Ben Galbraith

Ben Galbraith
VP, Mobile Engineering, Walmart.com

Website | @bgalbs

Ben Galbraith, together with his long-time friend Dion Almaer, forms one-half of the dynamic “Ben and Dion” duo that founded Ajaxian.com, headed Developer Tools at Mozilla, ran Developer Relations at Palm and is now running mobile architecture and engineering at Walmart.com after being acquired along with their start-up team in early 2011. Ben’s been writing code since he was six and starting businesses since he was ten; he’s written books, given hundreds of award-winning presentations world-wide, produced a few technical conferences, sold three companies, and has held CEO, CIO, CTO, and Software Architect positions in the medical, publishing, media, consumer electronics, advertising, software and internet industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and six children.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 05/03/2010
Hands-on HTML 5
Workshop
 Location: 2006
Dion Almaer (Set Direction), Ernest Delgado (Google, Inc.), Ben Galbraith (Walmart.com), Joshua Marinacci (Palm Inc.)
The Ajax revolution saw a sea change in web application development. By taking advantage of long-dormant browser capabilities, we were able to take our craft to new levels with HTML5. This workshop will go through the new capabilities in HTML5 and show you how to build amazing applications today. Read more.
11:00am Wednesday, 05/05/2010
What to Expect from Browsers in the Next Five Years: A Perspective
Development
 Location: 2006
Moderated by:
Dion Almaer (Set Direction)
Panelists:
Ben Galbraith (Walmart.com), Douglas Crockford (Yahoo! Inc.), Brendan Eich (Mozilla), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software), Alex Russell (Google), Giorgio Sardo (Microsoft Corporation)
As browsers become the most important piece of software you will use, what can consumers and developers expect to be in the next generation of browsers. What will the top browser makers think of next and how will it be implemented? The panel will have the top movers and shakers of the browser industry who will butt heads to predict the future. Read more.
Silverlight Showcase
Sponsors
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • .CO
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • Ericsson
  • Germany Trade & Invest
  • IBM
  • Berlin Partner
  • blueKiwi
  • EffectiveUI
  • HP
  • Neustar, Inc.
  • OpenSRS
  • OpenText
  • PayPal
  • Pearltrees
  • The Planet
  • SOASTA

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