Talk about animations and modern websites with Microsoft Edge Program Managers

UPDATE 6/21: This meetup will be held on the 5th floor of the Microsoft GTSC (Unimed Building, Tudor Arghezi 8-10), conference room Bucharest 1. You're welcome to join us!

Talk #1

The Web in Motion: a keynote-like overview of how animation is changing web design and what the future holds.

Rachel Nabors, Web Animation Engineer, Edge Platform Program Manager @Microsoft

Animation stands as a key differentiator between native and web-based experiences. As the lines begin to blur between “native” and “web apps,” animation is becoming a crucial part of building a web that can meet rising user expectations. Many roadblocks have stood in the way of an animated web, but we are overcoming them one by one. And now a host of new tools are at our disposal. In this talk, Web animations expert Rachel Nabors from Microsoft's Edge team looks at how animation helps people interact with touch screens, how those same principles apply to the web, where animation has been all this time, and where it's going.

Talk #2

Making Modern Websites

Patrick Kettner, Interop Project Manager for Edge @Microsoft

It seems like new APIs for the web are released every week. It would be cool to be able to use them, but if you need to make websites for the average user, you won't be able to use them for years – right? Wrong. Patrick will go over how creating feature rich and super fast front end applications, integrating over a dozen cutting edge web features, all while supporting even the oldest of web clients.

About the speakers:

Rachel Nabors

Rachel is a Program Manager on the Edge Platform Team where she represents the web design and animation. In the past she has worked on interactive projects with companies like Adobe, Sesame Street, and Mozilla, and at one point was an award-winning cartoonist loved by thousands of teenage girls around the world.

Today Rachel speaks, writes, experiments, curates the Web Animation Weekly newsletter, contributes at the W3C, and cultivates the web animation community. You can catch her as @rachelnabors on Twitter and at rachelnabors.com.

Patrick Kettner