Speakers
- Craig Walls
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Matt Stine
- Brian Sletten
- Ken Sipe
- Nathaniel Schutta
- Pratik Patel
- Matthew McCullough
- Neal Ford
- Tim Berglund
- Peter Bell
- Kris Zyp
- Nicholas C. Zakas
- Andrew Wirick
- Chris Wilson
- James Williams
- Greg Wilkins
- Mike Wilcox
- Dustin Whittle
- Estelle Weyl
- Johnny Wey
- Eric Wendelin
- Rich Waters
- David Verba
- Tom Valletta
- Johannes Ullrich
- Tenni Theurer
- Etienne Studer
- Steve Souders
- Deryk Sinotte
- Scott Shattuck
- Bill Scott
- Matt Schmidt
- Dylan Schiemann
- Christian Schalk
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Terry Ryan
- Alex Russell
- Rob Rusher
- Rick Ross
- Tom Robinson
- Torrey Rice
- Aza Raskin
- Nandini Ramani
- Matt Raible
- Vic Patterson
- Noah Paci
- Aaron Newton
- Mark Murphy
- Rebecca Murphey
- William Morris
- Eric Miraglia
- Eric Miller
- Steffen Meschkat
- Dustin Machi
- Kevin Lynch
- Andrew Lombardi
- Howard Lewis Ship
- Brian Leroux
- Nik Krimm
- Dave Klein
- Sean Kane
- Tim Kadlec
- Bruce Johnson
- Denise Jacobs
- Bob Ippolito
- Kevin Hoyt
- Molly Holzschlag
- Josh Holmes
- Mike Heath
- Erik Hatcher
- Patrick Haney
- Clint Hall
- Kevin Hakman
- Aaron Gustafson
- Arun Gupta
- Nate Grover
- Mike Girouard
- Jesse James Garrett
- Thomas Fuchs
- Jon Ferraiolo
- Szczepan Faber
- Cal Evans
- Ben Ellingson
- Nicholas Eddy
- Scott Dietzen
- Gabriel Dayley
- Luke Daley
- Patrick Chanezon
- David Chandler
- Ludovic Champenois
- Max Carlson
- Bob Byron
- Thomas Burleson
- Ryan Breen
- David Boloker
- David Bock
- Rey Bango
- Tom Ball
- Dan Allen
- Brad Abrams
Steve Souders
Author of "High Performance Web Sites"
Steve works at Google on Web performance and open source initiatives. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug.
Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about Web performance on Yahoo! Developer Network. He was named a Yahoo! Superstar. Steve worked on many of the platforms and products within the company, including running the development team for My Yahoo!.
Prior to Yahoo!, Steve worked at several small to mid-sized startups including two companies he co-founded, Helix Systems and CoolSync. He also worked at General Magic, WhoWhere?, and Lycos. In the early 80's, Steve caught the Artificial Intelligence bug and worked at a few companies doing research on Machine Learning, including several publications and conference appearances. He received a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.