Kimberly Blessing is a web developer, standards evangelist, and technical strategist; Web Development Platform Team lead at PayPal Inc.; co-group lead of The Web Standards Project; and worked on the standards-compliant redesign of AOL.com in 2004. »

Jina Bolton is an interactive designer and artist, co-author of The Art & Science of CSS, and a web interface developer at Apple. Previously, she has consulted for various agencies and organizations including the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and Mass.gov. »

Doug Bowman is an influential designer and Visual Design Lead at Google; previous to that role, his clients included Capgemini, Blogger, Cathay Pacific Airways, Adaptive Path, Mighty Goods, and Wired News. »

Tim Bray co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited “Namespaces in XML” between 1996 and 1999 and has served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group. He is Sun Microsystems’ Director of Web Technologies. (spoke at AEA Seattle 2007) »

Andy Budd is a British interaction designer and web standards developer, the co-founder and user experience lead at Clearleft, and the author of the best-selling CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions. (spoke at AEA Seattle 2007) »

Web designer Dan Cederholm is an expert in standards-based design, the author of two best-selling books, and co-founder of Cork’d. He has served Google, MTV, ESPN, Blogger and more through his tiny design studio, SimpleBits. (spoke at AEA Boston 2007 and AEA Chicago 2007) »

Tantek Çelik is Chief Technologist at Technorati where he leads the design and development of new standards and technologies. Prior to Technorati, he was a veteran representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer for Macintosh. (spoke at AEA NYC 2006) »

Joe Clark is widely known for his work on web accessibility and semi-widely known for his work on public transit accessibility. His current efforts are focused on a research project to set standards for the four fields of accessible media—captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing. »

Jim Coudal runs Coudal Partners, a design firm in Chicago. They work for companies and they build companies, like Jewelboxing, The Show, and The Deck. Before making websites, films, and real-world products, Jim Coudal was an advertising creative director. (spoke at AEA Chicago 2006 and AEA Chicago 2007) »

Liz Danzico has organized information for sites across a variety of industries; teaches design at Columbia University; and sits on the advisory board of The Information Architecture Institute and the board of directors for the New York chapter of AIGA. (spoke at AEA Chicago 2007) »

Mike Davidson is the founder and CEO of Newsvine, and was Art Director and Manager of Media Product Development at both ESPN and the Walt Disney Internet Group. He has won multiple Webbys, Seattle Show awards, and other honors. (spoke at AEA Seattle 2007) »

Todd Dominey is known throughout the world as a web designer, Flash developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. Through his design studio Dominey Design, Todd has designed and developed a wide array of interactive work for clients including Budweiser, Motorola, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and Blogger. (spoke at AEA Atlanta 2006) »

Derek Featherstone is a well known instructor, speaker and developer with expertise in web accessibility. He is founder of his own web development and accessibility consultancy and a member of the Web Standards Project. (spoke at AEA Chicago 2007) »

Ze Frank’s hilarious and innovative web broadcasts, writings, games, interactive toys, and collaborative social spaces have been featured in newspapers, magazines, online journals and TV shows around the world, and viewed by more than 50 million people in the past four years. (spoke at AEA NYC 2006) »

Designer and design ethnographer Kelly Goto is principal of gotomedia, LLC, editor of gotomobile.com, and co-author of Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow That Works, a global standard for user-centered design principles. (spoke at AEA Seattle 2006) »

Aaron Gustafson began teaching himself HTML in 1996, while creating a website for a magazine he was publishing. In 2000, he left the print world to focus on the web, and relocated to Connecticut, where he began pushing pixels and bits for many top companies, including Aetna, Delta Airlines, IBM and Scholastic. »

Shawn Henry leads W3C accessibility education and outreach activities. Her most recent book, Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design, offers an approach for developing products that are more usable for everyone. (spoke at AEA Seattle 2007) »

Molly Holzschlag is group leader of The Web Standards Project, an invited expert to the W3C, and author of over thirty books, including The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. (spoke at AEA Boston 2007) »

Shaun Inman is an award-winning designer and developer. You might know his name from his contribution to web typography, Inman Flash Replacement, or from the curiously successful stats package Mint. (spoke at AEA Seattle 2007) »

Jeremy Keith is author of the books Bulletproof Ajax and DOM Scripting and a passionate advocte of accesible scripting. He is a proud member of Clearleft, one of the UK’s top web development agencies. (spoke at AEA Chicago 2007) »

Andrew Kirkpatrick is Corporate Accessibility Engineering Lead for Adobe, Technical Editor for A List Apart, co-chair for Knowbility’s AIR-Boston, and co-author of Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance. (spoke at AEA Boston 2007) »

Erin Kissane is a writer and editorial strategist as well as the editor of A List Apart Magazine, “for people who make websites,” and the editorial director for Happy Cog™ Studios. »

Steve Krug is the likable face of usability and the author of the game-changing Don’t Make Me Think!. He has evaluated and improved interfaces for Apple, AOL, BarnesandNoble.com, Lexus.com, and many others. (spoke at AEA Boston 2007) »

Ethan Marcotte co-authored Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design and Web Standards Creativity and founded Vertua Studios, a standards-friendly agency that has served New York Magazine and Harvard. (spoke at AEA Boston 2007) »

Designer, coder, and writer Cameron Moll’s work has been recognized by National Public Radio, Communication Arts, and Veer. He is the author of Mobile Web Design and co-author of CSS Mastery. (spoke at AEA Boston 2007) »

Lou Rosenfeld is co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and co-founded the Information Architecture Institute and UXnet, the User Experience Network. He is founder of Rosenfeld Media, which focuses on short, practical books on user experience design. (spoke at AEA Chicago 2007) »

Jason Santa Maria has been recognized for designing stylistic, imaginative (yet also usable and effective) web interfaces. His redesigns of A List Apart and AIGA have burnished his reputation as a designer to watch—and learn from. »

Jared Spool » is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering, the largest research organization of its kind in the world, and has been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term “usability” was ever associated with computers.

Jeffrey Veen has been involved in designing the leading blog and social media applications on the web, including Blogger, TypePad, and Flickr. A founding partner of Adaptive Path, he is now Design Manager for Google. (spoke at AEA Seattle 2007) »

Khoi Vinh is the Design Director for NYTimes.com, where he leads a full design team in user experience innovation. He and his team are responsible for the visual integrity of the industry-leading news site, including design for new online features and content as The New York Times embraces the digital future. (spoke at AEA NYC 2006 and AEA Seattle 2007) »

Luke Wroblewski is Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo!. Previously, Luke was a Lead User Interface Designer at eBay, taught interface design coursesat the University of Illinois, and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). (spoke at AEA Chicago 2007) »