Deb Bassett - Urbanwide

XTech 20:20 showdown

At XTech this year, I was lucky enough to be one of the organisers for the 20:20 Lightning Talks Session on Thursday evening.

I wanted to say a big thanks to all who took part, your friendly gong-wielding hosts Mike Smith & Rob Lee included and the XTech crowd for providing us with 12 fantastic speakers which we managed to squeeze into 90 minutes.

For those not familiar with the 20:20 lightning talk format, speakers present a fast-paced 20 slides, with 20 seconds per slide (with the exception of Ian Forrester who managed a bumper 72 slides in 6 minutes 40!)

We had an astonishing line-up, feature-rich with internet peeps:

2D barcodes, connecting the real to the virtual
Brian Suda

Gaming and Mashups for Your Mom
Martha Rotter (Microsoft)

HTML 5
Anne van Kesteren (Opera)

The 5 minute guide to RDFa…in only 6 minutes and 40 seconds
Mark Birbeck (webBackplane)

HTML5 Parsing
Henri Sivonen (independent)

Data Portability
Ian Forrester (BBC)

ODFDOM - the new opensourced multi-tiered API for the ISO OpenDocument Format
Svante Schubert (Sun Microsystems)

A review of Device APIs on mobile devices
Kai Hendry (Aplix Corporation)

Opera dragonfly
Charles McCathieNevile (Opera)

W3C Widgets - the simplest way to build client side web apps
Marcos Caceres (W3C Web Application Formats Working Group)

CHIP project @ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Cultural Heritage Information Personalization)
Natalia Stash (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

Flickr up your presentation with FlickrUp
Nico Verwer (Be Value)