Web 2.0 It's all just Semantics. What meaning can add to your website.

Dan Hilton, Rubberductions

Dan Hilton is a Developer with Delib, an e-consultancy company in Bristol. He has a degree in Computer Science from Swansea Unversity and is a past President of Swansea University Computer Society. His research interests are based around web services and the semantic web.

The semantic web is the long lost holy grail in the minds of many, however a new generation of web services and the explosive uptake of high bandwidth connections has enabled a wide range of new possibilities.

Web 2.0 Webs of People, Webs of Data Simon Price, Bristol University

Deceptively simple new ways of using existing Web technologies have given rise to a whole new breed of websites and business models that capture the collective wisdom of crowds. By combing data provided by individuals and their works with traditional centralised databases, companies like Amazon and Google overturned established market leaders in their fields.

Emerging Semantic Web technologies specifically designed to build a web of data more easily interpreted by computers than the current human-readable web are gradually moving from academic labs into widespread use. Early examples include RSS newsfeeds, blogs, podcasting and, more recently, Friend of a Friend (FOAF).

Simon Price is a senior technical researcher in the Web Futures group at the University of Bristol where he works on leading edge Web applications for the educational sector. He is also a member of the Machine Learning and Intelligence Systems research groups with a special interest in data fusion and web mining. Prior to joining the university he worked as a computer games programmer for Electronic Arts, Virgin and Melbourne House.

Web 2.0 Pragmatic web design Paul Boag, Headscape

From folksonomy and web standards to accessibility and microformats, the web is full of new techniques and philosophies. But how can all of these new approaches to web design be applied to real projects for real clients that are constrained by tight budgets and tighter deadlines?

Paul Boag is a user experience specialist and founding partner of Headscape, a web design consultancy based in the South of England. Paul also runs boagworld.com, a blog and podcast for those involved in running websites on a daily basis. In addition Paul writes for .net magazine and hosts the Practical Web Design Magazine Podcast.

Web 2.0 A BBC perspective Paul Appleby and Paul Williams

A look into the future for media delivery and usage from the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol. Paul Appleby is a BAFTA award-winning producer, whose work focuses on audience involvement, new technologies, user-generated content and innovative working practices in both linear and interactive media. Paul Williams is a researcher with experience in both the NHU and BBC New Media teams, and author of the NHU blog. They are both part of the BBC Cross-media development team.