 and 26 2008. Find below all the pod­casts and slides from this event, two great days of inspi­ra­tion and edu­ca­tion cov­er­ing off all aspects of web design and development.

Web Directions Government 2008

Our first Web Directions Government was held on May 19, 2008 in Canberra: a full day of in depth pre­sen­ta­tions across two tracks, from inter­na­tional and local experts with a broad range of real world expe­ri­ence inside and out­side government.

Web Directions User Experience 2008

Web Directions User Experience (another first) was held on May 16, 2008 in Melbourne: a full day of in depth pre­sen­ta­tions across two tracks, from inter­na­tional and local experts with a broad range of real world user expe­ri­ence expertise.

Web Directions North 2008

The sec­ond Web Directions North was held in Vancouver on January 30 and 31. An incred­i­ble cou­ple of days of web design and devel­op­ment enlight­en­ment — some say “the best con­fer­ence ever” —  fol­lowed up with two action packed days of ski­ing and snow board­ing up at Whistler.

Web Directions South 2007

Web Directions South 2007 was held in Sydney on September 27 and 28. This was the year we made the big move from our hum­ble begin­nings at UTS to the bright and shiny and much much big­ger Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. We also intro­duced the Web Directions Expo, as well as a third track, Management/​Strategy.

Web Directions North 2007

Web Directions North 2007 was held in Vancouver on February 7 and 8. Our first event out­side Australia was a tremen­dous cou­ple of days, fol­lowed by two more days of awe­some­ness ski­ing and snow­board­ing up at Whistler

Web Directions 2006

The first Web Directions, which grew out of an older event, Web Essentials, which we had been involved in for two years pre­vi­ously, was held at UTS on September 28 and 29.