Betting on the Web to Win

The Web's open nature has fostered ways of working which accelerate learning and innovation to an amazing rate. How do we keep up? How do we protect this asset for the future and can it compete with the fashionable application marketplace?

This talk will explore these themes and attempt to answer those questions by looking at case studies, examples and concepts from past and present.

Phil Hawksworth is a developer who has been building web applications since the late 90s. These days as a Technical Director at R/GA, working for clients like Google, Nike and Beats by Dre, he focuses on technical architectures, wrangling developers and designers, and banging on about things like unobtrusive JavaScript, open web standards and tasty browser shenanigans. You can find him on Twitter, (https://twitter.com/philhawksworth) Instagram (https://instagram.com/philhawksworth/), and Github. (https://github.com/philhawksworth)