Media Release
WDCNZ 2013 - NZ’s Top Web Developer Conference Pulls In International Stars
Wellington, New Zealand
Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Leading web development company Xero are thrilled to support the third WDCNZ conference, to be held in Wellington on the
25 July. The event is getting bigger and better each year and attracting attention around the world.
WDCNZ - “Tech talks for web devs” - is a full day conference with multiple streams covering the bleeding edge of web
development. The confirmed speaker line-up includes luminaries of the web developer community such as Julia Grace,
Garann Means, Rob Conery and Zach Holman - Details and programme available at wdcnz.com.
The event is a great opportunity to mix with the speakers and other attendees. Over 350 delegates are expected from
around New Zealand and Australia. There will also be a social event in the evening.
With the conference having sold out in previous years, the conference is being moved to the Michael Fowler Centre, to
accommodate demand. The Centre is Wellington’s premier conference venue located in the CBD close to retail, waterfront
and with easy parking nearby.
WDCNZ has attracted sponsorship support so far from Xero, Heyday, GitHub, Lil Regie and Campaign Monitor. Further
sponsorship opportunities are available by getting in touch at sponsors@wdcnz.com
Early bird registrations have opened today at NZ$299 including GST and will remain open for eight weeks. Standard price
is NZ$399 including GST. Register at wdcnz.com
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Speaker list (more detail at: wdcnz.com);
International:
Julia Grace: Engineering lead at Tindie, and previously Co-Founder of WeddingLovely.
Garann Means: Writer of Note for Frontend Developers, Front end developer at Etsy
Rob Conery: Create of This Developer's Live and Tekpub.com, a true polyglot programmer
Zach Holman: One of the first developers at GitHub and irreverent speaker on all things technical
Ryan Seddon: Front end developer and css lover - The CSS Ninja
New Zealand:
François Marier: Engineer at Mozilla's Identity team
Amy Palamountain: Developer Extraordinaire at GreenButton
Alex Gibson: Founder of Hashbang, data visualisation expert
Donald Gordon: Operations Developer at Xero
Walter Rumsby: Lead Front End Developer at Xero
Jason Kiss: Thought leader in web accessibility development
ENDS