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<event>
  <city>Sydney</city>
  <country>Australia</country>
  <end-on type="date">2008-09-27</end-on>
  <full-description>Featuring renowned international speakers with deep real world experience at organisations like Digg, Fast Company, Yahoo!, Apple, Google and more, and covering key areas in web design, front and back end web development, user experience design, information architecture, web application security, Ajax, online communities, accessibility, mobile web, and more, Web Directions South 08 will once again be the focus of the Australian web industry in September.

Speakers include

Jeffrey Veen - renowned UX expert from Wired Magazine, Adaptive Path and Google
Derek Featherstone - Leading accessibility expert
Daniel Burka - Interaction Designer for Digg
Gina Bolton CSS expert from Apple
Douglas Crockford - Ajax security expert at Yahoo!, and world's leading JavaScript authority
Jeff Croft - web design and typography guru
Lynne D Johnson - Senior Editor and Community Director at FastCompany

and many other international and local experts.</full-description>
  <id type="integer">485</id>
  <region>Australia</region>
  <short-description>Widely regarded as one of the world's first &amp; leading conferences for web professionals, Web Directions returns for 4 days of workshops, conference, receptions, networking, expo, parties and more.</short-description>
  <start-on type="date">2008-09-23</start-on>
  <title>Web Directions South 2008</title>
  <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
  <website>http://south08.webdirections.org/</website>
  <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/485</url>
  <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/485/logo.gif</logo-url>
  <tag-string>accessibility, ajax, front and back end web development, information architecture, mobile web, online communities, user experience design, web application security, web design</tag-string>
</event>
